Participants: Dr. Arthur Weaver
Series Code: SSC
Program Code: SSC000002
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00:01 If you are one of the participants in our
00:03 stop smoking program, I have a hunch you are 00:05 suffering from severe withdrawal 00:07 symptoms right now. Join us in this program 00:10 and you will see hundreds of others going 00:11 through the same process. I'm Dr. Arthur Weaver a 00:14 cancer surgeon, we're going to see you through 00:16 this first difficult day and I know you can make it. 00:51 You realize that since you were here last night. 00:55 One thousand people died of prematurely of 00:59 diseases associated with smoking since you were 01:03 here last night in the United States alone. 01:10 That's basically three loads of 747's. 01:21 What do you think what happen if we had a 747 01:24 go down today and it crashed, and 350 plus 01:31 people were killed. And then tomorrow we 01:34 had a 747 crash and the following day 01:38 we had a 747 crash. And over few plane 01:44 accidents you heard about the crane accident 01:46 and troy accident are like. People talk about those 01:49 for years later. But, since you were here last 01:52 night we have had three times that many people 01:55 die from diseases associated with smoking. 02:00 We lost perhaps 50000 men in Vietnam, 02:03 we consider that as disaster. 02:06 We loose a third of a million over, a third of a 02:09 million people every year in United States, 02:11 prematurely from diseases associated with smoking. 02:15 And I work down where the bridge is out, that's 02:19 why I'm glad to see you back. 02:21 Some of you suffer a little bit, anybody suffer 02:24 you raise your hand. Oh! Okay, but it's worth it, 02:33 it's worth it to keep you out of this crash okay. 02:39 Lets look at them, well now I see some people, 02:41 well lets start with this young lady right here, 02:42 why don't you come on up. Now, I should tell you 02:46 that we have chosen these people randomly 02:48 from the audience. My friend Floyd I ask him 02:52 go and get me four people, don't ask 02:55 them any questions. So, it is a biggest 02:57 surprise to me as it will be to you. 03:01 Give us your first name? Debbie, 03:04 Debbie how much you are used to smoking? 03:07 I'm not smoking a lot right now, I came to your 03:09 class last year, and it was great for six months 03:12 and I have been cheating for last six months. 03:13 And you decided that you do it right this time? 03:15 cut it all out, yeah I'm probably smoking. 03:17 How much you, when you are smoking greatly, 03:19 how much are you smoking? 03:20 It about pack a day, pack a day. 03:22 How did your day go for you? 03:24 Fine, I haven't had any trouble, I'm mentally, 03:29 I'm mentally ready, I just need some help. 03:32 Yes. Do you have any symptoms at all? 03:36 No, no I'm kept busy. You don't want to hear 03:42 that. What kept you busy? I just kept real busy and 03:47 stayed away from the coffee, you know, 03:49 I got to stay away from alcohol and coffee. 03:50 And you're kind of proud of yourself? 03:52 Yes, shall we give Debbie a big hand, thank you. 03:55 Oh! Let's have this still gentleman right here. 04:00 Would you care to give us your first name. 04:02 Dan, Dan. How much do you used to smoke Dan? 04:05 Two packs a day. How long have you been doing that? 04:08 Over 25 years. What made you decide that this 04:11 was the appropriate time to quit? 04:17 I think just a fact that it was beginning of the 04:21 year and I saw the right up for your seminar 04:26 and figured, I tried in past myself maybe with some, 04:30 little help. Some help that maybe I would be 04:32 able to do it at this time. And how did the 04:34 last 24 hours go for you. They were hell. 04:42 You wanna develop that little bit for me? 04:46 Well my wife and I both are coming and I thought 04:51 it would be better that we didn't talk on the way 04:53 here this evening. I love to work two 04:57 hours early, and it would. 05:03 What symptoms do you think you had, okay. 05:05 What would you describe your feelings today? 05:08 Oh! I've got this numbness in my joints, 05:13 I'm all sweaty, I couldn't concentrate, anybody 05:21 else couldn't concentrate? I should tell you that of 05:27 all the symptoms and signs that people tell me 05:30 about the inability to stick to a thought pattern or a 05:34 job process is probably the commonest of all 05:39 withdrawal symptoms. I remember I was putting 05:41 on a Stop Smoking Clinic in Plymouth not so long ago. 05:46 And there was a fellow who worked for Burrows 05:47 the computer company. He came back the first 05:51 day and he said boy my company lose 05:52 money on me today. He said I couldn't even 05:56 read the diagrams, they'll alone fix a computer. 05:59 He came back the second day and I said how 06:02 did it go? Forget it he says I'm gonna get fired. 06:06 He came back the third day I said how are you doing? 06:08 Well, he said I read the diagrams today. 06:10 He came back the fourth day he said 06:11 I fix three computers I think I keep my job. 06:14 But, if you find trouble sticking with it I think 06:16 this is probably the commonest symptom 06:18 that the people had when they quit smoking, 06:20 anything else bothered you? 06:24 Actually I didn't have any urges to smoke, 06:26 I didn't have any. I only had a couple, 06:29 but you felt terrible. Yeah, but I felt terrible. 06:32 So, I don't know whether it was the lack of 06:34 cigarettes, lack of food or running 06:37 to the men's room all day. Something did it, 06:41 but you didn't smoke? I didn't smoke, well 06:44 you know where is that girl that I just talked to 06:45 because I failed to give her a button, I have 06:47 here tonight for everybody who hasn't 06:49 smoke since last night or the last 24 hour, 06:53 I love being free from smoking. 06:55 Maybe we practice a warm up on that little bit, 06:57 shall we say I love being free from smoking. 07:01 There is your button, where is that young lady 07:03 back here, I'll personally give her a button, 07:07 why don't you come on up here. 07:13 Okay, hi and yours first name? 07:16 Mary, Mary how much you are used to smoking? 07:20 Pack to pack- and-half a day. 07:22 And you thought this is a good time to get out 07:26 of it any special reason that you. 07:29 I've been wanted to quit for couple of years and 07:32 keep crastinating and trying that. 07:34 Easy thing to put off isn't it? 07:35 Sure is, I have kids who desperately wanted me 07:39 to quit smoking. They probably love their 07:41 mother. Sure, okay so how did the last 07:44 24 hours go for you? It wasn't too, too bad. 07:49 What was the worst thing you noticed? 