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The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread
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Agent H
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Ha! I can do 10 plates of food in a day!
Figgy1
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That was just BBQ and RELATED
Agent H
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I don’t like barbecue. Even the smell isn’t that good to me.
Figgy1
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Figgy1
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Agent H
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I was wondering what if Walt would have lived past age 65 and what would Disney look like. It would have been wonderful. When I saw the replica of Walt’s office at One Man’s Dream at MGM back in the day I counted at least 5 huge glass ashtrays throughout his office. It’s sad that education of smoking can kill you was non existent back in his time. A heart surgeon from GA that I watch frequently on his channel emphasizes two vices one must stop if they want to improve their health - smoking and alcohol. Sadly I’ve lost family and friends to both vices.
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Goofyernmost
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Let me tell you about how a smoker thinks. I'm at the age where within a few years from when I started smoking, nothing much was said about the dangers of it. However, when it finally came out it was so mixed with other thoughts on the matter that it managed to not only fog up the message, but even when understood the habit was so ingrained that those of us that did smoke became rebellious to the claims.
From one side we heard about the harmful results of smoking and because of the habit, could not image life without smoking and decided to take the chance. Not everyone dies of lung cancer that were heavy smokers, just a lot of them and we felt is was worth the risk. Then all the crap started up about second hand smoke and how if they caught a whiff of cigarette smoke they would surely die from it and that kicked in the rebellious part of our brains. On a very basic level we felt that was a crock of crap. I, personally, spent my childhood surrounded by smokers. With the exception of my Mother every relative I had, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins were smokers. I spent hours confined to cars with all the windows shut tight and it was like living in a cloud of smoke. No one I knew had respiratory problems like exist today when smoking is almost gone from society. So we rebelled and in many cases decided that death would be preferable to not being able to smoke. I know that for some unexplainable reason younger people now had allergy problems related to smoke, but believe me when I tell you that this is a very recent problem and if it did exist back then we never heard about it along with peanut butter allergies. If it were as prevalent back then as it is now, I'd probably be using a ghost writer to say all this.
What is always the catalyst to quitting is to have something personal happen that directly affects yourself. A couple warning shots were fired over my bow. The first one was when my children told me that they could always find me in a big store by following my cough. That one stuck in my mind because frankly I wasn't aware that I was coughing all the time. The second happened many years later when I was having major coughing spells and many problems with Bronchitis. It was then that those two thoughts merged and for the first time my stupidity was superseded by common sense and I decided to quit. After many failures I finally found the way to be able to do it. It started with an RX for Wellbutrin for about a month before the nicotine patch allowed me to stop for a few years, then stupidity kicked in again and I started the process all over. Even patches contained some degree of nicotine so to taper down to zero I resorted to vaping were I started where the patches left off and then just easily reduced the nicotine to zero and that was 10 years ago and I have not had a craving since then. It was my Doctors recipe and my added flair at the end of that my addition of the Vape. I never got addicted to anything in the Vape process. I just used flavoring and the declining nicotine for a smooth transition.
Although, fortunately, I have not had any indication of smoke related cancers, that is no guarantee that it won't become a problem in future years. I have mild COPD and minor Emphysema from it though. Either one could become a big problem at some point. My advice to anyone that is a smoker and has been for a long time, do yourself a favor and, at least, get lung cancer screening yearly. Something caught early has the chance of being cured. If you wait to long it might be to late and I think you will find out at that point that you will not prefer death to not smoking. The real way to help yourself is to quit before that happens. You will be amazed at how good life is without that monkey on your back. Much to your amazement, you will find that you don't miss it at all.
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