#90895 03-01-2009 07:36 AM | Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 1 Member | OP  Member
Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 1 | How do you encourage a person to quit smoking that has been smoking since the age of 16?
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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Here is a link that may be helpful: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_13X_Guide_for_Quitting_Smoking.aspIts all up to the individual to stop, nobody can make a smoker quit.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | | | | | Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | That's the answer to quitting smoking. If a person doesn't want to quit, you can bet they won't.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 130 | If someone asked me how I quit smoking, I give them this link www.quitnet.com. It is a forum based website were the online community help each other quit. My one year smokefree anniversary is Wednesday.
40 yr old. Stage IV SCC found left tonsil. PET/CT shows cancer on base of tongue, floor of mouth, lymph nodes on both sides. HPV 16 pos. 6 weeks of cisplatin, 43 days of radiation. 73gy on each side.
ND March 2, 2009
reoccurance dx'd Aug 19, 2009
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Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 2 | Making someone quit smoking is a very difficult thing. It is completely up to the person to quit the habit. One requires a strong will and desire to quit. These are not the only factors. You may find very interesting tips to quit smoking, do follow the link http://www.stop-smoking-guru.com . This site is completely dedicated to stop smoking and I personally think it will certainly help. All the Best | | | | | Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 716 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 716 | I have tried and have not been successful...In fact, two strokes, one heart attack, cancer, beginning stages of emphysema and other ailments have not helped them to quit. My mother and step-father will stop when they're dead.
7-16-08 age 37@Dx, T3N0M0 SCC 4.778cm tumor, left side of oral tongue, non smoker, casual drinker, I am the 4th in my family to have H&N cancer
8-13-08 left neck dissection and 40% of tongue removed, submandibular salivary gland & 14 nodes clean, no chemo, IMRTx35
11-4-08 Recovering & feeling better
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Joined: May 2007 Posts: 666 | It must come from within. You can look and point out all the statistics and pictures but unless the smoker wants to quit it is a no go, no matter what you do.
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Partial glossectomy (25%) anterior tongue. 4/6/07/. IMRT start @5/24/07 (3x) Erbitux start/end@ 5/24/07. IMRT wider field (30x) start 6/5/07. Weekly cisplatin (2x30mg/m2), then weekly carbo- (5x180mg/m2). End of Tx 19 July 07.
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Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 346 | yup,
Markus is right. My plastic surgeon told me my reconstruction would not work if i didn't get nicotine out of my system so blood vessels
could reconect. I never smoked after leaving his office and I had smoked like a stack on the ride there. I just got scared and made up my time. It is all in the mind.
No secret to it.
Good luck to you!
Debbie
Partial mandibulectomy and neck dissection 2/3/07. T2NOMO.
Had 14 hour operation which included reconstruction of jaw.
Reconstruction failed. Some radiation, no chemo.
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Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 531 | I agree with the majority quit net can help...But in all honesty the person has to want to quit that is the first step. There are all kinds of aides out there but the strongest is one's mind. I smoked for 30+ years sometimes up to a pack and a half a day and it took facing oral cancer to make the quitting stick. I have been lucky I have angels on my shoulders cause I quit with 7 other people in this house all smoke. At any given times there are cartons of cigarettes in my home. If I can do it any body can...First the will to quit then the aides and support help....It can be done
Dianne..treatment at cc at Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario...insulin dependant, Surgery Sept 8/08 Tracheotomy,composite resection and bilateral neck dissection, left radial forearm free flap... T2N0 squamous cell carcinoma. No radiation A little over 2 yrs clear YAY
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Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,357 Likes: 5 | Quitnet, the patch and being scared out of my mind all helped me quit! I only quit once. Had I known that it was "doable" I would have quit much earlier. For so many years I kept telling myself that I couldn't do it - that they would have to put me in a padded room, etc, etc.
Turns out I could do it, and there weren't too many bodies that I had to dispose of!
Donna
Donna,69, SCC L Tongue T2N1MO Stg IV 4/04 w/partial gloss;32 radtx; T2N2M0 Stg IV; R tongue-2nd partial gloss w/graft 10/07; 30 radtx/2 cispl 2/08. 3rd Oral Cancer surgery 1/22 - Stage 1. 2022 surgery eliminated swallowing and bottom left jaw. Now a “Tubie for Life”.no food envy - Thank God! Surviving isn't easy!!!! .Proudly Canadian - YES, UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IS WONDERFUL! (Not perfect but definitely WONDERFUL)
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