So I\'m trying to quit smoking....

[Spacey]

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[Todd]

DiCK!!!!

[derickw]

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[SlimPickens]

graphic representation of what was going through Todds head last night

[FreeSpirit]

[Me!]

this has become a war, it\'s kinda funny.......

[Todd]

Mmmmmm smoked lung :drool:

Oops, wrong thread!

[postom]

i am done as well.

i went to ny on 7/15 hung out with my old friends from college, all who used to smoke and no longer do.

since i\'m all about getting rid of all the negativity in my life these days, i figured i might as well keep it up and not smoke.  i still have half a pack in my car from that night.

broke down on tuesday when i was wasted and had half a cig.  i\'m keeping it up though.

good luck robyn and todd, you guys can do it.  you\'ll feel MUCH better.  i didn\'t smoke for a year and a half and i started again when i went out and got hammered the day phish broke up

by no means have i been a full time smoker but i can already see how much better i feel.

tonight\'s show will be a test.

[FreeSpirit]

mission = failed


I\'m not a quitter

[Mamalakabubadaya]

damn. there goes my inspiration. thanks a lot guys.

[Me!]

mission = failed


I\'m not a quitter

your gonna falter but that doesn\'t mean you should give up.  Stay strong, just cause you had one butt doesn\'t mean you should go out and buy a whole pack.  we\'re all human we have our weak moments.....

[postom]

i failed saturday night around 3am.

i\'m blaming it on westchester county.

in theory, smoking a drag or two off of cigs my friend was smoking and finishing the last three cigarettes in my three week old pack in my car while driving back to boston from 1:30-5:30am last night shouldn\'t stop me.

let\'s try this again

18 hours

(although like i said, i should have the easiest time at this)

either way robyn - the fact that you did manage to go a week or so is a huge step in the right direction.  every day you went was a huge success.

the first time i \'really\' quit (ha) it took me a few fuck ups to get on track.

take it one day at a time.  that\'s all you can do.

[SlimPickens]

has an interview in the August Rolling Stone.  


But then Vonnegut starts coughing, clearing his throat of phlegm, grasping for a half smoked pack of Pall Malls lying on a coffee table.  He quickly lights up.  His wheezing ceases.  I ask him whether he worries that cigarettes are killing him.  "oh, yes," he answers, in what is clearly a set-piece gag.  "I\'ve been smoking Pall Mall unfiltered cigarettes since I was twelve or fourteen.  So I\'m going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, who manufactured them.  And do you know why?"
"Lung cancer?" I offer.
"No. No. Because I\'m eighty-three years old.  The lying bastards! On the package Brown & Williamson promised to kill me.  Instead, their cigarettes didn\'t work.  Now I\'m forced to suffer leaders with names like Bush and Dick and, up until recently, \'Colon\'."

[Me!]

\'Tom & Jerry\' Smoking Scenes to Be Cut
By Mike Collett-White
Reuters
LONDON (Aug. 21) - Turner Broadcasting is scouring more than 1,500 classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including old favorites Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones and Scooby-Doo, to edit out scenes that glamorize smoking.

The review was triggered by a complaint to British media regulator Ofcom by one viewer who took offense to two episodes of Tom and Jerry shown on the Boomerang channel, a corporate sibling of Time Warner Inc.-owned Turner Broadcasting.

"We are going through the entire catalog," Yinka Akindele, spokeswoman for Turner in Europe, said on Monday.

"This is a voluntary step we\'ve taken in light of the changing times," she said, adding the painstaking review had been prompted by the Ofcom complaint.

The regulator\'s latest news bulletin stated that a viewer, who was not identified, had complained about two smoking scenes on Tom and Jerry, saying they "were not appropriate in a cartoon aimed at children."

In the first, "Texas Tom," the hapless cat Tom tries to impress a feline female by rolling a cigarette, lighting it and smoking it with one hand. In the second, "Tennis Chumps," Tom\'s opponent in a match smokes a large cigar.

"The licensee has ... proposed editing any scenes or references in the series where smoking appeared to be condoned, acceptable, glamorized or where it might encourage imitation," Ofcom said, adding that "Texas Tom" was one such example.

Akindele said cartoons would only be modified "where smoking could be deemed to be cool or glamorized," and that scenes where a villain was featured with a cigarette or cigar would not necessarily be cut.

"These are historic cartoons, they were made well over 50 years ago in a different time and different place," she added. "Our audience is children and we don\'t want to be irresponsible."

Turner Broadcasting in the United States could not immediately be reached for comment.

Ofcom said it recognized smoking was more generally accepted when cartoons were produced in the 1940s, \'50s and \'60s, but argued that the threshold for including such scenes when the audience was predominately young should be high.

About 56 percent of Boomerang\'s audience is aged four to 14 years old.

Early reaction to the review on Web logs broadly attacked Turner\'s decision.

"Have to dig out all those photos and films of (Winston) Churchill and airbrush out the cigars," said a message posted on the "Organ Grinder" forum on the Guardian newspaper\'s Web site.

The review was not the first time a famous cartoon character was forced to give up smoking.

Belgian cartoonist Maurice de Bevere replaced his most popular creation Lucky Luke\'s ubiquitous cigarette with a blade of grass, winning him an award from the World Health Organization in 1988.

[Mamalakabubadaya]

no point in starting a new thread...

i just wanted to see how people were doing since this last discussion.

i am on day 3 without cigs and i am quite delirious right now. i have to say that i would probably chew on tin foil or slap myself across the face if it meant that i could have a cigarette...but i won\'t.

any further advice/input on quitting smoking? i feel like i am going to lose it at work today.