I’m back!

I’ve never smoked. However, my Mom had a three pack a day habit. Which gave me bladder cancer. This was all when I was a kid. The smoke was unbelievable in our home! That’s why my mom died early.

Aqua! Thank you so much.
I stopped with the last sigarette before new year 2020. I was smoking rolling tobacco to slow down. I bought an electronic sigarette that helped. But the decision to stop was the key.
At the moment i have no attention or thoughts about. Even the smell is highly disturbing.
Smoki g is a “completed cycle”. Do well my friend.

You are BIGGER than your desire to smoke, Loosing! Sometimes a craving can come over you and you think you’re just going to DIE if you don’t have one. Just ride it out; drink a glass of water, walk around. It will pass and you’ll be stronger for when the next wave of craving comes. Resist each time and you will get stronger and stronger and then one day you really won’t want it anymore. I speak from experience. Started smoking at 15; quit at 35. Took 2 years of not smoking before it REALLY went out of my system and made me queasy to smell someone else’s smoke. But you’ll get there. One day at a time. Treat yourself real well while you’re mid process. You’ll be getting stronger every day. If you have a moment of weakness, and take a puff or two, don’t invalidate yourself and your gains because of a brief slip up. Just continue. You can do it. Your will power is greater than any craving. Plug into your will power, like its a light socket. You’re strong. Tell yourself that, because its true. Prove it to yourself, over and over. This is a process. You can do complete it. You’ll see.

So would I.

Geisterfahrer. I know it very well. Teenagers have sometime a strange humour or even a dark one. But they are making experience and it won’t last. Don’t mind. Understanding satire requires intelligence as well culture.
Yes there is lack of self humor inside the cult. Actually one could even end in ethics lines.
They say communication is the universal solvent. But depends what you say you get stuck.

Personally I believe that the real ‘universal solvent’ is another: take it always easy and don’t let your mind to get stuck on things and making a story out of it.
In short : Don’t be too serious.

Do well!

So true! I have a teenager, and I’ve been trying recently to get across how to differentiate the (often extremely subtle and fuzzy) line between genuinely funny, subversive satire…and what’s just plain offensive bad taste.
For example: Mel Brooks & Quentin Tarantino are masters of brilliantly subversive satire, which actually pokes fun at the bigotry and ignorance of certain individuals & groups. While random YouTube videos of college students in blackface is simply tasteless, hurtful and not funny.

RB’s satire is consistently on point, and effectively skewers the ludicrous hilarity of SO & Co$ life…but always shows empathy, and never attacks the individuals, merely their beliefs and circumstances.
On the above note, I’ve got to mention that one of the things that first really struck me about the Co$ when I first encountered it almost 15 years ago was the apparent total lack of any genuine senses of humor, levity or the sort of insight which allows individuals to laugh at their own foibles.

Thanks Skyler. Yes you are just right. My family did even a small party. Lol. Great feeling

Ah, you’ll be back.