SuicideGirl: Thursday
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MAY 16, 2003 @ 05:33 PM


guess who decided to quit smoking today. i'll give you a hint, their name starts with a TH and ends with an URSDAY.
mhm today's the day.
hadn't smoked a single cigarette before i went to my exercise science class, and tossed my pack afterwards.
of COURSE i knew smoking is bad. the lecture today which helped me make this decision told me much that i already knew.
the thing that made the difference was that i had managed to convince myself that the badness of smoking would wait until i was old and wretched anyway. newp.
our lecturer wasn't into shock value. there was only one gnarly lung picture and one guy sans lower jaw. what caught my attention was how old the people in the two personal stories were, and how long they had smoked.
one boy was dead, another woman could hardly breathe. they were both around my age, and what REALLY freaked me out, they both had used tobacco products for fewer years than i have to date.

SCARY SHIT

i've been thinking about quitting smoking for quite some time now, and this was kind of the straw that broke that camel's back. i'm not too thrilled about having my tongue hacked away at because of some gnarly ass tumor. in fact, if i get cancer later i'm going to be VERY PISSED OFF WITH MYSELF.
one other fact that caught my ear was a quote by some upper muckitty muck in the tobacco industry, let me paraphrase: 'do we smoke the shit? no, we just sell it. smoking is for the poor, the young, blacks and the stupid'.

i REFUSE TO BUY A MERCEDES FOR THAT ASSHOLE. amen.

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TunnelSlats

TunnelSlats

Chicago, IL
November 2002

MAY 16, 2003 05:38 PM

Exactly. Why give that much money to a bunch of assholes?

MobProd

mobprod

Corvallis, OR
OLD SKOOL

MAY 16, 2003 05:39 PM

That fucking rules. You know how I feel about cigarettes. Flavored tobacco from the hookah is something else entirely though...

I

I

San Bruno, CA
March 2003

MAY 16, 2003 05:43 PM

good luck. i will join your support group if needs be.

HaZiE

HaZiE

Arcadia, CA
February 2003

MAY 16, 2003 05:45 PM

I'm so proud of you thursday ::hugs::

stay strong.. I decided I'm not going to smoke even socially either.

I wish I could convince others to stop smoking like this lecturer helped to convince you. the people I really care about.... they smoke it hurts me. ... but they don't care about me so what does it matter.

::space techno Orgys:: by Daft Punk

Alyssum

Alyssum

Humptulips, WA
December 2002

MAY 16, 2003 05:53 PM

Good for you! <HUGS>
This is a subject very close to my heart these days. Ask me sometime if you'd like another compelling story. frown

velvetkither

velvetkither

Studio City, CA
May 2003

MAY 16, 2003 06:10 PM

that's awsome, i have an aunt who had lung cancer from second hand smoke...........really, really, scary word that sounds like pit and consits of stuff falling from the anus....

Weso

Weso

Santa Cruz, CA
July 2002

MAY 16, 2003 06:11 PM

thanks for following my game of get to know people. Yeah violence sucks, especially when it seems to surround you. And congo rats on the not smoking. I am very proud of you. Stick to it and I'll make you the bestest food ever.

SoEffinHappy

SoEffinHappy

Philadelphia, PA
April 2003

MAY 16, 2003 06:20 PM

Way to go! Good to see you put your health above your addiction. Hope you can stick with it. Just remember..after four days all the addiction is mental. If you can sweat it out for those four days, you should be fine.

Nex_Flamma

Nex_Flamma

Portland, OR
February 2003

MAY 16, 2003 06:48 PM

Good work! I quit too. I'm up to something like 2 weeks or so cold turkey. People tell me I'm a bit irritable but I calmly tell them to fuck off and then I stab them.

Quitting's great!

Stacie

Stacie

SUICIDEGIRL

Florida, USA

MAY 16, 2003 06:59 PM

i am actually sitting here making fan art for some of the girls that posted in the secret penpals list in the girls forum. I didnt see you in there though frown
I would be more than pleased to share the fan girl love though.. you can email me your address if you want in on the pressies biggrin
kiss

DrNecessitor

DrNecessitor

San Jose, CA
January 2003

MAY 16, 2003 07:01 PM

That is fan-fucking-tastic. I am so proud of you. Good luck...it's not going to be easy, but you can do it.

Get a digi-cam with the $ you save!! biggrin

[Edited on May 16, 2003]

JuraSic

JuraSic

Portland, OR
April 2003

MAY 16, 2003 07:08 PM

I don't enjoy it anymore either...I do want another Mercedes though I am not an asshole am I???This is okay cause I'm buying it for myself~

Stiles

Stiles

Oakland, CA
November 2002

MAY 16, 2003 07:41 PM

I am proud of you. My epiphane, in college: paying some big tobacco company (and uncle sam, through heavy taxation) to ruin my health, looks and clothes wasn't a good idea. Watching my uncle die of cancer shook me, too. He was diagnosed, and lived for only 3 months afterward.
Stick with it. It's hard but completely worth it. It's also much easier to quit now rather than after 10 more years of smoking. *hugs*

TunnelSlats

TunnelSlats

Chicago, IL
November 2002

MAY 16, 2003 07:48 PM

Let me guess, could that person be the great Scottish statesman THeodore MacURSDAY?
Wait, I thought he passed away not long ago.....I'm cornfused.
confused

PaulNikon

PaulNikon

Melbourne, FL
February 2003

MAY 16, 2003 08:06 PM

Good for you.

Sorry about the "too much information". I didn't think that many people looked at my journal.

I'll refreain from talking about poop from now on.

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