07:51 I couldn't concentrate at work either and I'm real 07:54 anxious just fell really, really anxious. 07:57 And appetite? Yeah just, 08:00 little irritable? Little snappy. 08:07 But, you made it, yes without 08:10 a cigarette, without a cigarette at all. 08:12 Aren't proud of her, lets give her a button. 08:18 Thank you very much, come on up sir. 08:23 Well, he is got out here. 08:33 Did you wear that on purpose? 08:36 Well, yes I have to admit that I did, 08:39 and I'm not a happy camper. 08:43 What's your name? My name is Rory. 08:45 And how much you used to smoke Rory? 08:46 About two packs a day. And how the day go for 08:49 you? I have to admit I cannot get my pin 08:54 tonight, I did smoke two cigarettes. 08:55 You smoke two cigarettes. Let's talk about that 08:57 little bit. Lets talk about those two cigarettes 09:00 what I mean how much you used to 09:03 smoke in two packs? Correct, that's 40 09:05 cigarettes a day? And 38 times you said 09:08 I love being free from smoking. 09:12 And two times you said not do it. 09:17 I thought I felt bad before I smoked them, 09:20 but man I had to lay down and I smoked one 09:22 cigarette and I have, I had to lay down and 09:25 I got up immediately smoke the second one 09:27 right down that, that was it, that's was the end 09:29 of the two cigarettes. You remember that big 09:32 pile of stuff we had here last light, where those 09:36 two cigarettes come from? 09:40 I found them at home and I went out of my 09:41 way to go home today because I knew 09:43 I found them there. Last night when I went 09:45 home and I didn't throw them away. 09:48 While you didn't throw away what were you saying? 09:52 I am a wimp, I don't know. 09:57 I was here last year and I made it almost six 10:00 months and I think honestly today was 10:05 easier then last year at this time. 10:10 It's interesting isn't it? That he kept those 10:12 two cigarettes around. It's not unusual at the 10:16 clinic to be honest with you I find someone 10:18 comes along and they say doctor oh I had 10:21 terrible time today. Well, how much did you smoke? 10:25 Two cigarettes, he come back second day, 10:28 oh doctor I had a terrible time today. 10:31 How much did you smoke? Oh I smoke one-and-half 10:36 cigarettes. And I say where did you 10:40 get the cigarettes? Out of my purse, 10:46 now when you leave the cigarettes around 10:48 what are you saying? I'm gonna keep them 10:51 just in case, you know what there will always 10:54 be a case. And you know what he had a worst day 10:58 because of those two cigarettes and he would 11:00 have had it, if he hadn't had any cigarettes. 11:01 Because now I gonna start over again. 11:03 Yeah, well I believe you are gonna? 11:04 At 1:30 tomorrow afternoon I will be 11:08 looking for you to give one of those pins right 11:09 there, 1:30 in the afternoon well that 11:13 will be your 24 hours? That will be my 24 hours. 11:16 See if you can find me. Well I got your number. 11:24 And I got your work number and your beeper number. 11:28 I should probably share this little message with you. 11:32 Do you understand why I'm here basically? 11:36 Tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow I have I would 11:39 be lucky if I get you on time in the morning, 11:41 be honest with you. I have a fellow he has 11:45 cancer, involving his voice box his throat. 11:50 And lymph nodes in his neck, we are gonna have 11:53 to take out his voice box, take out all of his throat 11:57 beyond his tongue, bring a piece of intestine 12:01 up to replace his throat. Look that up with 12:04 microscopic anastomosis and hope by the 12:08 grace of God we can follow him through. 12:11 See operation is good for probably 10 or 12 hours. 12:17 Unfortunately, I have associate who may take 12:20 over by the time I have to come to this clinic. 12:25 But, think about that tomorrow, I will. 12:28 And you think he will make it tomorrow? 12:31 Yes. I will be wearing this again tomorrow. 12:36 Yeah that's good. Okay, lets just for the fun, 12:42 is there anybody here who smokes four packs 12:44 of cigarettes a day? Anybody raise your hand. 12:50 Anybody seen hands up? Three packs of cigarettes 12:53 a day? Alright, lets take this man right back here 12:58 come on up here, just walk right on up here 13:00 because I know when somebody comes up and 13:02 says well I smoke a half- pack of cigarettes a day, 13:04 we say no wonder. We will talk with some 13:08 real smokers here now. Somebody really get 13:12 down at it, we will try on him, 13:15 hi what's your name? Hi, my name is Fred. 13:18 Fred how much you used to smoke? 13:20 Three packs a day. And, how long you have been 13:22 doing that Fred? Well, I say here you know 13:29 20, 30 years 30 years maybe. 13:31 And I don't know if I smoke that many, 13:34 but 20 years ago. But you have been kind a grown 13:37 on here little bit. Yeah, and you were here last 13:42 night because I remember you, I am, and how 13:45 did your day go? Well, I didn't make it. 13:47 You didn't make it, no. Tell us about it. 13:50 Well, see I made it until about maybe 10 o'clock 13:54 this morning. And then what happened? 13:59 Well I tell you what I was reading that, that little 14:03 book that you gave us or that little thing that you 14:05 passed out today the sheet of paper and it was a 14:11 trigger, and then where I smoke the most is at 14:15 work and stress of work and so on and so forth 14:19 and I did real well until I get there. 14:24 And it's all the trigger towards a good job, yeah, 14:26 so how much did you smoke today? 14:28 Probably about five cigarettes. 14:30 Now what are we going to do about 14:31 that between now and tomorrow? 14:34 Well, I quit smoking. Do you think you can make it? 14:37 Yeah, I think I can make it. Yeah. 14:39 How many do you think he can make it? 14:41 Let's give him a hand, thank you, thank you. 14:45 Is there anybody here they smoked three packs 14:47 of cigarettes a day before they came 14:48 and made it today? You see any hand. 14:51 Well, let's come up sir, let's talk to someone who 14:56 made it, that's good. 15:03 He is staggering as he comes, right. 15:08 Okay, well he is really looking, he is patriotic 15:13 and all that, what's your name? Ron, Ron. 15:16 So you are a three-pack a day? I was a three-pack, 15:22 and I cheated, I started early, I started Thursday. 15:26 Well that's okay. I started at the last 15:28 Thursday and I haven't had a cigarette since. 