About to stop smoking for the third time, need advice?

I’ve been a smoker since I was 13, started of as two or three a day, then when by the time I was 15, and I could blag the off licence that I was 16 (this is back when the legal age for cigarettes in the UK was 16), I was on 20 a day. When I was 18, I was smoking on an average day 20 on a work or school day, 25-30 on a off day and almost 40 – 45 on a night out. I’m 21 now and I smoke about 15 Golden Virginia rollies a day. But a week ago I got a wake up call, one of my mates I went to school with was diagnosed with leukaemia, and he had only smoke about 10 a day for just over two years.
So this is the third time I’ve decided to quit, the first time lasted four hours, the second time last a full week while I was at uni, till I was almost forced fed nicotine by my dorm mates, cause I was insufferable.
I know side effects are different for people but I get:
1) Severe Insomnia for about a month.
2) Total loss of appetite.
3) The shakes
4) And boughts of uncontrollable anger with normally manifest’s as verbal abuse, but I did trash my dorm kitchen two day’s into my second quit, I think it over an argument with one of the girls about my excessive drinking (that’s dealt with).

I need advice or tips on how to make it. I’m cutting down first then going a Nicotine patch. Please no pointless advice, my favourite’s are “The physical addiction wares of in three day’s and the physiological dependent goes in a week”, that’s rubbish “a smoker’s always a smoker when the chips are down”, oh and never say “just stop smoking” I’ve shouted at people for that.

WHY WHY WHY lets ALL STOP SMOKING !!!!!!!!!!!! :D?

it REALLY CAUSES :

Men:affects teeth to 30% in color

heart attacks
blood diseases
impotence

Female: hurts pregnancy FOR GOD SAKE AND YOUR CHILDREN SAKE TOO!

WHAT THE hell

Most people know that smoking can cause lung cancer, but it can also cause many other cancers and illnesses.

Smoking kills around 114,000 people in the UK each year.

Of these deaths, about 42,800 are from smoking-related cancers, 30,600 from cardiovascular disease and 29,100 die slowly from emphysema and other chronic lung diseases

Cigarettes contain more than 4000 chemical compounds and at least 400 toxic substances.

When you inhale, a cigarette burns at 700°C at the tip and around 60°C in the core. This heat breaks down the tobacco to produce various toxins.

As a cigarette burns, the residues are concentrated towards the butt.

The products that are most damaging are:

tar, a carcinogen (substance that causes cancer)
nicotine is addictive and increases cholesterol levels in your body
carbon monoxide reduces oxygen in the body
components of the gas and particulate phases cause chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD).
The damage caused by smoking is influenced by:

the number of cigarettes smoked
whether the cigarette has a filter
how the tobacco has been prepared.

Of the 300 people who die every day in the UK as a result of smoking, many are comparatively young smokers.

The number of people under the age of 70 who die from smoking-related diseases exceeds the total figure for deaths caused by breast cancer, AIDS, traffic accidents and drug addiction.

Non-smokers and ex-smokers can also look forward to a healthier old age than smokers.

Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death due to smoking.

Hardening of the arteries is a process that develops over years, when cholesterol and other fats deposit in the arteries, leaving them narrow, blocked or rigid. When the arteries narrow (atherosclerosis), blood clots are likely to form.

Smoking accelerates the hardening and narrowing process in your arteries: it starts earlier and blood clots are two to four times more likely.

Cardiovasular disease can take many forms depending on which blood vessels are involved, and all of them are more common in people who smoke

Coronary thrombosis: a blood clot in the arteries supplying the heart, which can lead to a heart attack. Around 30 per cent are caused by smoking.
Cerebral thrombosis: the vessels to the brain can become blocked, which can lead to collapse, stroke and paralysis.
If the kidney arteries are affected, then high blood pressure or kidney failure results.
Blockage to the vascular supply to the legs may lead to gangrene and amputation.
Smokers tend to develop coronary thrombosis 10 years earlier than non-smokers, and make up 9 out of 10 heart bypass patients.

Cancer
Smokers are more likely to get cancer than non-smokers. This is particularly true of lung cancer, throat cancer and mouth cancer, which hardly ever affect non-smokers.

The link between smoking and lung cancer is clear.

Ninety percent of lung cancer cases are due to smoking.
If no-one smoked, lung cancer would be a rare diagnosis – only 0.5 per cent of people who’ve never touched a cigarette develop lung cancer.
One in ten moderate smokers and almost one in five heavy smokers (more than 15 cigarettes a day) will die of lung cancer.
The more cigarettes you smoke in a day, and the longer you’ve smoked, the higher your risk of lung cancer. Similarly, the risk rises the deeper you inhale and the earlier in life you started smoking.

For ex-smokers, it takes approximately 15 years before the risk of lung cancer drops to the same as that of a non-smoker.

If you smoke, the risk of contracting mouth cancer is four times higher than for a non-smoker. Cancer can start in many areas of the mouth, with the most common being on or underneath the tongue, or on the lips.

Other types of cancer that are more common in smokers are:

bladder cancer
cancer of the oesophagus
cancer of the kidneys
cancer of the pancreas
cervical cancer

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a collective term for a group of conditions that block airflow and make breathing more difficult, such as:

emphysema – breathlessness caused by damage to the air sacs (alveoli)
chronic bronchitis – coughing with a lot of mucus that continues for at least three months.
Smoking is the most common cause of COPD and is responsible for 80 per cent of cases.

It’s estimated that 94 per cent of 20-a-day smokers have some emphysema when the lungs are examined after death, while more than 90 per cent of non-smokers have little or none.

