"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Mister Coffee said:
I don't smoke anymore, and I can see now that sucking smoke into your lungs is a bad idea from the start, but I miss the 20th Century, and smoking and drinking were two of the three things that we did in those days.
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I quit smoking nine years ago, and I am proud to say that after nine years of non-smoking I only crave cigarettes every. Danged. Day.

Though in past years when I cheated and had a cigarette, I discovered that they really don't taste the same when you don't smoke. I miss the feel that I remember, but that isn't something I can have again without becoming a regular smoker. So I will accept that I am only craving a ghost, and let the memories go.
 
Thumbs up :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: to all of you. I'm late to the party. Better late than never 😉

Mister Coffee said:
I don't smoke anymore, and I can see now that sucking smoke into your lungs is a bad idea from the start, but I miss the 20th Century, and smoking and drinking were two of the three things that we did in those days.
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I suspect the absence of smoke filled rooms in which to hash out deals is why politics are so messed up today :p
 
abbydaddy said:
I quit smoking nine years ago, and I am proud to say that after nine years of non-smoking I only crave cigarettes every. Danged. Day.

Though in past years when I cheated and had a cigarette, I discovered that they really don't taste the same when you don't smoke. I miss the feel that I remember, but that isn't something I can have again without becoming a regular smoker. So I will accept that I am only craving a ghost, and let the memories go.
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To my pleasant amazement I seldom have cravings. Every once in a while out of the blue, but mostly not. I haven't cheated. With me that would be a bad idea. I enjoyed smoking and I'm not going to tempt fate ;)
 
Kudos to the smoking quitters and double-kudos to anyone that's trying. I'm quit for seven years now. The cravings don't come anymore (Thank Bezos!) and I only ever miss them when I'm really feeling the need to get out of a room. I actually picked up the pocket knife hobby as a fidgeting substitute to help with quitting. The jury is still out on how healthy of a choice that was. I mean, those knife drops are pretty stressful.
 
DKIN said:
Kudos to the smoking quitters and double-kudos to anyone that's trying. I'm quit for seven years now. The cravings don't come anymore (Thank Bezos!) and I only ever miss them when I'm really feeling the need to get out of a room. I actually picked up the pocket knife hobby as a fidgeting substitute to help with quitting. The jury is still out on how healthy of a choice that was. I mean, those knife drops are pretty stressful.
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Try worry beads. I first became aware of them on a trip to Greece.

I never got the whole knives-for-fidgeting thing.
 
I smoked pipes, cigarettes, and mostly cigars (cheap little birchwood-tipped Hav-a-Tampa Jewels) from the time I was 17 until just after my 63rd birthday. I quit (I hope for the last time) 7 years ago last Christmas Eve, starting with a 3-week trip to visit my daughter in Spain. I'm glad I did, and I have no cravings in winter weather, but sometimes on a warm evening after supper, a beer and a cigar on the patio still has some theoretical appeal. :(:thumbsdown: At this point, I think I'm quite unlikely to relapse.

- GT
 
abbydaddy said:
I quit smoking nine years ago, and I am proud to say that after nine years of non-smoking I only crave cigarettes every. Danged. Day.
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The first 20 years are the hardest! ;)
abbydaddy said:
I will accept that I am only craving a ghost, and let the memories go.
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I can very much relate to this. I used to love smoking, but it is a very long time since I smoked a cigarette, and I'm sure I wouldn't enjoy smoking one now. The things I miss about it are not the actual smoking, it's the ,memory of a young man smoking, and all that went with that. I missed it for a long time, but the physical cravings were gone in a couple of years. 40 years later, I still can't pass a tobacconist without, at least, looking in the window, but there are very few of them now. I supported the last one, where I live, for a long time, by buying straight razors, SAKs, razor-blades, pipe-knives, shaving brushes, cigar boxes to keep my knives in, and all sorts of things for other people, some of them here, but sadly they are gone now :( :thumbsup:
 
I spontaneously quit for some reason, from 2-packs a day, over 50 years ago!!
But I cannot pass up a good cigar box; usually free!! 😲 So useful!!
Less than half my accumulation . . . . . . . . .these are the empty ones!! :cool:
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Cuban Cigars proliferate in Canada - I love the Cohiba Boxes!!
 
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