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03/20/2008 12:09
sweetheartsuzee
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Thanks for your thoughts! I know I can do it...it'll be easy!

Now would ya'll quit TALKING ABOUT CIGARETTES!!!!

I WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT ONE!!!

Hee~Hee...just kidding!!! **They stink**

Love u all~

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~Suzee~
Only YOU can control your thoughts...
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Change your thoughts and CHANGE YOUR LIFE!!!
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03/20/2008 12:29
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happy birthday to a girl who makes a big difference in my life even if i never met you i feel like you are somebody i would love to met your humer and your posts keep me alive all the days of my fighting life since i found this site i see what your doing for us and even when your fighting for your own pain you always help us so happy happy happy BIRTHDAY to a beautiful person making a big difference in all of outr lives are you an aries i am my birthday is april 2 i hope i can live to see if cause i am really giving up i will try not to have a great day i hope you can have less pain or no pain today and every day by by
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04/01/2008 11:59
Maineiac

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I am also a smoker. I'd like to quit but it's about the only thing I can enjoy anymore.

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04/01/2008 12:20
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If you still enjoy them, you're not ready to quit.

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04/12/2008 03:01
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I think smoking is a personal choice. I think that people have a right to clean air also, not that any of the air we breathe is all that clean, but you get the just. I think that smoking is just an easy target, It wouldn't surprise me if the gov did not soon impose a tax on the obese and a tax of food with fat. I am opposed to the so-called "sin" taxes. If stuff is that horrible, then ban it -- but the gov will not do that because it would cause a revolt.

The reason that I oppose these so-called sin taxes is that the burden is greater on the poor in society. The really wealthy couldn't care less, and to me that seems unfair.

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04/12/2008 06:32
teri hayes
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i am a smoker. i successfully quit for three monthhs last year and developed pnemonia and pleurosy. neither have gone away yet. smoking isn't a choice it is an addiction. if it was a choice i could just quit and i can't do that. the stress of the withdrawl causes such a major fibro attack that i can't stand it. if anyone really wants to quit i'll be one of the there to support you and help you to quit. anyone that is able to quit will dealling with this da** fibro best of luck let me know how you do.

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04/12/2008 06:55
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thank you for that insight. I respect your authoritative testimony, I guess I take my ability to quit for granted. Maybe they should have taken all of that tobacco settlement money and invested it in smoking cessation programs, instead of just putting it in the general fund.

There is a new med that is suppose to be the magic bullet so to speak, but I do not now the name of it. Does anyone know about this new med?



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04/13/2008 11:00
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Someone told me about Chantix - I think that is the name anyway.
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04/13/2008 11:13
teri hayes
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Chantix is very good, you take it and smoke for around eight days and all of a sudden you find you are no longer smoking. if you have a craving i is emotional and is easily remedied by a lolipop or some other favorite candy.

i had wonderful success with it until i went through all the crap with this fibro stuff. some say it gives them nightmares,i had strange dreams but no nightmares, lots of gas though and i also lost my desire for coffee. soryy if i offended anyone in my earlier post. being a recovering alcoholic and addict i sometimes get a little sensative and for that i appologize. i am only expressing what i've learned and what i have experienced myself and of course in some cases what my family has experienced.

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04/13/2008 11:15
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Smoking is difficult to give up if you think in some way it is helping you. I know I FEEL it helps me- at least feel it is some distraction from what is going on in my body.

During my flareup 4 years ago- Gosh I say that alot!!!- I felt bad for smoking so I quit for about 6 months. After doctors and drugs and supplements and EVERYTHING I became so depressed I didn't care anymore at the time. All regular doctors were saying I was healthy as a horse so I gave in again. I know at the time some of the doctors I saw thought I was wacked in the head and that hurt me so bad. I did my internship for Music Therapy at a Pysch. Hospital and it was the scariest thing- thinking I was turning into one of my former patients.

When someone asked me why I started again I said " I might as WELL smoke- all crazy people smoke!"- (I was thinking back to all the folks in the hospital going out for a smoke break in between therapy sessions.)

Hope that didn't offend anyone. I'm just being honest as to how I felt at the time. I have my own problems now with anxiety and depression because of fibro. Pretty humbling experience I'd say!

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