sgt.barney

Sarge suggests an attitude change. There are no half-measures. You CANNOT be a NonSmoker and "cheat". You CANNOT be a NonSmoker and have an "occasional cigar". You CANNOT be a NonSmoker if you are full of excuses. Half-steppin' it doesn't get you there. Get that sh|t outa your head right now or fail again. Quit, or don't quit - Sarge doesn't really care. He's just tellin' you straight up - there is no "in between" where you get to quit and still smoke. There is no magic Limbo where you get to claim non-smoker status and have a cigar. There is no grey area. You are a non-smoker... or you are not. Oh - And quit making excuses. If you have to quit drinking, then you have to quit drinking. Harden up. Embrace the Suck and do what you need to do. EZPZ

Sarge ran his first Marathon as a smoker. Time: 5:48 Sarge ran his second marathon as a non-smoker Tme: 3:49 Same training plan. Same miles logged. Same race course. 2 hours better simply by being able to breathe properly during training (and race day). EZPZ

The "decision to quit" means exactly fark-all-diddley-squat without the ... y'know ... actual act of quitting ... right? Literally millions of folk a day "decide" to quit ... yet never act on said decision. EZPZ.

Sarge just closes his browser window and silently wonders to himself, shaking his head : "How 'bout just a little farking personal responsibility ..." It ain't up to your government. No matter who you are nor where you live. EZPZ.

Sarge questions your motivations for and your conviction to your quit. Do you want to quit? Really? Sarge doesn't think so. EZPZ.

Who can forget those wacky Jarts ... aka Lawn Darts ... aka Immediate Trip To The Local E.R. and/or ... Morgue ? EZPZ

Sarge had his very last crave/urge at about 10 months. He is now nearing the 7-year mark and not a crave since. It goes away. For everyone. Timing is unique and personal, but it does go. EZPZ

He has now. He's too busy out in The Gardens to keep up online for a few months. He's gone Professional with the back yard gardens. Now, back on point: While heliotropism/phototropism is a thing, it is not a guaranteed thing. Clue: Genetic variability is also a thing. EZPZ

Bullshit. Sarge quit while Mrs. Sarge continued for another 3 years. There were smokes around the house. All around. There were smokes in the car. There were smokes packed in the luggage. There were smokes in the back woods and mountains of all the trails hiked and mountains climbed that The Sarges went to for 3+ years. Yes - there were even smokes in bed. It's was, as still is ... Easy Peasy. If one has a problem with smokes "around the house", then one is not fully committed to The Quit. Cigarettes are around. All around. Even in your house. Get used to it. Billions of non-smokers are around smokes and smokers every day ... and they still don't smoke. They don't find it any easier or harder to not smoke when there are cigarettes around. Nor should you. If you do, then Sarge suggests there's a need for quite a bit of self-examination, especially in the area of commitment to The Quit. This quitter gets it. ^^^ On a most fundamental level, we only make it difficult on ourselves. We can, just the same, make it easy. Sarge did. You can too. It is as easy or as difficult as we CHOOSE to make it. EZPZ

Does anyone here NOT think that is the actual intent behind said legislation? I mean - Come on, folks ... EZPZ

Sarge *is*, in fact, a crazy bloke. Very crazy, indeed. But that says nothing of his message. The message is righteous, valid, and just. Regardless of Sarge's sociopathic tendencies. Do not, under any circumstances, allow your government to infringe/impede your ability to make your choices in life, folks. No matter where you live nor who governs. You will be forever sorry you did. EZPZ

Ben Franklin said it best ... in an altogether different and unrelated context ... but it quite aptly applies here. I will fight for freedom of choice - ANY CHOICE - in any situation at any time. The answer is to make the right choices. Not restrict others' freedom to choose. EZPZ

