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In Reply to: RE: I do. posted by Sondek on April 11, 2017 at 11:56:08
I love it, I will quit for the 1000th time due to financial reasons. I will not be contributing to the state taxes anymore. Figure $200 a week in Taxes they won't get from me.
And I know I am lying, I'm not quitting, it is one of the only things I got in my life that keeps me going. I lead a very sad life,
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So, why can't you?!
Weak willed?
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Yes, I have no self control. I'm a bad bad addict, I should be exterminated.
No one is worthless.I am known occasionally to smoke an OP - other people's - if offered when drinking socially. Perhaps two to three cigs a month.
So I too am still an addict of nicotine. and so will you be if you stop.
The day I 'stopped' I took a carton and a half of Gauloise, a 2/3rd carton of Camel Filters, about ten Soubranies, and two packs of RYOwn tobacco, and several different lots of pipe tobacco. And burnt them in our backyard incinerator. NB We are not allowed to have / use these, anymore.
Gave away the pipes as well - three of, including a hooked silver-ferrule Peterson, and a meerschaum. And, both cigarette rolling machines, and three waterproof cigarette box covers from my time in the H'army.
Why did I stop? I wanted / needed surgery for chronic sinusitis and a deviated septum. he wouldn't do it if I didn't stop for 2 months before and after. And, the penny dropped.
So, I know full well that it isn't easy, but if a driven, impulsive PITA like me can do it? Again, why can't - or won't? - you?
Eh?
Take a break from here, get some appointments with a counselor, to learn how to take charge of yourself, and do it!
Have a go, mate.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 04/11/17 04/11/17
What a waste of good tobacco.
Be good Tim, all the best in your recovery.
extract the digit, etc.
and, stop boring the pants off us all.
eh?
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
My Dad died of lung CA, at a much too early age. It wasn't an easy death. It eventually metastasized to his brain. I doubt he recognized anything the last few years of his life. He was constantly in-&-out of hospitals with acute pneumonia or fluid build-up on the lungs, etc.
Anyhow, Godspeed for you! Good luck!
They're only beginning to understand just how addictive nicotine really is, and why the habit is so hard to break for some people. From the article linked below on Macalester College's website:
"Nicotine's pharmacokinetic properties have been found also to enhance its abuse potential. Cigarette smoking produces a rapid distribution of nicotine to the brain, with drug levels peaking within 10 seconds of inhalation. This fast delivery of drug assures that the smoker receives instant reinforcement for smoking, this perpetuates the continuation of smoking. The acute effects of nicotine dissipate in a few minutes, making the smoker continue dosing frequently throughout the day in order to maintain the drug's pleasurable effects and prevent the uncomfortable symptoms of withdrawal. What people frequently do not realize is that the cigarette is a very efficient and highly engineered drug-delivery system. By inhaling, the smoker can get nicotine to the brain very rapidly with every puff. A typical smoker will take 10 puffs on a cigarette over a period of 5 minutes in which the cigarette is lit. Thus, a person who smokes about 1-1/2 packs (30 cigarettes) daily, will get 300 "hits" of nicotine to the brain each day. These factors contribute considerably to nicotine's highly addictive nature."
$1200 a month? Really? What, do you smoke a carton a day? Sheeeez.... A carton here in NC is $55 for the premium brands. Still unhealthy and still a bad waste of money, just not quite to the extreme you're dealing with.
$135 a carton, they even got the balls to charge sales tax on it. Smoke about 2x packs a day, more when I am stressed.
NC is a state I am looking at to move to. I just don't want to be labeled a Yankee, because I am not. The last thing I need when I move are people who would frown upon the fact that I am from NY. We have our problems with illegals here, I have to figure it out, also my accent doesn't help, it sounds like I am in the back room of a diner with the Sopranos, lol!
$135 in five days is $27 a day times 365.. plus tax... $10,000.
One of the things I thought of to quit was how much money a continued lifetime of smoking would be. And then of what else i could own with that money (rather then owning 100,000's of used cigarette butts.)
Well, you should move to Cary, NC then (Cary Audio's original hometown). Cary is an acronym for Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. :) Kidding aside, most Carolinians I know are pretty welcoming, and those that aren't are not worth your time anyway.
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