Joel's Halloween Fearfest Video

[MarylandQuitter]

Joel's Halloween Fearfest

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IPynhryM2RY

 

Halloween is a holiday where people try to scare themselves. It is a perfect holiday to address irrational fears people have regarding quitting as well as the frightening realities faced by people who smoke and do not quit. For those looking for blood and guts, some of the videos linked below will meet those needs too. What is really scary is that all of the stories and pictures related in those videos are real. Scaring yourself to death is really pretty hard to do. Smoking yourself to death isn't. Don't use fear to trick yourself into not quitting--treat yourself to a healthier and happier life by making and sticking to a personal commitment to never take another puff.

Videos addressing the fears surrounding quitting smoking:

The fear of failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_64R...
The fear of success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHhWS...
The fear of relapsing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWuS...
Quitting smoking out of fear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpre...
Everything you did as a smoker you can do as an ex-smoker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqlyA...

Videos addressing to the scary effects of smoking with no gory pictures:
"I don't want to see any scary pictures"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZgIM...
Feel what it is like to breathe with emphysema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf0ts...
The Palmolive bottle demonstration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVbUG...
"I can't quit or I won't quit"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i22AI...
The power of nicotine addiction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpYRr...
Premature deaths caused by smoking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5a7D...

For those wanting to see the blood and guts kind of destructions caused by smoking:
Heart and circulatory diseases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xt9v...
Lung cancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFNv8...
See how smoking destroys your lungs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0EHB...

[Nicole Diver]

"Smoking causes lots of scary problems."  I don't miss that fear I had every day that I was slowly killing myself, and how was it going to get me in the end?

[MarylandQuitter]

It's like a bomb ticking and you have no idea when it's set to explode.

[BAT]

Is there some sort of visual aid on what it looks like when your body and lungs start to recover from the affects of quitting smoking? I know there is a written timeline. I wished there was some sort of visual aid. I've never been able to find anything. Sometimes actually seeing something trumps imagination.  :)

[Leanna]

"Smoking causes lots of scary problems."  I don't miss that fear I had every day that I was slowly killing myself, and how was it going to get me in the end?

This still scares me.

 

Powerful post MQ!