@great-big-stees saidEvery think of a nice quiet night at home with just the two of you?
Pick a spot and if we’re able to travel, I may be available...as long as it’s in walking distance.🤔😉👍🍺🍺🍺🥃
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@great-big-stees saidCartagena it is 👍
Pick a spot and if we’re able to travel, I may be available...as long as it’s in walking distance.🤔😉👍🍺🍺🍺🥃
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@very-rusty saidTheir have been many of those over the past couple of years.🤔👍
Every think of a nice quiet night at home with just the two of you?
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@chaney3 saidI've naturally drifted away from drinking alcohol over the last few years (and so has she who is most beloved) and now seldom do, except the odd beer now and again, for social reasons, but it can be weeks in between sometimes. I eat well, vegetarian food, and try to do a half - hour on the cross - trainer every day, (we have a small gymnasium) although in reality it's usually about 4 or 5 times a week...I'm about right, weight - wise, however...I smoke way too many roll - ups. I write novels for fun and that is fueled by nicotine, and I can't seem to write without it, so I've kind of accepted the payoff. Indonesia (where I live) is still very much a smoking culture, and tobacco here is very cheap. I grew up in (English) smoke - filled cafes and pubs, and remember how my clothes used to stink of tobacco smoke after a night out, and it felt like living. Cafes and pubs just don't seem to have the atmosphere that they once did, the smell of French cigarettes in Parisian cafes and so on. I've also become more fatalistic since Covid; how many people have died of respiratory illness over the last two years, and I wonder how many of them smoked? Very few, I suspect, whereas after 40 odd years of smoking I seem not to suffer at all as a consequence, lucky old me. It'll probably get me in the end, but after the kind of life I've had, which has been a good one, everything from here on is a bonus, and I intend to enjoy it!
How are you doing with this?
Me: have abstained from alcohol for 8 months, and I've been lifting weights pretty consistently. But.....I smoke cigarettes, drink too much coffee and soda, and avoid cardio exercise (due to smoking), and avoid ab work (laziness).
I haven't made any resolutions, but I can do much better with my lifestyle.
I should also get a physical exam, which I haven't done in years.
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@indonesia-phil saidMy mum smoked...a lot and for a long time. In her late 80s she was hospitalized for some ailment (the specifics escape me) and as such wasn’t able to smoke for the duration (10 days). On leaving the hospital she either forgot that she smoked or just kicked the habit. She passed away years (6) later from lung cancer. I remember her saying, just before she died, that she’d die for a smoke. 🤔😥
I've naturally drifted away from drinking alcohol over the last few years (and so has she who is most beloved) and now seldom do, except the odd beer now and again, for social reasons, but it can be weeks in between sometimes. I eat well, vegetarian food, and try to do a half - hour on the cross - trainer every day, (we have a small gymnasium) although in reality it's ...[text shortened]... e I've had, which has been a good one, everything from here on is a bonus, and I intend to enjoy it!
@indonesia-phil saidI still think you should leave the cigarettes, they aren't worth it in the end if you get ill.
I've naturally drifted away from drinking alcohol over the last few years (and so has she who is most beloved) and now seldom do, except the odd beer now and again, for social reasons, but it can be weeks in between sometimes. I eat well, vegetarian food, and try to do a half - hour on the cross - trainer every day, (we have a small gymnasium) although in reality it's ...[text shortened]... e I've had, which has been a good one, everything from here on is a bonus, and I intend to enjoy it!
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@indonesia-phil saidThat's what young smokers say when they think they have a whole life to live. Don't expose yourself to the risk of damaging your lungs more than you have done already.
I've naturally drifted away from drinking alcohol over the last few years (and so has she who is most beloved) and now seldom do, except the odd beer now and again, for social reasons, but it can be weeks in between sometimes. I eat well, vegetarian food, and try to do a half - hour on the cross - trainer every day, (we have a small gymnasium) although in reality it's ...[text shortened]... e I've had, which has been a good one, everything from here on is a bonus, and I intend to enjoy it!
I had to say it.
Edit: I am an ex-smoker, started in my early teens and stopped when I was 49. I have been lucky so far, no consequences as far as I know, but some of my friends were not and they suffer.
@torunn saidI am an ex-smoker. I worked on a vascular ward as a student where I met somebody who was smoking with their one remaining limb and even then it took a few years before I stopped. Incredibly, when I finally did, it wasn't that hard to stop. I just changed jobs and told everyone I met I was a non-smoker. Bizarrely nobody wants to see a non-smoker accept a cigarette, but smokers do offer cigarettes to other smokers who are trying to give up and make it harder?!?
That's what young smokers say when they think they have a whole life to live. Don't expose yourself to the risk of damaging your lungs more than you have done already.
I had to say it.
Edit: I am an ex-smoker, started in my early teens and stopped when I was 49. I have been lucky so far, no consequences as far as I know, but some of my friends were not and they suffer.
Anyway (to Phil), don't believe the myth that after a certain age there are no benefits from quitting. That simply isn't true.
@relentless-red said"Anyway (to Phil), don't believe the myth that after a certain age there are no benefits from quitting. That simply isn't true."
I am an ex-smoker. I worked on a vascular ward as a student where I met somebody who was smoking with their one remaining limb and even then it took a few years before I stopped. Incredibly, when I finally did, it wasn't that hard to stop. I just changed jobs and told everyone I met I was a non-smoker. Bizarrely nobody wants to see a non-smoker accept a cigarette, but ...[text shortened]... lieve the myth that after a certain age there are no benefits from quitting. That simply isn't true.
Very wise. There are more benefits than we can think of before we try it.
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@torunn saidI quit smoking about 35 years ago. I put on about 20lbs and have only been able to loose about half of those lbs. Now having said that I didn’t really try too hard to shed the last half. 🤭😁
"Anyway (to Phil), don't believe the myth that after a certain age there are no benefits from quitting. That simply isn't true."
Very wise. There are more benefits than we can think of before we try it.
@great-big-stees saidYour dear mother had a good innings, as we say in cricketing* nations; if I make it into my eighties I'll consider that a result, and bow out disgracefully...
My mum smoked...a lot and for a long time. In her late 80s she was hospitalized for some ailment (the specifics escape me) and as such wasn’t able to smoke for the duration (10 days). On leaving the hospital she either forgot that she smoked or just kicked the habit. She passed away years (6) later from lung cancer. I remember her saying, just before she died, that she’d die for a smoke. 🤔😥
* England are currently having a disastrous test series against Australia, something which puts iron in the soul of a cricket lover such as myself.