cigarettes and toxicity

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I had an experience recently that embarrasses me even to mention, but

hopefully in revealing my stupidity, it will just confirm further the

extreme toxicity of cigarettes.

I have been known, on the occassion to sometimes have a smoke. I am

not a " smoker " , but I enjoy the odd one (say on a friday night with

my cousin). I may have one or two. NOt good, as yes it does not

make me feel too hot.

Well, other than this, no smokes at all. However, on my birthday

about 6 weeks ago, I had a smoke and got carried away. And instead

of having one or two smokes and leaving it at that, I had to be a

smoked the entire packet (in one day). Well, the reactions from

this have been going on now for nearly 6 whole weeks.

I have been extremely sick and really hate to even tell anybody

because I am embarrassed over it and no I definitely do not deseve

sympathy for that one. But to suffer six weeks non stop? Does show

my body has a major problem eliminating toxins and cannot seem to do

so, even though I am on the candida diet.

I do not know which one of the cigarette toxins is mostly responsible

for what has happened. I can tell you that these have been my

symptoms - severe nausea, abdominal cramping, muscle spasms (tics),

worse depression, crying/salivating uncontrollably, worse anxiety and

panic attacks, itching inside the nose and a strange prickling

sensation as well (I have no idea what that is, but i've had it

before when exposed to toxins). I also developed night sweats, but

they haven't lasted. The rest have.

I don't know anybody that would have this go on for six weeks like

this, it sounds insane, but I can only put it down to the cigarettes,

as I don't know what else it could be (I've not done anything else)...

Some people try to make out there are benefits to smoking, like

increasing glutathione and it helps avoid these old age mental

disease (probably because it kills them before they get there). I

don't know what to think of those things....but I do know this, my

experience tells me that at the very least, the modern day cigarettes

should be avoided at all costs.

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> I was thinking about this just today. I once heard someone

speaking on a radio show that had been mercury toxic to the point

that she lost a lot of her mental abilities and her memory (much like

I was before I started chelation). She made the point that some

people with mercury poisoning don't get sick and some people who

smoke cigarretes don't get sick the way she did. It's when you have

mercury fillings and smoke that you can get really sick. What I have

read somewhere is that the cadmium drives the copper deeper into the

body tissues. I can't remember where I read this. I was thinking

that if the mercury causes the mineral derangement that prevents you

from excreting the copper and that the cadmium and the copper is

really what screws us up so bad. I was like you. Started smoking

cigarettes in my late thirties and thought it would be the same as

when I was a teenager and smoked for a couple of years. It was the

same time that my fillings were getting old and needing replaced. I

was driving my truck each day smoking cigarettes and eating candy

bars.

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