On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:08:10 +0100, Martin
wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:58:56 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:29:41 +0100, Martin
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:19:46 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:00:54 +0100, Martin
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:15:49 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:32:19 +1030, "John H"
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>And what a fool you would be having that cigarette.
>>>>>>>ex smoker of 40 fags per day and never will I return to the cancer stick
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I averaged more than that from about 1956 to 1987, when I finally
>>>>>>quit for good. Now, twenty years on, I have COPD. My stepfather
>>>>>>had done similarly in his youth and into middle age. Twenty years
>>>>>>after he quit he died of lung cancer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Of course, a lot of young people might tell themselves they will
>>>>>>quit after a while, but they won't. It's an addiction, and when
>>>>>>you do try to quit your mind will play games with you to get you
>>>>>>to take it up again.
>>>>>
>>>>>Not true. I quit forever when I was smoking 70 a day in 1970 and both my kids
>>>>>have quit without restarting.
>>>>
>>>>Not true for some people. As for your kids, they aren't done with
>>>>their lives yet. When I was in my late twenties I quit once for
>>>>several years.
>>>>
>>>>But tobacco is a drug and while addiction can cause problems with
>>>>keeping you smoking, the damage doesn't ccome from the addiction,
>>>
>>>That has zero to do with what you said. My mind didn't play tricks and make me
>>>want to take it up again.
>>
>>You may not have been addicted. Just as someone can drink alcohol
>>and not become an alcoholic, one can smoke and not become
>>nicotine addicted. This is a poor argument for smoking, though.
>
>Of course I was addicted. I was smoking 70 a day. Stopping smoking was the
>hardest thing I ever did.
Well, then, good for you. Oddly, when I finally quit it turned
out to be surprisingly easy. Sometimes, I guess, things are jsut
right.
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