AACK!
AACK!
I swore to myself that I would never turn into one of those better than thou ex smoker assholes.
Managed not to so far.
An asshole on some other subjects though
As I read the regulations no new vape products were to be introduced to the US market after 8-8-2016 without first having a PMTA approval from the FDA.
I do not say anything even then because I have done it to others in the past.
Really, I am so sorry.
My 12yr Dr who was also administrator of about 7 other Dr's retired recently. I told him DAMN, and he laughed and said he was 70. So I told him I guess I was going to have to train a new Dr and he agreed.
Saw the new one about a week ago. Me mentioned a little COPD I have and asked me if I smoke. I said no I vape, and breath easier and feel better...He was nodding yes before I could stop telling him my pro's. He said that was good and there's not much that negatively impacts from vaping. Nothing is better than just clean air, but it's way better than smoking.
So far I'm liking him
Can't think of a single thing I feel supreme about... well, maybe being an Old Phart with a real live work ethic that most of modern America doesn't seem to share. Will that count? Can I be an Old Phart Supremacist? Please, please, pretty please...
Never did. Started at 12 years old, then took a break for a couple years, then started again in basic training and never put them down until after vaping for a couple months (2 years 7 months ago). Fifty+ years of Camels should have given me lung cancer - or so they say - but it didn't even make me hack. And today, I'm being a good boy around those who still smoke. If I can't handle it, I walk away a few steps, but I will not condemn them for doing what I did most of my life.
Never did any of those. My sister had blue pills and red pills (pick one)
- OK, something that took her up and others that brought her down and sucked MaryJane like it was going out of style. She talked me into a joint one night after my first wife left - I was very depressed about losing my daughter. I was hoping to be able to float around the room like she was doing, but all I got was a dry throat, so never bothered with that crap ever again.
I use to cough my ass off but i was smoking 4 packs a day most days
I think the most I ever managed in one day was three packs - extreme stress and most of them burned up in the ashtray while I cussed at the computer. On an average day it was 1 1/2 to 2 packs.
Same for me.
The only illegal substance I enjoyed was xxxx. When it started increasing my aches and pains, it was time to quit the stuff.Never did any of those. My sister had blue pills and red pills (pick one)
I used to smoke a half a pack a day. So, every time I had a chest xray, it looked like I had never smoked. But, I bet they could tell I did, just from the smell.
Actually, the last couple years of smoking was Golden Harvest little cigars. South Dakota raised cigarette taxes $10 a carton (above and beyond federal and routine state taxes), so we went to Wyoming to buy our cigarettes --- 10 cartons a month between the two of us, so that more than paid the extra gas money to cross the state line (Oh, hey! I guess I was doing illegal stuff after all!)
Anyway, their price went up too and we once again checked the local tobacco stores (NOT grocery stores or Wally World) because they were cheaper. Camels were almost $60/carton and they had these Golden Harvest things for only $12/carton (still 20 per pack, 10 packs per carton). I got some full flavors and Lannie went with lights. After one carton, we decided we could live with that. Then, the first of June, 2015, I brought home an ecig to try it out. Yuck! But that made us do a little research and we ordered beginners mods and the rest is history.
I still have the cigarette machine in a drawer around here some place. I tired that (filtered tubes, etc.) and, with my arthritis, I could smoke them faster than I could make them, so I gave up.
I sold my machine for almost what I paid for it. I didn't want anything that could take me back to smoking those nasty things.
As my doc has said over and over... "ANYTHING is better than smoking!!!"
So, in other words, add it to my pile of 10,000 other pieces of junk in my shop that I won't throw away because maybe -- just maybe -- I can use them to make something else one of these days, providing, of course, that I remember I even have it and which box of junk I stashed it in.
I only remembered I have it somewhere in this house because you said you use to have one. Otherwise, I might have found it sometime in the next 10 years while rummaging around looking for where I left my... Oh well. What I really need to be remembering is where I stashed the old plexiglass panels so I can make a new floor for the house chicken's cage and... and... and... way too many things on the to-do list.
I still get asked "do you smoke?" followed by "have you ever smoked?". Next time they ask, I think I'll respond with "do I smell like it?"You betcha! My very first check-up after I had switched to vaping, I hadn't even seen the doc yet to give him my good news -- the nurse was leaning in close to put the BP thing around my upper arm, and she looks up at me with a surprised expression -- "Did you quit smoking?" she asked in something like shock. Gave her a big ol grin and said I sure did, I tried vaping like I told the doc I would last time I was here, and that stuff really works! I'd been quit at that point almost a year, which was truly miraculous -- best I ever managed before, back in 1984, was 3 months. They still applaud it, everytime I go in, because they can tell immediately, I don't reek.
Andria
Evening DaleEvening ol' phartz.....
Everyone have a lovely day?
I read Jane didn't get much sleep last night.....
How is Jimi today?....feeling any better my friend?
I am doing alright just tired as hell for some reason and i got at least 6 hours sleep last night.
That's my usual sleep pattern too....
No i am going to watch it in the morning, I haven't missed one yet and they are very interesting.