15:34 Well, that's what you call getting 15:35 on the ball isn't it? And so today was a 15:38 little better than so many other days, yes. 15:40 Now tell them little bit, let's go 15:42 back to Friday then. How was Friday for you? 15:44 Hell. That's were most these people are. 15:49 Now it was rough, because I how could 15:52 I say, I kept going to the men's bathroom and 15:57 doing and I tried to go for a pack of cigarette, 16:00 I tried to grab and you have got no cigarettes, 16:02 you don't have a cigarette, and you don't have a 16:04 cigarette in your shirt jerk and trying to grab 16:06 and there is nothing there. And after a while I got 16:09 used to that, nothing could 16:10 be nothing there from now on. 16:14 Today you are feeling little better? Lot better, 16:15 lot better, yeah because you see I should tell 16:18 you so it would be upfront. For some people the first 16:22 is a worst day. For most people actually the first 16:25 day is a worst day. Now just stop to think 16:27 about that most of you have put in the worst day, 16:31 give yourself a hand that was, 16:36 that's a good effort. For some people the 16:39 second day is a worst, fewer, for a few people 16:42 the third day is a worst, but let me tell you this. 16:44 No one ever told me that the fourth day is a worst. 16:48 So, figure this way, those three terrible days 16:53 if you have been off 24 hours you have already 16:55 put in a third of your labor, okay. 16:58 And you are gonna deliver this baby. 17:01 You are going to, you are going to be proud of 17:05 yourself in just about two days hence you are gonna 17:08 start to feel a lot better. Yeah and you are already 17:11 kind to come into that phase, right yes. 17:13 And I'm down right proud of you, thank you. 17:15 Let's give me your button, thank you, that's great, 17:20 let's give that man a hand. 17:26 Right now I would like to take a few minutes 17:30 to answer any question you might have about 17:32 things you have been through or 17:34 things you are feeling. Now I should tell you 17:36 this, so that we can make it good for the 17:40 video and the like. What I like you to do 17:43 is to stand and soon as they get there with the 17:47 camera we will ask you question. 17:48 Please don't fail to stand if you have 17:51 a question okay. We are gonna forget all 17:53 about the video in this case because 17:54 I wanna help you. And I know that it is a 17:56 great number of you that who had some problems 17:59 or questions about what you are going through. 18:01 So, who is the first one? Stand right up and yes 18:05 stand alright he is one right; I'll bring the camera 18:07 right. And you stand right up we will get you too 18:09 because we wanna ask this girl or we are gonna 18:14 start with this young lady, yes. 18:16 I was wondering about friends, most of my 18:18 friends smoke should I abandon them or tell 18:22 them I'll see them in five months or what? 18:25 No, I think that's a very valid question and 18:28 I should tell you that it may make a difference in 18:31 your friends, I'll will be upfront with you because 18:34 most people who quit smoking they feel 18:37 uncomfortable around smokers and many 18:39 smokers feel uncomfortable around 18:41 non-smokers, so there maybe a shift but at least 18:44 while you are getting off. I would say basically try 18:48 to stay away from the smokers if possible, 18:50 now if your spouse or something like that you 18:52 may not be able to do that. But, you find it 18:54 helpful particularly for the first three or four 18:56 days while you are going through situation. 18:59 Stick I'm sure you have some friends 19:01 that don't smoke? Yeah, yeah this is not 19:04 the time to go to the bar you got it? 19:07 This is not the time stay away from the smokers 19:11 as much as possible. And when you look at 19:13 them this is what so important, when you 19:15 look at the smoker, is what you say to yourself 19:18 that counts. If you look at them and you say, 19:22 oh man isn't that too bad, look at those people 19:25 destroying themselves. Well, am I glad did I am 19:28 not smoking I love being free from smoking 19:33 you see, okay. If on the other hand you look at 19:35 them and say, boy would I love to have 19:39 a cigarette right now. You see that's not 19:41 gonna do good here. Alright now there was 19:43 a lady right over here, let's get her, yes. 19:47 I was wondering about the severe headache 19:49 from caffeine withdrawal how long 19:51 is that going to last? Yeah, you are absolutely 19:54 correct that it could be from caffeine withdrawal 19:56 although you can have it from nicotine withdrawal 20:00 too, it's like right on the top of 20:02 my head like a vise. Feels like your head is 20:04 stuck in a vise, yes exactly. 20:06 I should tell you and I will, before we through 20:08 tonight that the commonest cause of 20:09 headache is caffeine, it can give you a headache 20:11 on the rise, it can give you a headache on the fall. 20:14 More commonly the fall, the headache 20:16 will not be here more than three days. 20:19 If you want to take something for it do not 20:21 take a caffeine containing drugs such as Anacin or 20:25 ABC's or something like that, it will relieve the 20:28 headache, but it will keep the pattern going. 20:32 So, take a Bufferin or Aspirin or something, 20:35 okay, like that if you have to okay go ahead. 20:38 I've been on Acupuncture twice and it didn't help. 20:40 Now I was thinking of hypnosis you think in 20:43 your professional opinion would help? 20:46 Whatever works helps but let's just take a 20:50 little survey here. How many people here been 20:52 hypnotized to try to help them stop smoking? 20:56 Well that's quite a few of them, how many have 20:58 had acupuncture to help on quit smoking? 21:04 Alright, let me suggest this to you. 21:08 This probably is based a great deal on my 21:12 experience. I had a couple actually come to 21:16 my Stop Smoking Clinic not long ago, and they 21:19 told me that they have been to some doctor who 21:21 put injections in the nose cost $350 21:27 for the injections. They said we went to 21:30 the doctor we give him a check for $700 we 21:33 walked out and had a cigarette 21:34 on a way to the car. 21:39 Now I'm sure that there is great many of you here 21:41 would like to come in and have me say, 21:43 abra ka dabra. You came in here 21:47 wanting a cigarette and you are going to leave 21:50 not wanting a cigarette the fact 21:52 is you hate cigarettes. 21:55 And for some people it works, 21:58 but the numbers are pretty small I must be honest 22:00 with you were at last. Those people who come 22:04 to our program and I'll drag a little bit 22:06 here maybe do better then any other program 22:09 that I know of ever tested and we have evaluated 22:12 this at some considerably. And I think the reason is 22:16 that we try to help you make decisions for yourself. 