Re: Why do we quit smoking?
BessieBee
wrote:
>Can anybody here remember WHY they started smoking? Seriously? Why
>you kept smoking? Anything ring a bell? Nothing? Hmmm.
OK, yes, I remember very well why I started smoking. It's not a good
reason, but it's the only one I've got.
It was the summer between my Jr. & Sr. year of high school. At the
end of Jr. year I broke up with my boyfriend, Danny. Very bitter
breakup. A few weeks before Sr. year started I saw Danny at Kentucy
Fried Chicken and he was smoking!
Well, dammit! If that jerk can smoke, then so can I! I'll show him!
I went home, stole a pack or two from my parents and practiced
inhaling in my room until I could do it without hacking my brains out.
You know, didn't want to look stupid in public.
That's why I started. You all know why I stopped.
BessieBee
I have been quit for 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 3 hours, 17 minutes
and 25 seconds (77 days). I have saved $578.52 by not smoking 4,628
cigarettes. I have saved 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 1 hour and 40 minutes of my
life. My Quit Date: 9/29/2004
Rosemarie Shiver
starting to and my parents smoked, too. Dumb reason, but 13 yr. olds aren't
known for being insightful.
I kept smoking because I kept telling myself junkie reasons to keep it
going. And I foolishly believed myself.
I quit because I had two bouts of gangrene on my foot and I couldn't
bear the idea of that kind of pain for a third time.
No smoking? No gangrene. For me a simple and memorable equation. :-)
Hugs from Rosie
OF
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Outta Hell II
"indiaink" <iiS...@indiaink.us> wrote in message
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> I think I just figured it out. The question, that is, not the answer.
> Well, that too.
>
> Can anybody here remember WHY they started smoking? Seriously? Why
> you kept smoking? Anything ring a bell? Nothing? Hmmm.
>
> Can you feel that peculiar 'empty brain' sense when you try to answer
> those questions? It's like there's a blank, isn't there.
>
> Now, ask yourself why you quit smoking.
>
> Go ahead, answer.
>
> Not for the obvious reasons (oh, health, money, etc.) But the
> question you'll be asking somewhere down the road, that a lot of
> former smokers ask themselves in the third or fourth week or month ...
> or even year (s).
>
> I've been noticing that it's a popular question when you are in the
> throes of lack-o-nicotine. "Now WHY did I quit smoking?"
>
> Can't remember the answer, can you.
>
> There is no answer. There's no answer as to why you started, and
> there's no answer as to why you quit. To be human means to be
> nicotine-free. Being human means we normallly don't smoke. We aren't
> born with a cigarette hanging out of our mouths. Smoking is not
> natural. To keep smoking makes it a habit, and habits develop really
> quickly especially when there's an addictive substance involved like
> nicotine.
>
> Ever notice when you picked up a bad habit? Chewing your fingernails?
> Twirling your hair? Picking your nose? Farting in public? Chewing
> with your mouth open? Twiddling your thumbs? Tapping your fingers?
> (insert bad habit of choice here.)
>
> Now, tell me again why you started smoking....
>
> Why you quit smoking...
>
> Why you (insert bad habit of choice here.)
>
> Get it? I think you do.
>
> ---
> ii
> ~ex-Lab Rat-I quit "rewarding" myself 100604~
> ~remove the stake to e-mail~
Betty
back and spank that little brat.
hugs
Betty
"Rosemarie Shiver" <pos...@strato.net> wrote in message
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Kimberly
I started smoking because that's what my new friend in my new school was
doing. She wanted me to smoke with her so I did. That simple. Not smart
but there it is. Also my Dad smoked. Come to think of it, Everyone smoked
except my Mom. My doctor even smoked and I remember the cool ashtray he had
in his waiting room. I smoked because that is what people did and they let
children do it then, too.
I also remember exactly when I decided I should probably quit. I was
driving my Son to HS and he asked me not to smoke in the truck on the way to
school cause he was always being asked if he smoked. I was mortified.
Everyone thought he smoked because that's how he smelled. Hit me like a
brick wall.
I came home that day and started googling. One of the first links I found
was this one:
http://www.swen.uwaterloo.ca/~as3/as3.html
It seemed like the most intelligent site so I decided to stroll my way into
AS3. I lurked for a few weeks, reading everything these kind people threw
my way. I then started posting. I was still smoking and didn't plan to
quit for a few more months. After a few weeks of that I decided that there
was no reason to wait. I was torturing myself with trying the "cut down"
method. Worst quit method in the entire world of quitting.
I ended up quitting six weeks earlier than I had planned. I'm sure it was
this place. The people here gave me hope. I decided to trust them. They
seemed to know what they were talking about and some of them had stuck
around for years just to get the message to me. I quit in the middle of the
afternoon on a Saturday. It was my first quit and Cold Turkey. I did
everything I was told. I kept the faith. I didn't realize how much I
really wanted to not smoke anymore. It was pure hell, just like everyone
else. But after I look back it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to
be. Wish I had quit sooner.
Kimberly
Keven
"indiaink"
> I really think we can't remember because smoking is/was a state we
> were never supposed to be in. Why should we remember something that
> wasn't supposed to happen?
