Here is a vine of a comparison of healthy lungs with those from a smoker. It gives a visual example of just how bad smoking can be. The vine shows actual human lungs, so be aware, but it’s not really very gross or anything. If anyone has an issue with this being linked then I’ll take it down.
Note: I’m smoking as I post this, yeah I’m both weak and a hypocrite.
Anti-smoking campaigns just make me want to light up…I have been told not to attempt giving up as I’m doing too much as it is. ie trying to move forward and stay stable. So giving up smoking is far from the horizon
Thanks Malvok - anything like that i can watch keeps me from going back. Ever. even if i become totally psychotic i hope i can
Makes me wonder how black my lungs are. Been smoking for about 7 to 8 years. They seem to be working fine. This makes me feel like ■■■■.
Thank you. I’ve quit again, it’s been 13 days now. Think I’ve got it beat this time 
It’s day one for me. Feeling weak but I know it’s for a good reason. Smoking is going to freakin’ kill me, I know. I’ve got enough to worry about than worry about my lungs!
As a person with some lung issues (asthma, Valley Fever), I can say quitting was one of the best things I’ve ever done. Less bronchitis, my O2 saturation numbers are up, and I feel better.
thankyou malvok day 1 of quitting for me I needed to see that. your not weak or a hypocrite by the way and if you want to quit you can I believe in you!
Utterly disgusting. But I guess you have made your point
I went with my brother once to see a traveling exhibit about the human body featuring real body parts. I remember seeing a healthy human lung next to a smokers lung but the thing is next to this they put a coal miners lung which looked like a chunk of coal…so I just thought “Well…could be worse I guess”
I think the same thing about nicotine gum - right now it’s the glue that holds me together, amid everything else in my life. I like the nicotine gum far better than cigarrettes. I divide each piece into thirds + chew it all the time, so there’s no time that I feel like i ‘need’ nicotine. They would probably show me pictures of cancerous mouths. .
Today marks 1 month smoke-free for me.
It really helped me to know what to expect during the first 72 hours, and what to do about it. It helps to do anything.
When stress comes up I’ve had to learn how to handle it without a cigarette. Some of the ideas I’ve read about have helped – a 5 minute shower, a 10 minute walk, laying back and listening to relaxing or entertaining music, eating something to keep your blood sugar up, doing something with your hands – the list goes on and on, and each episode seems to require a different response. There’s plenty of information out there on the web. Good luck.
It’s probably a bit tough for smokers to quit these days.
Here is an example of a typical search bar.
I bet a smoker would be searching for a cigarette after seeing something like this, but not even know why.
Found this one yesterday at Walmart.
Maybe this would be better.
September 1st I’m going to be down to one cig a day… I’m hoping by the 15th I’ll be done.
That’s my goal.
I actually am going on five weeks without a cigarette. It sucks. My friends smoke, I see people smoke, I want to smoke, but instead I chew a piece of that damn gum every hour or two.
I had been smoking a pack a day and at parties I smoked even more, and I had started smoking when I was 18 and I have been 21 for less than three months so I quit out of “nip it in the bud” thinking. I can sit in a room for hours without having to go outside to smoke now. That’s good. Lots of people chew gum so I dont really have a trace of it on me- only people who know me know that im chewing nicotine gum and not normal gum.
One of my friends quit two years ago and he chews normal gum like insane, seriously he is constantly chewing gum.
I think that video is of REALLY BAD like LIFETIME HEAVY SMOKER’S lungs, not someones lungs after less than a pack a day for a year and then a pack a day for two. But I have noticed that I dont cough up stuff anymore and that cigarettes smell bad now that I have quit.
And a friend I had a casual relationship with said I tasted like an ashtray but my looks overrode the bad taste. My looks override a lot of things for some people. That and I do have my ■■■■ together as in what I am doing with my life. Said peer met me in an honors psychology class. He hollered at me as I was leaving a class and wanted to chat, noticed I was chewing gum and asked “nicarette?”
I do miss the psychological aspect of smoking. The habit of smoking is tied to the effects of carbon monoxide, nicotine, and all of the other crap they put in camels. Just the act of opening up my cigarette case and grabbing my lighter triggers a five minute long process of drugs. Nicotine is by definition a drug. I have nightmares of smoking and buying cigarettes now. I had one really bad nightmare of a cougar (old woman who seeks out young male partners) smoking a cigarette talking to me in a hotel lobby. I wanted out. I had another nightmare of buying the same brand of smokes that I bought on the way to my evaluation when I was 19. That’s not a good memory at all.
But I have written papers which covered the topic of smoking habits in schizophrenics. To put a lot of formal work into vernacular, schizers are chimneys. When I was diagnosed, he smelled the smoke on me and asked me how much I smoked and even said it contributed to my diagnosis. There was a little bit of question as to if I was faking insanity because of how highly I functioned and how well groomed I was and how articulate my speech was, but the MMPI-2 said I was not lying and that I was very insane. Most schizophrenics smoke a lot of cigarettes. Between 80 and 90% of diagnosed schizophrenics are smokers, and most of them are fairly heavy smokers who smoke strong cigarettes, not lights, and smoke at least a pack a day.
I remember when I started to descend into madness and how my drug, alcohol and tobacco use when from privileged white prep school boy level into literally “insane” level in like a month. I had been smoking pot like two-three times a week, smoking like 5 cigarettes every night after school and training, and drinking socially once in a blue moon. I began to smoke constantly, smoke pot multiple times a night, and drink whenever I saw a bottle of liquor or a keg of beer, which was not very often until I went to college.
I’m smoking around a pack a day (maybe a little more), started at 18 now 28 so I guess this adds up to 10 years of smoking, with a few breaks here and there. I don’t do any sports any more but I used to play soccer. I played soccer at least 15 years (started aroud 6) and I didn’t notice such a difference by the time I started smoking - I had to stop playing but it was more due to my psychological state and motivation issues than physical. I had that ‘out of place’ feeling while on the soccer field and would get insanely exhausted after a sprint or 2, yet I could run very well on a ‘good day’ but they were so unpredictable… I mean what’s the point in playing soccer if you don’t emotionnaly feel a part of the team… lol
Just thought I’d throw this in. Leonard Cohen said he quit smoking when he “couldn’t get the smoke down any more”
I did that for the first 2 yrs, Then spent the next year or so with a button in my mouth, which was a bit disgusting because of all the food bits but I cleaned it fairly regularly.LOL
ive stopped smoking 8 years now.it has helped me mentally and physically.