Stopped smokin'

[Fonz]

hmmm.. fridaynight in the bar I suddenly decided I should stop smoking.. What the hell was I thinking..

Well.. haven't touched a smoke since then.. Wonder how long it will last. Anyone wants to make a guess?

|rasta|

[Dr Bizzaro]

How long did you smoke for? Home many packs a day?

I need to make an educated guess here.

[Fonz]

for about 10 years, in the weekends 1 pack a day, during the week 3 packs every 5 days

[Cleo]

Well you will small and taste much nicer.

I went out with someone who is very attractive this weekend. At least they were attractive until they sat there smoking cigarette after cigarette. I sat there coughing, my nose got all stuffed up, they went from smelling real nice to smelling like a camp fire and when we kissed it was like kissing an ashtray. At the end of the date I have a bad headache from inhaling the second hand smoke since I'm allergic to something in cigarette smoke.

It's too bad because I've known this person for awhile and really like them.

[Dr Bizzaro]

Originally posted by Fonz
for about 10 years, in the weekends 1 pack a day, during the week 3 packs every 5 days

Hmmm...then I will say you will quite FOREVER.

Unless you are a weak willed, girly man who has no self control.


I smoked a pack and 1/2 a day for about 12 years. (It was upto a pack and 1/2, I didn;t smoke that much for 12 years. But I did smoke at least a pack a day for about 8 years and then in the end it went up.)

I quit cold Turkey on January 1st, 1999. To date it's saved me almost $10K. Hard to believe.

I do have an occasional cigar when I am at a bar or gambling.

[Fonz]

Originally posted by Dr Bizzaro
Hmmm...then I will say you will quite FOREVER.

Unless you are a weak willed, girly man who has no self control.

Yeah!
Thx for the stimulant

[Extreme John]

Originally posted by Dr Bizzaro
Hmmm...then I will say you will quite FOREVER.

Unless you are a weak willed, girly man who has no self control.


I smoked a pack and 1/2 a day for about 12 years. (It was upto a pack and 1/2, I didn;t smoke that much for 12 years. But I did smoke at least a pack a day for about 8 years and then in the end it went up.)

I quit cold Turkey on January 1st, 1999. To date it's saved me almost $10K. Hard to believe.

I do have an occasional cigar when I am at a bar or gambling.

Perfectly put Bizzaro.

Extreme Nate and Myself decided while sitting at Fat Tuesdays in the Bahama's almost 3 months ago that when we got back he would quit smoking (easy pack a day), and I would quit dipping (4 cans a day, so yeah I was hooked). That day we walked in the office and since than we havent turned back.

It's mind over matter, anyone that really wants to quit can quit, Fonz was a cool guy on Happy Days, never bitched out, don't you dare run around with a name like Fonz and even think of looking back not even once.

[Cleo]

Over 10 years ago I decided that I had enough of Freebasing after doing it for about five years. Put down the pipe, walked out of the room, and never smoked coke again.

I did want to beat my head into the wall for a few years with cravings and even still to this day sometimes wake up dreaming that I'm Freebasing.

I hear that cigarettes affect the same parts of the brain that coke does.

[Luna]

What a wise decision Fonz, congrats, cigars give me real bad migraines and make me trow up.

Hummmm kiss Cleo...you didn't told me that part, and I was laid on your bed lol!

[Extreme John]

Well there you go Fonz if Cleo can quit the snow, you should have no problem with Cigs, give us an update.

[Fonz]

Still hanging in there, it's been 6 days now...

[urb]

Fonz, well done.

Do not be tempted to start again. Once you have given up the first cigarette tastes like shit.

|rasta| <---- stupid habit..... stupid hat too.

Well done Cleo too, it takes a lot of guts to quit coke.

I have to take risperidone twice a day - maybe for the rest of my life. So if you have a choice in the matter - give it up.

[Dr Bizzaro]

Originally posted by Fonz
Still hanging in there, it's been 6 days now...

Rock on bro! See, I told you forever.....

[Cleo]

Originally posted by urb
Well done Cleo too, it takes a lot of guts to quit coke.

