Today,
let me introduce a couple of anti-smoking groups. The first one is
NicotineBusters
(http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/NicotineBusters/), which
is an on-line group of challengers trying to stop smoking and break
free from the addiction.
According to the description, NicotineBusters offers many helpful
files and links so that
participants share information and encouragement to achieve their
goal of staying non-smokers.
Although this group focuses on proper ways to stop smoking, I'm sure
I will get sufficient
information. For example, I can learn how addictive smoking is by
reading stories written
by former smokers. Besides, NicotineBusters has 1437 members, which
are not too few or
too many compared with other groups, and it was established 12 years
ago, so I feel this group is
reliable and trustworthy. Even though NicotineBusters requires
membership to check messages,
I expect no spams in this group because it is moderated to keep a
high quality of help. For
these reasons, I believe NicotineBusters develops a good relationship
with users.
The
second one is quitsmoking(http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/quitsmoking/), whose purpose is literally to help smokers
quit smoking. In this
group, participants discuss issues concerning cigarettes, mainly
nicotine addiction, and methods
of giving them up. Quitsmoking also provides us with a large-scale
Website containing over
150 pages. Therefore, I think this group will be a good source of
information. In fact, quitsmoking
is composed of 3474 members, so the email volume is fairly high with
hundreds of messages
a day. However, as far as I've checked, there were no spams in this
group although it is
not moderated. Since it was created 13 years ago, quitsmoking has
been the place where those who
try to give up smoking encourage one another. Now, I'll explain some
recent conversation in
this group, which is about a lucky guy who gave up smoking.
The
master of the thread gave up smoking two years ago and asked his
physician for
prescription
for a lung CT scan due to his smoking history. It came back
“abnormal”, that is, if
he
had continued smoking he would probably be dead now. By posting his
experience, he made
us
realize how dangerous smoking is considering latent damage. In fact,
there were several
comments
answering, “you are a lucky guy” or “I became afraid of
smoking” and so on.
Yuki Taniguchi
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