so welcome ladies here have now these ladies do not know what we're up to i kind of kept it a secret from them so this last week i was it in new jersey state police doing a workshop and one of the guys  was there told me that he was trying to quit smoking he had a brain new baby and he was trying to quit smoking and he'd been smoking for twenty years maybe we could do some about his not not even my guests are smokers but thought would just be a good foundation for education ok so i don't know if you all remember this but i did write a book called the benefits of smoking and well talk about why i called it now the benefits of smoking so your quit is in here for both of you ok but before we go to the quiz i do want to share why i did call it the benefits of smoking because if anybody in your family though that was a smoker w my older brother still still smoke or had you lamia yeah i still smoke yeah i think my older sister still is a smoker too but i actually spent twenty five years working in hospitals trying to help people get healthy skills and one of the things i found is that there were people who tried to quit smoking a lot but ended up picking up food you know were in place of that and i'm just a firm believer that if we don't give people what i call life tools that they end up just grabbing other things to do with life and so what i found in twenty five years of working in hospitals with patients and smokers trying to quit was that there were three benefits one you don't know  somebody it were home guess what they can just go have a cigarette just kind of it can moan and get it out right i don't like your security plan yet kind of a security blanket i mean even think about it truly that goes the same with any addiction it really becomes this you know third unfortunately in real relationships it becomes the third party yeah in a marriage or in a relationship so i knew the coping skills part what i didn't know was the smoking part so i went to a whole week's training to become a tobacco treatment specialist and i have to tell you i learned so much and are so much i didn't know which gave me the idea for the quiz but i titled it the benefits of smoking not just because i believe there are because there's a subtitle why it's so hard to quit and what you can do about it because we really can do something about it but i don't want people to struggle and one of the things was sitting gave us is pretty quits when we took our class or my god you guys i didn't i didn't know how much i didn't know so i decided in my book i start with a little true or false question about smoking again things about smoking just to have you see what your base knowledge is and then a goal is it the end of the book you retake it have to turn to page eleven or eighty and how about this all star you really it is a level where says starting point yeah yeah yeah ok so angel how about you go wrong the first time i answered it you know i want to say true it's all us that's what i had to do when i went to my training in all my years of living up until that you are what you say i was living i thought it was the nicotine that really gave people th cancer turns out it's not it's actually there are a lot of other compounds you know in that smoke and that cigarette that actually give the cancer in fact if you ever read burned it creates these these compounds that are actually very harmful for our health yeah interesting and i have to tell you that was the first one i got wrong and that's why i put the first one here i think that's the misnomer live people have and the thing about that is it stops a lot of people from using nicotine replacement because they think oh it's not so good for you but truthfully the nicotine is not what's the most harmful for  forty five carcinogens oh no no no that's not what i was to get out ok so here's what i want to do i'm going to unveil what we've got here because nicotine is really just one little compound that's in the smoke from cigarettes believe it or not there's as many compounds as there are a nice box that i'm going to put on the table so so if we were we've we want to smoke after this show we're not compound there are seven thousand so old surgeon general's report from fifty years ago when we cut it did this there was four thousand you know compounds in cigarette smoke but new science shows that there is actually seven thousand compounds in cigarette smoke so it's not even you smoking it but when you take that puff and you blow it at me so second hand smoke stat if that helps you understand the danger of secondhand smoke because nicotine is only one of those little eminem's there's six thousand nine hundred ninety nine you know that are actually come out of that smoke and i don't know if you've all heard this and again i'm not saying don't smoke i'm not anti smoking because you all know me i think people have to make up your minds for yourselves you know so i'm not bashing smoking although i will share this personal story my mom and dad were both smokers my dad ended up getting lung cancer and he quit cold turkey you know that that was the end of his smoking my mom still smoked you know but then my mom thirty years ago ended up have an open heart surgery and i came to new jersey to take care of her what ind papen ing was i my mom had a hole in her chest right that could she went into cardiac arrest the night of her surgery so they never really did the staples they do in cardiac surgery so she came home she had i was taking care of her and she got to where she could get out of the house yes where she would sneak off to now you have her car because they found cigarette butts in the ashtray in her car and so when i wasn't around with this