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Quitting Smoking
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Quitting Smoking
戒烟

Learn Contractions and Abbreviations

Date: Feb 03 2012

Themes: Health

Grammar: Contractions and Abbreviations

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It’s easy to start smoking. But quitting is a different story. Many people want to quit smoking for their health, their skin or their families. But it takes a lot of willpower to stick to it.

There are a lot of different tools and methods to help people quit smoking. Hear Amy tell Marni about one of the strangest methods she’s heard of for quitting smoking.

学习抽烟很容易。但戒烟却十分困难。很多人出于健康、皮肤或家庭原因想要戒烟。但戒烟需要超强的意志力和坚持到底的决心。
有很多不同的工具和方法帮助人们戒烟。听听艾米向玛尼介绍的一种最新奇的戒烟方法。

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Amy

Amy

Marni

Marni

Amy:  I just heard of the craziest way to quit smoking.

Marni:  Really? Do tell.

Amy:  A good friend of mine was hypnotized.

Marni:  Really?

Amy:  Yes! And she really believes that it has worked. I mean, she hasn’t had a cigarette in six months.

Marni:  Was she a smoker for long? I mean, was she really…

Amy:  Years and years, yes.

Marni:  Wow. OK. That’s fascinating. You know, I know a lot of people who have quit smoking, a lot of friends and family. And they’ve all tried various methods, but I have actually never known anyone who’s done hypnosis, so I think that’s really interesting. I mean I’ve had friends who’ve gone cold turkey, which…I just really admire them, because they stuck to it, and I know it was hard.

Amy:  Do you think some of those tools can help, like the patch or that kind of thing?

Marni:  You know, I think it’s probably just dependent on the person, and I think some people have a strong willpower and a real desire to quit. And I’ve known people who have literally been like, “This is stupid,” and stopped and never gone back. But then I’ve known people that have also needed a patch or, you know, have used those fake cigarettes, those electronic ones, for that hand-to-mouth contact, to sort of ween them off that. And the whole thing is just very fascinating to me. I have to be honest, it makes me really grateful that I was never a smoker.

Amy:  Definitely.

 

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Amy tells Marni about a friend of hers who was hypnotized in order to quit smoking. She was a smoker for many years, but it’s now been six months since she had a cigarette.

Marni says she knows many people who have tried to quit smoking. They’ve tried lots of different methods, from using fake cigarettes to going cold turkey. She thinks it takes a lot of willpower and a strong desire to quit smoking.

Have you ever tried to quit smoking? What advice would you give someone who wanted to stop smoking?

 

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CatcheR

CatcheR

Iceland

Actually, I am okay with smoker and never advised any of them to quite smoke, you know some people say ” If I am still smoke means I am healthy but If I am that’s the sign of me dying ” hehhehehe I think that’s make sense

01:57 PM Feb 05 2012 |

moudy7

moudy7

Egypt

First we thank God for the blessing of Islam II for the blessing of health

01:05 PM Feb 05 2012 |

lunnyman

lunnyman

Argentina

I particulary find it very difficult to quit smoking. Actually, it shows up like a challnege to me cuz the more i try to give up smoking the more impatient i become and want more fags all the time. Tried to spend few days with no results, of course. I can’t do it. I dont know if someday I’ll be able to do so, but all I hope it doesnt end up in death :S

10:40 AM Feb 05 2012 |

AlexisSilva

Mexico

I know how it is, a friend of mine can’t quit smoking, an addicted and the worst part is that the problem is getting worse because he told me that  was feeling the consequences, I always advise him that smoking almost every single day is something that will compound his health but he doesn’t wanna pay attention to me.


