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Smoke kills

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I found this on another forum I belong to. Enjoy!
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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
Very funny cartoon, by the way.

As for smoking, I'll never light up a cigarette. My grandma smoked for God knows how long but when her third grandchild (yours truly) popped up, she decided to quit. If my life means enough to make someone else quit, why should throw it away by smoking myself? My grandpa smoked as well, and when he died, he died with a non-productive hacking cough, one lung, and no bladder. The lung and bladder were lost because of cancer, and the cough was obviously from the years of smoking.

I'll give smokers like Mackintosh credit, at least you're trying to quit and smoke occasionally, I suppose that's the lesser evil than chain smoking. It's just frustrating when someone tells a smoker all the imminent risks and that he/she should quit, the smoker just says "I know, I know." IF YOU KNOW, THEN DO IT.
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
...not that easy, apdelong31. I was sick in bed when I quit. Chewed toothpicks like a beaver gnaws poplar bark.

..but if someone REALLY wants to, they can. It's a matter of "not having one". If you're really trying to quit, then that has to be the rule; "You Can't Have One". Keep that in your head until the physical addiction goes away and then write it in marker on your forehead, because that is when it gets tough. You physically got it licked and are proud. Then you have a beer and say "I can have just one", but you can't or you're right back where you started.

Quitting was too hard for me to do it twice.
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
And thank you, Bill for sharing about your sister. I don't know that I would have revealed that experience if you hadn't first.

It's interesting, but I feel very much the way you do about quitting. It was so difficult to quit, I refuse to risk becoming addicted again, and I know that I'd become very quickly addicted again even after having just one. I haven't smoked for over twenty years, but there are times when someone around me is smoking and getting to breath in some of that smoke makes me think that I sure would enjoy having one. But I refuse to get started again.

I do feel though, that if someone chooses to smoke it's their decision and as long as it doesn't interfere with me, then it's really not my business. The only way I would make it my business if it were my husband or one of my kids.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Donna, If you're ever in Chicago, let me know ([email protected]). I would like to take you (and your husband) out for a bite.