I have to take risperidone twice a day - maybe for the rest of my life. So if you have a choice in the matter - give it up.

It is more a matter of seeing where your life is going and making a decision. One day I realized that sitting in a corner naked, paranoid, broke, and dirty with aluminium foil on all the windows to stop the imaginary eyes from looking in wasn't really the direction in life that I wanted to go.

Yeah stay on your medication. I know someone that really should have and didn't. In a drunken psychotic state they picked up a gun and shot me six times. Now that they are sober and medicated they are real sorry for what they did, but a little too late.

Life is about decisions, sometimes it is about not taking something and sometimes it is about realizing that you do need something.

[urb]

Originally posted by Cleo
In a drunken psychotic state they picked up a gun and shot me six times. Now that they are sober and medicated they are real sorry for what they did, but a little too late.

Jesus Cleo |ohhhhh|

[Fonz]

Damn Cleo,

and I tought that quit smoking was a huge step.. Your past probs put things in a whole other perspective. You have my respect...

[Extreme John]

Cleo, thats crazy.....

Fonz you still hanging in there?

[Cleo]

Not a big deal, but I since then I've taken up doing all my cooking in a Wok. Not only is it a great healthy way to cook, but when not using it to prepare your daily meals it can be worn like a hat as a stylish bit of fashionable apparel and as an added bonus it keeps out the evil mind rays of our government.



Actually you just have to keep things in prospective and not take this wild ride we call life too serious and realize that your perspective on life is just that, your perspective.

Now back to wrapping my house and cats in aluminium foil…

[Fonz]

Originally posted by Extreme John
Fonz you still hanging in there?

8 days now.. spent 5 days of it in a bar with everyone around me smoking.. temptation is huge but a NO is a NO |afro|

[Extreme John]

Originally posted by Fonz
8 days now.. spent 5 days of it in a bar with everyone around me smoking.. temptation is huge but a NO is a NO |afro|

Wow you are a brave one

Keep it up 8 days let's celebrate!

[Fonz]

already saved me about $25, bought some traffic with that money

oh yeah, extreme John.. you could really support me by putting $100 or something like that in my Extreme Paychechs account

[Cleo]

Originally posted by Fonz
oh yeah, extreme John.. you could really support me by putting $100 or something like that in my Extreme Paychechs account

Wow what a great idea. John I've never smoked and I'm in my forties, you owe me a lot of money.

[Tommy]

I quit 34 days ago

its been hard at times but ..........

when I think back about how easy I would freak out its sort of funny

I was a real die hard smoker

the first day I was a total mess and opearating on a very short fuse

I had to run over to keyfood to pick up some stuff for a barbq

and these two old ladies where standing in the doorway yappin

they were blovkin the whole doorway

so i waited for around 10 sec
then said
Hey you dum old cunt
can you please get the fuck out of my way

[ShermsShack]

Nice thread. Glad to see so many people saving their lungs, and mine as well. Keep it up!

Cleo....Thats incredible. I'd have never thought any of that happened to you after meeting you. You seem like a new age woman who wouldn't touch anything that has harmful effects with a 10 foot poll!

[Cleo]

ShermsShack, I come from a time when things were much different. In the seventies, when I was a teenager, drugs were good and were thought to expand your mind, or something like that anyway.

In reality we all ended up fucked up on drugs and then came the excess of the eighties. It didn't help that I lived in south Florida and cocaine was literally falling from the sky and washing up on the beaches in mass. Our economy was coca driven, we had machine gun fights in the shopping malls and then someone discovered that if you mix one third baking soda to two thirds cocaine, dissolve in water and nuke until it boils you get Freebass which can be vaporized and inhaled using a blow torch and a pyrex pipe.

Going out for the evening meant big hair, big shoulder pads, big fake nails, and your Super Cub torch and pipe with lots of rocks. We would all be on the dance floor freebassing and dancing, it was everywhere.

Looking back on it now it's like what the fuck were we thinking, but it was the mind set of the times.

I'm sure in the not to distant future cigarette smoking would be looked on the same way.