zl900_moab
Senior Member
I FUCKING HATE POLITICIANS.
There, I said it, now, sleep the sleep of the good, my friends.
moab...
There, I said it, now, sleep the sleep of the good, my friends.
moab...
Southernstyle
Senior Member
HA HA HA!!! 
Later,
SS
Later,
SS
rammy1500
Supporting Member X2
I've posted this before but I'll say it again. One thought that should help you smoker's quit (those that want too) should be the thought of a 19 year old kid trashing on your rides once your gone. Almost happened to the '85 ZL900 that I have. My brother died at the age of 37 after years of smoking, and he actually had quit for a year prior to his sudden death. He had the '85 with only 5k miles on it. I had an '86 but totalled it in 1993 and hadn't rode since. I was married at the time of his death and my wife forbid me to get another bike because of totalling mine. The bike almost went to his estranged daughter's boyfiend because he saw it and thought it would be fun to trash around on it. Well before things were done and settled, my wife asked for a divorce and the first thing I did was got my hands on the bike. I didn't even ride it or start it for the first three years of having it. But now its back and running, somewhat, but what can you expect for a 20+ year old bike. I even trailered it to Mid-Ohio last year and rode it around all day in the heat.
Well, I am also one of those nasty smokers! I started when I was 11 or 12, stealing em from the folks when I didnt have the $.45 to buy em! I quit when I developed a serious upper respiritory infection in 1997. I took a new job in 1998 and within 4 months I was puffin again. I have tried quitting a couple times in the past 3 years with no luck! I may just have to go to the doc for some drugs! Keep us posted on the results Mark and good luck to ya Bro.
zlMark
Cult Leader
Thanks for the words wuputt!!
4 weeks no smokes! 1 week no pills! i quit the pills early,, didn't need them. Really if you want to quit you can, it helps to not have people smoking around you too!
4 weeks no smokes! 1 week no pills! i quit the pills early,, didn't need them. Really if you want to quit you can, it helps to not have people smoking around you too!
Southernstyle
Senior Member
Thanks for the update Mark. I may be joining you guys soon.
Later,
SS
Later,
SS
SnakeDoctor
Senior Member
Mark, if you have any left over pills, send them my way. I NEED to quit.
zl900_moab
Senior Member
Quit fellas. I did it cold turkey, and you can too!!!!
moab...
moab...
I was a 20-30 a day smoker, smoking since I was 17. 37 now.
I'm off them 2.5 years at the end of this month and I'm glad to have kicked them. No patches, no drugs. My kid (5 yrs old at the time) told me it was a stupid thing to do it and asked me to stop.... The kid had more sense than I did!
So thats what I did, threw the half empty pack in the bin and that was that. The first 4 weeks were brutal, the following few months it got better and after about 7-8 months, I stopped thinking about them altogether.
I still find myself getting slight urges for a smoke though, especially after a hard day at work or waiting in an airport or even out with friends. (Thats made a bit easy over here though with the smoking ban in pubs & restaurants.)
"If you want to... you can".
Just keep it going mark, one day at a time buddy... its a long road.
Blag
I'm off them 2.5 years at the end of this month and I'm glad to have kicked them. No patches, no drugs. My kid (5 yrs old at the time) told me it was a stupid thing to do it and asked me to stop.... The kid had more sense than I did!
So thats what I did, threw the half empty pack in the bin and that was that. The first 4 weeks were brutal, the following few months it got better and after about 7-8 months, I stopped thinking about them altogether.
I still find myself getting slight urges for a smoke though, especially after a hard day at work or waiting in an airport or even out with friends. (Thats made a bit easy over here though with the smoking ban in pubs & restaurants.)
"If you want to... you can".
Just keep it going mark, one day at a time buddy... its a long road.
Blag
zlMark
Cult Leader
yes I know this road, drove it for seven years. This time, no smoking whatsoever, i truly know now how powerful the addiction is.
I'll add my 2 cents. I was the same as a lot of you, started early in my teens, maybe a year earlier. Stole the occasional smoke from my parents (both smoked) and was a pack a day until my early thirties. Then I settled down, got married and had a kid. I was determined to make sure my boy wasn't subjected to the smoke that I was and I quit cold turkey. It's been 10 years and now I can smell the smokers from two cars up while goin down the freeway. It's almost like I have this sensitivity to smoke, makes me a bit queasy, but you realize how much the smoke permeates everything. Yes, I did put on some weight, but I don't get tired humping the golf bag around the course anymore. Also for you guys thinking of quitting, nicotene has a numbing effect on the body. Once you quit, parts of the body -- read big Jim and the twins -- are a lot, uhh, happier so to speak. Think about that the next time you light up.
zlMark
Cult Leader
Sorry man, My girlfriend has finally decided to try. She was getting the chest pains real bad after 2 days no smoking. I had these last time i tried to quit and let me tell ya they make a grown man cry. With the Chantix I had no chest pains whatsoever. She took a 1/2 pill of mine and has been taking 1/2 pills a day and has not had pains or cravings, the **** just works simple as that.SnakeDoctor said:
Go to the doc SD and get some. the $ you save in a years worth of smokes will pay for your prescription ten-fold.
