Please Stop Smoking

Dave Yates (GrandPAH)_1

I started when I was 10. By the time I turned 16, I was up to more than a pack a day. At 30, I passed the three-pack-a-day habit. I quit every year for the next six years when I took Scouts on 10-day wilderness high adventure canoe trips and promptly started back up as soon as I returned to the tensions of the business. When I quit, at 36, I had passed the 3.5-pack-a-day mark. 18-years ago & haven't puffed since. Quit cold turkey - while on vacation in VA, the land of cheap (back then) cigaretts. Was the hardest thing I've ever accomplished. It's been said that quitting smoking is even harder than quitting heroin & I believe there's more than a grain of truth in that claim.

Since I was, like most smokers, living under the delusion that I was going to quit (years of deceit), I bought em by the single pack each morning. Buying a carton of cowboy-brand smokes at a time would have been an admission I wasn't serious about quitting.

Tain't nuttin worse than a reformed smoker(G).

If my math is correct, I've saved about $100,000.00 by not smoking these past 18 years!

Trivia fact: The Marlboro Man wore Mighty Mac brand coats, named after Mac Bell, the son of the owner. I sat next to Mac in 11th grade.

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Supply House Rick

We are supposed to grow old together

You owe it to your spouse, kids, co-workers, family, friends and mostly to yourself.

Not preaching, just would like to see you living for as long as possible...

Thanks,

Rick

ttekushan_3

Asbestos and smoking

Especially in our business where exposure to asbestos can occur without warning.

Studies have proven that asbestos exposure to a smoker's lungs is about 10 times (as I recall) more likely to cause lung cancer than to a nonsmoker.

I quit 2 years ago.

-Terry

John Mills_5

Yes, think of your family

The odds of getting cancer are so great these days, why do anything to hasten it along.

Our office manager lost her younger brother a few weeks ago after a 2 year fight with cancer. It was a very unpleasant death. Monday her older brother died of it after being diagnosed a week ago. Losing 2 brothers in under a month has left her devastated.

jackchips_2

My wife,

daughter and two granddaughters saw Body Works in Boston a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for the recommendation, Dan.

Real bodies, real lungs, real cancer.

Jack

joel_19

body works

Yup saw that too, i don't know why someone would smoke after seeing that. glad i never did. Now if i can just get off the sugar, red meat , salt , chemical food additives and the occasional frosty adult beverage I'll be in good shape!

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ScottMP

Joel

Just be carefull of the :

Sachrine

Apsratine

Mecury in the fish

Tannins in the red wine

Kidney failure from the Ibuprohin

Rectal leakage

Erections lasting more than eight hours

Or all the other FUN stuff.

Scott

PS: In case anyone takes this wrong I am a non-smoker, but a practicing wise guy.

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Paul Fredricks_3

Having been through chemo, me and my wife, I feel I can safely say that cancer sucks. It amazes me that anyone would smoke. Nothing like looking forward to a slow debilitating end of your life.

Scott Gregg

Shame of it all

is that they won't ban the stuff. They have just created a cash cow with taxes that they won't ever kill. About $.25 per pack is cigarettes, the rest is taxes.

I shook the smokes about 5 years ago after watching my dad dies at 57 from cancer of the esophogus. Mom and sister quit a couple years ago as a Christmas present to me after my repeated bagering of them.

Cigarettes are said to be an extra tax on the poor and the stupid, because that is who tends to stick with them. I'm not too sure about all that but...

Gazillions of dollars for heathcare that is fully preventable. Countless lives lost and families greiving, all preventable. And then you pass some **** in a car smoking, windows up and a baby in a car seat.

lchmb

Never would have guessed

> Just be carefull of the

> :

>

> Sachrine

>

> Apsratine

>

> Mecury in the

> fish

>

> Tannins in the red wine

>

> Kidney failure

> from the Ibuprohin Rectal

> leakage

>

> Erections lasting more than eight

> hours

>

> Or all the other FUN

> stuff.

>

> Scott

>

> PS: In case anyone takes this

> wrong I am a non-smoker, but a practicing wise

> guy.

