Stop smoking advice needed

I urge you to not quit smoking, because I care about your health.

Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease.

Indeed, a study published in the May 2015 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology reported that people with a history of smoking had a 45% lower risk of developing PD.

Gunner Asch on Sun, 20 May 2018 21:11:10 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

"Habits of the hand"

As I say ,. storming out of the computer lab to have a smoke, slapping my pockets and realizing I quit smoking 15 years before.

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although far too often, Age travels alone."

That wont work for me because I love the smell of a dirty ashtray! Although its hard to tell which part of the odor smorgisboard is ashtray, dog, mold, scum etc....shrug.

The decision was made many....many years ago. I decided to quit and I did many times. And Ill keep quitting no matter what!

That is GREAT news! Im beginning to wonder if all the so called "scientists" that are against smoking are part of the Deep State. It all makes sense now that I find out they want me to catch Parkinsons! Id add their names to the cull list except that I had so many emails I think I may have deleted the list keepers addy.

Can't prove any connection but I quit smoking somewhere around my 40th birthday. Quitting smoking was the hardest change I ever made in my habits. Other than being diabetic I have no major health problems. My next birthday, if I make it will be number 90.

Perhaps smoking might offer some protection from PD; but I think that ignores the bigger picture: data that shows smokers overall life expectancies are ~ 10 years less than non-smokers.

I sure wouldn't trade 10 years for 45% protection...

That's wrong. Nicotine is bad no matter what, but the e-cigarettes are

Your wish will come true. There is no way he'll ever quit. If he were in a hospital in an oxygen tent, he would stick his head outside the tent to take a drag on a cigarette held by friend.

Common sense solutions that normal people usually find quite easy to implement naturally are not going to be easy for a lifelong dole-scrounging chiseler like you.

Are you sure he'd bother to stick his head out? I think something like this is more likely.

Nope.

Facts:

1. It's an outright lie to pretend that a dumpy mobile with negative equity on a rented lot counts as home ownership. And the topper is that you're behind on the rent!

1. You're effectively a squatter because your creditors own the mobile to the extent that you can't sell it. Any buyer would have to pay off ALL the debts first, which would never happen. You owe Kern County alone more than the rotting POS is worth. grand in unpaid property taxes!
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2. If you're lucky, neither the landlord or the County or any of the other creditors will kick you out of that shithole before you die. At which point you'll leave a widow with an impossible mountain of debt.

What brand of conservatism do you call that?

Somebody nuke this bogosity.

Read the more recent in-depth reports on them. The honeymoon's over.

That's only true if you are incapable of making a decision. If you are lying to yourself about wanting to stop, it will be hard. If not, it won't. As a person familiar to Zen, this should be a piece of cake. Then again, it's harder if someone else smokes around you constantly. Still, it's a decision, a logical zero or one. Choose, Grasshoppa.

Yep.

LOL! The back taxes exceed the value of the pre-fab.

Mark Wieber is a socialist.

I can speak with authority about what worked for me. I smoked for 25 years, including at least ten years of 3 packs of unfiltered Camels a day. One da y, I just decided enough is enough. i chewed the nicotine gum for about a w eek, but stopped doing that too.

That was in the summer of 1984, and I haven't smoked since. Not that I don' t WANT to. I still like the smell. When I'm working in front of the compute r, I often find myself absent-mindedly reaching in my shirt pocket for a ci garette, but I know damned well that if I allowed myself to have ONE, I'd g o right back to the full blown thing. And I sincerely doubt I'd be able to stop again.

Food didn't taste any better, the world didn't smell any better, I didn't h ave any gain in energy. The big gain was that I no longer run out of cigare ttes and have to run out in the middle of the night to buy them.

On the other hand, I am awaiting the time when i learn of my more-or-less i mminent demise - maybe from a fatal disease with no other symptoms other th an the death itself, or perhaps from the Great Cull. Once I know when it's coming, I can start smoking again. I look forward to it.

Speaking of The Cull, Gunner claims to have me blocked somehow, so if one o f you would be kind enough to reply to this so he'll see it, i\I'd be somew hat (but not much) obliged.

LOL Aren't you the guy who's always telling people to ignore things they don't like? Doctor, heal thyself.

Anyway, you might note that one of the reason Wieber attracts so much animus is that he's fond of pretending he's taking people out. Are you thinking it worked so well for him that you'll adopt the strategy?