Who managed to quit smoking?

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Did you quit smoking?

  • Yes

    Votes: 8 44.4%
  • No, not yet

    Votes: 2 11.1%
  • Never started to smoke

    Votes: 8 44.4%

  • Total voters
    18
  • Poll closed .

GodsGrace

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Well, at 11 it would take a while to learn to inhale properly! (Was your friend that said that about 11 also...?))
yeah.
When I was 11 it was hip to smoke.
It made kids feel older.
Why anyone would want to feel older....I don't know; NOT ME!
I want to feel younger.

What do you mean .... inhale properly?
There's a PROPER WAY to get that stuff into your lungs?

LOL
 
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Hi @farouk ...
I was reading along and realized this is an old thread.
Happy for all those who were able to quit.
For those who didn't...keep trying!
(I never started. Tried once. It made me SICK!!!)
I never even tried. Both my parents were heavy smokers and it put me off. Not my sister though although she hasn't for many years. She once dropped a lighted cigarette on my new born. No harm done though.
 
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I never even tried. Both my parents were heavy smokers and it put me off. Not my sister though although she hasn't for many years. She once dropped a lighted cigarette on my new born. No harm done though.
Oooooh !
That was bad.

Funny thing, though,
I love the smell of cigarette smoke.
I'm unusual....LOL
 
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By both genders it would be done calmly and un-self-consciously in homes and offices, though. There wasn't that same taboo that there seems to be now.
There was absolutely no taboo.
 
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You're absolutely right; in home and office women would just whip out their latest pack and light up, wouldn't they. It was so normal, that you wouldn't even be actively aware that it was happening.
Now smokers are in a minority.
 
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By both genders it would be done calmly and un-self-consciously in homes and offices, though. There wasn't that same taboo that there seems to be now.
Hey, Maybe I am younger than some here!!!
When I was but a lass, the girls were PROUD to smoke wherever they could...
just not with their parents around.

So now I'm wondering how old @Pearl is....
Not that I really want to know.
Of course...I'm only 38. (always did have a problem with math).
 
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Hey, Maybe I am younger than some here!!!
When I was but a lass, the girls were PROUD to smoke wherever they could...
just not with their parents around.

So now I'm wondering how old @Pearl is....
Not that I really want to know.
Of course...I'm only 38. (always did have a problem with math).
Don't tell anybody but I'm 77 in worldly time but 41 in Kingdom years.
 
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GodsGrace

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Don't tell anybody but I'm 77 in worldly time but 41 in Kingdom years.
Ooooh. I've been saved about 40 years myself.
But, like I said, I'm only 38.
I'm not getting older than that. Birthdays are ignored.

I was in my kitchen, in Whitestone, Queens, New York City.
I "heard" God speaking to me...I was sure it was Him.
And what He said turned out to be right....
So I can be sure it was Him....that was the beginning.
 
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Ooooh. I've been saved about 40 years myself.
But, like I said, I'm only 38.
I'm not getting older than that. Birthdays are ignored.

I was in my kitchen, in Whitestone, Queens, New York City.
I "heard" God speaking to me...I was sure it was Him.
And what He said turned out to be right....
So I can be sure it was Him....that was the beginning.
 

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When I was but a lass, the girls were PROUD to smoke wherever they could...
I guess this is one way of putting it; another way of stating it might be that they would do so confidently and un-self-consciously. (Which I guess is obliquely what @Pearl recalls from decades back.)

I think it's worthwhile stating that the smoking taboos of today didn't really apply generally in those days.
 
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I guess this is one way of putting it; another way of stating it might be that they would do so confidently and un-self-consciously. (Which I guess is obliquely what @Pearl recalls from decades back.)

I think it's worthwhile stating that the smoking taboos of today didn't really apply generally in those days.
Right.
It was considered COOL to smoke.

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