new thread :laughs:

Nothing to do with what Eben is talking about but I had a cortizone shot in my right shoulder today from repetitive motion...:hihi: :smokin: :doh: johnny

dang.. i was going to dee-lete that. :smash:

gawd I love thai food :vamp:

:jump:
Now you're talking!
:smokin: :rocketem:

:mad:

It must be the year to kick the nic sticks. I went cold turkey Jan 18...a little over a pack a day...Just don't try and go on a diet at the same time....lots of sweets helped me through the cravings, but now I hit 250#....when is this good weather gonna hit so I can work off the extra extra.....

Im doing alright not feeling so :splat: anymore just eating like crazy, but I been running in the morning before work :D

From the cops?? :bl:

i got a needle 4 U that will make you :happy:

I'm on one month and still going...

nah no need to run from the cops in the hood, plenty of brown ppl like me here :D ... Its those back woods of exeter that scare me :hidin:

brain re-programing
 

it's the mental associations you make with things that cause you to react
negatively or positively towards them... and i believe there are stop smoking tapes you can buy to change your mind set...for about ten bucks... but remember that smoke is dust....and within that dust is the nicotine,,,which by the way is an insecticide utilized by cotton growers to kill the cotton boweevil
because NOTHING else will.... power walking is better than jogging because is less traumatic to your joints.... and you don't build up carbon dioxide and fatigue yourself so readily..

Hang in there Fishaholic,

My Mom and Dad quit 1 year ago this month...My Dad had pretty much smoked non-filtered Camels for 45 years. If you can stop smoking those things anything is possible.

Is great going to their house now. No cigarette smell and the grandkids don't stink when they come home...

I gotta quit :smash:

I quit smoking about 11 years ago and then quit Copenhagen about 2 years later... Copenhagen was much harder. :bc: :bc: :af: :af: :wall: (I did two tins a day, which is roughly the equivalent nicotine of 6 packs of smokes)

One thing I remember: After about a month or so I noticed my taste buds came back and so did smells (not always good). I also remember how nicotine kinda keeps you in a bit of a haze that you never noticed until you quit...

keep up the good work guys......you won't regret it.

and remember " you used to smoke" " you used to be a smoker"

3 weeks this past saturday. Still eating like a mf'er! :wall: to anyone thinking of quiting GET A BJ"S OR SAMS CLUB CARD!!! You'll be eating LIKE A MF"ER!!!!! :uhuh:

Quitting?!, hell, I'll be starting up again..... cigars on the beach :uhuh: :) johnny

smoking and eating
 

the reason your body craves food is because it is no longer working fulltime with all its eliminatory organs to rid the body of the INSECTICIDE nicotine
and the oral stimulation is also absent. Plus your tastebuds return to normal.

Keep it up Vic.
You can afford a few pounds, you're lucky, unlike me.
I need to go on a f$#@# diet. :peessed:

f18 I think I was legally part ham for most of the day on Easter Sunday... Hell Im eating now.... :D

You need to eat.

:gu:

Go For It !!!
 

Broke my ankle in February. Three weeks into cast got a wicked chest cold. Coughed all night every 15 min like clockwork. Lungs hurt so bad thought I was gonna cough up my testicles. Stopped smoking and now it is 2 months and 1 week without a smoke. Wife goes outside and smells when she comes in. Hope she'll stop. Came out of Home Depot the other day and followed a guy who lit up all the way to his car then walked back to mine. But now I say "I choose not to smoke" and it's getting better.

Hang in there - It'll be worth it for all of us.

Sarge :wid:

1 month = 1 pant size :liquify:

go on light one up :buds: You know You want a nice cancer stick go on.......
and Ya get to hack ya lungs and the smell :hihi:

It's been about 7 weeks for me . I can breathe..... :tm:
I feel much better.

great job Dave, :kewl:
picked my date :rollem:

Geez, all this talk of quitting. I guess I need to give it a try again and get this monkey of my back :bc: I'm envious of the folks that have quite here,

Chris, make your date NOW!!!
It's worth the initial suffering..
You'll feel better in no time.
Good Luck!!!!! :hihi:
Throw the butts in the trash Dude..We're all routing for ya. :tm:

Gotta finish up my South Beach thingy first, shedding a quick 20#'s first..so i have room to grow :doh: But I am gonna, I have too...too many good years left, I hope :hee:

If your game, we can try to shake this nasty habit together. Lets set a date and if one of us starts smoking again then he owes the other a couple of plugs or something. :bl:

I'm game... :buds:

Alrighty then, lets choose a date :err: The first one to break owes the other a plug of his choice (please don't pick one of those gold plated ones from the smithsonian). Not sure if I'll try the patch or gum or just go cold turkey. Been smoking since I was a teen, almost 30 years now(on and off). I think its time to stop this silliness. Maybe after I'll try to quite sniffin the glue :tm:

one thing at a time :D

How soon? The date I picked is a ways out, I know I know but hey. Lots of things to consider and it was the most feasible for me... I say three plugs, and choice of builders, gotta beg, borrow, and rump swab to get em..
It's been 19yrs... do about 2 1/2 packs a day now of reds, almost $14..over 5k a year !!! stupid :smash:

Wow, thats a lot of tobacky, 2 1/2 per day! A pack will last me at least 2 days, unless I'm chasing them down with beer on a weekend. I can't smoke at work, home or in my new truck. My GF thinks I quit a few months ago and he she finds out I didn't she'll kill me for sure. 3 plugs are fair, thats only 3 or 4 days of smoking for you :smokin: What date did you have in mind?

May 5th, whatdoyasay?

:kewl: :bl:

I don't know how many people see you, but I am watched by a few :hidin:
A man's word is good enough for me, you can lie to your girlfriend and to your mother but not to your friends.. :hihi:

Put it on the calendar, I did...

Consider it done! Check your PM