>

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Having just quit (again) about 45 day's ago I can say it is not easy. I grew up in a family of smoker's and it was considered the "norm" to smoke. If anyone does want to quit and want's someone to talk with who can understand it, email me, I'll try and give you all the support I can.

lchmb

never would have guessed

Having just quit (again) about 45 day's ago I can say it is not easy. I grew up in a family of smoker's and it was considered the "norm" to smoke. If anyone does want to quit and want's someone to talk with who can understand it, email me, I'll try and give you all the support I can.

mtfallsmikey

It's sad

To be addicted to nicotine. But it is very real. Just as addicted as a junkie on coke, crack, crank. New drugs like Chantix will be a big help.

Josh_10

Today marks my six year anniversary of quiting the bad habit!! Second to my family it is the greatest thing I have ever done for myself.

I wish persons who are just now "trying" the habit could know how hard it is to quite. There is no reasonable comparison that I can give. It is simply the most self control that I have ever had to exhert.

Supply House Rick

That's great Josh!

I have 13 years. I just quit, didn't try cutting down. My wife told me I was going to be a Dad and that was it. Never cheated, never looked back. Life is tough enough without tobacco...

Rick

Unknown

my story

During the 14 years that I stupidly smoked, an old doctor keep telling me that I needs to have my sinus operation and quit smoking. So I did have my sinus operation and never had a cigerette in more than 16 years. Waited 4 years before I become a reformed smoker with an attuide against smokers. Ironic, my sinus got worst and had 2 more operations and still have it. I do enjoy socialize with people, but hate coming home smelling like a giant ashtray.
Saw this middle aged lady chainsmoking while being hooked up to o2 tank! Making her slow death miserable and I'm to pity her?

Mad Dog_2

Ban it??????

what's next? fattening foods, sugar, booze. We are entitled to eat, smoke, and drink ourselves to death - if we choose. From a Non-smoker. Mad Dog

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Brad White_9

Too important to let go

These type of postings should stay as a constant reminder!

May you quit today and begin healing

BillW@honeywell

Want proof?

Take a look at the water in the dishwasher after you have washed the electronic air cleaner cells from the HVAC system of a smoking household. That stuff is nasty,dark brown or black with oily goop on top, suds are black. Smoking is slow suicide; yes, I am an ex-smoker, quit 30 years ago, cold turkey. You CAN do it!

Pinball

I just lost a friend of mine I had for the past 30 years.
We were together through everything! Good and Bad.

By my side the day I got married.

Helped me celebrate the birth of my daughter.

helped me get through a tough divorce.

stayed with me during the death and funeral of my Dad.

Had coffee with me every morning

And was one of the last friends I saw before bed at night.

Well, 19 days ago I said goodbye. and I hope I never have to see this "friend" again!

Now you may wonder, how and why, I can so easily say that about a friend I have had for so many years.

You see, this "friend" was CIGARETTS and I am happy to say good ridance!!

Friends like that ...who needs enymies?!

I know it's only 19 days but for me thats alot. Cold Turkey
and not looking back!

Wish me luck! and try it for yourselves, It's easier than I thought!

Al (pinball) Bruno

Pinball

> I just lost a friend of mine I had for the past

> 30 years. We were together through everything!

> Good and Bad.

>

> By my side the day I got

> married.

>

> Helped me celebrate the birth of my

> daughter.

>

> helped me get through a tough

> divorce.

>

> stayed with me during the death and

> funeral of my Dad.

>

> Had coffee with me every

> morning

>

> And was one of the last friends I saw

> before bed at night.

>

> Well, 19 days ago I said

> goodbye. and I hope I never have to see this

> "friend" again! Now you may wonder, how and

> why, I can so easily say that about a friend I

> have had for so many years.

>

> You see, this

> "friend" was CIGARETTS and I am happy to say good

> ridance!!

>

> Friends like that ...who needs

> enymies?!

>

> I know it's only 19 days but for me

> thats alot. Cold Turkey and not looking

> back!

>

> Wish me luck! and try it for yourselves,

> It's easier than I thought!

>

> Al (pinball) Bruno

Pinball