Quitting Smoking

I'm getting fucking old.
Can't sleep late no matter what time I get to bed even though there are no more kids at home.

Fucking afternoon nap, right on!!!

EDIT: Sorry, I thought I was in the FUCK thread. :oops:

Federal Health Nurse ran a program here, told me to get Zyban and come back in 10-14 days. I did, then she says "You smoke 2 packs of Exports a day. You need to wear TWO Step 1 patches and chew up to 20 4mg Nicorettes a day to replace that. Fuck the Doctor, don't tell him. He'll whine about risk and high blood pressure etc etc. You wanna take a 1/10,000 chance of a stroke or keep up a 50/50 chance of lung cancer? You decide."
It worked, but I relapsed after a year. Been trying over and over again for the last three!
Look at the SHIT that goes on when you smoke. Buy cheap smokes, they're dry as a desert. So you 'treat' yourself to a $10 pack of brand names and the third one COUGH COUGH HACK HACK because there's a fucking lump of styrofoam in the middle of one, no quality control whatsoever for $10 a pack.
Check out the label: Accord brand (used to be 'lights'): Nicotine 10-27 mg. It could be this or it could be three times as much - what a load of shit legalized wild guess at the contents.
Stick on a nicotine patch and the thing slides off after an hour. People say everyone knows you have to wrap a bandage overtop... well I say I hope this pseudo-pharm corporation ain't the same one that make's yer old lady's fucking birth control patch.
"Oh everyone knows you need to wrap it gauze to keep it in place!"
Yeah right, like my poor sisters back in the 60s when 'minipad' meant it wasn't quite the size of an Ottoman and you needed ALL your Girl Guide badges to be able to tie all the ropes, belts, hawsers and pulleys to hold it in place and you tucked away the mini-skirt to wear Gramma's frumpy black babushka skirt for a week every month!
Then I read the local rag and discover a 50 yr old woman busted for possession of two joints. But she could legally smoke ALL the tobacco you need to die, long as you shell out the taxes!
The landlord 'informs' us smoking will no longer be tolerated in "his" house. Regardless of the fact as long as I rent it it's legally "my" house. The other one sends a letter that he's been ORDERED to inform me I cannot smoke in the shop I rent, new public place regulations. BAH!!!
So I'm standing outside the shop in -10 weather with the freaking wind howling off the lake in my face enjoying a nice relaxing smoke and this bitch walks by and comments " You're within ten feet of the door, I could report you!"
I go livid!
I want to say, "Well you're a woman you should be grateful for anything over six inches!"
I'm in a small Northern town, so I could make light of her and say (spreading my hands), "I fish! This is more than ten feet!"
Then it clicks... she's a native woman....
"Hey don't rag on me. It's not my fault! SOMEONE got my ancestors hooked on this shit... I want reparations!!!

My problem with quiting smoking is that I was a physically dependent smoker. Not psychological or a mixture of both.

So the patch did it for me, in 2 months.

Have to be weary of your triggers though, for me it was beer on the weekends. So I quit that for awhile, then slowly went to ceasers, then back to beer but not as many. [B-o]

Getting old.

The mornings were tough too with that cup of coffee, so what I did was set my alarm about 15 minutes later. That way I had no time to sit around, it was eat, shower , get dressed & get to work.

Haha, Love your sig, you spammer!

Here's an idea. Why don't you take your

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and find somewhere else to sell your wares.

I'm glad I stopped smoking

Man I hate these kind of newbie posters who feel obligated to chime in with their two words of wisdom on every dead thread.

Well since we're on the topic (thanks for the necro Mr. Spammer

) I now have one week in without smoking .... sort of lol. I cheated a few times but I still figure that's worth a good ol "pat myself on the back" moment.