runner -> RE: Get off the Killer Weed ASAP (Mar. 12 2010 12:38:13)
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Stoney, smoking used to be my friend; it would help me through tough or boring times, and I enjoyed it very much. But 30 years on, my friend began to turn on me and cause me to worry that I might well be developing throat cancer--that constant cough, that "rat" in my throat when I awoke in the morning. My father had a business associate who had had his larynx removed due to throat cancer, and "spoke" in a weird whistle--I didn't want that, for sure. And the expense, the yellow fingers and teeth, the loss of stamina--my friend had turned on me, and it had to go. Quit cold turkey one day, telling no one--we'd see how long it would take them to figure it out that I'd quit. Also abruptly replaced one habit with another--after dinner, instead of a cigaret, I leapt up from the table and took a hour bike ride every day. Sucked on the cap of a Flair pen when the urge got strong. Worst day was 3 days later--I filched a cigaret out of the open pack of a co-worker, twirled it around in my hand, then put it back into his pack. Best move I ever made. It's been 27 years now off the killer weed, and I've never looked back. The funny thing is--that leaving aside that all the bad and expensive downsides of smoking are gone--your life is exactly the same as it was before, but you just don't smoke any more. You don't become Jesus, or Einstein, or Paco; you are the same, but you just don't smoke any more. And that's pretty good. runner
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