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[Brian Jackson]

Wish me lack of focus, guys! This thread has gone on long enough, so I quit smoking today, right here and now. My wife is like "yeah, right", until I showed her where my stash was. (stash = the pack I bought today). We crunched 'em up together and tomorrow will be interesting.

Part of my inspiration was GyroRon's determination. I don't know if he made it or not, but I get incredibly angry being forced to succumb to Phillip Morris' idea of a docile addict. Several dollars are demanded of me every single day to maintain my composure. What composure? I can be every bit the asshole as the next guy.

To everyone reading this post, if I seem a bit agitated these next few days, please understand the powerful addiction I'm withdrawing from. I'll do my best to remain coherent. However, random references to Sponge Bob and Rubber Chickens are not the responsibility of this broadcasting company... Oh no, it's starting. I'm losing it.

 

[mrford61]

Seriously Rotopix, consider Nico-Bloc.

www.nicobloc.com

 

[Brian Jackson]

Too late. I've quit a few hours ago. I can already feel my mental faculties changing. I may sign off here for a couple of days. It seems easy when you make the decission to quit, but executing it is another matter indeed. By this time tomorrow I may be a bumbling idiot (did I spell that correctly?)

 

[Brian Jackson]

Here's what my wife is investing in to help me quit:
https://www.nicosphere3000.com/intro.htm

Perhaps it could save many of you too!

 

[PatONeal]

Ron,

I'm not sure but, do I detect a thinly veiled challenge in Birdy's post #52?

Pat O'Neal

 

[GyroRon]

Pat, yes I think you do!

Guys I would like to think that if I buy this special gum or this drops stuff or have needles put in my ears I could quit just like that. That is fine, all that stuff might work great. But I believe if I just totally make up my mind to quit and if I really want to quit, I can cold turkey. When I said I was going to quit on my Birthday it was only cause I picked that day as the day to quit months ago. I want to quit and I had picked out the day to quit, but my problem was I wasn't READY to quit. My heart wasn't in it. I do plan to no excuses give up smoking sometime by this winter. I won't be working and to keep from packing on the pounds I think quitting smoking, joining the gym and working out and so on will do me alot of good.

Thanks guys for all the support.

Brian good luck. Hope you got your heart in it to. Now let me go out to the porch and light up another Newport!

 

[Brian Jackson]

Day 2 and still a bumbling idiot but smoke free. I'm wearing the patch, and it's not as bad as I anticipated. The morning coffee was the worst part though... Now what do I do with my hands and time during those moments I'd normally be taking a cigarette break? Hmmmm, I know... think I'll build a gyro! Actually I'm ordering all the tubing and buying a new drill press this week! Can't wait.

 

[Chuck Irby]

Brian, keep some tooth picks in your pocket and get one of them and pick your teeth, chew the hell out it, or whatever. Just don't give in to smoking. Light the toothpick if you have to.