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Anyone who smokes please stop smoking
8 / 9 / 2017 | American Constitutionalist

Posted on 08/09/2017 9:27:30 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist

This is posted under vanity Please anyone who smokes please stop I have had health problems associated with smoking and cost a lot of money. Almost lost my left arm


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: smoking; snoking; snokingcigarettes; snorkeling; tobacco; vanity
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To: Drew68

I quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey in 1999. I haven’t missed it.


81 posted on 08/10/2017 5:50:24 AM PDT by TheStickman (And their fear tastes like sunshine puked up by unicorns.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

My grandma, grandpa, mom, uncle & BIL all died from lung cancer.


82 posted on 08/10/2017 5:51:38 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: 353FMG

similar experience here.

quite cold turkey after 22 years of smoking.

really was not that difficult. mind over matter. only had two really bad days...

I wish I had not listened to the people who said it was hard..scared me into not trying to quit earlier than I did.

when I decided to quit, I just quit. 15+ years ago already. best thing I ever did for myself.


83 posted on 08/10/2017 5:55:19 AM PDT by QualityMan (The Adults are back in town)
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To: Drew68
It was as if God reached into my brain and turned off a switch.

Yes, God can do that for you.

84 posted on 08/10/2017 5:58:58 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: American Constitutionalist
I am 67. I am thinking about starting to smoke. Looks relaxing, all by yourself under a tree or on a bus bench. Smokers, please encourage and tell me the other benefits i will enjoy when i start smoking cigs. Will it make my Coke taste better?
85 posted on 08/10/2017 6:09:25 AM PDT by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: Awgie

You will smell like an ashtray.


86 posted on 08/10/2017 6:13:14 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Redwood71
Here’s how you quit. You want to. You say in your mind that they are the most horrible things on earth and you throw away any you have. And if you really mean it, you will quit.

That's it in a nutshell. Oh, the patch helps a lot, along with a class for some support/encouragement.

87 posted on 08/10/2017 6:15:09 AM PDT by pa_dweller (President Donald Trump, President Donald Trump. Because I know you like seeing it.)
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To: Fresh Wind
“You can smell like an ashtray.” Ok, thats a good benefit. I can save money on the expensive cologne i am buying called “butt-out.”
88 posted on 08/10/2017 6:19:25 AM PDT by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: SueRae

I’ve been hyper all my life except the times I smoke. From 87 to 92 and again from 2012 to about an hour ago. :) If I could lose my short temper without smoking I would quit today but I’m living in a place I hate and have to be here for a yr at most. Stress will kill me first.


89 posted on 08/10/2017 6:29:22 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

After smoking for over 25 years, I finally had my last cigarette in 1990 - 27 years ago! The $$ I have saved probably paid for my Corvette. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, but also the smartest thing I ever did.


90 posted on 08/10/2017 6:56:31 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (n1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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To: Nothingburger

After I quit, the first three weeks were the most difficult.

It was a full five years before I quit reaching for a cig in my shirt pocket.
Old movies would set off cravings (especially old Bogart movies)...


91 posted on 08/10/2017 7:02:52 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Bob434

I’m glad you found a “source” to incite you to quit. The fear of cancer in so many humans is not a true deterrent as it is something they haven’t been involved with, yet, so it has no full impact. And let’s face it, when we were 18 years old, we were going to live forever.

Now I had other things besides tobacco which led to my problems. Military gas, agent orange, and other products. I even worked as a crop duster flagger when I was 16 years old and ate enough airmite and tep dust, and even worse chemicals on the job, to slow a rhino. But we didn’t know any better.

I guess I can put part of the blame on the government for this plague. It is too profitable for them as it can produce a huge amount of tax revenue. So they don’t put too much pressure to force the tobacco companies to clean up their product. So until it became a point to be used to get votes, nothing happened. And the tobacco companies from the rancher to the CEO make good scratch on the weed. And they supply political donation, big ones.

