[vision-master]

Haven't smoked the pipe in a week. No big deal. I can take it or leave it, no problem.

[gampy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'I') am already going nuts.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gampy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'I') am already going nuts.

[gampy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gampy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'I') am already going nuts.

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gampy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gampy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'I') am already going nuts.

[Ang]

Just checking in...still smoke free. How about you two?

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ang', 'J')ust checking in...still smoke free. How about you two?

[Ang]

Well, one is better than two.

I think I'm done for sure this time. I can't imagine anything that would compel me to smoke and have that horrible taste in my mouth again or spending 6 bucks on ruining my health.

Good luck, brother!

[BigTex]

Any updates from the quitters?

[BlisteredWhippet]

Anyone who is familiar with my posts knows me. Therefore, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I am going to lay down the smack-down on this thread right now.

Just because you come here and waste your time yabbering about "quitting" doesn't mean you're going to bend the odds in your favor.

In other words, words don't change your individual chances: 1 in 10. As a former smoker and successful quitter, I would bet ca$h money against every single one of you guys. Double down on some.

So, without further interruption, please continue your quitting. I'll leave you with a story that might encourage you: "The journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single step..."

[gampy]

Fuck off troll.

Still smoke free asshole.

[vision-master]

This whole "smoking is bad for you" is overblown. Being a occasional pipe smoker (twice a week, maybe) I should live LONGER than a non-smoker. Yup, live longer! Also, it's a very relaxing - better than them dam meds, that's for sure!

Just like this whole "non-drinking" thing. I don't buy it one bit. Nothing better than tipping a few now and again. Like everything, moderation my friends.

Need better health - start taking some long walks in the woods.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') common myth about smoking assert that the lungs of smokers become brown or even black from years of accumulation of tars and goo. Not true, according to Wray Kephart. Mr. Kephart presently works as an engineer but he previously worked in a hospital, performing autopsies, most of which were paid for by insurance companies, seeking to determine whether the deceased committed suicide, or died from "natural causes". Kephart tells me that he's done approximately 1560 autopsies, and he's seen some strange things, such as the lungs of auto painters, which were "effectively sealed with catalyzed lacquers".

Kephart insists, however, that it is normally impossible to tell, from autopsy, whether the deceased was or was not a smoker. Upon resection, the lungs are always clear, unless the deceased lived in a large city where there was significant industrial pollution. In that event, carbon deposits may be found, but these are unrelated to smoking. So the "brown lungs" myth is exactly that: a myth.

[RonMN]

I always found it rediculous while standing on a busy uptown street corner, breathing gas & deisel exhaust, somebody would come up to me & tell my that my ciggie was annoying them.

I should have thrown the bastards into traffic

[catbox]

Watched my grandfather smoke smoke smoke...then it was Oxygen at 60 at 64 he was dead. Grandmother just died the same way. Never smoked myself because I saw what it did to my grandparents.

It's funny how I can be on a ride way out in the country...and I will smell someone smoking. I'll ride a bit further and boom, there they are...you can smell that shit blocks away. Nothing like breathing that stuff in after riding 60 miles...I'll take bus fumes anyday over cigarette smoke...if you smoke...you won't get it.

Hardly anyone I know smokes now, and the ones that gave it up always say they are grateful they did because they just feel better overall.

Go ahead, smoke...it's good for ya!

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('catbox', 'W')atched my grandfather smoke smoke smoke...then it was Oxygen at 60 at 64 he was dead. Grandmother just died the same way. Never smoked myself because I saw what it did to my grandparents.

It's funny how I can be on a ride way out in the country...and I will smell someone smoking. I'll ride a bit further and boom, there they are...you can smell that shit blocks away. Nothing like breathing that stuff in after riding 60 miles...I'll take bus fumes anyday over cigarette smoke...if you smoke...you won't get it.

Hardly anyone I know smokes now, and the ones that gave it up always say they are grateful they did because they just feel better overall.

Go ahead, smoke...it's good for ya!

[Lighthouse]

It is amazing what Peakoil.com has become...

[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lighthouse', 'I')t is amazing what Peakoil.com has become...

[Daculling]

My grandfather was put on a low cholesterol diet to reduce his cholesterol. His cholesterol did not drop until he ditched it for eating bacon. He made it to his late 90's so what did he know?

I hear ya, If I have to smoke on the street then you have to drive your car in your house.

[eastbay]

vision master,

Thanks. I agree 100%. I smoke one or two cigs almost every day. Have for three decades now. Prior to that, I smoked like most smokers back then... far too much. But rather than quit something so enjoyable, I decided to try limiting the times and places i smoke. Now it's one in the early morning most days... and another mid-morning most days. Some days it's zero... some it's three. Very few know ... it's just too darn bad politically these days. Two packs per month. I strongly suspect it's not hurting me very much, if any at all. I'm a non-drinking vegetarian so it's my only small vice.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lighthouse', 'I')t is amazing what Peakoil.com has become...