Still smoking support and chat thread
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Thanks Shari (and anyone else I missed from not reading further yet), stupid me... you would think after smoking for 20+ years that the shock of being told I had a confirmed heart problem as of last November would get it through my head but apparently not.
The medication so far is at least maintaining what has been damaged but the DR's are still not sure why the damage occurred. So, they are doing another ECG in March to see if the damage has gotten worse, stayed the same or possibly improved. Around the same time, another guy I drive with had a heart attack and they found 2 major blockages in his arteries (90% & 80%, oddly fixed only 1 and left the other to meds to fix) he had another heart attack and needed a triple bypass. Thankfully, he is recovering very well and hopes to be back driving this month. FYI, he had been vaping and was one of the guys who got me in to it (he had some bad times and fell back into smoking analogs again - not sure if that was the cause or not) and now can cape but only with zero nicotine.
I day my own juice mainly so I have a ton of flavors handy and hopefully can kick the habit and do it for good this time. Lol, maybe I can even get my buddy to comment on how good my truck smells from a custom raspberry blend again!!
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Fogging out my Bulldog with a 1.2ohm Igo-W on a k101 or an I30 when I don't have time to drip.
Bring on the fog machines!!
P.s. I like parentheses and ellipses...
Yeah, the snowboarding has been pretty cool. Very disappointed that the Japanese girl that fell while figure skating still scored higher than our girl who only two-footed a landing...
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Fogging out my Bulldog with a 1.2ohm Igo-W on a k101 or an I30 when I don't have time to drip.
Bring on the fog machines!!
P.s. I like parentheses and ellipses...
Good Morning!
I hope everyone has a beautiful and peaceful Sunday. And here's to hoping mine is productive -- I'm off to work.
YES! Not just one, but 2 cups of coffee!!!! And they're both full!!!!!
I'm rather embarrassed to admit that I watched a fair amount of the curling last time around, too. Such a bizarre sport! Shari, rules are like horseshoes - whoever is closest to the center gets a point, if their second stone is also closer than the opponents nearest one, they get another point.
Not too hard to figure out the origins, though. Guys, out on the ice, trying to see who can get a stone closest to some target. Then some guy helps out his buddy by using his foot to shoo some snow or ice chips out of the path. And LO! A new sport is born!
It was invented in Scotland, probably by some very frustrated golfers waiting for the course to thaw out!
Cool!!! I love that it's under health and wellness! There are quite a few e-cig cases on there.
It's funny, but we lived way down east in Maine from 1971 to 1974. We could only get Canadian TV in those days, and we got quite a kick out of watching curling all the time. Never quite understood it though. Don't have TV anymore, it was between making monthly payments on TV, or internet, and I chose internet.
Hopefully now that it is February, the weather will start to stabilize, and you will start feeling better.
Good morning everyone. Sorry I can't get on board with curling, it puts me to sleep I need a bit more action. lol
You'll quit when you quit. Fretting about not quitting only feeds the lies the cigarettes are telling your brain. In the mean time seek within you why you want to smoke when the urge happens. No it's not the nicotine. No it's not the hand to mouth, etc. If you still desire to smoke there's another reason, each of us has our own, and those are what makes the difference for each person. For me it was defiance that it's harmful, the "I'll show you by rebelling against the truth" and I've that one was revealed it became a game of kicking the habits one at a time. After dinner habit, driving habit, coffee and a smoke habit, grab one when emotional habit, etc. For me it never was nicotine addiction that I couldn't( out wouldn't) kick. It's been telling an old friend (my doctor calls cigarettes my mistress but I call them my best buddy) thanks for the decades of being my 1 stability that I could count on being there when needed or wanted. It's time for me to grow up and go out solo, no more best buddy crutch to lean on. Like Linus has his blanket I've had my cigarettes since I was 13 (I turn 50 next week). The blanket had to go.
You'll find your reason(s) and conquer it too.
Welcome to the thread for the rest of us.
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Yeah, that crutch was what I leaned on when things got hard so it makes perfect for me. The heart condition I got diagnosed with was just another reason to go back to something "comfortable, reliable and familiar" not to mention stupid as hell given the circumstances in my case.
Anyway, here's to hoping it's the last relapse to the stinky stuff.
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Fogging out my Bulldog with a 1.2ohm Igo-W on a k101 or an I30 when I don't have time to drip.
Bring on the fog machines!!
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About analogs vs ecigs and why ecigs are less dangerous to your health:
http://www.janty.com/en/news/item/vapor-test-results-by-keca
Uncle I finally found your post
It was in the first contest thread
Yep that was the one - Thank "You" - for getting a copy of it from the closed/moved thread . . .
