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Oxygen mask in hospital, would it make you stop smoking?
Or would you continue to smoke knowing that you were making it worse and killing yourself?
Mike_T says:
I know exactly how you feel, I was in a very similar situation. I remember that I was so nervous at that time and I took it out on everyone around me. I didnt know what could I do until, thanks god, I found Smoke Deter. Now I can look back and laugh on myself and in the same time I remember how helpless I was. I hope that I'll never be in the same situation again
The sensible answer would be to give up the f@gs of course, but there are a lot of weak willed people who find themselves unable to stop. Then there are those who are allergic to NRT. I think that everyone should keep trying even if they don’t succed in doing it at least they given it a try.
is that a tricky question ???
id stop smocking of course
Did not wait for mask. Stopped March 2004 it was that or die.
If it happened to me then yes i would try my best to give up…I seen my wifes grandad die in hospital wearing a oxygen mask & wired up to a monitor,I said to myself then that i would try to give up but its so damn hard, i tell my kids not to start in the first place then they wont have to give up.
Hi;I believe that smoking is one of the hardest of the drugs to quit.If this is going to make you feel bad the rest of your life then you should keep smoking for what good is life when you are going through withdraws.
Yes I would stop, I know that I should and I did try. The worst thing I did was to tell people I bought a book and started to read it and also paid to see a hypnotist I didn’t smoke for the rest of the evening or when I first got up the following day and I was doing OK then before 9 in the morning I had about 6 or 7 phone calls and txt messages to see how I was doing, that didn’t help me so I gave up trying and still smoke. I will stop only it will be when I want and not when I’m told and I certainly won’t tell anyone it will be just that I’ve stopped.I’m not a weak person only I’m not having anyone tell me when I already know that it’s bad, I’m stubborn. I’ll see how many thumbs down I get for this answer.
I used to think this would be the only way I would find the willpower ever give up. Not any more though. I have been stopped now for 8 weeks and counting.
I’m an ex-smoker, I was once a medical rep. calling on different hospitals every day.
I find it a very distressing statistic that half the people who have lung operations to remove malignant tumours caused by smoking, return to the habit when discharged.
I come from a town in South Wales called Llanelli, and while I was visiting my local hospital, unbelievably one of the people I’ve just mentioned nearly blew up the ward, because he took his Oxygen mask off so he could have a quick puff underneath his bed.
I think most smokers know what they’re risking, I knew and I work as a nurse, so I’ve seen the damage. Like any addiction though, if you can’t get motivated then you’re not going to be able to give up and just wearing an oxygen mask for a day or two would probably not have been enough to make me quit unless I’d really wanted to. Luckily I did find the motivation eventually and it will be two years in spring since I last had a cigarette.
Patients who smoke heavily will find all kinds of places to sneak cigarettes including going outside in all kinds of weathers and with all kinds of drips and things attached, on wheelchairs/crutches all manner of ways, to try and feed the craving for nicotine. Oh and the one about the people with holes in their throats (tracheostomy), who put the fag in the hole, that’s no myth, people who have lost their larynx through throat cancers will still smoke. I know whenever I used to get a heavy cough/cold etc, I used to tell myself that the cigarettes actually opened my airway up, ‘cos I thought I could breathe better after it!
I don’t like to preach at smokers though, I don’t think it’s very fair for me to take any kind of moral high ground because I managed to stop, it still took me 20 years to stop. I do think that if the government is truly serious about the health of the nation in terms of helping people stop, then really they should ban it altogether, and stop selling them, but we all know they couldn’t do without the revenue smokers contribute in terms of taxes, so that’s never going to happen.
Now I have stopped smoking, I must admit (if I’m honest), I’m really hoping that I did it in time to avoid suffering the consequences in the future, while I may have been able to ignore them when I smoked, I cannot ignore them now!
if I’d get that far, I’d keep on smoking, to get it over with.
I’ll tell you the story of my mothers slow decline with Lung Cancer. God knows why but it developed despite the fact that she had never smoked. I put it down to a 30′s child hood, bronchitis, and other poverty realted diseases but….I digress.
In her last few days she was in the Lung Cancer ward which as you would expect had it’s fair share of terminally ill smokers.
A: The smell of tobacco,
B: The mountain of cigarette buts in the garden outside the ward
C:The sight of some fat dollop of a woman with a cigarette in one hand and an oxgen/air mask in the other. Puffing on both in equal measures…..Death Life, Death Life…..
To be honest it probably wasn’t oxygen, more air under pressure as she could have blown the ward up. But I guess from this you can gather that when your time’s up who cares if suddenly start eating Alpine, eating our greens and not smoking….Moot is the word I’m looking for!
It depends. If I stop smoking will the lung disease get better? If not then I may as well carry on. I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t.