Today's program is
aimed directly at smokers.
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We love you, God loves you...
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The only person not
loving you is YOU - Stay tuned..
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I'm Dr. James Marcum...
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Are you interested in
discovering the reason why?
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Do you want solutions to
your health care problems?
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you're about to be given
the "Ultimate Prescription"
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What's killing us?
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That's the
question we're answering
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on this series of programs
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focusing on the major
causes of death on this planet.
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Any paramedic will tell you that
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there are 2 things that
need immediate attention
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after an accident...
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Is the person breathing?
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Is the person bleeding?
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If they can open an airway
and stop or slow any bleeding,
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there's a good chance
that the injured individual
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will survive the
trip to the hospital.
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Well I'm pretty confident that
anyone watching this program
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isn't bleeding
but are you BREATHING?
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I mean, REALLY BREATHING...
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Dr. Marcum, tell us about
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chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease...
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Yeah Charles, why we're
talking about that is because
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that's one of the
leading causes of death,
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not only in the United
States, but in the entire world.
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"Chronic" -
something that's been going on
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for a long period of time.
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"Obstructive" -
blocking something.
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Usually an airway.
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"Pulmonary" -
relating to the lungs.
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So anything that
blocks the airways in the lung
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is termed "chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease"
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And, whenever we talk
about what we call "COPD"
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frequently with that
comes the word that causes
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much of the COPD we see
and that's cigarette smoking...
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And for a while,
we talked a lot...
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I can remember 10 years
ago, we used to talk a lot about
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cigarette smoking.
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There used to be programs,
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you know, 5-day
programs everywhere!
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Smoking Sam!
Yes, it's Smoking Sam!
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The programs
used to be everywhere,
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and then all of a sudden,
it dropped off a little bit,
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but we still see,
in our death rates,
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chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease
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still being up there...
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And that's because
the generations that smoke
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are getting older now;
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they're having more chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease
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which is where the air
cannot move in and out well;
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the alveoli are damaged;
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they get real short of breath;
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their cilia doesn't
pull mucus out of their body
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because they are paralyzed,
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so they are more
prone to having infections.
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They are also more
prone to having cancer...
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But we use do
hear a LOT about that,
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but we're not hearing
as much, but we NEED to...
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because a recent
article last week said,
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"Our teenagers are
still smoking cigarettes. "
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It's still
something that's very popular.
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And years ago, when
cigarettes first started,
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that was the cool thing to do!
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And then people have
been wrapping tobacco
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for years and years and years...
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And yet the
substances in those cigarettes
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damage our upper airways.
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It damages our cilia;
it damages our taste bud,
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it damages our alveoli.
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The chemicals in cigarettes,
nicotine, also damages
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our blood vessels;
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also makes us more
prone to heart attacks;
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more prone to
high blood pressure;
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more prone to cancer
and more prone to death
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because of chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease.
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...And that's one of the worse
deaths you can imagine, Charles!
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I have some people that
they just CANNOT quit smoking.
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I remember this
little old lady...
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She looked like she was
80, but she was really 55.
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Because smoking
causes you to be wrinkled,
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makes you look a lot older.
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And she couldn't quit smoking.
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Well what happened is
her lungs became damaged.
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The alveoli got
bigger and bigger.
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She was more prone to infection.
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She was short of
breath ALL the time,
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yet she continued to
have those cigarettes.
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Well, I remember putting
her on a ventilator AGAIN.
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Finally got off the ventilator
and we had to trach her
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so she could get
air in and after that
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she would smoke cigarettes
through her tracheostomy. OH MY!
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That's how
powerful this habit is.
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And what we want to know is...
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we want to talk a
little bit about this disease,
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and also let people know
there is hope, there is help.
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We don't want this
disease to take you away,
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and if you might be
especially a young person
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that's thinking
about smoking cigarettes,
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we hope you never do that...
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there is no real
reason to smoke cigarettes.
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I can't think of any
good reason that you can't
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substitute
something else for it.
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Yeah, in other words...
There is no BENEFIT other than
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you think you look cool.
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It's almost a mental benefit.
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Now people will smoke
cigarettes, I understand,
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to make them feel calmer...
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How does it do that?
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Well, you know, the cigarettes
have hundreds and hundreds
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of chemicals in the body...
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You hear about tar and nicotine,
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but when something is lighted,
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and all these
fluorocarbons get in us,
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it makes a lot
of other chemicals.
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But yeah, some of
these chemicals, they say...
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make a person feel
calmer, but you know what...
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they might feel
calmer in the brain,
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but the rest of the blood
vessels, the rest of the body
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is anything BUT calm.
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It's crying out...
