How do you pull yourself out of the dumps?

[WeedHopper]

Yes sir! I'll get right on that. Again..... I keep coming up with excuses as to why I haven't quit smoking again. This time for good.. Truth is, I'm just not there yet.... doctors tell me to quit, talks about all the problems smoking for 20+ years have probably caused me. Then gives me a clean bill of health, sends me to a cardiologist who clears me, pulmonary specialist is next. But I've had asthma since birth. My lungs beg me to quit everyday. I'm hard headed and don't like people of authority who think they know best. Even if they are qualified to know best.
I'll try again on new years. I don't drink anymore so it's not that hard. Roll up 20 Js like Willie Nelson did in the 70s. And quit his way.

I quit cold turkey after my open heart surgery in 2013. Best thing I ever did.
You have to stop the triggers 1st. Another words I stopped drinking beer for awhile. Made it much easier to quit.
Now I can drink my beer and I don't think about those fking cancer sticks at all.
Watched my Mom and my sister both die a horrible horrible death from lung cancer. My sister was 3 years younger than me. I'm the last of my Immediate family
Don't push your luck brother. Those god.damn things aren't worth it.
Hippie has lost the top portion of both lungs to fking cigarettes.

 

[MtnStew]

Same boat. Born with asthma, smoked since I was 12, but I quit and switched to vaping ten years ago. Quit vaping a day before they cut the top half outta my left lung due to a cancerous tumor. Less than two months later, they hacked the top quarter outta my right lung due to the same. No more smoking anything for me. Ain't got enough lungs to donate.
I still miss cigarettes. I love the smell of one burning, the smell of 'em on someone's breath or clothes, and if and when they tell me the cancer is back, I'm gonna take out a loan and buy a carton of Kent Kings!

Well that is probably the best damn quit smoking advertisement I've ever heard.
Apologies for big tobacco stealing your organs. Hopefully my comment above wasn't offensive.
I had it locked down back before my state banned the flavored vape juices. I was down to 0mg and then right back to a pack and a half a day.
I can literally go 6+ hours awake without a cigarette, then I fall down some youtube rabbit hole or binge watch TWD on Netflix and chain smoke subconsciously.
20 days left this month. Let's see if I can cut back on the chain smoking and add some more hours each day to that gap without.

 

[MtnStew]

I quit cold turkey after my open heart surgery in 2013. Best thing I ever did.
You have to stop the triggers 1st. Another words I stopped drinking beer for awhile. Made it much easier to quit.
Now I can drink my beer and I don't think about those fking cancer sticks at all.
Watched my Mom and my sister both die a horrible horrible death from lung cancer. My sister was 3 years younger than me. I'm the last of my Immediate family
Don't push your luck brother. Those god.damn things aren't worth it.
Hippie has lost the top portion of both lungs to fking cigarettes.

I just asked the doctor for a new script of patches. At least something to assist me the third time around. First 2 were cold turkey. My wife will never quit. So I have to make sure I do. My kids deserve a healty parent. I've already dropped from 210 to 180. I'm more active with them than ever before. Now I have to make sure that it lasts for many many years. And it won't if I don't quit. Soon.

 

[WeedHopper]

Yessir brother. You have to think about your children if nothing else. They deserve to have their parents not die from dumb decisions and nasty ass cigarettes.
I promise you will feel a lot better when you quit. Plus after awhile your lungs start rejuvenating and cleaning their selves out.
If you wait to long and damage your lungs,,than your fked and your children get to watch you die a horrible fking death either from cancer or smothering because you can't get any air anymore.
Watched my grandfather die trying to suck air into his lungs that were to far gone.
Sorry if I'm being a little rough but I'm telling you the truth and stating facts.

 

[MtnStew]

I got a pulmonary referral from the docs yesterday. Been putting it off because just don't want to hear bad news. I'll set it up for next week. Get it taken care of before the holiday.
Thank you both for caring about a complete stranger.

 

[WeedHopper]

No problem brother. And yes cigarettes will also fk up your arteries and your heart. Triple bypass in 2013 woke my fking ass up.
And then like I said,, watching my Mom and Sister die such a terrible death made me realize I had made a great decision to quit those fking things.
Now my 68 year old ass walks over 45,000 steps a week at my properties I run. So my lungs and heart are loving it. I weigh 202lbs which is close to a good healthy weight for my size. I'm thinking I want to get down to 190 or 195.
Yehaaaaaaaaaa

 

[WeedHopper]

Fking spell check has me at 60.
Wish I was fking 60.
I'll be 69 in February. I'm catching up to Hippie.

 

[MtnStew]

No wonder I get along with the folks here. I have always had friends 20+ years my senior.
I relate better to the previous generations than my own.
Its the reason I am nice to everyone who deserves respect. I'm a 60+ years old hippy in a 38 year old body. Or as this new generation describes it. "I IDENTIFY AS A 60 YEAR OLD HIPPY"

 

[WeedHopper]

Don't go camping and get drunk with Hippie.
He will poke holes in your ass with his little pecker.

 

[Hippie420]

Must you always kiss & tell?

 

[WeedHopper]

Sorry. I forgot our agreement.

 

[decayer]

So ...

dude, you write beautifully. succinct, in proper order, reads like a properly edited copy. pursue that. you can write.

 

[greenscreen13]

dude, you write beautifully. succinct, in proper order, reads like a properly edited copy. pursue that. you can write.

Wow that's really nice of you to say. I have heard that before a few times but never thought anything of it. You really think I can write? I feel like I'm always all over the place. Like getting thoughts transferred into print is a struggle. But I appreciate you saying that