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Permalink Reply by Dian May 10
LOL, I must say that I liked smoking too! except I didn't like to stink.... I didn't like the taste in my mouth...... I didn't like cleaning up after smokers......... didn't like the smell of smoke even.......
Permalink Reply by KarenS May 10
I liked smoking too except for the part that I couldn't breathe without an oxygen tank attached to me!
Permalink Reply by ManOfSteele May 10
I just love trying to be more stupid everyday and smoking helps me...... If I could inject all the great ingredients with a syringe like a cool heroin or meth addict I think would be the best ...
Here is another video that helps me understand why I like smoking so much ..... Doesn't he have the coolest voice !!
I love to smoke and I bet there are a lot of people just like me ....maybe one day we could have babies .....
want more tough luv videos - check it out
Permalink Reply by Susan May 10
Our addictions tell us that we like to smoke. Our addictions tell us that it is fun to smoke and that we don't want to stop smoking. Our addicitons tell us that we can't make it without a smoke. Our addictions are what scream at us when we first quit. Our addictions are what kill us.
Instead of bothering to think about why we like to smoke.....let's all concentrate on the reasons we want to quit.
When you get down to it there is not a single good thing to like about smoking although your addiction will tell you otherwise.
Prayers for the quits.
Susan - Free and Healing for Two Months, Fourteen Days and 18 Hours, while extending my life expectancy 4 Days and 17 Hours, by avoiding the use of 1364 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $393.23.
Permalink Reply by Giulia May 11
I agree with Susan. From my point of view the way to quit smoking is not to list the reasons you enjoy it. That only reinforces the reasons to continue. I enjoyed the way you put your reasons why though. Those being - none.
Permalink Reply by Kozmik_Burd May 11
Mr. I am not talking about your post when I write this cuz I understand you get it.. I am talking about the lie people tell themselves that they enjoy smoking themselves into a painful breathless life and death.
Anyone saying they like to smoke are just buying into the lie of addiction.
THE LIE OF ADDICTION- tells you that you enjoy inhaling x amount of poisons. THE LIE OF ADDICTION tells you you can't drive, or walk, or talk, or even go 30 minutes without feeding your nicotine junkie. THE LIE OF ADDICTION will try and convince you you cannot live life without a cigarette dangling from your lips or fingers. THE LIE OF ADDICTION will try and convince you that nothing is enjoyable without a cigarette.
Its a Lie. WHen you say "I ENJOY SMOKING". I really can't believe it.
You wouldn't be here if that was true. You'd just go on and on enjoying yourself right into a premature death or worse a premature lung collapse or cancer or life attached to an oxygen tank. You'd enjoy yourself so much you'd NEVER quit.
Fact is..... I know something that many of you have not had the pleasure of knowing YET.
I know NOW that I DID NOT enjoy being controlled by a cigarette or stinking or killing myself. I DID SMOKE because I believed that stupid lie of addiction that some of you seem to believe by the very nature of words "I ENJOY SMOKING".
UNtil I got out past that addiction free of that stupid lie and withdrawal I had no idea how stupid that lie is.
I DO LIVE without a cigarette dangling from my mouth. I CAN DRIVE AND LIVE AND BREATHE AND HAVE MORE FUN without that stupid addiction. I DO THIS LIVING without CIGARETTES BETTER Than I ever could as a junkie smoker because well I can fricking breathe now.
SO i hope you guys all take a look at what it is you "enjoy" about poisoning and killing yourself.
I know I ENJOY LIFE. Not those stupid cigarettes.
I don't want to sound condesending, or better than anyone CUZ I AM certainly not. I am sure somone will find fault with my post although I hope I am wrong. THE fact is everything I write, I write from a point of FREEDOM. Try it and then tell me I am wrong.
Permalink Reply by Ruth May 11
Hello...I am a nurse...and many years ago I worked in a hospital with COPD patients..and it used to amaze me when they would disconnect their oxygen supply to go outside to smoke...fast forward to a few years later...and I picked up the habit while going through a painful divorce...and now understand the powerful hold smoking has...I want desperately to quit...have tried numerous times..but hope to quit 'cold turkey' very soon...and reading some of these entries definitely will help!!!
Permalink Reply by Kozmik_Burd May 11
Ruth,
YOU CAN DO IT!!!
Believe in yourself and want the quit more than you want to keep killing yourself with those cigarettes and you can win.
I have now been free:
One year, three months, two weeks, six days, 10 hours, 8 minutes and 27 seconds. 14292 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,751.82. Life saved: 7 weeks, 15 hours, 0 minutes.
Permalink Reply by Ruth May 11
Thank you so much for your encouragement! As a medical professional I know all the reasons one should not smoke.....but that knowledge does not seem to help...
Permalink Reply by Giulia May 11
Hello Ruth,
Yes - read, read, read. The more knowledge you have the better armed you are to go into battle with Nasty Nico. Maybe you should hie yourself back into the cancer section of the hospital so you can be reminded of what this drug can do to you.
Things to check out:
Allen Carr's book:
The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
www.whyquit.com
Would love to have you tell your story in a group I started here called Relapse Traps (in the Slipping and Sliding - Tales of Trouble Forum)
Hoping is not a verb of action. Get rid of hope and DO. You're desperate to quit and desperate to smoke. I hope the former wins out..
Giulia (2 years +)