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luceze



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PostPosted: October 31, 2007 11:30 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just one will be OK...

My wife smokes why can't I?

I am one of the 95% that relapses 100%.
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PostPosted: October 31, 2007 12:34 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

these are some great excuses! anyone else?
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Moriah



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PostPosted: March 10, 2008 12:40 PM    Post subject: It's all a blur... Reply with quote

People wanted me to quit and I hated being told what to do or feeling obligated....how silly is that?!

This is my 4th day as a non-smoker and I feel great and I don't care why I quit (maybe a combination of being told to, obligations, and being sick of it altogether?) all I know is I quit and I never want to re-live that first 72 hours again!!!!

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Pamela



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PostPosted: March 10, 2008 1:26 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why didn't I ever see this post before?

Here's one of my classics from the past:

"After a week or two of being quit, no one asks me about it anymore, so they must not care if I'm quit or not, so why should I?"

(Note, this is a COMBO lame excuse, meaning that it combines several classics into one!)

How about this one....

"I just don't feel like ME as a non-smoker!"
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PostPosted: March 10, 2008 7:15 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

both good answers, moriah and pam (especially, the combo of lameness, pam - and the one about not feeling like yourself as a non-smoker is the classic of classics)...

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Snowlover



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PostPosted: March 12, 2008 4:50 PM    Post subject: Just One Reply with quote

Don't know how many quits I lost because I just kept insisting that I was just having one.
Something I saw here or somewhere the other day made me really think about that - you have to do the 72 hours over again even if you only have one puff. WHAT??? One Puff - Oh, MA GOSH!!
So I've been hitting my head against the wall over and over and each time expecting different results. Kinda a slow to learn wouldn't you say?
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PostPosted: March 12, 2008 8:40 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

"just this one" is the classic of all classics, kaye - i don't know anybody who's quit now that hasn't fallen for it at least once (or, in my case, a lot more than once)...
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Snowlover



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PostPosted: April 15, 2008 11:37 AM    Post subject: Eating or Not Eating Reply with quote

Being hungry and not cooking contributed to me not quitting smoking. I'm not that interested in cooking. I was thinking about the thousands of times I smoked instead of eating because I didn't want to have to hassle with cooking something or going to get something or even thinking about food.
This isn't an issue for relapse but when I was making French Toast for breakfast I thought of this. I had to fight myself to make the effort to go and make something good to eat instead of stressing out about not being able to smoke.
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kannprint



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PostPosted: April 15, 2008 12:17 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Like Pamela, I don't think I ever noticed this stickey. My reason for relapses was always the same. "I can quit anytime I want to. Smoking's just a bad habit."
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Breez



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PostPosted: May 20, 2008 10:40 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

I know we have all heared this one but I am going to say it again
"just one drag" and I will be fine. It will not mess me up.
But I know it will!!! So I say no to myself. So far so good!!!
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Horikin



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PostPosted: August 9, 2008 12:43 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got a few:

"Well I've been nicofree for X days and it hasn't been THAT hard, I,ll just have fun today and start over tomorrow"...it took months before tomorrow came!

The effect of smoking doesn't effect our family...My father has been smoking all his life and he's still here at 63!..I am only 33!

Let me just enjoy today, I might die tomorrow!

I might as well smoke, since everyone is smoking in here!
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Etienne



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PostPosted: August 14, 2008 3:36 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

From a News Website (Cannot Post Links)

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Scenes of horror in massage parlour
20 January 2003

CAPE TOWN — Scenes of utter horror greeted journalists on Monday when they were finally allowed to enter a house in Sea Point where six men were found tied up and shot dead. Their throats had also been slit.

A seventh victim of the gruesome early-morning attack at the well-known Sea Point gay massage parlour, frequented by men, died in Groote Schuur Hospital.

Two others were in the hospital's intensive-care unit while another man was admitted to Somerset Hospital. He was due to be transferred to Groote Schuur.

About seven hours after the massacre, journalists were allowed into the main bedroom of the white, red tiled house, one at a time and only for a few seconds.

From the outside, the house, with its picket fence, shrubs and flowers, is partly hidden from the road and appears neat and tidy. It gives no clue as to what transpired inside.
Teddy bears lying on the floor

The main bedroom was dark and dingy. Heavy curtains covered the windows and there was blood everywhere.

The room contained six bunk beds — apparently for guests wanting to spend the night.

The place appeared to have been ransacked with items of clothing and teddy bears lying on the floor.

