I. Quit. Smoking. =D

[AJ@PR]

Hello guys,

This is def. not computer related, but I think it might help some members from going down a crappy path in life.

I quit smoking!!!

I wanted to share with you guys, because I think it's a double win.
1st - No more smoking (zero!)
2nd- This has been going on for one year!!!

That's right! I quit 366 days ago.
I've been Marlboro-free for one full year, and I'm as happy as can be.
You can breathe!!!

I used to smoke a pack a day... you know, wake up in the morning, grungy go light up the 1st one.
Have a meal... light it up.
Chillin' in the car? Light it up.
Hanguin' out with friends'? Light it up.

Screw that.
Yuck!

I'm so happy. :D
I quit cold turkey.
No patches, no gum... no 'steps'.

If you're thinking of quitting, use whatever means you have at your disposal, but for the love of god, quit.

Ironically, one of my neighbor's, a 55-60 guy (the one that teached me 90% of the stuff I know about vehicle mechanics), is in the hospital right now.
I believe he has under 1 day to live.
I was yesterday by his bedside, and it's sad.
He can't speak. He doesn't have his eyes opened.
His entire body jerks back and forth as he tries to breath.
"HE" doesn't breath... a machine does it for him.

Why?
Because he smoked cigarettes.
To see his son (my age), his daughter (smaller), and his wife crying... it isn't fair, IMO.

It isn't only you... it's your loved ones.
The ones that have to see you die slowly.
The ones that have to get up early in the morning, and leave their agenda aside, to go see you in the hospital... because you were too selfish to quit.
The ones that have to cry in the hall, because it's a lost cause. You *will* die.

It isn't fair to them.

So, if anybody smokes here, I strongly urge you guys to quit.
Quit the crappy smoke. Quit.

I wish you all the very best :)

-AJ


EDIT: I did some quick math, and in my past year, if the rate was a 20cig pack a day,
I haven't smoked: 7,300 cancer sticks
and I've saved 1,460 US dollars.
Wow.

[simon275]

Thats really excellent. Especially going cold turkey like that. Now you can spend the money you have saved on your current addiction that we all have. Case Modding!

Respect for quiting :up:

-Simon

[Computer-Geek]

Congrats man it must have been hard though . People really need to stop smoking they always say they will quit but they can't sometimes but you did it by yourself with no patches ,gum and etc,:up:.

[Eclecticos]

Congratulations! I wish I could quit again, beer makes me wanna smoke.
Cigarettes I could do without, but Beer. .Never :)

[nil8]

I was a smoker for 8 years. My regular was a pack and a half of Marlboro Reds a day.

August 30th this year is 2 years without. Cold turkey here as well.

Let's not forget the heart & artery damage smoking causes.
Yet for as poisonous as cigarettes are, they continue to exist and thrive. Very strange dichotomy.

I still don't think that it's anyone's business what you put into your body. If you want to smoke, do so. All the information is out there about it, just know what it does to you over the years.

Congrats AJ@PR.

[xRyokenx]

Congrats man. I don't even wanna think about what may happen to me if I started... I get nauseated just by being near the damn things. At the Tool concert last night pretty much everyone was smoking, with or without the no smoking signs. Thank god nobody near us got drunk, that would've been insane, lol.

[Drum Thumper]

Congrats man. I, too, kicked the nicotine habit a while back--chewing, which is even worse than smoking. 2 years nicotine free come October.

Keep up the good work! And if you ever need to shoot the ****, PM me, and I'll send my contact info.

[Bopher]

Yay! Congratulations dude. I quit somewhere around 7 years ago. Got hooked in High school and smoked for a good 4 years. Not as long as some people but I still found it hard to stop.

This girl at worked mentioned once that she'd never date a smoker and I decided to kick the habit then and there. 9 years smoke free for me and I got a wife out of the deal. hmm maybe I should rethink that one. Nah jk can't think of anything that would have made me happier.

[Redundant]

Congratulations Mr. AJ Mod Sir :D



I still don't think that it's anyone's business what you put into your body. If you want to smoke, do so. All the information is out there about it, just know what it does to you over the years.

I like to call this natural selection (Invented by Darwin). If you're dumb enough to smoke, I don't see the problem with a decreased life.

(AJ, your body will be able to heal because you're still young so it's not too much of a problem)

[slytherock]

I like to call this natural selection (Invented by Darwin). If you're dumb enough to smoke, I don't see the problem with a decreased life.

My grandfather died last year at the respectable age of 94, Smoking about 2 packs a day for more then 80 years. His death has nothing to do with smoking. And if it does, 94 is old enough...

