Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from February, 2023

Should You Stop Smoking Before Surgery? - Yes!

  Should I try to stop smoking before surgery? That's a decision that many people are faced. Let me say right from the beginning that I am not a medical professional. I am not giving medical advice. I'm not telling anyone what they should or should not do. I'm simply looking at a topic that a lot of people talk about, or have concerns about, and I’m simply discussing my opinions about that topic. I have said many times in my videos it's been 15 years since I stopped smoking cigarettes, and during that time, I did end up in the hospital with non-related health problems. I ended up having to spend a number of overnights in the hospital, and I know when I was it was a cigarette smoker, I was very concerned about how smokers have to handle hospital stays. I did not have any idea how I would handle it. What would I do if I ended up in a hospital where I cannot smoke? I assume that most hospitals do not allow cigarette smoking. Considering the oxygen lines, medications, and e

What Do You Tell Your Teenager That Wants to Smoke Cigarettes Like You?

What Do You Tell Your Teenager That Wants to Smoke Cigarettes Like You? What do you tell your teenager that wants to smoke cigarettes like you? This is a tough question to answer. If you're a cigarette smoker, like I was, and you have children, as I do, there's going to come to a point when you will likely face this question. If your kids grew up with you smoking, or your spouse or partner smoking, at some point most kids want to emulate their parents. They see their parents as role models. A parent is in many ways a hero to their child, someone that doesn’t do things that are wrong. If they see you smoke, it tells them it’s ok for them to smoke. A parent is someone they can look up to. Someone they can trust. A child learns that if they copy a major league baseball player, for example, or a professional football player, the chance of them seeing the same success increases. See greatness. Copy greatness. Achieve greatness. A child’s parent is the superhero to most children gro