Young guys and gals, Listen Up!!!!!

Really...You don't understand that nicotine is more addictive than crack. Well. it is.

 

I guess that most on here are not addicted. That's a good thing. Good night.

 

I would really like to tell you what I really think, but I enjoy being a part of this forum. You have a great night.

 

Dude, I started chewing when I was really young, started smoking in my 20's and enjoyed 2 to 3 packs of Camel Hard packs a day til in my 40's.
I vaped for a few months, did the patch for a month or so and am now free of the nicotine addiction.
It was easy for me. Just reward yourself for quitting.
For me:
I could buy some land and build a house if I quit smoking.
And for a bonus I will let myself start smoking again when I get the house fully paid off. I really doubt that I start back up.
I may keel over tomorrow but I'll die with perfect blood pressure,

 

I tell you a little bit.

If you grew tobacco by hand and nothing else strictly as it was done first in Jamestown VA and later into a great economy crop, and smoked that it is natural and generally NOT a problem because people in those days did not adulterate that tobacco like we do today.

If you examine a modern cigarette you will see that there are a large number of things added to it partly to make it addictive and some of it quite harmful to a human being. If you added a filter big enough to capture all those filthy stuff off it you would not enjoy that smoking very much. There would be no pleasure in it.

Quitting cigarettes cold turkey was a very hard thing for me to do. I told that wife of mine that they are done but I will be a big meanie for 6 months minimum. IF she really loved me and wants our home to not have smoking (She was a ex smoker too) she will just have to batten down the hatches and be careful round me for 6 months.

It took 9 before I was relatively able to be free from the #### things for good, without thinking I should run to the store and buy a few packs. (What a habit that would have been, 4 packs a day at 6.20 per... 25 dollars a day, freaking $750 a month. It would be cheaper to buy street drugs or drink at the likker store.)

Narcotic medicine is not a problem when stopped, nor is that Xanax I had for a while until I realized that the doses will ever be larger until they get big enough to be called first tablets and then bars. Once you reach the biggest availible prescription, you have to have it every 8 hours or your heart and other systems might fail inside your body. I quit that stuff and made changes to my life to be happier. Bowling and Horses plus tree work got it done. Nothing like good strong work to clear the mind and ease your troubles whatever it might ail you.

But that is weak compared to smoking and the hooked on that activity, it was again the hardest thing I ever did in my life to stop it.

I had a specialist tell me that I was one of three to stop that medicine cold turkey in her lifetime of practice and not very many people are successful at quitting smoking today.

Finally but not last. Ive already been killed about 8 times in my life. Because I saw it coming for me and managed to be a little bit... lucky I guess to not be killed any of those times. Not yet. That leads me to conclude that if I do not see a lethal threat to my life coming, then it will be successful in killing me. As far as I am concerned after experiencing life support post recovery in surgery two months ago and how far down I was it's the same as death. So there is no more worry about it. It's sad but we all have to go sometime. I prefer to go out with my boots on and trying to help someone if that is possible. Even after I am gone, my estate papers have already set aside funding so that lives will be saved elsewhere long after I am gone.

Until then Sun comes up, give thanks for a new day and stop that filthy habit of smoking. And ESPECIALLY THAT VAPING. You have NO ideal how bad that is going to hook the young ones who do not know a life without it.

In the mean time the community I am with unfortunately people are dying at a rate of about one to two a year from smoking directly. Some refuse to stop smoking after they are told they are ternimal. ( I suppose if I am told I had something incurable, I'll reach for that bottle and smokes and go chase women. (Ew...) but you get the idea...

 

Best wishes man! I do my best to eat healthy and stay in the gym when I can. Especially since I work overnights. I am 26 will be 27 in March.

 

the worst thing about smoking it's so easy to start back up ..... still get urges after years of not smoking ..... hard to stay heart healthy driving best thing is to walk as much as possible always park as far a way in a truck stop, even on a quick stop , when unloading walk around the parking lot . when parked for your 10 hr Google to see what's around the truck stop and go ahead and walk , I stay within a 2 miLe radius so get up to a 4 mile walk , sometimes there is stuff around sometimes not. I see so many of the younger guys just sit in the truck and eat fast food that's not a lifestyle it's a recipe for a heart attack

 

I think I'm married to your dad's long lost brother or something. My husband has had a stroke, has heart problems, high blood pressure BUT still smokes, drinks and eats like it's 1999... Stubbornness is probably the biggest widow maker of them all.