Look at me. $4 a day to smoke. $4x365 days=$1460 Now that will buy a lot of beers!!! :groupcheers: :groupcheers:
SnakeDoctor
Senior Member
Mark, best of luck to your GF quitting and thanks anyway. If I can get back to the US, then I can get VA to cover the costs for the pills. I'm starting to have daily pains and I'm way past due to give the buggers up.
zlMark
Cult Leader
Just an update here........... 5 months and no smoking. I wanna encourage you who want to quit, it's do-able, if I can so can you. :good luck:
Ferret
Supporting Member
Sighhh ... am a slave to the "gaspers" here too unfortunately ...
Started in my early teens like many others ... gave up for a year before/during/after serious back surgery. My ortho surgeon said he wouldn't operate if I was still smoking when the back op was scheduled because of the risks involved.
Off work for 18 months, ('92/'93), while the back healed ... then back to work. On the way to work one morning I double parked, rushed into the shop .. grabbed a newspaper and back out to the car. On went the seatbelt, indicator on, back out into traffic .. 'twas then I realised I'd bought a pack of smokes with the paper and had opened it and lit up as I started off in the car again, without even realising it ... absolutely pure habit!!!
Long story short .. still on them .. seems/feels even harder now to give 'em up. Am medically retired, so spend my days "tinkering" ... fiddling with the computers, surfing the net, smoking and drinking coffee.
Damn, just sitting here reading back over what I've written makes me wanna make a doctors appointment this coming week and see if I can get some pills or something to toss the bloody things once and for all.
The bike is sitting in the shed unregistered .. just did a "calc" .. the rego equals 33 packs of ciggies!!! I think I feel sick
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Started in my early teens like many others ... gave up for a year before/during/after serious back surgery. My ortho surgeon said he wouldn't operate if I was still smoking when the back op was scheduled because of the risks involved.
Off work for 18 months, ('92/'93), while the back healed ... then back to work. On the way to work one morning I double parked, rushed into the shop .. grabbed a newspaper and back out to the car. On went the seatbelt, indicator on, back out into traffic .. 'twas then I realised I'd bought a pack of smokes with the paper and had opened it and lit up as I started off in the car again, without even realising it ... absolutely pure habit!!!
Long story short .. still on them .. seems/feels even harder now to give 'em up. Am medically retired, so spend my days "tinkering" ... fiddling with the computers, surfing the net, smoking and drinking coffee.
Damn, just sitting here reading back over what I've written makes me wanna make a doctors appointment this coming week and see if I can get some pills or something to toss the bloody things once and for all.
The bike is sitting in the shed unregistered .. just did a "calc" .. the rego equals 33 packs of ciggies!!! I think I feel sick
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I'm sure you and your partner will pull through ok, zlmark, and you both feel better for it in the long run, to say nothing of the extra money you'll save after you've stop buying the pills.
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I hear what your saying, ross.
Since being on my extended forced holiday from work, things are really starting to look scary, money-wise. The money stress keeps mounting up and having a puff makes be calm down for while, but ultimately, it comes back.
I bought my last packet of smokes yesterday, then I have to go cold turkey, no choice in the matter, no money = no smokes. I'm barely scratching to make headway with my normal monthly expenses. My food will start to run out in a week, then I'll be in full-on poverty mode, scrounge up a 20kg bag of spuds and snare some wild rabbits for dinner (good thing they don't have RCV or Mixy here). I've got one bottle of muscat left, then no grog to calm the nerves either.
I can't get on the rock and roll (dole), due to my partner working, the "Dept of Social Security" reckons she is supposed to support me financially, we're not married, but they reckon it's up to her to support me financially, not them (we have always had separate finances and split the difference with power, etc), and due to the end of fiscal year ending, no one is hiring, let alone interested in a over forty year old, so the only option I have eat potatoes and rabbits, give up the smokes and ride it through until things get better after the new fiscal year starts, which is only a week away.
I'm selling the occasional thing on eBay to make ends meet, but it's only barely enough. I've got five loan repayments on the ZL1K in reserve, which I'll start to use this week, and if I don't get work in the next five weeks, she'll probably be repossessed by the finance company. Hopefully, I can sell the car or the farm ute or something substantial in the interim, but it's always dodgy this time of year.
