Metal Reviews

Iv been havin this awful cough for the pass two weeks and Iv been an ass by ignoring it, just drinking cough syrup when it got worst. The last night I decided to go to bed early, but I just couldn't. Spent one and a half hours coughing my life out and it got to a point where I told myself, "Pathman, you need to see a doctor".

So this morning I dragges my lazy ass to the clinic, and this dialogue shall explain what happend.

After checking my breathing rhytyhms with the stetescope, she said:

Doc: Do you smoke?
Pathman: Yeah, I do...
D: Ever thought of quitting?
P: Yeah....
D: Not successful, uh?
P: Uhuh....
D: Do you have a history of asthma, or your parents, or anyone in
your family has it?
P: err....no....but I had mild asthma when I was really young, but it
cleared even before I turned 8.
D: Young man, do you know that your lungs are horribly weak?
P: .......
D: You've got serious lung problems and it's got heavy phlem which
is making things worse.
P: .....*starts regretting the whole visit to the doc...
D: And there are serious signs of asthma, it's a matter of time till
you get an attack.
P: ....oh...
D: I tell you what, you head to the polyclinic and sign up for the
'Smokers' Quitting Clinic'. They will counsel you and provide some
medication. God willing, you'll be cleared of the habit.
P: .....*tell myself "how creative, that's a nice way of saying
Smokers' Rehab Facility'

It's quite clear now why I've experienced heavy breathing lately. Especially when I climb the stairs (my apartment is on the 4th floor dammit!!!).

Im kinda regretting picking up the habit 8 years ago. SHouldn't have done it, and should have quit long ago. But I guess it's not too late. Don't dare telling my folks or I'll risk getting nuked by my mum. My brother, a smoker as well, yelled the shit out me. And I haven't told anything to my girlfriend, who's studyin at a different college some 400KM away. I'll break the news when I wish her for her birthday, this coming Thursday. Not a nice present, eh?

So to all you smokers out at MR, I dunno, just do the right thing, I guess. I'm trying really hard now. Just keeping my fingers crossed I'll rid myself of this habit. No point regretting. I made the call.

That's terrible. I feel really bad for you.

Posts like this are why I'll never smoke a cigarrette :X

Thanks, Noodles, you just made me feel even shittier.

That sucks man, but that's not gonna make me stop!

sorry :(, good luck quitting and such. avoid places where you can see people doing it

It's rather worrying that you picked it up after just 8 years. Were then any other lung probleems you had which it may have aggravated?

I respect you for making a focused effort to quit, but I honestly don't feel bad for you. My grandmother smoked for 56 years and got Emphysema about two years ago. She's a really nice person, and she managed to quit this year, but I don't feel bad for her either.

Hopefully you will be able to quit soon.

I guess it's more likely that you'll be successful in quitting now you've had a scare, and you're going to get help with it so that's good too.

That's shitty, and unlucky too. If I found out I had weak lungs I'd go cold turkey. I guess you couldn't have known that when you started.

well i do not feel very bad for you either...everybody knows the dangers of smoking, but they start it anyway... good luck quitting though;)

It's most likely resulting from prior lung problems. For that to develop in eight years is ridiculously unlikely. You might as well say that you do not feel sorry for someone who died skydiving. We all take risks in our lives, so stop being such a judgmental cunt.

I'm in the same boat as you dude, I've been smoking for 15 years now and my lungs feel like they're getting more fucked as the years go by.

It's a choice to smoke and I stand by mine. I'll probably die before a lot of people I know, and I'm fully aware how stupid the habit is as well as I am myself for starting way back when.

If I can give any advice, I say you must want to quit. Thinking about it will aggrevate you further. When the time to stop comes, those first three weeks will rank as bad as any you will experience.

Keep drinking loads of water and eat plenty of fruit when you crave and not sweets as the weight will pile on. Go for short jogs the day after you stop to help get the shit off your lungs and ease off social contact (in the sense of boozing and late nights) for a short time as being around smokers whilst quitting is the ultimate carrot for the donkey.

And remember, you don't ever quit. You have to be convinced that you will never start again as well as wanting to quit in the first place. This is why I fell off the non-smoking wagon several times after long spells of quitting (longest I managed was nine months). I will try again soon after certain aspects of my life settle down, but I repeat you MUST want to kick the habit first.

If you have prior lung problems you dont start smoking in the first place, and smoking and skydiving is not quite the same. Do you get addicted to skydiving? does it fuck up your health by each breath? do you actually KNOW youll get a health-problem if you skydive? judgemental cunt? everybody has to take responsibility for their actiions... he suffers the consequenses for a stupid action, and your right, i do not feel sorry for him, but wish him luck quitting, and hopes he gets well soon.. were was i judgemental?

I think people are destined to smoke or not. It's not really an option.

smokers are jokers!!!

also metal_xxx i assume he didnt know he had a lung problem, it was probably a minor not really noticeable one and smoking just exacerbated it

Sorry to hear it, Hellraiser. Hope you manage to quit ok, took me a few goes but I managed it in the end. Switching to smoking other things besides tobacco can help too, or so I hear. In moderation, of course.

As for the responsibility thing, you live in a city long enough, you'll breathe in bad stuff. How far do we take it? As an avid fan of alcohol, I expect to be given the proper treatment if my liver does a Pavarotti. Yes, I could stop licking the bottle altogether, as I could stop eating meat and wearing leather, and I can see the argument for each, but at the end of the day, it's my choice. As is smoking and skydiving, both of which are incredibly daft and likely to kill you, but hey, whichever way you go out's up to you. No public smoking, private smoking, whatever.

Dude, from your arguments I have seen concerning religion and hte existence of god, you seem to the most straightforward, logical person on the board. You know smoking is bad for you. Even if it is not his fault for having weak lungs, it is his fault for choosing to smoke. It all catches up with you sooer or later, and it looks like it happened with hellraiser sooner.

I just don't really see how a logical person can defend smoking. At all.

I think if you've already smoked a cigarette it's a "being calm vs bad for your health" type thing, I still have no idea why people start in the first place though =\