CT_Tree_Guy
Platinum Member
<font color="blue">Anyone want to start a support group? </font>
Hunterridge, consider it done. It's almost always better to have help and encouragement, and I'll be happy to do what I can. That includes being honest, and if I screw up, I'll tell y'all.
I really think I've "had my fun" though, and heart attack, stroke, emphysema, lung cancer, mouth cancer and gum disease (to name just a few) have become too imminent to ignore any longer. When you're young, you tend to think you'll live forever, and don't have to worry about your health. As I've gotten older, I've realized that life is quite short, and health is precious.
I've been chewing a little bit of nicotine gum, but none in the last few days. It's nice to know it's there if I need it, but the sooner you get off nicotine completely, the better. But hey, whatever it takes to get off "the hard stuff", just do it. Nicotine gum has come a long way, and I really like the new stuff with the candy coating and mint flavor (Nicorette Fresh Mint). It's more like real gum than any of the other stuff, and the flavor lasts a long time.
Go for it - once the physical addiction is broken it gets easier every day. A friend of mine quit smoking about 3 years ago after he went home to watch is father die an agonizing death caused by a lifetime of tobacco use. He summed it up very well - he said that after quitting, you arrive relatively quickly at a point where you look back on your tobacco addiction and say to yourself, "Good lord, what was that all about?"
You can do it - we all can. The stakes are too high not too, and again - I urge you to look at the positives, which are many, and not the negatives, which are few. And the negatives fade away as the positives keep building on themselves.
Lastly, if there's someone reading this who's "on the fence" about quitting, but maybe you're thinking that quitting "for the rest of your life" is too monumental a task, maybe just tell yourself you'll quit for one day, or one week, or one month, just to see that it can be done. If you go back, at least you didn't use tobacco for a day, or a week, or a month, and you gained some experience and confidence. Just making some effort is good; and one of those times, it just might "stick". The most important thing, in my opinion, is to KNOW that you CAN do it; but you'll never do it if you don't even decide to make the attempt. They didn't take Mount Suribachi on the first attempt, but take it they did. And you just might make it on your first attempt; there's only one way to find out. (Plus, there's no one shooting at you, so you've got that going for you).
I'm looking out my window at a beautiful snow-covered mountain, and it's a bright, sunny day. I think I'll go for a nice walk and get my heart pumping a little.
This planet sure is viewed best from above the ground, and I want you all to stay above ground as long as possible. Do it for yourselves, for your kids, for your dog, or heck, do it for me - I have a lot more tractor questions that I still need answers to! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
To life!
John
Hunterridge, consider it done. It's almost always better to have help and encouragement, and I'll be happy to do what I can. That includes being honest, and if I screw up, I'll tell y'all.
I really think I've "had my fun" though, and heart attack, stroke, emphysema, lung cancer, mouth cancer and gum disease (to name just a few) have become too imminent to ignore any longer. When you're young, you tend to think you'll live forever, and don't have to worry about your health. As I've gotten older, I've realized that life is quite short, and health is precious.
I've been chewing a little bit of nicotine gum, but none in the last few days. It's nice to know it's there if I need it, but the sooner you get off nicotine completely, the better. But hey, whatever it takes to get off "the hard stuff", just do it. Nicotine gum has come a long way, and I really like the new stuff with the candy coating and mint flavor (Nicorette Fresh Mint). It's more like real gum than any of the other stuff, and the flavor lasts a long time.
Go for it - once the physical addiction is broken it gets easier every day. A friend of mine quit smoking about 3 years ago after he went home to watch is father die an agonizing death caused by a lifetime of tobacco use. He summed it up very well - he said that after quitting, you arrive relatively quickly at a point where you look back on your tobacco addiction and say to yourself, "Good lord, what was that all about?"
You can do it - we all can. The stakes are too high not too, and again - I urge you to look at the positives, which are many, and not the negatives, which are few. And the negatives fade away as the positives keep building on themselves.
Lastly, if there's someone reading this who's "on the fence" about quitting, but maybe you're thinking that quitting "for the rest of your life" is too monumental a task, maybe just tell yourself you'll quit for one day, or one week, or one month, just to see that it can be done. If you go back, at least you didn't use tobacco for a day, or a week, or a month, and you gained some experience and confidence. Just making some effort is good; and one of those times, it just might "stick". The most important thing, in my opinion, is to KNOW that you CAN do it; but you'll never do it if you don't even decide to make the attempt. They didn't take Mount Suribachi on the first attempt, but take it they did. And you just might make it on your first attempt; there's only one way to find out. (Plus, there's no one shooting at you, so you've got that going for you).
I'm looking out my window at a beautiful snow-covered mountain, and it's a bright, sunny day. I think I'll go for a nice walk and get my heart pumping a little.
This planet sure is viewed best from above the ground, and I want you all to stay above ground as long as possible. Do it for yourselves, for your kids, for your dog, or heck, do it for me - I have a lot more tractor questions that I still need answers to! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
To life!
John
