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Master and Commander
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Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Went cold turkey....Was hard for a week or two.....but I haven't been tempted to start up, and the high price of those damn things now are enough to discourage me from starting up again....
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Plankowner
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Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good for you bubba. Been a little longer for me but I knows whatcha mean. Hang in there. Starting the up hill side of 25 years alcohol free. |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats to you both, well done. Next tuesday marks my forth year sober, smokes are next to quit, then food and water and finally....neked wimin wit huge EYES.
Edited by GaryKC 2008-08-09 5:03 PM
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great, Gary....but save the nekid wimmins for last.....
Hey---it's been a long time since we've heard a good story from "The Naked Taxi"!
There are a million stories in the Naked Taxi....This has been one of them.....or something like that!
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEEEE_DOGGY!!!!!!!!!!! Congrats to you and all that have kicked the habits. For me it's been since '67  |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, Ralph you were so busy trying to teach McMichael stuff, you couldn't possibly had time to help me or the rest of the multitudes that could have used your help!!
But some of us will eventually learn.......late is better than never..... |
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Master and Commander
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Hate to play devil's advocate as I've got more vices than I can deal with. Cigars, ponies, sports, food, booze, and wild women for starters. Never been addicted to cigarettes but know many that are. When I was working I was around a lot of people that quit smoking, problem was they quit four or five times and then when they got put on a stressful Project they'd go back. Isn't smoke addiction like booze and drugs - quitting is one day at a time. Not trying to be holier than thou or rain on your parade, but isn't it one day at a time also? |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gil,
Every one is different...I appreciate your remarks.....I had quit unsuccessfully a number of times.....I knew after each time it was a failure........It took a strong resolve and perseverance to make sure I would never smoke again...the first few weeks were one day at a time....but after some weeks or months, the stress was reduced.....
If folks are having a hard time, my advice to them is to keep trying......just increase your resolve....lots of folks fail the first couple times.....but just stay with it.....It's worth it, and anyone can do it if I can.....Hell, if you think you can't, just call John Clear....now when that EMC(SS) tells you that you will quit, YOU WILL QUIT....just ask DEX!
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Master and Commander
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Location: Foothills of the Ozarks | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stoops - 2008-08-09 5:23 PM
Went cold turkey....Was hard for a week or two.....but I haven't been tempted to start up, and the high price of those damn things now are enough to discourage me from starting up again....
BZ, Dave. I have been off them for 43 years and don't miss them one bit. Of course that habit got replaced with my penchant for visiting shipmates and stealing their single malt.
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well Dave, you know how hard headed McMichael can be.  Over the years we had atough time trying to drum some sense into that thick skull of his, however, along comes Billie and she wrapped him right around her little finger and got that scoundrel to see the light. She's a fantastic women. |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Years ago, I was on Rontini's Board and I finished a post with..."Now I've gotta step out on the patio and fire up a Salem." (My dear bride allowed no smoking in the house...said it stunk up the curtains and made everything smell like a train station.) Right after the post, I signed off and was pullin a smoke out of the pack and fishing in my pocket for my Zippo. when the phone rang. "Dex you damn idiot, are you still smoking?" "Who'n the hell is this?" "John Clear...Shipmate you need to deep six that habit...the damn things will screw up your health and most likely kill you....Dammit...QUIT." Nobody ever cared enough to tell me what John "Crystal Clear" told me that day. I put the smoke back in the pack....went cold turk-a-lurk and have never fired another one up....However, if a Doc ever tells me I have a terminal illness the first thing I'm going to do, is buy ten cartons of non-filter smokes and five disposable lighters and fire up....But, I've never broken my word to Chief Clear...He probably knows how long it has been. All I know it has been beaucoup years. THANKS JOHN.... WHAT A GREAT GIFT. John knew it was tough, but nobody who ever simply stopped smoking had a more constant or supporive shipmate to keep him on the proper course. DEX |
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Master and Commander
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Location: Port Ludlow, WA (the Olympic Penninsula) | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If any haven't quit smoking, now is a good time to do it. Watching/tending to some one during their last few days of life suffering with lung cancer will definitely put the fear to ya. My Dad's Oncologist said any who have smoked or are smoking WILL get lung cancer. Some won't live long enough for it to catch up. If you live long enough, eventually it will catch you. Man, those were some scarey words.
