CDC: Tips from Former Smokers - Anthem Ad

I have to get my mom off this crap I have asthma and it's killing my lungs!

these are people who smoke a lot, right? if you only have like 1-3 cigarettes a day and exercise regularly this is not likely to happen right?

Smoking is no more a poison than drinking liquor. Why do they still sell Liquor in stores? People worry too much about smoking and over look the real important things like a 3 month being ripped apart in crash after a drunk hit them. Women and children being beaten to death by drunks. If your going to pick on one problem lets be fair and pick on the other issues too. Drugs and Gangs in our streets, and Elderly abuse. Been smoking since I was six, I'm old and grey, lets look at Real issues.

Kids are gonna think smoking is cool now because if you do smoke you'll get to talk like a robot someday.

And this is why I'm asking my boyfriend to stop smoking... )':

Do you see the hole, where the lady pointed at? That's the stoma.. CPR people will have to blow in the hole, not from the mouth.

I beg to differ. alcohol beverages, when used in proper moderation, do have healthy benefits but there are no benefits to smoking at all, whatsoever.

because the stoma is a hole in your throat so if you try to do mouth to mouth resuscitation on a person with a stoma it'll just go out the stoma. You need to breathe into the stoma to get air into the lungs.

what does it mean CPR is not mouth to mouth but mouth to stoma?

good.... enough said.

very informative

yay! 

alcohol is worse than smoking

well i had bronchitis when i was a kid and both my parents smoked but it wasn't seen as that big of a deal back then

I agree alcohol can be just as damaging, but also try to not project your experience onto everyone else. I work for the Quit Line and spoke to a 30 year old woman one day with three kids who was already on oxygen. She had only smoked since she was a teenager, and about a pack a day. It's rare for me to talk to someone who has smoked for 30-40 years and does not have COPD. I've even spoken to people who have these digital voice amplifiers. No one thought it would happen to them, until it did.