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14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1985

I may have had a puff or two of a cigar along the way however I remember the aroma or shall I call it the smell and I felt dissey. Yes, you gals and guys are right, I mean all right! I wasn't clear on my post however he is 60 now smoked for 30 years before he had the bypass, did not smoke for maybe 10 or so years after by pass and now the cigars came in somewhere it the past 5 years I suppect. Ia ppreciate really all that you do!

Thank you

Stickin

My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 1/22/2006
Smoke-Free Days: 1671
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 41,775
Amount Saved: $18,276.56
Life Gained:
Days: 327 Hrs: 2 Mins: 31 Seconds: 43

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1904

Your friend reminds me of my oldest sister. About twenty years, her doctor told her, One more drop of alcohol and you will die. She gave up whiskey and switched to beer. Said it wasn't alcohol. On her thirty-sixth birthday, she went on a beer binge, fell into a coma, and died. Unfortunately,and fortunately, denial protects us from what we cannot deal with. However, that means some of us die.
My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 5/1/2009
Smoke-Free Days: 476
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 13,328
Amount Saved: $5,664.40
Life Gained:
Days: 53 Hrs: 14 Mins: 19 Seconds: 19

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 136

Smoking is smoking. Putting a stick of tobacco or anything else in your mouth, lighting it, and inhaling the smoke is smoking. Anyone who thinks differently is fooling themselves.

Rusty

My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 12/13/2004
Smoke-Free Days: 2076
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 105,876
Amount Saved: $23,822.10
Life Gained:
Days: 192 Hrs: 4 Mins: 8 Seconds: 28

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2778

Hey Stickin'!

My neighbor gave up smoking cigarettes years ago, probably in his late 20's. Then, a friend of his gave him a couple fine Cuban cigars for his birthday about 10 years ago. Well, that led to him getting a humidor and having a cigar almost every evening. Then he offered his wife a hit every now and then and she got into the cigar smoking thing. Then they found the little cigarette-sized cigars that came in the tins of 20 little cigars. Yup... they're both hooked!!!

I tried to tell them that they were way worse than cigarettes, but his response was that they were 100% pure tobacco and didn't have all those man-made chemicals added and were NOT as bad as cigarettes!

Hopefully they will quit those nasty things soon!

Jim

My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 3/5/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 898
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 22,450
Amount Saved: $3,704.25
Life Gained:
Days: 154 Hrs: 16 Mins: 21 Seconds: 34

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$45,810.00

Amount Saved
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Days: 1096 Hours: 9

Minutes: 30 Seconds: 13

Life Gained
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6108

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183,240

Cigarettes Not Smoked

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2606

Hi Sticking to it,

If your friend is under the belief that smoking a cigar won’t hurt? He might want to think again!

Cigars contain many of the same poisonous cancer causing chemicals found in cigarettes. Furthermore, you are putting yourself

at higher risk for cancers of the mouth, esophagus and larynx. (4 to 10 times more likely to be exact.)

You are also 4 times more likely to be affected with COPD or emphysema. The only way to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco is to quit.

Samantha, Health Educator

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 34

My take is that your friend does not want to quit and is in total denial.
My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 11/22/2009
Smoke-Free Days: 271
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 4,065
Amount Saved: $1,422.75
Life Gained:
Days: 49 Hrs: 9 Mins: 56 Seconds: 50

14 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1985

What’s your take on a 15 year, 2-1/2 packs a day ex-smoker who’s turned to smoking cigars perhaps regularly for sometime now, I didn’t ask. I hadn’t talked to bozo in five years, he is retiring at the end of August and wanted to tell me so since we had worked in the same department eons ago; he did ask if I missed not smoking.

I gathered from our brief conversation that smoking cigars is not the same as smoking cigarettes. I thought it strange. What's that all about? This guy at age 45 had bypass surgery. His doctor had told him to quit smoking and now the cigars and they are ok?

Looking for an answer to what’s up.

My Mileage:

My Quit Date: 1/22/2006
Smoke-Free Days: 1670
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 41,750
Amount Saved: $18,265.63
Life Gained:
Days: 326 Hrs: 22 Mins: 5 Seconds: 8

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