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Learning to Quit: Passive Smoke and You
By LICE MOVONO
My greatest struggle last week with smoking was dealing with when people around me smoking.
I have realized after almost seven months since quitting that accepting that one of the biggest challenges will be the fact some of your closest friends will not always be considerate of your wish to not inhale the 4000 different chemicals that is in one roll of cigarette.
Early in my efforts to quit, the counselors at the Fiji Cancer Society who are usually also on hand to give advice about quitting had told me that quitting the stick means a whole new lifestyle.
It means that for one thing you will not be able to continue to go to all of the gatherings you used to enjoy, especially if they involve Kava or alcohol, which are two substances normally associated with smoking.
On the weekend, I realized one very important message that you need to know about if you have quit or are thinking about it: you will need to be strong and be forewarned that even after you quit, you might sometimes be a passive or second hand smoker if you have friends who smoke.
The British Medical Association says that passive or second hand smokers will be the recipients of 85 per cent of the gases which come out of one person’s roll.
Only 15% of smoke from a cigarette is inhaled by the smoker. The other 85% goes directly into the air and is known as second hand smoke, the British Medical Association says on its website.
Second hand smoke is a combination of mainstream smoke, the smoke inhaled and then breathed out and side-stream smoke, the smoke coming from the cigarette between puffs.
The scary thing is that side-stream smoke has more tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide and other chemicals that cause cancer than the smoke inhaled through the cigarette itself!
According to the British Medical Association says that all second-hand smoke contains cancer-causing chemicals!
Passive smoking is the breathing in of the second-hand smoke produced by other people's cigarettes. So, it is a matter of knowing when and how to say no. It is a matter of establishing that rule for yourself, the rule to allow people to pollute your air or not.
I cleaned up my flat just hours before sitting down to ponder over which of my “quit smoking” challenges to write about and share.
Neither the broom I used nor the lavender fragrance I sprayed all over the house afterwards did any good because the smell of cigarettes from Saturday night’s grog session stubbornly stayed.
Once you decided to quit, think about how you are going to cross this bridge when you get to it.
I am still standing at the start of the bridge and wondering how I am to deal with the fact that despite that I live in a non-smoking house, I do have very close friends and family who smoke incessantly and will come by for gatherings and parties, once in a while.
Next week, we look at ways that other people have managed to create a complete smoke-free world for themselves.
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Lice Movono is 26 years old. She began working as a journalist when she was 18. She specialises in in-depth feature articles and emphasises community development issues. She is fun-loving and easy going but loves to write about very serious issues.
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meddahi | Jul 22nd, 2007
March 8, 2007 came March Memories of beauty ... ... .. Learning which set in motion and emotion ... .. Came Aidkin skin, which carries ... ... .. Removed from the heart Krupp scourge ... .. Fayamken such as religious resolutions ... .... Touching flowers over the hills ... .. Were it not for what you Hnanken minimum ... .... Appropriate living conditions of men ... .. Vanten moons lighted hearts ... .... Loving during the darker nights ... .. What is the value of life without beauty ... .... Regales Andara as Crescent ... ... have codified Aemalkin poem ... ... .. Thought mixed with fiction ... ... Did you raise the minds of boys ... ... ... absolute Noabga with demand ... that ... you Tngbin civilization ... ... .... Raising solid Calhabal ... ... You, which reared several generations ... ... ... with the husband steadfast mountains .. .... Fabdic people's manners great ... ... ... has now emerged after the effective ... .. The behavior inherited from parents ... ... .... As people share inherited money .... Later Fuad sons affection ... ... .... Vlaente hearts like sand ... .. And Afzalkin Kalshmos lit up ... ... .. The creatures ages, without question .... I did better than women ... ... ... .. Raising orphaned after the men ... .. They sacrifice themselves for an agent ... ... ... .. Mahanin live under Slippers ... .. You reared by every great ... ... has immortalized the perfect ... .. Whatever poured pens Habri ... .... To commend you poem example ... .. I can not count Afzalkin that abounded ... ... ... .. Chabat sand Any symbols love you ... .... Khad Nectaries over palm Ghazal ... .. ... ... Aidkin came carrying a bouquet of feelings of love ... ... ... .. with compliance We express our sincerity without fondness ... .... Sheer hypocrisy muddy area ... .. Your emotions