My Last Cigarette!

[alva]

Winston & Lancer


Keep it up guys, you're an inspiration to many!

[Pekka]

alva, yeah thanks, keep it up Pekka, you can do it!.. no wait.. you didn't say that..

I bet we can do it, Japher too, and the amount of money saved because the murricans don't later on suffer so much from the poisoning, you know.. I think as a thread started, I need a diploma from president Bush. Or a green card. ****.. how many people he has drawn with him to attempt like this? None. Conclution: I just saved money more than he did about this issue.

[Japher]

I'm substituting beer for cigs...

[alva]

alva, yeah thanks, keep it up Pekka, you can do it!.. no wait.. you didn't say that..

If you can do it for more than 4 days, you'll get the same threatment.

Don't give up Pekka!!

[Pekka]

Yeah. The Day 1 is still not a huge one, I mean sure I feel like smoking, but it don't get bad. Second day is always kidn of bad and the 3rd way was BAD. But I'll do this, I have failed twice now, but I'm determined. I have many reasons, one of them bveing I really can't afford this habit either. And if I dont' stop now, I might never stop. I don't want to be a smoker for the rest of my life.

Japher, is the kid on the way, or are you planning to set it on the way? Anyway, it's a good decision. You know, that it's far more likely the kid ends up a smoker if both parents smoke? If both of them don't smoke, there's a chance that the kid don't end up smoker too. I think it's a good legacy.

[Japher]

Despite the poor packing of that one, I still want it!!!!!!!!!!

[Pekka]

Japher, like Bill Hicks would say.. that now that you quit smoking, every cigarette looks good to you.. they're just calling you to smoke some.. every cigarette is like it's made by God, rolled up by Jesus and been moisted by being dipped into Claudia Shiffers...

[alva]

That is a brilliant routine indeed.

[Natalinasmpf]

Why not feast your eyes on this instead? Feel the chili liberate your tongue as it pierces straight through your craving, surrounding everything!

[Winston]

Japher, you're off to a good start. Building one's motivation and making the decision to quit is by far the most important step of the proces. Lots of thoughts and fingers crossed, you can do it!

You too Pekka, hang in there. Now that you know how annoying it is to slip up and having to start over, try focusing on that disappointment if you're close to giving in again. Easier said than done, I know, but we have to stay focused on how much is at stake here.

I wasn't planning on telling people I'd quit before I felt I was truely over it. But yesterday, I talked to my mother on the phone and I ended up telling her. The way in which I did may hold a little extra motivation for some of us. We were talking about how two of her neighbours, both long time friends of mine also, had both been hospitalized with heart disease a few weeks apart and were now out of hospital and recouperating at home. Both men, aged 70 and 54, had been told by doctors to give up smoking immediately, and one of them, the 70 year old seems to be progressing nicely, he's given up the small cigars he used to smoke.

But the younger neighbour according to my mother simply can't stop smoking, even with the help of doctors and after having had artery-widening surgery of the heart. It's dreadful, he's locked in a spiral of feeling bad about the disease, wanting to give up smoking, stressing out and craving the cigarettes even more than before. He lost his wife not half a year ago and is under a terrible amount of pressure right now.

I could hear on the phone how this sad situation affected my mother, so I told her I'd quit to lighten things up a little, which it did.

But just think about one day maybe being virtually commanded by doctors to stop smoking, and then not being able to...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Winston
Most people I've talked to say the yearning for a cigarette never leaves you completely.

It does, eventually. I haven't had the urge to smoke at all in years. When I first quit, I still smoked socially when drinking. I think I puffed my last cig altogether five or six years ago, though I quit ten years before that. Haven't had the urge since.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Japher
It really suks for me because wifey is quiting too... and the amount we fight normally is now increased as we are both feigning bad.

Turn your passion to different areas. Whenever you have a craving for a cigarette, just have sex instead. Soon you will both be to worn out to move, let alone lit a cig.

[chequita guevara]

To those about not to smoke, I salute you!

Here's a little incentive for you all. Any of you who make it six months without smoking can have me put something you want (anything within forum limits) in my sig (cig ). Not Winston, however. He can chose a new avatar for me. It's an honor system, so I'm hoping you don't start smoking and then trick me.

Good luck guys. Here's to making me look like a total fool.

[Pekka]

Oh that's so generous. NOW I'm motivated. Thank you so much for this opportunity!

[chequita guevara]

You already failed, "super"citizen. Supercommie will always defeat you.