So it appears to me it’s more than just providing a product of supply and demand. It’s money. And some of it is questionable. Now look at the realization of marijuana. They are legalizing another hallucinogen on the free market and putting more drunks behind the wheel. And both the companies and the governments are making a killing. And I think that is the correct word.

rwood


92 posted on 08/10/2017 7:15:48 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: American Constitutionalist

3 years ago I decided I no longer wanted to smoke after 30 years. Sick of the price, the hassle, and they no longer tasted good. Cold turkey done no problem.
6 months later, same thing with my horrible addiction to chewing tobacco


93 posted on 08/10/2017 7:17:54 AM PDT by Professional
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To: MomwithHope

I’d even rather see it not causing them to quit, but not getting started at all. Wouldn’t that be great? Pipe dream, I guess. Humans just seem to have to jump over the cliff to see if they can survive. They see the flight in mid air but not the rocks at the bottom. We ain’t real bright are we? And in most cases, we’re supposed to be on top of the food chain.

rwood


94 posted on 08/10/2017 7:21:38 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: pa_dweller

“Oh, the patch helps a lot, along with a class for some support/encouragement.”

Maybe you can help me here. All the patch is is a substitute for the real mccoy. It puts drugs into you. And why do you need a support group to tell you what you already know?

You don’t want the drugs if you are trying to quit. My daughter tried the patch twice. She smokes cheap cigs so she can afford to keep going. She took away part of the physical addiction. But she didn’t take away the psychological one. The want. It’s the tough one.

So if you are expecting other people to help you quit, you won’t. You will lean on them and not do it yourself, for yourself.

It is up to you, and you only. And the only two who will know what’s in your mind is you and God. And they are the only ones that can get it done..........if you really want to.


95 posted on 08/10/2017 7:31:28 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Redwood71
Good job.

As for me, I'm a cheap bastid. I quit cold in 1980. I swore I would never smoke again when the dang things cost $1.00 per pack. Well...in 1980 it did just that. So I quit. I can't fathom that people smoke 2 packs per day and pay over $8 per pack for the "privilege".

That's $16 per day. $112 per week. $5824 per year. Wow.
I could get a new gun every 6 months. I could get a huge Celestron telescope with that kind of money. Think of the possibilities.

96 posted on 08/10/2017 8:15:30 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: Redwood71

[[The fear of cancer in so many humans is not a true deterrent as it is something they haven’t been involved with, yet, so it has no full impact. And let’s face it, when we were 18 years old, we were going to live forever]]

Exactly- they don’t experience it so it isn’t ‘real yet’ to them- that and the fact that people just do not want to face the challenges of quitting- the withdrawals scare a lot of folks- it’s crazy though because cancer should scare them more- but it doesn’t- I think in the back of their minds, they, like me, thought “If I get cancer- surgery will cure it” and “They’re doing so much with cancers these days” etc- we talk ourselves into not facing quitting withdrawals- Ciggs are powerful psychological slave masters-


97 posted on 08/10/2017 8:17:10 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: American Constitutionalist
My dad died from complications of COPD. He quit smoking when he was in his early 50s but the damage had been done.

It was tough to see my dad in his last years, who had always been physically active, not to be able to do what he wanted because he couldn't get enough oxygen.

98 posted on 08/10/2017 9:02:53 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: American Constitutionalist

You have to really want to quit, but for me, even that wasn’t enough. When I was diagnosed with lung cancer, I really wanted to quit, but I also really wanted that next drag.

I continued giving in to that next drag, and beating myself up over it, because I really did want to quit. I quit when I stopped wanting that next drag.

One morning, when I reached for my first cigarette of the day, I realized I didn’t really want it. I made no lofty promise at that point, but decided I would put off the next cigarette until I really wanted it. That was almost ten years ago, and I haven’t wanted it yet.

I credit God, and a sister who prayed, not for me to quit, nor for me to want to quit, but for me to stop wanting to smoke. Even though she never smoked, she got it. She understood what was standing in my way. It wasn’t a lack of wanting to quit. It was my inability to resist the temptation to light up. I can resist anything but temptation!


99 posted on 08/10/2017 9:32:43 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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To: Awgie

Sure. I’ll put it at the top of the next page.


100 posted on 08/10/2017 11:19:10 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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