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There are cooler ways to die than purposefully inhailing poison-fumes
Kublai
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I smoked for over 20 years. Took Chantix for a week and quit smoking. You are supposed to take that stuff for three months. But it made me WEIRD. I would forget where the hell I was and where I was going. Nutso dreams, which was sort of cool, but they were so vivid it made me feel like I hadn't slept. So, I got off the chantix in a hurry, but it was very effective in reducing the frequency and severity if my cravings. That was a year ago. I have put on 20 lbs since then.
Wana_make_a_guitar
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Thanks for the helpful advice. I don't plan on smoking.
i've got asthma because my babysitter thought it would be fine to smoke while she watched me. to be fair, it was her own house she watched me in, but i feel like she could have gone without smoking for a few hours if it meant i'd be able to run half a mile without dying later in my life :-\ but no.
anyway, i don't think smoking would agree with me AT ALL mainly because thats the whole reason i can't breathe now :icon_biggrin:
anyway, i don't think smoking would agree with me AT ALL mainly because thats the whole reason i can't breathe now :icon_biggrin:
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I don't smoke, but I don't fault people who do.
Smoking is as addictive as heroin, costs an arm and a leg, reeks to high heaven, is a danger to those around you, and if it doesn't kill you will make you much less fit. And it DOESN"T EVEN GET YOU HIGH!
I quit in my early 20s and have only been off the wagon a few times since.
I quit in my early 20s and have only been off the wagon a few times since.
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I was just thinking about that episode of King of The Hill where the whole family got addicted to smoking. :blob7: :blob7:
I can't remember how the line went, but something like:
Cancer? Lung Disease? Didn't you read the warning label?
I thought those were the ingredients.
I can't remember how the line went, but something like:
Cancer? Lung Disease? Didn't you read the warning label?
I thought those were the ingredients.
I smoked for a few years, joining the Marine corp was a good way to quit as theres no smoking for 3 months in boot camp.
But like an idiot, I started chewing when i got outta bootcamp, that was hard to quit, so i started chewing those commit pills, those worked, now i have been addicted to those stupid things for about 4 years, I'm thinking of taking up smoking to get off the pills..
Nicotine is very addictive, almost as much as building guitars
But like an idiot, I started chewing when i got outta bootcamp, that was hard to quit, so i started chewing those commit pills, those worked, now i have been addicted to those stupid things for about 4 years, I'm thinking of taking up smoking to get off the pills..
Nicotine is very addictive, almost as much as building guitars
Super Turbo Deluxe Custom
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I've smoked for 12 years, started in college in my early 20s. I was an adamant non-smoker 'til I lived in a smoking dorm. Ironically, I'm 12 years my guitar player's senior and he lived in the same dorm. It was not only non-smoking when he attended, but the only place you could smoke was a designated smoking area outside. In the not too distant past, one could smoke most anywhere and it was socially acceptable. Nowadays, you can't smoke anywhere so you really have to want to keep the habit, and there is a stigma attached to it that you are trash if you smoke. It's just funny, used to you could smoke in any building anywhere, and now people die if they smell it near a building entrance. In an ideal world, the market would dictate smoking policies. If a business wanted to allow or disallow smoking, their choice, right? Is there a "right" to dine at Chili's breathing smoke free air? Of course not. The inverse is also true, there is no "right" to smoke in restaurants. Smoking will soon be illegal IMO. Cigarettes will still be sold, but there will be no legal place to smoke them, not even in your own home (which I don't). It's even funnier when you consider they tax the be-jesus out of them to pay for social programs, so are we supposed to quit? It's like when red light cameras are installed to prevent traffic accidents, but cities complain that they are losing revenue because people don't run red lights with the same frequency when cameras are present. Smoking is bad, no doubt. It is the only product that comes to mind that when used properly is bad for you. Even alcohol has health benefits when used properly. Cigarettes, no. If smoking were gone tomorrow and no one smoked ever again, we'd still be diabetic, overweight/obese, and eating poorly, which kills more than cigarettes.
honestly, i think its ridiculous that the government outlaws smoking in public places and taxes the crap out of everything to do with cigs, but the fact that they havent outlawed the actual cigarrette is retarded. dont beat around the bush, cut it at its root or leave it alone!
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One of my favorite quotes about smoking is from Robin Williams' character in "Good Will Hunting." And I paraphrase, "Those things would be healthier if you just shoved them up your arse."
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