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I love looking at other people's stuff in this group so much that I really thought I should do my own too
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Kamera: Nikon FE2
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- Here's the fucking mentally challenged and seriously retarded current US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth (b. 1980) actually touring Israeli occupied Hebron together with insane jewish religious zionist fundamentalist extremists and racist, fascist kahanist settlers in November 2024:
Yishai Fleisher: Trumps New Pick, Pete Hegseth, Could CHANGE Israel Forever (Publ. 18 Nov. 2024)
See also:
The Grayzone: Pete Hegseth gets new anti-Islam tattoo (Publ. 1 April 2025)
BOYCOTT ISRAEL - BOYCOTT USA
Some Suggestions:
- Visa
- Mastercard
- American Express
- PayPal
- Amazon
- eBay
- Tesla
- Ford Motor Company
- Stellantis (Dodge, Chrysler, Fiat (!!), Opel (!!), Citroën (!!), Peugeot (!!), Alfa Romeo (!!) )
- General Motors Company (Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, GMC)
- X (Twitter)
- OpenAI
- ChatGPT
- Android
- Gmail
- Youtube
- Tinder
- Hinge
- Happn
- Airbnb
- Disney
- Netflix
- DHL
- UPS
- US American films and series
- US American music and artists
- US American WINE
- Apple (including App Store, iTunes, Apple TV)
- Microsoft
- McDonald’s
- Circle K
- Esso
- ExxonMobil
- Texaco
- 7-Eleven
- Burger King
- Coca-Cola
- Pepsi
- Starbucks
- Mondelez
- Freia sjokolade
- Friele kaffe
- Gevalia kaffe
- Coop kaffe
- SodaStream
- Marabou
- Kraft Heinz
- O’Boy
- Maarud
- HP Sauce
- Procter & Gamble
- Always tampons
- Always vaginal wipes
- Always ultra
- Pampers diapers
- Braun
- Gillette
- Ariel detergents
- Head & Shoulders shampoo
- Pantene shampoos
- Oral-B
- Yes detergents
- Vicks
- Wella
- Oreo
- Duracell batteries
- Energizer batteries
- L'Oréal
- Maybelline
- Johnson & Johnson
- Zyrtec
. Imodium
. Nicorette
- Listerine
- Saint Laurent (Polo)
- Ray-Ban
- Oakley
- Tommy Hilfiger
- Tom Ford
- Maui Jim
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Clockwise from top left: Strattera, Viagra, Panadol, Nicorette. Yes these are all prescriptions.
Why do I get Viagra? Well one of the reasons I don't like to take Strattera aka the “chill pill for when interfacing with humans” is that although it halves my speed and thus make it possible for me to talk to humans in their “normal speed,” it has very severe sexual side effects. It is very challenging.
People who take psychiatric meds would understand this. Many anti-depressants have this side effect mainly because of their specific mechanism of actions (MOA). So it is rather wtf sometimes. You take meds to help you adjust your mood so you don't get depressed but then you would then completely suck in bed.
Not too good ey? But get this—the blue pill pretty much turns you into a sex god and seriously ever since I get these prescriptions there are more than enough men in New York lining up to “play” with me. Oh the crazy insane world of fun when you are certifiably crazy—like I said, Crazyisgood! :)
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Barack Obama was across the street from our home in Brentwood about half an hour ago. He is campaigining in the Southland and stopped by USA Gas to talk to the media about alternative fuel. USA Gas sells Biodiesel and the owners of this independent station sell Biodiesel at a few other locations they own.
I did not realize Senator Obama was speaking until my wife called me on her way to a doctors appointement. I work from home and usually take my lunch break watching my son...well, I took my break early today. I ventured out with Jack in the Baby Bjorn and my camera strapped to my side...I got some decent pictures from about 50 feet away...but it was hard commendeering through the media...photographers and news video teams were everywhere. I decided to go towards the back where i had an unobstucted view, and his vehcile and security detail awaited.
When he was finsished answering questions I handed my camera to my neighbor and took Jack out of the Bjorn...as Senator Obama was getting into his car I shouted, "My son Jack wants me to vote for you!!!" Senator Obama immediatley got out of the car and exclaimed, "I have got to hold this cute baby!" He walked over held Jack and asked us a few questions...he also commented that Jack must have gotten the looks from his mother :)
Anyway...it was an AWESOME moment and Senator Obama seems like a real genuine man...way too cool! Now I hope he kicks his nicotine habit!!! One reporter actually questioned him about that...I did not hear the queston but Senator Obama tossed the reporter a piece of nicorette!
