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| Thread ID: 101189 | 2009-07-04 10:48:00 | Oh bummer! | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 788917 | 2009-07-05 11:54:00 | We might not live forever, but we smell better (and can actually taste our food!!!) So? I can enjoy veges more which means in some ways im healthier! |
hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 788918 | 2009-07-05 11:55:00 | Smokers do indeed stink. Horrible stench. | Metla (12) | ||
| 788919 | 2009-07-05 12:04:00 | Actually it's really hard to give up smoking, it's really addictive, glad I'm not a smoker as its not a nice way to go . Its obviously worrying you. Good luck with your decision. | Ofthesea (14129) | ||
| 788920 | 2009-07-05 12:45:00 | Originally posted by johcar We might not live forever, but we smell better (and can actually taste our food!!!) Smokers have a definite advantage at McDonalds then. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 788921 | 2009-07-05 19:25:00 | Cardiac asthma isn't asthma in its true sense . It's wheezing due to congestive heart failure . Cardiac asthma is a clinical condition caused by severe reflexive blocking and/or by edema of the lungs . The bronchial spasm in cardiac asthma is caused by back pressure from the left side of the heart to the lungs (the left part of the heart has a sudden disproportion between its work load and work capacity) . Patients with heart failure or heart valves that do not open properly experience shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing . Cardiac asthma is usually due to a major mechanical fault of the heart and may pose to be life threatening, if not checked at the right time . In this kind of asthma, the reduced pumping efficacy of the heart leads to a build up of fluid in the lungs . This build up of the fluid causes the air passages to narrow up and eventually cause wheezing and other related symptoms . Symptoms usually occur with exercise or at night after going to bed . Excessive fluid in the lungs associated with heart failure causes symptoms such as shortness of breath, coughing and wheezing, which imitate asthma . Both cardiac asthma and pulmonary edema are symptoms of coming heart failure . * Shortness of breath, not necessarily accompanied by wheezing . * Increased rapid and superficial breathing . * Increased blood pressure and heart beat rate . * Cardiac asthmatic people wake up breathless a few hours after sleeping, and have to sit upright to again properly breathe . This is due to lying down too long . * Swollen ankles which worsen rapidly during the stretch of the day . Treatment is directed at improving the pump function of the heart along with medications . If the asthma is caused by a heart valve that is not working properly or a hole between the heart chambers, surgery or other procedures may be suggested . Treatment of heart failure involves using diuretics (water pills) to free the lungs of excess fluid and medications to help the heart muscles pump more effectively . When the heart failure has been well controlled, the wheezing will gradually stop . Cardiac asthma usually occurs in elderly people who have wheezing and shortness of breath that are due to heart failure . When the heart is too weak to pump blood effectively, fluid will accumulate in the lungs . Fluid in the lungs causes shortness of breath and wheezing . And those who say it is easy to give up smoking, didn't smoke much to begin with . PCtek . . . Thanks heaps for that enlightenment . It's basically what my brother told me, but he didn't explain it quite as well . |
Greg (193) | ||
| 788922 | 2009-07-05 22:54:00 | Putting up the price of fags imo does not stop most people from quitting. The poor people who can least afford the fags still buy them and their families miss out because that money isn't getting spent on food etc. Smokers are obviously of limited intelligence and cant give up and should be treated as alkies or druggies. Maybe the the state could give poor people fags like in a methadone program in plain packs prescription from chemist. I do my part I now do not hire smokers anymore most drivers are smokers so it cuts the job applicants about 80%. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 788923 | 2009-07-05 23:32:00 | I'm a smoker, on and off.....I want to stop, but I'm weak....longest I stopped was 6mths, 10mths ago!... Ummm |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 788924 | 2009-07-05 23:59:00 | The "New Puritan Age"©™ we are living in has familiar hallmarks of Fascism and Nazism, not to mention the joy of power tripping. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 788925 | 2009-07-06 00:13:00 | I smoked from 16 till I was 25 many years ago and gave up when I went to stay with some relatives for a fortnight who were non smokers. Smoked a packet a day. I was so determined to give up that I use to have nightmares that I was smoking and woke up in a cold sweat, could even taste it. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 788926 | 2009-07-06 00:14:00 | Actually it's really hard to give up smoking, it's really addictive, glad I'm not a smoker as its not a nice way to go . Its obviously worrying you. Good luck with your decision. Its not hard, The biggest handicap to people giving up is the widespread propaganda about how hard it is, The strong urges only last for a couple of weeks and even at their peak only last for a few minutes at a time,and they don't cripple ya, they can be ignored. Those that continue to smoke do so because they want to, Not because its hard. ****, you have to make the decision to get some smokes, light em up and inhale in order to continue. The only exception I would make is the really useless people, The type that don't have the capacity to do anything apart from exist and breed.They are a lost cause before they started. |
Metla (12) | ||
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