Thread: The Effect of Smoking

I'm with TreeMachine!  Quit body-thrusting and you'll be able to continue smoking if you want to.  I don't like to climb X feet of rope twice anyway...

Good luck otherwise.  Cold turkey worked for me.  It's best to surround yourself with folks who don't smoke, if you can.  At least for a couple of months.

Glen

Originally posted by NYSawBoss
well I'm going at it COLD TURKEY!!! Hope I can do it.

That's the worst way you could do it, bro.

Kinda like going to the dentist, and saying "Nah, just pull it".

Sure, you won't die.

Originally posted by MasterBlaster
That's the worst way you could do it, bro.

Kinda like going to the dentist, and saying "Nah, just pull it".

Sure, you won't die.

You're just a big softy, Butch, just like that guy in your avatar.

Ha! Ya like it? I just changed it in honor of Gypo!

Remember me, before the 'rhoids?

Ha! Yah, those, too!!!

I thought I saw a pic like your avatar before....but your biceps weren't that big before. Been climbing with just your arms lately?

I climb with my whole bawdy, bro!

Originally posted by Tree Machine
I think body thrusting could kill ya quicker than smoking.

Dang I oughta be dead ten times then; bodythrusting is all I do once I'm off the ladder, 54 and I ain't tired of it yet.

I figure it keeps me in shape for that other pelvic activity, doin' the Lonnng strokes!

NO matter how you get up the tree, smoking doesn't help. Power to you guys quitting, Live Long and Prosper!

Originally posted by RockyJSquirrel
hemorrhoids?

reminds me of a guy i was workin with always taking t6he lame managers for a ride,he turns up after a day off siting hed done his ''hamy''(hamstring)he really ment his hemis,done a hemi

"Anyhow have a Winfeild"

Paul Hogan (hero to all 15 year olds, at the time) did all our cigerett advertising in the 70s and earley 80s..

And so I did the cool thing and started...Bad choice...

For me it was more social, I was into all sorts of sports, and only smoked after dinner..and other nocturnal acctivitys...

I tried the patches, about $50 bucks a week, and stilll a carton of smokes (8x 25 packs) about $50 bucks...

The patches must of gotten into my system, all i could smell was nicoteen...Had to have a smoke...

Many weeks later the patches got to expencive...They had to go...
Tried again with "zyban" a pill they devoloped for deppression, and found so many people stopped smoking, they marked it as a stop smoking medication(cost me AU$270.00 for the program)

Worked its but off, 6 months without a smoke...The things i could smell for the first time was amazing...I could smell 2 stroke and lawn clippings from a mile away. BBQs, rain, even clorine in the water where i was staying...

Thought of my self as haveing "super human scences"

I was doing "proficencies" at the time so the extra breath was AWSOME aswell..

Then back on the line, 50m in the air, swaying towards the line (way closer than my 6m approch limits) blowing 30 knots of wind,
thinking STRESS is what this feeling is...never really had it before in the trees....

I called down for a smoke, (dident matter what)...ARRRRRRRR
got her down no worries...

These days, my rules about smoking...
1; dont leave the ground without at least 7 in the pack
2; Take a spare lighter..
3;dont put them in your top pocket in summer..(they get all wet)
4; when finnished, put it out well, then throw it at the groundie. Love to watch it sail to the ground..(havent got him once yet)


Now I have a new "gogogadget vest" to keep em in...its gunna be hard to give them away, till i change jobs..

Heres the vest...

The VA gave me Zyban, it didn't do anything for me.

[[i]Originally posted by MasterBlaster]
The VA gave me Zyban, it didn't do anything for me.




did it do anything for deppression then?

I felt absolutely nothing from them, one way or the 'nother. And I don't do the depression thing. Life is way to short for that.

here here, so right there...way to short...

I spoke with some others that tried zyban, a lot of people seem to take things "less seriously"when on them, i must say even i with "super sences" felt absolutly great...

Can't say i do dwell in deppressed states either, but humans are prone to mood swings.

Without a deppressed state once in a while, its hard to see the really good things in life, a point of reference so to speak...

Just as im about to through a (way to heavey) saw to buggery , just think of something positive, like my son Maximilian (4) with his OWN Sthil chainsaw(cutting my 88 in half), and how dissapointed he would be to see me throw in the towel, a little deppresion from time to time is good for the soul IMO...Derek..