I quit smoking in '67, however, I've been around diesel engines for so long that I wonder about my days. I can tell that my lung capacity sure isn't what it use to be. Time marches on. Something will take everyone of us out someday. Do ya reckon we could do an anchor pool or the "take in all lines" pool?
Edited by Ralph Luther 2008-08-10 8:39 AM
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Old Salt
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I quit July 13, 1965 right after I arrived at ComSubLant. No way I could've quit while on the boat.
Docs used to ask if I smoked or not. Now they ask if I ever smoked and if so, for how many years, and when did I quit.
I can still smell if someone lights up an unfiltered Camel from across the room.
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Senior Crew
Posts: 159
Location: San Francisco Bay Area | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gil - 2008-08-09 6:12 PM Isn't smoke addiction like booze and drugs - quitting is one day at a time. Not trying to be holier than thou or rain on your parade, but isn't it one day at a time also?
I can't speak for every ex-smoker, but no, I'm long past the one-day-at-a-time stage. I tried quitting several times before I succeeded, and once I finally quit, I felt like I was a non-smoking smoker for several months. Then the Navy sent me for a regular dental check-up, and I got my teeth cleaned. The next morning was the first time in years that my mouth didn't feel like an ashtray, and that day, thirty-three years ago, was the day I became an official ex-smoker.
Best wishes to anyone trying to quit. It's damned hard to do.
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Master and Commander
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Location: Rockingham Western Australia | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not really Gil haven't had a cigarette since 11 December 1992 easiest thing I ever did that time anyway, had given up at least 300 times prior, now I have no cravings and in fact can no longer stay near anyone smoking at the risk of being physically sick.
Side effects of quitting smoking gained 18 Kgs and never got it off (One of these days), saved my life according to Cardiologist, Triple Bypass at 44 with all damage caused by smoking with only reason for not having massive coronary being I quit smoking which stopped further damage.
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Mess cooking
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I quit about 19-20 years ago. BZ, but I read in the newspaper today that a poisonous viper was missing in Galveston yesterday!!! Were they refering to you or did you eat the dam thing!!!! |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whatchew talkin about, Fred? That viper has got to be either Beeghly or Stoops. They run in pairs, don't cha know. |
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Senior Crew
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Congrats one and all...BTDT...I started quitting smoking cigarettes sometime in 1984 and finished quitting in 1991. I still light up a stogie from time to time (mostly to piss off the bride - of 29 years yesterday 8/10, but also because I enjoy it)...I know, I know smoking is smoking...but I don't inhale (snicker, snicker, snert, snert)...keep up the good work shipmates.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2254
Location: Foothills of the Ozarks | Subject: Reformed smokers? Check these two!
crystal - 2008-08-10 8:37 AM
April 2, 2002
Now here's a couple of reformed smokers for you.
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Master and Commander
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Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: Reformed smokers? Check these two!
I can see both of Olgoat' hands....where are Clear's??????? |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2254
Location: Foothills of the Ozarks | Subject: RE: Reformed smokers? Check these two!
Stoops - 2008-08-11 6:30 PM
I can see both of Olgoat' hands....where are Clear's???????
Why do you think the Olgoat is smiling?
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Great Sage of the Sea
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Location: Port Orchard WA | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dec 7 1988 (this year will be twenty really the same length of time I was a 2 packer) was made to sit outside to smoke and had a little rat dog that was always with me and it was cold and rainy and I looked at the dog and it was shivering it butt of and I said Yeah Beager this is stupid as hell. Put it out and haven't had one since |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bear, I know what you mean about smoking being stupid. Back in the summer of '67 my future wife and I were at a drive-in movie doing the usual hugn and a kissn. We stppoed to come up for air when I reached in my pocket for the pack of camels. Now how stupid can one get to take a break from makin out to have a smoke. The pack went out the window and I haven't smoked--a cigarette- since.
I went to Underwater Swimmer School in Key West a couple of weeks later and was damn glad I had quit smoking. Those mile and 5 mile runs liked to have killed me. |
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Old Salt
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Location: Oak Island, NC | Subject: RE: Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was one of those fools who quit underway. I ran out during a 30-day op and always got irritated at those who ran out and bummed for the remainder of the op, so I just quit. Appartently, I became somewhat irritable since packs of smokes kept "appearing" in my poopie suit pocket when I racked out. That was in November 1987, and I haven't touched 'em since. Now if I could just learn moderation in the chow line!  |
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Yesteray marked 9 years tobacco free!!!!!!!!!!!!!
