Glad To Be Here!!!

[jimmyG]

This post has nothing to do with scrolling except for the fact that an event 8 years ago, and my actions afterwards, made it possible for me to be here today typing this.

45+ years of smoking was the leading cause of my widow maker to be 99.9% blocked, having a heart attack, and was minutes away from expiring, and getting three stents.

From that day on I never touched another cigarette...  8 years, 58,430 cigarettes not smoked and a savings of $24,103.00 so I traded in my 15 year old Accord and purchased  a brand new one yesterday to celebrate.

So yeah, I'm glad to be here today enjoying life, my new hobby and meeting some "really" great people.   My advise, if you're a smoker, quit please!

[TAIrving]

We are glad you are here!

Great story and excellent advice.  I quit smoking on March 21, 1981.  

[Scrappile]

Great story, beautiful car.  I quit around 20 years ago.  Always been glad I did.  

[OCtoolguy]

I started at 13 and smoked for 32 years. I quit on New Years Eve 1988 when I ran out of smokes. I went to a machine in the hotel lobby and it was $2.65 a pack. Haven't touched one since. So glad I quit. Thanks for your post and.congrats on your new car. Hope it burns gasoline.

[jimmyG]

28 minutes ago, OCtoolguy said:

I started at 13 and smoked for 32 years. I quit on New Years Eve 1988 when I ran out of smokes. I went to a machine in the hotel lobby and it was $2.65 a pack. Haven't touched one since. So glad I quit. Thanks for your post and.congrats on your new car. Hope it burns gasoline.

Race cars, family cars and motorcycles. Always been a gasoline guy. 

[ChelCass]

Congrats on all your achievements.  I was one of the lucky ones that never started smoking.  Both parents were heavy smokers (dad 3 pack a day mom 2 pack a day) and for some reason I just never picked up the habit.  I count my blessings every day. 

[Peter N White]

Stopped on my 40th birthday was 2 packs a day could not afford it now $40.90 a pack of 20.

[Bill WIlson]

Congratulations.  Your reward is well deserved.

Both my Mom & Dad smoked.  Mom quit before I was born, but Dad smoked until I was 10 or 12 years old.  I remember he ate Wintergreen Lifesavers as his substitute for cigarettes.  That was over 50 years ago.  Neither I nor my brother or 2 sisters ever smoked. 

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

2 hours ago, OCtoolguy said:

I started at 13 and smoked for 32 years. I quit on New Years Eve 1988 when I ran out of smokes. I went to a machine in the hotel lobby and it was $2.65 a pack. Haven't touched one since. So glad I quit. Thanks for your post and.congrats on your new car. Hope it burns gasoline.

That was cheap compared to what they are now.

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

Great story and congrats all around. There is not one good thing that comes from smoking. Not one!! My Dad smoked for at least 40 years till he stopped. then went to chewing and then stopped all together. After a triple bypass is what did it for him. It gave us many more years to be together before so many other health issues took him. I never did take it up and glad I did not. It is a dirty habit. Good luck with the new vehicle. You earned it. 

[MarieC]

Wow, I knew smoking was really costly on folk's health but didn't realize the $$ it cost.  Congrats on your beautiful new car!  Glad you are stil here and now enjoy the drive...

[kmmcrafts]

5 hours ago, jimmyG said:

Race cars, family cars and motorcycles. Always been a gasoline guy. 

Sound like my kind of person, LOL.. Congrats on quitting...  something I never picked up was smoking or drinking all the youngsters that used to tease me about not smoking or drinking now wish they had been like me.. many struggle with addiction from one or both

[wombatie]

Glad you are still here with us.  I stopped smoking in 1995 after 20 years.  Have since had 2 stents inserted.

Marg

[jimmyG]

13 hours ago, JTTHECLOCKMAN said:

That was cheap compared to what they are now.

Cigarettes were around fifty cents a pack when I started in 1968.. Back when gasoline was about the same price oer gallon. 

[jimmyG]

4 hours ago, wombatie said:

Glad you are still here with us.  I stopped smoking in 1995 after 20 years.  Have since had 2 stents inserted.

Marg

I wanter to quit for years especially when the prices got crazy high.  It's  sad it took an ambulance ride and almost die to slap some sense into me!

[Phil Royer]

17 hours ago, JTTHECLOCKMAN said:

 I never smoked. I quit drinking in 1986, when I decided that I did not want to continue and end up having to go to all of those AA meetings (a wonderful group). 

 

[AUTOMILE]

Congrats! I quit 10 years ago , can’t stand the smell of them now !!! Glad to have you here with us!!!

[OCtoolguy]

17 hours ago, jimmyG said:

Cigarettes were around fifty cents a pack when I started in 1968.. Back when gasoline was about the same price oer gallon. 

When I was 16 in 1959 I'd pull into the cheapo gas station with my 50 chevy and buy 4 gallons of regular gas and a pack of Lucky Strikes for a dollar. 

[jimmyG]

7 hours ago, AUTOMILE said:

Congrats! I quit 10 years ago , can’t stand the smell of them now !!! Glad to have you here with us!!!

It's funny how the craving has gone but I do still like to smell them burning and one slip up could be trouble!

[OCtoolguy]

8 hours ago, jimmyG said:

It's funny how the craving has gone but I do still like to smell them burning and one slip up could be trouble!

A pipe still smells good but cigarettes and cigars are now offensive to me. A stinky ashtray is the worst.

[Mark SW]

I quit smoking after 40 years 1/12 pack a day in 2016.

June 2, 2022, I had a double lung transplant.

QUIT SMOKING NOW

[wombatie]

On 12/2/2023 at 7:48 PM, jimmyG said:

I wanter to quit for years especially when the prices got crazy high.  It's  sad it took an ambulance ride and almost die to slap some sense into me!

My main artery down to my right leg was completely blocked, so it took me almost losing my leg to make me quit. 

Marg

[jimmyG]

5 hours ago, wombatie said:

My main artery down to my right leg was completely blocked, so it took me almost losing my leg to make me quit. 

Marg

I guess as long as the Government can receive their tax money cigarettes will never be classified as a drug.  It took long enough for them to realize pot was a taxable gold mine!