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True TNP has insomnia.

Can you believe it?

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unfortunately search and many other things do not work in the way back machine.

Did anyone use a program like HTTrack to make a copy of the qsmb at some point before it went down? I know that when it went down previously there was some talk of doing that for private use. Please pm if you have heard anything about this.

Hey cyndib917, I'm also looking forward to celebrating your entrance to the lido deck. Way to go!

Hi Gigi, nice to meet you here at quittrain.

You're so right reciprocity. Addiction and denial go hand in hand and one feeds the other and vice versa. Something like 50% of all smokers will die because of smoking and that doesn't even count the ones whose health will notably suffer even if they don't die because of it. So it is a killing addiction. I thought I had quit early enough (age 52) to avoid the worst consequences of smoking but that turned out not to be the case. I remember when I was 40 reading that if I quit at 40 I'd very likely be ok, but I just breezed through that marker for another decade. And then I was 50. I believed the lie for a long time that I was too addicted to quit. But I did eventually quit with the help on an online support forum where I got educated about how to quit, what the lies of nicotine addiction are and how to handle the crises moments in my quit so as not to get pulled back into the dark pit of addiction.

Way to go Gordo! The first days and weeks and sometimes months of a quit are tough and many people have moments where they feel they might be losing it. Sometimes it is just a matter of getting through the moment, second by second or minute by minute and soon enough you will feel better. I used to tell myself a few things that helped. 1. The only way to out is through. (This is the escape from the nicotine addiction.) 2. Smoking won't solve any problem it just makes everything worse. 3. This too shall pass.

Yes Doreensfree, Weegie, reciprocity, Sazerac and Whispers... that whole scenario of smoking... I used to 'hide' my smoking and pretend to myself that other people, like my son who hated it, didn't know. (I was deluding myself.) I don't miss the self-delusion. I'd sneek out to the garage and smoke. I don't miss the hiding and the lying and brushing my teeth and showering to cover up the smell, and all the moments when I wasn't there or there mentally because i was transfixed by my next smoke. It was a kind of slavery. I'm free now.

I don't miss the bad cigarette taste in my mouth when I wake up in the morning.

People can submit comments on the proposed new regulation by following the instructions in https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-05345.pdf to https://www.regulations.gov/ My view is that if they can lower the nicotine levels to make them non-addictive then teenagers who experiment with cigarettes won't become addicted, life-long smokers. Regarding people who are already addicted, it looks like research suggests that people will move to other products like vaping or gum to get their nicotine fix if the price of cigarettes is high and the nicotine is too low to get a fix. Or addicted smokers will quit. Currently nicotine levels are at 1.1-1.9 averaging around 1.5 (I forget the units) and they are talking about lowering to 0.3 to 0.5, so there would be no way to compensate in smoking behavior besides upping to 3 times the current usage. Since most smokers are low income this would be prohibitively expensive. The science behind the proposed regulations is in a publically available paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine "Potential Public Health Effects of Reducing Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes in the United States" http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsr1714617?query=featured_home#.WqqcpNF04k8.twitter Henry Waxman, who famously interrogated the cigarette executives who all said they believed nicotine was not addictive is also in favour of this move. I don't think it is a cynical ploy.

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You're doing great, Octain. I loved your post. It brought back fond memories of my own quit. Yes, fond. Because of the pride of accomplishment.

I hope they are right that this will lead to fewer kids smoking but no one really knows what level it will take to make cigarettes non addictive. It sounds like a giant experiment but I do . think it is better to try something than to do nothing at all. My preference would be to not let anyone born after 1999 buy cigarettes at all.

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Going, going, gone.

Hey Give, Thanks for asking. I'm doing ok. I have some long term side effects from chemotherapy that are more bothersome than the lingering uncomfortableness from the surgical scar underneath my breast. That is the only one that causes mild discomfort. There's no indication I have advancing cancer. I had some residual ground glass lesions (that's the appearance on ct) in my lungs that have remained stable. They took out the one that had a solid part and was growing. The others are either benign, pre-cancerous or very slow growing cancer. There's nothing to do about them except watch and wait. The hardest part is actually the mental part. I can go for months and forget all about it but some days I'm quite worried. My lung function though is excellent, even though I smoked for 35 years and have only 3/4 of my lungs left.