Adam, Ryan, and myself roadtripped most of Ireland last month. It was a great time. We spent a night in Dublin, Traveled north to Bushmills, drove west to Sligo and then spent our last night near the Cliffs of Moher.
We shared almost everything on our trip. Everything but cigarettes that is, although by the end of the trip it is more than likely that I smelt like a chain smoker.
Thanks Adam and Ryan for the great time and the many memories.
Speaking of memories - Would anyone believe me if I told you that the Irish are bringing back the track suit as a fashion statement? True story. It's by far the most popular outfit in Ireland. Awesome.
There are many quitting aids available on the market for smokers. Organic cigarettes, e-cigarettes, nicotine patches, Nicorette gum, aromatherapy, the smoking vaccine, acupuncture, and prescription supplements are merely a few of the numerous possibilities that prospective quitters are
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Posts about self help, coping with dependency, stopping smoking, weight-management, getting other personal health topics, and enough sleeping.Just before that, I used to be an extremely heavy smoker, after I was 14 started. Up to then I also chewed Nicorette (nicotine gum) for 18yrs! - I chewed
Ryan, Adam, and myself roadtripped most of Ireland last month. It was a great time. We spent a night in Dublin, Traveled north to Bushmills, drove west to Sligo and then spent our last night near the Cliffs of Moher.
We shared almost everything. Everything but cigarettes that is, although by the end of the trip it is more than likely that I smelt like a chain smoker.
Thanks Ryan and Adam for the great time and the many memories.
Speaking of memories - Would anyone believe me if I told you that the Irish are bringing back the track suit as a fashion statement? True story. It's by far the most popular outfit in Ireland. Awesome.
Jeff Gordon during practice at Richmond International Raceway for the running of the NNCS Rock and Roll 400 in Richmond, VA.
There are numerous stopping products in the marketplace for smokers. Herbal cigarettes, e-cigarettes, nicotine patches, Nicorette gum, aromatherapy, the nicotine vaccine, acupuncture, and prescription capsules are simply a few of the countless alternatives that prospective quitters are
There are numerous stopping products in the marketplace for smokers. Natural cigarettes, e-cigarettes, nicotine patches, Nicorette gum, aromatherapy, the nicotine vaccine, acupuncture, and prescription capsules are merely a few of the numerous choices that potential quitters are experienced
Tearing out my hair
on a bedroom floor
I'm going crazy.
Quitting smoking is HARD. Nicotine addiction is nowhere near as bad as opiate addiction, but it still blows.
I woke up obscenely early and ended up taking a 'nap' that lasted like 5 hours. Ugh. Wasted daylight again. I really didn't want to sleep that long, I was just tired.
I tried the Nicoderm patches a few times but I have really sensitive skin and they give me an awful rash and it burns and itches and gets all red and inflamed. I mean, they help with the cravings but I can't deal with my skin getting like that. So mom went out last night and got me some Nicorette gum which helps just as well as the patches but it hurts my stomach sometimes. I'm surprised at how good the gum tastes. I thought it was going to be terrible.
I just want my cigarettes back. God, all day I think "Cigarette. Cigarette. Cigarettes. Cigarette." I'm torn between wanting to quit and be healthy and breathe better and be able to work out without feeling like my lungs are going to explode, and being blissfully, ignorantly happy puffing away at my cancer sticks.
Ugh. This is brutal.
I'm surprised at how well these pictures came out. In my bathroom again, against my shower curtain with no lighting except for my bathroom lights. I know the colour between the two pictures are really off, I tried to adjust it as best I could in PS but I really don't care too much because right now all I can think about are cigarettes. To all you quitters out there - Is it normal to feel this psychotic?!
*//Also I'm sorry I've been behind on replying to comments and Flickrmails, I'll be up all night since I slept all day so hopefully I'll get back to everyone <3
Like a paid assassin in the night, winter came.
I wasn't ready when the seasons changed, and my ageing bones had not yet had their fill of vitamin D from the fleeting sun rays of balmy Summer days that seemed so few and far between. If memory served me right, there were moments of radiance when the bright sun put in a welcome appearance, and Ray and I tried so hard without success to rekindle what started in childhood as brotherly love, a bond of blood and flesh so strong that none could ever break it, nor stand between us, and yet which has ended up so pale a reflection of it's glorious past.
