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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I'm glad to hear you and (husband)quit smoking.  The first seven years are 
the toughest.  After that, you'll only want a cigarette when visiting family 
.....

I'm your age, give or take a year or so.  I started smoking when I was 21.  A 
pretty girl dared me to smoke one of her Virginia Slims while I was drunk , 
playing poker , in the fraternity house. 'half hour later, I was smoking an 
unfiltered Lucky Strike.

'smoked until I was 36 and then tobacco free except for about 2 years.  I 
have early stage emphysema ( if I don't start smoking again doc says that 
won't be an issue), heart disease (genetic, but the cigs didn't help 
matters), and still crave cigarettes early in the morning--I'm always up 
before daylight.  I quit drinking even decaf coffee because it reminded me of 
cigarettes.  

I don't tell adult people they shouldn't smoke;  It is their business.  But, 
I have told my four brothers --all non-smokers, but one dipped skoal in his 
teens--- to tell their children to shoot heroin before they light up one g** 
da*n cigarette.  William S. Burroughs was still shooting heroin in his 60s-- 
many smokers don't live that long--I might not.

I saw a chicken hawk take a farmers chicken one time with the farmer shooting 
and cussing.  I was pulling for the chicken hawk and he did get 
away........bobford


--- On Sat, 8/23/08, Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Akka Homestead <akkabhomestead AT yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Back in the saddle again
> To: "Homestead List" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>

> 
> Don't know if I have mentioned this recently, but DH
> and I have now been non-smokers for 8 months.   We've
> started riding bikes for cardio, too.  We have determined
> that 15 miles on the flat bike paths of a nearby city is the
> same workout as 2 miles in the up and down boonies.   I
> envision that one day we will be fit enough to ride the 20
> miles into town and back(piedmont type rolling terrain-ridge
> and valley geography)
>