I am smoking like 2 packs per day now

[Juicy D. Links]

Shit not good Its all this time behind the pc. Not good. Not good at all.

[i am a lurker]

sweet, hope you die sooner!

[sake]

I'm glad I quit that shit 6 months ago.. Wouldn't want to be paying $10 cdn for cigs daily..

[Juicy D. Links]

Originally posted by i am a lurker
sweet, hope you die sooner!

At least when i die , I will have people actually show up at my funeral unlike you

[DR_PHIL]

get some gum or something to replace it

[crockett]

I smell like I smoked two packs when I get home from the strip clubs

[Juicy D. Links]

Originally posted by DR_PHIL
get some gum or something to replace it

I am gonna go back to the acupunture dude

2 yrs ago i went and quit for like 3 months

[Napolean]

im goin thru at least 1 pack of black&milds a day

but their so good

[Juicy D. Links]

Originally posted by crockett
I smell like I smoked two packs when I get home from the strip clubs

you cant smoke anymore in the clubs out here in NY , Scores they let you still.

Dance clubs i light up till the bouncer tells me to put it out

[doober]

Originally posted by sake
I'm glad I quit that shit 6 months ago.. Wouldn't want to be paying $10 cdn for cigs daily..

haha good stuff sake!!!
Me too, I quit nov 17..and as much as I loved to smoke im so glad I held on this far!

I even endured 1 week in mexico in nov/dec after that i knew i would be ok lol...in mexico you can & should smoke everywhere

[Kevin2]

Juicy don't you find that the you tend to smoke more when you are under pressure? When I have a dozen things I'm doing all at once I smoke heaps more

I have to dump this crap habit somehow

[whee]

It's well worth the quit. I stopped 11 months ago, never felt better. I can actually smell things now!
Quit the cigs Juicy, the sooner the better, you wont regret it no matter what.

[Tuna]

yeah im smoking more too.

[Juicy D. Links]

Originally posted by Kevin2
Juicy don't you find that the you tend to smoke more when you are under pressure? When I have a dozen things I'm doing all at once I smoke heaps more

I have to dump this crap habit somehow

Yup

I have been uder pressure and stress alot the last year and half or so

[Juicy D. Links]

Originally posted by whee
It's well worth the quit. I stopped 11 months ago, never felt better. I can actually smell things now!
Quit the cigs Juicy, the sooner the better, you wont regret it no matter what.

you go cold turkey?

[whee]

Originally posted by juicylinks


you go cold turkey?

Yes, I had the nerve to stop 14 days before my daughter was to be born... One needs a goal to go cold turkey. I had one.

[Kevin2]

What is bad is I stopped for 3 years then started again then stopped for 5 years and started again

[zentz]

i smoke 2 since highschool

[Oracle Porn]

don't smoke at home and you will smoke a lot less.
I smoke like 3-4 cigs /day.

[doober]

another thing, i just realised that i have saved nearly 1500$
holy shit !!!
unreal!!


also they say the average smoker quits 7-10 times before its for good...that aint easy to do...

[Kevin2]

Hey Juicy I have 3 smokes left so why don't we try and stop today and see if we can do it

[Juicy D. Links]

Originally posted by Kevin2
Hey Juicy I have 3 smokes left so why don't we try and stop today and see if we can do it

I dont have the will power to go cold turky

[jimmyf]

Originally posted by Kevin2
What is bad is I stopped for 3 years then started again then stopped for 5 years and started again

thats the way I was with drinking. been dry for over 20 years this time.

[Kevin2]

I am going to switch from coffee to water and chew shit loads of gum and see if it works. I am already dreading this decision.

[Kevin2]

Originally posted by jimmyf


thats the way I was with drinking. been dry for over 20 years this time.

Damn I think drinking is harder to give up than smoking and if you have accomplished that for 20 years you have all my respect jimmyf

[Steve]

Originally posted by i am a lurker
sweet, hope you die sooner!

AMP?

[brickbat]

The Engrish Whitney Houston says: "Smoke is joke!"

[Shoehorn!]

I've never even taken one puff from a cigarette. Cigars on the other hand, are another story.