spilled Bahnanha ... .... Nutritious feelings of separation ... .. Skatna your feelings such as a cloud ... ... ... feeling of sympathy for years, hopes ... .. And Akhlaghkin exceeded Bader Well ... ... .... We have protected chastity as perfect ... .. Who would not love flowers ... .... Morning Tatar place beauty ... .. It is not relevant who loves Hilal ... ... .... Tonight Regales eyes of men ... .. All came Aidkin HE ... ... ... .. Bubble spirits of all pro ... .. And who insults the campaign ... ... ... months experiencing pain favors ... .. Dkit's hearts repeatedly ... ... ... .. Become strong good qualities ... ... ... women drinking essence inestimable this poem organized for the Balgal and gave their precious for the sons who have given birth they innocently great and wise and blindness, poets, women are the parents of Fount Artuena educator, which is taught Bahnanha and liked sincere .. If you prepare her mother is a school I have people of good character, as the great poet Hafiz Ibrahim God's mercy and was great not die because they remain with us their ideas mature .. Holiday Thank poet self-reliant Mdahi holiday memories came March beauty ... ... .. Learning which set in motion and emotion ... .. Came Aidkin skin, which carries ... ... .. Removed from the heart Krupp scourge ... .. Fayamken such as religious resolutions ... .... Touching flowers over the hills ... .. Were it not for what you Hnanken minimum ... .... Appropriate living conditions of men ... .. Vanten moons lighted hearts ... .... Loving during the darker nights ... .. What is the value of life without beauty ... .... Regales Andara as Crescent ... ... have codified Aemalkin poem ... ... .. Thought mixed with fiction ... ... Did you raise the minds of boys ... ... ... absolute Noabga with demand ... that ... you Tngbin civilization ... ... .... Raising solid Calhabal ... ... You, which reared several generations ... ... ... with the husband steadfast mountains .. .... Fabdic people's manners great ... ... ... has now emerged after the effective ... .. The behavior inherited from parents ... ... .... As people share inherited money .... Later Fuad sons affection ... ... .... Vlaente hearts like sand ... .. And Afzalkin Kalshmos lit up ... ... .. The creatures ages, without question .... I did better than women ... ... ... .. Raising orphaned after the men ... .. They sacrifice themselves for an agent ... ... ... .. Mahanin live under Slippers ... .. You reared by every great ... ... has immortalized the perfect ... .. Whatever poured pens Habri ... .... To commend you poem example ... .. I can not count Afzalkin that abounded ... ... ... .. Chabat sand Any symbols love you ... .... Khad Nectaries over palm Ghazal ... .. ... ... Aidkin came carrying a bouquet of feelings of love ... ... ... .. with compliance We express our sincerity without fondness ... .... Sheer hypocrisy muddy area ... .. Your emotions spilled Bahnanha ... .... Nutritious feelings of separation ... .. Skatna your feelings such as a cloud ... ... ... feeling of sympathy for years, hopes ... .. And Akhlaghkin exceeded Bader Well ... ... .... We have protected chastity as perfect ... .. Who would not love flowers ... .... Morning Tatar place beauty ... .. It is not relevant who loves Hilal ... ... .... Tonight Regales eyes of men ... .. All came Aidkin HE ... ... ... .. Bubble spirits of all pro ... .. And who insults the campaign ... ... ... months experiencing pain favors ... .. Dkit's hearts repeatedly ... ... ... .. Become strong good qualities ... ... ... women drinking essence inestimable
meddahi | Jul 26th, 2007
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by Lice Lia-Ann Movono, Fiji Aug 24, 2005
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Learning to Quit: Passive Smoke and You
By LICE MOVONO
My greatest struggle last week with smoking was dealing with when people around me smoking.
I have realized after almost seven months since quitting that accepting that one of the biggest challenges will be the fact some of your closest friends will not always be considerate of your wish to not inhale the 4000 different chemicals that is in one roll of cigarette.
Early in my efforts to quit, the counselors at the Fiji Cancer Society who are usually also on hand to give advice about quitting had told me that quitting the stick means a whole new lifestyle.
It means that for one thing you will not be able to continue to go to all of the gatherings you used to enjoy, especially if they involve Kava or alcohol, which are two substances normally associated with smoking.
On the weekend, I realized one very important message that you need to know about if you have quit or are thinking about it: you will need to be strong and be forewarned that even after you quit, you might sometimes be a passive or second hand smoker if you have friends who smoke.
The British Medical Association says that passive or second hand smokers will be the recipients of 85 per cent of the gases which come out of one person’s roll.
Only 15% of smoke from a cigarette is inhaled by the smoker. The other 85% goes directly into the air and is known as second hand smoke, the British Medical Association says on its website.
