{"id":9006,"date":"2018-11-22T11:39:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T11:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quitingsmoking.org\/?p=9006"},"modified":"2018-12-05T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T09:00:53","slug":"the-smoking-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quitingsmoking.org\/en\/the-smoking-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"The smoking facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"main\">OK there&#8217;s a lot of random speculation about smoking &#8211; marketing from the tobacco industry and huge amounts of scare campaigns from health organisations. But somewhere in the middle there are some facts about smoking, so I had a hunt around to see if I could find some interesting information.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"h2\">Tobacco use results in over 114,000 people a year in the UK<\/h2>\n<p class=\"main\">This is the equivalent of a plane crashing every day and killing all its passengers! According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ash.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">ASH<\/a>, smoking results in over 20% of the annual deaths in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"main\">Holy shit &#8211; that&#8217;s a lot! ASH reckon that about 50% of regular smokers will be killed by their habit. Personally I&#8217;m still holding out for the kinky sex with hot chick death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"main\">That&#8217;s still an insane amount of deaths from smoking &#8211; if some nutter was romping around the world killing that amount of people, the Americans would have probably invaded them by now.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"h2\">Smoking can cause many different types of cancer<\/h2>\n<p class=\"main\">Again, according to\u00a0ASH, smoking can cause:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"main\">cervical cancer<\/li>\n<li class=\"main\">cancers of the mouth, lip and throat<\/li>\n<li class=\"main\">cancer of the pancreas<\/li>\n<li class=\"main\">bladder cancer<\/li>\n<li class=\"main\">cancer of the kidney<\/li>\n<li class=\"main\">stomach cancer<\/li>\n<li class=\"main\">liver cancer<\/li>\n<li class=\"main\">leukaemia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"main\">Hey, enough talk about this crap &#8211; why don&#8217;t we check out a nice juicy picture? Check this shit out! Just imagine &#8211; that is probably festering away inside you right now!<\/p>\n<p class=\"main\">I bet if you had a little hot sauce a barbeque going, that wouldn&#8217;t look so bad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"main\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;&#8211; time for another smoke!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"main\">And this is just the cancers! There&#8217;s also the whole heart disease thing (although IMO being a lazy ass is more of a problem on that issue) and\u00a0loads of other really sucky ways to die!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"h2\">About nicotine<\/h2>\n<p class=\"main\">It&#8217;s a drug (surprise!) that stimulates your brain, which in turn causes withdrawl symptoms when you stop smoking. Symptoms can vary from person to person, but personally I&#8217;ve experienced headaches and restlessness when I quit smoking before. It&#8217;s kinda like a mixture of a mild hangover and insomnia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"main\">Unfortunately, getting insanely drunk doesn&#8217;t seem to help you pass through this stage of nicotine withdrawl &#8211; you end up just caving in and smoking more!<\/p>\n<p class=\"main\">I found messing around with the PC to be useful (keeps my hands occupied &#8211; even now I still haven&#8217;t lit the smoke I put in my mouth 10 mins ago &#8211; see red text, above). Mind you, I am also doing other stuff while I write this (including playing a poker tournement!). Check this page for more\u00a0tips on quitting smoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK there&#8217;s a lot of random speculation about smoking &#8211; marketing from the tobacco industry and huge amounts of scare campaigns from health organisations. 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