My Mom died at 78 after she quit drinking and smoking. Her oldest sister still smokes and drinks. She just celebrated her 90th birthday. All of us need to quit listening to the medical industrial complex and learn how to live until we die. Age with grace and humility. Pass your wisdom on to those that have the ability to learn. Be happy that you create your legacy by being honest to yourself.
I live by the same rules. Yes it’s bad for my physical body, but so is eating, drinking, breathing, and every time I travel. When your time is up on this Earth, the manner in how you pass doesn’t matter. I refuse to live my life according to what doctors, dietitians, psychologist, and politicians think is best for me. It’s my life and no others……so I make those decisions for myself.
For me, it not about that as much as it is starting to interfere with the few things that I like and can do, and quite frankly that list is already short.
I have never smoked, but I'm pretty smart, so I'll weigh in on this.
"I have never had a child, but let me explain how you should raise yours".
Since when did gold digging Jezabelles start posting? My males friends have succumbed to puss.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'"
I have history with believer, ODD. I tried to help him with with nutrition back in the day on Rivals. I did lead with the fact I have never smoked.
I always post here (and formerly at the old place) with entertainment in mind. with that said, there are occasionally tidbits of wisdom to be gleened from the responses. so, for sanity's sake, I learned long ago, treat the replies like a buffet, take what you want, leave the rest for the rats.
Update please. How ya holding up?
Im kinda just holding the pattern, the good points, I no longer smoke when I wake in the middle of the night, and I dont immediately fire one up when I wake up.. I generally make myself wait at least 30 minutes before having the first one.. but Im down to around 10 a day.. and holding,, I dont really know why I dont just drop them,, but I find myself look very much forward to that next cigarette.. I have stepped down to the 14mg patch, its smaller in diameter,, lol,, I thought that was funny for some reason.. i guess thats how they control the dose.. I have a trip coming up this thursday, gonna spend 2 days with my brother in Savannah and then 2 days with a good friend in Jacksonville.. I was hoping to surprise both by being smoke free.. we'll see.
I bounced between chew and smoking over the years. Chew gives you so much nicotine straight into your blood. I took a very small pinch from a friend of mine a few years ago, my head was spinning almost instantly. I was surprised how gross it seemed, I used to love that stuff.
Yeah man, I chewed the bag stuff to the point I was getting 2 chews out of every bag. My ex used to say it looked like I had a baseball in my mouth. All the bad news about it helped me to quit but now you can find all sorts of stuff on the benefits of nicotine. Go figure.
It's odd how it affects some and not others. My Grandpa lived until 89 and smoked non-filtered Pall Malls/cigarettes for all but maybe 16 of those.
