… I have quit smoking.\u00a0 After freezing my ass off outside all winter.\u00a0 After all the sniffles and wasted tissue paper.\u00a0 After all the years of blowing my cash on the only consumer product, that when used as directed, will kill you.\u00a0 I have finally quit for good.\u00a0 I know it this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What’s different?\u00a0 Well I have tried Zyban … too buzzy for me.\u00a0 I have tried Nicorettes … taste horrible.\u00a0 I have tried the patch … it didn’t satisfy that oral fixation.\u00a0 But this time … this time things are different.<\/p>\n
You see I have this friend of a friend of a friend with a “candy” boat.\u00a0 And every so often they sneak on down to visit our neighbours to the south and come back with some Commit nicotine lozenges.\u00a0 They are these little tablets that seem to cover the best of all worlds.\u00a0 They satisfy the nicotine habit.\u00a0 They satisfy the oral fixation.\u00a0 I made a game that I am not allowed to pull the easy corner of the package to open them so it satisfies my hands for a few minutes regularly.\u00a0 And it keeps me from that nasty tar and carbon monoxide which satisfies my doctor!!<\/p>\n
The Commit lozenges aren’t contraban (it’s only candy and nicotine and not unlike Nicorettes) but it isn’t sold up here in Canada so all you Yankees who think pharmaceuticals only go one way across our border …. (buzzzz) … wrong.\u00a0 I am already counting what I have left and planning for my next mission of espionage!!<\/p>\n
Wish me luck.\u00a0 (And don’t worry, I promise not to become the infamous reformed non-smoker who harangues his smoking friends incessantly).<\/p>\n
I want to give some credit to my sister who has now been over 10 weeks smoke free for introducing me to these lozenges.\u00a0 They are doing the trick.\u00a0 I also want to thank my wife who is encouraging me to quit by quitting herself.\u00a0 I have a feeling with both of us working on it together, we will have a long healthy life ahead of us.<\/p>\n
Now to figure out what to do with the savings.\u00a0 For those of you who don’t smoke, a pack of large cigarettes is over $10 in some shops and consistently over $9.<\/p>\n
Maybe a roll out basketball net for my next “get healthy” objective.\u00a0 Lose 50 to 70 lbs and dunk again.\u00a0 (Yes I could dunk when I was a lot lighter … and I don’t mean donuts into my coffee!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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