22:22 And when you do it for yourself you understand 22:25 it's not something I apply to you, I just try 22:27 to facilitate your decisions. 22:32 And when you leave here you see I didn't make 22:35 you stop smoking, you made yourself stop 22:40 smoking. Now let me make some 22:42 suggestions for this that we didn't even have time 22:44 to get, how many anybody here is hungry? 22:53 And I should probably explain to you why we 22:56 put you on that fruit juice diet right? 22:59 There are several reasons, number one. 23:03 Have you heard of the gateway 23:04 theory of neurology? That basically says 23:09 your mind can really only concentrate on 23:11 one thing at a time? And if you are hungry 23:17 you know what you are thinking about? Food. 23:19 Your stomach, you know what that will help you 23:21 not think so much about, now you fill your 23:24 stomach immediately you are gonna start thinking 23:26 about cigarettes. But, when you are hungry 23:29 you see it sort of distracts your mind. 23:31 So, that you think about food, food, food. 23:35 And it helps you forget you about cigarettes, 23:36 cigarettes, cigarettes. Not only that most of 23:41 you are used to having a cigarette with your 23:42 coffee ha or coke or whatever it is your drug 23:48 that you have it with there together. 23:51 And when but very few people smoke with the 23:54 drinking fruit juice. Did you notice that? 23:58 One lady said to me, doctor do you mind if 24:03 I drink my fruit juice with straw? 24:09 She says that something about sucking on that 24:11 straw. That relieves the urge, 24:19 so there is a lot of techniques that will help 24:21 you, but do not forget the spiritual. 24:29 Everyone who works with addictions 24:31 recognizes that somehow we need to pull in 24:34 everything that we can even from outside 24:38 ourselves. I've discovered that myself, let me 24:41 get this over here just a little bit. 24:54 And when I had a problem you know that 24:55 I had a conquer maybe sometime I will tell you 25:00 about how I enjoy in my problem with them. 25:05 But, I have discovered from my 25:09 own personal experience. That if I would make a 25:11 decision, put my will in it then I'll ask the good God 25:16 who I believe cares about me as a person. 25:19 Even the iniquity of my life that he will provide 25:21 the power for me to see that accomplished. 25:24 I've put that down as the ABC's. 25:34 Ask, believe, 25:44 and claim the victory ha, 25:48 you think you could try that. 25:51 Someone wants to I saw a person who said the 25:54 shortest prayer you know what he said on it? 26:00 And when you feel desperate and then you 26:03 know you have tried all the 16 things and you 26:06 and if I snap the rubber band, just offer up that 26:12 prayer to the good Lord and say give me power 26:14 for the next hour. And I think you will find 26:19 that it will make a tremendous difference 26:20 you know people who work with narcotics 26:23 have found that out. People who work with 26:24 alcoholics have found that out. 26:27 And I think you find it will work just as 26:31 well for nicotine. Now I want to explain 26:35 to you little bit about the coffee. 26:36 I heard some complaining about that; 26:44 In fact there is one stop smoking clinic I was 26:47 putting on and I started talking about caffeine 26:50 and I saw a fellow sliding lower and lower 26:53 and lower in his seat. And I said is there a 26:56 problem sir? He said indeed there is a very 27:00 serious problem. He says I can't get out of 27:03 bed without my cup of coffee in the morning. 27:06 I said you mean that you have your wife get up 27:10 and make coffee. So, you can get up, no, no, 27:13 no he said. I put it in a thermos jug on my 27:18 bedside stand and then I get two cups of coffee 27:23 and then I can get out of bed. 27:29 So, when you start talking about caffeine you are 27:34 really start, stop preaching 27:36 and begin a medallion. 27:38 Well, lets take a look at it shall we do that? 27:50 Caffeine, and what's the favorite 27:53 drug you put with it? 28:02 Now what effect is caffeine have on the 28:04 central nervous system? Is a stimulant, 28:08 is a stimulant I suppose we might call it an upper. 28:12 Feel little tired what do you want? 28:15 I want a cup of coffee right? 28:17 Then you feel little better. 28:21 Alright, Nicotine in small doses I think is also a 28:24 stimulant. But, in the doses most of you 28:27 people have been taking it, 28:30 it's a tranquilizer it's a depressant. 28:34 Now we know from pharmacology that 28:35 if you take a stimulating drug and you will 28:38 combine it with a depressant drug, 28:42 that it will produce euphoria, we see that 28:45 even in a street drugs people who take 28:47 amphetamine, take a barbiturate along with it. 28:51 So, you know what euphoria is, 28:55 well, when you get up in the morning 28:56 how do you feel? In general, lousy right. 29:02 I will tell you everyone who is using nicotine 29:04 and caffeine when they get up in the morning 29:07 they feel lousy. How do you feel today? 29:10 Lousy, lousy you haven't had your caffeine and 29:13 you haven't had your nicotine so you feel lousy. 29:18 So, what's the first thing you go for in a 29:20 cup in the morning? Cup of coffee and then a 29:24 cigarette and then the euphoria sets in. 29:28 That means everything is going to be 29:30 hunky dory today. God is in his temple I think 29:34 his day is gonna fly. So, we will put 29:39 some stars out here see, 29:45 everything is going to be okay. 29:49 But, did you ever think okay, we will get you 29:51 a question in a minute, get a mic down here, 29:52 but I want to keep talking it while you are doing it? 29:54 Did you ever think what's going on in a central 29:56 nervous system? Now I like to ride horses. 30:01 What do you think if I get on my horse and 30:03 let's say, let's keep going, wow, 30:05 let's keep going wow. What kind of horse do 30:09 you think I would have? 30:13 You think I would have a nervous mixed up 30:16 irritable horse. How do you feel today 30:20 nervous, mixed up, irritable. 30:24 You see you put one drug in and say lets 30:26 get go on ting and put another drug in and 30:28 slow down tang. Let's go zing, let's slow down 30:31 zang you know. And then pretty soon it goes. 30:37 Okay nicotine, caffeine and do you ever notice 30:44 that the more you smoke, the more coffee you drink 30:46 is a general rule and they kind to go together, 30:50 moonlight and roses, love and marriage, 30:52 nicotine and caffeine. 30:56 So, I keep doing this you know I'm smoking little 30:58 extra, drinking little extra coffee. 