whole interchange as she was sneaking out to see me now that's how powerful nicotine is you know as a substance in fact they say it's as powerful if not more than heroin on the brain centers and so my mom was sneaking out so i honestly believe i just want people to recognize that if you love people around you you know you're smoke is actually not healthy for them and in certain federal housing situations they've actually eliminated they made it so you can't even smoke in the apartment because it's what travels through the r say you can't smoke and wear a patch and the truth is it's not going to give you a heart attack or the food and drug administration you know he's kind of approved it so there's he's also miss out miss out there that are keeping people from using what they need and so to keep a person from going through that will draw that's what the patch does now the problem is is somebody smoking using the patch the chances are they're not on enough nicotine replacement patches and enough form and they need the extra nicotine and well we got time i want to give you the equation that people could figure that out if we don't get tom i'm going to put it up on you know in a handout with these questions and answers so people can have access to it ok so all right so go on to question number work and what you're driving to work every day there's a fifty percent chance that you're going to get in an accident and you're going to die because there's something yeah wrong because you're in the car and that's the car that's going to crash or make you think twice about taking the car yeah and that's the same kind of approach that's the same size it happens when it comes to cigarette smoke you know which is really pretty scary to think about it and then honestly when you when you think about mental health it actually increases that higher in fact it just takes away and sucks away more life from people that are experiencing mental health issues and they're smoking interesting lee enough a person that is taking like mental health medications whether it be for depression or anxiety for my thoughts what is happening is smokers have to take more medication when they smoke than a person it doesn't because the smoking metabolizes the medicine faster so when a person stops smoking it's really important and that goes for anybody if you are taking medications and you stop smoking you've got to let your doctor know because he might need to look at your medications you're taking and decrease the medication because the amount that might become too high for what you're doing it was another good i learned i had no clue before that how how smoking actually affected medications oh there's like and so that's why i'm happy we're doing this little quiz so we can just kind share this information with people but yeah isn't that amazing feat is said let's go which kind of goes to show you know i think of being like as a family member how many people have lost family members because of that fifty percent you know so and it's not just kills us but we know research is showing and scientists show and it affects so many different things in our body you know from diabetes all the way up to colon cancer is b you know she stop smokin marber also and she started smoking in the spirit or something like that and i remember looking at it and he says all natural tobacco and i was like oh ok those that's got to be better for you then so guess what i learned that it doesn't still have the same not as seven thousand but it still has the same compounds because it's in the tobacco it's grown in the tobacco itself and so whether it's added stuff added to it or not and you're still smoking yeah still having the burning right to grant here is the burning process yes and what makes this so important is because specially here in new jersey where they're looking to try and legalize marijuana like they have in other states honestly that's the other dangerous part of marijuana because if you smoke it you still are creating the carson the cancer causing because it's stuff burning in your young hayling if that makes a house yeah and i think that's where you know what my sister maybe she you know thought she was doing something better and i think tobacco companies are really good it well actually really best at marketing person and you know hooking you know kind of hooking you in with their powers are no but yeah even even if you so here's the thing even if you all decide to grow your own tobacco you know i'm going to roll it it's still not going to enough but they were old we're just old enough now e c grants are where tobacco we're cigarettes were fifty years ago in the sixty's when cigarettes in the mass production in the mass marketing of cigarettes in the sixty's nobody knew what was in them you know nobody knew what was going on in the scenes because they were controlled they weren't regulated they weren't monitored yeah same thing with the cigarette you guys nobody monitors what's in them now storing i think was in april the food and drug administration is now starting to have to make the manufacturer submit paperwork to them and it's not just didn't have more regulations but let's face it those things keep us safe because you've heard the stories of them blowing up people's faces and there was one thing on the i went looking so when i was doing a report i went to the food and drug administration's website and what i found was that they had got a batch of the cigarette you know the fluid sort of stuff and there was radiator fluid in it and again it comes down to you don't know what really what you're smoking and for honest we could put  clubs you can have one at home where it's it ok so so don't