June 11, 2004

• HOT!!!
• But does one really need to go to a website to see this? Just hang outside any Wal-Mart or municipal building and you'll get it in spades.
• i recently ran across the hiccup lovers' web site: "We are a group comprised of men and women, straight, gay and bisexuals, old and young who found each another because of one commonality ... the hiccups!" safe for work! (hic!)
• A similar site was posted here. Its obviously a popular obsession.
• The obsession with smokers, I mean.
• Wow, looking at some of these photos reinforces my commitment to my current patch-based attempt at quitting. Sort of blows the whole "smoking is sexy" thing out of the water -- personally, I think the only people who look sexy when they smoke are people who look sexy when they don't smoke. Viva la patch! I'm roughly halfway through my third smoke-free week.
• Wow. I had no earthly idea that such a "fetish" existed. Something for everybody in this world, I suppose...and there are worse things or ways to fetishize, right?
• Hang in there, MCT! Got my dad to try patches for a few weeks some years back, but he didn't manage to kick the habit. *sigh* Every time I see him light one up, I think," That's five less minutes I'll have with him."
• I got off with the help of patches. Keep it up, tool, you're nearly there.
• Smoking may not be sexy, but it is sublime. I have nothing but respect for those of you who are trying to quit; however, Klein makes some very compelling philosophical arguments about why people start smoking in the first place.
• I got my mom to quit years ago by being an all-around pain in the ass. That being said, there's all kinds of fetishes. I was talking to a friend last night and she said her two roomates had a thing for women in clownface. Yes, it creeped me out too, but hey, to each his or her own. Just please keep the big shoes away from me...
• I got off with the help of patches. Yes, but did they help you quit? The patch is working wonders for me so far, but to avoid tempting fate I must point out that I'm still on the the highest dose. I step down in a week and a half.
• Just wanted to add a "Go middleclasstool go!".
• Yep, got off, quit, for good, etc. Don't worry about stepping down to a lower nico patch either, you'll feel almost nothing when you change over. Also
• Thanks for the encouragement, everybody, and thanks for the anecdotes, Wolof. That info will come in handy, I'm sure. Mildly funny: about fifteen minutes after I first posted to this thread (from work) I realized that I'd forgotten to put a patch on that morning. I felt pretty good, so I thought "What the hell? Doesn't seem to be bothering me. Maybe I'll just go without today." An hour later I was on the phone to my apartment, trying not to scream into the answering machine: "Honey? I know you're there, I know you haven't left yet... Dear God, babe, get out of the bathroom and PICK UP THE PHONE I FORGOT MY PATCH WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!?!?!" I cried for mercy and my manager let me run home to slap one on.
• Did the patch work, middleclasstool? My SO managed to quit after several tries with the patch.
• Heh. Memories. Forgot about this thread. Yeah, let's see, it's been... *checks quitmeter.com* Four years, eight months, two weeks and six days. I have officially not smoked 34,511 cigarettes. 35K's right around the corner. Glad you prompted me to look it up. At $3 US a pack (which is way too cheap for Arkansas), that's $5176.65 US total.
• Hooray! Well done, mct, well done. No small task.
• Holy Smokes!! Makes me wish I could stop. Of course, I never did smoke, just pissed all my $$ away on horses.
• You really shouldn't smoke horses. It's considered gauche.
• Switch from horses to camels...