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NOPE - smoking sucks!

I'm sorry about your friend @Rozuki And very happy that your nephew is quitting. It must feel good to be the example for him that quitting is possible

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Nope No “cigarette” smoking on 4-20.

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Bad news: A friend has been diagnosed (just this past Monday) with small cell lung cancer with brain metastases...very bad news, indeed. Smoked 2 packs a day for over 40+ years (she had quit about 4 years ago.) Good news: My nephew has started on Chantix this month as he wants to quit smoking...says I am a good example for him!

NOPE! Happy Friday, everybody!

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^^^^^ Yipper can agree with that Octain!!!!!

Thanks all!!!! My reward was new shirt and shorts for the summer. Yay for boring adulthood.

As everyone knows I don't have anything against e-cigarettes. Hadn't heard of the one in Linda's article so looked it up. This is a really long article so it might put you off reading it but in a nutshell it looks like there are whispers that their reports on how great this product is are a bit *cough* inaccurate. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tobacco-iqos-science/

Thanks a lot for all the replies jillar , lilly , ankush , doreen , linda , reciprocity , abbynormal , johnny5 Yup good days , bad days , hangover of bad days That is what i have been going through . Monsoon is my favorite season here in India . So i am waiting for it too Also planning to change the diet a bit , I was thinking about eating a bit less every time i feel like eating

Were you duped? I can't answer that. I would ask why growing up you associated smoking cigarettes with being "Johnny bad ass." Smoking a cigarette doesn't require any real level of strength or courage, yet smoking was viewed by many of us in our formative years as something "real men" did. That was not a coincidence. It was the result of a decades long manipulative campaign by the tobacco companies. I'm all for taking personal responsibility. I am also all for observing the past tactics used by the merchants of death to manipulate people and call them on their bullshit. These two ideas are not mutually exclusive.

Tobacco Co Creed: "A man has the right to dig his own grave and I have the right to sell shovels."

I agree 100% with @Wantsit, I'm not going to hate the tobacco companies for something I chose to do. We have to take responsibility for our own actions.....

Wansit, we are making it better. We are quitting. How awesome is that. I never thought I had that power within me. Hopefully we show others the way to freedom!

This is an interesting article about how tobacco companies are realizing people are quitting smoking and they need to hook people another way. Philip Morris needs to kill smoking to survive ://a.msn.com/00/en-us/BBW2w7D?ocid=se

Just in case you didn’t know, tomorrow, Saturday April 20 is national weed day here in America. A lot of people like to celebrate this day by consuming Cannabis. Problem is, a lot of people also like to smoke cigarettes while consuming cannabis. Kind a like how people like to smoke when they drink alcohol. This is not recommended. Smoke all the cannabis you want but don’t smoke no cigarettes. Happy day, everyone!!

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I'm sorry too @Rozuki to hear the sad news about your friend ... I often wonder if I have dodged the bullet ...but I intend to enjoy what life I have left ....smoke free..... Your nephew has a great role model ..

Wow! Try and take it easy on the rewards there Kdad. Next thing you know you'll be picking up a new lawn rake or something

@Rozuki I am so sorry about your friend. Hearing stories like this always make me wonder if I will get my life back or still suffer from the effects of smoking so long. I do hope your nephew can follow your lead.

Was it not just part of the times though? I mean where I grew up it was smoking cigarettes, drinking, and just generally being Johnny bad ass. And in my case I started driving trucks in the oil field's and smoked to stay awake all night. I mean... were we really duped? My mom and dad smoked and I don't know why, but I was the only one out of 4 that picked up the nasty habit. I wish I never would have but it is what it is. I only have myself to blame, I do wish I could lay it on someone else but I have to suck it up. All we can do is move forward and try to make the best of our situation now.

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NOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good to see you here Hope2Nope. We were about the same time on the QSMB and good to see your hanging in there.

^... Don't waste your energy on regret...what's done is done, why can't go back on time and change what we did but we can control what we do .... We have quit, we do not smoke, we have made the right choice....celebrate this decision don't waste time and energy regretting your past decisions it is negative energy and a waste of all your free time you have taken back Have pride in you choice to quit and tenacity to stay quit, don't waste a moment feeling shame or regret it will achieve nothing. Sadly for some of us we may have left it too late, but for many of us we have avoided that one ciggie that was the cincher....but for me when I got sick early in my quit and I faced treatment and I thought about smoking, (I mean what was the point in staying quit I was already sick), but you know what...I want to leave this life free of an addiction that controls me....I want to go out the master of myself. @Rozuki I'm sorry for you and your friend. So I despise big tobacco, but not because I was stupid enough to buy their lies...that's all on me...I'm angry with them because they think it's acceptable to profit from making people sick, they know the product they sell addicts the users, they know the product hurts and kills them and yet they see no issue continuing to profit from others misery, even innocent bystanders...that's what pissed me off. They know and they don't care...they want people addicted...just don't know how they look at themselves in the mirror and say "I'm good people".

Well, they are from my favorite store, Duluth Trading Company. About 3X normal cost.

I'm with Jillar on this. When I was young I never saw any smoking ads and nobody smoked on any TV I watched. People at school smoked as did my mum. I smoked through choice and I have to take responsibility for my own actions. I continued to do it even though I knew the risks. Electronic cigarettes are a big market and tobacco companies are a business. From that perspective it makes sense that they go where the money is.

Down and dirty Blues music...so damn good.

When we were young, they made smoking look so appealing. All the movie stars smoked and romanticized it. I am ashamed of my foolishness. I am hoping we can teach the younger generations.

The one thing that gets to me now....is how I fell into the trap...the lies...for all those years ... I'm angry at the tobacco companies ....and I'm more angry at myself.... I hate them....

Just got my permit approval for a 4-5 day backpacking trip in August to Rae Lakes Loop in Kings Canyon National Park (near Yosemite). Very excited. This trip would not have been possible if I were still a smoker.

They are fighting for their corporate survival in any and all ways they can, no matter who they hurt or kill along their way .... like they always have. The Who did a song called; Won't Get Fooled Again! There was a lyric near the end of that song "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" - applies very much to big tobacco unfortunately

And the big tobacco companies continue to march on and reap profits thru inflicting damage/injury to others. I am so sad I ever fell into their trap. I can only go forward and let others know the dangers, I do this by speaking to my grandchildren and they do listen -- they only have to look to me to see the damages!!!!