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When Is a Good Time to Quit?

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We’re entering the fall. Not long now before Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and 2016 arrive and fly by. Then it will be time to file our taxes, finish old projects and start new ones. Time to start thinking about what we’d like to achieve in the new year.

The time is now to think about quitting your nicotine product! Stop Smoking! Stop chewing, spitting, inhaling vapor, or whatever you do to get nicotine into your system.

I wish quitting nicotine was easy. There is such a huge industry built up now to promote smoking and nicotine products on the one hand, and to promote quitting nicotine products on the other. There is a lot of money invested in both sides of the equation, including the taxes city governments receive from the sale of tobacco, and the funds they receive (from the tobacco industry) to promote quit smoking classes. If people quit smoking or using other tobacco products, what will happen to that money?

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This is the thing about the whole system that drives me nuts. There are no simple answers. There are always people who will gain and others who will lose in each situation where there are opposing sides (obviously!), and neither side is all right or all wrong. Each side of most disagreements has its good points and bad points.

Tobacco.

Tobacco.

We know that tobacco products cause cancer, they are a factor in asthma and other COPD conditions. They are a factor in heart disease and erectile dysfunction. They also help people with high anxiety manage their emotions. This can be considered a useful tool to help people cope in a world that is overwhelming and fast-paced. In my opinion the risks outweigh the benefits.

I wonder, however, if everyone feels that way. Perhaps those people who continue to smoke and who are having no ill effects (yet) feel that it’s worth the risk to use cigarettes to modify their moods.

What I have personally seen, however, is that it is generally the person who is over 40 or 45 who wants to quit using tobacco, because he or she is starting to experience the ill effects: coughing, bronchitis, lowered immunity to flu and colds, sleep disturbance, ED, bad breath, lowered sensitivity to smell, etc. For those people, however, it may be too late as the damage to the lungs from smoking may already be too extensive to heal. For chewers and other smokeless tobacco users, oral diseases may already be at work in their systems, waiting to strike.

I'm glad false advertising has changed.

I’m glad false advertising has changed.

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