I quit smoking today, anybody else want in?

It's 5 o'clock somewhere...

 

...God didn't make the little green apples...
...it don't snow in Minneapolis when the winter comes...

 

But does it rain in Indianapolis in the summertime?

 

Morning ends at noon.

 

no 10 am, did something I rarely ever do today, left my passport in a cab taking my wallet out to pay him, got it back 2o minuttes ago after 6 hours gone,I'm irresponsible but 3 things I don't lose is my wallet, my passport and my sunglasses. Feeling really lucky about now and really thankful that a random Nico taxi driver drove 30 minutes out of his way to bring my passport back and asked nothing in return

 

Dude.

 

The crazy life kind of keeps going and kind of like it, going to ride it out

 

My supervisor had been making encouraging comments about quitting for about a year, then one day he told me that I didn’t smoke, I was just the sucker ...
That was 1985. Cigarette money has paid for a LOT of tires since then.

 

Since I probably will forget about it before next Friday, I'ma go ahead and give myself a giant pat on the back for 15 years sucka-free.

 

I'm 9 years cigarette free.

Won't go near tobacco at all, to the point where I refused to smoke hookahs in Egypt.

I smoke weed like Snoop Dogg, though

 

I'm about a year and a half in and I don't miss it at all. I still enjoy the smell of a freshly lit cigarette and I still hate the smell of their clothes when they're done. It's like a casino.

 

Good for all you quitters!!!

It's something I've never done. I tried smoking a cigar once and just didn't get the concept of sucking on a tube of burning leaves. And it wasn't a cheap cigar, either.

Lots of smokers in my family on both sides, and a freshly lit cig does emit a great smell, and I LOVE cigar smell. My Dad smoked for over 30 years.

My Mom never smoked a day in her life, but she got lung cancer. There's no great way to leave this world, but that one is extremely ugly even by cancer standards.
So for all of you that may have dodged that path out of this world, AND now the $$$ you save by not spending what they want for a pack of those things.

In Maryland a carton is over $110 now. If you vape, the taxes on the refill are more than the actual device is....I got nothing but "F-That!" for that nonsense. I'm way too cheap.

 

When I think to glance over there, I see that premium brands are in the 75-80 range here in TX.

I think they were 11 bucks a carton when I started. I remember getting Marlboros for 7 bucks a carton once we were outside the US jurisdiction on the Kitty Hawk. I think generics were 4 bucks a carton.

Jeeeeezus... 110 bucks for a carton of smokes. Nearly that for a fillup of gas. I remember when you used to get a shitty look from the cashier if you tried to spend a C-note in a gas station. Now you need at least two of them to get out of there.

 

Well, we ALL know the who and why on that. Butt, we won't go down that rabbit hole.

 

To all you assholes quitting smoking, fuck you all. The obscene taxes you’ve been paying need to be made up somewhere.

If they start taxing coffee like smokes, some motherfuckers gonna die!

 

I've been Jones'n since 6am.
Gotta sober up a bit before I drive to the store.

 

I can remember going to the liquor store to buy smokes for my dad, $2 a carton. Early sixties.

 

I remember my aunt Florence (yes, a REAL Aunt Flo!!!) would buy us a pack of Marlboros for running down to the corner store and getting her Salems. I was maybe 12, my cousin would've been 7ish. Never an issue.

 

I remember walking to the grocery store when I was 8-9 years old and getting a carton of Winston's for my Dad. He would give me $2.00 and I would get the change and buy jelly beans out of the jar on the counter. I always remember getting Pete, who owned the store to get me my jelly beans because he always gave me extras and told me to stick to the jelly beans and don't take up smoking.

I watched the cancer that started in my fathers lungs and then proceeded to go through his body with vengeance take him from a powerful 235 pounds to a man of 110 pounds who could not walk from the house to the car in a matter of two years. He died a painful and regretful death. I will never forget him telling me that he could feel it eating him from the inside out.

Never as much as tried a smoke myself and I am thankful everyday for that.

 

16 years. I hardly ever think about them anymore. Best of all I'm back down to within about 5 pounds of what I weighed that day.

Congrats to all you other quitters.

RIP to the OP.