A major new study shows that masks don't stop the spread of COVID. Will the mandaters apologize?

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I know, HM. Not a day goes by it doesn't run through my head. And I have kicked so many other substances, but the smokes are just...I don't know. Whenever my stepdaughters see me I always make it a point to tell them it's disgusting, harmful and costly. I think I'm more afraid of my attitude changes while I quit. Managerial position at work, wife and kids at home...I don't wanna walk around a cranky, miserable bastard for 3 weeks.

In seventh grade I had a teacher who was a smoker who we caught with cigarettes in his truck. He told us it was a bad habit. He was dead of trachial cancer 5-6 years later, in his late 40s.

Weird that you mention this...I was in seventh grade, also, and there was a teacher that was a known smoker. Used to sit out in his Bronco on his prep hours. Well loved by everyone and had been at the school for years (he had some of my aunts and uncles years prior). I had him from 1997-2000 and he passed away from brain cancer in late 2001. But I've never been one to make smart decisions, either.

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I know, HM. Not a day goes by it doesn't run through my head. And I have kicked so many other substances, but the smokes are just...I don't know. Whenever my stepdaughters see me I always make it a point to tell them it's disgusting, harmful and costly. I think I'm more afraid of my attitude changes while I quit. Managerial position at work, wife and kids at home...I don't wanna walk around a cranky, miserable bastard for 3 weeks.

I'm certain you have seriously tried, and it's pretty ridiculous for me, essentially a total stranger, to tell you to "just quit". But I just lost a great friend to lung cancer so I'm overly sensitive. Walking around cranky for 3 weeks doesn't move the needle much for me. Try again. Try harder.

Jeez. I'm sorry to hear that, man. At the minimum, the very least, I have cut back. Not great, but better than nearly 2 packs a day.

[Mega Hertz]

I know, HM. Not a day goes by it doesn't run through my head. And I have kicked so many other substances, but the smokes are just...I don't know. Whenever my stepdaughters see me I always make it a point to tell them it's disgusting, harmful and costly. I think I'm more afraid of my attitude changes while I quit. Managerial position at work, wife and kids at home...I don't wanna walk around a cranky, miserable bastard for 3 weeks.

Miserable cranky bastard for three weeks and we get to keep you here longer hopefully? I’ll take it.

Okay, I'm already a miserable, cranky bastard...it would just be amplified.

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I know, HM. Not a day goes by it doesn't run through my head. And I have kicked so many other substances, but the smokes are just...I don't know. Whenever my stepdaughters see me I always make it a point to tell them it's disgusting, harmful and costly. I think I'm more afraid of my attitude changes while I quit. Managerial position at work, wife and kids at home...I don't wanna walk around a cranky, miserable bastard for 3 weeks.

Miserable cranky bastard for three weeks and we get to keep you here longer hopefully? I’ll take it.

Okay, I'm already a miserable, cranky bastard...it would just be amplified.

Deal. It makes for amusing reading.

[Bryce]

Jeez. I'm sorry to hear that, man. At the minimum, the very least, I have cut back. Not great, but better than nearly 2 packs a day.

Or switch brands. On the advice of a naturopathic cardiologist, when I informed him how hard quitting smoking was for me, he suggested switching to American Spirit while I kept trying. I guess because of lack of additives, they are the least harmful.

Good luck. I smoked a pack a day since I was 16, It was a bitch, but I managed to quit a number of years ago.