Benefits of quitting smoking

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Smoking Stations: Benefit or not?

Hi everyone, This is Milica Dabic posting on smoking stations and the disadvantages of these smoking areas that Sheridan is trying to enforce. Although I understand why they are making them I do not feel it is right. We are all old enough to make our own decisions or else we wouldn't be in a collage environment spending thousands of dollars a year just to come here.

During every 3 hour class as you know we are able to leave for one break usually only 10 or 15 minutes at most. If during that break it takes me 6 minutes to walk one way to the smoking area and 6 minutes back that only leaves me with 3 minutes to smoke my cigarette. This also then leaves me with no time to buy a coffee or a snake. Also most of the time I return to class late due to the minimal amount of smoking areas. This “smoke free campus” is actually cheating me out of my education that I spend thousands of dollars on every year. What do you think?

Reading to Quit

There are many popular books on quitting smoking that have helped a lot of people. One of the most popular ones is Allen Carrs ''Easy Way To Stop Smoking” which has over 5 million copies sold.

I’ve started reading it and found that it’s a great self-help book. Allen Carrs manager to quit after 30 years and shows you an easy way to quit. He talks about how “it is all in our head” which is so true. A lot of what is in the book are things we already know but the way he puts it all together really gives you that epiphany moment.

If you want to quit smoking and want to try reading a great self-help book that has helped myself and millions of others, I would definitely recommend buying Easy Way To Stop Smoking.
            

  

If you’ve tried any other ways to quit smoking, or have read this book or any other good books please post a comment. 

Athletes that smoke

Even athletes that are in the spotlight and very health conscious smoke cigarettes.

Sean Avery who is a former Canadian professional hockey player. Avery played for the NHL's Red Wings, L.A. Kings, Dallas Stars and the New York Rangers. He is a current smoker and smoked while playing hockey for years

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Pavel Bure who is also a hockey player has been seen smoking cigarettes with Gino Odjick who both played for the Canucks.

Carey Price, hockey player for the Canadian Habs is believed to be a smoker as well.

Danny Markov, professional hockey player has been smoking for years.

Danny Markov smokes cigarettes. What NHL Players Smoke?

Dion Phaneuf is a Canadian professional ice hockey defense man and captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League. Last year he made 6.5 billion (USD). He has been seen smoking and many pictures have been put up online. Does Phaneuf Smoke?

Not only do some athletes smoke but many hockey players before games will use chewing tobacco. This has become a popular fad between players. 

Second hand smoke-what we do not have to deal with

Hello all,
Katie Untersberger here. Second hand smoke, some may think its second hand I'm not actually smoking a cigarette I should be fine. Think again! Second hand smoke is just as bad as first hand and your not even doing the smoking. We non smokers don't know what to do when we get caught up in a group of smokers when travelling around campus. When we are surrounded by a group of our friends and smoke is being blown around in the air we breath in other deadly toxins which are responsible for several cancers and diseases. Studies have shown their are two types of second hand smoke stated in an article provided above talking about all the health effects of second hand smoke. if we students between the age of 18-30+ getting an education for a better career to become successful in our goals, do we all plan on suffering from any one of the life threatening cancers cigarette smoke causes in our life time? I sure do not wish upon myself or anyone to experience the fear and stress of second hand smoke. We need to start implementing more smoke free programs and  discussing the negative effects for everyone. Post secondary schools need to be a strong leader in providing information and support to students who are starting smoking when the enter college, and students who have been struggling to quit. Provide your insight to how you think colleges should provide help and prevention of smoking on campus.

More Ashtrays!!!

