smoking ciggies
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I used to smoke a pack a day up to about 20 years ago. I had wanted to quit for some time, but just was not doing it. One morning, on the way to work, as I lit up my first cigarette of the morning and took the first puff, I took it from lips and threw it out the window, then I reached for the pack and threw that out the window as well.
I have not bought another pack since then. I do however smoke a cigarette now and then......less than one a month, but I started smoking cigars (avg. 5 a week) since about 10 years ago.
I have not bought another pack since then. I do however smoke a cigarette now and then......less than one a month, but I started smoking cigars (avg. 5 a week) since about 10 years ago.
Hey, whatever works. I'll admit to being a redneck-copenhagen chewing-derelict until about 2 months ago. I used the patch and it's working so far.
I chewed Kodiak about 3 cans a week, from the age of 18-28. When we had out first baby about 41/2 years ago I quit cold turkey. About a year ago I took 1 big dip and just about turned green. Haven't done it since, and after the last episode have no desire.
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D Chapman
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I started smoking when I was 11 and I finally quite when I was 24-25.. I smoked about 1 1/2 - 2 packs a day ( 3 if I was out drinking all night ) for at least 8 of those years.. I quit while I was out drinking one night by putting out my cig and then crushing the rest of the pack.. Once I had started smoking menthols to make my throat feel better from smoking too many normal cigs I knew it was time to freaking stop smoking.. I had quit cold turkey and it was hard, very, very hard... Hell, even now 10 years later I still want a cig some times.. I gained lots of weight when I quit but, I saw that as being better then still smoking.. I still have the weight ( about 50 pounds over still ) but, to me it was worth it.. Although in the last 6 or so years I have taken up cigar smoking on a social basis.. I don't inhale them but, I do smoke 3 or 4 a month when out drinking or camping by the fire.. The difference is though that I don't need, or have to smoke them.. I have gone months without smoking a cigar and it doesn't bother me..
I will say that quiting cigs was the hardest thing that I have ever done and the only way to quit is to really, really, want to quit.. All the gimicks in the world aren't going to help unless you really have your mind set on it.. Also, you'll realize just how bad you smell to other folks that don't smoke.. To me nothing smells worse then my clothes the next day after being at a smoke filled bar the night before..
I will say that quiting cigs was the hardest thing that I have ever done and the only way to quit is to really, really, want to quit.. All the gimicks in the world aren't going to help unless you really have your mind set on it.. Also, you'll realize just how bad you smell to other folks that don't smoke.. To me nothing smells worse then my clothes the next day after being at a smoke filled bar the night before..
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I used to dip about 4 or 5 cans a week of Kodiak, Grizzley, Copen hagen or skoal. One night after partying and drinking all night I woke up and was going to get my morning dip and couldn't take the taste. I spit it out, and threw my can of dip away. That was the last week of february and now its the end of october and i have not touched it since. I do smoke cigs once in a while especially when im drinking. Cold turkey is the hardest but best way to go IMO.
I smoked in college, mostly on a social basis or on the long drive home (VA-MS). Then smoked more when I was a waitress/server b/c of getting 'breaks'.....stopped once I graduated. I now smoke once a year at MAR (camping, drinking, hanging around with 'the guys' brings it back), and maybe 1 or 2 times other than that if I'm at a bar and craving one. If I ever have kids, I'll never do it. Can't stand smoking in my car, around kids or around animals. I'm just not an addictive-type person I guess. I can turn it on/off when I want.
PS And I only smoke additive-free, natural tobacco cigs, (at least that is what the label says).
PS And I only smoke additive-free, natural tobacco cigs, (at least that is what the label says).
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I am 33 smoking will more than likely kill me but I am not going to sue. I myself and others know that smoking is not good for us. Just like a cheese burger from Mcdonalds.
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I was in Kadena, very horizontally involved with this Air Force C130 mech. Wow, I thought she is making some racket, Semper Fi! Then I realized it wasn't her, it was me. I could still run 3 miles in under 18, but I was wheezing. WHEEZING!
I loaded up the next day on an LST out of White Beach headed for Korea. Pure vanity made me quit, I wan't going to wheeze. I was sitting in the commander's cupola of an amtrac, we had just popped the hatches after driving of the stern ramp of an underway LST. I lit my last cigarette, smoked it to the filter and then flipped in to the sea. I looked at my radio operator old Lance Corporal Thompson and said, "I just quit smoking, you know what that means?" "Yeah, if I don't give you a cigarette when you ask for one I'll get my ass kicked, and if I give you a cigarette when you ask for one, I get my ass kicked."
Yep he was a fine Marine, and correct.
Since then, beyond the odd cigar, I haven't smoked in 20 years.
I loaded up the next day on an LST out of White Beach headed for Korea. Pure vanity made me quit, I wan't going to wheeze. I was sitting in the commander's cupola of an amtrac, we had just popped the hatches after driving of the stern ramp of an underway LST. I lit my last cigarette, smoked it to the filter and then flipped in to the sea. I looked at my radio operator old Lance Corporal Thompson and said, "I just quit smoking, you know what that means?" "Yeah, if I don't give you a cigarette when you ask for one I'll get my ass kicked, and if I give you a cigarette when you ask for one, I get my ass kicked."
Yep he was a fine Marine, and correct.
Since then, beyond the odd cigar, I haven't smoked in 20 years.
Technically I suppose I started smoking when I was 12. However, as the child of a two parents who smoked, I suppose I really started in utero - or in the words of Mark Twain, I was "Born asking for a light." By college I was up to 1-1/2 packs a day. Plus one pack at night if I went to a bar. Quit when I was 36. Patches helped. Four years later I really do feel better (especially in the morning with no smokers hack) However; if my doctor ever tells me I have pancreatic cancer or something else terminal, I will immediately go out and buy a carton of Marlboro's.
Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.
It satisfies no normal need. I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen.
I like it.
~Graham Lee Hemminger, Tobacco
cheers,
Ted
Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.
It satisfies no normal need. I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen.
I like it.
~Graham Lee Hemminger, Tobacco
cheers,
Ted