They say you can choose your friends but not your family, and how so true those words seem to me right now as the dark nights descend upon us and the mornings are filled with a layer of frost that falls as a blanket across the sleepy landscape. Didn't the seasons run like clockwork and the summers seem endless when I was an acne ridden adolescent? But then I also recall 'Wagon wheels' being the size as their wooden namesake, which says a lot about my memory and recollections I suppose.
Ray was the man back then. Big brother and role model. And nothing has been diluted from the core of his beliefs and being over the passing years. Stubborn like a mule, headstrong and resolute in believing that what he says is a given, his actions unquestionable, his words irreproachable, if I could just shake him to his senses, knock some common sense into that thick skull of his. And for three and a half short weeks I had just such an opportunity. Failure has been my middle name for so many years I guess. At least I can safely add consistency to my short list of virtues.
I am walking with lengthy strides, cold fingers clammering for warmth within the confines of my jacket pockets, breath like the contrails of a tristar jet way on up at thirty eight thousand feet as it sprints across the ocean blue sky to sumptuous destinations. He'll be home now, distant shores where the air is fresh and the lifestyle so less frenetic than London life. Five thousand miles between us can be crossed within a matter of hours, but the bitterness and acrimony of former brotherly love it seems can never be bridged.
I find an old wooden bench, still damp from the morning frost, peppered with a liberal dousing of pigeon crap and chestnut casings from which squirrels and tiny fingers have prised out the tiny brown jewels within, and plant my derrière for a momentary break. From within my inner jacket pocket I fumble with my right hand for a packet of Nicorette, placing one of the disgusting tasting 4mg gum pieces into my warm mouth. I guess it must be working if I find these little suckers so unpalatable now, though quitting the habit seems to have left my bodily defences naked and ill prepared for the many ailments and virulent bugs that comes as de rigeur with this miserable season.
Two and a half whole months cigarette free. That's seventy eight days, five hours and ten minutes though the euphoria of my limited success was shortlived after reading somewhere on the oracle that is the world wide web that these foul tasting over priced gum pieces are just as capable of giving you mouth cancer as the real thing. And I know which I prefer out of the two! Ray found my determination to quit oh so amusing, puffing on the fat Cuban Havanas he mused that were rolled on a virgin maiden's own thighs that had Laura constantly shepherding him out of the conservatory doors and into the garden. He would gloat from behind the glass, sucking in great lungfuls of carcinogenic before blowing them at me from the other side of the glass. He always was the childish one. Eighteen months older and always the instigator of our childish exploits, me the doting younger brother who looked up to him for guidance and support when the going got tough and the shit hit the proverbial.
And he loved me back then.
All the same, I could murder a real smoke right now and my will power, thus farso steadfast and resolute is being sorely put to the test with the stress I am under right now. I spit the gum piece out of my mouth like a bullet expelled from the barrel of a Glock, the taste reverberating around my mouth, murdering my taste buds, hammering them into submission. The bench is cold, the damp creeping through the material of my trousers and seeping into my rump as I stand and twist my neck round so that my eyes can focus as best they can on the inevitable green and brown stains daubed across the arse of my trousers. Laura's going to love that!
But she won't complain, she never does. Not even against my ill conceived plan hatched over a glass of Chardonnay and a ready meal one night when I thought it a great idea to try and heal the rift between long lost brothers and invite Ray and the family over for a reunion of sorts. Voices on the phone from separate sides of that great big pond, retracing memories, laughing at the times we had as boys, the exploits and camaraderie that forged the bond and defined us so.
We last saw him after mum passed away. The summer of two thousand and two when he and Gemma made the trip first class courtesy of British Airways. He always did everything in style, the entrepreneur of we two, the jet setting, go getter who loved money more than life itself. Still does. He was always mums favourite, and in her final years he played on that favouritism, honing in on her failing health and waning memory to leach money out of her for ventures and folly that existed merely as ideas in his furtive mind. But I never once complained, for I truly believed that what mum did with her money was her own business, and nobody else's.
Damn it!
