10 years of liberty

by **Dukasaur** on Sun Aug 04, 2019 3:48 pm

In all the excitement yesterday, I forgot to announce my big news.

Yesterday, August 3rd, marked 10 years of liberty from enslavement to tobacco.

After decades as a chain smoker, I broke free on August 3rd, 2009. (Of course there had been many previous attempts.)

To those of you who never started the filthy habit, congratulations.

To those of you, like me, who laboured under the yoke and broke free, let us celebrate!

To those of you who are still labouring under the Obnoxious Master, let me give renewed hope. I was one who they said would never quit. Towards the end, I was smoking like half a carton (about 100 cigarettes) a day. I grew up in a smoking household. Like my parents, I had an overflowing ashtray in every room. Smoking was the first thing I did when I woke up and the last thing I did when I went to bed. If I can beat it, so can you.

by **HitRed** on Sun Aug 04, 2019 3:59 pm

Till I was 16 I never smoked. Got in a fight with my friends and joined a new group which smoked. So then I smoked till I repaired the previous friendships and never smoked again. Pressure to fit in I guess.

Congrats DUKA!

The tax man misses you.

by **Dukasaur** on Sun Aug 04, 2019 4:12 pm

Thanks, HR!

Yeah, I started smoking at 16, too. I already knew tobacco was bad, saw the money my parents pissed away on it. But I wanted to smoke pot, and I couldn't smoke pot without coughing. A friend of mine suggested I smoke cigarettes as a way of "toughening up" my throat and preparing for pot. Idiot! Bigger the idiot me for listening!

Then that fall ('79) I hitchhiked down to California for the first time. That's when I really became a chain smoker. Cigarettes were already 95 cents in Canada, but in most American states they were from 25 to 45 cents. Plus, when you're hitchhiking there are often long hours when nothing's coming and what else is there to do but smoke?

by **jonesthecurl** on Sun Aug 04, 2019 4:29 pm

Well done. I gave up a long long while ago, havng been a heavy smoker. hardest thing I ever did. Healthiest too.

by **mookiemcgee** on Sun Aug 04, 2019 4:59 pm

Congrats Duk... They are about $10 US/pack now in California. I hope you don't even know what they cost in Canada anymore...

by **jusplay4fun** on Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:03 pm

Congrats, Duk. I saw what a bad habit and waste of money it was for my Dad, so I never had a desire to even start that bad habit. I choose sugar, instead.

JP

by **Dukasaur** on Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:19 pm

jonesthecurl wrote:Well done. I gave up a long long while ago, havng been a heavy smoker. hardest thing I ever did. Healthiest too.

Good job!

by **nietzsche** on Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:59 pm

You've gotten fatter Duk. And older.

Smoking Duk was much better.

by **mrswdk** on Mon Aug 05, 2019 6:04 am

I think what nietzsche is trying to say is that he lacks the mental capacity to cease his own self-harming behaviours. I prescribe 10 minutes of sudoku every morning, to get his brain active again.

by **Dukasaur** on Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:16 am

mrswdk wrote:I think what nietzsche is trying to say is that he lacks the mental capacity to cease his own self-harming behaviours. I prescribe 10 minutes of sudoku every morning, to get his brain active again.

A little less onanism in the schoolyard would be a good thing, also.

by **mrswdk** on Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:32 am

Google says that 'onanism' means 'pulling out'. So I say, a little less onanism is always a good thing.

by **Dukasaur** on Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:46 am

mrswdk wrote:Google says that 'onanism' means 'pulling out'. So I say, a little less onanism is always a good thing.

I thought you were joking, but then I checked, and indeed! such trendy new definition has been smuggled in. God knows how and by whom.

But I was referring to the original definition. The Crime of Onan.

by **nietzsche** on Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:56 am

That was my whole point.

Duk is coming here telling us we shouldn't think about sex and we shouldn't smoke.

I don't plan to live to 80. I can do what i want.