"Nicotine is constricting
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my blood vessels -
it's causing heart attacks"
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And when they get older,
the people can't breathe.
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When you see someone that
has smoked their whole lives,
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and you say...
"Would you do this again?"
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They say... "No, if I could
go back, I would have never
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had that first cigarette
behind the barn with my buddies
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when I smoked several. "
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Now, our society all around
the world, we're doing better.
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There are areas
where you can't smoke.
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At first, they used to be
able to smoke in the hospitals!
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Can you believe that? Yes
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And people, for a while,
could smoke in restaurants,
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and now that's not the case.
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But we still see a lot of
people smoking cigarettes,
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and did you know, Charles,
if you live with a smoker,
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you get secondhand smoke.
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And if I smoke 2
packs-a-day and live with you,
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you're going to
get a pack a day!
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And that's still damaging
your body in many, many ways.
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So sooner or later, all these
chemicals damages the lungs,
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and unfortunately, we have some
inhalers that help with that.
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We have oxygen...
but the real solution to
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chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease is to get a person
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to quit smoking the cigarettes.
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Now let me bring up a
common complaint of people who
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are trying to stop smoking.
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They say, "If I stop
smoking my cigarette,
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I'm going to gain
weight; I'm going to become fat"
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"Cigarettes are
keeping me slender"
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Is this TRUE?
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Well, you know,
when they're smoking,
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they're usually
not eating. All right
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Well they can't
TASTE their food!
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It damages their taste bud
- it doesn't taste as good.
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And nicotine is a STIMULANT!
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So it does speed up the body.
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So, yes, that is because
most people will gain weight
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if they eat more.
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And, you know,
through the years...
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But they recognize
food... this tastes pretty good,
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I want to eat more... Okay, I
can see where that would happen.
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But you know what, Charles,
I think, in the smokers,
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they know it's
not good for them.
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They know that this is
not the best thing to do...
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and they know it and what
we need to do find new ways
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to help them do better.
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And we can tell, by looking
at the young people smoking,
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that we haven't got
through to everybody
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because people
are still smoking now.
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Now sometimes, the government
can tax more cigarettes,
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raise the price of it
and that helps some...
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Makes it more expensive.
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We've had different
drugs through the years,
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but it never made sense to
me where you trade one drug
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and its side
effects for another one.
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One of the drugs
they use causes seizures,
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and one they use - depression.
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Another thing that didn't
make sense was the nicotine gum!
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Instead of inhaling
it, you're chewing it!
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Then they had the patches...
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And I had one
fellow that came in...
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He had a heart
attack because of a spasm.
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Nicotine causes spasms.
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Well he wore the patch which he
got some nicotine buzz on that,
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but then he smoked too!
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So I mean it was like
taking a double whammy.
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So you talk about
medications that can kill you...
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Well, you take a nicotine patch
and you continue to smoke...
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and you have vasospasms, it
precipitated his heart attack
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But it's a major
issue in America;
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it's damaging lungs;
it's one of the leading
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causes of lung cancer.
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Cancer throughout
the body is triggered by
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these chemicals that we get.
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It turns on these
cancer genes in our body,
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and the ways out
there are not working,
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so we want to talk a little bit
today about ways that will work
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and what I do with my smoker
to help them quit smoking.
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It almost sounds like we're
not necessarily dealing with
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a tobacco problem...
we're dealing with a habit.
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We're dealing with something
that they are just hooked on
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and they can't get off.
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It's an addiction and it changes
the chemistry of the brain.
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The brain says, "I have to
have this, if I don't have this"
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...They say it's the
most addictive substance
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that's known to man -
is nicotine and cigarettes.
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The devil does a pretty
good job when he comes up with
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ways of trapping us
because when we smoke,
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and when we affect our brain
and our chemistry like that,
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we really can't fully comprehend
God's presence in our lives...
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We really can't
fully see His leading.
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We don't have that emotional
connection that's so important
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that God wants to have with us.
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So the devil has made this WEED
that can come between us and God
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and he doesn't care if
we're sick or if we DIE.
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He just wants to make
sure that we are sick and die
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without GOD in our lives.
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Right, and that's excellent
how our mind changes... Yes
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And when the
chemistry of our mind changes,
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no matter what the addiction is,
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whether it be alcohol,
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whether it be
addictions to cigarettes,
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to drugs, painkillers;
we see addictions to that.
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We see addictions to things
like cocaine, methamphetamines.
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Some people are addicted to
things that don't seem so bad
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like food... television!
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Anything that can addict
us, can pull us away from that
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relationship and that
relationship is the true path
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to getting someone to
quit smoking cigarettes.