I slump back onto the wet bench and reach inside my jacket pocket once more to the pack of Benson & Hedges smokes that is there to keep me sane, ripping off the cellophane like an eager child unwrapping his Christmas presents, and pulling back the silver foil cover to allow the aroma of the tobacco out and into the air like an escaping prisoner from maximum security. I bring both hands together and cup them around the cigarette as I strike a Swan Vesta and pull on the filter. How can something so bad for you, taste so damned good?
I laugh at myself, thinking what I must look like to passing eyes that view this little old man, hunched on a wet bench in December, smoking and talking to himself like a vagrant washed up on the rocks of life, a mind warped by too much paint thinners as he lives oblivious in his own little world. Does the pain of losing those close to me find me a wreck of my former self? Am I so lonely that I now view my past life through rose tinted spectacles?
I lift my left arm towards the wisp of sunlight that creeps through the branches of the trees beside me, noting the time on my wristwatch. Eight hours difference to Canada and a new day dawning there right now on that beautiful coastline where Ray has his Condo. It always seemed to me that if ever there was a man who could emerge smelling of roses from a barrel of shit, it was Ray. The Midas touch, whether justly deserved or cunningly won, a lavish lifestyle now forged from the inheritance money he duped from our mother.
It mattered little to me at the time, never the one to argue or take issue, I needed my brother to help me through the loss and grief, I hoped that it would bring us together once more, us against the big bad world. But money changes some folk for the worse I guess, and those five thousand miles, though bridged by awkward silence upon the staggered phone line, and tempered by those three brief weeks together, have never seemed so vast as they do right now.
I rise and flick the dying embers of my cigarette onto the floor, stubbing out the flickering red and yellow light with the toe of my boot, before pulling my jacket collar up around my neck, placing both hands into the pockets and heading off down the pathway once more to where my car is parked. Some things in life will never change I guess, and in many ways I am so lucky a man to have the things I have right now. But I ache within for the past when my big brother watched over me, the days when I looked up to him with love and affection that was reciprocated willingly, rather than penned by female hands once a year come Christmas time. I
I remember the summer when for a brief moment, we two were children again, brothers without the barriers of time and distance between us once more. We laughed again back then, didn't we?
The winter has come, all too soon it seems.
.
Written on December 9th 2011
Photograph taken at 09:34am on December 6th 2011 off New Road and Woolwich Road A206 in Lesnes Abbey Woods, Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
Nikon D7000 48mm 1/13s f/5.6 iso200
Nikkor AF-S 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR. UV filter. Manfrotto 055XPro carbon fibre tripod & Manfrotto 327 magnesium pistol grip ball head. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS.
LATITUDE: N 51d 29m 7.76s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 7m 45.74s
ALTITUDE: 0.0m
There are numerous quitting helps available on the market for smokers. Natural cigarettes, e-cigarettes, nicotine patches, Nicorette gum, aromatherapy, the smoking vaccine, acupuncture, and prescription pills are just a number of the many selections that prospective quitters are experienced
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#OnlyInHK—“Torino Lamborghini cigarettes” #wtf #crazyisgood
Branded as the L6 and L8, the Lamborghini cigarettes designate their product lines with respect to the amount of nicotine in each cigarette. Hong Kong cigarette packaging is very informational. You know exactly how much nicotine and tar you are consuming. Unlike in the US where cigarettes’ nicotine content is a complete guessing game, at a glance you know on the packaging that the L8 contains 8mg tar and 0.8mg nicotine. The Davidoff which I smoke usually contains 10mg tar and 0.9mg nicotine. Knowing this also makes buying Nicorettes easier.
How does it taste? Pretty good. I don’t really think that I will be changing brands any time soon. But I do still miss my additive-free cigarettes in New York: American Spirit and Nat Sherman’s, which I cannot find in Hong Kong at all. International travel is no longer an option either as cigarette allowance is 19 count (1 box of 20 minus 1) which is why the trash bin before custom is a cemetery for that single cigarette disposal. It is stupid really. Hong Kong Gov should just create a cigarette recycling bin I think…
Taken with the iPhone 5, processed in Snapseed on the iPad
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I would like to thank Lori Casey for finding my bag in an NYC cab, uncovering countless treasures / necessities for me. I am in awe with how amazing people can be. Folks: we are talking about a city with millions of people here... and *nothing* was lost!
