Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/14/2010 05:52 AM
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Great job, friend! And by posting your cessation effort on here, that puts more pressure on yourself to be successful. Not a bad strategy.
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/14/2010 09:31 AM
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I smoked for the better half of a year, and now I'm on my fourth week without a cigarette.
I feel better without it.
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/14/2010 12:07 PM
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Originally posted by SBL: Great job, friend! And by posting your cessation effort on here, that puts more pressure on yourself to be successful. Not a bad strategy. Guilty as charged! Although that's not the only reason I'm posting it--I thought by logging my experience here, it might help others when they decide to quit. Onward and upward, airforce
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/14/2010 01:37 PM
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Great job another one hitting uncle obama in the pocket book. I've been quit for 2 years now after 2.5 packs a day for the last 20+ years THANKS Chantics. With out this pill my wife and I could not have done it they are like magic just make sure you eat a meal with them and not just toast,and then don't try to quit untill you notice your self cutting in half the amount you smoke with me it was almost 2 months but then just quit no problem.
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/15/2010 03:00 PM
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"I think I have the end in sight" Nope! You most definitely have the end in sight my friend! Proud of you for kicking this monkey in the nuts.
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/16/2010 02:41 PM
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Originally posted by Bona_na_Croin: Has the nic gum bothered you at all? I tried it and it gave me terrible heartburn each time. The patch made me have crazy dreams. Nothing in the way of heartburn, but I'm starting to see what you meant by "crazy dreams" from the patch. Nine days gone now. I wish I could say the urge to smoke is gone, but I'd be lying. Onward and upward, airforce
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/17/2010 03:45 PM
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Keep it up Airforce! You got this bronc busted. Proud of you Sir!
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." Marine General James "Mad Dog" Mattis
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/19/2010 06:45 PM
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Good job you are doing great keep at it
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/20/2010 06:51 AM
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Hey, great news! You've beaten it now.
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/21/2010 03:45 AM
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Originally posted by airforce: Yep. I'm coming up on two weeks without a smoke.
Onward and upward, airforce Great effort! Are you finding that food tastes better? How about things smell better?
Emergency Medicine - saving the world from themselves, one at a time. "Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." I make the ADL soil themselves. And that makes me very happy
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/21/2010 07:23 AM
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Congrats! You've got it beat!
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/21/2010 12:19 PM
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Originally posted by Flight-ER-Doc: Are you finding that food tastes better? How about things smell better? I guess it's funny, but I'm really noticing bad smells more. We have an inmate in our jail who, by all accounts, hasn't taken a shower in three months. Now I can believe it. Onward and upward, airforce
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/21/2010 02:32 PM
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Originally posted by airforce: Originally posted by Flight-ER-Doc: [b]Are you finding that food tastes better? How about things smell better? I guess it's funny, but I'm really noticing bad smells more. We have an inmate in our jail who, by all accounts, hasn't taken a shower in three months. Now I can believe it.
Onward and upward, airforce [/b]Well, not everything is a benefit. But WTF, dont you have any fire hoses in there?
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/21/2010 02:52 PM
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Originally posted by Flight-ER-Doc: Well, not everything is a benefit. But WTF, don't you have any fire hoses in there? Yeah, but we aren't allowed to use them like in the old movies. We're a kinder, gentler jail. Onward and upward, airforce
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/21/2010 05:48 PM
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Congrats on your accomplishment. Keep on truckin'
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/22/2010 05:09 AM
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Let's see if I can help maybe a bit with those nasty smells... You might try carrying a set of those "swimmer's nose-plugs" with you, and I would recommend assigning that certain inmate some good ol' time out in the 'exersize yard' during some of the stronger rain storms that might happen in the area! Oh... and absolutely NO umbrellas or raincoats, just in case there may be some lightening, ya'd hate to risk the inmate's safety. But just in the case it may not look like rain any time too soon... certainly look into that firehose thing! "Kinder, gentler jail" huh?... ok, that's still workable... this certain inmate just might enjoy the wonderful aroma as he helpfully scrubs out everyone else's toilets along the whole block! One good smell certainly deserves another! IHTH Great Job Airforce! Michael
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/22/2010 07:51 AM
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You might try a little VIC's vapor rub under your nose.
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/22/2010 12:48 PM
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Actually, that was one of the easier problems to solve. I told him either he was going to take a shower right now, or he was going to spend the next 30 days in segregation (what some of the older inmates call "the hole," though it bears little resemblance to what that old punishment was).
He took a shower.
Coming up on 16 days now. I've had the 21mg patch on for 36 hours now and I'm going to try to stretch it to 48. (It's a 24-hour patch.) I figure this is as good a way as any to gradually wean myself off nicotine.
Somewhat off topic, but you really don't want to mask smells in a jail--or anywhere else, for that matter. Smells are one of our senses that warn us if anything is wrong. And in a jail, things can go wrong in a hurry.
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/22/2010 04:17 PM
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Originally posted by airforce: Originally posted by Flight-ER-Doc: [b]Well, not everything is a benefit. But WTF, don't you have any fire hoses in there? Yeah, but we aren't allowed to use them like in the old movies. We're a kinder, gentler jail.
Onward and upward, airforce [/b]Old movies? They were used in The Last Castle, nevermind that it was about a military brig.
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/28/2010 02:47 PM
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Way to go Airforce! I'm proud of you kicking that smoking monkey squarely in the nuts. Keep on keepin on!
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." Marine General James "Mad Dog" Mattis
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/28/2010 04:56 PM
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Amazing what a bit of will power can do. Kep it up man
An armed society is a polite society.
Be polite, DONT TREAD ON ME!
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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06/29/2010 03:05 PM
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Congrats on kicking those cancer sticks!! And I also think it was a great idea to put your experience up for all to read and hopefully give other smokers the courage and desire to kick the habit as well.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. -Thomas Jefferson
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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Hey AF, its been almost 3 months since the last up date. How are you doing?
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Re: Airforce Is Quitting Smoking
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09/21/2010 02:38 PM
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Still tobacco-free, except for an occasional cigar (less than one a day). I still miss my 2 1/2 packs a day, but the extra $300 a month in my pocket definitely makes up for it. Onward and upward, airforce
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