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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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manu_wj

manu_wj

Italy

I’m a stupid. I’ve been smoking for years and, sometimes, I stopped to do it but I started again after a little of time. I’m a stupid because the last time I stopped to smoke for 4 years.


The truth is that I love smoking, in spite at my passion wich is running..


 


Once a friend told me that a smoker is a smoker for all his life, even when he stop

10:42 AM Feb 03 2012 |

shirley rock

China

i just started smoking for a few days 0_0

10:34 AM Feb 03 2012 |

saeedsirtex

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Buttafly    i ve heard…..

10:19 AM Feb 03 2012 |

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saeedsirtex

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

why drink and drive when u could smoke and fly !

08:21 AM Feb 03 2012 |

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AUL

AUL

Azerbaijan

Smoking is very harmful as everybody know…and i know it is very difficult and sometimes impossibleto give up. In different countries women also smoking as habit but In Azerbaijan it is shame if women smoke…and when we are at the foreign country if my father asks cigarette servant first gives mummy and it is strange to us..


my father also smokes but Thank to GOD not much 1 for a day or 0 but my uncle may be 1 or 2 packeta day


doctor said give up because he has some problems about his health but :(((( he doesnt listen i know it is difficult but i think if person tries nothing is impossible….

08:21 AM Feb 03 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

I’m VERY HAPPY I’m not alone, Anja. I know you are beside me on board.


Thanks for the explanations. I understood the wisdom of ” the casket nails”. Smile



08:02 AM Feb 03 2012 |

postaav

postaav

Egypt

In fact, I didnot try to smoke because it has a veru bad effect on health . But I agree any man who have wiilpower can quit smoking immediately


07:59 AM Feb 03 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Anja :) 


Can the casket nails be synonym to a mine of delayed action???Did you mean it by that?


Unfortunately, I can’t say that I’m a person without the harmful habbit. I have got one, but it is for another lesson to reveal ;) ( it is not drugs anyway)Laughing

07:32 AM Feb 03 2012 |

kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Smoking is not in the vogue nowadays. Smoking is the “past day”. Many people in the company I work ( the staff contains 22 000 people!!!!) have already completely gave up with smoking. The public struggles with smokers and there are more and more places where smokers is not allowed to smoke. 


I’M AGAINST SMOKING! Though…..... I must confess I had such sin when I was 18 and 19 years old. I tried to smoke and I used to smoke for about 1 year ( not everyday, but during the party or to “keep the company” of my smoking friends.)


At that time was an informal rule among young people: “If you don’t smoke you are not cool”. So, we tried. 


During the time I smoked I understood that it is not “mine”. I could not get anything enjoyable from the cigarette. The smell of smoke annoyed me.


It was very easy to give up with smoking. I grew up and the cigarette has been thrown out :)


My husband was a smoker during 20 years non- stop.  One day he has decided and he has realised it is time  to give up. He is not a smoker anymore ( he does not even miss smoking).


The sadness of my soul is my brother :) He is a heavy smoker and don’t want to listen anybody about the harm  smoking brings :(

06:58 AM Feb 03 2012 |

Nakul

Nakul

India

I don’t smoke actually but my father somkes and he never tried to quit smoking…I also don’t stop him from smoking…it may be necessary for him, I think…but I, my mom, sister and brother stop him from smoking before us because we feel suffocated…. and my father understands it and he goes outside and  smokes…... perhaps it’s essential for him as per his age…


I will give same advice as this lesson gives that willpower is must…. one can do anything if he has willpower for that…. Smoking is not good for health, everyone knows it and even those people, who smoke, know this thing… but they are not able to quit it….there may be some reasons but I can’t tell because I never smoked nor I’ll do later….


Everyone has his own purpose of smoking.. some people smoke for fun and some people for being free of worries… but it’s bad to smoke in both the situation not only for somker but for others too…..


I will only suggest that if those who smoke, have no willpower to quit smoking then atleast don’t smoke in public because u can be used to smoking but others are not used to inhaling the smoke and it can harm them more than smoker….

06:44 AM Feb 03 2012 |

easyyang

easyyang

China

If it is a real addiction, certainly it is painful to get rid off such bad habit.


but if such a difficult habit can be removed just by one’s “willpower”, this guy would be very terribel!


remember forever, if your smoking friends, one day say he quit the smoking easily just by his “willpower”. he is not a friend to be worth of. trust me!


a man betrays his addiction easily will betray you oneday easily!

05:52 AM Feb 03 2012 |

hamidgoodboy

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

             


 I Hate smoking

05:42 AM Feb 03 2012 |

hamidgoodboy

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

to point each successful day on a calendar. Look at it when you want to smoke, and tell yourself that you don’t want to start all over again.

 You can tell people that you don’t smoke. You will smell better. After a few weeks you should feel better, taste your food more, and cough less. You will have more money. Perhaps put away the money, which you would have spent on cigarettes, for treats

05:40 AM Feb 03 2012 |

Renny kiss

China

Embarassed yeah, it’s really hard to quit but not because of weak willpower. it’s kind of habit for the somker when they come across problems or something making them nervers or exited as eating for the others when they feel hungry. i’m one of them, and i really wanna quit it for my body, but it’s really hard.


i’d once read an article of how to quit smoking from MSN. but it doesn’t work to me at all. just like the words told by the man: without smoking, without thinking. it’s really like that to the men of long term smoking habits.

05:31 AM Feb 03 2012 |

aisalkyn//sijia

China

nearly all the boys around me smoke,in fact, there are not so many men who don’t smoke in china,,,,every smoker know the harm of smoking,they sure want to quit,but not everyone can do it,,,

05:21 AM Feb 03 2012 |

aiden_wang

aiden_wang

China

Smoking is more bad for around people than the smoker.

04:33 AM Feb 03 2012 |

Mexican Curious

Mexico

He must try drinking coffee, makes something similar that nicotine, but more healthy…

03:39 AM Feb 03 2012 |

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yijianpiaohong

China

My boyfriend often smokes, he say ‘No smoking, no thinking.’ that ’s strange theory

03:30 AM Feb 03 2012 |

Wolsch

Wolsch

United States

My mother used to smoke before I was born and now she gets a really dry and hoarse cough every once in a while. That’s enough of a reason for me not to smoke when I hit the legal age to smoke.

02:26 AM Feb 03 2012 |

Mexican Curious

Mexico

Hi Parion! There are people who never get sick smoking, they are made by a “good wood”, i hope you to be one of them.

12:43 AM Feb 03 2012 |

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