OT: PING ex-smokers

I thought you would like it. I'm still considering a rewrite, doesn't flow as nice as I'd like it to.

Wes

It's like a little radiation. Slightly pregnant. I'll only stick it in a little way. This will only hurt a little.

What is is, what ain't ain't.

Steve

A friend who was a four pack a dayer was told by his doctor during an ER visit for something else, - "One more cigarette and it'll be your LAST one". The scare did the trick and he never lit up again.

Another friend quit cold in 1983, but did switch to a cigar or two a day.

A relative, at age 45, coughed a bit too much one morning and decided that was it - had smoked for 30 years.

Another friend saw the brown sludge on a ledge where ppl put their sneaked smoke in the ladies room, saw the sign which said This is what your lungs look like - and quit cold.

Another friend's granddaughter said 'Gramma, you smell awful' and claims that did it for her.

I read a book called Smoke Free at Last - opened my eyes to the hazards of smoking. I wasn't a heavy smoker, and don't think I was addicted. I adopted the attitude that, instead of feeling deprived, I was free of the burden of smoking.

That might be a good attitude for quitter to adopt. (nobody likes a quitter)

Rather than quiting, we are free of the addiction.

Got that monkey off my back!

Now you just have to deal with the 600 pound machine tool gorilla!

I smoked three packs of unfiltered Camels a day for 15 years. Had my last one in the summer of 1984. I used the nicotine gum for a few weeks, and it certainly helped (also tasted like licking an ashtray). I also went for long walks without my cigarettes, and went to movies without them as well.

A very big thing that helped was that I moved into a new house a few weeks later, and I have NEVER smoked in this house.

Now the bad news: It's been 25 years and I STILL have the desire to smoke. Sometimes when I'm working, I find myself reaching into my pocket looking for a smoke. I guess that will never stop. It's 7:05pm. I still have time for half a pack before bed.

One thing I know for sure is that I must never smoke a single cigarette again, unless I'm prepared to start the whole thing over. Anyone who says that tobacco isn't addictive is simply full of shit.

I've been known to say that I'm waiting for the day that I get diagnosed with a surely fatal but otherwise asymptomatic disease so that I can start smoking again.

sheesh.

Less than that now that the feds are raising cigarette taxes.

Cigarette smokers must be the highest paid people in the US. Cause Obama said he would not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.

Dan