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Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« on: Jun 19th, 2003, 11:38am » |
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Poll time! 
Did anyone's mom smoke cigarettes while she was pregnant with you?
Perhaps a correlation, perhaps not...
Just curious...
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #1 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 11:48am » |
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My mom usually only smokes when she's on fire ;D
but yes for what it's worth, she did smoke when she was pregnant w/me.
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #2 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 12:00pm » |
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My mom smoked about 3 cigarettes in her whole lifetime. But then, that's probably one of the rare exceptions, otherwise smoking is to blame for everything. 
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #3 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 12:06pm » |
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My mom has NEVER smoked in her life.
Nice try --- who knows... it could be something else that easy,
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #4 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 12:12pm » |
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Ok... disclaimer time...
Not trying to blame smoking here, but if it is a cause of this bastard ailment I would like to see that written on the packs of cigarettes here in the US "Surgeon Generals warning, smoking during pregnancy can cause your child to have the most severe pain known to mankind".
I myself am a smoker. But yes, smoking does cause some birth defects, and I am currently researching if there has been any studies on Smoking and the development/mal-development of the hypothalamus gland of an unborn child.
I just thought I would get some sort of % from the board as to if their mothers were smokers during the pregnancy. Perhaps it will save some research time. Who knows.
Thanks Jim, Ueli, & Grant for your responses so far 
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #5 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 12:55pm » |
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Yes, my mother smoked Pall Mall's until the day I was born.
"My God!" she screamed. "Look what those stinkin', expensive, addictive, birth-defect causin' cancer sticks did to my beautiful baby. He looks like he's having a migraine."
She quit the smokes and sued the bastards. Today I still have headaches but I have them in the Bentley or on the yacht.
 I'm just kidding. I don't really have a Bentley.
But Yes, she did smoke then.
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #6 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 12:56pm » |
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Glad to help save you time in research.
Since I was born during WWII in an occupied country where ordinary foodstuffs were at a premium, or non-existent, I'd be curious to know what my mom was supposed to use for smokes. Tulip bulb floss maybe?
People all around us were eating tulip bulbs at the time -cooked, grated into meal for cakes or boiled into a sickly syrup. Luckily I was too little to eat the stuff.
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #7 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 1:04pm » |
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great another thing I can blame on my mother, yes she did, and a bunch too, from what I understand...
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #8 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 1:07pm » |
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"My God!" she screamed. "Look what those stinkin', expensive, addictive, birth-defect causin' cancer sticks did to my beautiful baby. He looks like he's having a migraine." |
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OMG, you are such a smartass ;D I love it!
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #9 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 2:17pm » |
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Mom had 4 kids and smoked the whole time, 2 packs a day. I picked it up myself at 16 and quit when I was 27. I figure I smoked for 28 years total. I am 36 now.
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #10 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 2:26pm » |
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I suffered severe misdiagnosed bouts of CH for over twenty years from ages 30-55. I have been free of any episodes since about 1990. I left a high stress executive job as a basket case. Along the way, I stopped drinking and smoking and had ENT surgery to remove grossly enlarged turbinates from my nose and sinus areas. I have taken all of the CH drugs available during those times and gained some relief from Verapamil and wafting oxygen. I really believe that smoking and drinking were significant contributing factors in my illness. I also eliminated caffeine from my diet as I had been a heavy coffee drinker. I was also a chocoholic. Anyway, my dad was a heavy smoker but my mother never smoked. My mom was a heavy drinker and my dad was a teetotler. Go figure! I still fear that my long period of recovery is not necessarily permanent. I take it one day at a time and have never forgotten the excrutiating pain that I suffered during many, many episodes during the years that the beast ruled my life. God bless all who suffer from this monster. I feel a kinship with each and every one.
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #11 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 2:48pm » |
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My mom smoked and I had cluster headaches for 28 years, but I did not smoke when pregnant, and my son has cluster headaches.
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #12 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 2:52pm » |
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Interesting, another topic... can problems from smoking while pregnant continue through the generations? Hrmm..... 
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #13 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 2:57pm » |
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I think it can. If the mother smokes while pregnant the baby is also getting the smoke. I believe the baby can become addicted before birth. Once addicted, always addicted and the baby may take up the habit later in life.
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #14 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 3:10pm » |
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my mother smoked when she was pregnant.
I also have a dyslexic/hyperactive brother.
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #15 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 3:13pm » |
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Nope, mom never has smoked. Dad smoked from about age 13-30 and gave it up cold-turkey when I was 7 or 8 years old. (He had two of his older brothers have heart attacks within a month of each other - scared the **** out of him)
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #16 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 3:48pm » |
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Yup my mommie smoked while she was prego with me. Shame on her.
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #17 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 4:39pm » |
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Yes....but in 1960 smoking was still good for you!
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« Reply #18 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 4:47pm » |
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Love the Pall Mall ad. Yes, my mother smoked at the time of my gestation and for years thereafter. Presumably she also smoked during my brother's cook cycle, but although he gets occasional migraines he doesn't get clusters. However, since he's a Zen Buddhist chocoholic, nothing much bothers him.
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #19 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 5:07pm » |
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My mom has never smoked ........ oh, she might have smoked about 10 cigs back in the 40's before I was born. Anyways, 11 brothers and sisters ......... I am the only one with clusters. I think my mom should have gotten them after having 12 kids but what do I know ?????????????
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #20 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 5:23pm » |
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If smoking causes CH, there would be a helluva lot of clusterheads....
.... and I wouldn't be one of them ;D
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #21 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 5:50pm » |
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My mom smoked while pregnant with me.
Doesn't appear to be any correlation though *sigh*
We'll find it eventually
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #22 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 7:04pm » |
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Seems to be another one of those 50/50 stats... damn! Well I'll keep thinking of stupid questions and bugging the crap out of all of ya until we find a reason... my personal mission and vendetta towards the beast.
Thanks all for participating in my little survey. If more people would like to let me know, please do ;D
Thanks again everyone ;D ;D
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #23 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 7:58pm » |
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on Jun 19th, 2003, 3:10pm, vig wrote:my mother smoked when she was pregnant.
I also have a dyslexic/hyperactive brother.
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yeah vig..me too..his name is:
jonny
and HIS brother is named:
don
and HIS problem is:
STFUD!
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Re: Another "I'm Just Curious" Survey
« Reply #24 on: Jun 19th, 2003, 9:57pm » |
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Here ya go kids:
Mom smoked from 1930 to 1987 when she died. She smoked a little less than a pack of unfiltered Camels a day most of the time and had a couple drinks every week, right through her pregnancy. Dad smoked Camels too. Come to think of it, of his 18 employees, 17 smoked, including me. Our poor bookkeeper. Things were different in 1946. My twin sister never formed and I’m told it was incredibly rare that one would survive. Your guess is as good as mine.
I developed CH in 1969 when I was 23 and quit smoking in 1980 when I was 34. My Ch hung on for 11 years after quitting and ended in 1991. What that means, I have no idea. It may have something to do with epilepsy medication but I cannot prove it because nothing had changed at the time.
We lack anything definitive about smoking and CH although board members smoke at about twice the national average. This does not mean that Chers do. I have some serious doubts about it. It isn't good for you, costs a bloody fortune and makes life more complicated every day--Especially in New York State.
Sorry for the tome. I got carried away.
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