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Thanks for an inspiring success story! I have been a smoker for the last 25 years and am ready to quit. It's encouraging to hear how fast the body can heal itself. Good luck! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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It's easier than you think. Just do it, then brag about it @ CP. We'll support you so you won't have the guts to go back! 
/ravi
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kmoorevs wrote: how fast the body can heal
Flemming up for a week, smell and taste back in two, skin tone improves in the same time, no more wrinkles. And in the first month you can feel your body condition improve.
I read that just after 2 weeks your chance of heart attack is back to normal, and that in 6 months your lungs are completely fixed!
Personally I wish the collective govts would just ban them, its utterly stupid to have such a pointless and dangerous drug on sale these days. Especially when coke is illegal! 
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Congratulations! 
Twenty two years this July for me since I quit (also cold turkey). Never felt better!
/ravi
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Well done! Sounds like you're over the hump so hopefully you'll be able to stay off them.
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I envy you. Congrats and you dont miss smoking that great......You drink less, thats unbelievable. So what happened or how did you decide that you want to quit? please guide me.![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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I just stopped when I got a bad cold for weeks (I normally stop smoking when I am ill) and just didn't restart when I got better.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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WOW thats fabulous because, once i was heavily drunk, about 6-8 pegs. My friends were with me, they said "Rahul have a cig"....
I still remember it was a Marlboro lights cigarette. I said, no thanks, if i smoke i will vomit. I dint touch that cigarette. Till the next day evening i never bothered to look at the cigarette. Later i gave it a thought, why not extend this period of leaving smoking.
But after a week i grew mad, i had to smoke....i had to, what ever it takes. But i controlled. The next day i smoked one. Now i thought, its foolish to quit at once, it should be gradual, okay. Now i smoked thrice a week. Now it has increased a little bit, i am afraid now, i dont want to go back there again.
Ok, please tell me, what difference do you feel? i mean something related to skin? i mean more clear complexion or something related to lungs or any thing? Please dont mind me asking such question because i want something to fall back on when i get the urge to smoke. I mean i should say to myself : "dont smoke, because you will grow more fit if you dont."
Any suggestions please...
Thanks a ton,
Rahul
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Skin tone is better, lungs are way better, stamina, recovery, all is way better. Taste, smell, is better. Energy levels are better. WHat can I say? Smoking makes you feel like an old person. If you are 40, and want to feel 70, then smoke.
If you are 29, and want to feel like 40, smoke.
If not. Don't.
Its a loaded gun too, you know you risk killing yourself at 50 or so from some nasty disease. Its about what, 33% chance you will die?
That's the choice, and the older you get, the closer you get to the deadline.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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My thanks to you sir, and does the same apply to drinking? For me you are more like a doctor. Please dont feel that i am nagging you. Just look at me like another patient to be treated.
Thanks a ton,
Rahul
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I am a red wine drinker and it is good for you, so three glasses a day or so is a good idea.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Sir,
I usually have beer on weekends, with roasted chicken. But on week days when office becomes tiring i, have 2 pegs of whiskey. Now i will try to follow what you just said.
Thanks a ton,
Rahul
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Not that I didn't know that already before.
Vegetarians have significantly more allergies, cancer and mental illnesses. And that's significantly like in statistical significance.
Link[^] to the research article, or as a PDF[^].
Note that they haven't got any data on cause and effect. So we don't know if mental illness makes you go vegan, or if a vegan diet makes you go mad.
Personally I'm betting on both, now, where's my bacon?
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Bullshit. There is too much that affects everything mentioned here. I come from a city of vegetarians I do not know a single cancer story. And yes, I know most of the families who live in my hometown.
These are all idiotic posts.
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Anecdotal evidence surely doesn't count, and there's no way you could have read the research paper in less than eight minutes.
There are plenty of weaknesses in the paper though, so come on, give me a proper response.
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In every single cancer rate, US is ahead of India. In meat eater percentage too US is ahead of ahead of India. Do I still need to read it?
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Cancer develops predominantly at a higher age, a lot because people haven't yet died from other deceases.
Correcting cancer rate to life expectancy and access to health care gives interesting results.
Comparing two countries that are so different in so many ways will not give you any usable results.
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Quote: a lot because people haven't yet died from other deceases.
Not quite. It's because it takes time for all the chemicals, hormones, and other garbage we have in our lives to finally get the best of us.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well, so what? Do more US folk smoke, for example? I haven't read the article, but the implication from the OP was not that vegetarianism is the sole form of every cancer
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Errmmm...
US has more cancer than India.
US eats more meat than India.
Therefore meat causes cancer.
That's on a par with:-
US has more cancer than India.
US has more theme parks than India
Therefore the stress of theme park rides causes cancer.
Surely you can come up with a more reasoned argument?
Instead of debunking a research article you haven't even read.
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He's probably mad at you for mocking his soy protein and yogurt diet 
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d@nish wrote: I come from a city of vegetarians
Definitely not Kerala. Out there, you wouldn't find a street that's fully vegetarian
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Do you use ghee in vegetarian cooking?
Reason I ask is there are vegetarians who eat butter, milk, cheese, and those that don't. You can of course get a good fat intake from dairy products.
However if not its interesting. What would you attribute the difference to? Why is an India vegetarian diet OPK and a western one not?
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Indian life expectancy is less than 65, below the world average.
Also diseases which are controlled in the western world are more prevalent. Treatment of trivial issues less good.
Therefore there is no clean base for statistics looking at conditions that develop in otherwise healthy bodies.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Indian life expectancy at 65 years may be lower than the world average but it is the higher infant mortality rate that is skewing it downwards.
Once someone gets past the age of 5 or 6, the life expectancy should improve though the murderous traffic and resulting fatalities should also cause a dip in average life expectancy.
I was never immunised against any disease except for smallpox vaccination and remain mostly healthy. DTP vaccine was unheard of and polio vaccine didn't make it to India till much later. You will find that my generation did fine with that one smallpox vaccination.
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