CDC: Tips From Former Smokers - Marie W.’s Story

Marie talks about discovering she had Buerger's disease, an illness caused by smoking, and its effects on her life in this video from CDC's _Tips From Former Smokers_ ® ( _Tips_ ® ) campaign.

[LauraWilson]

"I chose to smoke." She owned up to it, and that's good.

[tazmanstarfighter]

My mouth dropped when I saw her poor foot. I'm loosing it when I stub a toe. Never smoked. Glad I never started. If you smoke, please stop. Dad died miserable life for last three years. On oxygen, no lung capacity, shrank from 6'1 to 5'2. Big guy got smaller. I couldn't believe it. I was taller than him. Please people, please stop if you are get the help-your county health department is PAID by the smoking companies for FREE 24/7 help...all free: patches, gum, anything you need to succeed. It works! Just call--get started TODAY.  U can stop your suffering in the future. You don't want to go thru this. Still crying for dad. Grandkids miss him badly.  He's been gone since 2006:( 

[xheathermichelle]

It amazes me how many people STILL choose to smoke even with all the information we know about it, and look at these people sharing their personal experiences from smoking. It blows my mind, and I don't understand WHY anyone would want/continue to smoke!

[thedivas]

I just hate seeing people spend money on death.

[CDC]

We appreciate your concern regarding this issue. Banning tobacco products would be an issue for Congress, not a federal agency. CDC works to educate the public on how to prevent disease and lead longer, healthier lives. This campaign encourages smokers to quit by raising awareness of the human suffering caused by smoking and providing access to resources to help smokers quit.

[lovepinkgirl]

This is sad and heart breaking to watch, but I want to encourage everyone to NOT smoke and live a long, beautiful, and healthy life!

[aubreyshamir]

I'm doing a speech on the effects of smoking and hopefully I can show my classmates what smoking really does to you, thanks to the information I have found and seen.

[teex]

my dad used to smoke and he told me that it was very difficult for him to quit smoking but the reason he stopped smoking was for me. I think parents who smoke should take a second thought if they want to see their kids grow.

[clivervargas]

I hate when people are smoking do you guys agree

[CDC]

Encourage your mother to quit smoking and remind her that it may be the most effective thing she can do to improve life expectancy. It will benefit not only her health, but others as well by eliminating secondhand smoke. We know it’s not easy to quit, but there are resources available. For free help, she can call 1-800-QUIT-NOW and speak with a trained cessation counselor or visit women.smokefree.gov.

[GoHardHome]

People smoke cigarettes most of the time to psychologically cope with the situations of the day, even knowing that cancer is a certainty in the future. After this knowledge, its definitely going to lower the statistics down by a lot. Life will be crap, but it will NEVER compare to having to live with the regret of continuing to smoke to cope, everytime you'll have to eyeball your missing limbs every morning, when you made the right decision. This is reality, not a game, a dream or a movie.

[Msqueen]

Out of all the potentially lifelong habits that you could pick up, out of all the things you could start doing, out of everything you could possibly do with your body, why pick tobacco?

[michelleluvsmonsters]

Bless her, coming on this commercial. That disease looks atrocious to live with!

[hollidioso]

I support your cause to help people quit smoking by showing them why it's harmful not just having an ad saying ''don't smoke'' keep up the dedication

[francoisschubert]

Me too. If I have kids and they think about smoking, I kust refer back to this

This made me want to cry cause my friend smokes and she's 17, I don't know how to make her understands she'll become addicted if not already :, (

[Mrtone]

I was diagnosed in 2015 came close to losing a toe thankfully I didn't I quit smoking its been 2 years now it was still hard to quit at first even knowing I had the disease

[Deeredman]

Not to mention an outright ban on smoking would just cause another prohibition. You have to make people want to quit, you can't just try to force it. That will just drive them deeper into it.

[TheLastnd]

I'm watching every single one of these videos to finally convince myself to smoke. I don't have enough willpower to do so on my own. ='[

[omislash]

I've been smoking for at least 6 years and I know that's not long to some but to me that's along time well I had a hard time trying to quit once I've began to notice I'm close to a pack a day I told myself that I need to quit so now its been 4 days since my last cigarette