Replies to post #579929 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Zeev Hed]

Did you get my PM (re Optalgin)? By the way, the day before the biopsy last March, I quit, after at least twenty prior failing attempts. Somehow this time I kept off (under threats of bodily damage from my better half...)

[zztops]

Hello, A. A trick I used was an old one in quitting something--replace a bad habit with a good one--some 22 years ago I quit smoking by replaceing it with a good excercise program, including aerobics. This was a feat for me because, as a prior professional pool player, smoking had become rather a big part of my being.

Excercising was hard at the start, and boy did my lungs give me hell, but it turned into one of the proudest accomplishments of my life.

[Newly2b]

Arilau, STOP NOW! You always think the consequences of smoking will happen to someone else, not you. I'm sure Peter Jennings thought that way, too. How can you possibly read of Zeev's current struggles with lung lesions and continue to work towards creating your own health crisis? SMOKING CAN KILL YOU, and sooner or later it likely will.

The patch helps, but try the lozenges -- a friend who was a long-time smoker used them so successfully she ended up addicted to them and had to fight that habit, too -- but not until after she had overcome her addiction to cigarettes (and, trust me, her battle was a lot easier to fight than the one Zeev has taken on!)! You can stop smoking, too, you just have to want to badly enough.

Bottomline, my point is, smoking may be pleasurable to the smoker, but it is not worth dying for. Please, please, arilau, truly accept that this habit can kill you and stop, NOW!

Newly