I've been off 'em for nearly 20 years. On my third try (all cold turkey) I quit drinking as well, as one fed the other. Bit wobbly at first but after a few months it was done. The smell of a durry is enough to make me sick these days so I'm cured. Better still, I can again have a beer or wine (or 3) without the urge to light up.
I quit drinking 'proper' several years before quitting the smokes.... it was costing more than the smokes and I wasn't the most pleasant person once I'd had a few. However, since quitting the smokes I have a few shandies here and there with no craving/urge to light up... that's like an inch of lemonade in the bottom of a glass to a can of mid strength beer, usually Powers Gold. A carton of 30 cans will last me up to 8 weeks or more, depending on the weather... if I've done the mowing, etc. However, I drink it for the taste, not the alcohol content, cos I don't like Coke or other soft drink that much as I prefer something more bitter.
As for the smell of a durry....YUK with a capital EEEW!
keep an eye out for this.... comes in a larger single bottle as well... might be worth a try...
Angostura Lemon Lime and Bitters...
20 years.....great going...
I lose track, but I think it's 6 or 7 years off smokes for me come May 18th.
Best thing I ever did, quitting.
I have tried it and don't mind it at all... now and then, however.
I still prefer a shandy cos it's more bitterer... because of the hops, I guess.
In fact, the tobacco is treated with ammonia to make it more available in the smoke and more addicting.
The only product designed to kill and maim and yet legal.
Actually? Firearms were designed also for defense and for hunting.
Can you say anything positive about ANY tobacco product?
Frankly, I wish neither had ever been invented/discovered. No matter how you look at it, firearms were designed to kill and maim, irrespective of whether the target is human or animal... not that the two are mutually exclusive in some cases. For mine, 'so-called' hunting should be with a bow and arrow or a spear... make a real sport out of it and not some slaughter-fest at the end of a rifle. And what's the betting that 90% plus 'hunters' would quit doing it if ALL firearms were crushed by government and they were forced to 'hunt' the original way... with a spear, skill and finesse.
As for tobacco products, the peace pipe was used to broker and seal peace treaties among American Indian tribes... sometimes with the white man, too, so it could be said there was a positive aspect there. However, tobacco products today are no more than legalised, non-medical and expensively slow, euthanasia.
So glad I quit when I did.
1,137 days and counting.............
Thanks Barb .........I forgot to mention.......... +25 lbs. and counting............. I think quitting smoking is easier than loosing the weight that I've put on, it's not like I can just stop eating, and exercise would just be a waste of the money that I saved and then spent on a new couch and TV!
Aaaahhhh yes, the dark side of quitting smoking! And you're right Fred, you can't stop eating. Walking can help, do you have a dog...no...get a dog!!
Yeah, I have put on a bit of beef since quitting.... and exercise isn't that easy when you have arthritis in most every joint in your body. I try to lose weight and have had some success [about 25 - 30kg] over the last few months, but I could do to lose another 10 - 15kg to be better situated.
I do have a bike and I hope to ride it more often than I have been able in recent times... arthritis and weather permitting. Might even try riding it UP to Shaunna's place... there's a fechen great hill to climb in order to get there, tho I reckon I'd end up walking it most of the way up to begin with, well at least until I become more accustomed to riding again. It has been some years since I last rode a bike seriously - like about 45 - but I can still do it without too much wobble... though that could be somewhat different in traffic until I regain my nerve. I haven't really been out of the local precinct, which is quite quiet traffic-wise, so have yet to venture into more populated streets.
