NO SMOKING!

    I'm gonna lose to him because he's got a higher rating, and I screwed up, BUT. I was at the V.A. all day for numerous things and the No smoking lady said they started a weekly drop-in. The weekly will help. They had a monthly, but I need more re-inforcement than that. 

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        Sorry if I haven't been on the site as much. The no smoking lady at the VA said try to re-arrange your schudule. I'm trying to drum more, change my sleeping hrs, and stay off the site a little. I'm reading the book that was mentioned earlier, and I'll try a hypnosis session.

Be nice you guys!

Odd mission Kayknight.

I used to smoke - started when I was about 13. I had quit a few times for various legnths of time. Since I was 14, the longest I have gone without smoking consecutively is about 2 years (over 40 now). I know what it's like to quit. For me it's really (really) hard - ususally. That's the thing about addiction - It doesn't treat everyone exactly the same, nor does is always treat any one person the same all of the time. All that to say: It can be harder for some people to quit than others.

I haven't smoked in about a year. But I'm cheating! I started vaping instead. Yes.. still addicted to nicotine, but no more smoke, tar, smell, butts, nor growing cancer risks, and perhaps one of the best parts - no more paying for a pack/day! The cost of vaping is about 10% of that of smoking. Also - you have complete control of the nicotine content - you can wean yourself. I'm not saying everyone should "vape" - but guys.. if you smoke and hate it, then switch to vaping. I see no reason why someone who wants to quit smoking would choose to go on smoking to get that nicotine fix. It sucks! vaping sucks way less - no matter how you dice it.

Boy I wish I could because I do miss it everyday!

I cant anymore I smoked for 49 years!

Good on you for quitting. That's so true about the "one you didn't smoke" One of the times that I quit - I was about 20 at the time - I was holding the last cig from an empty pack and said to myself, out of the blue, "I'm not smoking this" and I held on to it for several weeks. I would twirl it between my fingers whenever I thought ablout smoking it, and every day that I made it through, that wearing ratty-looking cig became more and more of a symbol to me. One day, several weeks later. I smoked it. It was stale as hell, but It was "awesome" - everything a smoker wants in a cig but never gets because the 1st cig is always REALLY good - but at that time, I thought about that and said to myself, "this one tasted/felt really good, but the next one won't be as good, and the 5000th one after those will be a sufferance - just like that one would have been if i had smoked it in the first place. I didn't smoke after that for a long time (maybe a year or a bit less).

Well because of all that smoking I now have empehysema and it makes my working that much more difficult because I have to stop working to catch my breath. I carry on but it certainy takes longer to accomplish things!

I wonder if hypnosis works

       For some people YES

Guess not for you, sorry

       It may require more than 1 session.

I am Not a smoker but what about switching to some brand you can't stand?

Well certainly not the goose!

Move to Denver.  Switch to Pot.  Or don't move to Denver.

Look into my eye......not around the eye.....

This thread has become a thread of ridiculousness.

You're posh......we say dog it out.  I really don't know why.