I have been off cigarettes for a month now (though still working through the patch system). I am absolutely amazed at what I have been missing for years in just aromas. So many things are wonderful. But - Goddamn - does this city ever smell shitty. Exhaust, pollution, neighbors burning dinner.... how do folks stand it?

Course now, I gotta be careful about getting up on any soap box. My daddy warned me that the only thing worse'n a reformed hooker is a reformed smoker.....

kristoff wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:30 pm I have been off cigarettes for a month now (though still working through the patch system). I am absolutely amazed at what I have been missing for years in just aromas. So many things are wonderful. But - Goddamn - does this city ever smell shitty. Exhaust, pollution, neighbors burning dinner.... how do folks stand it?

Hey Kristoff,

You haven't miss much. I've been sniffing that stuff for over 52 years. You know, you're right. It stinks! http://www.eunuch.org/Public/Images/ea1/E9.gif

I'll bet MacWolfie has been sniffing that stinky stuff in So. Cal a lot longer...

The Vieux Carre in New Orleans smelled like dog shit and stale beer--before the storm. Awful odor.

Krister...

Welcome to the world of those who want to remain among the living...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9427286

research... (http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/research_dat ... ortali.htm)

more information... (http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5114a2.htm)

...please, stay with us...it is easy to slip back into addiction...

A-1

Kristoff,

Congratulations on quitting smoking I know its a hard thing do do even though I never smoked a day in my life.

I will get on a for a minute.

I did however grow up in a home with my parents smoking every place, In the house, Car. No matter where it was they had a cigarette hanging out of their mouth. I went to school each day smelling like an ashtray. As a Child each year, both my Parents and Grandparents would ask me what I would want for Christmas, and I would just reply " for you to stop smoking " but they didn't. It was after I moved out of the house and got away from it all that I started to notice how bad smokers really smelled, even today I walk past a heavy smoker and they Stink

I realise that smokers have a right to kill themselves but not me, or the innocent children they have, the kids don't need to be subjected to that!

But let me get of of my High Horse.

Thank you for letting me vent on that.

Ken

kristoff wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:30 pm I have been off cigarettes for a month now (though still working through the patch system). I am absolutely amazed at what I have been missing for years in just aromas. So many things are wonderful. But - Goddamn - does this city ever smell shitty. Exhaust, pollution, neighbors burning dinner.... how do folks stand it?

we moved to the country

kristoff wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:30 pm Course now, I gotta be careful about getting up on any soap box. My daddy warned me that the only thing worse'n a reformed hooker is a reformed smoker.....

OH Kristoff, you have no idea, its worse. Let me know when you wash everything you own, including all your beding etc. Next will be the inside of your truck. You will know your really there when you are walking down an ile in a store and you can smell where a smoker had been there earler and theres nobody in site.

Way To Go,

cheers,

River

smoke free 5 years this thanksgiving

Congrats on quitting and good luck through the rest of the journey.

Both my parents smoked when I was growing up and one still does. Apparently I developed a sensitivity to cigarette smoke because of it. But now that I've been away from it for many years, I seem to have lost it and can now be around smoke with only standard irritation.

I've smoked but never inhaled....tobacco anyway. I have chewed once though, and I have to say it was quite the rush. But I'd imagine that quickly leaves once a tolerance to nicotine is developed

CONGRATULATIONS Kristoff on quitting that nasty habit that is only used by weaklings or ones with no willpower.

I'm so happy for you I'm going to have three pipe full tonight instead of two

Tobacco...brown pipe tobacco...I don't smoke the green/red stuff and I DON'T inhale.

Now that you have been off "T" for a several days, how is it going?

Hope all is well and your success is going rather swiftly.

Robby (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:02 pm http://www.eunuch.org/Public/Images/ea1/E

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Robby (imported) wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:06 am Now that you have been off "T" for a several days, how is it going?

Hope all is well and your success is going rather swiftly.

Robby (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:02 pm http://www.eunuch.org/Public/Images/ea1/E

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Still drives me nugging futts.

But it is manageable.

Worst times are unannounced, not just at habituated moments.

I even wake up sometimes craving a smoke.

And I never smoked (cigarettes) in bed.