ask me how i know this but it's kind of like like like what i remember my friends in high school using like a water bomb you know where  doing really really well she missed one day two days of her medicines but let me tell you what she king in so hyped up come to find out she had started  her parents would go you go in the apartment it's all a big smoke and what's really also scary about being that i've come to learn just a year ago from somebody was that their mom had some health issues and they took her to the hospital and he did blood work and she was you know not really well off and they came to this woman just justin is raim and she said you know he said so when did your mom have the suicide attempt and she looked at her like oh you mean a suicide attempt and she said well there was they found radiator fluid in her blood work and guess what you can get again oh oh the secondhand smoke not just from cigarettes but this second hand is how that got into her bloodstream her son who started in early recovery you know so he doesn't use drugs or alcohol anymore or he started beeping in the house and so what we figured out was that her mother who lives with them had inhaled the vague beings the baby merce and actually there showed positive for radiator fluid in i don't know the technical term but somebody who are all that but yeah so it's not just secondhand smoke good because you can't own a vapor shop here you have to apply for it so you kind of can monitor because the other thing is sort of under each sort of stuff gets in the way but second hand these seven thousand compounds are what we're breathing in or if somebody is big being around us and it makes me wonder about a cigarette you know if that smoke you know kind of that maybe comes out of the east cigarettes is also  of m and m's because you all know i'm a visual person and i thought with microinsurance in kids it would work so i bought a big ziploc bag same's and i counted them and there was about seven hundred in each of the three bags i counted so i extrapolated so i bought ten bags and i said close to ten thousand and then i went to the high school and they said did you count them and i said no and so i wanted to be able to say yes i did so one day i didn't bits and pieces not all at one time but i have a little there's a lot more in that yeah scary you could buy nail polish so here's what i would take to schools with the kids i would take nail polish i would take rat poison and i would also take a bottle of i take a bottle of ammonia because those are just three of the things they say are carcinogenic for us to ingest you know ammonia is really good for it's true cold turkey is actually the least effective research has shown that people that will use some nicotine replacement can have a higher successful rate but even then if you add a little counseling and support into it in we have quit centers across the country many of which aren't funded anymore like here in new jersey although they're trying to but yeah they go cold turkey people have done it but really the success rate of people that have tried it and it's like forty seven percent of all you know quitting cold a puff from a cigarette it takes about thirty seconds for the negative to reach the reward center of the brain and it's fast i'm saying i'm saying it's your hard questions you know what but they're what's really great is that if you read the book then you come out the other end it's are really realizing how much you've learned i would like i would like to ask  to smoke or to see how much they know oh yeah yeah that's that's that's the idea is so the answer is ten seconds that's all it takes in fact they call nicotine kind of like well strapping is the crack of ni because that smoking it gets to your brain which gives the reward and and the thing about nicotine is if it gets to your brain that fast you know what that rewards entering your our brains you can see how it is so yet it is just that little reward center in there and it's just so we're being because you know it's super super super fast if you smoke which is why nicotine replacement kind of works because your body's getting it but it doesn't need it instantly you which is what makes it so hard to quit smoking and what's not we didn't talk about is if a person's had a cigarette and they don't smoke they start to go through withdrawal in two hours that's it so when you see people constantly going out to smoke it good good be because they've become so dependent on our body that if they don't have that cigarette every hour then they start to go right through a draw and we've all been through people try to quit smoking or they are cranky oh my god they're like so real quick because we're getting down to like our last minute but if a person smokes a pack of cigarettes a day right that means that there are ten cigarettes in a pack and you can get up to four grains or four milligrams of nicotine from each cigarette so if a person smokes and they pull all that's forty milligrams they get out of a pack if they only use a twenty milligram patch guess what they're going to fail because it's only half of what they were getting makes sense and so the nicotine replacement and that's really what our show is about so i want to thank you guys because without them this show would not be possible as well as a guest last co host and so if you have any questions are web sites going to show up but you can go to that website look for the t v slash t v will see it if you know anybody that's a smoker this is a great way to just introduce a subject you know and kind of like oh yeah finally somebody gets me which is the other reason  o we just want to invite you to keep living well today