When I quit smoking on September 17, 1998, I vowed that I would not proselytize. For me the time had come. I was coughing up doorstops and anyone who stepped where I had spit was glued there until the pressure hose showed up…that sounds very gross; it was very gross. And that’s exactly why I [...]
Archive for the ‘Addiction’ Category
Please quit
Posted in Addiction, Changing yourself, Human behavior, Opinions, Personal, Philosophy, Smoking on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The brown and white sticks
Posted in Addiction, Life, Opinions, Smoking, Stupidity on March 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
People who smoke cigarettes are a pain in the ass! I should know; for 51 years I was one of them…and I know in my heart of hearts that I was – and probably still am – a pain in somebody’s ass. Smoking has already taken the woman I love to an early grave. It [...]
The judge and the quitter
Posted in Addiction, Corruption, Human behavior, Opinions on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“When I quit smoking back on Jan. 16, 2005, I was using oxygen 24/7. I needed to take breathing treatments every four hours and was watching the clock for the next treatment. I was on 20 different medications, and up until five years prior, I had smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for 40 [...]
Muscling up
Posted in Addiction, Athletics, Changing yourself, Exercise, Goal setting, Opinions, Stupidity on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Had a comment on the blog the other day. It came from a 15-year old. “Can you tell me how to get ripped and have bigger biceps?” I wasn’t certain whether to laugh, cry, or just throw it in the SPAM folder. In addition, the article which prompted him to ask the question had nothing [...]
On man boobs
Posted in Addiction, Exercise, Opinions, Personal on December 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Gwyneth Paltrow is a fine actress. She’s also a very funny lady. It seems that when she was starring in “Shakespeare in Love,” she had to do a nude scene…her first in film. Fearing that some members of her family might be shocked, she went to her uncle and tried to explain what she was [...]
Too old to change?
Posted in Addiction, Athletics, Growing old, Health care, Integrity, Life, Opinions, People, Personal, Philosophy, Symbolism, Trust on September 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Old people don’t like change. In my youth, and even up until my early seventies, I thought that was just another urban myth; a fallacy that one could disregard as being propagated by the very young. When computers first came into our workplace, nearly everyone was excited about this new technology and how it would [...]
Battling addictions
Posted in Addiction, Human behavior, Opinions, People on August 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
ad·dic·tion/əˈdikSHən/ -The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity. When I think of addiction, I always think of the one that held me in its clutches for 51 years. It held my wife for longer than that and finally killed her. Of course I’m speaking of an addiction to [...]
