Fifty Thousand Current and Former Smokers Needed For National Lung Screening BEWARE

Yahoo News ^ | 18 September 2002

[BriarBey]

HAHA...you go girl!! Wonder if the person spewing all this crap has a butt as wide as Texas!! Fatties are next...no offense to those over weight but NOW there is another group who are going to know how we feel....and believe me, you people who think you are perfect...they will get you too!!!
Slow pay on bills?? Hard times? Tough!! Soon your auto insurance rates will also be determined by your credit rating. Doesn't matter if your driving record is perfect.
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

[BriarBey]

Sorry girls!! NO one is getting me to volunteer to stick my t-t in a wringer!! The pain and damage alone could cause cancer. Had 1 in my lifetime....I said that and the nurse was back peddling about that had never been proven. I was joking, she was serious. I can't believe what people will play into, and the crap that fear will lead people to believe. I had a day to be born...an hour and a minute...I have a day to die...also a designated hour and minute and NO one can stop it. We are NOT little Gods. I am not going to live my life in fear of the inevidable.

[BriarBey]

I smoked 3 packs a day for 10 years. I quit for 12 years. Now I smoke 1 pack a day and you know what? I don't fight my weight, and I enjoy smoking. I don't feel any different then when I didn't smoke. Go Figure. I do feel lousy when I consume to much sugar.

[SamAdams76]

They should be able to outlaw tobacco in about 10 years if the media plays along.

The government will never outlaw tobacco. Too much tax money involved. Like gambling (state lottery), the government is more than happy to oblige people destroying their lives with their addictions.

[BriarBey]

Oh and I quit those 3 packs a day...cold turkey.

[SheLion]

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!

Briar! I thought I was the only one left in here tonight.

"They" already started on Obesity!  It's horrible!

The War On Obesity

[lsee]

Oh and I quit those 3 packs a day...cold turkey.

I wish to God my grandpa could have done the same. I miss him. My grandmother has suffered with emphysema for many years and never smoked. She did live with a heavy smoker for over 50 years, however.

[SheLion]

I am not going to live my life in fear of the inevidable.

When "they" cure death, I might stop smoking.

[SheLion]

I don't feel any different then when I didn't smoke.

My mother-in-law quit 10 years ago (also cold turkey). She still longs for one. And she said it's all BS about food tasting better and you can smell better when you don't smoke. She said she doesn't notice nothing different.

[LaineyDee]

I remember reading about mamography was that it found less than .01% of all breast cancers, yet it's practically forced on women. Who benefits from this stuff? Not the individual.

My Dr. pushes me every year to get a mammogram. Last year, he really shook his finger in my face because I had turned 46 and had never had one. I stopped him in the middle of this tirade and said, "You know what? This is MY body, MY money and MY decision NOT to have this done." "There is no history of cancer in either side of my family, so there is no reason to be concerned. I do my own checks and know my body. If something changes, you'll be the first to know.....OKAY?" He very put out, but relented with the attitude, "Don't blame me if it happens". SIGH.

This same Dr. nagged me about quitting smoking, for years. I finally caved and let him give me the latest pill, "Zyban". It made me violently ill. When I called to tell him, he said, "Oh, just give it a few more days." I tossed them in the trash. I got the chewing of my life a few weeks later and was TOLD I would try something else. I told him that the smoking didn't bother ME as much as it bothered HIM and if I decided to quit.....I'd do it on my own, thankyouverymuch. He's really a good Doc in every other respect, but totally brain-washed by the drug companies. Needless to say, we argue alot. *chuckle*

[SheLion]

This same Dr. nagged me about quitting smoking, for years. I finally caved and let him give me the latest pill, "Zyban". It made me violently ill. When I called to tell him, he said, "Oh, just give it a few more days." I tossed them in the trash. I got the chewing of my life a few weeks later and was TOLD I would try something else. I told him that the smoking didn't bother ME as much as it bothered HIM and if I decided to quit.....I'd do it on my own, thankyouverymuch. He's really a good Doc in every other respect, but totally brain-washed by the drug companies. Needless to say, we argue alot. *chuckle*

I got on the "I want to quit" faze a few years ago. I ask my Doctor about Zyban. He told me "Do it on your own. Don't take none of those drugs." Now, that's an honest Doctor. Don't find many of them around anymore.

[DWSUWF]

"...I'm doing OK, but it is a struggle at times..."

I gave up my pipe about a year and a half ago.

I dearly loved it, but I could tell that it wasn't doing me any good.

Quitting is tough, but it IS do-able.

[Great Dane]

Your not 68! Who you kidding!

Well...... you are right, I turn 68 in early October. :-} husband is 70, and his last check-up was fine as well.

[Great Dane]

My doctor told me yesterday, that he would be happy if he could make me quit smoking, told him I had no intention of living in a sterile plastic bubble, also reminded him that obesity had overtaken smoking as the highest risk factor in health, told him I keep up on things, he said..... yeah, I noticed.

[Great Dane]

Sorry girls!! NO one is getting me to volunteer to stick my t-t in a wringer!! The pain and damage alone could cause cancer.

HEHEH, I told my doctor, if a mans penis had to go into that contraption, they would have made sure it didn't hurt.

[Great Dane]

Haven't seen you here before, welcome aboard.

[SheLion]

That's wonderful, Great Dane!! I feel good, too! :)

[SheLion]

HEHEH, I told my doctor, if a mans penis had to go into that contraption, they would have made sure it didn't hurt.

[Great Dane]

He's really a good Doc in every other respect, but totally brain-washed by the drug companies. Needless to say, we argue alot. *chuckle*

LOL, Me too, seems there is a lot of that going on.

[oldtimer]

Go get em SheLion. We had a great Country in the 40's and 50's etc. it was patriotic, libs lived under rocks, and now we have a Country that is basically dog clinton.

Ayn Rand is rolling over in her grave.