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View Poll Results: Do You Smoke? | |
I'm Type 1 and I smoke
|    | 10 | 11.24% | |
I'm Type 1 and I don't smoke
|    | 64 | 71.91% | |
I'm Type 2 and I smoke
|    | 1 | 1.12% | |
I'm Type 2 and I don't smoke
|    | 14 | 15.73% |
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01-04-2007, 06:44 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
Posts: 7,846
| | Smoke what?  |
01-04-2007, 07:01 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: B.C., Canada
Posts: 1,879
| | | My hubby has bad habits too,.........but what do you expect? We do live in B.C.! hehehe!
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Happiness isn't getting what you want.....
It's wanting what you've got.
Last A1C - 5.9
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01-04-2007, 07:10 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Santa Rosa Texas
Posts: 724
| | | closet smoker....
Did the smoking thing in my twenty's before husband.... Only during the long rides going home from work, to relax....(never in the home... didn't want the smoke to smell up my new house...) or in public didn't feel comfortable...
Main reasons why I stopped..
1. Hot ashes flew back into car burned a nice hole in back seat....
2. Had a really bad asthma attack couldn't breath...wheezing...flashes of black lung pictures from
High School Science/Health Class...
3. No need for it... hubby started driving... commuted to work together...
Stopped Cold Turkey... I do get a little nervous when I smell a freshly lit cig. though... But nothing I can't handle ... just walk away and holding breath...
Good Luck... who ever is trying to stop...Keep trying... |
01-04-2007, 07:24 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Manitoba, Canada
Posts: 1,760
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Originally Posted by Cyborg  Smoke what? | Cigarettes, Cyborg......that's all I need to know about. 
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~ Bethany ~
Type 1 since I was 3 (1981) - 26 years now
Pumping as of Sept. 13, 2007 - Paradigm 522 with NovoRapid (Novolog)
(Previously on Levemir and Humalog)
CGMS as of Apr. 2008
Laser treatments (scatter) on both eyes - Jul. 4, 2007-Sept. 12, 2007 |
01-04-2007, 07:56 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 170
| | | Don't smoke, slipped around and smoked a few as a teenager.
Had a guy tell me once that quitting smoking was easy.........he had done it at least 15 times! |
01-04-2007, 08:13 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: ChicagoArea
Posts: 175
| | | How about cigars?
I don't smoke.
I don't smoke cigars, either - but I do like their smoke, sometimes.
My mom thinks tobacco is different these days from 40 years ago. She used to put up with smoke - we would ride Greyhound bus to visit relatives, and the bus usually was a cloud of smoke. It never left our clothes stink like today smoke seems to make people stink. I tend to agree that tobacco must be fundamentally different today than years ago. Today, my mom goes crazy around the slightest whiff of smoke - she claims tobacco is different today, but she is much older today also.
Question about other habits - Is coffee bad for diabetes? |
01-04-2007, 08:28 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sacramento California
Posts: 2,515
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Originally Posted by Cyborg Smoke what? | lol. I am pretty open about it cause I feel it's much like prohibtion. That's all I'll smoke, and unlike my college days, pretty rarely now. I smoked from 16-21, then starting chewing to quit smoking. Been about 5 years since I quit chewing, which was WAY harder then quitting smoking. Yes chewing is disgusting. |
01-04-2007, 08:45 PM
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I am a: Spouse/Significant Other | | Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 2
| | Tobacco has many bad health effects, particularly for people with diabetes. No matter how long you've smoked, your health will improve after you quit.
Nicotine, the drug in tobacco, is one of the most addictive substances known to man. Besides the physical addiction, many smokers also become psychologically hooked on cigarettes. So kicking the habit is hard - but worth the work. There are many methods you can try to help you quit and stay away from smoking for good.
Btw, Ciggaretts kill 440,000 people a year! Now that's terrorisim!!  |
01-04-2007, 08:54 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Shore, MA
Posts: 60
| | I don't drink , don't smoke
What do I do??????
Must be something inside...  |
01-04-2007, 09:04 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Virginia
Posts: 629
| | | I dont smoke and never have or will.
I have never tried it ethier.
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T1 DX'd 4-16-96
Cozmo blue pump since 7-8-05
Latest A1C levels:
10-8-08 A1C 5.8
7-30-08 A1C 6.0
4-30-08 A1C 5.9
1-18-08 A1C 5.9
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01-04-2007, 10:26 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: B.C., Canada
Posts: 1,879
| | | [Question about other habits - Is coffee bad for diabetes?[/quote]
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!!
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Happiness isn't getting what you want.....
It's wanting what you've got.
Last A1C - 5.9
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01-04-2007, 11:23 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Western WA
Posts: 468
| | | Quit last Feb right before I started on my pump. After both parents died of lung cancer.
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-Shane
T1 ~11 yrs
Minimed 522 w/ CGMS
Lifescan Ultra2 / BD Logic
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01-05-2007, 02:46 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, دبيّ
Posts: 3,116
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Question about other habits - Is coffee bad for diabetes?
| Not really, no. Although caffeine can sometimes increase blood glucose slightly, it's usually not a massive amount. Drinking a sensible amount of coffee is also slightly beneficial for your health, and having caffeine in your blood when you exercise causes you to metabolise more fat than glucose, which is helpful if you're using exercise to control your weight rather than your BG. It also helps you to work out for longer.
There's also no real correlation between coffee consumption and blood pressure either, so it shouldn't affect cardiovascular health.
The only real problems from coffee are that excessive consumption will dehydrate you, and also can cause caffeine addiction. I actually felt pretty tired and crappy for some time over Christmas when I was home - because at work I usually have 4-5 cups a day of the stuff and then went cold turkey. I would wake up with a headache in the morning, but amazingly just one coffee got rid of it far quicker than any pain killers.  |
01-05-2007, 02:52 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: USA
Posts: 949
| | | Didn't, don't, won't.
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01-05-2007, 04:01 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 3,213
| | | It feels Great to say, "No, I don't smoke".
I quit Dec. 26/04, my 26th time quitting. I used the
Nicorette gum, patches, cold turkey and Hypnosis. They
all worked for some time(some as long as 8, 9 10 months).
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