Although, I was actually expecting it via a PM, especially so I could properly edit it to be more appropriate for this thread without having to rewrite everything before posting it here - I guess it still works . . .
Again, THANKS - I think . . .
You can actually copy/paste from it now and edit if you want.
I posted a video for you in GG thread
Okay - I will and then repost it (well that is if you delete the other one - No need for a double post of the same "Stuff") . . .
Yep - Saw that - Very appropriate and cute - just like "You" . . .
When my doctor showed me the tape of my eeg/keg/whatever a few years back it didn't phase me a bit. When he said I was right at emphysema a couple of years ago it scared me but not enough to quit. Slavery to cigarettes realization ...... me off to quit for months and is the ONLY thing that kept me trying to quit since 09. My goal is still to vape only temporarily though I've set no time table. My sister quit cigarettes back in 07 but still uses nicotine mints like m&ms. She's not smoking though, not a single one since 07. I've already, in about a month, cut back from 24mg for a few days to 18mg for a couple of weeks to now holding at 12mg with an occasional vape session of 18mg Cherrywood. I'm starting to order 6mg with my replacement bottles and mix them half/half with my 12mg, thus dropping to 9mg slowly. My goal is get to 0mg then see where that goes as far as inhaling anything but the air I breathe. No hurry though. At least I'm not smoking but a couple of cigarettes a week when an old habit sneaks up. Friday I grabbed one on my way out the door only to realize later I'd done it.
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good afternoon! I hope you all have a superb Sunday! No rain today so I have to try to get myself on order. see ya all later!
About curling:
Curling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Has a Scots origin, but much-loved by Canadians (seems to be a favourite national sport, played with enthusiasm all across the country)!
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You do not need to tell me about not getting the message. I have had heart disease since I was 33, and I am a woman. That is very young in a woman. I have had 12 or 14 angiograms and I think 5 angioplasties, 1 with a couple of stents. And I still continued to smoke cigarettes. So I get it, big time.
I do believe that putting down that last cigarette is a decision a person has to make for themselves. When I made up my mind that vaping was going to work for me, I made it work. It ended up being quicker and more pleasurable than I anticipated. A big part of my success was my stubbornness and the good people here with their support and attaboys. There is much more to smoking than just the cigarette.
There is a lot of trial and error. We tend to beat ourselves up if we are not successful on the first attempt. Who is an expert at anything the very first time. Even smoking. It all takes time and practice. And the frame of mind to give it a good go at it. And a few people around you to support your efforts, like the people in this thread.
I do believe that putting down that last cigarette is a decision a person has to make for themselves. When I made up my mind that vaping was going to work for me, I made it work. It ended up being quicker and more pleasurable than I anticipated. A big part of my success was my stubbornness and the good people here with their support and attaboys. There is much more to smoking than just the cigarette.
There is a lot of trial and error. We tend to beat ourselves up if we are not successful on the first attempt. Who is an expert at anything the very first time. Even smoking. It all takes time and practice. And the frame of mind to give it a good go at it. And a few people around you to support your efforts, like the people in this thread.
The first match of the curling will be on NBCSports channel (cable channel) at 2am tonight. And then again at 2pm tomorrow for the next match. Going to tape it. Goodie, goodie, goodie! DH laughs at me and I do not understand my fascination with this particular sport. Has to be because I think it is so absurd.
I get a kick out of the biathalon too, I think it is. The one where the guys ski for a bit then rush up to an area and pull out their rifles, drop to the ground and shoot at a target and jump back up and ski some more. Was this how they hunted in Norway, Sweden and like countries a thousand years ago? Why don't they have to pick up and drag a 150lb weight for that last ski, to signify the deer they scored? Some of these 'sports' are strange in today's world. At least for me.
I get a kick out of the biathalon too, I think it is. The one where the guys ski for a bit then rush up to an area and pull out their rifles, drop to the ground and shoot at a target and jump back up and ski some more. Was this how they hunted in Norway, Sweden and like countries a thousand years ago? Why don't they have to pick up and drag a 150lb weight for that last ski, to signify the deer they scored? Some of these 'sports' are strange in today's world. At least for me.
What a wonderful post! Probably partly because it is exactly how I feel about it and can not express it that well. It really is a great post and does tell the tale of a lot of what is going on behind the scenes for a long term smoker who is trying to quit and is have difficulty doing so. You just saved a bunch of us thousands of dollars on the psychiatrist's couch. I am serious about that. Many go through this and can not figure out what the problem is.
There are other factors involved too, don't get me wrong. But what you talked about is a biggy.
There are other factors involved too, don't get me wrong. But what you talked about is a biggy.
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