BTW, congrat for that full year, I can't stand more then 2 days...

[rendermandan]

I also quit smoking. I smoked for about 14 years and when my wife got pregnant I quit. Haven't touched on in almost 3 years. and I'm so glad I did.

Congrats on making it this far, the longer you go, the more you appreciate the fact that you quit.

[Drum Thumper]

My grandfather died last year at the respectable age of 94, Smoking about 2 packs a day for more then 80 years. His death has nothing to do with smoking. And if it does, 94 is old enough...

BTW, congrat for that full year, I can't stand more then 2 days...

Everyone is different. My grandmother smoked for a good fifty years. She fought cancer (started in her lungs, eventually took over her body) for the last 25 years of her life, which were smoke free. When she was first diagnosed, the doctor gave her 6 weeks to 6 months to live.

[FPMachine]

Heh I as well quit about 3 months ago. I tossed a half a pack out the window and just said IM DONE. havent had one since. You have to decide you are done poisoning yourself for it to work. those who don't really want to quit never will. its just that simple. I dont even care about not smoking while drinking any more.

My friend read this great book to help him quit. it just gave all the info it could about smoking. then at the end of the book he quit. He keeps a card in his pocket that says.

Do not ever start to envy another smoker realize that he or she will be envious of you. you are not being deprived. The smoker is.

Remember you did not enjoy being a smoker. That's why you stopped. You enjoy being a non smoker.

Remember there is no such things as just once cigarette

Never Doubt your decision to smoke again. You know its the correct decision.

it really helped him. most of my friends are quitting smoking as well. I guess we all grew up at the same time eh?

[onelegout]

The only thing I've ever smoked is weed (I've had a couple of straights but they didn't ever do anything for me... except for those chocolate devils you get in france with the chocolate and mint-chocolate rizlas :D. I only smoke weed about once a month or so at parties and with friends - and only when it's a mellow, safe environment.

I have a friend called Sean. His dad has MS and his mum has spent the past 20 years of her life drifting in and out of several different problems with her mental health. He smokes 2 packs a day and he HATES it. He is a complete stoner and it was smoking joints which got him hooked on tobacco. He has no money and his parents have none, so he uses his government education allowance to fund his weed and tobacco habits. He basicly had a break down on a school trip we were on in france a few weeks back and I did a deal with him - if he stops smoking for 3 months I will buy him a Respirator to smoke weed through cleanly. It's been a month so far and he's having huge trouble with it poor guy - quitting is realy screwing him up during his exams too.
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[xRyokenx]

That is a good inspiration to never start smoking right there, from what I've seen, smoking is really expensive. One guy I used to talk to on occasion would smoke at least a pack a day, and with the prices from a few years ago I could've built a really kickass computer with that bill. It was like $1.5k. Well, that and a million other reasons against. I can't even think of a legit reason to smoke... no offense to those that do.

[nil8]

Behaviors people have aren't rationalized by health, money, or happiness. Never forget human action isn't logical or rational. It is rationalized. Big difference.

Some actions damage us, and yet we continue them. It's called vice and we all have it. It's a matter of how damaging it is to us and how much we let it consume us before we ignore the urge or try to stop it entirely.

oneleg, your friend needs professional medical help. He needs an addiction plan that suits him and where he will apply himself. If he can get that, he can quit. If not, his chances are slim to none. He will move into amphetamines or other hard stimulants as soon as the marijuana starts to lose its effect. It could be next year, it could be 20 years, but it does happen. At this stage, his chance is almost zero.

I still get the urge to smoke, or drink excessively, or indulge in my previous vices. I don't repress them. I allow them to run their course and then enjoy the fact that I'm stronger than my desires and I have enough discipline to better myself, because the dirty little secret is not many people have enough willpower to quit eating, smoking, drinking, watching, or doing any of the things that damage them and that they despise.

[xRyokenx]

I need to work on my discipline. I get lazy and don't feel like doing anything so it takes a while for me to even get up to start doing whatever I need to do and it's a miracle if it ever gets done. I've managed to mow the entire yard over the course of a few days (it gets hot here and even with a riding lawn mower it takes a while to mow our lawn) and it looks great, something small to be proud of but not to focus on as I have more to do, so I need to get my ass out of this chair in front of my desk and do more stuff and not be a living dead hero. As in one that did great things but no longer does, one that brags about what they did but just annoy others with that and no longer function. I'm too young to do that, lol.

And yes nil8, I'm starting to realize it's not a logical world, if it were, it'd probably just be a cube of something and that's all that exists. Don't wanna become the Borg, or a depressed maniac... I keep standing at the edge of that cliff and staring down, and then jumping back, and then I start inching towards it again...

