Quitting Smoking

[Beaverslayer]

Well Johanna, I've been quite busy of late sandblasting and all and haven't been on much. But I do recall that yesterday was Independance Day, and as I said........

So have you QUITE??????

This tinfoil hat is getting itchy, thank heavens tinfoil doesn't rust.......

Now be honest with me here, you know I don't want to do this if I don't have to, but as i said, yesterday was the day.

Ken

[Dingus McGee]

I had tried unsuccfully for many years and when I finally dropped the habbit I used an E-Cig. havent touched a cig since. 4 years and no urges.

I also lost weight lol

But thats a different story and a different struggle!

It was easy though and the plan i used even got me off using insulin 3-4 times a day.

[El Zipster]

I use Ecigs too. Haven't had a cig for more than 18 months :-)

They certainly work for me!!

Cheers

Zip

[LTC]

I hope they ban that ecig crap. It chokes me out as bad or worse than regular secondhand smoke.

I know everyone tries to claim it's "only water vapor", but unless you absorb 100% of that stuff (extremely unlikely), there is more than "just water vapor" getting spewed out.

[El Zipster]

I hope they ban that ecig crap. It chokes me out as bad or worse than regular secondhand smoke.

I know everyone tries to claim it's "only water vapor", but unless you absorb 100% of that stuff (extremely unlikely), there is more than "just water vapor" getting spewed out.

And the alternative is to continue smoking. Do you understand what smoking regular cigarettes means? It means taking into your body something like 2000+ poisonous chemicals. I know where I place my bets, and that's with electronic cigs. I can now breath regularly, I can climb stairs without running out of breath, my clothes and breath don't stink etc. On top of that there are no dangers to people in my proximity with regards to second hand smoke/vapour etc. I suggest you do your research before you decide to bad mouth something that is saving the lives of many, many people.

Cheers

Zip

[LTC]

I know how breathing the exhaled crap affects me and I do not appreciate being called a liar.

The actual, real alternative is not to "continue smoking"...it's to get control of yourself and stop ingesting all that stuff completely.

No one forced you to start smoking and no one is forcing you to continue. Also, that ecig vapor stinks and yes, the people using it smell foul. I can smell it on them. The worst is the exhaled vapor though...I cannot breathe around it. It's horrible.

Also, it isn't "safe". There has actually been research completed recently that found the ecig junk is actually more carcinogenic than tobacco smoke.

I didn't do anything to those people, so I don't understand why I must be subjected to that stuff. If people insist on sucking on those things, they need to do it outside where myself and others won't get choked out by it. That's all. And if they continue to be inconsiderate with it, yes...I will lobby as hard as I can to get it banned.

Edited March 10, 2014 by LTC

[El Zipster]

Well, we'll have to agree to differ then, because the research is out there to prove that your claims are non founded. ecig liquid contains nothing more than vegetable Glicerin (food grade approved) Flavouring (food grade approved) and Nicotine which is no more damaging than Caffine (enjoy your morning coffee perhaps?) With regards to nicotine, did you know that many vegetables contain nicotine? Eggplant for example contains huge amounts!!!! As far as your higher than mighty statement that 'Nobody forced me to start smoking' Yep I have to agree, but hey, how can you tell a 10 year old what to do when all of his peers are doing the same? That was the era I grew up in.

I didn't call you a liar btw, all I asked was that you did your research before making damning remarks. Ecigs are saving many, many lives without putting others at risk. That's a fact, and the evidence is out there.

Cheers

Zip

[LTC]

You called me a liar by trying to claim that crap has no effect on innocent bystanders after I stated I couldn't breathe around it.

I don't drink coffee, tea, sodas...and I don't eat eggplant.

Oh, and I was ten years old once and I managed to not start smoking. Guess I was brought up better than that.

People like you are why that crap will get banned. You seem to have some sort of self righteous attitude that makes you think you can spew that stuff out anywhere you want...that is why people like me will succeed in getting it regulated, if not completely banned altogether.

Saying ecig "save lives" is pretty ridiculous...you're still ingesting carcinogens, you're still spewing out carcinogens for others to be forced to breathe (because you are not absorbing 100% of that garbage every time), and you're making ridiculous excuses to justify that behavior. And don't say "there's carcinogens everywhere"...that doesn't give you or anyone else a right to add to that because of your own personal vices. I now know what kind of selfish person you are, so I am finished talking to you...unless you call me a liar again in which case I will correct that again.

Edited March 10, 2014 by LTC

[El Zipster]

I have nothing more to say on the matter, except, do your research before you make sanctimonious claims.

Our discussion is over, we'll have to agree to disagree.

Oh, one more thing, If you haven't tried Moussaka you don't know what you're missing :-)

Over and out

Zip

[raysouth]

GOOD LUCK JOHANNA.

Had all the bad habits over many years. Smoking was the first I did away with. Smoked the greatest amount when tipping the glass at the bar so that is where I quit.

Arose one morning and had a light, nagging, cough and foul taste in my mouth and decide that it was the smokes. Later that day, I purchased a new pack, went to the bar, sipped a bit of suds, reached for a cig from the new unopened pack and asked myself what I was doing, as I had quit. Placed the pack on the bar, finished my suds and that was the end of that habit. Next came the suds and pretty much the same idea. Cold turkey, and I was a bar owner at that time. Never looked back and so pleased that I gave it all up.

There is always something to work on in our lives and the next item for me is the weight control situation. At my age, I still am giving up bad habits and now, finally, am on the way to "THIN", and so pleased. Hope I am around long enough to enjoy the fruits of my labor.

Each of us has to find the method that best fits, when giving up something that we have been involved with for some time. Today, even though I cannot be around the smoke as it makes me ill, I do not condemn anyone. Just a part of our life and we must take control as we best see fit.

My feelings are, if you really want to give things up, you will find a way. Like leatherwork, if you want to learn and do it, you will.

Many challenges confront us but we are the masters of our destiny, mostly, as we live our life.

Stick to it and you will make it and if like myself, you will feel much better after a short period of time.

God Bless.

Ray

Edited March 10, 2014 by raysouth