Well 2 yrs ago when I signed up on the Q board it was for ideas on how to quit smoking plain & simple. You had choices & most didn't work for me but then again I wasn't real thrilled with quitting so nothing would work at that point,with that kind of loser attitude you won't quit. But in time I realized my drs. weren't going to make quitting easy or fun so I took wellburtrin & sucked it up & quit.
What happened to you was a terrible injustice, and I am truly and sincerely sorry that it did happen.
There is absolutely no excuse for anyone who is a vendor of medical services failing to tell someone who must stop smoking cigarettes immediately about every single option that is available to them. I don't care what a bunch of old farts want to call it. In my opinion, that's criminal negligence.
Thank goodness you were able to stop smoking tobacco cigarettes. Not everybody would be so lucky, though.
Before e-cigarettes existed, those people just had to die. Now they don't.
In my opinion, or no. I think we can elevate this to belief level, so according to my beliefs, every one of those people deserved to stay alive.
No matter how much somebody enjoys smoking, no matter what their beliefs are, how much they might disagree with me (and therefore be wrong) on any number of topics, they deserve to get any and everything that can help them have some more time with their loved ones, and their loved ones with them.
Even people who are old and sick and have already lived our lives and on the way out anyway, I believe we also deserve that.
I get that other people may have different beliefs about all that, and I can respect those beliefs even as I actively demonstrate my own by rooting for the Good Deed Posse and banging out a disjointed, rambling little blog of tips and tricks for raggedy and decrepit old relicts like myself who like to smoke, and are upgrading to e-cigarettes so we can enjoy it even more - and possibly for a longer time.
Which brings me to my point.
I think sometimes you and I may share something. I wish - a
lot - that e-cigarettes had been around when I was young. Even when I was no longer young but not yet old.
I would loved to have had that option, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't resentful and bitter and jealous because I didn't.
But waaay more than that, I'm so thankful and glad for all the people who DO have it - all the people who are 12 today, and 22 and 52 and whatever, that they will
never have to find themselves unable to breathe when they have a cold, and in a way worse and more horrifying way than we usually mean when we say that.
Just because I wish I could have something, doesn't mean I'm not glad someone else does, or wish that they didn't!
In fact, and I'm getting in trouble here, but I remember when I was a little girl, hearing that it was bad to feel envy, and I asked a holy man about it, and he told me that there's nothing wrong with wishing you had something someone else has, as long as you are wishing you had one like it, wishing you had one TOO, it's only wrong if you wish the other person didn't have it.
The idea of wishing the other person didn't have it made no sense to me then, nor does it now.
Why would anybody ever wish something like that?
Anyway, this has also been sitting in the pile, so I might as well dump it out, too:
Someone remind me why we would negotiate with a bunch of people that have been and continue to clearly break every rule that was set out by fred from the beginning, as if they have power to change those rules, when in fact, Fred shouldve simply disciplined them long ago?
Orly, that lady's mom, the other one's dying old auntie...If there were no Good Deed Posse, according to MY beliefs, somebody from there should have marched themselves over here and asked the PIF department to send one to the dear auntie.
There
was a Good Deed Posse, though, and not one of them even said, hey go ask one of those Posse people to help you get auntie one of those electric ones so she can be kept a little bit more comfortable as she spends her remaining days with her loved ones.
If I recall correctly, it was the Posse people who were finally obliged to ask...