Second hand smoke is a combination of mainstream smoke, the smoke inhaled and then breathed out and side-stream smoke, the smoke coming from the cigarette between puffs.
The scary thing is that side-stream smoke has more tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide and other chemicals that cause cancer than the smoke inhaled through the cigarette itself!
According to the British Medical Association says that all second-hand smoke contains cancer-causing chemicals!
Passive smoking is the breathing in of the second-hand smoke produced by other people's cigarettes. So, it is a matter of knowing when and how to say no. It is a matter of establishing that rule for yourself, the rule to allow people to pollute your air or not.
I cleaned up my flat just hours before sitting down to ponder over which of my “quit smoking” challenges to write about and share.
Neither the broom I used nor the lavender fragrance I sprayed all over the house afterwards did any good because the smell of cigarettes from Saturday night’s grog session stubbornly stayed.
Once you decided to quit, think about how you are going to cross this bridge when you get to it.
I am still standing at the start of the bridge and wondering how I am to deal with the fact that despite that I live in a non-smoking house, I do have very close friends and family who smoke incessantly and will come by for gatherings and parties, once in a while.
Next week, we look at ways that other people have managed to create a complete smoke-free world for themselves.
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meddahi | Jul 22nd, 2007 [x]
8/3 /2007 أتــى مــــارسٌ بـــــذكــــريـات الجـــــمـال …….. فــحـــــرَّك وجــــــــــدانــا مـــن الإنـفـعـال ….. أتــى عــيــدُكـُـنَّ يــحــمــلُ البُشــــرةَ التي …….. أزالــت مــن الــقــلــب كُــــــروب الـوبـال ….. فأيّـــــامُــكُـــنَّ كــالأعــــيـــاد تُـــطــــــربُ ……. الفُـــــــؤاد كـــــــأزهــــار فـــــوق الـتّـلال ….. ولـولا حـــنـــانُــكُــنَّ ما لانـــــت الــدُّنــــيا ……. مُلائـــــمةً ظـُــــروف عــــيــــش الّـرجـال ….. فـأنـتُــنَّ أقـــــــمـارٌ أنــــــارت قـُـــلـــــوبَ ……. المُحـــبّــــيــن أثـــنـــاء ظـُــلــمة اللـّيــالي ….. وما قـــــــيــمةُ الحـــــــيـاة دون جــــمــال ……. يُـــمـــتّـــعُ أنــــظــــارا كـــشــكــل الـهـلال…… لـقـد دُوّنــــت أعــمــــــالُــكُــنَّ بـشــــــعـر …….. من الفــكـر مـــــمــــزوجٌ مــــع الخــيـال …… ألـم يـُــثــر قـَــولـُـك عُــقـــــول البــنـــيـن ……… فـصــــاروا نـــــوابـــــــغـا مـــع الإقــبــال …… فأنــــت التي تُـــنــجـــبـــين الحـــضــــارةَ ………. بــتــــــــربـــــــية مــتـــــيـــنـة كـالحــبـال …… وأنـــت التـي ربَّـــــيـــت عـــــــدَّةَ أجـــيال ……… مـع الــــزَّوج صــــامــــــــــدةً كـالجـــبـال ..