Ash Tray, I Quit Smoking, 820 Days Smoke Free, Now 1,075 Days 3/22/2017
Now 1,075 Days 3/22/2017
I Quit Smoking, 820 Days Smoke Free
Smokers Cigarette Ashtray. Made at Lane Tech High School, Chicago Illinois, 1965
For a project in the Industrial Arts classes, in this case, Foundry, we made useful castings. One of the projects of mine was this ashtray.
Smoking was ingrained in the American Culture, and was sanctioned by the educational system.
Smoking was quite common and was expected as a rite of passage into adult hood.
My entire family smoked. My Dad smoked as a boy in Ohio, and all through WW II. My Mom smoked, cigarettes were always around the house. When company came, the house was so filled with smoke that it looked like a fog.
I started at sixteen, and smoked cigarettes and pipes for the next 49 years. Through all my schools, while in a shop or in engineering. At home, at leisure and while I drove. While fishing and on vacation, in Mexico and Europe.
My Dad died of emphysema and COPD, and my Mom of cancer and a stroke. Both instances of smoking related illnesses.
My Aunts and Uncles all died from similar maladies.
Smoking is an expensive and odious habit.
I HAVE STOPPED SMOKING.
It has been 820 days since I lit up. I feel great.
I quit on this attempt, my third try.
I had made many rationalizations as to why I still smoked. It was my thinking time, it relaxed me, and other delusional thoughts. I knew smoking was bad for me, but I persisted.
I wore a mustache for 35+ years. (you’ll see it in some of my older pix). My hair slowly turned white and grey, and my mustache did too. The cigarette smoke made my mustache turn brown on one side with nicotine stains. I was now instantly identifiable on sight as a smoker.
I didn’t like that.
Time to quit. I was told to do it for myself, for my health, for myself.
I didn’t do it for my self, I felt fine, and besides I did plenty for myself already. Not a good reason.
I am by nature a cheapskate (penurious, tight). The sin tax made cigarettes about $9.00 a pack. I would buy cigarettes a pack at a time. That was how I controlled my cigarette consumption.
I was now instantly identifiable as a smoker. (I took the mustache off for good)
Smoking had become way too expensive. (sin tax)
I decided to quit for sure.
For each day not smoking, I would add $9.00 on a tally I kept on my desk calendar.
My present level of money not spent on cigarettes is $7,380. ($9.00 x 820 days = $7380)
It has been 820 days since I lit up. Any method that works is the right way.
Ash Tray, I Quit Smoking, 820 Days Smoke Free, Now 1,075 Days 3/22/2017
Now 1,075 Days 3/22/2017
I Quit Smoking, 820 Days Smoke Free
Smokers Cigarette Ashtray. Made at Lane Tech High School, Chicago Illinois, 1965
For a project in the Industrial Arts classes, in this case, Foundry, we made useful castings. One of the projects of mine was this ashtray.
Smoking was ingrained in the American Culture, and was sanctioned by the educational system.
Smoking was quite common and was expected as a rite of passage into adult hood.
My entire family smoked. My Dad smoked as a boy in Ohio, and all through WW II. My Mom smoked, cigarettes were always around the house. When company came, the house was so filled with smoke that it looked like a fog.
I started at sixteen, and smoked cigarettes and pipes for the next 49 years. Through all my schools, while in a shop or in engineering. At home, at leisure and while I drove. While fishing and on vacation, in Mexico and Europe.
My Dad died of emphysema and COPD, and my Mom of cancer and a stroke. Both instances of smoking related illnesses.
My Aunts and Uncles all died from similar maladies.
Smoking is an expensive and odious habit.
I HAVE STOPPED SMOKING.
It has been 820 days since I lit up. I feel great.
I quit on this attempt, my third try.
I had made many rationalizations as to why I still smoked. It was my thinking time, it relaxed me, and other delusional thoughts. I knew smoking was bad for me, but I persisted.
I wore a mustache for 35+ years. (you’ll see it in some of my older pix). My hair slowly turned white and grey, and my mustache did too. The cigarette smoke made my mustache turn brown on one side with nicotine stains. I was now instantly identifiable on sight as a smoker.
I didn’t like that.
Time to quit. I was told to do it for myself, for my health, for myself.
I didn’t do it for my self, I felt fine, and besides I did plenty for myself already. Not a good reason.
I am by nature a cheapskate (penurious, tight). The sin tax made cigarettes about $9.00 a pack. I would buy cigarettes a pack at a time. That was how I controlled my cigarette consumption.
I was now instantly identifiable as a smoker. (I took the mustache off for good)
Smoking had become way too expensive. (sin tax)
I decided to quit for sure.
For each day not smoking, I would add $9.00 on a tally I kept on my desk calendar.
My present level of money not spent on cigarettes is $7,380. ($9.00 x 820 days = $7380)
It has been 820 days since I lit up. Any method that works is the right way.