She was
simply fed up with the high price of cigs.

Sorry to break in, but... :P I remember when I started smoking I'd give the cashier $2 and get SOME kinda change back.

Right before I quit, I remember them being round about $9 - with horror stories of ppl in New York paying $12 or so...

My new JUULs are... $23-25 for 4 'pods'.. 4 days worth. Lots of $$$ to kill ourselves.

... It said "insert disk #3", but only two will fit...



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On 02 Jul 2021 at 08:26p, Bucko pondered and said...

It's a good thing! I started at 12, quit at 42, went back at 50, finally quit for I hope good at 55.

Yep, keep up the good work... it's worth it.

It's pretty sad because they feel they aren't smoking and it won't do anything to them, the thing is NO ONE knows what vaping will do yet! It's still in it's infancy stage. Back in the 70's we all knew what smoking would do of us smoked to be cool, others because they wanted to. It's
not cool when you sitting in a hospital room looking at a person who is half the size they used to be because they have lung cancer and you are just watching them breath their last breaths.. Anyways..

I agree, the unknown is not good... and given the history I think there's likely to be dramas down the road... at the very least adding nicotine to
vape juice is not good.

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Hello The Godfather!

** On Sunday 27.06.21 - 09:13, The Godfather wrote to Wall E. Weasel:

..However I do recall growing up with my mom smoking
indoors: the house, the airplane, appliance and
electronics stores, restaurants .. but I've probably typed
that already within one of my mass replies.

Did you start smoking when you were still living at home?

garage that now smell like an ashtray.. :/ Other days, I
feel physically or mentally horrible as my body tries to
remind me that it desires the nicotine.

There is a commericial on tv that promotes a nicotine mouth
spray. Nicorette, QuickMist.

My "grandpa" smoked for 50 years without issue until he
quit smoking, then got lung cancer and died. Why quit when
my doctor tells me my lungs sound just fine..

[...]

..Hearing a few of the aforementioned was enough to KEEP
smoking at times -- such as the stories of those quitting
and then getting cancer.

My mom quit successfully on her 3rd cold-turkey try. She was
simply fed up with the high price of cigs. As a chain-smoker,
it added up quite a bit. But then, on a routine visit to her
allergy specialist, a chest-xray revelead "some concern" when
spots were detected. It's almost as if the smoking kept the
cancer at bay. But quitting let it progress. :/

Odd how I never paid much attention to the oppostive
stories more frequently right in fron tof me:My dad quit
and is alive to speak about it at 75 years of age.

My dad smoked a pipe for a handful of years in his 30s. But he
never returned to that habit. Maybe he smoked during his short
stint in the army, but I've never seen him with a cig. He never
had any lung issues despite living with a wife that smoked
constantly. He did manage to escape the usual space that would
be filled with smoke and spend time in a workshop or be
outdoors.

..I should probably reinvest that money into somethig with
a much better return -- my kids education, stocks, crypto,
whatever .. anything. Nicotine is an incredibly powerful
drug for sure.

We went through calculations realizing if that money had been
deposited into a modest saving account, the accrued interest
would have resulted my mom to be a multimillionare by the time
she *did* quit.

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She was
simply fed up with the high price of cigs.

Sorry to break in, but... :P I remember when I started smoking I'd give the cashier $2 and get SOME kinda change back.

Right before I quit, I remember them being round about $9 - with horror stories of ppl in New York paying $12 or so...

My new JUULs are... $23-25 for 4 'pods'.. 4 days worth. Lots of $$$ to kill ourselves.

... It said "insert disk #3", but only two will fit...



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

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Hello paulie420!

** On Monday 28.06.21 - 15:27, paulie420 wrote to Ogg:

She was simply fed up with the high price of cigs.

Sorry to break in, but... :P I remember when I started
smoking I'd give the cashier $2 and get SOME kinda change
back.

Right before I quit, I remember them being round about $9 -
with horror stories of ppl in New York paying $12 or so...

My new JUULs are... $23-25 for 4 'pods'.. 4 days worth.
Lots of $$$ to kill ourselves.

My mom would always buy the whole carton. 20 packs per carton?
It would barely last her a week.

--
../|ug

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On 28 Jun 2021, Ogg said the following...

Sorry to break in, but... :P I remember when I started
smoking I'd give the cashier $2 and get SOME kinda change
back

Now I am going to show my age, when I started smoking I paid .55cents a pack!
I was 12 years old in 1974!

Right before I quit, I remember them being round about $9 -
with horror stories of ppl in New York paying $12 or so...

When I quit Paulie they were $11 a pack here in NY.. Then I started back up 8 years later and was paying $12/pack.. I was smoking on average a pack to pack and half a day! $18 a day in smokes!

My mom would always buy the whole carton. 20 packs per carton?
It would barely last her a week.

