"TIM RICHARDSON -> ED HULETT"  wrote in
news:18370$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 EH>> Congrats! No need to crutches like gum or patches. All you need is
 TR> the EH>desire and the will to carry it out. The longer you stay
 TR> non-smoking, the EH>easier it will be and the more obnoxious cigarette
 TR> smoke will become.


 TR> I smoked Camel non-filter cigarettes,  starting at about 12 years old.
 TR> Stopped smoking cigarettes in 1983, after just under thirty years of
 TR> smoking.


 TR> Dropped it like a bad dream, and in less than five days I was a
 TR> non-smoker. No pills, no patches, no `encounter groups'! Just stopped!
 TR> It was easier than everybody always claimed it would be. For the first
 TR> two or three days it was hard without a cigarette. After five days I
 TR> was a non-smoker! Didn't `crave' it, didn't want it, didn't care about
 TR> it!

I admire will power like that, Tim.

My ex-BIL has tried quitting several times, but he goes right back to
smoking.

And he had a tumor removed from a lung.

I simply never started, I had no desire to get into that.

I hope Mimi can stay "off the wagon," a cousin of mine died of lung cancer,
her family said she died in agony.

--- Xnews/5.04.25