http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240 A Rare Bird, A Strange Duck, One Funky Blog Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:22:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9111 edey Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:57:12 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9111 squat so what eventually inspired you to quit after 15+ years of smoking? i'm honestly curious since it's such a hard thing to do what keeps you "clean". i know it's gotta be a continual decision.
so what eventually inspired you to quit after 15+ years of smoking? i'm honestly curious since it's such a hard thing to do what keeps you "clean". i know it's gotta be a continual decision.]]> http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9071 Squat Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:35:38 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9071 Funky can you please come down off your high horse now ;-)? you have apparently never had a chemical addiction. i smoked for 15+ years and i'm only turning 30 this year. it may have started out as a social thing, just trying to look cool or grown up, but it quickly turns into an addiction. i'm not just talking about a social or mental addiction, but a physical one. It is impossible to explain to someone who has never felt it what an addiction feels like. i have been "clean" for a few years now, but i am still tortured every time i see someone light-up or see packs of smokes at my local Quick Stop when i'm just trying to get some milk. It becomes such a part of your life, that it invades every aspect. everything reminds you of smoking. to this day i still fight off urges and i will for the rest of my life. oh, and the best part is... it DOSEN'T get any easier as time goes by. if anything, i find it gets harder. i know that you (and many others) hate smoking and all those "evil" smokers out there, but please! you don't need to pity them, just have a little compassion. can you please come down off your high horse now ;-)? you have apparently never had a chemical addiction. i smoked for 15+ years and i'm only turning 30 this year. it may have started out as a social thing, just trying to look cool or grown up, but it quickly turns into an addiction. i'm not just talking about a social or mental addiction, but a physical one. It is impossible to explain to someone who has never felt it what an addiction feels like. i have been "clean" for a few years now, but i am still tortured every time i see someone light-up or see packs of smokes at my local Quick Stop when i'm just trying to get some milk. It becomes such a part of your life, that it invades every aspect. everything reminds you of smoking. to this day i still fight off urges and i will for the rest of my life. oh, and the best part is… it DOSEN'T get any easier as time goes by. if anything, i find it gets harder.
i know that you (and many others) hate smoking and all those "evil" smokers out there, but please! you don't need to pity them, just have a little compassion.]]> http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9056 edey Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:07:04 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9056 i'll accept that it's the way things are, but i still think it's lame. http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9029 Tom Smith Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:48:43 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9029 yep http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9028 Squat Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:34:36 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9028 case in point: i work with several guys who never have enough money for lunch, but they always have plenty of smokes. http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9026 Squat Sun, 19 Mar 2006 04:46:12 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9026 well, edey, speaking as an ex-smoker i'd have to say yes. it's stupid, but it's an addiction. how many crack or heroin addicts would easily give up a meal for another fix? i know it seems like an extreme comparison, but if it means cutting out just one meal a day to buy a pack of smokes... i would have done it and i know plenty other smokers who would too. sad, but true. http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9022 edey Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:31:51 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9022 so what you're saying is lower prices for cigarettes are better for poor people so they have more money left over on their fixed income to buy necessities? as in they consider their cigarettes top priority as a necessity? http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9018 Tom Smith Sat, 18 Mar 2006 15:34:28 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9018 Yes, I do think the priorities of smokers with little money are inverted. I merely contend that poor people will be helped more by low cigarette prices, because no raise in price will cause them to quit. I am well aware that it's counterintuitive, but it's true. With cigarettes, even drastic price increases as incentive to get people to quit fail to work. http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9015 howard Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:40:51 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9015 I get not trying to cripple the tobacco industry as a matter of policy. But when there's a choice between favoring necessity or favoring vice? Wow -- that <em>is</em> messed up. is messed up.]]> http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9014 edey Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:43:37 +0000 http://alesrarus.funkydung.com/archives/2240#comment-9014 don't you think that the priorities are a little messed up if people on a limited budget are buying something that could be considered a luxury item (smokes) before something that everyone would agree is a necessity (food)? while smoking does suppress appetite, it doesn't supply nourishment that food does.