[Screaming]

stop smoking inside, make your self get up and walk outside to smoke, cut me back, house smells better too

[Webasic]

Originally posted by i am a lurker
sweet, hope you die sooner!

Gods can't die

[m00d]

get out more

oh wait you are on house arrest i forgot

[torrey]

Originally posted by juicylinks
Shit not good Its all this time behind the pc. Not good. Not good at all.

It take a strange solice in knowing Im not the only one.

[sumphatpimp]

this is what your lungs look like

[Webasic]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sumphatpimp
[B]this is what your lungs look like

mmmmmmmmmm....where's the gravy

[sumphatpimp]

on second thought.......

keep on smoking,

cause when you die we can hack you open , take pics and submit them to consumption junction and maybe rick will send us some free traffic.

good idea, glad I though of it.

fuck it ! keep on smoking !!!!!!!!!!

[Abyss_Vee]

Originally posted by juicylinks
Shit not good Its all this time behind the pc. Not good. Not good at all.

cut down to 1 pack. and then 1/2 then 1/4 then ... u get the point.... im at 3/4 right now... and 1/2 on weekdays

[webmaster x]

Dude, I feel for you. I smoke too and I've got to stop. Been coughing harder than in a Bob Marley concert.

[Firehorse]

I gave up 6 years ago and have not regretted it. Good luck giving up Juicy!

[arial]

xtra whitening toothpaste! Gotta save that smile oh juicy you.

[Corleone]

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[strobi]

watch your health... Sitting in front of computer and smoking all day long will get you killed before 50. Once you lose your health you can never get it back. Even with 10 million$.

[monaro]

Originally posted by juicylinks
Shit not good Its all this time behind the pc. Not good. Not good at all.

Do as I do, put the smokes outside on a table and only smoke outside, that way you will at least reduce the amount to start off.

Sometimes its just so you have something in your left hand right?
Pick up a pen or a coin and try to roll this item over your knuckles.

[NoCarrier]

"He Wanted You to Know"

http://www.sptimes.com/News/61599/Fl..._to_know.shtml



On the day of Bryan's death, June 3, wife Bobbie and son Bryan keep a bedside vigil. The recent photo of father and son is on the bed. [Times photo: V. Jane Windsor]

Bryan Curtis started smoking at 13, never thinking that 20 years later it would kill him and leave a wife and children alone. In his last weeks, he set out with a message for young people.

ST. PETERSBURG -- Cigarette smoke hangs in the air in the room where Bryan Lee Curtis lies dying of lung cancer.

His head, bald from chemotherapy, lolls on a pillow. The bones of his cheeks and shoulders protrude under taut skin. His eyes are open, but he can no longer respond to his mother or his wife, Bobbie, who married him in a makeshift ceremony in this room three weeks ago after doctors said there was no hope.

In Bryan's emaciated hands, Bobbie has propped a photograph taken just two months ago. It shows a muscular and seemingly healthy Bryan holding his 2-year-old son, Bryan Jr. In the picture, he is 33. He turned 34 on May 10.

A pack of cigarettes and a lighter sit on a table near Bryan's bed in his mother's living room. Even though tobacco caused the cancer now eating through his lungs and liver, Bryan smoked until a week ago, when it became impossible.

Across the room, a 20-year-old nephew crushes out a cigarette in a large glass ashtray where the butt joins a dozen others. Bobbie Curtis says she'll try to stop after the funeral, but right now, it's just too difficult. Same for Bryan's mother, Louise Curtis.

"I just can't do it now," she says, although she hopes maybe she can after the funeral.

Bryan knew how hard it is to quit. But when he learned he would die because of his habit, he thought maybe he could persuade at least a few kids not to pick up that first cigarette. Maybe if they could see his sunken cheeks, how hard it was becoming to breathe, his shriveled b-ody, it might scare them enough.

So a man whose life was otherwise unremarkable set out in the last few weeks of his life with a mission.



Bryan Lee Curtis, then 33, holds son Bryan Jr., 2, in this March 29 photo. Curtis would die about two months later.

