Should I Quit Smoking?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Right now, I think God wants me to quit.

I'm down to my last half-pack of cigarettes.

I'm down to my last few bits of herb.

And my lighter is practically out of fluid.


Should I take this as a sign from God that I should quit now?

:shrug:

[demsrule4life]

1. Do what you want

Not matter how you live your life something is going to kill you.

[Kolesar]

2. No, but you could quit starting threads ASAP

Hey, just funnin'

[Speck Tater]

3. Misery loves company...

... and I quit smoking 6 days ago. I'd hate to think I'm the only one suffering through nicotine withdrawl.

[KC]

7. You're not alone

I'm going through it too...it's not easy but I'm doing pretty good
so far :)

KC

[wryter2000]

4. Rat???!!!!

Aren't you a nurse? What kind of douphous question is this?

I don't know about weed. If you smoke it all the time, it could be bad for your lungs. Once in a while :shrug:?

But quit the cigarettes. How much of your hard-earned money (and nurses work hard!) are you paying the lying bastards in the tobacco companies to kill you?

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. I'm not a nurse

nooooooooooooo, noooooooooo


I don't touch the babies.

Me no insured.

:)

[piece sine]

17. get real

it's hard to say goodbye to a custom as enthralling as smoking cigarettes. I mean, you can taste the tar in your throat slowly killing you, but there's nothing like that velvet rush you get pull into your lungs when you smoke cigarettes...and it's not tobacco (as in a pipe or cigar)...it's the pull of a cigarette. I know. I chain-smoked my way from high school thru law school. The only way I finally walked-away was by recognizing good incidiiously GOOD cigarettes really are. Dangerously deadly because they are uniquely and utterly satisfying...until you crave the next one. And then the tar builds up inside.

(Forget that lame crap about the corporate tobacco pigs...nobody starts or quits because of them. There's an ass for every seat.)

You can also forgot about EVER giving-up hootch! What kind of a person are you that you'd 1.) dare to even LINK the two customs simply because they both employ ignition devices 2.) not know that ganja's on a higher plane and we go there for different reasons. Tobacco is a bad beer habit; really kind, dank bud is Chateau Lafite Rothchild '59 in cool people land.

SO please quit smoking cigarettes and then perish the thought of anything else!

[Spirochete]

5. Easier said than done, of course...

but ceasing and desisting all thrashing of your lungs is certainly a good idea.

[Loco_moco]

6. Quit the cigs and make brownies...

..smoking anything can't be good for anyone... but the herb is one of God's gifts to Mankind, so cook em up in a batch of brownies and enjoy!!!

peace;
rob

[Cooley Hurd]

8. Just the cigarettes...

Keep the weed in case you get the jitters from nicotine deprivation! :smoke:

[Malva Zebrina]

9. can;t say

quit six months ago--to this day, would like very much to smoke a cigarette and it gets very acute at certain times. I am almost seventy years old and have promised myself that when I am eighty, I will resume smoking. :bounce: That promise is only for it's psychological effect in order to aid me to continue not smoking-ie nothing is permanent- Why did I quit after all these years of smoking? Because I cannot afford to buy cigarettes any longer and because I have some harderning of the arteries and diabetes. Nevertheless, I am still alive and I smoked near two packs of cigarettes a day. I may have gotten those annoying and disturbing conditions without smoking, to be honest--who knows?

[Karenina]

10. Marianne, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

I would LOVE to stop as it stinks, is expensive, not all that healthy AND I'm sure the brand I puff is playing with the chemicals. Never mind that all packages are now emblazoned with notices, framed in black at the bottom, informing us that SMOKING IS DEADLY or SMOKERS DIE EARLY or SMOKING IS BAD FOR YOUR SKIN. Whatever...

On the other hand, when I stop I become completely intolerant of smell. My kid smokes and he'd have to go outside. In social situations, most of the people smoke, most of my colleagues smoke... I didn't for 12 years in L.A. and got hooked again in self defense in Europe. My cousin
with whom I was living smoked 3 packs a day and wouldn't allow an open window in the house or car. But what really did it was the tobacco/weed mix that's SO popular here. Curses! What to do? What to do???

[Malva Zebrina]

14. well thanks

I understand--I recently took a look at the ingredients on the cigs I was smoking. I cannot remember them all because the woman at the store was reading them off to me--and it is really strange that I never, after all those years, actually read the ingredients off the carton--anyway, in these cigarettes, Menthol Quality Lites, there was listed, believe it or not, Valerian (herb that is used for sleep) as well as chocolate extract!!!and at least ten others. I kid you not. I stopped smoking when I went through a panic episode and ended up in the emergency room with what I thought was my heart doing some flip flops at a rapid rate--that was not the case under an EKG reading and to this day, I do not really know what that sensation was . Sure scared me though. After that I quit smoking--and the way I did it was truly bizarre--I pretended that I was another person, not myself, and that person was not a smoker and never smoked in their life!
That is really Schizoid!! LOL. I think that I probably would have made a very good actor having that personality type that is able to pretend a different personality. Nevertheless, I did smoke for more than forty years and have promised myself that I will smoke when I am eighty--and that promise is just to remove the complete totality of the thing--in other words, this is not a permanent thing. LOL

[MnFats]

12. No. I don't want to be the last one smoking.

I am enough of a pariah the way it is.
having to go outside in one of our winters is torture, anyway.

[flama]

13. Sorry, Magic Rat

I didn't vote.

As I light a cigarette, I hope you will quit as much as rbnyc hope that I will.

It's really stupid to roll up dried leaves in paper and set them on fire so you can inhale the smoke. I tell myself that almost every day.

I'm an addict, though, and losing loved ones won't make me quit smoking. Maybe it's passive suicide.

I've got miles to go before I sleep. I hope some day to convince myself I really want to stop smoking.

I hope you do, too. The only way to quit is to really want to quit - or to be in the hospital (or jail, heaven forbid!) for weeks or months where you can't smoke. (And if you start again after that, I'll beat your butt with a carton of mine.)

[BigBigBear]

15. I quit

cigarettes last June 20th, after 30 years smoking. I did gain some weight and did become a little more lethargic. Cravings are gone but I still miss it once or twice a day.

Never really swore off the other stuff, but haven't indulged in a couple of years.

I do enjoy a nice cigar from time to time.

The idea of dying a prolonged, tortuous, disfiguring and pointless death from cancer just outweighed the benefits for me.

I may still get it, but statistically, my odds drop a little every day.

If you decide to quit and need a little support, ping anytime.

[THUNDER HANDS]

16. thanks

I haven't yet. But I'm thinking this weekend is a good enough time to start.

:)