Hello again fellow smokers, this your spokesman Adrian Ianno making this post. So, if you've been reading my blogs, first off I would like to say thank you for listening to what I have to say, even though I am in no way shape or form a professional blogger. Secondly, I would like to expand on a simple solution that could have possibly offset the decision to build these bus shelters as smoking areas. MORE ASHTRAYS!!! Its very simple. You see, the school was fed up with all the cigarette butts being thrown everywhere. Well, where were we supposed to throw them when there was only a certain number of ashtrays around campus? I could've probably counted the number of ashtrays by hand! There certainly wasn't one ashtray per garbage can, because if they had done it that way, there wouldn't be a problem. No, let's skip that part and go straight to the more expensive and hostile solution: "Build bus shelters and group all the smokers together soo that there are only butts being thrown in certain areas." I personally feel this was a huge waste of money, even a thousand ashtrays wouldn't have costed as much, and it would've provided a better solution that would've been beneficial to both smokers and non smokers alike. They wouldn't have to see butts everywhere, and we wouldnt have to walk half a mile to get to a bus shelter! Thanks for reading.
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Stars who have quit smoking

This is a post by Courtney Wright, students are very involved in media and star gossip. Although many stars may be seen smoking on camera, many have quit this habit off the film set.

Famous actors that have quit smoking
Jennifer Aniston quit smoking in 2007 by turning to practicing Yoga as a replacement. Usually between one thirds and one half of lifelong smokers will die from a smoking-related disease. But Women like Aniston who quit in their mid-302 will increase their life expectancy by 6 to 7 years. What would you do with those extra years?

Ashton Kutcher broke off of his cigarette addiction in 2006 after reading a book called “The Easy Way to Stop Smoking”. People may try quitting 8-11 times before they quit for good.

 

Kate Moss quit smoking when she was 37 in order to boost her odds of conceiving a child. To quit she went to an anti-smoking hypnotist in London. Many women use children as their motivation for quitting smoking. children who are exposed to smoking are at higher risk of SIDS, developing asthma, ear infections and other cavities.

Kirstie alley tried to quit smoking multiple times in the last 15 years and hasn't been able to stick with it. Many think she would relapse because of the nicotine diet, to help her lose weight. In 2004, after a heart-to-heart with Oprah, Alley quit cold turkey. Now there are new medications and nicotine replacement therapies have been shown to reduce or delay the weight gain that comes with quitting to usually less than 10 pounds.


More Famous actors/actresses who have quit smoking and their stories. Who's Quit Smoking?

Are colleges doing enough for smoke free air?

Hello viewers,
This post is published by Katie Untersberger. This time I plan to discuss the repercussions of colleges, and what they are doing to reduce smoking and the negative effects it causes students. A quote from a article online states the concern for Canadian campus's and their progress on smoking bans, “Although considerable progress has been made in controlling tobacco on campus,” the authors wrote, the extent of this control is not as great as the policies would suggest. Canadian campuses still “face a wide range of challenges, including a lack of dedicated and consistent tobacco control personnel, inadequate funding, ownership issues, and enforcement and monitoring dilemmas.” Students interpret these gaps between intent and outcome “as a tacit understanding that smoking can occur on campus without comment or consequence.” 
I find this statement to be true even though some change have been made into effect last fall on Sheridan's campus have we seen enough determination to reducing public smoking? Can we really trust that our rights are being recognized that public smoking is not acceptable anymore.

Stressed out Students

Hello fellow smokers, this is another post from Adrian Ianno. As you may know, this is a blog of divided individuals on the topic of smoking on campus. I personally, am all for smoking on campus. I do not think that you should take away someones right to smoke outdoors, especially at a college. If students are anything during the school year, it is STRESSED. Smoking helps some students deal with that stress, and the fact that the school is causing us even more stress by making us walk to a bus shelter to have a cigarette, is kind of backwards if you ask me. Also, throw in the fact that if you are brave enough to walk on campus while smoking a cigarette, there is the risk of being ticketed and/or hassled by the rent-a-cop's they call security. These guys are either extremely rude to you when they do catch you, or they make you listen to all of their "cool stories." Personally, I'm not one to be rude and cut a guy off when he's trying to tell me something, but when some of the security guards get going about their past experiences or lectures on smoking at the bus shelters only, it's really hard not to. I'm sorry, but I graduated from elementary school and high school, and am now an adult who has rights and actually paid a lot of money to be here. I don't like being told what to do, especially when what I'm doing is not breaking any laws. All of these things cause unnecessary stress for students like me, and all I'm saying is that these issues could have easily been avoided had school done their homework like they expect us to do all the time. Thanks for reading.
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Smoking on Campus

