Ya.....what a load of crap!
Naw, that was a load of
facts.
You can throw all those things out the window....they mean absolutely nothing to me , anyhow!
I usually only encounter such sentiments when I ask people about various things I have read in their religious documents, lol.
lolool...easy there big fella...think I can see the veins throbbing in yer' temples!...vintage TS...invoking a lil spirited debate...all the while, sporting some fact...Cheerz...h00k...
You know me well, ol' bud. And if he would have said, "Yeah, but the harm caused by smoking outweighs the benefits," I probably would have wholeheartedly agreed. But I never could resist responding when someone chose to answer facts with fanaticism.
<SHRUGS> It's not like I don't try to be considerate of non-smokers. I stopped smoking in restraunts many years before the practice became verboten here, because one day I thought to myself, "I don't think putting a sign up that states 'No smoking beyond this point' stops the smoke from traveling." And it doesn't matter if a non-smoker says, "Aw, it's raining, why don't I just turn the vent on so that you can smoke inside," I'll go outside even if it's below 0°F and the wind is blowing snow at me @ 45 MPH. I also don't yap on my cell phone when I'm standing in front of someone in line at the check-out counter, or fart during 69.
Congratulations, I'm proud of you. How'd you do it? I've used nicotine lozenges, nicotine gum, and nicotine patches. I just ended up smoking the entire while. Finally gave up on those things when I started feeling like I was going to fall over, so I tore off the patch and threw the rest of the box away. Besides, those things cost more than a carton of cigarettes, lol. I was going to try finding a doctor (haven't really been to one since 1975 or so) to put me on that Chompix, Chantix, whatever it's called. But my buddy got fixed up with those things... and had mental issues. Since I've
already got plenty of those, lol, I figured I'd better not. I thought maybe I'd have half a chance if I could buy a case of those Vick's Inhaler menthol things that I walked around snorting constantly when I was a little kid, but it turns out that they're no longer sold in my area for some reason.
Nobody here talks about how I quit. It's like the kids forgot I quit.
Wow, that sucks. Slap them in the back of the head and tell them it's from ~TS~. I told Mom how proud I was of her (quit many decades ago), and she didn't even
choose to quit. She had pneumonia (we think), wouldn't go to the hospital, and her temperature got so high, 105°F IIRC, for like a week that she permanently lost her senses of taste and smell (and some other things, but that's not pertinent)... Just as soon as she was able to
crawl into the other room where her purse was, she did so in order to light a cigarette. At which point she vomited all over the place and herself because the taste of them had (to her damaged brain) changed so drastically. Tried again after she was more or less well again and, basically, the same result. Regardless, she quit smoking, and I was proud of her - so I made sure to tell her whenever it looked like she was getting upset, lol (I was a kid at the time, so... she got upset quite a lot).
Eventually you won't have the erge to smoke anything for stress
Hmm... My mother, even with the above, still gets the urge to smoke - and she quit 40+ years ago. And a few years ago, I was working for a woman who was 79 at the time (and who used to smoke). I was in one of my "I'm trying to quit smoking" phases, and said, "This will have to be easier when the cravings stop. How long does it take for them to completely go away?" And she replied, "Completely? I'll have to let you know when it happens." So I asked her how long ago she quit smoking, and she said, "When I was 34."
.) But I have also known others who... All the light had gone out of their eyes, and their life. Because they knew that they were causing copious amounts of pain to themselves and others - and that they would continue to do so, right up until the moment that they died, which would probably be sooner rather than later. People that had tried so many times to quit and failed every time, or those who managed to quit - for a little while - multiple times, going through the pain/hassle/etc. each time, but kept relapsing... that they finally just gave up. Do I think less of them? No - but I mourn a little.
