Let's Kick the Smoking Habit
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anonomoose
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For those of you who were two packs a day rollers....go to the local snowmobile store and pick out a nice sled...get the brochure on it...tell the salesman you will be back.
Then each day you get home from work, stuff 10 bucks in the cookie jar....let's do some preliminary math....10 times 365 is $3,650 by this time next year and YOU can go buy the sled and make payments on the rest which will equal less than the smoke habit...
So you say you have never owned a BRAND NEW SLED.....right now one is wait'n for you...and all you have to do is have the will power to do it!
Let's see...new sled...smoke two packs....busted lungs, stinky habit.....you choose!
Then each day you get home from work, stuff 10 bucks in the cookie jar....let's do some preliminary math....10 times 365 is $3,650 by this time next year and YOU can go buy the sled and make payments on the rest which will equal less than the smoke habit...
So you say you have never owned a BRAND NEW SLED.....right now one is wait'n for you...and all you have to do is have the will power to do it!
Let's see...new sled...smoke two packs....busted lungs, stinky habit.....you choose!
How does someone get started with tobacco?
Although I grew up "in a blue cloud", with my dad smoking 2 packs o' Camels a day, I never noticed it until after he quit, at age 49. He lost countless $20.00 bets (That was quite a bunch o' money in the early 1950s!) with his buds, who all "quit" and bet on who would fall off the wagon first. He finally quit "cold turkey" in 1956, after a heart attack and two weeks in the hospital, on supplemental oxygen most of the time. The bad news: Even having quit at age 49, thirty years later dad developed emphysema, and suffered greatly with that, routinely gasping for breath at the slightest exertion; he then needed supplemental oxygen daily. I'm not sure whether that lack of oxygen to the brain was in any way a cause of the senile dementia that he suffered in his last few years. What a nasty price to pay!
As for myself, I honestly do not understand how someone gets started.
Yes, I tried it myself, with the neighbor kid behind their garage, maybe at age 11 or so. That was my first and last experiment. My considered opinion at the time: "Yuck! why would anyone want to suck that foul sh!t?" I guess I wasn't sufficiently affected by "peer pressure" in that matter. (In other ways, other issues, perhaps, but certainly not for smoking.) I wish I understood. Surely no-one actually considered their first experiment "pleasurable"?!
In any event, I wish y'all success in conquering the beast, in any way possible, and as soon as possible!
Although I grew up "in a blue cloud", with my dad smoking 2 packs o' Camels a day, I never noticed it until after he quit, at age 49. He lost countless $20.00 bets (That was quite a bunch o' money in the early 1950s!) with his buds, who all "quit" and bet on who would fall off the wagon first. He finally quit "cold turkey" in 1956, after a heart attack and two weeks in the hospital, on supplemental oxygen most of the time. The bad news: Even having quit at age 49, thirty years later dad developed emphysema, and suffered greatly with that, routinely gasping for breath at the slightest exertion; he then needed supplemental oxygen daily. I'm not sure whether that lack of oxygen to the brain was in any way a cause of the senile dementia that he suffered in his last few years. What a nasty price to pay!
As for myself, I honestly do not understand how someone gets started.
Yes, I tried it myself, with the neighbor kid behind their garage, maybe at age 11 or so. That was my first and last experiment. My considered opinion at the time: "Yuck! why would anyone want to suck that foul sh!t?" I guess I wasn't sufficiently affected by "peer pressure" in that matter. (In other ways, other issues, perhaps, but certainly not for smoking.) I wish I understood. Surely no-one actually considered their first experiment "pleasurable"?!
In any event, I wish y'all success in conquering the beast, in any way possible, and as soon as possible!
garyl62
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Way to go reiley! I was wondering how you all were doing this weekend, hope your on the road to recovery with the pneumonia too.
garyl62
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Way to go reiley! Is it getting any easier?
How about some of you others? It's not about never failing, its about bouncing back from your set backs and being stronger to reach your ultimate goal. I'm sure with this many people on this site you guys could have at least a handful that support each other and kick it together.
Keep letting us know how you are doing
How about some of you others? It's not about never failing, its about bouncing back from your set backs and being stronger to reach your ultimate goal. I'm sure with this many people on this site you guys could have at least a handful that support each other and kick it together.
Keep letting us know how you are doing
garyl62
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Way to go! Any side effects good or bad? Getting any easier? How much did you smoke in a day?
2 packs a day no side effect ill tell you what I do service calls in peoples home everyday and a lady was smoking right by me today and my eyes were burning and nose started watering and it really bothered me .it didnt bother me like I needed one it was more like I had to get away from it because it was making me sick
polarisrider1
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Love it, hang in there. Try to pool your money spent on smokes for a year and buy yourself something nice! Your non smoking customers will also appreciate you not smelling like an ash tray. Keep it up!!!
garyl62
Active member
Sounds like you're on a well paved road to success with side effects working in your favor already. It would be great if you took that cash you're not spending and could put it away for something that would last. That way you'd have a constant reminder of what you were able to achieve.
Keep it up!
It was petty funny last weekend hes been riding my wife's sled a 99 zl 500 my group dont ride trails so we were getting into some pretty deep snow he was trying to go where we were going and getting stuck and he was getting pretty mad I tried giving him my sled to ride but wouldn't take it.But another guy that I ride with has a 155 skidoo 800 pretty nice mountain sled traded with him when he was really having trouble he didn't say no to that.LOL Then there was a untouched fire road He let my son break trail with the skidoo you could almost see the smile on my son face through his helmet. The only complaint he had about that is he's not very tall so when he stands the snow coming up over the hood hit him in the face.LOL YEP HES GOT THE BUG.
garyl62
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That pretty funny, we've had a 2000 ZL 500 that mine just took over and made his own. I dumped some cash into this year as you may have seen on other threads. Now its a 136 with a riser, new shocks, springs and some other stuff. I'm taking it out today to see how it runs, he was supposed to be here but didn't make it. I was going to leave it for him for the next trip in a couple weeks but he told me to take it out and see how it works. Guess he's excited enough that even a "report" would give him something to dream about.
Keep up the good work. Those kids will be proud of you for quiting. I know mine have shared in their own way they are proud of me dropping the weight.