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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 412627" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Step....cigarettes are so hard to quit! I should know. I did it once for 6 years!!! </p><p></p><p>I started smoking probably around 15 years old back when everyone did it. It was cool, no one really knew it was bad for us or they certainly didnt tell us. Heck, I lived in Richmond VA - the heart of cigarette country with Phillip Morris and we took tours of the factory with school and they gave us packs for free at the end of the tour! They used to have these people who would stand at corners downtown giving away sample packs all day long to anyone..kids, adults...whomever! </p><p></p><p>In 1990 when my dad was first dxd with emphysema he and I both quit smoking. He lasted. I didnt. I lasted for 6 years though. Then in 1996 I caught Cory for the very first time trying cigs out with some teen boys and I tried that old method of getting some of the nastiest, non filtered cigarettes I could find and made him sit out on the grass and smoke a whole pack back to back to try and make him stop. Ha! Only thing it did was make me get nicotine back in my system from lighting the dang things. Didnt stop him from sneaking them. </p><p></p><p>1996 was a very hard year at my job. Very stressful because of new law that was passed that shook up the whole welfare system and all of us were way stressed out and overworked. They may have called it welfare reform but all it did was cause me to start smoking again. At first it was I bummed one or two a day from a friend but by a month I was right back to a pack and a half a day. I have tried to quit several times since then with no real success. Obviously.</p><p></p><p>If I ever manage to do it again...I will never pick up another one. </p><p></p><p>Now other things...other than food and diet coke? I dont have a problem with. Im sure I could even stop the diet coke. I can go to caffeine free diet coke if I have to but I prefer the hard stuff. I dont really like diet pepsi but if its on sale I will drink it. I just like carbonated drinks and I dont like water. Diet coke is what got me to learn to walk again to be honest. They put that can on a table in front of me and said...stand up for 5 seconds and you can have it. Then 10...then 15...lol. We owe my success to Diet Coke.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 412627, member: 1514"] Step....cigarettes are so hard to quit! I should know. I did it once for 6 years!!! I started smoking probably around 15 years old back when everyone did it. It was cool, no one really knew it was bad for us or they certainly didnt tell us. Heck, I lived in Richmond VA - the heart of cigarette country with Phillip Morris and we took tours of the factory with school and they gave us packs for free at the end of the tour! They used to have these people who would stand at corners downtown giving away sample packs all day long to anyone..kids, adults...whomever! In 1990 when my dad was first dxd with emphysema he and I both quit smoking. He lasted. I didnt. I lasted for 6 years though. Then in 1996 I caught Cory for the very first time trying cigs out with some teen boys and I tried that old method of getting some of the nastiest, non filtered cigarettes I could find and made him sit out on the grass and smoke a whole pack back to back to try and make him stop. Ha! Only thing it did was make me get nicotine back in my system from lighting the dang things. Didnt stop him from sneaking them. 1996 was a very hard year at my job. Very stressful because of new law that was passed that shook up the whole welfare system and all of us were way stressed out and overworked. They may have called it welfare reform but all it did was cause me to start smoking again. At first it was I bummed one or two a day from a friend but by a month I was right back to a pack and a half a day. I have tried to quit several times since then with no real success. Obviously. If I ever manage to do it again...I will never pick up another one. Now other things...other than food and diet coke? I dont have a problem with. Im sure I could even stop the diet coke. I can go to caffeine free diet coke if I have to but I prefer the hard stuff. I dont really like diet pepsi but if its on sale I will drink it. I just like carbonated drinks and I dont like water. Diet coke is what got me to learn to walk again to be honest. They put that can on a table in front of me and said...stand up for 5 seconds and you can have it. Then 10...then 15...lol. We owe my success to Diet Coke. [/QUOTE]
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