December 27, 2007
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Cancer Is Not Just An Astrological Sign, Miguel!
No matter how good a person you are, you have flaws...and yes, that includes me. It seems that the closer we come to New Years...the more people are suggesting that I quit smoking. Now, let me be clear. I do smoke...about a 2 packs a week, but compared to times past, that's not too bad. I used to be a 3 pack a day smoker for many years. In fact, back when I started this is what I remember paying ==>
These days, things have changed. Now I practically have to take out a second mortgage on my house in order to support my habit. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating slightly. Slightly.
I know. I know....
It could be worse.
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I dont mind smoke so much as most people, but quitting is good for your health. Dont do it cause of the new years, do it because you want to live longer to spend time with your grandchildren or whatever. its different when you're young and you know you're doing well if you live to be 20. now that you know you're gonna live to be an old man, you can start to think about what you can do to preserve your health.
Hey Miguel!!!
How was Christmas??????
Oy....the 2nd to last pic.... *shivers* he's smoking a crack pipe, isn't he? And now I taste it....a gazzillion years later. "It was a cold and rainy Sunday morning...when the baseheads rolled in town..I'm real cool, I chill to the max....I might be crazy but I don't smoke crack" (A gazzillion points for YOU if you know THAT song....Shinehead? No one seems to know it on here, but for me...because *I* listened to cool music as a youth...I think, anyway
)..
Okay, to be serious now.....I know, I know....I still smoke--cigarettes-- too, and those bastards are over 5 dollars a pack these days here in NY. For Christmas....I got some ridiculous book....along with the advice to "just read it...even though you don't feel like quitting....read it, take your time....I didn't want to quit either, nor did I want to read the book...it took me 6 mnths to read, but when you are done...I promise you will NOT be smoking". Ha! Do you believe in miracles?
Maybe ONE DAY, I will read the book....we'll see...
Where do you find these pictures? That first one is priceless.
I think my new years' resolution will be to not make any resolutions that year. I'll quit whatever bad habit I need to quit when I'm good and ready. I'm tired of people using these "significant dates" as reasons to push themselves and others around. If you can't quit smoking any other day of the year, what makes people think you can on January 1st simply because it's New Year's Day? The new year doesn't grant superpowers (although it would be nice if it did).
Did you have a wonderful Christmas compared to last year?
I hope so!!
I just lost 15 lbs. I wanted to start BEFORE the holidays not after!! I DID NOT MAKE A RESOLUTION but I know that I need to do this.I love the pics Tio Migs,they bring it home.
I quit last year....lasted 9 months....so I think this new years I will worry about a different vice like eating!
We all have vices. Yes, it could be worse. At the same time, it would be nice to spare yourself from lung cancer, heart attack, stroke, PVD, COPD.... you don't escape death as many times as you have to get taken out by smoking
I wonder how harmful two packs a week really is? I have no question about two packs a day will do to you.
Hehe! Well he (santa) deserves it; don't you think?
No Shinehead?
I am so sad.... why does no one seem to have listened to Shinehead except for ME in 1989 or 1990? 
What about NWA? It was at the very same time that I was listening to "Straight Outta Compton" which also, noone except for me, here on xanga seems to have listened to. C'mon Miguel....YOU must have listened to NWA back in the day!
As many know I am a smoker, a heavily addicted smoker to be exact. I have COPD and know that my smoking contributes to many of my health issues. When I started smoking at the tender age of twelve a pack of Marlboro's cost me 55 cents. I am also die hard in that despite the cost I still smoke my brand of choice instead of opting for one of the lesser costing options. My outlook is that I know far more people who quit smoking and health issues worsened, than people who continue to smoke and are around today. My best friend passed away two years ago of lung cancer at the age of 49 after having quit smoking two years earlier. Now, I don't say that she still wouldn't have passed away of the same cause... but who knows.
I'm stubborn also, go figure. I enjoy smoking and blatantly refuse to give it up. Hmm, let me scroll back up and see if I'm on topic or if I'm just rambling in a vain attempt to justify my refusal to quit smoking.
Hugs'n'Smooches!
based on personal experiences.......................things can always get worse
good luck, my friend, with any resolution you might make..........................
…but the price was too much for me to pay. It doesn’t cost money; it costs time and it costs your mind and your friends.
At the gas station where I used to work, i used to see the long terms effects of smoking. It is not pretty, especially in women: the excessive wrinkles, the yellow teeth, the lack of teeth, the yellow eyes, the smell, the nails, the breath... it was just not pretty.
The prices went up two dollars in the one year i was there. Not a cheap habit, even if you smoke the generics. But it is your body. You do what you have to do.
running killed jim fixx - my mother -off the boat ate dandelions from the field w/ olive oil and died of colon cancer - 2 paks a week? enjoy migs...
I always get here a bit too late for my comments to be read by anyone.
You must have started smoking just 10 or 15 years ago. When I first started smoking in earnest back in 1972, a pack of cigarettes was 32 cents in Indiana. (Gasoline at the time was as low as 19 cents a gallon.) But I was making only $1.75 an hour, so to save money I bought packs of Bugler's for 18 cents and rolled my own unfiltered cigarettes. A pack of Bugler's made about 50 smokes.
[As an aside, I've noticed a rough correlation over the years between the price of cigarettes per pack and the price of gasoline per gallon.]
I got to where I was smoking close to 3 packs a day, and finally quit in 1997 just as the price was really starting to skyrocket. It took an ultimatum from my girlfriend to make me quit; health issues were simply not enough, unfortunately. But regardless of motivation, quitting smoking is one of the best things I ever did.
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