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Saturday, March 10, 2007
10 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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After 27 years of chain smoking, I last had a cigarette on 1/6/07. Some folk have called me cranky, which is prolly true. Fuck 'em, food is tasting great.
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3/10/07, 4:56 PM
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Dr.Hardcrab said...
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I quit 5 weeks ago (today) after 35 years. Not for health reasons or anything. I just got tired of the smell on my clothes and in my vehicles all the time. Plus the cost.
Now I still enjoy a good cigar every now and then.....
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3/10/07, 5:14 PM
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Anonymous said...
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I went to the gym at my university yesterday for the first time. After farting around with the weight machines, I got on the treadmill. There were 4 or 5 smoking hot chicks on elliptical machines right behind me, working out at a frenetic pace. I tried 2 mph at first, thinking, "This is easy!" Hmph. I put my finger on the increase speed button and kicked it up to 7 mph.
I'm 6'4", so I have a fairly long stride...longer than the treadmill platform. I tried to step off to the side, missed, and got forcefully ejected to an area immediately in front of the babes. As I lay there on the floor, writhing in agony, the girls just kept exercizing. I gathered myself up and quietly exited.
Treadmills are evil devices. That cartoon made me re-live the trauma. *sniff*
skh -
3/10/07, 5:46 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Oh, yeah. My mom and her boyfriend are both of the smokes now, after over a hundred years of smoking (between them, I guess I should add).
One word: Chantix. I didn't believe that it would work, but it does.
skh -
3/10/07, 5:48 PM
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Anonymous said...
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Smoked for over 30 years. Ran out one day ... thought I had a carton,but the damned thing was empty. Rainin. Shit! Wife had the car, so I wuz gonna hafta walk to the Commissary and back. Figured, "Who the fletch is in charge here, me or the weed!" Besides, the cost had just gone up to over $6/carton (this was 1985, BTW).
So I quit. Hell, after 30 years' practice I prob'ly wouldn't get much better at it anyhow. Discovered just how great a cook my wife really is ... food actually had more flavors than salt, sweet, pepper, and vinegar.
After a few weeks I could tell who smoked and who didn't, how long ago somebody had smoked one, whether it was menthol or not, American or European, and whether the cigar cost more than I'd care to spend for a cheeseburger.
How the hell my family put up with me all those years I'll never understand. Not a crusader, don't rail at people for smoking, but I wish to hell it'd never been invented.
Nobody has smoked in my house or cars now for 22 years. Cuts way back on the upholstery cleanin, paintin, and all that. Second best idea I ever had, quittin. -
3/10/07, 6:45 PM
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Christopher said...
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I quit cold turkey four years ago. The key was that I didn't try to stop wanting to smoke; I decided to stop allowing myself to feel agitated about it. So when a craving hit me I stopped arguing with it, which was a battle I had always eventually lost. Instead, I told myself that my craving was pointless and to stop focusing on it: "STFU! Next!" It was the Dr. Dennis Leary school of addiction management.
Now, I'm surprised that I ever smoked. It seems so alien to me, whereas before it was a major part of my life. -
3/10/07, 10:48 PM
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hotspur666 said...
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Many airplane crashes where traced
to nicotine corroding the pressure
vessel around the outflow valve...
Which then exploded when worn too thin.
And I remember hauling 80 giant Brahma
bulls over the Atlantic on a diesel eight...
The extreme humidity was more
than the said outflow valves could handle,
so, the nicotine accumulated in
56,000 hours of pax hauling started to melt on the airframe of the
cockpit...black goo dripping on our heads like an overturned spittoon...
(Most crews used to chain smoke see-gars in the good old days...) -
3/11/07, 1:08 AM
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Anonymous said...
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I dip at least 2 cans of Copenhagen a day, which is a ridiculously expensive habit. Tthere is 1.2 ounces of ground-up tobacco in each can, and I pay ~$5 a can. I suspect the gubmint gets the lion's share of the profit. I need to quit, pronto.
skh -
3/11/07, 3:15 AM
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Anonymous said...
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My Aunt and Uncle smoked heavily for 25 years. Then one day in the late 70s for reasons he still won't fess up to my Uncle quit. After several months of nagging my Aunt to quit also she mentioned one day that she wanted a new car. He told her as she was lighting up, throw that cigarette away and don't touch another one for one year and I'll buy you any car you want.
She did it.
He lucked out that she settled for a Olds Cutlass. That could have been a very expensive offer to make.
I always wondered what kind of hell my Uncle went through quitting a 25 year habit cold turkey while living in the same house as a two pack a day smoker. -
3/11/07, 3:17 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Had a Partagas Serie D No. 4 last night after dinner. An occasional cigar is truly one of the few pure pleasures in my life.
Cigarettes stink.
MM -
3/11/07, 11:22 AM
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