Buddy, wife, and my mrs out the other night. Few drinks and talking about the local "Dutch Club" which is close to home. Good cheap drinks but still allows smoking. We don't go much because of the smell and need to shower when you leave. Plus the headache sometimes from the busy nights with more smoking than usual.
mrs at probably 10 years now
buddy at more than that and 3 packs a day when he quit
buddys wife a pack a day and more than 10 years
me 2 1/2 or so with not one puff ever.
So we all say we know we wouldn't enjoy it. We know it would taste bad, give a headache and so on. Buddy said he won 100 dollars one night after 10 years he couldn't take a puff, smoke one whole one and stay clean....he took bet and did it. Said it burned his taste buds completely off, burnt his nose and in general was bad. Didn't want a second one, never liked a moment of it.
I told how I quit several times for a year, 2 years once. Went back to a pack a day every time I started again and always was a drinking fail where I tried one. I would never take that bet.
They all asked whats different this time? Newest egg asked it last week too. (The duckling complained my "log" was too long at same time. Go lick a window)
So I thought about it today....difference is maturity, feeling the affects smoking was causing me, realizing I was not immortal even if a SUperHero, and learning some of the nastier parts of smoking...the chemicals, the urges, the reason nicotine works and all the garbage surrounding why we light up. The false "stress relief" provided and the trick it really cuzes the stress. Seeing people stand outside or run out of meals to get some hits in, watching smokers at a bar light on every 20 minutes as they fight to maintain the balance as alcohol is striping the nicotine out of the blood.
The difference this time...growing up and learning something.
Thank you all, even the newbies, for reminding me everyday why I quit and keeping me from going back.
Happy Easter, Passover, or just Sunday to you all.
Love ya baby-
Kojak.