LIARS AND DAMNED LIARS

This asshole came on the radio hawking some state-sponsored stop smoking program. He said that nicotine was more addictive than Heroine or coke. He said if you want to stop smoking, you can't do it alone, you need help.

Wrong on all counts. To tell people that cigarettes are more addictaaaaaaaaaaaaaave than hard drugs is to do a great dis-service to our nations' war on drugs. It is criminal in its recklessness and whoever is responsible for this absurdity needs to be fired.

I smoked non-filtered Pall Malls and cigars and pipes for thirty years. I quit for a year and then started again when I mistakenly thought I could puff on a cigar once in a while in the bars.

Alcoholics can't take one drink or they're on a bender. Smokers can't smoke one cigarette or they're hooked again. And we know it. I'm not an alcoholic because I can have a few drinks every few weeks, or a few drinks every day. no problem or go for a month without a drink. But I am addicted to tobacco. I KNOW if a smoke something, I'm done for. But it's not like being addicted to Heroined, come on!!

No one with a fully functioning brain needs help to stop smoking. I am smoke free for about five years now.

Number one, to be sucessful at quitting you have to WANT to quit. That's not to say that you don't want to smoke. I want to smoke EVERY DAY. But I don't want to be amoker, so I don't.

All it takes is the genuine DESIRE to quit, the resolve to quit and the willpower not to smoke. It's simple. The technique is simple. Don't smoke. It's not easy. it takes WILL.

Weak people, with no will, can't stop. And all these products won't help them either. Not patches, hypnotism or pills or whatever they cook up.

It's just like morbid obesity. You don't need HELP to lose wieght (assuning your are healthy and have no weight related issues) You merely have to WANT to lose weight, RESOLVE to lose weight, and the WILL to lose weitght. Then, eat less and exercize-- Simple tactics. Not easy.

It makes my blood boil to hear evil lies on the radio about this stuff.

DON'T EVER BELIEVE ANYONE WHO SAYS HE WANTS TO QUIT SMOKING. IF THAT WERE TRUE, HE WOULD QUIT. HE IS A LIAR. MAYBE HE'S DECEIVING HIMSELF, ALSO.

Boy I'd like to have a smoke right now...

One thing bad about the decline in smoking is that Smoking, oddly enuff, divided the population into two groups--The fun-loving, passionate, strong, wonderful group you wanted to be a part of, and they poops. You could always find a home with the smokers.

Even today, the bars are populated by smokers. It means something. One and only one, of the reasons I don't hang out in honky-tonks anymore--can't stand to be around all the smoke, and not smoke. I did teach myslef how to not smoke and still sit on a bar stool for six hours. But it's risky...

I hate liars.

I have ONE photo that will not upload to blogger. It's just like all the others. same file extension, same size . I try every day. Blogger says it's uploaded but it's not. That's a fuckin' piece of shit.

-tr-