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for a cigarette, that is. I smoked my last on Wednesday (okay, I found a couple of butts in an ashtray early Thursday morning...) after 40 years of steady smoking. Somebody have mercy on an old fool and send a pack my way! Arrrggghhhhhh!!!!
Yes, I've got "the patch" and it helps some, though I'm finding them hard to keep lit. Perhaps I've rolled them too tight. I've got my electric teat, and I'm down from "full flavor" to "mild" cartridges already, but it just isn't doing the trick. Sadly, Arizona isn't one of the states that legalized cannabis this month, else I'd find something a lot less addictive to soothe my nerves.
If this doesn't abate soon, I may have to find something less addictive to keep my mind from seeking cigarettes very soon. Anyone know where I can find some cheap heroin?
Will Rogers never met me.
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harden up ya big girls blouse
get ye to a bottle of whiskey
Bryce
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I got me a fine bottle of Glenlivet, but an excellent scotch just makes me crave a good smoke even more...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I have stopped smoking before (didn't last then) by having a drink every time I craved a cigarette. Yes, the drink made me feel like a smoke even more, but then I just drank even more. Got me through the first night with no smoking, then the next day the last thing I wanted was a smoke. I stopped the drinking after two days and stayed off smokes for about six months.
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Roger Wright wrote: I smoked my last on Wednesday
After 26 years I smoked my last eighteen months ago (did the patches for a month too). Unfortunately I gave up the cigarettes for a more expensive (tattoo) habit. 
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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Andy_L_J wrote: I gave up the cigarettes for a more expensive (tattoo) habit.
Ooh! Bad trade... I much rather smell like trash than look like it. Tatoos, I realize and accept, are part of the current culture. But the fact remains that job opportunities are controlled by old farts like me, who feel that tattoos are a mark of prison time or street trash. Neither image gains points for hiring ease. That's wrong, in principle, I know. But it's also undeniable that those tattoed individuals that I have hired in the past turned out to be the worthless trash they advertise. It's going to take some time before people who sport blatant tattoos are considered hireable potential employees.
Will Rogers never met me.
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You might be surprised to know what passes as hireable in Obama's Amerika.
If you are a White Christian or Asian, wear a john deer hat, look intelligent, dress nice, or have a good work ethic then you are trash and will not have a job.
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Probably a good thing I don't need a job in Arizona any time soon.
By the way, I do the hiring for the company I work for (a 100M per year entity), and even though I have more than sixty hours of ink on my body, not one person at work would know it.
You are correct about peoples bigotted attitudes, thats why I tell young people to wait till they are older to get inked,...when they won't give a sh*t what other people think.
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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Andy_L_J wrote: You are correct about peoples bigotted attitudes, thats why I tell young people to wait till they are older to get inked,...when they won't give a sh*t what other people think.
And the will give a sh*t about what the get drawn on their skin.
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Roger Wright wrote: who feel that tattoos are a mark of prison time or street trash
The good part being that the body surface is large enough to have tattoos which are invisible once dressed. So everybody is happy.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Tattoos last, cigarettes don't. Unless you get cancer.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Went through that agony 3+ years ago. Used Nicabate lozenges. Tapered off a bit quicker than suggested, but all OK since. Now I'm one of those horrible ex-smokers who gets all snippy at smokers in the street. Great to have a sense of smell back. Never noticed what I was missing... and never realised what a stinking mess I must have been...
The only downside to the lozenges/gum is getting hooked on them. In my last couple of years smoking (20+/day), had a workmate on gum whose nicotine intake was about twice mine.
Good luck.
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I know a guy who's wife talked him into quitting. Problem was, he never wanted to. He was happy with the nicotine addiction.
I've known him about 17 years now. I can't remember a time when he was not chewing the gum. He has no plans on quitting.
If it moves, compile it
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: ...and never realised what a stinking mess I must have been...
I'm curious how you could have NOT known this?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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Sorry its not KSS but what the hell - downvote me.
I found taking up masturbation as an alternative worked wonders.
I now "shake hands with my best friend" after meals, over coffee and when drinking beer times which I previously would have lit up.
I'm not missing smoking at all, any moe - although I have to say I've been banned from the darts team down the pub.
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Hi Roger, empathies for your withdrawal symptoms, and congratulations for taking on the personal challenge !
best, Bill
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Confused by having a brain ? This may help: [ ^] !
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Hang in there! The only thing worse than that agony is when you are looking at going through it AGAIN because you didn't make it the last time. That's me sorry to say.
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Cigarettes aren't as addictive as people believe them to be.
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I've been addicted to a few things [probably shouldn't name them]. Cigs were the hardest thing I've ever stopped doing.
If it moves, compile it
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I understand that it mostly a psycological dependency, the secret is in keeping the hands busy and getting a five minute break for your brain.
If you don't care for your teeth you can do the same as Kojak (Telly Savalas), start with lollipops.
Teeth can be exchanged, lungs not yet.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: the secret is in keeping the hands busy
There's a few ways that could be misinterpreted.... 
I love go-o-o-o-ld!
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Still valid though. 
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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They can exchange lungs. Not for fake ones like teeth, but you can still trade your lung in for another used one.
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