Subj : Re: Smoking
To   : MRO
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Aug 29 2025 12:38:09

  Re: Re: Smoking
  By: MRO to Jon Justvig on Fri Aug 29 2025 11:01 am

 MR> Smoking is the hardest thing to quit. It's a physical and emotional
 MR> addiction.

 MR> You will always want to smoke. If you have friends that smoke and you are
 MR> around them it makes it impossible to quit.

 MR> You never really quit smoking. You just stop.

Much of my immediate family (including my parents) and their friends smoked when I was growing up. I didn't like it, and anyone who smoked always told me it was a bad idea, so I never started.  My mom had a heart attack in 2014 and she decided to just stop smoking.  My dad had a bad cold years ago and said he couldn't really smoke because he'd cough too much, and he was also sleeping a lot; he said he slept through much of his withdrawals, and he decided to stop smoking after that.  I'm glad they stopped smoking..  These days, I don't know very many people who smoke anymore.

It seems almost weird now to think I remember when smoking was legal basically everywhere, including inside grocery stores & supermarkets & such.  People used to be buying grocery store produce that had been exposed to cigarette smoke in the store.

Nightfox

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