Today's Thoughts 30 Aug 2007 06:27 pm
Today’s Thoughts [Thursday 8/30/07]
“One thing that we humans do very well is to defend ourselves psychologically, and our most potent weapon is denial. But when confronted with a terminal disease, denial flies out of the window. We have to find another defense.”
If we are smokers, and lung or throat cancer is diagnosed, denial is replaced with a sense of shame and/or guilt…For many, smoking after being told that they have a life-threatening illness is their way of saying: “I did it my way, I don’t regret it and I am still in control.â€
— Professor Robert WestÂ
Director of tobacco studies at Cancer Research UK
