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Title: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: protokatie on July 25, 2010, 03:54:20 am
No, sorry, this isnt about a sneak peek of the next Street Fighter game, "Street Fighter V : Chun Li and Cammy Get It On".

The 4 weeks is the number of weeks I have gone since my last cigarette! Woot! I guess it is kinda a milestone.

Anyways, I bet you are all going to go back to fantasizing about Chun Li and Cammy now..
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: Franco B on July 25, 2010, 05:53:07 am
Well done! A month is quite a mile stone indeed.  :applaud:

How are you finding it? Are you using patches or anything or just going cold turkey?

Are you finding the cravings are subsiding yet? The more time goes on the less and less you will think about them.

I'm nearly 8 months quit now and don't get cravings or really think about them at all. The only time I do is if I am standing next to someone smoking and it sometimes smells nice. I knew if I did have one it would be discusting though!

Keep it up though, its one of the best things you can do to improve your life.  :)
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: patrickl on July 25, 2010, 08:53:05 am
Yeah, keep it up. Don't get distracted and go back.

I have several friends who stopped and then started smoking again after half a year. Never understood that. You go through all trouble and then all of a sudden start smoking again.
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: drventure on July 25, 2010, 09:42:56 am
Congrats!

And just think of the money you're not spending anymore on cigs that you can spend on cabs  ;)
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: protokatie on July 25, 2010, 10:48:55 am
Thanx guys. I have quit in the past, and it was hard. This time, for some odd reason it was nowhere near as difficult as it had been in the past. From what I can tell I am past the worst of it, and am simply lookg toward the future. On a side note: I hav also cut way back on the beer too, so even more money to save up ;)
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: Cakemeister on July 25, 2010, 10:59:03 am
Great job!  :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

5 bucks times a pack a day time 30 days = $150!
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: patrickl on July 25, 2010, 12:25:02 pm
Quote from: pinballjim on July 25, 2010, 11:57:51 am
Well, it'll be alzheimer's or parkinson's instead of lung cancer, but at least you'll have more spending money in the meantime.


Because you die so early that you won't get old enough to get alzheimer or parkinson's?!?!?!?!
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: hypernova on July 25, 2010, 01:07:40 pm
Quote from: protokatie on July 25, 2010, 03:54:20 am
Anyways, I bet you are all going to go back to fantasizing about Chun Li and Cammy now..

Who says we ever stopped?  Good luck on your Marlboro points rewards or...wait.  What?
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: shmokes on July 25, 2010, 01:35:33 pm
Meh . . . nobody's gonna be dying from Alzheimer's 30 years from now.  I don't know about progress on Parkinson's.
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: patrickl on July 25, 2010, 02:41:21 pm
Quote from: pinballjim on July 25, 2010, 12:48:03 pm
Eh, that's part of it.  But if you compare across age groups (say 80 year olds), the smokers have a much lower incidence of neurodegenerative disease.  Granted, they've got to live long enough.  There's no explanation for this at the moment.

Feel free to wiki your way to competence on this issue.


Something like this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/13/smoking-the-connection-be_n_609424.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/13/smoking-the-connection-be_n_609424.html)

What's odd is that research that was done before (outside the US) also indicated that smoking doubles the risk of Alsheimer's by two.

Still the chance of becoming 80 or older is a lot less likely for smokers than non-snokers. Makes sense you won't have many smokers in the over 80 group.
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: Silas (son of Silas) on July 25, 2010, 03:35:14 pm
Nice Job.  Quitting ---daisies--- can be tough, stick with it.

Quote from: protokatie on July 25, 2010, 10:48:55 am
I have also cut way back on the beer too.

That's cool too. Way to go!

Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: SNAAKE on July 25, 2010, 06:34:28 pm
smoking is cool and you know it!

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Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: Xiaou2 on July 25, 2010, 07:45:25 pm
 Snake, You think yellow teeth, hacking cough, gruff scratchy voice, and smelling like
charcoal + skunk = cool?!   

 No, its the furthest thing from Cool.   Its absolutely disgusting.


 Congrats Katie.

 When things get tough, learn to deal with them on your own strength,
and not with the drugs.  You can do it.

 
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: shmokes on July 25, 2010, 07:47:58 pm
Xiaou, you're just describing the costs of cool . . .     ;D
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: SNAAKE on July 25, 2010, 08:09:28 pm
whoa calm down there tony deh tiger lol..

I am not a smoker or anything. but smoking is still cool!
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: patrickl on July 25, 2010, 09:08:34 pm
Bow ties are cool.
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: vorghagen on July 25, 2010, 09:19:06 pm
Quote from: SNAAKE on July 25, 2010, 06:34:28 pm
smoking is cool and you know it!

Quote from: patrickl on July 25, 2010, 09:08:34 pm
Bow ties are cool.

Both wrong.

An arcade cabinet in your house is cool.
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: patrickl on July 25, 2010, 09:37:05 pm
Blasphemy! The Doctor is never wrong.
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: shmokes on July 25, 2010, 10:13:06 pm
Not even James Bond makes a bow tie cool.  Decorative bows of any kind are ridiculous when worn by non-children.  Doubly so when said non-child is also a non-woman.  That's not just my opinion; they are objectively out of style and have been for decades with the minor exception of tuxedos and even there they've seriously lost favor in the last ten-fifteen years.  

While everyone knows this is true for most people, a few people delude themselves into thinking that they manage to pull the bow tie off.  Invariably they are wrong and are the constant subject of ridicule.  And abject hatred more often than not   ;D
Title: Re: Four Weeks and Counting!
Post by: protokatie on July 26, 2010, 05:13:14 am
Ok guys. There seems to be a misunderstanding of what COOL is. I happen to own a tardis and it can serve many different services.
Although it isn't a "real" tardis, it exists because I can dream.


Anyways, thank you to all who encouraged me.


I went on a 3 hour hike in Acadia national park to celebrate my victory and took hundreds of pictures (most of which will be in my newest Myst style game ;) )

Thank you to all who can see at least a portion of my potential future.