> Please don't tell me to take personal responsibility. Sarge will tell anyone any damned thing he wants. He says what he wants, when he wants, and he means what he says. > You do not know what I do. Sarge doesn't care one iota what you do. It is not important here. It is irrelevant. The only thing imortant is that you are a Nicotine Addict and that you CHOSE addiction. The rest is distraction, rationalization, avoidance, and excuse. >But the tobacco companies have more blood on their hands than I do Failure to take full responsibility will ultimately lead to failure of your quit. You have a choice here. > They hurt millions. They hurt NOT ONE individual who didn't VOLUNTARILY, WILLINGLY, and OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL ... Choose to smoke. > You are confusing the two. You ... have a lot to learn. EZPZ

Take some damned personal responsibility , folks. We knew what we were doing. We voluntarily chose this road. We were warned by many along the way of the dangers. From parents, to schools, to doctors, to friends, to PSAs on TV, to 11:00 evening news stories. Hell, the packaging itself has warned us since 1965(In the US) FFS. We made an informed choice. We chose to ignore the warnings. Once started, we could have chosen at any time to stop (just as you are doing now). We chose to wait. We chose to continue smoking. EZPZ

You will only have success when you quit all three. (Cig, Vape, Hooka) To do otherwise is futile frustration. There be Dragons and Daemons. You have been warned. What do? EZPZ

8-miler @ 1:03:04 (7:53/mile) Old Man Sarge is making progress. The goal is 6:50 to 7:05 for the full 26.2 Loooooong way to go. That's what happens when you sit on the couch for 11 months after your last race not logging a single damned mile. Mrs. Sarge has been training since Oct. Her first race is the Cincinnati Heart Mini Marathon[1] (15k (9.3 miles) in just a few weeks. Sarge is thinking about Bandit-ing[2] the race with her. He's up to the mileage but has no pace he wants on record yet. EZPZ ============= FOOTNOTES: ============= [1] http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Affiliate/2018-Cincinnati-Heart-Mini_UCM_317611_Event.jsp#.Wohzi6inHb0 [2] Bandit : To bandit a race - to start and run the race without bib-number, without digital tracking chip, without registration. You just show up and run the race. Of course you are ineligible for prizes and whatnot ... but you get to run the course and log your time ... assuming you don't get caught and escorted off the course.

Modus Operandi. EZPZ

Sarge has completed the first 100 Running Miles of his IronMan training plan. Only 2300 more to go ... Plus bike miles. Plus swim miles . EZPZ

LOL. You must be new here. Sarge honors his committments ... but he forgets that not everyone was around in the old days (80's and 90's) on The InterWebs. We didn't used to have fancy browsers and aps n' such. We quoted like this: > This is a quoted line > this is another quotedl line. > > Sarge, surprised to hear you had a relapse? > Did I read that right? > > End quoted text Quoted content was prepended with the ">" character. Sarge will use this site's quote feature in the future to avoid any further confusion. EZPZ

> I will never take another puff of a cigarette. No matter what. My final cigarette was smushed out at 10:30 a.m. on January 18th, 2018. EZPZ

I quit eating chocolate but I still crunch peanut brittle when the urge strikes... therefore I have a "lateral move" crutch and didn't actually quit eating chocolate. Do you hear how ridiculous of a (non)argument of (non)logic that is? EZPZ

Sarge did. Does. Has always and Will always say: It's Easy, folks. Easy Peasy Lemon Breezy. EZPZ.

They go away, Bro. EZPZ

Thx. Sarge has no doubt, either. The only thing that can slow him down would be injury. That wouldn't stop him... only delay the goal until healed. EZPZ Obligatory Daily Entry: 5k (3.1 miles) @ 23:16 (7:30/mile) Knocked off over 2 full minutes from last week's mid-week 5k @ 25:57. Early on these kinda gains are encouraging ... but in 4 months Sarge will be fighting ridonkulously hard every week for a mere 2 or 3 second gain. In the mean time, He'll take the full 2 minutes and cry: **** YEAH !! EZPZ

Sarge had craves up until about 10 months. Not a one since. It's over 6 years now. Ditto. First quit. Last quit. Only quit. 6+ years. Going on lifetime ... EZPZ