The Good Banter Thread

[Catfishnut]

WINTER
THEY WERE ALL MARRIED
THE MATCH OF COURSE!

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[mogsie]

yeah ime a quiter but i aint gona quit quiting !! lol, ahh jw i could never quit my fresh coffee, ive got to allow myself some comforts in life, lol, thanks for the wishes folks ime sure i will manage it, determined now

 

[bettasngoldfish]

Did someone mention voodoo dolls? http://www.voodoo-doll.org/

 

[sissy]

good for you mogsie i tried for years to get my hubby to stop smoking and what stopped him his heart attack in 2012 .He uses the e-cig also.He likes the ones I get him from NC .

 

[j.w]

You can do it Mogsie and heck don't worry coffee isn't bad for you, I just never could get the hang of liking it. I do love Chocolate tho

 

[sissy]

never understood that chocolate thing .I never really cared for it .But geeze my sister Sharon loves it and I warn her all the time her mom was diabetic and she loves ice cream too .But I do love coffee .I bought some blueberry coffee and that is really good

 

[Catfishnut]

yeah ime a quiter but i aint gona quit quiting !! lol, ahh jw i could never quit my fresh coffee, ive got to allow myself some comforts in life, lol, thanks for the wishes folks ime sure i will manage it, determined now

Hello Mogsie,

Really want to cheer you on through your "quiting" endeavor. I am doing the same. I have to quit for several reasons.

1] Money / cost
2] Personal Health / cost
3] Health Insurance / cost
4] Work facility has banned it / cannot smoke on the premises after July 4 of 2014
5] Logic [came to my senses and don't understand why I started smoking to begin with]
6] Safety [had some close calls with embers and ashes]
7] Family [want to be courteous to those who do not smoke]
8] Taste... Realized that these things actually taste like camel dung!

How have I been managing my endeavor of smoking cessation? It has been a long eandevor, but what is working for me is eating citrus fruits and drinking milk when I have a craving to smoke and also telling myself over and over again that "these things taste like camel dung". Besides that, I started to believe that I was developing COPD and kept telling myself that I was going to contract it if I continued smoking. I knew one gentleman who did and he died and heard of many others. So, I was getting scared everytime I developed a cold or a respiratory ailment. I was finding more often that I was out of breath while hiking and I like being out in the world hiking in nature and this was not working for me!

I used to smoke 12 to 15 cigars a day. Then I quit them entirely and switched to "mini" cigars and have steadily reduced my habit so that I lowered it from 2 packs a day to 5 to 10 mini-cigars per day max. I keep cutting down day after day.

Another tip is when you awaken in the morning, do NOT smoke! Resist that initial urge and you will have a head start. If you sleep in a very cold room, and you keep your cig's away from there, then when you wake up, you won't be so inclined to light one up. if you make it more difficult to smoke, then you will be w/o the nicotine for a little bit longer each day and eventually, it will become easier for you to avoid it entirely.

If you don't feel that you can quit cold turkey, try all the tips that I suggest here and give it some time. Any reduction is a step in the right direction. Feeling the difference in my lung capacity and not being out of breath or wheezing and coughing most of the time has really spurred me on to try even harder to quit.

It has taken me a long, long time to get to where I am now, but it has really proven to be a positive benefit and it becomes easier each day.

The biggest help to me was telling myself that the smoke tasted bad, and telling myself this over and over again. Regardless if I believed it wholely at the moment did not matter. I just kept telling myself this and now it has become true. Now, if I do smoke, I have to brush my teeth and rinse my mouth out constantly to get rid of the taste. I simply just do not like it anymore and the further away I get from it, the more I dislike it and the easier I find it to be to keep reducing my smoking habit.

I hope that some of my suggestions will help you in your endeavor to quit. I hope you try hard b ceause I it is worth your while. The money wou will save is tremendous. I have already discovered this and I ain't done yet.

I want to wish you very good luck in this, please keep trying! If you want a buddy to support you in this, I could help, but remember that I am not done with my habit quite yet. I am still working on this, too. I will, of course, do my best to help out if you want me to.

Please, in this case, be a "quitter!"

Gordy

 

[koiguy1969]

IF YOU MUST HAVE CHOCOLATE... EAT THE DARK CHOCOLATE..IT ACTUALLY HAS SOME HEALTH BENEFITS. MILK CHOCOLATE IS THE ONE THAT GIVES THE BAD NAME!!!
AS FAR AS SMOKING..I SMOKED UP TO 3 PACKS SOME DAYS. I TURNED IT OVER TO GOD, ABOUT 40 YEARS OF SMOKING... HAD MINIMAL STRUGGLE. FOR HE IS THE GREAT PHYSICIAN.

 

[HARO]

Working in the northern bush, at the age of 17, I began smoking to keep the mosquitos and black flies away. By age 23, in a BORING factory job, I was up to a pack a day PLUS! One day, on my way up to the cafeteria, I had to stop half-way up to catch my breath. When I finally got to the top, I tossed my smokes & matches in the garbage, and haven't touched one since! I AM extremely stubborn, and once I make up my mind to do something, I actually do it. Cold turkey, Mogsie... it's the ONLY way!
John

 

[sissy]

my dad did it that way decided one day to stop and that was it .I never smoked I just could not see wasting my money on something I could not really use to benefit my life ,plus I am cheap I had better things to spend my money on .

 

[Big Lou]

Yikes! Spent about $95 on ink for my HP 7500A Multipurpose Printer today! Thankfully did not need any for our Canon or Epson photo printers. Ink cost is outrageous yet using the generic refillable stuff is unpredictable and potentially bad for the ink jets.

 

[j.w]

I just have a cheap old HP printer that only prints blk/wht and I have the Costco people refill mine w/ no issues so far.
It gets the job done

 

[sissy]

bought my new hp one last year 39 dollars at office max and extra ink cartridges were 34.99 but had a 30 dollar off coupon so bought 3 of them .Color and black together .Does pic printing also,works great .Had to spend 100 dollars to get 30 off but well worth it .Printers have gotten cheaper than buying ink cartridges .It came with cartridges also .

 

[Big Lou]

I just have a cheap old HP printer that only prints blk/wht and I have the Costco people refill mine w/ no issues so far.
It gets the job done

Might give that a try after the HP is out of warranty. I assume you take them the empty carriages. Thanks for the tip. Have never known anyone that has done that. Certainly will for the Canon. My old Epson snapshot printer ink usually comes with the snapshot paper so it is a good deal.

 

[Big Lou]

Maybe it's just my imagination yet since the new software was installed seems there are fewer new posts. Just sayin'..........