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| grew older, I've been able to put them aside, but I can't put these cigarettes
aside! I get jittery and, you know, I go through withdrawals. I know
what withdrawals are like, so I can say that. I go through withdrawals!
I become irritable. I'm the most difficult person to live with because my
body craves this. It's not a mental thing. My body craves it! What is it,
the nicotine in the cigarette? My body it craves it. It asks for it. It
says give me a cigarette! I know that cigarettes will kill me and I can't
stop. Okay, I can't! If they told me that if I didn't quit smoking cigarettes
today, in a year I would die, I'd just keep smoking up until the end. You
know how much money I could save every year if I just stop smoking cigarettes?
If I took the money that I put on cigarettes and I put it in the bank, I
could retire in 5 to 10 years. I know this, and I still can't stop! My
mother had a stroke back in 1988 and they told her she had to stop smoking
cigarettes and she smoked up until they killed her. I know this, and I still
smoke! My father has emphysema. He's in a VA hospital in Philadelphia and
I still smoke! If there was any other way, like I say, if I could stop,
I would, because I could see me either ending up like my mom or my father
in a matter of a few years. I don't how to phrase or what word I could use
for the damage that cigarettes are doing to people in my generation. It's
fortunate that none of my children smoke, and I wouldn't wish this on
anybody! The only reason I'm doing this is because I'm hoping that somebody
will see that it's wrong! It really is! I would love to be able to go into
schools and tell kids that cigarette smoking is bad".
In memory of Bill Stone |
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