Because if you don't remember then you might do it again.
:-p~~~~~~~ Keven
Don't ever forget why you quit.
BessieBee
<goldenru...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I also remember exactly when I decided I should probably quit. I was
>driving my Son to HS and he asked me not to smoke in the truck on the way to
>school cause he was always being asked if he smoked. I was mortified.
>Everyone thought he smoked because that's how he smelled. Hit me like a
>brick wall.
My son once told me the same thing when he was in 9th grade. His
friends said he smelled like smoke. My reaction at the time was,
"yeah, right. He just doesn't like me to smoke and that's just an
excuse he's trying." I knew his clothes were clean, how could they
smell like smoke? I can't believe I was that freakin' stupid!
Oh course his clothes - and everything else in this house - reeked of
smoke. I just couldn't smell it. Now I can.
I'm thoroughly ashamed that I subjected the most precious person in
the world to all that shit for so many years. There are many reasons
I won't break this quit, but the primary one is the disappointment my
son would have and the fact that I'd have to face him with my failure.
I won't ever do that.
BessieBee
I have been quit for 2 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 7 hours, 44 minutes
and 54 seconds (77 days). I have saved $579.91 by not smoking 4,639
cigarettes. I have saved 2 Weeks, 2 Days, 2 hours and 35 minutes of my
Hothead Paisan
BessieBee <bess...@idontsmokeanymore.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:57:57 -0500, "Kimberly"
> <goldenru...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >I also remember exactly when I decided I should probably quit. I was
> >driving my Son to HS and he asked me not to smoke in the truck on the way to
> >school cause he was always being asked if he smoked. I was mortified.
> >Everyone thought he smoked because that's how he smelled. Hit me like a
> >brick wall.
>
> My son once told me the same thing when he was in 9th grade. His
> friends said he smelled like smoke. My reaction at the time was,
> "yeah, right. He just doesn't like me to smoke and that's just an
> excuse he's trying." I knew his clothes were clean, how could they
> smell like smoke? I can't believe I was that freakin' stupid!
>
> Oh course his clothes - and everything else in this house - reeked of
> smoke. I just couldn't smell it. Now I can.
I learned the truth of that lesson in 8th grade, when my gym teacher
took me aside and gave me the lecture about quitting smoking. No matter
how i protested, he could smell it on me and "knew" i smoked.
I was so pissed and humiliated.
oh, and i started smoking because all the "cool" loser boys smoked, and
bumming a cig wsa a way to start talking to them. I practiced at home to
make sure i wouldn't make an ass of myself, and just never stopped.
--
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Hothead
And tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said?
Man, it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead
And I've get a message for you and your twisted hell
You better turn around
And blow your kiss goodbye to life eternal, angel...
-J. Buckley
9 Way
> At least perhaps everybody can agree that smoking isn't natural.
No.
I've often thought that this concept of "unnatural" is at best meaningless
and at worst a conservative meme. I mean, how do you make the distinction
between "natural" and "unnatural"? Isn't *everything* nature? Is nature
supposed to end where mankind begins? But on what justification? Isn't man
an animal, a product of nature?
It seems to me that the concept of naturalness employed as a moral
standard is thinly disguised right-wing fundamentalism.
I believe that everything is "natural" but only because the idea of
unnaturalness doesn't make any sense.
So no, I don't agree that smoking is unnatural or even that it's natural.
It just is.
Sorry :)
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4m 2w 3d
Jacque
this. I quit smoking for the same three reasons I had started 25 years
prior.
1. peer pressure
2. cool thing to do
3 made me look older
:)
DDJacque
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"indiaink" <iiS...@indiaink.us> wrote in message
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: I think I just figured it out. The question, that is, not the
Anne D.
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>
<snip>
> I've often thought that this concept of "unnatural" is at best meaningless
> and at worst a conservative meme.
<snip>
> It seems to me that the concept of naturalness employed as a moral
> standard is thinly disguised right-wing fundamentalism.
Well, paint me red and call me a Bushie, but I don't see the connection
between "natural" and "right-wing fundamentalism." Or how politics ended up
in this thread.
Anne D.
OF+M
Joyce
BC :-)
Kimberly
"BessieBee" <bess...@idontsmokeanymore.com> wrote in message
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Really nice meter you have going there, Bessie. And as good a reason as any
to stay quit. I'm really proud of you.
Kimberly
clearasquartz
<iiS...@indiaink.us> wrote:
>>Now, tell me again why you started smoking....
Curiosity <which killed that cat btw> in 2nd grade. My
mom smoked.....sneaked them from her. Don't think I
inhaled though.
My older sister smoked then too. I wanted to be cool
<I guess> but I did it on my own. Weird thing....I was
the ONLY one in my 6th grade class hiding behind a bush
at recess time smoking....everyone else thought it was
bad. What made me start that pack a day on my own?
WHO THE FUCK KNOWS!!
>>
>>Why you quit smoking...
>>
Refer to post back to Kimberly in SUPPORT MY ASS!
>>Why you (insert bad habit of choice here.)
Eat.
Cause I don't smoke :D
Crystal.
Crystal doesn't have a meter. She's going to hell.