My father started smoking at 19 yrs of age. And for many years thereon until he was in his 40s. He had tuberculosis at the age of 40 and stopped smoking at age 42 , by just going cold turkey, stopping completely in less than few weeks. We give him candy to chew and his three daughters would remind him to stop smoking.
At age 63 when he arrived in the USA, a last stage terminal lung cancer was discovered via CAT and MRI scan. We opted for no chemo and radiation and he went home to the Philippines. He had two oxygen tanks beside him and received massages when the cancer turned into bone cancer, the most painful cancer of all. He described it as being in hell on earth.
He consumed many fresh squeeze juices of green papaya that prolonged his life to 7 more months from the diagnosis of 3months to live by his doctors in the USA.
When my son was offered a cigarette at age of 17 during the last year in high school, he said to his classmates that he don’t smoke and when asked what does he do, he said I only play computer games.
Many researches point to low birth weight babies or newborns from mothers who were smoking and those smoking illegal drugs are prone to blue babies, the baby die at birth.
Smoking is believed to help reduce weight and many other assumptions. But smoking drives away many important nutrients in the body especially Vitamin C, A, B, D and E. Even electronic cigars have side effects.
It takes more than 5 months to clean up or detox your body from smoking but it can be done. We should never make stress an excuse for smoking.
Spare yourself from the pain of other cancers and side effects of stroke and other cardiovascular diseases as a result of smoking.
Most of all, save those around you, babies and women and young people.
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My dad’s lung cancer can also be traced to his working at places like copper and nickel mining, asbestos factory and as car mechanic. My auntie who puts the lighted black ashes of the cigar inside her mouth, died of lung cancer at 70.
Published by connie dello buono
Connie Dello Buono is based in Sunnyvale California. Her first ebook is about women's health, Birthing Ways Healing Ways and her recent one is about cancer prevention, Curated Healing Ways. She had helped women have holistic childbirth as childbirth educator, founded Motherhealth, to serve seniors in the bay area with holistic caregivers and blogs at www.clubalthea.com with more than 10,000 health and finance related posts.
Connie trains her own caregivers, which are the favorites of most bay area seniors who are home bound and alone.
She is active in the rehab and nursing facilities, volunteering on music and movement for seniors.
She is a member of Lion's club and offered scholarships to students in the Philippines.
She is active at churchinsunnyvale.us and has Fridays Bible home study in Sunnyvale using the recovery version of the Bible , free at biblesforamerica.us
She loves dancing and teaching and her courses can be found at
https://teachclub.com/@thriveafter60
She is California Life Insurance licensed providing life insurance for older adults with health issues and helping women retire safely with income for life.
at menloassetca.com , she helps with 401k rollover.
3 Benefit plans
- Mortgage protection using term life insurance to pay for mortgage balance in event of death
- Final Expense plan using Single Issue Whole Life Insurance, with cash back, disability benefit and guaranteed in the presence of health issues
- Fixed Index Annuity retirement plan for safe, accessibility, less fees, less taxes, avoids probate as it goes directly to beneficiaries, rate of return with no downside market participation.
She brings compassion and understanding to the needs of her clients, bringing holistic approach in health and life insurance. Her goal is to free families from worries especially during covid with caregivers and life insurance in the presence of health issues, especially for women.
She can be reached at 408-854-1883 , motherhealth@gmail.com
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