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Quit a 2 pack a day habit Dec. 8th 2014.
Not proud of starting it as I sure knew better, but I started at a strange time in my life & that was that.
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I spent 15 months in a recon unit in RVN and we never smoked outside the wire. I learned the majesty of the Zippo lighter as it could light a Marlboro in the back of a Huey during liftoff from a hot LZ. Noise and light discipline are easy, not smoking in the field separates the men from the boys.
mike r
Don't wish it were easier Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
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Campfire Kahuna
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Quit cigars 6 years ago.
Quit cigarettes 20 some odd years ago.
Wish I'd never started.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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I guess they all be dead, eh?
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Don't laugh too loud. I once bought a pack in Thailand, took only one puff. I smoked from High School until I was 49, quit them 30 years ago. Cant stand to even get a tiny whiff of one now, nor do I like the smell of the inside of a car that's been smoked in, or a stinky ol' casino. Pretty much the same here having started smoking in junior high. Started drinking early, too and haven't totally quit that but don't drink much. Quit smoking twenty years ago and can't understand how I ever liked smoking. I try real hard not to be one of the righteous ex smokers that beetches about others smoking. Just try to avoid situations where there's smoke in the air.
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Been done 15 years. Just had enough. Born to a family of smokers and tobacco farmers. I can breath now....
If it ain't broke don't fix it!!!!!!!!!!!
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I've tried cigs but never became a smoker. Didn't like it.
I've chewed Copenhagen since 6th grade and love it too much to quit. I probably should though.
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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There is a “park” across the street from the office building I work in. The “park” is only about a 1/4 city block and is mostly pavement, full of smokers and hobos.
My late 50’s age coworker returned from a smoke break one day last week looking a bit shaken and says:
“I just had something happen to me that has never happened before. I really didn’t know how to respond to it.”
What happened? Says I.
“Some guy just came up to me in the park and said - I’ll suck your dick for a cigarette.” (It was about 10 degrees out)
Coworker said he did not say anything and just walked away. By the time we were done rubbing him about it, he was wishing he had kept the whole uncomfortable episode to himself!
"There's no schadenfreude like Hillary Clinton schadenfreude." - Tamara Keel
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Never even tried a puff on a cigarette. Same here. Having moved a bunch the doctor's are always stunned...
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
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After 30+ years, I quit cold turkey November 15, 2018, in support of my wife. Her doctor said he wouldn't do hip surgery on her unless she quit. Well she had the surgery, but didn't quit, and I didn't start up again. Actually it was a pretty easy thing to do.
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost....
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Started at age 10, stopped at age 34 +.
When I stopped it wasn't unusual to go through almost 3 packs a day. Ever see that guy working with a 'grit in his mug? That was me.
Tobacco addict to the max. Would smoke a cigarette with a chew of Red Man in while drinking beer at the keg party. Did that old timey snort up the nose snuff too. Only thing I never really liked was the Cope type snuff, not because of taste or effect, just like chaw better. Smoked cigars and pipe tobacco on occasion too. Pulled apart butts from the ash trays after drinking parties when I was broke or until I could get to the store. Absolutely loved the stuff, still love the smell of unburnt tabacky. Ask friends who still smoke if I can open the lid on their hard packs and take a sniff still.
So glad I quit though. When I did, for incentive I saved half what I burned up every day in a fund for fishing equipment and "stuff". 2 packs a day was about $4 so I saved $14 a week. Could get a nice reel every month or so at that rate back then.
Cannot for the life of me imagine paying $6, $8, or even $10 a pack for smokes now.
Did I say I'm so glad I quit.
My secret, learned partially from my old man who went through a 5 pack of cigars (and not those little ones) every day and just up and quit one day, ...................I just don't smoke the first one, or take the first chew................never.
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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$180 a month in Skoal...Like clockwork. 😎
Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog “Molon Labe”
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$150 in Copenhagen. Trying hard to quit though.
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Never smoked anything.
Picked the finest Shade grown and Broadleaf grown as a kid. I learned fast just how bad that crap is from suckering and picking it. Wearing long sleeve shirts under the nets sucked but your arms turning to leather was worst!
Eat Fish, Wear Grundens, Drink Alaskan.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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$180 a month in Skoal...Like clockwork. 😎 $150 in Copenhagen. Trying hard to quit though. Quit, and buy yourselves a decent rifle or pistol, out of state DIY hunt, new loading equipment, new performance and show quality whippet puppy from excellent lines ( ), and/or............................???? Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Campfire Ranger
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$180 a month in Skoal...Like clockwork. 😎 $150 in Copenhagen. Trying hard to quit though. Quit, and buy yourselves a decent rifle or pistol, out of state DIY hunt, new loading equipment, new performance and show quality whippet puppy from excellent lines ( ), and/or............................???? Geno Nah, got and do all that too, Geno... Now, a Whippet? You might be on ta something right there’s. 😬😎
Curiosity Killed the Cat & The Prairie Dog “Molon Labe”
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Campfire 'Bwana
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$180 a month in Skoal...Like clockwork. 😎 $150 in Copenhagen. Trying hard to quit though. Quit, and buy yourselves a decent rifle or pistol, out of state DIY hunt, new loading equipment, new performance and show quality whippet puppy from excellent lines ( ), and/or............................???? Geno Nah, got and do all that too, Geno... Now, a Whippet? You might be on ta something right there’s. 😬😎 OK then..................... quit and get a maid for a day! Geno PS my parents couldn't afford one and I still can't.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Posted before but this was our “dove field” last summer Mrs slumlord used to raise burley and dark with her daddy and ‘papaw’. Ya think it woulda took the sass outta her.
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Posted before but this was our “dove field” last summer Mrs slumlord used to raise burley and dark with her daddy and ‘papaw’. Ya think it woulda took the sass outta her. For those that don't know, that's dark fired tobacco. Cured with heat and smoke in barns, and used for chewing and dipping, with some of what is called "wrapper" leaf used to make cigars.
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