#49496 07-07-2004 03:55 AM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 66 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) |  OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 66 | I just read that Australia will be the next country to use very graphic images of very disfigured people on their cigarette packages. If it works to keep people from starting that is great. But for those with a severe physical addiction to nicotine, they will do little more than create anxiety and guilt. Some people just can't quit. We really need the use of medical nicotine sprays by Rx become a more common solution for these people.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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#49497 07-07-2004 06:07 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,244 | My friend who is giving me fantastic support through all this, still can not stop smoking, her addiction is in the light of her own emphysema.. No way would I ever critisise but my god I worry..
Sunshine... love and hugs
Helen
SCC Base of tongue, (TISN0M0) laser surgery, 10/01 and 05/03 no clear margins. Radial free flap graft to tonsil pillar, partial glossectomy, left neck dissection 08/04
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#49498 07-07-2004 06:38 AM | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 30 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | | Contributing Member (25+ posts)
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 30 | Helen,
I have a friend just like yours. It breaks my heart to see her smoke. I thought when she saw I almost died that would do it, but it didn't. It is so sad to be so addicted to something like that. Mary Lee | | |
#49499 07-07-2004 06:55 AM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Actually if you are a non US smoker where they have the graphic images on the packs (like the UK for instance) there are stick on labels available to cover them up. See: http://www.fakefags.co.uk/ Here's a link to an interesting study or warning label effectiveness from Stanford: http://prevention.stanford.edu/research/publications/detail.asp?438 Here's another one from NCI: http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/grants/abstract.asp?ApplID=6621687 Brian's right - some people just can't quit. I had a second class petty officer friend in the navy (who was a chain smoker) tell me once "Anybody can quit smoking -it takes a man to die of cancer". I'll bet money that he inevitably proved his manliness! Like Helen's friend my sister died of lung cancer (inspite of her being treated at MD Anderson) and emphysema. She smoked right up until her pre-death coma.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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#49500 07-07-2004 08:14 AM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | My mother smoked for years (about 50) and even when diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer, her doctors still scolded her for smoking. She used to smile and say,"Do you think it'll kill me?" and they usually dropped it.
Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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#49501 07-25-2004 10:00 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Here's some interesting links for you from UCSF about smoking and second hand smoke: http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/news/200405263.html and also: http://pub.ucsf.edu/newsservices/releases/200405284/ Try this one too: http://tobaccowall.ucsf.edu/ An expanded list of celebrities and other famous people who died from smoking related illness: http://www.tobacco.org/resources/misc/losses.html
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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