31:02 I'm getting more and more irritable, 31:04 more and more nervous. But, I know how to get 31:06 rid of that. Have another cigarette, another 31:10 cup of coffee. I began to feel euphoria, till it 31:14 wears off and I get irritable, and I get 31:17 nervous and I have another one. 31:20 You see these drugs are actually illusionary drugs. 31:28 Do you know what I mean by illusion? 31:31 They make you feel good when you really feel bad. 31:38 Now you feel lousy right? You know a cigarette and 31:41 a cup of coffee will fix it. 31:43 But, your body would still feel lousy. 31:46 You just feel okay, because you don't know 31:48 what's going on. No, I'm serious. 31:52 I go out and I break my leg, will it hurt? 31:57 Hurt terrible, doctor comes along and gives 31:59 me big half grade of morphine you think the 32:01 leg will hurt anymore? No, because leg still 32:04 hurting? Yes, leg is hurting but I don't know that. 32:09 You see so you keep on going, more caffeine, 32:13 more nicotine, you are getting more nervous. 32:16 So, I come home I've been in the traffic and 32:19 traffic has been bad and I smoked lot of cigarettes 32:21 and I have lot of caffeine. At home, wife says honey 32:26 your dinner is ready. I say wait a minute, 32:29 wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute 32:31 I got to slow down little bit. Why don't you fix me 32:35 a couple of Martinis, so I put in 32:39 here another little drug. 32:45 What effect does alcohol have on 32:46 a central nervous system? It acts a depressant, 32:50 but so I don't get too depressed. 32:52 Have another cup of coffee. 32:55 And it will give me so more ying, ying ha, 32:58 make me more nervous. So, after well I'm having 33:02 some for lunch too because I'm nervous 33:04 by dinner time. Now, keep that up for a few 33:07 years, now I'm getting actually more nervous 33:09 and little more irritable, more drugs. 33:12 And finally one day the wife says to me, 33:13 honey I want you to go see the doctor. 33:17 I don't even see that doctor, listen even the 33:19 kids say what's happening to daddy? 33:21 He's so irritable and so nervous. 33:23 I think you better go see the doctor. 33:25 Well, now listen to me please go see the doctor. 33:29 And I'm on the way to work I think, well you 33:31 know even the people works it, how come you 33:32 show that's such a short fuse what's going 33:34 on with you? Maybe I should check in, 33:37 so I go in, check in with my friendly family 33:39 physician. And he says well your blood 33:41 pressure is up a little bit. 33:45 I wish you would cut down on your smoking. 33:49 Hopefully this physician he doesn't know that he 33:51 just gave me an impossible assignment. 33:54 No one ever cut down on their smoking and stayed 33:57 cut down for a prolonged period of time that had an 34:00 established smoking habit, are you listening 34:02 to me? It don't work have you tried that? 34:06 Did it work? No it don't, don't work. 34:09 Anyway before I leave the office, 34:13 I said doctor but my wife says I'm very nervous. 34:18 I wonder if you would give me a little, 34:29 and my friendly family physician not wanting 34:32 to offend me sets down and he writes a little 34:34 prescription Valium number 50, 10 mg one t.i.d. 34:42 and I leave saying isn't he a good doctor? 34:46 And what effect is this have on our central 34:47 nervous system? And so I don't get too 34:50 depressed, I have another cup of coffee. 34:54 To more and more wreck my nerves, 34:59 now if you think I'm joking, this is the great 35:02 American scene. And until very recently at 35:07 least this was the number one prescription 35:10 drug I think now Propranolol and one of 35:13 those beta-blockers may add the list. 35:14 But, this was the number one prescription 35:16 drug in America. Basically trying to 35:19 make sense out of what these cause appear, 35:23 but actually making it worse and you say 35:31 why would you doctor prescribes something 35:33 that will make it worse. Well, you have time to 35:36 share with me a couple of stories from my own 35:38 office, would you, are you trapped, will you 35:41 listen? Okay these are from my own office, 35:44 these are not parables these are actual facts. 35:48 I treat largely cancer patients, a mother came 35:50 in with her 18-year-old daughter was going to 35:53 Michigan State University. And she said to me 35:58 as I was give this mother her cancer check would 36:01 you talk to my daughter? She is in college, she is 36:04 not doing well and she is having 36:05 these terrible headaches. 36:09 Well, you know me I'm a soft touch. 36:12 And my nurse is shaking 36:13 her head no, and I said yes. 36:18 Because you see we try to keep things running 36:20 on time, believe or not some doctors do that, 36:23 30 minutes for the new patients, 10 minutes for 36:25 the return patients. And the nurse knew 36:30 that this was going to mess up the schedule. 36:33 But, I figured mother is here, daughter is here 36:37 let's take care of the patient. 36:38 So, mother and daughter come in and I find 36:41 out she says is this terrible headaches doctor, 36:42 I'm not doing well and in short order 36:45 I had little history, she gone after college 36:48 she really taking up smoking pretty good. 36:51 She joined a few alcohol parties, was getting just 36:53 a little touch in marijuana, now and then, 36:57 and her diet consistent largely of potato chips 37:00 occasional hamburger and she thought coke 37:04 was God's original beverage that He 37:05 provided for mankind. And I said to her, 37:12 honey there is no wonder you have headaches. 37:16 Let me put you on a good program. 37:19 And I kept seeing the nurse walking by as 37:21 if to kind of say, 'Doctor hurry it up, troops are 37:25 getting nervous'. But, I'm having fun, I mean 37:28 this beats treating cancer believe me. 37:31 You know, you got a young person, you could 37:32 perhaps get him on a right kind of program, 37:35 feel good about yourself... This is what medicine is 37:37 all about. I love it. And so I'm telling herwhat 37:41 she should have for breakfast, lunch, dinner. 37:43 Telling her how to get off those other things, 37:44 get on an exercise program. I really feel 37:47 good about myself as a person and I feel 37:49 that I'm really doing something worthwhile 37:51 for her and finally, I walk out with mother 37:55 and daughter. The nurse breathes a sigh of relief. 38:02 And just as the mother is about to go, she turns to 38:05 me and she says, "But doctor", I said, "yes?" 38:09 "Aren't you going to do something for my daughter?" 