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The people I've talked to
on this topic of addiction,
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they seem to be quite
universal in saying...
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"The way that you overcome
an addiction is to transfer
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your desires to
something else" Right
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If you have a
cigarette addiction,
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what are some of the
transfers that we can make
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that seem to work
for your patients.
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Well, when a
patient comes in to me,
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the first thing I
do is I tell them...
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"Listen, I love you,
and because I love you,
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I want to help
you quit smoking. "
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And for some people,
it happens just like that!
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For some people, most people,
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it's more of a
journey to quit smoking.
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But I'd say, in my patients,
there's about a 90% quit rate.
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And it's nothing special;
I've learned from some of the
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programs I've
worked with in the past..
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I come in and first
I say, "I love you,"
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"I want you to quit smoking"
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and I try to educate
them about the cigarettes.
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I say, "You know, the money you
can save, you can take a trip...
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A trip to Hawaii on
the money you spend on
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cigarettes every
month! I tell them...
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"Do you want to have
another heart attack?"
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"Do you want to
put your relatives
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through this; do you
want to put your children?"
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So after we're done educating,
the first thing I say is...
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"Listen, let's just
start with one thing
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to help you quit smoking. "
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I'm going to pray
for you for one month,
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and we'll come back next month.
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So we come back next month
after I've prayed for them,
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and the second thing I say is,
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"Listen, I want you to
enter into a relationship
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with the One that can help
us break not only this addiction
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but any addiction
and if you can do this,
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there's nothing in your
life you cannot overcome.
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I let them know I'm praying for
them-I'm really pulling for them
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And they're not a BAD
person because they smoke.
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You're still loved by God.
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You're still very important.
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So the next step
I do is having them
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have that relationship.
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And I say, "You stick to it"
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And they have to
have some accountability!
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Right down a text
every day that you read.
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Go over
something every single day.
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A friend of mine wrote a
book called... "BreathWish"
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which helps people quit smoking
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and gives them texts everywhere.
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His name is "Craig Ammerall"
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I give them that book.
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So they do that for a month...
and I don't tell them to quit
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Some people, even
after just doing that,
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they've overcome their
habit... Some people have not
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Then the next thing I say is...
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"Listen, let's
cut down the amount of
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cigarettes you're smoking"
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and pick a quit date. "
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"And when you quit on
that day, have a substitute. "
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Now they're already
in a relationship...
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They already have
people praying for them.
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And I say, "Replace a
good habit with a bad habit. "
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And then, if you start
smoking again in 3-4 days,
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figure out what was
it that triggered it.
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What was it... was
it a friend that did it?
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Were you bored... you
needed something in your hand?
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And substitute... every
time you start smoking again
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have a substitute.
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Like if you need
something in your hand,
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put something in
your hand to twirl.
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If you need something in
your mouth, chew a piece of gum.
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If you need to do
something else, go for a walk...
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so your body automatically,
whenever you have that...
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In it's craving, you
have something to add to it,
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and drink lots of water.
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And then if you
fail, don't give up.
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Turn to the
Ultimate Physician and say...
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"God, I didn't do it
this time, help me again"
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Now, when people change,
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people can't change just
because they want to do it.
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Because when they do
that, they're becoming selfish,
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and the chemistry of
selfishness is not good either.
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So I'd say it really
takes the power of the
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Holy Spirit in a life to make
a change for the right reason.
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And when this happens and they
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start realizing
that people love them...
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and it might be a journey...
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They might stop
smoking 6 or 7 times
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before they are
finally able to kick the habit.
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When they do that, they
find such joy and relief;
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almost all the
programs that are out there
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have this sort of
message, you know,
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they point to a higher power.
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They point to substituting
a good habit for a bad habit;
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they talk about education;
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water to flush out the system...
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And in doing this, not
only do you help teach them
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how to break this addiction,
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but you help them to have
other power in their life...
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And they really get that
power from the Holy Spirit
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taking away that habit
that they don't want to have...
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And this will work for
any habit that we have.
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If we go to God and
say, "God please help us"
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Now the worst thing I can
see is people that give up...
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"Oh, I can't do it... I quit for
2 days, then I started again"
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Well this is a journey...
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Figure out - well what caused
you to start the habit again.
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And ask the Holy Spirit to
come into your life even more
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and give you more power,
more help, more substitutions
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...figure out
what works for you.
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And what I've noticed...
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that one plan does
not fit all, Charles.
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Yes and that's
important for us to know...
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If it doesn't work for you,
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Don't give us,
look for another plan.
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I hear you
saying... Right All right
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We'll take a short
break and when we come back
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we'll answer
questions on this topic from the
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heartwiseministries.
org website,
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so stay right where you are.
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