…. فـأبــــديــت للـــنّـَـاس سُــلــوكا عــظــيـما ……… لقـد ظـــهـــــــــرَ الآنَ بــــعـــــد الفــعـــال ….. سلــــوكٌ ورثــــــناهُ عــــن الوالــــديـــــن ………. كــما ورثَ الـنَــــاسُ نــصــيـــــب الــمـال …. مـــلأت فُــــــــؤاد الأبــــنـــاء حــــــنــــانا ………. فـلانــتْ قُـلـــوبُــهُـم كـــمـــــثـل الـرّمــال ….. وأفــضـــالـُـــكُــنََّّ كالـشـــمــوس أضـاءت …….. عــلى الخلــــق أحـــــقــابا بـدون سُـــؤال …. فـلـم أرى أفــــضــل مــن الـــمــــرأة التي ……….. تُـــربّي اليــتــامـى بـعــــد فــقــد الـرّجــال ….. تُــضــــــحـي بـنـفــسـها عــليــهـم لــكـيلا ……….. يـعــيـــشــوا مُـهــــانـيــن تـحـت الـنّـعــال ….. فـأنــت التـي ربّــــــيـــت كُـــــلَّّ عــظــيــم …… لـقــد خـــلـَــــــدتــهُ أعـــــــمــالُ الكــمــال ….. ومهــما تـــدفــّــقــت أقــــــلامُ حــبـــــري ……. لأُثــنـي عــلـيــــكُــنَّ بـشــــــــعــر مـثـــال ….. فـلا أستـــطــيــعُ عــــــــــدَّ أفــضــالـــكُـنَّ …… التـي كـــــــثــُـرَتْ كــحــــبــّات الــرّمــال ….. وجـــــدتُ رمـــــــــوزَ الـمـحــــبَّة فـــيــك ……. كـشـهـد الرحــيـق فــــوق كـــفّ الغـــزال ….. …… أتى عـيــــــــدُكُــنَّ حــــامـلا بـــــاقـةً مــن …… مشــــاعـر حُــــــــبـّـنا مــع الإمـتــثـال ….. نُعـــبّــرُ عـــن صــــــدق محــبَّــتـــنا دون ……. نــفــاق يُــعــــكّــرُ صــــــفاء المـجــال ….. عــواطــفـُـك انـســـكــــبـت بـحــــــنــانـها ……. مُغـــــــــــذّية مـشــــــاعـرَ الإنـفـصال….. سـقـتـنا مشاعــــرُك مـثــل سـحـــــــــــابة ……… من العـطــف أعــــواما شُعــورَ الأمال ….. وأخـلاقــُـكُـنُ فــاقـت البـــــــدرَ حُــســـــنا ………. لـقـدْ صانـت العــــفّـَةُ قــــــدرَ الـكـمال ….. ومــنْ ذا الــــذي لا يُــحـــــبُّ زهـــــــــورَ ……. الصــــباح تُعــطــرُ مـكــان الجـــمال ….. ومــنْ ذات الــــذي لا يُـحــــــبُّ هـــــــلال ………. المـــســاء يُــمــتـّعُ عُــيــون الرجال ….. أتــى عـيـــــــــدكُـنّ بــكُــــل ســـــعـــــادة……….. سـتـغــمـُرُ أنــفـُسَ جــمـــيعَ المــوالي ….. ومــنْ ذا يُـهــيـــنُـها وقــد حـــــمــــلـــتـهُ ……… شُهـــورا تُعــــــاني أوجــــاعَ الوصال ….. ذكّـَـــــيـت عــــــــزم القـُــلـوب مــــــرارا ……….. فصارت قـــــــويّةً بحُـــســن الخصـال…… … المـــــــرأةُ الصّــــالحـةُ جــــوهـــرةٌ لا تُــقــــدَّرُ بثـــمـن هذه القصيدة نظمتها من أجل من ضحين بالغال والنفيس من أجل فلذات أكبادهنّ فهُنّ اللواتي أنجبن العظماء والحكماء والعماء والشعراء فالمرأة هي الينبوع الدي منه ارتوينا وهي المربية التي علّمتنا بحنانها وبــودها الخالص .. الأم مدرسة إذا أعددتها أعددت شعبا طيّب الأعراق كما قال الشاعر الكبير حافظ إبراهيم رحمه الله وإن كان العظماء لا يموتون لأنهم يظلون معنا بأفكارهم الناضجة .. العيد وشكرا الشاعر العصامي مداحي العيد أتــى مــــارسٌ بـــــذكــــريـات الجـــــمـال …….. فــحـــــرَّك وجــــــــــدانــا مـــن الإنـفـعـال ….. أتــى عــيــدُكـُـنَّ يــحــمــلُ البُشــــرةَ التي …….. أزالــت مــن الــقــلــب كُــــــروب الـوبـال ….. فأيّـــــامُــكُـــنَّ كــالأعــــيـــاد تُـــطــــــربُ ……. الفُـــــــؤاد كـــــــأزهــــار فـــــوق الـتّـلال ….. ولـولا حـــنـــانُــكُــنَّ ما لانـــــت الــدُّنــــيا ……. مُلائـــــمةً ظـُــــروف عــــيــــش الّـرجـال ….. فـأنـتُــنَّ أقـــــــمـارٌ أنــــــارت قـُـــلـــــوبَ ……. المُحـــبّــــيــن أثـــنـــاء ظـُــلــمة اللـّيــالي ….. وما قـــــــيــمةُ الحـــــــيـاة دون جــــمــال ……. يُـــمـــتّـــعُ أنــــظــــارا كـــشــكــل الـهـلال…… لـقـد دُوّنــــت أعــمــــــالُــكُــنَّ بـشــــــعـر …….. من الفــكـر مـــــمــــزوجٌ مــــع الخــيـال …… ألـم يـُــثــر قـَــولـُـك عُــقـــــول البــنـــيـن ……… فـصــــاروا نـــــوابـــــــغـا مـــع الإقــبــال …… فأنــــت التي تُـــنــجـــبـــين الحـــضــــارةَ ………. بــتــــــــربـــــــية مــتـــــيـــنـة كـالحــبـال …… وأنـــت التـي ربَّـــــيـــت عـــــــدَّةَ أجـــيال ……… مـع الــــزَّوج صــــامــــــــــدةً كـالجـــبـال ..…. فـأبــــديــت للـــنّـَـاس سُــلــوكا عــظــيـما ……… لقـد ظـــهـــــــــرَ الآنَ بــــعـــــد الفــعـــال ….. سلــــوكٌ ورثــــــناهُ عــــن الوالــــديـــــن ………. كــما ورثَ الـنَــــاسُ نــصــيـــــب الــمـال …. مـــلأت فُــــــــؤاد الأبــــنـــاء حــــــنــــانا ………. فـلانــتْ قُـلـــوبُــهُـم كـــمـــــثـل الـرّمــال ….. وأفــضـــالـُـــكُــنََّّ كالـشـــمــوس أضـاءت …….. عــلى الخلــــق أحـــــقــابا بـدون سُـــؤال …. فـلـم أرى أفــــضــل مــن الـــمــــرأة التي ……….. تُـــربّي اليــتــامـى بـعــــد فــقــد الـرّجــال ….. تُــضــــــحـي بـنـفــسـها عــليــهـم لــكـيلا ……….. يـعــيـــشــوا مُـهــــانـيــن تـحـت الـنّـعــال ….. فـأنــت التـي ربّــــــيـــت كُـــــلَّّ عــظــيــم …… لـقــد خـــلـَــــــدتــهُ أعـــــــمــالُ الكــمــال ….. ومهــما تـــدفــّــقــت أقــــــلامُ حــبـــــري ……. لأُثــنـي عــلـيــــكُــنَّ بـشــــــــعــر مـثـــال ….. فـلا أستـــطــيــعُ عــــــــــدَّ أفــضــالـــكُـنَّ …… التـي كـــــــثــُـرَتْ كــحــــبــّات الــرّمــال ….. وجـــــدتُ رمـــــــــوزَ الـمـحــــبَّة فـــيــك ……. كـشـهـد الرحــيـق فــــوق كـــفّ الغـــزال ….. …… أتى عـيــــــــدُكُــنَّ حــــامـلا بـــــاقـةً مــن …… مشــــاعـر حُــــــــبـّـنا مــع الإمـتــثـال ….. نُعـــبّــرُ عـــن صــــــدق محــبَّــتـــنا دون ……. نــفــاق يُــعــــكّــرُ صــــــفاء المـجــال ….. عــواطــفـُـك انـســـكــــبـت بـحــــــنــانـها ……. مُغـــــــــــذّية مـشــــــاعـرَ الإنـفـصال….. سـقـتـنا مشاعــــرُك مـثــل سـحـــــــــــابة ……… من العـطــف أعــــواما شُعــورَ الأمال ….. وأخـلاقــُـكُـنُ فــاقـت البـــــــدرَ حُــســـــنا ………. لـقـدْ صانـت العــــفّـَةُ قــــــدرَ الـكـمال ….. ومــنْ ذا الــــذي لا يُــحـــــبُّ زهـــــــــورَ ……. الصــــباح تُعــطــرُ مـكــان الجـــمال ….. ومــنْ ذات الــــذي لا يُـحــــــبُّ هـــــــلال ………. المـــســاء يُــمــتـّعُ عُــيــون الرجال ….. أتــى عـيـــــــــدكُـنّ بــكُــــل ســـــعـــــادة……….. سـتـغــمـُرُ أنــفـُسَ جــمـــيعَ المــوالي ….. ومــنْ ذا يُـهــيـــنُـها وقــد حـــــمــــلـــتـهُ ……… شُهـــورا تُعــــــاني أوجــــاعَ الوصال ….. ذكّـَـــــيـت عــــــــزم القـُــلـوب مــــــرارا ……….. فصارت قـــــــويّةً بحُـــســن الخصـال…… … المـــــــرأةُ الصّــــالحـةُ جــــوهـــرةٌ لا تُــقــــدَّرُ بثـــمـن
meddahi | Jul 22nd, 2007 [x]
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