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That is in fact, true. You see, he is moving house next weekend. I am feeling rather generous so I would love nothing more than to volunteer Colleen's services to go help move.

In the first photo we see someone buying lottery tickets. In the second one someone is buying cigarettes to smoke. Both images are similar but just so you could compare. So to complete Doreen's statement, smoking is so... Expensive

I was about to post something similar to what reciprocity just did. I want to look as sexy as that horrific beast which is why I keep smoking. Alright, kidding, no I did not pick it back up. I decided to trade my good looks for health. Even that lung health org says it is glamorous though

I had the wrong idea. I thought this forum was to tease the one they call "Bakon". But then someone mentioned trying to quit smoking. I thought, "Well, that is a tangent from the main point of this place, yes?" Then it got mentioned a few times. I thought, "well I just gave it up myself early October. Maybe I can join the chat." The reason I am here - I followed a friend here (though she is presently MIA) but stayed for the mostly light-hearted chat. I am still not sure if this is mainly a "quit smoking board" or a "poke good fun at each other board" but either way who wouldn't enjoy it? But anyways - I am not planning on taking up smoking again as there is NO reason to. I gave away my cigarette rolling machine and I am not about to go pay $5 a pack for some stupid nasty cancer sticks. So yeah, being on board for a year is but the beginning. Coming up on two months quit, the desire to smoke has faded to a faint background noise a couple times a day and lasts maybe two seconds. I shall be here.

Three in a day is not a high volume to smoke, unlike regulars who go through about a pack. I was using three a day for four days before i quit. So tomorrow, just use none. If you can manage to keep it down to three, then using none is not that much harder. Just try not to light up that first one when you wake up. That will set the day of wanting more if you light up. In other words - it will make the craving worse than if you left it alone. Many have quit successfully, you can too.

So for about a week and a half, I have been dealing with a pretty unpleasant ailment, cellulitis on my lower left leg. Not only does it hurt and look grotesque, but I have stomach aches come and go, my appetite is all over the place, it just sucks. BTW for those who do not know - cellulitis is NOT the same as cellulite. One makes you cringe when wearing a swimsuit, the other can kill you if left untreated. So I am on antibiotics... It is a staph infect, not sure HOW I caught it, probably got cut scraped on something at work and never even noticed. It ain't fun. Or as Yoda might say, "House always polyester fun isn't darndest ain't" or whatever that green thing says. OK hang on, this is going somewhere... quit sighing and groaning like that... So last night, I dreamed I was in some tobacco factory or something, people I knew all around smoking, filling up boxes with tobacco, just a free for all. And I thought, "Why not, I can smoke one. I am here, the time is good, and hopefully it won't lead to relapse". So of course I smoked not one puff but a whole rolled cigarette. In the dream I felt guilty. I was thinking of how I would have to admit I gave in to the nasty crave of a cancer stick. But for some reason, I kept filling my old black plastic cigarette box with more. yeah I used to carry my cigs in some thick plastic cancer stick box. And then I woke up. Being in my 1/2 sleep state still (like the last 10 days) I was there thinking, "Did I really smoke? If so, do I have to go thru withdraws again? Over ONE damn ciggy?" And I started getting mad. One of two things had happened but being 1/2 awake I still wasn't sure. Either I had smoked or I had been tricked into thinking i had smoked. Either way, my brain was LIEING to me! About something I do not like to joke about. OH that is REAL cute, brain. Wait til I donate your sorry ass to science, THEN we will see who the funny one is. Oh yes brain. Nope, no trying to BS your way out NOW... Eventually I came to. I think about the time I tried to stand up and my left leg started screaming in pain. That will terrify you into wake faster than if the Burger King mascot were standing in your room with a bottle of "special" oil. But the thing is, I didn't even want a cigarette. so WHY did I dream about that when I could stand next to the Almighty and safely declare I have no desire to cancer up? I gave up Oct 6th. I have NOT lit one up since. Get over it, brain, your dim-witted butt isn't getting a smoke. Smoking nightmares when I am already going thru a bit of a rough patch with my sexy cellulitis, not being able to put in the OT at work like I kind of need to, and Thanksgiving FLAT ruined. I was in the hospital that day. Five different people asking the same questions. Only ONE asked if I smoked. I wanted to brag. I wanted the WHOLE building to stand and cheer because I quit. But there IS good news. No not insurance saving. BUT - that 12 days of Xmas song. Let us be glad it is not 100 days of Christmas. Nevermind me right now.

(In naive nervous tone) Wha... wh.. Y.. Y.. yo you mean, you would umm pi-pi-pick pick it out with... (Starts convulsing and gasping in complete shock as my virgin ears start bleeding)

Are you suggesting that Boo would want to pick out that lady's wedgie? How can we be so sure he would want to do that?

The worst thing about being a thief is that society seems to have NO sympathy except maybe where someone is stealing food or another survival mean. Think about this - even other groups in society's lowest rungs might band together but thieves - ONLY their work-partner if they have one. Plus when you get caught and people hear about it - they will not call you a thief, they will laugh and call you a "dumb ass". For craigslist and offerup, would that be a good bargaining point to tell the seller, "You probably stole it anyways, why not just take less $$$?"

leaving FB for twitter? Isn't that called "out of the frying pan and into the fire"?

