Intervention Time - I've got this friend....

[Too Tall]

Here is the story. The interweb is a funny place and I'd lest expect to become fast friends with some stranger but there you have it. Over the past ten or so yrs. I've met and maintained more or less steady friendships with quite a few good people. This is true and I'm bound to love my friends, sometime it takes a certain type of myfootupyourfanny sort of love.

Let me introduce you to Chasea. A man of style, generosity, discretion and charm a mile wide. Did I mention he has a filthy smoking habit? Chase, the date is this Saturday and you know it buddy.

[sonny]

vo₂ +1000


chase <3

[WayneJ]

I spent about 2 hours with Chase recently.
I wanted more.

I like him with or without the cigs - but tough love is good love.
Chase, Listen to Too Tall. He knows what's good for you.

[Mike Marley]

8 years for me on 2/20. It took at least 3 attempts. I only gave up 1 cig - the next one.
Chasea - Marshall your willpower and fight it one at a time, but fight it every time. If you make it one hour, you can make it the next hour; if you quit for one day, you can make it the next day.
Keep a running count on a calendar you look at every day.

[Rico]

Quit!
Use the patch or w/e.
But it kills.
It's hard at first but you'll feel better and better.
My wife smokes and it really bothers me.
And for the record I used to smoke.
But the bike saved me.

[zetroc]

I've always tried not tell others what to do wrt smoking. A couple of very close friends are everyday smokers - I don't know how much, but every time we meet they go through a couple of cigs.
At the risk of sounding preachy, I don't smoke (have never smoked cigarettes, just cigars once in a long while at weddings, etc) and my aunt died of lung cancer about 8 months after being diagnosed. She had cut back but had been a pretty heavy smoker for about 20 years.

Health aside, think of the money you'll save!

[bellman]

Gotta chime in quick before Chase, once he does the spell will be broken.

Man you gotta realize how dumb it is. You need to know that hundreds of scientists conspired to make you want it more than ever.
If it was just tobacco you would've quit years ago or never really started. Get mad about it.
Stop sucking on the stupid stick.

Charren needs you :-)

[chasea]

Oh, Jesus Christ. How did it come to this?

When I was 27, I was doing a little too well for myself. I had a good job, money in the bank, I'd moved to the big city and found myself afloat. I have an annual self-destructive streak. Had? Now, I just get involved in bigger and bigger personal projects. Trying to better myself and start a-gasp-career.

But what did 27-year-old me do? Well, he seriously ramped up his nosecandy intake, got involved and moved in with a girl who was engaged to her ex-husband, and picked up smoking. This was all for a laugh, mind you. Rock and roll, right? The cigarettes are really the only thing that lasted.

And I hate it. And they're going. I can't breathe and I'm slow. I no longer hurt people on the bike, just myself, off of it. They're on the way out. It is always at the forefront of my mind. Made it 14 hours on Saturday. Sunday, without them, nerves were so shot that I noticed I couldn't play slow enough during band practice. I know it'll go away.

Hell, my roommate "quit" months ago. Every day for months, I've been paying for two of us, at $14 a pack.

Fuck this.

[rowdyhillrambler]

I see that everyone wants you to stop, but the only thing i get from this thread is that you are paying $14 a pack.. Holy shit man!! I can buy them for you here and help you smoke 350% more for the same money... I was behind a lady in line at the store and she bought a pack for 4 bucks, i thought that was ridiculous. I am sure that its a felony, but if you are going to be a bear, be a fukcing grizzly.. Go all in. Always here to help, xoxo rowdy

[PJN]

I like cocaine and cigarettes. I like girls that like cocaine and cigarettes even more.

I don't partake in any of the three anymore though.

[Too Tall]

Blah blah blah
This saturday MoFo or I'll come to NYC and beat you for a week....slowly.

[WayneJ]

I'll come to NYC and beat you for a week....slowly.

One bad habit CAN be replaced with another

[Dorman]

Alright, a soon to be new addition to the help losing 20 lbs. thread!

[HorsCat]

if you really want to quit, you need to go all in. that one puff or one cigarette you think you can have when you're out drinking with your mates will screw up whatever progress you've made. 100% guaranteed. nicorette helped me with the cravings the first few months. it's hard. most people fail at least a few times before they succeed. i know i did. haven't had a single cigarette since masters weekend, 2003. as a formerly addicted and committed smoker, i can say that cigarettes are the devil incarnate, one of the vilest most absolutely disgusting things we do. stepping off soap box now.

good luck.

[mainemike]

i'm sadly in this boat as well. quitting has proven beyond me. my nxt plan is being dropped on a local island for a few days w/no cigs, no phone, no human contact til pick up. thats in the spring and i'll let ya know if it wrks.

[chasea]

A plan of action:

I am a social drinker. This would horrify my buds Darren and EddieB, but I don't keep beer at home. There's usually a bottle of bourbon around for when I have company, but I almost never partake alone. I ramped up my intake over the holidays because, before that, I was getting too drunk off of too little. I really only drink when I'm out. And I hadn't gone out much.

I bought a bottle of Bulleit last night. Poured myself a drink after a long day of work. It takes the edge off; no denying that. I'm going to drink- minimally- at home. The real test will come Sunday at band practice. I'll have a drink instead of a cigarette, to see if the nerves are calm enough that I can hold tempo behind the kit.

I know I can stop smoking. If I head out and do 6 hours on the bike, even with stops, I don't think of lighting up. I'm more in tune with my body when drumming. Driving in any sort of non-sober condition is dangerous and hard. But truthfully, drumming is harder than driving; four-limb independence and all. You have fractions of a millisecond for your stick to hit the head, or your foot to press the pedal, without changing tempo or feel. I'm more aware of myself behind the kit than any other time. I know that on Sunday my nerves will be shot and I'll be ready to climb walls. I just hope taking a tug off of the bottle can keep me from thinking about ducking out in the hallway for a smoke.

Trading one vice for another? Maybe. But I'm not the alcoholic type. That would've kicked in long ago. It justt doesn't interest me. This is more of an attempt to eliminate any possible excuses to cheat.

[davids]

Nicotine is more addictive than heroin.
Forza Chase! We've got your back and, if it comes to it, I can pummel your lower body while TT works on you from above.

[chasea]

Nicotine is more addictive than heroin.
Forza Chase! We've got your back and, if it comes to it, I can pummel your lower body while TT works on you from above.

Sounds hawt, but I'm ticklish.

[maunahaole]

davids will be a gentle lover for you

[chasea]

Hmm, SwoopEditBot changed it to "nose candy" from "booger sugar."

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