Rant: The Jim Challenge

[docellis]

I was a really bad smoker. The obnoxious kind. I smoked constantly and I constantly used smoking as an excuse to get away from things or people.

One day I quit because I was disgusted by how I looked when I caught a glimpse of myself smoking in a mirror.

My strategy was: It can't physically hurt, can it? To quit, I mean. It can't hurt. I looked for the pain. I was like, bring it on. I waited for it to hurt. I almost wanted it to hurt. It never hurt though. It was more like fruit flies....annoying

But I definitely needed to put things in my mouth.

Baby carrots, sunflower seeds, gum....I kept those on hand all the time.

I guess it has been 3 years since I bought a pack of smokes? I still want to smoke when I am drunk and hanging out with smokers. Luckily I don't know that many smokers anymore.

[Leroy]

Good luck pop.

[Radbird]

Yep, good luck to you, pop. Just watch the weight gain. It's been 25 years for me and I'm still dealing with the extra poundage that smoking cessation caused.

But I'm so glad I did it.

[Cronos]

So go masturbate or whatever gets you through it. Yell at the kids. Scare the fish. Chew gum with a sneer.

This is sig-alicious.


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Good luck, Pop! We're all behind you.

Just do what my brother did: just get addicted to the gum.

[Cronos]

Too late.

I'm shooting smack into my eyeballs twice a day.

A clear result of posting too much in the politics thread in social.

[jim]

I was a really bad smoker. The obnoxious kind. I smoked constantly and I constantly used smoking as an excuse to get away from things or people.

One day I quit because I was disgusted by how I looked when I caught a glimpse of myself smoking in a mirror.

My strategy was: It can't physically hurt, can it? To quit, I mean. It can't hurt. I looked for the pain. I was like, bring it on. I waited for it to hurt. I almost wanted it to hurt. It never hurt though. It was more like fruit flies....annoying

But I definitely needed to put things in my mouth.

Baby carrots, sunflower seeds, gum....I kept those on hand all the time.

I guess it has been 3 years since I bought a pack of smokes? I still want to smoke when I am drunk and hanging out with smokers. Luckily I don't know that many smokers anymore.

I remember you saying this, and this helped me.

My difference? It hurt. Seriously hurt. Physical pain as in cramps etc... Terrible.

Aug 13, 2007 was my last chew. I found an entire, unopened can of chew in a rain jacket just this weekend and threw it away without a thought. Actually, I opened it and threw sprinkled it in the garbage to avoid any ideas of rooting through the garbage later on. You never know what I would have tried.

[Popeye_Card]

But I definitely needed to put things in my mouth.

Go on...

[docellis]

But I definitely needed to put things in my mouth.

Go on...

I knew that was coming

[Dillagii]

But I definitely needed to put things in my mouth.

Go on...

I knew that was coming

What was coming?

BTW, good luck Pop. You can do it. We can help

[Popeye_Card]

But I definitely needed to put things in my mouth.

Go on...

I knew that was coming

Just trying to help out with this:

So go masturbate or whatever gets you through it. Yell at the kids. Scare the fish. Chew gum with a sneer.