back to spotlight on al gore and often just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is dr richard basham a sock i well know a lot of surgeon transfer intelligence. now we both as we find out a minute ago have been smokers and we both quit so we both know a lot lots of legends and stereotypes about smoking not smoking well i'll mention some of them and you comment well of course you heard these things about my grandfather that living somewhere in georgia and the highland smoked and drank who had wine and lived lived up to the hundred and twelve years south which means smoking is good but another serious thing is that many people including me when i quit. at least for six or eight months i felt awful is it true that for a person who has been smoking for twenty thirty years it may be harmful to to quit nicotine which becomes part of the of the functioning of these organism. i don't think so of course you have a lot of versa facts when you quit smoking that is all the. addictive effects your body's missing something and this leads to several symptoms but all these symptoms are functional sym