38:15 At that moment, I recognized that the 38:16 last 45 minutes we are down in drain. 38:20 And I said, "like what?" And she said, "like write 38:24 her a prescription for Valium or something?" 38:29 Now you see I can write a prescription for 38:30 Valium in less than probably two or three 38:34 seconds; sign my name; and mother and daughter 38:36 would have left and said, "Wasn't he a fine 38:38 physician? I'm mean, I really appreciate old 38:41 Dr. Weaver." I don't know what they said when they 38:43 left, but I suspect it was something like, "What 38:46 was he, some kind of our naturopath quack or what?" 38:54 Why does your doctor write prescriptions for 38:56 Valium?.. it keeps the troops happy, but it doesn't help 39:01 the situation. Okay, I'll share 39:04 another story with you. 39:05 Lady came to my office, she sat on my examining 39:08 table, eyes darting hither and thither. 39:11 I spoke quietly because I was afraid that if I would 39:14 make any noise she would scream and run 39:16 out. I mean she was that nervous. 39:20 She says, "Doctor, I'm afraid I got cancer." Well she 39:22 might should have had; she had all the lifestyle 39:24 that goes along with it. Smoking cigarettes, 39:27 alcohol, she drank a ton of caffeine and the like. 39:33 And I checked her over and I didn't find any cancer. 39:37 And I said, "I have good news for you". "Oh thank 39:39 you" she said. I said "I don't find any cancer, 39:42 but I said you are nervous wreck?" 39:45 She says, "I know but I shouldn't be." 39:48 I've already heard the story of the smoking, 39:50 the alcohol and caffeine. So, the next question 39:53 I asked her, I knew no one that nervous wasn't 39:56 on tranquilizers. I said, "What tranquilizers 40:01 are you taking?" She said, "Doctor, I'm not 40:03 sure which of these tablets are tranquilizers. 40:06 These are the pills I'm taking." 40:09 She opened her purse and she put actually 40:11 12 vials on my desk. Three of them were 40:16 major tranquilizers, and then she had things to 40:20 undo what the tranquilizers did. 40:23 She had things to wake her up in the morning 40:25 and things to put her to sleep at night. 40:27 She had stuff to move her bowels and stuff 40:29 to stop diarrhea. She had the waterfront 40:35 covered! And I said to her, 40:41 "Would you like to feel better?" 40:42 She said, "That's a foolish question doctor, 40:44 of course I would like to feel better." 40:46 I said, "Good, I have a prescription for you." 40:50 And she brightened. And I took out my 40:52 prescription pad and I wrote, 'number 1, 40:56 stop smoking.' She says, "Are you kidding?" 41:01 I said, "No." Number 2, 'stop drinking.' 41:06 She said, "I might be able to do that." 41:10 Number 3, 'stop your caffeine.' 41:15 She said, "No way!" And I said, 'Number 4, 41:22 'please leave all these pills with me.' 41:26 She said, "Those cost me a ton of money, 41:28 you think I'm gonna leave them here?" 41:30 I said, "I thought you said you want to feel better?" 41:32 "I do." she said. "But, it wouldn't work." 41:34 I said, "I guarantee it." She said, "Are you kidding?" 41:37 I said, "I'm not kidding." Well, after some give 41:40 and take, she finally said to me, "Well I suppose 41:44 I could try." Well, I was making little progress. 41:50 She left her pills, and I gave her appointment 41:55 in one month. I really didn't expect to see her 41:56 again. But, one month later, she was back. 42:00 And the nurse who had put her in the room didn't 42:02 know any of this conversation, 42:04 I had with her, (except for the cancer exam) 42:07 came to me and she said, "What did 42:08 you give that lady?" I said, "I didn't give 42:10 that lady anything." She says, "She is here. 42:13 Looks a lot better and acts a lot better." 42:17 I walked in. She sat there on the examining table; 42:19 tranquil, relaxed, equanimous, beautiful. 42:25 And I said to her, "How do you feel?" 42:28 She said, "Doctor, I hate to tell you this, 42:31 but I haven't felt this good since I was a teenager." 42:36 I said, "Wow! Now you know the answer!" 42:43 And she looked at me and she said, "Well yes and no." 42:47 I said, "What do you mean, yes and no?" 42:51 "Well", she says, "you know what? I don't need to 42:53 smoke anymore. I don't need to drink anymore. 42:56 You can keep those miserable pills. 42:58 But doctor, I've got to have my coffee." 43:03 I spent the next 20 minutes trying to talk 43:04 her out of her coffee. But, she left there saying, 43:08 "I'm gonna have my coffee." Well, she hasn't been 43:11 back. But you know, I could write the sequel. 43:15 Because when she went back on her coffee, 43:17 you know what she got? She got little nervous. 43:20 And when you get little nervous you 43:21 know what you do? You smoke. And now 43:25 you have got your ying and you got your yang 43:28 and you got your nervousness back in 43:30 very short order. And then she had to 43:34 have a little alcohol, somewhere down the line. 43:36 And then she wanted her Valium. 43:38 You think she gonna come and ask me for it? 43:40 No way. No way, she will go back to her 43:42 friendly family physician, who will sit down and 43:45 write 'Valium t.i.d.' sign his name; 43:50 "isn't he a good doctor?" 43:56 From my own office, these stories. I hope you 44:00 are getting a point. Let's talk 44:03 little bit about caffeine. 44:06 I've called caffeine the penny 44:11 behind the fuse. Well, let's take a little 44:15 look at it first. Let's say this is our 44:17 alertness level okay, it's not quite straight, 44:20 but this is, this is a right away we like to 44:23 be during the day. When you get up in the 44:25 morning where are you up here, down here 44:27 or right on the line? Down. 44:29 Yeah, now there are people I will admit to 44:31 come leaping out of bed and say whoopy 44:33 what a day lets go. Now I'm not a hypocrite, 44:37 I'm not a caffeine user. But, let me tell you that 44:42 even in the morning when I wake up I got to 44:43 look at my girl and say what time is it honey? 44:46 Take a big yawn, but the average person what 44:49 do they head for? Coffee and usually a cigarette. 44:54 Now that gives you a kick up right? 44:57 Is that real or artificial? 45:00 It's a fake out, it's illusionary. 45:03 You no more awake there then you were down here. 45:06 You know how I know because as soon as that 45:09 caffeine begins to wear off you know what happens? 45:15 Down it goes, take me to any institution in the 45:17 country at 9 and 10'o clock in the morning 45:19 and I will tell you where the coffee is and not 45:21 have to enquire, do you believe that? 45:24 All I do is watch the flow of traffic? 45:27 It's like ants coming and going to drop piece of 45:29 cake on a picnic. As people come back 45:33 to get their mid morning fix because they're 45:36 beginning to feel sleepy and tired again and so 45:40 throughout the day till they collapse into 45:42 bed at night always in debt to themselves is 45:45 that the way you feel tonight in debt? 45:48 Yeah you are in debt, because you see? listen 45:52 carefully; I took away your illusion, and now 45:56 you know how tired you are all the time. 46:06 It's true, all I did was take away the drug that 46:10 was fooling you and let you see how tired and 46:12 how bad and irritable your system really is. 46:17 Alright the penny behind the fuse caffeine. 46:22 When I grew up in a little town, called Holly, 46:24 any of you heard of that little town, 46:26 "down the road a spit and 46:29 a holler". Well we had a volunteer fire department 46:31 and a few things like that. Then interesting little 46:35 town, and that back in those days you 46:42 remember people getting all those electrical 46:43 appliances when I was a kid growing up 46:45 have you heard a mangles, you remember 46:46 what those word is, put your sheets in that, 46:50 they do your sheets, people are getting 46:52 rather then ice boxes and getting refrigerators 46:56 and our neighbor was getting all these things 46:57 and plugging them in, and fuses kept blowing. 46:59 And someone said, I will tell you what to do, 47:06 you know those are screw in type fuses, 47:09 take and put a penny behind the fuse and 47:11 screw it in and you won't have any trouble. 47:14 So, they did that. They stuck a penny behind the 47:16 fuse, they screwed it in, and voila!, everything 47:18 worked. They said wow that's good 47:22 it was about a week later Saturday morning 47:26 heard the fire siren go off down in the village hall. 47:31 If you want to get attention in a small 47:33 town have a fire. Did you ever see a crowd 47:40 following electrician's truck that was going 47:41 around and put an extra circuits? 47:44 No, no, no have a fire and then you can get 47:47 attention okay. Everyone was got their head 47:51 out of the door, kids were on their bicycles 47:54 and here comes little volunteer fireman. 47:56 They have got their sirens going and their little 47:59 lights going. Everybody is going to the fire. 48:05 Well, it's a little bit the same way in medicine 48:08 do you know that? We are talking about 48:11 that in a minute. But, let's talk about 48:12 the fuse that God has put in you, here it is. 48:21 Have you heard of that? Fatigue, when your 48:25 fatigue light comes on what do you need? 48:29 Sleep, what do you usually head for? 48:32 Coffee. You head for the coffee, you put the penny 48:35 behind the fuse and you screw it in right. 48:41 It's a little bit like the oil light on my car. 48:45 I got that crazy light and it comes on and it says, 48:47 oil, oil, oil, oil. I find that very annoying 48:53 so you know what I did, I just connected the wires, 48:59 dumb idea or smart idea? Dumb. 49:03 Now I have got you, listen carefully. 49:06 I believe is dumber to disconnect the fatigue 49:10 light on my body, then it is to disconnect the oil 49:13 light on my car because last time I checked they 49:18 were passing out bodies one to a person. 49:21 And when that one was shot there isn't any left. 49:24 But, as long as I can come up with enough 49:26 money I can find somebody that will sell 49:27 me a car you believe that? 49:30 So, I would suggest as dumber to disconnect 49:33 the fatigue light on your body then it is to 49:37 disconnect the oil light on your car because listen 49:40 carefully your body will breakdown eventually 49:43 and is weakest point just as your car will 49:46 breakdown in its weakest point without oil. 49:48 If you are not giving your body adequate sleep. 49:53 Now the reason that we think we are getting 49:54 away with it, is that our bodies are so fearfully 49:57 and wonderfully made that we can abuse 50:00 them and abuse them and they keep on going and 50:03 it isn't until way down the line that we find 50:06 we are deep in trouble. If my weakest point is 50:13 my brain and I keep don't get the adequate 50:16 rest I need, I keep pouring caffeine in and 50:19 my nervous breakdown. If you will see that sign, 50:22 I deserve it, I have it coming and no one can 50:24 deprive me from it. Did you know the 50:27 psychiatrist actually have a disease diagnosis 50:32 they call caffeinism. And it frequently takes 50:36 place irritability, inability to sleep, waking up 50:41 with funny times, nervousness, irritability, 50:44 brought on by what? Caffeine, if my weak 50:48 point is my heart, I get a heart attack. 50:53 And there are some pretty good studies, 50:55 best one I know of sure was taken years ago 50:57 when they took a medical school class and they kept 51:00 track of those that were using coffee and those 51:02 who have lot more heart attacks in those people 51:05 who are using coffee then in 51:06 those people who didn't. 51:11 It's dangerous to have a heart attack not 51:12 as used to be people give them out, 51:13 they won't do that anymore. 51:18 They afraid of the age you know that, 51:20 so they may just leave you there on the street 51:22 or just pump in on our chest something like that. 51:26 Well I know that it's popular because 51:30 I mean who are if you haven't had a bypass right. 51:36 What are those balloons they put up there and 51:37 try to dilate those vessels but listen don't 51:42 you think your heart needs rest too? 51:45 If it's your stomach, do you know that 51:47 caffeine increases the acid in your stomach, 51:50 makes you much more likely to have duodenal ulcers. 51:53 Well, you can of course have your stomach out 51:56 you can take some Metadine or Carafate 51:59 or some of those antacids try to fix it. 52:02 Hey but don't you think it would be ideal 52:04 to let your stomach sort of 52:05 relax and enjoy life as it is. 52:11 Fatigue, caffeine is not a good drug, 52:13 it's been associated with fibrocystic disease 52:15 of the breast. I believe that it maybe associated 52:18 with prostate hypertrophy in men. 52:21 There are some suggestions that even 52:23 some types of cancer maybe associated with, 52:25 it's not a good drug. It's the commonest cause 52:28 of headache. Usually on the withdrawal 52:32 but it can also be on their eyes. 52:35 How many got headache here tonight? 52:37 Quite a few of you, yeah that could be a caffeine 52:40 withdrawal headache; you know how to get rid of it? 52:44 Stop your caffeine, I have had patients 52:46 who come to me because I do mostly head 52:48 and neck cancer they got these terrible headache 52:50 pain they think they may have a cancer. 