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1. Thanks to anti-smoking campaigns, many smokers know of the common health hazards that come
with cigarette smoking.
AFTER 10 years living of with my daily pack of cigarettes, it took me a mild stroke, lots of
encouragement from my family and frequent thoughts of my children to stop.
“It was midnight on Sept 21, 2006, when I suddenly woke up and realised that I could not speak, I
couldn’t raise my hand. I couldn’t even walk straight.
“My speech was slurred and part of my face was paralysed,”
My mother, recognised the signs of stroke and brought me to a hospital where i was treated. “One of
the first questions the doctor asked me was, ‘is you a smoker?’. “When i told the doctor I was an
occasional smoker, the doctor showed my x-ray and said I already had smoker’s lungs.”
It was upon the realisation that smoking may have been one of the major causes of my stroke that i
resolved to quit.
“It is not easy, and sometimes there is the temptation to go for a puff or two. But whenever I think of
my health and my young children, I don’t want to smoke anymore because I want to live longer and
see them grow up. My family, especially my parent, they have also encouraged me a lot.”
While it often takes a life-changing experience to strengthen a smoker’s resolve to stop, it is better
late than never.
And although smokers do know that they are at increased risk of developing heart disease and
cancer, they think that it is always someone else’s risk.
“The way I look at it, “is that I’m 25 and I’ve got a five-year-old boy. He’s going to do his degree, and
I’m going to see him graduating from college. But if I’m a smoker, I probably won’t see my grandkids,
because I’ll die 10 years younger.
And that is really what smoking cessation is about – that we’re going to lose 10 years of life. “If you
have two relatives who smoke, you will lose one. “It actually touches every one of us.”
In my years of experience in nursing, and recently, my two months experience in the new National
Heart Institute (IJN) Quit Smoking Clinic, patient counsellor noticed a trend among smokers that are
trying to quit.
“Those who are self-referred tend to do better than those who are referred by the doctors. Once
they decide they want to quit, most of them could. “But if they still have doubts, it will be a quite
difficult.”
If a smoker has enough willpower, they will quit. But if they are addicted to smoking, they would
probably need some assistance.
“You could really ramp up quit rates if you get some help – whether it is nicotine replacement
therapy, non-nicotine drugs or counselling – just get some help.
It is best not to start smoking at all, but if you already are, the benefits of quitting are immediate.
“Drugs certainly play a role, but they do not play the only role. “The most successful programmes are

2. those that combine some form of counselling or behavioural therapy with the support of drug
therapy.
There are a few ways you could go about quitting.
There is the nicotine replacement therapy, where you replace the nicotine you normally get from
cigarettes with patches, chewing gums, sprays and inhalers to help you through withdrawal
symptoms. The dose of nicotine will be reduced over time until you do not need or crave it anymore.
Other methods, like hypnotherapy and acupuncture, may also help some people and improve your
chances of quitting.
I has been off my 10-year-old habit for two months since i started quit attempt with nicotine
replacement therapy at the IJN quit clinic. “I was referred to the clinic by my doctor because of my
health problems, but economic concerns are also part of the reason why I decided to quit. Cigarettes
don’t come cheap these days.
However, quitting was not easy – even with help. “The first week was difficult as I felt anxious and
uncomfortable. Now, I still have cravings for cigarettes but I can control it better. “But I would advise
smokers who want to quit to get help because quitting on your own is difficult.
“But now, when I have cravings for cigarettes – it usually lasts just about five seconds – I don’t even
think of lighting up.”
It encourage me to come back and work with their hypnotherapists to find out the reasons for the
recurrence.
After many attempts to stop over the 18 years i smoked, i did not succeed. “I tried acupuncture,
which is quite widely practised in France, together with counselling. And I have stopped ever since.
I believe that acupuncture is not enough. You need the counselling to help smokers understand their
situation and motivate them.
And if you have seen examples of people who smoke but do not appear to have any problems,
“Some people smoke but don’t die, but you can see how many people do. We can’t pretend that
everyone is alike.
The grandmother who smokes but lives to a ripe, old age may not be one of those who died of
smoking, but the point is, she might have been.
“When I had my stroke at age 20, I was already trying to cut down smoking due to health reasons.
However, it was too late as I already had the attack before I could stop,” says Vigay-indran.
That is why it is better is you stop early. You never know when you’ll suffer the consequences.