06-04-2005 22:38									#1
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Well, it has been a month since I had a cigarette.

I thought I would have been climbing walls, but it has proved surprisingly easy. I still fancy a smoke roughly once a day, but it is not a physical craving, and the tax that the fascist Canadian scum government has put on the things has made it too pricey to smoke.

I might bum the odd one at a party some time, but I don't really feel like smoking all the time any more.

And I thought quitting was supposed to be hard.

	06-04-2005 22:39									#2
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Lucky bastard.

Thanks to a break-up and my insanely stressful BFA re-audition, I'm up to almost pack a day...I've never had a pack a day before, up until these past few weeks.

Hopefully I'll be in the mood to quit soon :\

	06-04-2005 22:44									#3
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Look at how much it costs.

That's what stopped me smoking. I could have probably afforded a new Powerbook every 18 months if I hadn't smoked.

Based on my cigarette purchases in Boston, you are getting spanked worse than I was.

On the other hand, I have eaten a few twinkies since stopping, but then again I've been walking everywhere so I have actually lost weight.

There were a few others who were trying to quit. What happened to them?

	06-04-2005 22:46									#4
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I remember Pekka saying that he had quit for a month or so, I think...I wonder if he's kept it up?

	06-04-2005 22:48									#5
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Yeah... he needs to stop... he needs to be fit... there are villains to be bashed.

	06-04-2005 22:49									#6
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Congratulations Agathon. Glad you found it easier than many.

I imagine I have smoked enough for both of us in the last month. I picked up your slack.

You paid too much b/c you bought retail...?

$2.50 a pack is the way to go.

	06-04-2005 23:12									#7
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quote: and the tax that the fascist Canadian scum government has put on the things has made it too pricey to smoke

ITYM, socialist Canadian scum government.

	06-04-2005 23:14									#8
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if they were socialist, you'd be paying the tax on my smokes.

	06-04-2005 23:15									#9
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So, is Agathon a Kiwi, an Ozzie, or a Canuck? I am confuzzled.

	06-04-2005 23:18									#10
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Calll me an Australian St Leo would ya!!!

You've gone too far this time!!!!

I know where you live, and I'll be around at your house this evening to beat you up!!!!!

	06-04-2005 23:21									#11
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Now that i think about it, it was easy to quit when i was pregnant with my kids. soon as all 3 were born I started again. smoke free for 9 months 3 times and then start up again I wonder why that was

	06-04-2005 23:22									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski Now that i think about it, it was easy to quit when i was pregnant with my kids. soon as all 3 were born I started again. smoke free for 9 months 3 times and then start up again I wonder why that was

Tuberski gets on your nerves?

	06-04-2005 23:29									#13
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quote: Originally posted by Agathon Tuberski gets on your nerves?

Actually I only see him on weekends and the occasional day off during the week.
And tubes didnt father my kids my ex husband did, but that theory works for him

	07-04-2005 00:56									#14
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I never understood what makes people start smoke.

	07-04-2005 01:01									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist I never understood what makes people start smoke.

please like me...please *cry*

see I'm cool...

	07-04-2005 02:20									#16
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Good job Agathon.

Keep it up!

	07-04-2005 02:24									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist I never understood what makes people start smoke.

For me it was a stressfull event and somebody handed me a smoke. I lit it choked a bit finished it and that was it for me, it wasnt as dramatic as asher puts it. Maybe some do start to be cool i dont know. But as a lot of smokers know its not cool you soon become an outcast.

	07-04-2005 02:29									#18
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quote: please like me...please *cry* see I'm cool...

Nope. It's pleasant and relaxing, and unlike masturbation you can do it in public without anyone staring.

	07-04-2005 02:37									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Asher please like me...please *cry* see I'm cool...

Till my mid-teens, I believed that cool people were intrinsically inferior to other people.

	07-04-2005 04:40									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski For me it was a stressfull event and somebody handed me a smoke. I lit it choked a bit finished it and that was it for me, it wasnt as dramatic as asher puts it. Maybe some do start to be cool i dont know. But as a lot of smokers know its not cool you soon become an outcast.

outcase...synonymous with "rebel" in this case.

Go figure most people start smoking as teenagers.

	07-04-2005 04:58									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist I never understood what makes people start smoke.

	07-04-2005 05:01									#22
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quote: Go figure most people start smoking as teenagers.

I didn't. I started because it is pleasant.

	07-04-2005 05:50									#23
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Congrats aggie.

I'm sure your wife appreciates not having to gag when she catches your breath.

	07-04-2005 06:58									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski Now that i think about it, it was easy to quit when i was pregnant with my kids. soon as all 3 were born I started again. smoke free for 9 months 3 times and then start up again I wonder why that was

You need to stop. Just think of the children!

	07-04-2005 07:54									#25
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Apparently 2/3 of the population grow extra nicotene receptors in the brain, so they find it hard, if not impossible to give up. 1/3 are easy come, easy go.

	07-04-2005 07:57									#26
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Right on Aggie

It's been 6 months for me, and I use to smoke a pack a day. I too thought it would be tough, and it was, but after a few weeks the craving become easier to ignore.

I feel much better
and I am sure my kid will be happier that I quit

quiting

	07-04-2005 07:59									#27
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger You need to stop. Just think of the children!

I know your right UR my kids the two youngest came up to me and asked "when are you going to stop doing drugs" I was like wtf i dont do drugs and told them that and they said yes you do mom you smoke. boy are they smart now days or what

	07-04-2005 07:59									#28
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1 pack/day for 12 years... and I tried to quit

nicotine is a drug

so is caffine

so is air@!

	07-04-2005 08:27									#29
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Japher thought of the children.

	07-04-2005 08:29									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Japher so is air@!

Nah. It's not addictive