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A Smokeless Alternative to Quitting
NY Times ^
| April 6, 2004
| SALLY SATEL, M.D.
Posted on 04/06/2004 1:14:53 AM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
04/06/2004 1:14:53 AM PDT
by
neverdem
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posted on
04/06/2004 1:16:28 AM PDT
by
neverdem
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To: neverdem; Ragtime Cowgirl
I thought this was an article about an alternative to nuclear weapons.
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posted on
04/06/2004 2:22:27 AM PDT
by
risk
To: neverdem
Because it does not stimulate saliva production, there is no spitting.Hey, if I can't make a killing being the new cuspidora king, I ain't interested!
Ah, my fedora,
Don't spit on the floor-a,
Spit in the cuspidora,
That's what it's for-a!
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posted on
04/06/2004 2:36:19 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: neverdem
I once was a smoker and can attest to how hard it is to stop. I tried lots of things that didn't work - including nicotine gum (that gum is a rip off - it won't stay lit long enough for even one tiny puff).
I finally took the advice of a friend and tried an unconventional approach. His recipe for success was as follows:
First, place your ashes and butts in a jar until it's about 50% full. Second, put enough beer into the jar to cover the ashes and butts. Third, place in the sun for at least a week. Finally, stop smoking. Every time you crave a cigarette just grab the jar and smell it for as long as you can.
I puked so much in the first few days that I lost 40 pounds, but the trick worked. It made cigarettes revolting to me. I discovered that it also works on several other things. My sister used the method to cure herself of anorexia nervosa. My coworker claims that he has used "the jar" to stop one of his kids from picking his nose, and the other from a nasty toenail biting habit. I plan on researching this phenomenon further so that I can write a book. I've already picked out a name, "The Jars of Life"
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posted on
04/06/2004 2:52:18 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: Jaysun
ROFL!
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posted on
04/06/2004 4:47:56 AM PDT
by
MEG33
(John Kerry's been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security!)
To: Jaysun
I once was a smoker and can attest to how hard it is to stop. I once was a smoker ane it was easy to stop - so easy that I did it 15 or 20 times !
;->
Sounds like you found a way to do it - Great. Perhaps you can market it (I can see the infomercial now...)
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posted on
04/06/2004 4:50:30 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: neverdem
Good article!
As obiter dicta I can reveal that the Swedish membership in the EU was conditioned with a permission to market and sell snus in Sweden. In June/July the ban on marketing snus within EU will be on the council agenda.
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posted on
04/06/2004 4:53:12 AM PDT
by
fdsa2
(Kerry = Blair remember that....)
To: Jaysun
ROFLMAO
A jar of picked buggars and a jar of bit-off toenail clippings... yuck! Maybe if the toe nail clippings also include the jam, it wouldn't be too bad. LOL
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posted on
04/06/2004 5:02:49 AM PDT
by
moonman
To: Jaysun
But you're wasting beer!
Seriously, quitting is the hardest thing for me. Over the years I tried the patch, gum, and even hypnosis.
I'd be willing to try this "snus" stuff, as long as it didn't make me sick like chewing and snuff.
I swear I turned green when I tried it. No thanks...
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posted on
04/06/2004 5:23:05 AM PDT
by
Possenti
To: risk; SheLion
Lol!
I smoked for years.
Still love the smell, but have no desire to start again.
Couldn't quit until our troops went to Afghanistan. Then had to make some tiny sacrifice, just to thank them in my heart...sounds so corny, but it worked.
Cheap - and quick. Smoked my last cigarette on New Year's Eve, 2001.
Thank you, troops!
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posted on
04/06/2004 5:24:53 AM PDT
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("Today we did what we had to do.They counted on America to be passive.They counted wrong."- R Reagan)
To: neverdem
...a popular Swedish product called snus (rhymes with loose)... Snus also rhymes with møøse.
Nø, realli, it does.
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posted on
04/06/2004 5:29:56 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Politics, the second oldest profession, bears a very close resemblance to the first.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Sounds like you found a way to do it - Great. Perhaps you can market it (I can see the infomercial now...)
The only way I'll do an infomercial is if I can work with that loud mouthed guy that always wears sweaters and pretends to "talk your price down" at the end of the show:
ME: Mike, you get TWO jars for $49.95
MIKE: Aww...Come on we need a better deal...riiiggght audience?
ME: Mike, you're a hell of a salesman. You could sale alcohol free beer to an Irishman. I tell you what, I'll sell you not one, not two, but THREE JARS for $19.95
MIKE: Whoooaaa! They could use this deal as psychiatric test...because anyone who refuses this should be in a straight jacket!
ME: And if you promise to tell a friend, I'll throw in this mailbox repair kit absolutely free
MIKE: (having seizures educed by disbelief)
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posted on
04/06/2004 6:20:05 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: moonman
A jar of picked buggars and a jar of bit-off toenail clippings... yuck! Maybe if the toe nail clippings also include the jam, it wouldn't be too bad.
I didn't really put a lot of thought into the buggars and toenail clippings until now....ewwww! Sweet Sassy Molassy, that makes me shudder!
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posted on
04/06/2004 6:22:45 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: Possenti
Seriously, quitting is the hardest thing for me. Over the years I tried the patch, gum, and even hypnosis.
Seriously, the patch didn't work? That's what did it for me. The patch and I'd also chew the gum (they said that it's dangerous - too much nicotine - ho hum) until my mouth would go numb. It worked for me.
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posted on
04/06/2004 6:25:40 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.)
To: neverdem
I'm torn between smoking and quitting.
I just got released from the hospital yesterday evening after 56 days confinement. My heart condition arrived as a complete and total surprise. I've never had any prior indication of trouble.
Had a pain in the chest after retiring to bed. Not a severe pain, just enough to prevent sleep. I decided to go to the ER and bam! -transferred to a large hospital facility in an neighboring community. Seven by-passes and five major surgeries later I made it home.
All the Dr's involved agree that I never had a heart attack, no MI, no heart damage. All also agreed that if there had been no intervention I would have succumbed to a massive heart attack within a very short time.
What apparently saved me WAS that I smoked. Something called the "Smoker's Paradox.
Seems as though smokers survive heart attacks better than non-smokers with 22% of smokers dying from the heart attack compared with 33% of non-smokers dying. Has something to do with carbon monoxide levels, stiffer lungs, less prone to pulmonary conjestion and lower blood pressure.
While I found this facinating It doesn't help me make my decision to quit or not. I am not currently smoking (though the cravings are eating me up).
This has been the most frightening experience of my life. I hope to continue to recover but it's awfully easy to get discouraged.
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
1,000 Atta-girls to you.
Now that's healthy Patriotism.
mc
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posted on
04/06/2004 6:55:15 AM PDT
by
mcshot
(Over da bridge member of the Henry Bowman Society)
To: Jaysun
a nasty toenail biting habitA WHAT??
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posted on
04/06/2004 7:23:09 AM PDT
by
Capriole
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To: daylate-dollarshort
I wonder how these products differ from Skoal Bandits. It sounds like the same thing.
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posted on
04/06/2004 7:36:35 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
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