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This giving up smoking idea is getting a bit beyond a joke now....LOL
For the first time in over 2 decades I'm now making and EATING Breakfast as well as looking forward to it and enjoying it as well.
Used to be that breakfast was a cup of coffee, sometimes 2 and a ciggie, now it's either toast or crumpets with jam or peanut butter on them plus the coffee.

Triphid 9 May 18
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Smoking helps keep the weight off.
I now know it’s because smokes cost so much you really can’t afford to both smoke and buy groceries.
All for smoking being discouraged, but just make them illegal for gods sake, I’m an addict and I’ll die broke before I break this addiction.
You’d think they’d use tobacco taxes to provide alternatives to smokers wanting to quit, but no it’s just more money for the general fund.
There should be a guiding principle here, if there’s a problem and your answer is taxation then a percentage should go toward helping the people that’s paying the taxes, especially if they’re the ones with the problem.
Smoking in California is like paying tithes to a church in a religion you don’t believe in and you never attended.

Don't they have the Champix tablets and Programme over your way?

@Triphid no program, I’ve paid out of pocket for several types of alternatives. Chantix nicotine gum and generic Chantix Wellbutrin.
But I still suck the butt.

@Willow_Wisp When I started the Champix programme I also bought a packet of Nicotine Chews along with them.
So far, I've used 4 chews out of a packet containing 105 pieces.
They tell me that quitting is all about Will-power, well with me it is all about,

  1. getting to breathe a bit easier,
  2. NOT sticking like an ashtray every minute of every day, and , the BIGGEST Driving Force is,
  3. at the end of EVERY fortnight I STILL have both money in my wallet and in my Bank Account as well where that would have gone Up in smoke big time since smoking was costing me between $A250.00 and $A300.00 per fortnight from a Government Pension that, after paying Bills, etc, left me with about $A550.00 per fortnight to buy groceries, tobacco and necessaries like medications.
    Hey, IF one like me who used to turn to a smoke EVERY time something went wrong can do it, I'm 100% certain you can do it as well.
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