* * *
Bryan started when he was just 13, building up to more than two packs a day. He talked about quitting from time to time, but never seriously tried.

Plenty of time for that, he figured. Older people got cancer. Not people in their 30s, not people who worked in construction, as a roofer, as a mechanic.

He had no health insurance. But he was more worried about his mother, 57, who had smoked since she was 25.

"He would say, "Mom, don't worry about me. Worry about yourself. I'm healthy,' " Louise Curtis remembers. "You think this would happen later, when you're 60 or 70 years old, not when you're his age."

He knew, only a few days after he went to the hospital on April 2 with severe abdominal pain, how wrong he had been. He had oat cell lung cancer that had spread to his liver. He probably had not had it long. Also called small cell lung cancer, it's an aggressive killer that usually claims the lives of its victims within a few months.

While it seems unusual to the Curtis family, Dr. Jeffrey Paonessa, Bryan's oncologist, said he is seeing more lung cancer in young adults.

"We've seen lung cancer earlier and earlier because people are starting to smoke earlier and earlier," Paonessa said. Chemotherapy sometimes slows the process, but had little effect in Bryan's case, he said.

Bryan also knew, a few days after the diagnosis, that he wanted somehow to try to save at least one kid from the same fate. He sat down and talked with Bryan Jr. and his 9-year-old daughter, Amber, who already had been caught once with a cigarette. But he wanted to do more. Somehow, he had to get his story out.

When he still had some strength to leave the house, kids would stare.

"They'd come up and look at him because he looked so strange," Louise Curtis said. "He'd look at them and say, "This is what happens to you when you smoke.'

"The kids would say, "Oh, man. I can't believe it,' " Louise Curtis said.

In the last few weeks, Bryan's mother has been the agent for his mission to accomplish some good with the tragedy. She has called newspapers and radio and television stations, seeking someone willing to tell her son's story, willing to help give him the one thing he wanted before he died. Bryan never got to tell his story to the public. He spoke for the last time an hour before a visit from a Times reporter and photographer.

"I'm too skinny. I can't fight anymore," he whispered to his mother at 9 a.m. June 3. He died that day at 11:56 a.m., just nine weeks after the diagnosis.

Bryan Lee Curtis Sr. was buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in St. Petersburg on June 8, a rare cloudy day that threatened rain.



At the funeral service at nearby Blount, Curry and Roel Funeral Home, Bryan's casket was open and 50 friends and relatives could see the devastating effects of the cancer.

Addiction is more powerful.

As the graveside ritual ended, a handful of relatives backed away from the gathering, pulled out packs of cigarettes and lit up.



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I quit smoking after reading that article. I know it's a "cliché" but you can't stop smoking because you're afraid of the withdrawal symptoms. When you stop, you need more. If you really want to stop, go cold turkey. It only takes 72 hours to clean your b-ody from nicotine. You need to educate yourself about nicotine and what it does to you and the reasons why you are smoking.

Bookmark the following site

http://www.whyquit.com

Tons of free articles

[MaDalton]

it's easy to give up smoking. you just have to want it. chewing gum, acupuncture etc. doesn't help if you don't really want to give it up.

[Poo-Chee]

Maybe cuz you are 'smoking hot' ?

[Weppel]

I've quitted smoking about 4-5 months ago. Just cold turkey.

It's easy once you have a very good reason for yourself to stop.
I coughed all day long, couldn't smell anything for over 3 years, and my health condition was very bad. Those three things made me stop. Never touched a sig eversince.

[Kicker]

OMG

[Juicy D. Links]

Originally posted by sumphatpimp
this is what your lungs look like

[bluff]

education is the key. I've said it so many times - most people have NO CLUE what is caused by smoking. These cancer stories - if it were only cancer smoking caused - ahhh how great would that be. Cancer makes up only a few percent of the diseased related to smoking. Almost any disease imaginable is unfavourably related to smoking. Chances of developing heart diseases are increased dramatically. And think what the heck you're doing with a fragile organ like the lungs! For example, virtually all smokers will develop COPD in the end, a mixture between emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Just stop now, DO IT!

[Edguy!]

Move up to chewing tobacco or cigars (Y)