Hello fellow smokers, this post is by Adrian Ianno. So, recently at Sheridan College they placed a number of bus shelters around campus and called them, "Designated Smoking Area's." The idea, or reason behind it, is not because of the fresh air that is being "robbed"of non-smokers (that's what trees are for), but instead due to all the cigarette butts that were being thrown all over campus. Really? This is their solution? They didn't think of maybe just putting more ash trays around campus? "No, let's spend thousands of student's dollars on installing bus shelters around campus instead." There was no pole to vote whether or not we, the students, felt that it would be a good idea. And if there was, they did a terrible job advertising it. Yes, I understand they want to phase out smoking and that this is the first step. However I do not agree with it, and I personally feel that it was a complete waste of money and not fair to smokers that need to walk up to a maximum of 10 minutes one way just to get to the bus shelters, depending on where their classes are. When a teacher only allows for a 10 or 15 minute break, this extra distance we now need to walk, makes us late for class. Not to mention a school that we pay alot of money to go to, is now taking away our right to smoke anywhere outdoors. That being said, I'm not an inconsiderate person, and by that I mean that when this rule didn't apply, I wouldnt be standing right outside a doorway blowing smoke into everyone's face that walked by. I kept my distance because I have the common sense to know that not everyone is a smoker, and most people do not like it. All I'm saying, is that I'm not an inconsiderate smoker, however, I'm someone that believes in being fair, and these bus shelters posted up as, "Designated Smoking Area's," are not fair. At least not to the smokers.
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Smoke free air for those innocent of cigarettes!

Hey everyone,
This is a post by Katie Untersberger. In my personal experience of being surrounded by second hand smoke and the effects it causes to close family and friends, the last thing i want to deal with is being surrounded on campus. I know it is hard to quit, or it has a social aspect but people who don't smoke do not want to have the effects of second have smoke everyday when they chose not to smoke in the first place.I hate the smell of cigarettes during and after your cigarette. With a close family member addiction to cigarettes everyday with almost a pack a day, I cant say I'm used to it but more disgusted by the whole package.
I strongly feel Sheridan and other campuses across Canada are trying to take a step in the right direction to fight against those who chose to smoke and fight for those who chose not to smoke and breath fresh air. By building stations located at various spots around campus this will help seperate paths between smokers and non smokers.
Do you feel colleges are thinking in the right direction by building smoking stations? Yes or No?

Banning Smoking on School Premises

Hey fellow students, this is a post by Courtney Wright. Many pro-nicotine students believe that the shelters on campus are to solve the issue of second-hand smoke. The rationale is really that the school is trying to make wide open spaces smoke-free in order to better promote healthy behaviors.

Still you will find students who don’t use the shelters are either standing out around them or still walking around campus with lit cigarettes. So non-smokers are still forced to deal with the smell and health risks of walking through clouds of smoke.

If the school was to just ban smoking anywhere on school property this problem would be solved.  The school should start to provide more aids to people to help them try to quit as well. Providing nicotine patches, gum, as well as prescriptions from the health center for things like Champax and Zyban would help reinforce a smoke-free environment. 

Fresh air for a price?

Hi everyone! This is a post by Milica Dabic. As a none smoker I have to say that this move towards a smoke free campus has been great. I am able to walk through my school campus without smelling cigarettes, now if only we could make the smokers sit at the same table in class.  These designated smoking areas could be quite beneficial in the quitting process for many students as well. It encourages them to stay in class during break as opposed to taking that long walk to their smoking station. Especially in bad weather conditions no one wants to walk through the rain or snow. So students in college who enjoy the fresh air of a smoke free campus let me know what you think! We want to hear what you have to say about where you money is going to improve the overall experience for all students. 

Please check out our poll below!

Welcome

Welcome,
We are excited to start a discussion and possibly a debate on the trend of smoking on or off school campuses. We have a group divided between two people providing their personal view points. One group will be talking about how they agree with the placements of smoking stations far from front entrances and usually pathways on campus, and the second team will discuss how they feel it is unnecessary to have stations when there smoking outside in the first place.
We encourage your feedback on all posts and look forward to what you have to say about our discussions on both sides.