(sorry I goofed, I am an idiot But here is the fixed version) ...Inquire if he should take part in the women's right's movement. But then some Elvis impersonator came by and...

I don't think anyone would mind you being here. You are not even close to the first one here to have relapse, struggles with Quit, etc. Tyme, I did not know you used to be in medical or some sector of caregiving. I guess things we do most of our lives, we cannot just stop on a dime. We cannot escape who we are, what we do. Duty calls, we answer. I never was a caregiver to any capacity but things I am good at, cannot avoid. I guess the best you can do is put together a battle plan. If nothing else, give yourself some credit for what cigarettes you DID avoid during the attempted quits.

...ponder if he should take part in the women's right's movement. But then some Elvis impersonator came by and...

Right on! If anyone "hogged" all the smokes, at least you can say it wasn't you. OK well, so much for my attempt at humor. So... Just wanted to say "Good job" and stuff.

Pity smokers. I kind of feel at that stage even right now, little over seven weeks in. Too early?

That is one thing - when one talks about LP's, the subject of hipsters comes up. I am about as far from such as one gets. The good news though if you have something to play them on, thrift stores often have a lot of stuff mostly from the 60's. Not my bag really, but yeah once in a while I even come across 80's jams. Ain't no hipsterman gonna want my Pat Benatar, Belle Stars, Kim Carnes, or Berlin. Funny thing about that place - there is a sector who are vinyl addicts. SOMEtimes one goes in with a genuine concern that they are addicted to buying LP's. You know what they get told? "I don't see the problem". "Join the club". "I have (umpteen) thousand".

hahahha... Hey I feel the same way when I talk to a 20 something year old and have to explain who Kim Carnes was... "You know, she did Bette Davis Eyes?" and they stand there with a look like, "Uhhhh...?" Meanwhile I own five of her LP's. Yes, LP's Doreen and reciprocity - I found something interesting, probably not suppose to post here but let me send you two a link to something you might enjoy... give me just a few minutes...

The Quit has far reaching effects, all of which are good. Always something to look forward to in life, good to be around to see it. Today's or any day's artists - They will have that effect on their respective generations. People often think the music they grew up with is somehow "best". For me, that would be the 80's. For you, 60's perhaps? I am not familiar with those bands you went to see.

If they do turn up on craigslist and Bat sees the ad, what would be the next course of action? I mean that would increase Bat's chances of recovery AND perhaps the creeps getting busted? It is likely they have a lot of stolen shit on CL if they put the generators and Stihl on there.

...finding Bakon a place to live other than our couch. He lays around all day watching The Rifleman reruns while...

Right now because of the holidays, the thieves are working extra hard. The rest of us are buying stuff, working more hours, preparing for the holidays etc. So, according to Murphy's law, some son of a bitch needs to ruin it. Where i work, not a day goes by during the holidays when someone isn't trying to walk out with stuff. Did other units get hit? Also, not sure if this matters now but was a police report filed? Not that the police can really recover stolen goods but the insurance may need the report. All that aside, it just sucks cause one cannot have much of anything cause some klepto thinks it is theirs to steal. The world hates a thief. It is why my neighbor has three Cane Corsos running around her property. Big mean ugly sons of bitch dogs. Wouldn't you just LOVE to been able though to walk in while the thieves were at work, pull your "protective piece", and be like, "Alright now what the f*** you doing...?" just to watch them crap their pants and beg you not to call the PD? Smoking? I am guessing we are talking NOT Benson and Hedges but instead Smith and Wesson?

Tyme2B - I might be going against the grain by saying this but - if that is typical behavior from mom, being able to concentrate on something as challenging as a quit would be even harder. I am not going to sit here and lecture. I would say your smoking habit is probably one of your lesser problems right now. You gotta figure out some way to handle mom. May have to cut contact, report her suicide threats, just whatever. Put your god damn foot down. I know she is probably older and isn't likely to change but you cannot subject yourself to this if you want a healthy life. This goes far beyond whether or not you smoke. Our health is more than being a smoker or non-smoker. It is the people or situations we have to deal with. What do I know? Not quit first hand like you do but if my step-dad were given the chance, he would probably act the same way with me. I have NO contact. Quitting, as we all know, is much more than just putting down that pack. We have to clear some obstacles before and during. For some, the quit path may be a walk in the park (as much as quitting CAN be) but for others, it is like trying to drudge one's way through a destroyed alley. Sounds like Tyme2B is in the "alley". Yeah but you NEED to do something about your mom. Most people do not regret getting "difficult" relatives out of their lives. Even if you do manage to put away the smokes, she is ruining other areas of your life.

the title of this thread, "slap slap slap slap"... Was it originally about Bakon enjoying himself to a princess Diana commemorative plate?

Last time I saw a similar thread on a forum it was titled only "Nun". It was a thread about what kind of meat priests eat on Sunday.