I was buying smokes at one point from the indian reservations for like $15 a carton in the late 90's, also getting them for $10 a carton from the Army PX that a friend of mine had access to.. The sad thing was I had another friend who would go to Florida and pick me up on average 20 cartons for like $200 a shot! Early 2000's.. NY a carton was $120!

Al

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Did you start smoking when you were still living at home?

Ogg!

Yes, I did. When I was around 19 or maybe 20. Basically I grew up with my mom, my Dad is a Minister and was always moving from one rural church to another (obvsiously remarried and divorced from my mom since I was 5). So anyway, I was always around her smoke. At 15 I moved in with my dad to finish off highschool, and felt quite a few urges to smoke but would never have gotten the smell of smoke past my dad, so I started chewing tobacco (Copenhagen). Without making this a long story, I moved back to my mom's after graduation. One day I went to work, came home, and my mom had been in my room and had spilled my spit jar all over the carpet by accident and had had to clean it up. There was a pack of cigerettes and a note that read "If you need your nicotine smoke these, if decide to keep chewing, move out." I started smoking, but don't blame my mom :)

There is a commericial on tv that promotes a nicotine mouth
spray. Nicorette, QuickMist.

The lozenges aren't bad, they just give me the hiccups so I'm trying to keep them to no more then 2-3 a day. There are a lot of chemicals in "smokes" so it's still a challenge for the body and mind to get past the desire to have one, even when taking in doses of nicotine. However, the goal is to just be free of the drug all together as I surely don't want more issues arising later.

My mom quit successfully on her 3rd cold-turkey try. She was
simply fed up with the high price of cigs. As a chain-smoker,
it added up quite a bit. But then, on a routine visit to her
allergy specialist, a chest-xray revelead "some concern" when
spots were detected. It's almost as if the smoking kept the
cancer at bay. But quitting let it progress. :/

Uhg, that sucks, but I have trouble believing that quitting progresses cancer unless the cancer already existed and was in some way progressing slowly. What I can say is that quitting has helped my breathing, taste, smell, and quality of life, other then the insane thoughts withi my head 24x7.

We went through calculations realizing if that money had been
deposited into a modest saving account, the accrued interest
would have resulted my mom to be a multimillionare by the time
she *did* quit.

Yeah, what are savings interest rates today? .00001% But back in the day that would have been so true. Now apply your math to bitcoin, if I quit and reinvested at it's inception and I'd own the first rights on a lung transplant list :)

----It was good hearing from you.

-tG

... When all else fails, read the instructions

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On 29 Jun 2021 at 06:36p, Bucko pondered and said...

Now I am going to show my age, when I started smoking I paid .55cents a pack! I was 12 years old in 1974!

I'm only a few years behind you in age. I didn't try one until I was in my early teens. Nicked one off an Aunt that was staying with us at the time. Didn't like it and knew it would do me harm so just left them alone after trying them and avoided getting hooked on the nicotine etc..

At high school they used to show shock films of people with throat cancer and those folks with holes in their neck so they could breathe etc.. hell of a tactic... it wasn't needed for me...

My aunt died in my early 20s and had emphysema , it was horrible and it just reinforced my views.

Now we have kids vaping and getting hooked on nicotine that way.. it's a sad old state of affairs :(

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On 02 Jul 2021, Avon said the following...

I'm only a few years behind you in age. I didn't try one until I was in
my early teens. Nicked one off an Aunt that was staying with us at the time. Didn't like it and knew it would do me harm so just left them
alone after trying them and avoided getting hooked on the nicotine etc..

It's a good thing! I started at 12, quit at 42, went back at 50, finally quit for I hope good at 55.

Now we have kids vaping and getting hooked on nicotine that way.. it's a sad old state of affairs :(

It's pretty sad because they feel they aren't smoking and it won't do
anything to them, the thing is NO ONE knows what vaping will do yet! It's
still in it's infancy stage. Back in the 70's we all knew what smoking would
do of us smoked to be cool, others because they wanted to. It's not cool when you sitting in a hospital room looking at a person who is half the size they used to be because they have lung cancer and you are just watching them
breath their last breaths.. Anyways..

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On 02 Jul 2021 at 08:26p, Bucko pondered and said...

It's a good thing! I started at 12, quit at 42, went back at 50, finally quit for I hope good at 55.

Yep, keep up the good work... it's worth it.

It's pretty sad because they feel they aren't smoking and it won't do anything to them, the thing is NO ONE knows what vaping will do yet! It's still in it's infancy stage. Back in the 70's we all knew what smoking would do of us smoked to be cool, others because they wanted to. It's
not cool when you sitting in a hospital room looking at a person who is half the size they used to be because they have lung cancer and you are just watching them breath their last breaths.. Anyways..

I agree, the unknown is not good... and given the history I think there's likely to be dramas down the road... at the very least adding nicotine to
vape juice is not good.

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