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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (15611)	1/18/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: janet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Are you really 22? I guess I am gullible. There are several histologic types of lung cancer, there is one very specific type that occurs in smokers and non smokers alike but it is rare and represents a different disease process. I have never had a patient with lung cancer that was not a smoker or a recent quiter. For that matter I have very few pts with lung disease in general that do not smoke. Bladder cancers, breast cancer are also related. I am also very aware of how difficult it is to stop. I have completed medical school, a marathon and still consider stopping smoking my most difficult achievement so far in my life. I used cinnamon sticks you know the kind you get with hot toddies in the bars. You gnaw on the end of them and you get a sort of burning feeling when you breath in, like smoking. I since saw an article that you can get tissue changes in the inner lip from prolonged exposure to cinnamon. It is easy to quit cinnamon though. It also helps to resign yourself to some really bad days, but with every day passed the cravings will get further apart. The only reason that I think that the patch really works is the risk of sudden death from a heart attack, smoking while on the patch. It makes people wait until the patch has been off for awhile and perhaps by then the craving has worn off.

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (15611)	1/18/1998 8:19:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Respond to of 108807

I quickly realized how addicting tobacco is and never got into anything else with a potential for addiction, except caffeine <vbg>. In other words, my experience with tobacco kept me from trying other addictive substances--even and all throughout the 1960s and 1970s when such use was so fashionable. I don't do, and never have done, caffeine. So there. But I did most of the rest of it, except for really hard stuff. It was fun, and not a problem. Big deal. Any doctor will tell you that a physical addiction to any substance can be broken within a week. Nailbiters??