This made for a very happy birthday gift :)
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There are numerous quitting helps available on the market for smokers. Natural cigarettes, e-cigarettes, nicotine patches, Nicorette gum, aromatherapy, the smoking vaccine, acupuncture, and prescription pills are just a number of the many selections that prospective quitters are experienced
A Tatra T6B5SU tram in Dnepropetrovsk, one of 12 delivered. The number is 3011, so possibly the penultimate one delivered, in 2002 and in the picture quite new. It's on line 1, with a Nicorette advertisement. (see also earlier picture of No. 3001 in white)
July 2003
Lifetime Dream # 57 of my list of 155: I will completely quit smoking, improving my health and physical endurance. I will be able to beat any and all cravings that come into my life, never having to be under the influence of nicotine and its damaging effects on the body again.
Completed On: January 5, 2006, and August 28, 2009
I did not begin smoking until I was in college, and I started up for all the wrong reasons (stress, boredom, friends, etc.). I knew at the time that smoking was addictive, but I really didn’t know the “scale” of addiction. Sugar and carbs are addictive, but nicotine is the second most addictive substance known to man. Wow… had I known that I probably would have thought twice about starting.
Cigarettes were my friend through a lot of dark times, a lot of fun times. Through many road trips, road gigs, and good times… but it was a dark stain that I really loved and hated all in the same breath of smoke. I still remember thinking “I envy those people who never started, because they have no idea the battle that this is…” We all have our battles in life… some just more than others.
I tried everything to quit. Cold turkey. Hypnosis. Nicorette gum. The Patch. I even locked myself in my parent’s house to break the addiction and get the chemicals out of my body. In the end, the miracle was will power, Chantix, and United Healthcare. I had been feeling very, very poor. I felt a stroke was coming at every breath, and yet I couldn’t seem to muster the strength to quit on my own. The company that I work for, United Healthcare, decided to cover the quit smoking medication at 100%. Had they not done that, I’m not sure that I ever would have quit.
It wasn’t a breeze, but it was much easier. I had every side effect possible, but it was worth it. I put on weight but it was worth it. This was always a gateway dream: a dream that I had to complete if I ever wanted to complete some of the others on my list… thanks again United Healthcare!
Today I am literally between jobs.
I finished up at UCMS/Amex yesterday and tomorrow is my first day with a company who will pay me more, a company whose product I don't loathe. The only downside is that unlike UCMS, where I could wear almost anything I like and generally look scruffy if I was so inclined, the new company expects me to shave and wear relaxed business attire. We won't go into my thoughts on the ridiculous notion of 'relaxed' business attire, but this morning I tidied the beard and shaved the under-the-chin parts that make one look so much like a hobo.
I'm also enjoying the thought that I appear to have paid both my car and my mobile phone off. So, to celebrate, I signed up on a new (and much cheaper) contract with Vodafone and got a new Sony Ericsson W880i. To add to the increasing pool of accessible income I've also started the process of quitting (note the Nicorette patch). It certainly helps that for some reason smoking makes me feel sick these days.
Lifetime Dream # 57 of my list of 155: I will completely quit smoking, improving my health and physical endurance. I will be able to beat any and all cravings that come into my life, never having to be under the influence of nicotine and its damaging effects on the body again.
Completed On: January 5, 2006, and August 28, 2009
I did not begin smoking until I was in college, and I started up for all the wrong reasons (stress, boredom, friends, etc.). I knew at the time that smoking was addictive, but I really didn’t know the “scale” of addiction. Sugar and carbs are addictive, but nicotine is the second most addictive substance known to man. Wow… had I known that I probably would have thought twice about starting.
Cigarettes were my friend through a lot of dark times, a lot of fun times. Through many road trips, road gigs, and good times… but it was a dark stain that I really loved and hated all in the same breath of smoke. I still remember thinking “I envy those people who never started, because they have no idea the battle that this is…” We all have our battles in life… some just more than others.
I tried everything to quit. Cold turkey. Hypnosis. Nicorette gum. The Patch. I even locked myself in my parent’s house to break the addiction and get the chemicals out of my body. In the end, the miracle was will power, Chantix, and United Healthcare. I had been feeling very, very poor. I felt a stroke was coming at every breath, and yet I couldn’t seem to muster the strength to quit on my own. The company that I work for, United Healthcare, decided to cover the quit smoking medication at 100%. Had they not done that, I’m not sure that I ever would have quit.
It wasn’t a breeze, but it was much easier. I had every side effect possible, but it was worth it. I put on weight but it was worth it. This was always a gateway dream: a dream that I had to complete if I ever wanted to complete some of the others on my list… thanks again United Healthcare!
