Quit Smoking Painlessly Now!

Now I’m being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. [0n being a high-profile social smoker] ~ Kate Moss

“Her smoking and lifestyle are affecting her looks, marked by wrinkling around the eyes that will get worse over the next five years. Beauticians have noted that her chin shows signs of sagging and the shape of her face is becoming less angular and defined.” Sunday Times UK 2005

As far as Kate is concerned beauty from within seems to mean spending lots of money at spas and wellness centres for face and body makeovers. However, such temporary measures cannot beat a long history of chain smoking. A record of 80 – 100 sticks a day pump enough toxins into her body to make her age faster than she should. Such a shame to the once youthful looking supermodel. She certainly look much older than her age now. No amount of anti aging products – like creams, wraps, or even jabs can rescue her skin from such toxic onslaught. On top of that, Ms Moss is known for her hard drinking habit that no doubt compound and accelerate her skin aging process.

Beauty is only skin deep. As a chain smoker and a hard drinker, she has already committed serious damage to her skin.

The effects of smoking on the skin cannot be reversed totally, however,  quit smoking now would at least stop the damage from getting bad to worse. However, will she?

For Ms Moss, middle age has come even before her middles start showing. It’s all in her pretty face. What a pity!

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times. ~Mark Twain, attributed

Here’s an interview of Mark Twain from Boston Daily Globe, August 3, 1909, p. 9
– In a semi-jocose interview at his home near Redding, Conn. today, Mark Twain let it become known that he is combating heart disease, brought about by his many years of excessive smoking. A reporter asked the veteran humorist if he had anything to say in regard to Dr. James L. Tracy’s assertion in “American Medicine,” that Twain was below par morally because he smoked a cigar at Oxford, England, while waiting the conferment of a degree over there.

The white flannel clad Mark, sitting in an easy chair puffing at a pipe, said: “This is the third of the four smokers I’m allowed each 24 hours nowadays,” he explained, without ever removing his pipe.

“I am obliged to sit right here for months, and perhaps forever, by the orders of my doctor. He allows me only four smokes a day, where I have been all my life in the habit of taking at least 40.

“I cannot walk 300 years or take an extra smoke or two, but I pay the penalty with a severe pain in my heart. When I consider that I lived almost 74 years in as good health as any man and smoked 40 times a day without injury, as I thought, only to be cut down now to four smokes a day, I am in no position to dispute anything which Dr. Tracy may say regarding smoking.

“Regarding the Oxford incident, the doctor seems to have a mistaken notion. I was not the chief criminal, and was not even responsible for the occurrence. While we were awaiting our turn in the ceremonies, those of us who came up for letters and a few who were there for science degrees had to wait perhaps an hour.

“I inquired if smoking was allowed. Mr. Kipling said that it was forbidden by the rules. Then some one of our group of four said that we could go down in an out-of-the-way corridor and have a smoke. I think it was Sir Edward Ramsay who said that, but I would not accuse anyone wilfully. We went down there and had our smoke, and no one said anything to us.

“No one came near us except a small army of photographers who got some pictures, so you see the crime was divided among four of us, one American and three Englishmen. If I can divide up all my crimes in the same proportion I shall be fortunate.

“So Dr. Tracy is worried about my moral character? And he thinks the excessive use of tobacco is responsible for it.

“Well, tobacco is responsible for a good deal physically, but I don’t think it can quite ruin a moral character.”

“Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!… God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.” ~A.P. Herbert

Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, CH (usually writing as A. P. Herbert or A. P. H.) (24 September 1890 – 11 November 1971) was an English humorist, novelist, playwright and law reform activist.

“If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.”  ~ Douglas Adams

You would have thought he was a non-smoker. Ironically, Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001), an English writer and dramatist, was a smoker. He never actually quit smoking before. In fact, in his books, there was several reference on smoking.

Douglas  Adams  died of a heart attack in 2001, and as the British Heart Foundation points out, “Quitting is the biggest step you can take to reduce the risk of having a heart attack.”

“Being famous is just like being in high school. But I’m not interested in being the cheerleader. I’m not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She’s the cheerleader, and I’m out in the smoker shed.” ~ Courtney Love

“I wish I could quit because of the baby, but it’s hard.” ~ Courtney Love

Courtney Love was not allowed to board a plane as she smokes in a Virgin Airways first-class lounge in 2008. She was barred from getting on the aircraft and had to wait for another flight. According to theinsider.com, Courtney Love said of the incident : “I had a cigarette in the first-class lounge – like two hits or so. In addition, they would not let me on the plane with my daughter. They made out I was a terrorist or something. It was embarrassing.”

It was reported in 2009 that the celebrity was ordered by her doctors to quit smoking after her tests revealed that she has nodules lining her throat. Now it remains to be seen whether she can give up smoking, forever.

I’m not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now. ~ Bill Hicks

“Obnoxious , self-righteous, whining little fucks. My biggest fear is that if I quit smoking, I’ll become on of you…Don’t take that wrong. I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don’t know, and I feel it’s my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready?…….Non-smokers die every day…Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you’ve chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurtling back to reality….You’re dead too.” ~ Bill Hicks

This talented bloke was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas in the summer of 1993 and he died on 26 Feb1994 at a young age of 32 years.

“I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker… but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.” ~ Michelle Pfeiffer

Definitely that is her opinion. I personally do not find my non-smoking friends any less interesting than my smoking friends. I do not discriminate however I often wish I do not have to stink from cigarette smokes when partying with my smoking lots. That was when I wish they would all quit smoking there and there.