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RE: About to quit the smoke
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Ruphus
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 RE: About to quit the smoke (in reply to n85ae)
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Glad to hear that there are simple things in existence, for the older I get the more it appeared as if there were hardly any left over.
As a guy who appreciates the tasty side of smoking, I would love to see studies about moderate consumption of tobacco. Actual tobacco.
As you know, with the edict of declaration of nicotine and tar values on the product, the use of poisonous chemical solutions was introduced in order to sneak in other addictive potential through the back door. (Strangely, without any pursue ever following this devious industrial reaction.)
This, as I´m convinced, made the consumption of most tobacco products as fiercely harmful as it is today. Like so often in a system of insatiable pocketing, a needless spoiling of the scene, and in this case of the smoke that used to come out of calumets for contemplation and calming, which after all seem not like stupid effects to me.
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Date Sep. 4 2015 9:57:27
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Ruphus
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RE: About to quit the smoke (in reply to n85ae)
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Yes, my thought is to quit again as soon as feeling a bit better.
However, this time, now consuming acidy premanufactured, quitting will likely be much harder.
Wow, hookas should present the worst threat. One of these are supposed to be equaling 10 cigarettes. (Actually the local media report the ratio as even higher than that, if I recall that right.)
And if these kind of water pipes be prepared the way I know it, one is inhaling charcoal before all. Yuk!
Anyway, glad to hear of abstinents who don´t feel tempted at all anymore.
I could do without in those years, but did miss the taste and leisure.
For the later I should return to meditation. Thinking of that since quite a while, without realisation, though.
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Date Sep. 8 2015 0:51:34
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RE: About to quit the smoke (in reply to mark74)
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Fear was the catalyst for me. After 30 years of cigarettes, I found myself waking up in the morning with a "rat" in my throat, and a lot of nasty coughing, phlegm, etc., and began to worry about throat cancer. My attitude about smoking went from "it's my Friend" to "it's trying to kill me and to worry me to death!" So I quit cold turkey one day in 1983. I was sorely tempted, even to the point of easing a cigarette out of somebody's pack as it sat unattended on their desk, twirling it around in my fingers, but then I put it back and instead chewed gum and sucked on the cap of a Flair pen that allowed enough air to flow through it to vaguely suggest drawing on a cigarette. That, plus bicycling, plus seeing how long it would take everybody to figure out that I had quit, kept me going long enough to detox permanently. Never now crave it; never now think about it.
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Date Sep. 9 2015 19:14:27
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