Pictured here is the wrapper to the last one I ever had. It’s been almost two years and never a cave-in!!
Dover International Speedway, Dover, Delaware. Monster Mile, NASCAR Racing. Jeff Gordon driving #24 DuPont Chevrolet.
Copyright © ShoreShot Photography 2008
Sooo, I was finding it hard to think of what to do with Timmie for his weekly photo, then as he was still in my bag I thought I would do this!
This is what was in my bag when I got home from work on Friday evening:
Cath Kidston bag, used every day for work since purchase in August 2009 and Orla Kiely purse used every day since purchase in July 2008! I am one of those rare women who doesn't need a new bag and purse all the time! I am thinking I may have a new bag this summer though, I think I can justify it eh :D
Also shown:
Decole box - I take my cereal for breakfast to work every day and eat it at my desk, no breakfast at home = more time in bed!
Timmie - ideal bag companion, wouldn't leave home without him now, but he is a secret in my bag, I don't tell my work colleagues xx
Polo mints - have eaten these every day since I can remember
Moo cards in white holder
Paperchase folding reusable bag - one of my Christmas presents from Holly and probably my fav present of all, very Orla Kiely type print and the perfect size for lunchtime shopping
Cath Kidston gadget case - for my camera
very cheap make up bag for those essentials like powder and lippy :D
Nicorette gum - nicotene gum addict for many years now, but better than smoking (still miss smoking even though it is many many years since I gave up)
Orla Kiely perfume - in handy fabric slip cover it came with
E45 cream - no nonsense, no perfume, just does the job!
iphone
Orla Kiely umbrella - my boss is always borrowing this :D
cheap boofle appointment book - stuffed with appointment cards, receipts etc.
various keys and key chains...do I really need this many?!?
Lifetime Dream # 57 of my list of 155: I will completely quit smoking, improving my health and physical endurance. I will be able to beat any and all cravings that come into my life, never having to be under the influence of nicotine and its damaging effects on the body again.
Completed On: January 5, 2006, and August 28, 2009
I did not begin smoking until I was in college, and I started up for all the wrong reasons (stress, boredom, friends, etc.). I knew at the time that smoking was addictive, but I really didn’t know the “scale” of addiction. Sugar and carbs are addictive, but nicotine is the second most addictive substance known to man. Wow… had I known that I probably would have thought twice about starting.
Cigarettes were my friend through a lot of dark times, a lot of fun times. Through many road trips, road gigs, and good times… but it was a dark stain that I really loved and hated all in the same breath of smoke. I still remember thinking “I envy those people who never started, because they have no idea the battle that this is…” We all have our battles in life… some just more than others.
I tried everything to quit. Cold turkey. Hypnosis. Nicorette gum. The Patch. I even locked myself in my parent’s house to break the addiction and get the chemicals out of my body. In the end, the miracle was will power, Chantix, and United Healthcare. I had been feeling very, very poor. I felt a stroke was coming at every breath, and yet I couldn’t seem to muster the strength to quit on my own. The company that I work for, United Healthcare, decided to cover the quit smoking medication at 100%. Had they not done that, I’m not sure that I ever would have quit.
It wasn’t a breeze, but it was much easier. I had every side effect possible, but it was worth it. I put on weight but it was worth it. This was always a gateway dream: a dream that I had to complete if I ever wanted to complete some of the others on my list… thanks again United Healthcare!
At the minute, my mother's trying to give up smoking. She is currently using the Nicorette Inhaler, which she is finding very helpful.
I thought that this would be a good composition to show how Smoking and Giving up are different. I guess. I can't really think of words to say about this. :(
Dublin Bus (Phibsboro) Volvo B9TL / Alexander Dennis Enviro 500 VT 66 (07-D-70066) on St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 27th November 2013, on a 39A.
The concept for my painting with light piece was as follows: on the left, killing yourself intentionally, delibrately, with poisons, pills and the like. On the right hand frame, is killing yourself indirectly, with smoking, alchohol, and drugs. In the middle is the stethescope, signifying the effort to save life, the listening to the heart....which er, obviously stops when death comes.
(a rather suitable) p.s. Bill Hicks, what a genius. "YOU'RE SMOKING OUT OF YOUR ASS MAN.......may i recommend nicorette gum?"