Quit Smoking Youtube Channel

Welp, I've created a Youtube channel (Marlboro Country is no place to settle in)  loaded with  video playlists--all topics are relevant to the  tobacco industry and quitting smoking cigarettes. See link below. 

 Especially for new quitters there are two extra important playlists; success stories and encouragement.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA1gA4GwZ-ZD84pwMC8MJeQ

Have a lookey. Quitting is doable. Recovery is doable one day at a time.

With this sign, I couldn't see the truth with binoculars so I added some myself

"Stealing the Cigarette Scene"

I've added a bit of truth to this scene (shot in my locale just the other day) and also added a bit of truthiness,  as the scene was lacking something... 

It's my first stab at an art project which I will call for now "Stealing the Cigarette Scene."  So many creative possibilities.

Marlboro Country is no place to settle in

After watching Robert Proctor's lecture on youtube (see below), I stumbled upon a clear example of a point he made about today's tobacco advertising. He talked about how cigarette cubicles are bright, -- purposefully designed that way and that even the placement of the advertising and location of the surgeon generals' warning is placed carefully...

Indeed. Not long after the lecture, I was at the grocery store and noticed the surgeon general's warning was located at the top of the curve of Marlboro Country. Not surprising, but by gawd, he was right.

This important lecture has little over 2200 views--published in 2013. 

As I've blogged before, quitting smoking (never mind abolition of tobacco-though not private use) is a very unpopular. 

Huh, I wonder why? Could it be that in Marlboro Country there is no equal time for the truth?

Please watch this hour long lecture. You'll be saying, "Gawd, I didn't know that."

Robert Proctor: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (lecture)

Published on May 22, 2013

On Friday, March 29, 2013, Dr. Robert Proctor spoke to the Johns Hopkins community about cigarettes or "the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization," and the cause for their abolition. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olnd4axewqc&index=87&list=WL

Dear Me; The letter I hated to write

As a way to shore up one's smoking cessation...

many quit smoking programs suggest writing a letter to oneself before quitting. So did NH Quits state site, my alma mater. I followed the suggestion reluctantly but I felt so stupid writing a letter to myself. Maybe the contents of the letter did not make a difference to my quitting cigarettes, but perhaps the willingness did. 

Below is a copy of that letter written almost three years ago...

No holy grail here, eh? But all the same, I quit and I got better. 
The adventure is still on.

Quitting cigarettes: not the most popular of topics

Smoking is an addiction, 

not a bad habit

I've watched and am posting yet another great Youtube video covering the true nature of cigarette addiction; this one covers how very important it is to the tobacco kings to catch the young. 

It was posted about four years ago, and  as of Sept. 7 2016  it has a meager total of 11,737 views. 

Suffice it to say, quitting cigarettes is not a highly 

popular topic. But, of course it should be.

Get 'em Young and Train 'em Right", Lecture by Dr. Robert Jackler

Quit Smoking Movie Night

Movie night at the Quit Smoking Lodge

This three part documentary on smoking and the tobacco industry  (moderated by Walter Cronkite) is an eye opener.

I'm  posting both episodes here as a movie night suggestion. I've watched the first, and will watch the second tonight.

Tobacco Wars - Episode One - Lighting Up

Tobacco Wars - Episode Two - Smokescreen

         

Tobacco wars - Episode Three - Smoked Out