:S

08:37 AM Feb 05 2012 |

khaled_islam

Yemen

somking…... some children if the he somks .he’s feel became man .but this try bad for child    become man .my counseling.we need for club war on smoking childern around world >>


07:45 AM Feb 05 2012 |

yas-0612

yas-0612

India

Loving someone who does not deserve love
Love is extravagant

07:40 AM Feb 05 2012 |

tan6cot6

China

Smoking is a bad habit,someone had been smoking for cool,especially children above 15 yeas old,we must do all we can to stop these things happening.Older people will have quit smoking by the time they going in coffins because of health

04:40 AM Feb 05 2012 |

nfrtary

nfrtary

Egypt

i tasted once smoke but i didn`t like it and i didn`t feel goos towards it then i take decition not to taste it again , i have lotsa frienda smoke and they sufeer from it but the contuniy somke i don`t know why and i don`t how you can like what make you suufer and not good.


my bige problem and what make me really sad is my brother he didn`t usee smoke and he don`t stop it now although he really tired and sufeer alot fron it someday we enter his room and found him couldn`t breathe another time he fall in the ground in front of our eyes all of those things beacuse of cigrate and he still don`t wanna stop itCry

02:43 AM Feb 05 2012 |

岳欣

岳欣

China

” stick to” confuses me

01:30 AM Feb 05 2012 |

samko

Syrian Arab Republic

It needs strong willing to quit smoking , but still is better than continueing in bad habits

08:32 PM Feb 04 2012 |

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ola33

ola33

Japan

“…by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.” 2 Peter 2:19

08:17 PM Feb 04 2012 |

qualmpaw56

qualmpaw56

United States

Self healing last forever, Quit on your own!



Bad habits have no excuse, If some want to live a reclusive life then do so don’t smoke around other people, especially children.



Smoking is a waist full habit::: that our US government makes trillions of dollars on taxes.



Please don’t play victim to there poisons , money making scams.



 



Secondhand smoke causes cancer





Secondhand smoke is classified as a “known human carcinogen” (cancer-causing agent) by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US National Toxicology Program, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World


Health Organization.



 






http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerCauses/TobaccoCancer/secondhand-smoke

08:09 PM Feb 04 2012 |

bienemaja

bienemaja

Andorra

I´m a non-smoker.


If I wanted to quit smoking I would try different methods and see which one fits me best.


Maybe combine the fake cigarette with patches…

06:52 PM Feb 04 2012 |

liiana

liiana

Peru

keep ur mind hectic in order not to think in smoking, but the most important is to have a stronge willpower. Another things is that avoid going to places which smoking is allowed.

05:10 PM Feb 04 2012 |

wwongsapun

wwongsapun

Thailand

I am not smoking. It’s a bad things for health and also bring smoke to other get it. I haven’t a good advice give to friends….
Hmmm Oh I think out already….When you want to smoking just to change to be kiss, smile, laugh,talk, eat and bend concentrate to other things…If you can not to patience with it….please you should to decrease smoking and maybe you will get increase with money of you :)

04:40 PM Feb 04 2012 |

ola33

ola33

Japan

Olichna, good idea to buy a car for cigarettes money. I’d buy an exotic pet and then maybe a house and a furniture in a house…


If I had all my cigarette money, I’d be RICH!


Wouldn’t that be fabulous!

04:10 PM Feb 04 2012 |

birwan

birwan

Malaysia

i will talk about my friend, he has saved his smoking money for 7 years, and he has got enought money for buying new car, and he has bought new one car. and then after 1 year his car burning, he said to me it is from smoke money wich i has saved so it is burning


jjust kiding.

01:42 PM Feb 04 2012 |

olichna

olichnaSuper Member!

Russian Federation

I quit smoking thousand times… but the last time I was more determined and I thought of my health and my money which I threw out every time then I went to buy the cigarets…so.. now I could have a new car ))

12:52 PM Feb 04 2012 |

Miss Florida

China

quiting smoking is neccessary .last week,i went to the hospital with my father,because of my father’s continuous cough.and the result is as expected.smoking for years canse his emphysema.it is harm to his health.and my father is just 41 now,if he can not quit smoking,cigarette is threatening his life.of course ,i really kown quiting smoking is very difficult for a long year smoker,but for my family ,i hope one day my father can quit smoking 

11:51 AM Feb 04 2012 |

asharaf.m

asharaf.m

India

i dont have smoking habit so iam not bothered


 

10:26 AM Feb 04 2012 |

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