52:52 First thing I do is take them off their caffeine. 52:54 90% or more never have a headache again. 52:58 There are other causes of headache, quite a few 52:59 of them, don't misunderstand me. 53:02 But, it's interesting to me that the day after 53:07 surgery everyone complaints of a big 53:09 headache you know what they think is due to, 53:11 the anesthetic. Do you know what it is due to? 53:14 We don't put a coffee in the IV's. 53:18 And you know what the first thing the patient 53:19 asks for when you tell him he can eat, I want 53:22 my coffee doctor because I'm addicted. 53:25 But, our drug companies are very clever; 53:28 they put the caffeine in the headache relieving 53:31 medicine. So, that works real good, it takes 53:34 away your headache, it sets you up for the next 53:37 headache. And it takes away that headache too. 53:41 And you know you can sell a lot of drugs that 53:42 way, Anacin, ABC's all those caffeine containing 53:50 compounds. Now let me ask the question, 53:54 I'm trying to make you feel better beyond off 53:56 that coffee for a little bit ha. Yeah, we talk a 53:59 little bit more about it later, but it's not a good 54:02 drug, I guarantee if you go to the FDA and try to 54:07 get approval for it, you couldn't do it today you 54:10 know that, but you know why? 54:12 It's everybody is addicted including the 54:15 people on the FDA right? So, they are not gonna do, 54:20 they are not gonna do away with caffeine, 54:23 they are gonna let you continue on your illusion 54:28 while you pull the fatigue like on your body. 54:34 The good news is those of you who are off your 54:36 coffee in three days your headaches will be gone. 54:40 And you will be awake. Now people will ask me, 54:44 I'm gonna get that question yet for you. 54:47 People ask me doctor how can you wake up 54:50 if you don't get your coffee. Now let me tell 54:54 you a good method to wake up. 54:56 Don't do this if you have heart disease okay. 54:58 If you don't have heart disease this is what 55:00 I do every morning. One good way is to get 55:03 up and do little exercise, that will get the blood 55:07 flowing, get you awake and you will say, 55:08 I don't have time to exercise in the morning. 55:10 What else do you do? You go to the shower. 55:14 Oh! Nice warm shower, you can even sing in there 55:18 little bit you know. That's nice. 55:21 I use my showers for therapy you know. 55:25 Shower therapy not just get clean but therapy, 55:29 nice warm water you run that around, you soap 55:33 down that feels good. But, you are not quite 55:34 awake yet. But, here is what you do? 55:37 Without giving a too much thought you turn 55:41 and you face the faucets with one hand you turn 55:45 off the hot water with the other hand you 55:46 turn on the cold water. When you get that 55:51 hot water off and that cold water hit you, 55:54 you will know the day is started. 55:58 You will even start some deep breathing 55:59 right there in the shower. You may even have a 56:03 little exercise going, then you turn around and you 56:07 take that on your back, and you get a couple of 56:10 hands full and you splash that on your face. 56:13 By now the day is fully started, you shut off 56:17 the cold water, you get a towel and you polish. 56:19 You come out there glowing and wide awake. 56:24 You may say, "Doctor, forget it!" It works. I guarantee if 56:30 you do it for a month you will never quit it. 56:34 Now I should tell you, share something with 56:37 you about people who won't listen to doctors. 56:40 There are two people who won't pay any attention 56:42 to doctors. One of them are nurses and the other 56:49 one doctor's wives you got it. 56:54 Now my wife is a nurse, so that will tell you 56:59 something right there I see. 57:01 Yeah one day I came home, and she was 57:04 acting pretty perking kind a, 57:08 well I said I know you have got some you 57:09 want to tell me what it. I can't tell you, 57:11 you have to find out for yourself. 57:15 You know how that game goes? 57:17 Then after a while I said, alright honey what is it? 57:22 Oh! She says you wouldn't believe it but 57:23 I took a cold shower. And you now what she said, 57:27 it wasn't that bad. You know what she is 57:31 still taking cold showers and you know how 57:33 I know? Sometimes she gets there before me. 57:37 And when I turn on water you know what I get? 57:40 I get a sandwich job cold and front warm and 57:43 between and cold on the end. In fact she got the 57:46 pipes all filled with the cold water system. 57:48 Now if I can convince my nurse wife, 57:52 maybe I can convince you to try it. 57:54 This is a natural stimulate, this is not an illusion. 57:58 This is real stuff, this will make you 58:01 alert and alive and awaken and ready to go. 58:05 But, don't forget to polish with the towel ha. 58:07 Because that get you skin stimulate, you try it and 58:11 you will like it. Alright, now I answer your 58:12 question about the caffeine. 58:15 I don't believe that decaffeinated beverage 58:18 is not a health beverage. Okay, let's start with that, 58:22 the caffeine all itself is irritating to the gastric 58:25 mucosa that's the flavoring agent that 58:27 comes in the caffeine and even some study show 58:31 that it will kick up your cholesterol level maybe 58:34 you read that study the decaffeinated coffee. 58:37 But, in addition to this while you are stopping 58:39 smoking at least, I don't want you to use it 58:42 because when that smell comes crawling up you 58:43 know what's it gonna say? Cigarette, cigarette, 58:46 cigarette I like the coffee where is the cigarette, 58:48 cigarette. Psychological association that you 58:51 won't get from a glass of fruit juice okay. 58:55 Well, listen ladies and gentlemen you put in 58:56 one night already right? Right. You've got one 58:59 third of the misery behind you right? Right. 59:02 Now those of you who weren't off yet 59:04 how would you like to get on board, 59:07 will you do that? Do not stop coming 59:10 back in any case, we will get you off, I got a 59:12 special session for you in morning. 59:14 But, I think all we need the buttons, 59:16 okay here we go everybody that hasn't 59:19 smoked in the last 24 hours you stand and 59:22 we are gonna give you a button before you go. 59:25 Stand right up everybody who 59:26 hasn't smoked in the last 24 hours. 59:28 , we will get you off, I got a 59:29 special session for you in morning. 59:30 But, I think all we need the buttons, 59:31 okay here we go everybody that hasn't 59:32 smoked in the last 24 hours you stand and |
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