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To: boogerbear
...But all the data shows you’re the exception and I’m the norm. For most people the urge for a cigarette never goes away, as addictions go it’s pretty brutal. Lou Reed said it was hands down the hardest thing to quit, and Lou quit a lot of stuff.

Dude, you need a patch! Not!

I guess a crutch would be better. It takes a willing heart! It's takes a dedication to principle. No, it isn't easy, but it really isn't hard! You just have to reach down and decide who's in charge!


76 posted on 06/10/2008 2:15:52 PM PDT by WVKayaker ( "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome..." I. Asimov)
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To: WVKayaker

Don’t need a patch. Just need life to not give me hell times. The last time I unquit work went to mandatory 7 day weeks and my grandmother started dieing (ironically of lung cancer). I was either at work, at the hospital or sleeping, after a couple weeks of that it was either kill somebody or go back to my old friend nicotine. I decided a murder trial would just make things more complicated.

It really is hard. Why do you think there’s a multi-million dollar industry around quitting smoking. No other addictive substance has so many products for sale to help you quit, that’s not an accident or coincidence. Addiction study after addiction study shows nicotine is hands down the hardest addictive to quit and stay quit. Your success is not the norm, not even close to the norm, not even a double digit percentage of the norm. Congrats on your success but remember you are the 1 in a million exception, for the rest of the world there really are no true ex-smokers, that’s the simple reality.


79 posted on 06/10/2008 2:49:21 PM PDT by boogerbear
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