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you tell the babysitter never to turn their back on him and yet you teach him how to use guns?

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎12-18-2012 07:51 AM

that is just plain bad judgement.

this kid was troubled his whole life and it doesn't seem to have been a secret to anyone who knew him.

i guess some parents make excuses for their children in the name of love and don't consider possible repercussions to everyone else.

in some ways it's very similar to our excusing our smoking. we don't consider the repercussions to those around us yet, there may be many as time passes and the results become apparent. will we make those around us suffer by watching us die gasping for breath or coughing up blood?

STOP WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

BEFORE IT STOPS YOU!

smoking is not an innocent past time, it's more a cruel master.

"it will never be done with you until you are done with it"

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.