Mel Gibson says he smoked for 45 years and one book made him quit for good.
Gibson says he'd tried to quit countless times, but nothing worked.
Then his son handed him a copy of The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.
At first, he ignored it.
> "I used to walk past the bookshelf and go, 'Dumb book, dumb title.'"
Everything changed after his doctor told him he had early-stage emphysema.
So he finally read it.
> "I read the book and I stopped."
Gibson says the book didn't rely on fear or guilt.
Instead, it used simple psychological techniques that completely changed the way he thought about smoking.
> "The whole thing was a mind trick... but it worked."
He says it remains the only thing that ever helped him quit after more than four decades of smoking.
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Surgeon Chen Jingyu Lung Transplantation Team rejected a pair of lungs from a 52-year-old brain-dead donor due to severe, tar-like blackening, mild emphysema, bullae, and tuberculosis calcification.
The organs, damaged by 30 years of chain-smoking, were deemed unfit for transplant, highlighting the severe damage tobacco causes.
A cab driver in India firmly stands up for basic respect and his workspace after a passenger lights a cigarette inside the vehicle without asking.
Driver: "Sir, did you ask me before lighting that? Smoking isn't allowed in my car."
Passenger: "Why should I ask? It's a taxi, not your personal car."
Driver: Cancels the ride immediately. "I don't want your money. Please get out. I'm a professional taxi driver, not your servant."
Day 30...Bad habits are nothing but the compulsion of human mind, one can change it slowly... Nicotine free continues..#smoking#quitting#quittingsmoking
“You must always accept compliments that come your way as you are complimented only by 10% ppl for only 10% of your work bcoz 90% of the times ppl will never compliment you for either they are jealous of you / feel intimidated by your persona / they just don’t have the grace”
Brazil lost to Norway in 2026 World Cup. I'm remembering the Brazil team of 1970, The Greatest Football Team ever with the legendary players Pelé, Jairzinho, Alberto Carlos, Tostão, Everaldo, Clodoaldo, Brito, Gérson and Rivellino ⚽️
The Father Who Fought another Kargil :-
Captain Anuj Nayyar sacrificed his life for India in Kargil and was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra. But the real shame began after his Balidan.
His father, Prof. Satish (S.K.) Nayyar, had to wage a years-long battle against bureaucratic corruption just to obtain the petrol pump sanctioned to the family. Instead of gratitude, he faced red tape, delays and demands for bribes. He refused to give in and fought the system with the same resolve his son showed on the battlefield.
Captain Anuj's fiancée also made an extraordinary personal sacrifice, choosing never to marry and dedicating herself to his memory.
Their story inspired the film "Dhoop"—A powerful reminder that while our soldiers defeat the enemy at the border, their families are too often left to fight corruption and apathy at home.
A Nation truly honours its Veer Balidanis not just with medals, but by ensuring their families never have to battle the very system their loved ones died protecting.
Jai Hind
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21 soldiers.
Around 10,000 enemy fighters.
And not one of them ran.
This is the story of Saragarhi, and most Indians were never taught it.
It was 12 September 1897, on a rocky ridge on the North West Frontier, in what is now Pakistan.
Saragarhi was a small army post. It carried signals between two British forts that could not see each other.
It was held by 21 Sikh soldiers of the 36th Sikhs, led by Havildar Ishar Singh.
That morning, between 10,000 and 14,000 Afghan tribesmen came to destroy it.
21 men against an army.
One soldier, Sepoy Gurmukh Singh, climbed the signal tower and flashed a message to the nearest fort using mirrors and sunlight. Enemy here. Send help.
The answer came back. No help can reach you. Hold.
They were told they would die. They stayed anyway.
For over six hours, 21 men held off thousands. They fired until their hands burned. They fought at the walls, then hand to hand when the wall broke open.
Gurmukh Singh signalled every moment of it, until he was the last man alive. Then he put down the mirror, picked up his rifle, and died fighting.
All 21 were killed. But they had held long enough to save both forts and break the attack.
Every one of them was given the Indian Order of Merit, the highest honour an Indian soldier could receive at the time.
Their names were Ishar Singh, Gurmukh Singh, Lal Singh, Bhagwan Singh, and seventeen more.
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His name was Dashrath Manjhi.
For twenty two years he broke a mountain apart with a hammer and a chisel. Alone. Because that mountain killed his wife.
He was born in 1934 in Gehlaur, a small village near Gaya in Bihar.
He belonged to the Musahar community, one of the poorest and most looked down upon communities in India. He worked as a daily wage labourer.
His village had one cruel problem.
A steep rocky hill cut it off from the nearest town. To reach a doctor, people had to travel all the way around it, a journey of about 55 kilometres.
In 1959, his wife Falguni Devi was hurt near that hill.
Help was too far away. She died before she could reach a doctor.
He decided no one else would lose someone the way he lost her.
So he picked up a hammer and a chisel, and he started breaking the mountain.
People called him mad. He kept going.
He worked on that hill every single day for twenty two years. He sold his goats to buy tools. Slowly, a few villagers began to help.
By 1982, he had carved a road straight through the hill. About 110 metres long. Wide enough for people to pass.
The journey around the mountain dropped from about 55 kilometres to about 15.
A single man with hand tools had done what the government never did.
He asked for nothing.
The proper paved road over his path was finally built only after he died in 2007.
Today he is remembered as the Mountain Man.
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