Quittin Club, how's everyone doing?

[3waycross]

Doin pretty good..........haven't smoked since 1989 and haven't had a chew since 2005........still can't be around someone opening a fresh can of Skoal though.

[VanC]

Been smoking for about 40 years now with no quitting in sight. Tax here on a pack goes up another 98 cents in a few days. When it gets up to $10 a pack, I'm quitting. I swear.

My hat's off to anyone that smoked or chewed at one time and quit. I know it's not easy.

[3waycross]

Been smoking for about 40 years now with no quitting in sight. Tax here on a pack goes up another 98 cents in a few days. When it gets up to $10 a pack, I'm quitting. I swear.

My hat's off to anyone that smoked or chewed at one time and quit. I know it's not easy.

Cigs were easy cuz i still chewed. Skoal was like quiting Heroin. I like to lost my mind and my marriage!

[Kathie in Thorp]

Been smoking for about 40 years now with no quitting in sight. Tax here on a pack goes up another 98 cents in a few days. When it gets up to $10 a pack, I'm quitting. I swear.

My hat's off to anyone that smoked or chewed at one time and quit. I know it's not easy.

Cigs were easy cuz i still chewed. Skoal was like quiting Heroin. I like to lost my mind and my marriage!

None of "quitting" is EZ, for most folks. My ex used to just decide to quit on a Wed., and he was done by Fri. -- for 6-8 months, then start again with stress issues and smoke for a year, and then start the whole, fast-quit thing again and be done again for awhile. To me, that was more of a mind-set, and I admired it.

[john250]

Tax here on a pack goes up another 98 cents in a few days. When it gets up to $10 a pack, I'm quitting. I swear.

It's $10+ in NYC, but there is no where to smoke 'em, legally.
There is an "Alice in Wonderland" aspect to the whole thing. Tobacco companies are "nationalized" businesses. Because of the "Master Settlement Agreement" the tobacco companies operate as agents of the government because tobacco poses such a risk. A small amount of state revenues are spent on prevention. Prevention mostly consists of recruiting groups of earnest young people to lobby your local government for no-smoking ordinances. And your legislators for state wide bans. It ignores more effective ways to prevent tobacco use and tramples on your right to associated with whom you please.
So, to summarize, Govenment collects Billions in "sin taxes" while avoiding practical ways to fight the problem effectively. And no one ever calls for prohibition. That would be like killing the golden goose.
I'll call for prohibition. Bring it on. Cigarette prices would drop 50% after the 6 months it took to ramp up production of "cigarette boats."

[Kathie in Thorp]

Tax here on a pack goes up another 98 cents in a few days. When it gets up to $10 a pack, I'm quitting. I swear.

It's $10+ in NYC, but there is no where to smoke 'em, legally.
There is an "Alice in Wonderland" aspect to the whole thing. Tobacco companies are "nationalized" businesses. Because of the "Master Settlement Agreement" the tobacco companies operate as agents of the government because tobacco poses such a risk. A small amount of state revenues are spent on prevention. Prevention mostly consists of recruiting groups of earnest young people to lobby your local government for no-smoking ordinances. And your legislators for state wide bans. It ignores more effective ways to prevent tobacco use and tramples on your right to associated with whom you please.
So, to summarize, Govenment collects Billions in "sin taxes" while avoiding practical ways to fight the problem effectively. And no one ever calls for prohibition. That would be like killing the golden goose.
I'll call for prohibition. Bring it on. Cigarette prices would drop 50% after the 6 months it took to ramp up production of "cigarette boats."

Is the gov't still subsidizing the tobacco growers? John, killing tobacco products would be like killing booze (again). It's legal, they want you to buy it, they tax the shyt out of it, but they warn you away, and happily collect your sin tax.

[TexasBred]

I've been buying them on the internet for a couple years now. About $26 a carton delivered and danged if I don't think they're better than those made in the US. Some come from Switzerland, Ukraine and who knows where else. ONly thing you can read on the pack is Winston Silver.

[john250]

Tax here on a pack goes up another 98 cents in a few days. When it gets up to $10 a pack, I'm quitting. I swear.

It's $10+ in NYC, but there is no where to smoke 'em, legally.
There is an "Alice in Wonderland" aspect to the whole thing. Tobacco companies are "nationalized" businesses. Because of the "Master Settlement Agreement" the tobacco companies operate as agents of the government because tobacco poses such a risk. A small amount of state revenues are spent on prevention. Prevention mostly consists of recruiting groups of earnest young people to lobby your local government for no-smoking ordinances. And your legislators for state wide bans. It ignores more effective ways to prevent tobacco use and tramples on your right to associated with whom you please.
So, to summarize, Govenment collects Billions in "sin taxes" while avoiding practical ways to fight the problem effectively. And no one ever calls for prohibition. That would be like killing the golden goose.
I'll call for prohibition. Bring it on. Cigarette prices would drop 50% after the 6 months it took to ramp up production of "cigarette boats."

Is the gov't still subsidizing the tobacco growers? John, killing tobacco products would be like killing booze (again). It's legal, they want you to buy it, they tax the shyt out of it, but they warn you away, and happily collect your sin tax.

There has been no grower subsidy for years.

[hooknline]

Only this group could take quitting smoking or whatever the vice and turn it political

[cow pollinater]

killing tobacco products would be like killing booze (again). It's legal, they want you to buy it, they tax the shyt out of it, but they warn you away, and happily collect your sin tax.

As far as the government is concerned it's BEST if we all smoke and drink away our working years and pay the sin tax and then DIE before we are a liability to the revenue they collected.

As for myself as a member of the quiting club: I haven't had time to think about it. I think I'm somewhere around a six pack a day but I have one after a ten hour day and go back to work for awhile and then come in for two and move to easy chores and then have another before bed. Almost like normal people do. If I can hold to this year round I'll be happy.
I did buy a bag of chew a few days ago so I guess that's a backstep but I've only had two wads out of it and really din't care about it one way or the other so I really can't say that I'm going back to it. I used to chew a can of copenhagen a day and I gave that up overnight so I'm really not to worried about nicotine.
This time of year the work piles up so fast I couldn't be any kind of addict to anything except work. I'm not happy where I'm at now but my real struggle is in the winter months when I'm cooped up after the breeding route is done with nothing to keep me moving.

[hooknline]

Keep it up cp. I'm impressed

[Kathie in Thorp]

Keep it up cp. I'm impressed

Yeah, CP -- Keep at it!

[cow pollinater]

I'm not impressed at all. That's always been my pattern... Everything gets worse in the winter when I'm cooped up. My test comes around late November. I kept it in control this year better than I've ever been able to do and if I can learn to do that every year I'll be happy. It's something that I've figured out that I know I have to keep a handle on or it's going to control me and I'm just not okay with that.
I gotta hand it to you though, You've got smoking beat. Good job. You are the better of the two of us. I'm doing what I said I wouln't do anymore and you're not.
I'm happy that you're not doing it anymore and I'm happy that I'm still working on it. You win but we both won.

[papavillars]

If all y'all continue to quit, you are going to put my cigar store out of business. I love a single malt scotch and a double corona cigar.

[TexasBred]

If all y'all continue to quit, you are going to put my cigar store out of business. I love a single malt scotch and a double corona cigar.

I'll skip the seegar but pass the scotch.