Im not sorry and it is a fact

[Der_Trihs]

@Marley23

My grandfather smoked two packs a day for 50 years. Then he got run over by a cigarette truck. What’s your excuse for that, PHILLIP KALAVERAS?

@interface2x

Maybe if he’d lost a little weight, he could have gotten out of the way in time.

Or if he’d smoked more he could have used the smoke screen for cover and escaped!

[Leaper]

This thread actually has gotten me thinking about my dad. Sixty-something, smoker for years. Always does it outside, but still. He’s got two grandsons now, and that hasn’t stopped him. He doesn’t yet really want to quit, which is the problem. Anything we (the rest of the family) do is useless until that changes, for obvious reasons.

Is there any way to MAKE him want to, in your experience, or are we doomed to wait until he gets sick enough?

[Drain_Bead]

@Jackmannii

Much better to live in an “hysterical state” than a state of denial*.
*the new Michigan license plate slogan. Its neighbor to the south will stick with “Four Dead In Ohio”.

What did the average Michigan freshman get on his SATs?

Drool.

[carnut]

@PHILLIP_KALAVERAS

A hysterical break. How and win you going to die has everything to do with your genetic make up how FAT you are and ware you live and work, NOTHING to do with tobacco, You may now return to your hysterical state.

So if I die in a car accident it might be blamed on my weight or the fact that I live in suburbia? Go figure. :dubious:

[Cazzle]

@PHILLIP_KALAVERAS

A hysterical break. How and win you going to die has everything to do with your genetic make up how FAT you are and ware you live and work, NOTHING to do with tobacco, You may now return to your hysterical state.

Does your carer know you’re on the internet unsupervised?

[lindsaybluth]

@Rhythmdvl

<snip>the vast majority of them die by non-smoking related causes (bus accidents, natural disasters, violent crime, eaten by llamas).

Because I’m morbid and I think about how I’m going to go, I’ve just decided that the best case scenario would be by llamas. Best idea ever.

Carry on.

[Zsofia]

@Leaper

This thread actually has gotten me thinking about my dad. Sixty-something, smoker for years. Always does it outside, but still. He’s got two grandsons now, and that hasn’t stopped him. He doesn’t yet really want to quit, which is the problem. Anything we (the rest of the family) do is useless until that changes, for obvious reasons.

Is there any way to MAKE him want to, in your experience, or are we doomed to wait until he gets sick enough?

Nope. IME, the ONLY thing that makes a smoker quit is internal motivation, not external motivation.

It shocks me to no end that my boyfriend’s mom stopped smoking for three pregnancies - in other words, she got through the worst of it three times - then every time started up again.

[ChickenLegs]

@Zsofia

Nope. IME, the ONLY thing that makes a smoker quit is internal motivation, not external motivation.

It shocks me to no end that my boyfriend’s mom stopped smoking for three pregnancies - in other words, she got through the worst of it three times - then every time started up again.

It doesn’t shock me. I quit ten months ago, and still miss it like crazy. As I explained to people on this board before: I didn’t smoke because it was cool - I smoked because cigarettes are goooood.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Sailboat

Tobacco kills 5.1 million smokers and 600,000 other people standing nearby every year.

They should consider standing somewhere else.

[running_coach]

@Cat_Whisperer

They should consider standing somewhere else.

It’s too late now.

[cerberus]

All ur carcinijins R Belongs 2 Us