Somebody tell me the worst part is over

[learnintoplay62]

Stay the course Tony, your success is an encouragement. I grew up in the same households it seems like. My mom didn't smoke but everyone else did. They smoked in every room, cars , stores etc. My dad used to send me to the store at 7 years old to get him cigs :shock:
I personally didn't like smoking cigs until I was 30. I smoked on and off for about 10 years. I haven't smoked for 10 years now and really don't miss it. HOWEVER, I have been chewing tobacco since I was 14. I have stopped many times but just can't seem to kick the nasty habit.
Physically I know I will pay some price so it really makes no sense at all to continue. Some might say I am morally weak or or something like that because I need some kind of crutch . We all make choices. Each day I wake up and ask for the strength to quit but so far it ain't been working

 

[PEZmusic]

longer it goes the easier it gets

 

[jmac]

Killdeer,

I started smoking in college, and I still smoke. However I should clarify that I am a VERY light smoker. I generally smoke 2 cigarettes a day. One after dinner and one before I go to bed. On occasion I'll smoke more, but that's seldom. I don't really want to quit because I enjoy it.

Dreadnut,

Smoking can be very expensive in New York State, so I buy cigarettes from the Seneca Indians. They are inexpensive.

I'm really pretty lucky.

 

[West R Lee]

Well I'll tell you.......I dip snuff. Never been a smoker, but I dip the heroin of all tobacco......Copenhagen. Last March, I had neck surgery and after my surgery, the doctor told me that I had to quit for 2 months. No time to think about it, no time to get in the right frame of mind.....just do it. And that after about 35 years of about 2 boxes a day. Some folks say it's much more difficult to quit that cigarettes, but somehow, someway I did it. The alternative was the real possibility of the bone grafts not taking.


After it was all said and done....two months later, I decided that I enjoyed it too much and it really calms me down.........so I am once again hooked. But I have all the respect in the world for someone who quits. Good luck, and keep up the good work. I do know that it's tough, but you can do it.

West

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

- my mom smoked Salems and dad smoked Kents. Yuck.

As a lifelong non-cigarette smoker I don't have a personal history story for Tony but Dreadnut's post gave me a "Twilight Zone" moment. I grew up in a house where my Mother smoked Kents and my Father smoked Salems! Funny thing is none of us three kids ever smoked.

All my friends smoked growing up and since I was a little shorter then them I was always the who had to sit on the hump in the back seat of Joey's '72 Firebird. The other four guys in the car all smoked like chimney's! Even with all this influence and peer pressure, I never took up the habit. I tried, but never liked it enough or stuck with it long enough to learn to inhale.

Funny thing is, most of my friends have quit by now and my old friend Joey who had the Firebird, just posted on facebook that he has made it through his first month without a cigarette.

I hope you make it Tony!

 

[taabru45]

- my mom smoked Salems and dad smoked Kents. Yuck.

8)
As a lifelong non-cigarette smoker ....


So that's how you could afford to be a Guild 'addict'.... :wink: Steffan
Seriously, if smokers compounded their cigarette money over the years they would be really shocked... They likely could have paid for a house!

 

[Los Angeles]

- my mom smoked Salems and dad smoked Kents. Yuck.

8)
As a lifelong non-cigarette smoker ....


So that's how you could afford to be a Guild 'addict'.... :wink: Steffan
Seriously, if smokers compounded their cigarette money over the years they would be really shocked... They likely could have paid for a house!

And lived more years to enjoy it.

 

[TonyT]

5 weeks this past Wednesday. It's really been no big deal, except for the occasional lightning bolt out of nowhere that tells me if I don't smoke right now I will surely die. My strategy for dealing with these moments is to go off by myself and laugh maniacally at the top of my lungs. Works every time.

 

[twocorgis]

5 weeks this past Wednesday. It's really been no big deal, except for the occasional lightning bolt out of nowhere that tells me if I don't smoke right now I will surely die. My strategy for dealing with these moments is to go off by myself and laugh maniacally at the top of my lungs. Works every time.

Hang in there Tony. It should be getting easier by now, too. Just keep thinking of yourself as a non-smoker. With cigarettes at $10 a pack here in New York, you'd already be up to about $350 in savings. That's almost a D25! 8)

 

[griehund]

My daddy used to say "You don't smoke, the cigarette smokes, you're just the sucker"

During golf season I enjoy a good cigar (never inhale) and a couple brews after a round. Other than that I have very little desire to light up.

 

[taabru45]

5 weeks this past Wednesday. It's really been no big deal, except for the occasional lightning bolt out of nowhere that :lol: tells me if I don't smoke right now I will surely die. My strategy for dealing with these moments is to go off by myself and laugh maniacally at the top of my lungs. Works every time.

I don't smoke and that still sounds like a Heck of a good idea... :lol: :lol: :lol: Steffan

 

[jmac]

I also find strength in the fact that my money isn't going to support those b*st*rds at the tobacco companies anymore.

Hey, this country was born and bred on the tobacco industry. Those "bastards" include our founding fathers.

The "bastards" in the tobacco industry write pay checks and help the GNP (and the economy).

If you don't like smoking, god bless you. But don't start name calling for people who put food on the table for more people than you do.

 

[Los Angeles]

I also find strength in the fact that my money isn't going to support those b*st*rds at the tobacco companies anymore.

Hey, this country was born and bred on the tobacco industry. Those "bastards" include our founding fathers.

The "bastards" in the tobacco industry write pay checks and help the GNP (and the economy).

If you don't like smoking, god bless you. But don't start name calling for people who put food on the table for more people than you do.

I've worked both sides of tobacco litigation for 15 years. I've read thousands of documents and hears countless hours of testimony on the matter. You know the movie "The Insider" with Russel Crowe? He played a real guy named Dr. Wigand. I've met the REAL Dr. Wigand.

There is no excuse for the horrors the tobacco industry has perpetrated on its own customers and our country in general. Not even their own attorneys try to excuse their past or even present behaviors. Not even their own attorneys. When even their own lying sack of poo attorneys have no words to defend these actions, let me tell you, no words can be found.

 

[chazmo]

We all have our reasons for landing on once side or the other on this issue... That being said, can we please just be supportive of our member(s) who are trying to quit?

 

[taabru45]

Good idea Chaz.....I will make one comment though albeit the intentions may have been honorable.... The worst transaction in the history of the world may have happened as the Indians introduced tobacco to the white man, and the white man introduced alcohol to the Indian. Steffan :shock: