Re: O/T Re: Smoking and Chelation

[Guest guest]

Obviously, everyone is entitled to their own opinion about smoking, but I can't

believe that someone wrote in about the " positive " effects of smoking, and only

one person wrote back to counter that opinion! I am in my first week of

quitting smoking, as I am starting to feel healthy after amalgam removal and

several months of chelation. My desire to be healthy has led me to want to stop

being addicted to a smelly, expensive, disgusting, polluting habit. How can I

educate others about toxins like mercury and lead if I have a cigarette hanging

out of my mouth!? I feel compelled to respond to the previous post to encourage

other people who might be on this site to quit as well...

1) When I had fillings and smoked a lot (chain-smoking), I felt VERY sick. I

now understand that smoking and fillings is an AWFUL combination-- the cigarette

smoke heats up the mercury in your teeth, releasing vapors. Not a good mix no

matter what you think of tobacco.

2) I am living proof that tobacco is addictive. I smoked the American Spirit

cigarettes mentioned in the posting that enouraged smoking. Those cigarettes

have less chemicals than regular smokes, that is true. But as I sit here trying

to quit, I can tell you that I am addicted to tobacco in them. Anything that

your body is addicted to or craves in the manner I feel right now cannot be

good-- it is a drug! I am trying to free my body of toxins with chelation.

Tobacco, regardless of if it might have some healthy effects, cannot in any way

be considered to be healthy for you when you are tempted to ABUSE it. I would

NEVER recommend for anyone to smoke to supposedly prevent a disease or help to

make one better. There are too many other studies showing the negative effects

of smoking to seriously consider any positive ones. The addiction itself is

evidence that it cannot be good.

3) Smoking tobacco effects your lungs, throat and mouth. This is not

" healthy " no matter what you think. The heat from smoking cigarettes or pipes

can cause blisters on your throat and sores in your mouth. This is disgusting.

My lung capacity is diminshed from smoking, even though I smoked the " good "

tobacco.

4) I will refresh this post after I have quit for a longer amount of time to

assess the effects of smoking on chelation based on my experience. When I chain

smoked and chelated, I did not notice any effects I could relate to the smoking,

although I did notice headaches were more likely if I smoked a large quantity.

If I feel worse from chelation because I quit smoking, as the author of the

previous smoking post suggests, I will be honest and post my own experience--

no matter what it is. In the meantime, I have taken up running to replace to

cigarettes, and I can to you that I feel my lungs burn when I run. There is no

way that the tobacco did not strain my lungs. It feels good to know that my

lungs can recover a bit by quitting now. I am hoping that I will be able to run

the 2 miles a day I used to run before the cigarettes and amalgam illness.

If anyone else is quitting smoking on this site, keep going!! Deep in your

heart and your lungs, every smoker knows that it does harm-- you can feel it,

and you can free yourself of it, too. Don't try to justify or it or make

excuses for it. Just be done with the habit! Get healthy!!!! Take back your

life from all toxins!