COPD typically starts between the ages of 35 and 45 when lung function starts to decline anyway.

In smokers, the rate of decline in lung function can be three times the usual rate. As lung function declines, breathlessn
tell me if the question is useful and tell mE IF U STOPED SMOKING AT THE MOMENT U READ THIS THANKS!:D

Thanks to YA!!!! I’ve quit smoking!!!?

I got this book from the UK, called “The EasyWay to Stop Smoking” by Allen Carr. Read it in one day, only cost about $10 including shipping. Talks about the psycological withdrawal symptoms, which are much worse than the nicotine addiction, and gives great (and sometimes funny) tips from a very heavy ex-smoker who wrote this book. Would recommend it to anyone!

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=br_ss_hs/102-1561726-7953739?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dstripbooks%3Arelevance-above&keywords=Easyway+to+stop+smoking&Go.x=7&Go.y=10

Bin Tax Is Back! Why Can’t Labour Stop Lying…?

Last week they apparently abandoned plans to introduce a ‘bin tax’ after intervention by Gordon Brown. Now it appears this just more smoke and mirrors from this morally bankrupt Labour Government as they have now given the go-ahead for pilot schemes. WHY CAN’T THIS LABOUR GOVERNMENT TRY TO STOP LYING TO US AND TREATING US LIKE FOOLS???

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7067971.stm

Councils in England are to be given the power to introduce pilot schemes to charge households according to the amount of rubbish they throw away.

It comes as MPs warn the UK could face fines of up to £180m a year from the European Commission if it does not cut the amount of waste dumped in landfill.

Last week, plans for a pay-as-you-throw rubbish charge were apparently shelved.

Conservatives accused the government of a U-turn over plans and said such schemes will lead to more fly-tipping.
I did read that Boris…and you’re 100% right. Here’s a link;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=486699&in_page_id=1770

WHY should the sadistic freaks that abused, tortured and murdered Baby P, be allowed anonymity?

Read what happened to this poor innocent angel, and answer me this-why should these evil abusers be able to hide away?

I couldn’t read the whole thing, I couldn’t see the words for tears.

I have put in a link to the full story, and a link to the picture of this poor little angel. At last, he can feel no more pain.

Haringey council and social services have blood on their hands.

EVIL: Mum cried crocodile tears
DISTRAUGHT: Witness feared to act
By Daniel Sanderson, 16/11/2008

TODAY the News of the World finally reveals the COMPLETE and UNTOLD horror of what really happened to tragic abuse victim Baby P.
Our chilling dossier, froma 15-year-old girl who WITNESSED the stepdad’s sickening torture, damns bungling social workers who failed to step in.

The terrified teenager said: “What went on was sadistic. Social Services have blood on their hands.”
Horrors
The full litany of horrors inflicted on tragic Baby P will chill every decent human being to the core.

Sickening new details totally DAMN the little boy’s wicked tormentors and expose the staggering extent of FAILURE by bungling social workers and doctors who let him die alone and terrified in his bloodstained cot at 17 months old.

Through the eyes of a key prosecution witness who actually discovered the body we expose the sheer brutality meted out to Baby P by his evil stepdad and covered up by his callous 27-year-old mum.

The 15-year-old source lived at the family’s filthy, flea-infested north London council house with human excrement smeared across the walls and a putrid stench of stale urine that choked your throat.

Still racked with guilt that she felt too terrified to act at the time, the teenager told how the stepdad:

SLICED off the tot’s fingertips with a Stanley knife and wrenched off his little nails with pliers.

SMACKED his private parts with a shoe.

PRESSED down on his windpipe so hard he turned blue.

BIT the tot all over to ‘train’ the family’s vicious dogs to attack.

DROPPED him 6ft onto the floor.

GRABBED him by the throat and tossed him into his cot,

RAMMED a bottle into his mouth so hard it cut his lips.

Of all the vile cruelty the girl witnessed, the most horrifying scene was the one that crippled Baby P, leaving him paralysed from the waist down.

His warped step- father, a 32-year-old Satanist—convicted of allowing the child to die along with the mum and a paedophile lodger—was watching the Jeremy Kyle TV show with Baby P stretched across his knees.

The witness said: “He sat smirking on the sofa, smoking cannabis and playing with Baby P like he was a rag doll. Then I suddenly heard a loud crack that echoed through the house as the baby’s little backbone snapped in half.

Monster cut off Baby P’s finger tips, pulled out nails with pliers, wrapped him in blankets to dehydrate him, smacked him between the legs with a shoe and trained rottweiler to bite his head
“He let out a gut- wrenching scream. It was so loud I got up and went into the garden and put my hands over my ears to block it out.”

Incredibly the terrible injury went unnoticed by social workers AND paediatrician Dr Sabah Al Zayyat. The doctor also failed to notice eight fractured ribs and two missing fingernails.

The 15-year-old then revealed what finally sealed Baby P’s grim fate in August, 2007—a night of constant crying that disturbed the awful household. She said: “He was wailing and wailing in his cot. He just wouldn’t stop. But he’d been lying in his urine and faeces for days.

“Then the stepdad came down and said, ‘I’ll sort it.’ He went into the room, slammed the door shut and suddenly the crying stopped.”

the rest of the story:

http://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Forums/viewtopic/p=2257551.html

Photos of the beautiful baby:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7732961.stm

PHOTOS OF THE ‘MOTHER’ AND STEP ‘FATHER’

http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?c=117&a=1551