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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Quit smoking for good over 6 years ago.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!" --- Kid Rock 2022
Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?
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Campfire Regular
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Campfire Regular
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1969 - stopped cold turkey, never touched another tobacco product.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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I smoke a pack every 2 or 3 days. I took Chantix about 6 years ago and it actually worked. Was able to stay off for a little over a year but I was always irritable and sleep quality was awful. Here I am again. I don't drink alcohol but really enjoy tobacco with my coffee in the mornings especially. Terrible habit. I know someone that went on that stuff and her husband found her freaked out in the MBR closet. She had to get off it.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Coffee and a chew first thing in the morning...best laxative on the planet.
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Quit smoking 2017 after 46 years. Was diagnosed with lung cancer in June, lobectomy in July, not fun at all! I am now in remission, to bad it almost always comes back somewhere.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Apr 2011
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I quit 3 years ago after smoking for 38 years.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Joined: Feb 2007
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Never smoked, but both parents did. Dad was a pack a day smoker, mom would get 2-3 days out of a pack. Dad started in 1942 when he went in the Army. Mom didn't smoke until she married dad in 1952. They both quit cold turkey in 1984, but the damage was already done and they ended up paying for it late in life. They both beat other forms of cancer, neither had lung cancer. But both suffered from respiratory problems and were on O2 24 hours a day during their last years.
Their DR explained to me that young healthy adults rarely use more than 1/2 their lung capacity. You can damage up to 1/2 the lungs and not see any decline when young. But as you age you naturally lose lung capacity. Combine that natural loss with the damage done by smoking when young and you'll struggle to breathe as you age. And it is worse for women since their lungs are smaller to begin with.
Most people don't really want the truth.
They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
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Never smoked tobacco but did on occasion smoke some weed back in the 60's and 70's.
living the good life every day
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Jan 2012
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Smoke a pack a day. Tear off about 1/3 rd inch of each one cause I used ta smoke Marlboro 72,s .
Lot of times I power drag 5 or 6 inhales and flick it away.
Probably smoke 12 to 15 actual king size a day
I drink one cup of coffee a day Strong instant folgers 3 heaping teaspoons instant, heaping teaspoon creamer ,heaping teaspoon sugar ( old army habit from all over the planet)
Gave up drinking Oct 98.
Drank 2 beers with my FIL when my MIL died jan 08 at a dinner we had in her memory after the service.
You all think I'm a dick stone cold sober here on 24hr at times. You all shoulda met me on a Friday or Saturday night with a 12 pack of Bud and half a bottle of mezcal in my gut. I put the word funk into " functional weekend alcoholic".
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Campfire Regular
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Smoked for 35 years. Also chew and dip. Now all I use for the last 8 years is Swedish snus. Love it. Ingredients are listed because it is a food product over there. Roasted tobacco, nicotine, natural flavoring and salt. No gum or teeth problems. No spit. Many flavors. Many levels of nicotine from 8 grams to 24 grams. Believe me the 12 gram pouches will make your head pound. I use 2 flavors, 8 grams nicotine.
We pray our sights be straight and our aim be true We pray for no pain to the game we pursue We thank you Lord for this land We thank you for the sights from our stands We pray for safety, one and all We pray we may return next fall
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Smoking was almost mandatory when I was growing up.
I quit Jan 1 2020.
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I quit a 35-year 2 pack a day habit cold turkey in my early 50's, 20-something years ago when I had my first heart attack- - - -had another one a year later. My wife is killing herself with cigarettes now, and can't (won't) quit. She struggles for every breath (emphysema) and absolutely refuses to give them up. Jerry
Ignorance can be fixed. Stupid is forever!
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Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Tracker
Joined: Aug 2012
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I smoked from age 17 - 23. About a pack a day. At 23 I got a rough case of bronchitis. I couldn't smoke for about 3 weeks. I finally was well enough to have a smoke. I never tasted anything that bad in my life. I never smoked another cigarette. I did take up a cigar once in a while for the next 20 years but I gave that up as well. That bronchitis was a gift for sure.
Life can be rough on us dreamers.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
Joined: May 2016
Posts: 60,955 Likes: 71 |
Coffee and a chew first thing in the morning...best laxative on the planet. Thats no joke. Now that I quit it takes two cups. I started using tobacco pretty seriously around 9 or 10. What ever I could get my hands on. Quit a year and a half ago.....for the second time.
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I am MAGA.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Oct 2011
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Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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Campfire Outfitter
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Started in 1970 while in Infantry OCS and quit in 1980. Chewed cigars till I retired in 96. I chew now, particularly when hunting or fishing.
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Campfire Regular
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Quit April 25th 2004. Smoked for 19 years before that.
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By the grace of God, I quit in 1989. Never once had a craving. Done, nadda, quit for good.
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Campfire Regular
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Quit snuff and chew back in '01. Started around 14 years old. Was about 28 when I quit.
Figure I'll start back when I'm 75 (I'm 46 now). Then I should be too old for the cancer to kill me.
Course, by then tobacco will be illegal and you'll be able to buy heroin out of a vending machine........
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