[slytherock]

Everyone is different. My grandmother smoked for a good fifty years. She fought cancer (started in her lungs, eventually took over her body) for the last 25 years of her life, which were smoke free. When she was first diagnosed, the doctor gave her 6 weeks to 6 months to live.

Don't want to justify my addiction here, and I have no choice then to agree with your statement. It's just that we put so easily the blame on cigarette, that I can't stand it anymore.

[jdbnsn]

Congratulation on kicking one of the hardest addictions to overcome. I have dealt with many addicts, and in my opinion due to the legality and (to a degree the social acceptance) smokers often struggle for many years to kick the habit. Congrats to all of the others who have quit as well. Some fun facts about smoking:
-there are 599 additives combined with tobacco in an un-lit cigarete, over 4000 compunds are created by lighting it ;)
-nicotene is the only highly addictive drug that I am aware that provies no mood enhancing benefits to the user, it seems the only reason to use is to stave off withdrawl which becomes a life-long chase.
-American Indians smoked tobacco for many years prior to the arrival of the Europeans with no known problems of addiction, it took Europeans to discover it's potential for abuse.


http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/jdbnsn/flin2.jpg
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/jdbnsn/docsmok1.jpg

WARNING: These photos should not be viewed by anyone offended by or uncomfortable with photographic representations of the human body post-mortem.
pathology photos of smoking related lung disease (http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/LUNGHTML/LUNG056.html)
autopsy photo of "barrel-chested" man from who died from emphysema (http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/emphysema_blues.jpg)

[simon275]

The Flintstones bought to you buy Wintsons smokes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD8Km2LXyng

[Drum Thumper]

Congratulation on kicking one of the hardest addictions to overcome. I have dealt with many addicts, and in my opinion due to the legality and (to a degree the social acceptance) smokers often struggle for many years to kick the habit. Congrats to all of the others who have quit as well. Some fun facts about smoking:
-there are 599 additives combined with tobacco in an un-lit cigarete, over 4000 compunds are created by lighting it ;)
-nicotene is the only highly addictive drug that I am aware that provies no mood enhancing benefits to the user, it seems the only reason to use is to stave off withdrawl which becomes a life-long chase.
-American Indians smoked tobacco for many years prior to the arrival of the Europeans with no known problems of addiction, it took Europeans to discover it's potential for abuse.


http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/jdbnsn/flin2.jpg
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/jdbnsn/docsmok1.jpg

WARNING: These photos should not be viewed by anyone offended by or uncomfortable with photographic representations of the human body post-mortem.
pathology photos of smoking related lung disease (http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/LUNGHTML/LUNG056.html)
autopsy photo of "barrel-chested" man from who died from emphysema (http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/emphysema_blues.jpg)


Well said. Those last two pictures speak for themselves. Makes me think I should post some links of what smokeless tobacco can do to you as well. It ain't pretty at all.

[Twigsoffury]

This is really irritating and i don't tolerate smoke. because it is a nasty things and it causes many diseases. so why don't we keep up this bad smoke. we can try e cigarette.

Well you see America used to be about this thing called "Freedom" and Freedom mean't that even though you personally didn't condone the harmless actions or customs of another person or people, you tolerated it so that the others around you could enjoy this said "freedom" and experience this other thing called "happiness" maybe for awhile just as much as you could yourself.. and it worked well... extremely well.. so well infact that this country became the "best" country in the world, that most everyone admired and wanted to live in, or be like as much as they could!

But then at some point, some Americans decided they didn't like this freedom that "everyone" had anymore, and wanted to take away these freedoms from those people they didn't like, because they could only perceive their own opinions and selves as the truth, even though they weren't, and it wasn't.

These Americans had more power then the other Americans and used propaganda and other deceitful methods to trick some other Americans into thinking that what they were voting for and doing would be better to them and that it would help everyone in a better way, even though it honestly didn't.

and slowly, by slowly these Americans adjusted the whole of America to how they thought it should be, pushing all others out of the way and into hiding.. they all feared if they spoke out and wanted the freedoms they used to have, that they would be put inside cages, beat up or even killed.

and so it has been ever since, and will continue to be for quite some time, you can look around you and see the consequences of what those Americans have done, but as to who those Americans are.. depends on what kind of person you are, and if you see yourself on one side of the fence over the other.. then those Americans have done their job of deceit very well on you.

[d_stilgar]

Necro Spambot.

[Twigsoffury]

Necro Spambot.


slim pickin's these days