I tell ya, it's a bloody good thing I don't own a gun...
I suppose there's one consolation, if I stay quit, the chest and arm pains will slowly go away and I'll be able to work even harder without it knocking me for a six. My partner (who doesn't smoke, but's a reformed smoker of 15 years) will be able to stand kissing me again, too, haha!!!
Mick.
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I hear what your saying, ross.
Since being on my extended forced holiday from work, things are really starting to look scary, money-wise. The money stress keeps mounting up and having a puff makes be calm down for while, but ultimately, it comes back.
I bought my last packet of smokes yesterday, then I have to go cold turkey, no choice in the matter, no money = no smokes. I'm barely scratching to make headway with my normal monthly expenses. My food will start to run out in a week, then I'll be in full-on poverty mode, scrounge up a 20kg bag of spuds and snare some wild rabbits for dinner (good thing they don't have RCV or Mixy here). I've got one bottle of muscat left, then no grog to calm the nerves either.
I can't get on the rock and roll (dole), due to my partner working, the "Dept of Social Security" reckons she is supposed to support me financially, we're not married, but they reckon it's up to her to support me financially, not them (we have always had separate finances and split the difference with power, etc), and due to the end of fiscal year ending, no one is hiring, let alone interested in a over forty year old, so the only option I have eat potatoes and rabbits, give up the smokes and ride it through until things get better after the new fiscal year starts, which is only a week away.
I'm selling the occasional thing on eBay to make ends meet, but it's only barely enough. I've got five loan repayments on the ZL1K in reserve, which I'll start to use this week, and if I don't get work in the next five weeks, she'll probably be repossessed by the finance company. Hopefully, I can sell the car or the farm ute or something substantial in the interim, but it's always dodgy this time of year.
I tell ya, it's a bloody good thing I don't own a gun...
I suppose there's one consolation, if I stay quit, the chest and arm pains will slowly go away and I'll be able to work even harder without it knocking me for a six. My partner (who doesn't smoke, but's a reformed smoker of 15 years) will be able to stand kissing me again, too, haha!!!
Mick.
zlMark
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Sorry to hear all this Mick, good luck to ya. Hope you don't have to sell the scoot.
Stormy
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Thanks for your concern, zlmark.
I won't ever sell the ZL1K, but they'll have to re-possess her over my dead body though. I reckon there's not much point in owning the worlds greatest motorbike and not being able to enjoy it because I'm six feet under, is there.
...but hopefully it will never come to that.
nah, she'll be right mate, it'll come good soon. It's gotta...
Mick.
I won't ever sell the ZL1K, but they'll have to re-possess her over my dead body though. I reckon there's not much point in owning the worlds greatest motorbike and not being able to enjoy it because I'm six feet under, is there.
...but hopefully it will never come to that.
nah, she'll be right mate, it'll come good soon. It's gotta...
Mick.
YEAH ! i'm a smoker too ! I WANT TO QUIT SOON ! i agree with moab, i hate politicians !!!!!! i don't like being dictated ! don't get me wrong, but think about it, when you go to a bar, or pub, drinking & smoking go hand in hand ! same thing when you go to a bowling alley, you & your bro's drink beer & bowl. now i am for non-smokers rites too ! i believe you should'nt have to be around second hand smoke, but statisticly in the majority of bars, pubs & bowling alleys there are more smokers, than non-smokers, so because of a few non-smokers bitchin, the smokers are now forced to go outside to light up, leaving a smaller number of people inside. is this fair ??? if you are a non-smoker, & cannot handle being around smokers, dont go into places where you know the majority of people are smoking !!!!!!! to make it fair for everyone, i think businesses should have smoking & non-smoking sections so we all can enjoy ourselves ! however, i do agree with no smoking in resturants CHRIS
i havet read all of the posts, so soz if this is a "re-post"
neways, i am a non-smoker and hate smokers, can't really stand them. that is the person might be decent, but i hate the 'secondary smoke'. coz it not only affects themselves, but also the person close to them. its like killing the people around you for no reason. but i can understand why people smoke so i put up with it.
i am for smoking bans, but also would like places for smokers to go to where they can happily smoke away because i dont like the idea of stopping people smoking against their will, just makes the problem worse though
neways, i am a non-smoker and hate smokers, can't really stand them. that is the person might be decent, but i hate the 'secondary smoke'. coz it not only affects themselves, but also the person close to them. its like killing the people around you for no reason. but i can understand why people smoke so i put up with it.
i am for smoking bans, but also would like places for smokers to go to where they can happily smoke away because i dont like the idea of stopping people smoking against their will, just makes the problem worse though