A lot of vets started smoking during their war years. We were given free cigarettes in our c-rats and cartons by the Red Cross in the field. You get cartons at the base PX if you were ever in from the field.

The VA is good about providing patches, and counciling for smokers I understand.

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One Tin Soldier Walked Away...............


Vote like your life and your families life depends on it - because it does.

Vote like you want peace & prosparity for America - because the right wants more wars, more casualities, more VA hospitals.

Vote like you want a secured border from terrorists, illegal aliens, drugs, and gun runners - because the right offerred you a few miles of wire fence.

Thanks for the concern. Nobody to blame but myself. I am lucky to not have cancer.

I keep a fan running on me most of the time and that helps. Sleep on two pillows and lean my head back to keep my airway open good, I have that obstructed airway from when they jammed the air tube down my neck during my operation. But yeah, I am really in good condition for all the problems I have from smoking.

Smoking is like sky diving. It's fun until the shute doesn't open.

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One Tin Soldier Walked Away...............


Vote like your life and your families life depends on it - because it does.

Vote like you want peace & prosparity for America - because the right wants more wars, more casualities, more VA hospitals.

Vote like you want a secured border from terrorists, illegal aliens, drugs, and gun runners - because the right offerred you a few miles of wire fence.

Shintao:

I am also sorry to hear about your condition. I've been doing too many things at once and popping on and off of this thread to notice your personal motivation for posting this thread. Best wishes.

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National Debt =

Ah, yes, an attack thread on yet another politically incorrect group!

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Apparently you either didn't read or didn't understand the OP of this thread. It is for people who want to quit. It's not trying to force anything on anyone, only providing help for those that want it. Do you have something against that?

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Well, given how smoking is considered politically incorrect in certain countries (like the United States), the original poster's motivation for the thread is automatically suspect (yes, I read and understood the original post) - especially when "stop smoking" is put in the title in all capital letters with multiple exclamation points.

The original post operates under the assumption that smoking is evil and that it is something to be overcome.

But, go ahead and have your little Tobaccoholics Anonymous club.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Smoking is hardly politically incorrect, as seeing how much it is used in movies and in the states. What it is considered is unhealthy, and anyone that wants to quit smoking should be allowed to get help from others and offer help to others.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

I only had a 2 year/2 packs per day habit. Not sure if that qualifies as a true addiction, but I quit smoking, drinking and....um....misc. in one day, basically on force of will.

The mind is a powerful thing, and I can't help thinking that all the drugs, hypnosis, therapy and what not is just expensive window dressing for the basic fact that one has to want to quit, 100%, or it's just not going to happen.

The way I view(ed) it, the acts of smoking, drinking and ________ is completely voluntary, involving conscious points of decisionmaking and physical actions. Ciggies don't spring to your mouth pre-lit. You have to order/buy liquor and physically drink it.

Not saying that's going to work for anyone else, but that's how I approached it. I simply refused to give in to the idea/excuse that it was anything but completely within my control. I found that I can't "wean" myself...I have to go cold turkey or it's just not going to happen.

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Unfortunately, the Founders did not address the possibility of this nation becoming populated with obnoxious twits.

He's still addicted to nicotine. He chews the gum.

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

Handlebars

"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87

So Obama has a weakness in character?

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Pioneers are walking all around singing songs about Lenin and they should be shot for it.

Handlebars

"If you are looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror"- V

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

come on you know you wanna play football..

Beagán agus a rá go maith.

Economic Left/Right: 3.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.87