US Captures Ringleader In Benghazi

[piece-itpete]

If it wasn't so bad for you/expensive I'd keep doing it to tick people off

With all these well wishes I'd darn well better stay quitted!

Originally Posted by CarlV

... Supposedly your odds get much better after 30 days. ...

Be real careful till midnight

Pete

[d-ray657]

OK, more scary stuff to help you quit. I'm having sinus surgery next week for something that showed up on an MRI. I just remembered that when I smoked - up until 15 years ago - I usually blew the smoke out through my nose. I'm kinda hoping that it's correlation without causation - but I also hope it helps scare you guys into quitting.

Regards,

D-Ray

[MrPots]

I have a good friend, a party buddy and a lifelong smoker. He's just 56. His two boys grew up with my kids and our families have been close for over 30 years. He had a bad cough two weeks ago and went to the doctor. He was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Further testing shows its already spread to his brain and other major organs. His speech is starting to slur. It's hitting him hard and fast. He's been told to get his affairs in order. He called all his friends together for a party, and has postposed any treatment to take a trip with his family. I hope I'm wrong in saying that this is his way of telling everyone goodbye.

This hits home hard.

Motivation Pete...motivation.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by barbara

Carl makes a good point about quitting for your health.

Then, there is the pocketbook. I don't smoke but husband does. He pays as much as $7,00 a pack, but, typically, closer to $5.00 a pack.

So for a month, two packs a day, he spends...... (Uh, add this, multiply that....) a whole bunch of money that I could be spending on senseless baubles to adorn myself with.

Between $300 and $420. Seems like enough for sensible baubles to me--ones with resale value.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by MrPots

I have a good friend, a party buddy and a lifelong smoker. He's just 56. His two boys grew up with my kids and our families have been close for over 30 years. He had a bad cough two weeks ago and went to the doctor. He was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Further testing shows its already spread to his brain and other major organs. His speech is starting to slur. It's hitting him hard and fast. He's been told to get his affairs in order. He called all his friends together for a party, and has postposed any treatment to take a trip with his family. I hope I'm wrong in saying that this is his way of telling everyone goodbye.

This hits home hard.

Motivation Pete...motivation.

It's a really tough thing to watch. Lung cancer got my mother and my mother-in-law. Both lifelong smokers.

[barbara]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

OK, more scary stuff to help you quit. I'm having sinus surgery next week for something that showed up on an MRI. I just remembered that when I smoked - up until 15 years ago - I usually blew the smoke out through my nose. I'm kinda hoping that it's correlation without causation - but I also hope it helps scare you guys into quitting.

Regards,

D-Ray

Good luck, DRay.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by barbara

Good luck, DRay.

Plus one Don. Best wishes and a prayer sent for a positive outcome. No pun intended.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

If it wasn't so bad for you/expensive I'd keep doing it to tick people off
Pete

Will it help if I tell you to go ahead and smoke like this?

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

SOMEONE decides who the bad guy is.

We'd have a tough time fighting the next war, what with the judicial inquires and human right research before shooting the bad guy.

Don't mind me though. I just need to make some nice cover words so I can feel better about it.

Pete

Got your back up, eh Pete? See everybody...it can happen.

I have no problem deciding who the bad guys. They're the ones who put a towel over a detainees head and pour a bucket of water on it, and they tell everybody they oppose torture. And I don't care if it's Dick Cheney or Barack Obama.

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by CarlV

Took me 3 years to lose the craving/interest.



Carl

Stint did it for me!

Sometimes when a match it lit I still want one. But people can smoke in front of me and it doesn't bother me. Don't miss the fingers and cloths smelling and all the mess.

Wife quit too.




Barney