Inside the house, there were television sets and video cassette recorders, but police did not divulge what was on the tapes.

There were also cubicles inside the house with massage tables and pornographic photographs of men stuck to the walls.
'Where's Eric?'

About 09:30, a woman, apparently the domestic worker, arrived at the house and immediately started crying uncontrollably. She cried out: "Where's Eric, where's Eric", as she was comforted by police.

It could not be immediately ascertained, but Eric is believed to have owned or managed the massage parlour.

The woman was later taken away by police.

Captain Etienne Terblanche, who was at the house, said the three survivors were in a serious condition.

Five bodies had been found inside the main bedroom, all tied up together and all shot close range. Some of them had their throats slit. Another body was found in an adjacent bedroom.

Terblanche said three injured people were found inside the house with similar injuries.
Victims found bleeding and screaming

A fourth injured man escaped from the house and stumbled into a nearby service station. A petrol attendant said the man was able to say only where the bloodbath had taken place before he collapsed.

Another police source said the injured were found crawling around the house, bleeding and screaming.

Terblanche said police were questioning neighbours and people living in the immediate vicinity as well as street children… everyone who could be questioned as witnesses.

A statement had also been taken from a client who arrived at the house shortly after 04:00.

Terblanche confirmed the house was used as a gay massage parlour. They had had dealings in the past, after complaints from some neighbours.
Scope of investigation 'very wide'

Terblanche did not want to speculate about whether the killing was related to a gay protection racket or whether drug dealers were involved.

All he would say was that police were investigating all avenues.

"The scope of our investigation is very wide at the moment. We are looking at all possibilities."

Asked whether there could be a link to attacks on other gay clubs, Terblanche again said all possibilities would be investigated.

He said it might be difficult to identify the victims as men who frequented such places usually used aliases.

Safety and security MEC Leonard Ramatlakane who was at the house early on Monday said he was shocked that people could be massacred in that way.

Ramatlakane said an integrated police task team had been put together to investigate the massacre which looked like "organised crime was behind this."

The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project said in a statement that it had learnt with shock about the massacre.

The organisation's director, Evert Knoesen, said indications were that the murders could be a hate crime.
Sex workers vulnerable

"People who work in the sex service industry are particularly vulnerable (to violence) as they operate outside the parameters of formal society," said Knoesen.

He said crimes against "these people" were often not investigated as thoroughly as they could be.

"Further, we are concerned that this could be an instance of a hate crime perpetrated against gay men as an identified minority.

"We have been concerned about threats issued by various fringe groups in society in recent months that indicated an intention to perpetrate acts of violence against lesbian and gay people," said Knoesen.

He called on the national commissioner of police and the commissioner of police in the Western Cape to appoint a special investigation team to urgently investigate the mass murder and to spare no effort in apprehending the perpetrators of these crimes.

The Equality Project conveyed its sympathies to those who had lost family and friends and wished the injured a speedy recovery.
Flat owner woken by shots

An Oliver Court flat-owner, who declined to be identified, said he had been woken by shots and had seen a man with a gaping wound to his neck, running up Oliver Street to a service station in Main Road.

Police had been called.

The flat-owner said 15 police vehicles and four ambulances had arrived at the house shortly after 04:00. All roads leading to Graham Road were immediately sealed off.
'Nothing surprises you anymore

Another elderly couple, out from the United Kingdom to escape the British winter said they had heard the shots from their flat in Rhona Court.

"We came here from England to escape the weather and this is what happens," said the husband, who did not wish to be named.

"At the age of 77, you've seen quite enough so nothing surprises you anymore," they said.
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You can problably recognize my first name as the Police spokesperson. That day I started smoking after 2 years. I always thought it was a great excuse, but today I realize that I only used it as a convenient excuse. In a way I actually misused a terrible situation to hide my failure. After that it took years to get the guts together to do it again !

Any excuse is a lame excuse !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Etienne
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matta89



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PostPosted: November 8, 2009 9:00 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Since my friend is smoking and offered one, its his fault and I have no choice but to smoke"
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GoodGolly



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PostPosted: November 26, 2012 4:18 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use the old "I'll quit tomorrow... just these few won't matter." I have been using it for a long time and it's worn out.... like I feel from smoking.... Shocked
Or another fav of mine is "I'll start all over on Day 1 on Monday." It's so disheartening to take the first puff after being quit for a while. I have done it many, many times.
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Hwd-Lan



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PostPosted: April 23, 2014 11:30 AM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cigs are stronger than I'll ever be.
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