[at-l] Quiting smooking -- [Was: Re: Holiday Greetings & a New Year's res...

[Jim Bullard]

I quit in 1966. I was getting married and decided it was an expensive habit
that I didn't need. For some people it is just a habit and they can quit
fairly easily by breaking their habit pattern (like you and I). With others
it is a physical addiction and quitting is much more difficult.
Unfortunately that is the case with my daughter. She watched a friend die
from smoking a couple years ago and swore that she was going to quit. She's
still smoking.

More power to everyone who has resolved to quit. I hope you all succeed.

On Dec 27, 2007 12:10 PM, <Bror8588 at aol.com> wrote:

>  I quit on New Year's Eve in 1975 when I sprained my ankle.  I had just
> bought a carton of Marlboroughs and I went out to help a friend and slipped
> down my outside stairs.  I made in up the stairs with great pain and then
> asked my girls to go and get my cigarettes from the car.  They consulted
> each other and then said NO!  I couldn't crawl to the car because there was
> slush between the house and the car.  Wet slush!!!  No amount of stern
> ordering or cajoling or bribing would get them to obey their father.  The
> sprain was a bad one.  Three days later I decided to quit.  Well, I had quit
> three days before I decided but I made a conscious decision when I found I
> could survive without them.  At the time I was a three-pack-a-day smoker.
> One after another all day long.  So, without my fix of nicotine I could only
> remember what it was like to take that first drag in the morning and after
> my coffee (or when I was drinking my coffee during the day) and so on.
> Three days.  I gave the carton to someone and have now been free of the
> habit for 32 years.  Now -- cigarettes irritate me.  Why is everyone so
> suicidal?  It is a slow death but I have seen patients who suffered from
> Emphysema and Lung Cancer.  Not a nice way to go.  I am glad I stopped
> smoking when I did.
>
> Jack Skylander
>
>
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Jim Bullard
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