Go to Metroshot, buy a gun, AND QUIT SMOKING?

[CALI-gula]

Go to Metroshot, buy a gun... AND QUIT SMOKING?

http://www.metroshotfirearms.com/

I wonder if there is a 10 day waiting period.

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[rivviepop]

Tell ya what, I quit cold turkey after 15 years of smoking (been clean now for some... 5 years?) and it was one of the best things I ever did. Anything that helps people stop smoking is A-OK by me, it's really hard for some folks. But man, the benefits after you do are very nice (like walking up hills without gasping for air!).

[CALI-gula]

Tell ya what, I quit cold turkey after 15 years of smoking (been clean now for some... 5 years?) and it was one of the best things I ever did. Anything that helps people stop smoking is A-OK by me, it's really hard for some folks. But man, the benefits after you do are very nice (like walking up hills without gasping for air!).

Never started to begin with. Never saw any logic or sense to it. Always seemed like a great expense to me for such little to absolutely no pay-off or returns. Same goes for that "other" tobacco too.

However, can one enjoy a SINGLE cigarette a couple of times a year? Or a cigar? A resounding YES! It gives you a great buzz, and is a super-relaxer, so long as you are not addicted. I know, most might say "but they are so addictive and you get hooked after the first one". Nope, never with me. That has never happened to me - I just don't have an addictive quality by any degree, for any kind of substance. I might have 1 to 3 cigarettes or cigars A YEAR. Some years - never.

Likewise, I drink a beer when I'm thirsty - maybe 1 to 3 a day (yes, in the morning too). Or a week might go buy where I don't buy any beer at all, simply because it slipped my mind to do so. Then it's water and juice I guess. However, I don't drink much of anything else (seriously, no soda, no milk, very little if any water or juice unless out of beer). I don't drink liqueurs at all, and a glass or 2 of a red wine on special occasions (couple of times a year maybe?). But I would no more drink 6 Coca-Colas right in a row than I would 6 beers; I don't drink beer for the alcohol. Even when at a bar, I maybe have 1 or 2 max - it's just what I drink when thirsty.

I also have little to no false appetite of any kind, and only eat when actually hungry - never junk either. I can go a whole day with a some oatmeal in the morning and a banana or peanut-butter sandwich at lunch and think nothing of it. Not because I'm a health nut - that's just how I run. Yet I'm very active and athletic. I've never had to work too hard at that either; I don't think I've been concerned about my weight or the idea of dieting in all my life (except as a state champ in multiple sports back in high-school where strength was a concern - then used to work out a lot.) I've never had a beer belly, never worried about fat in the least, but I'm not a skeleton either. I still have much of the same athletic build I had when working out daily back then - same strength too. Full head of hair and not a single wrinkle in my face, not even under my eyes. It's odd, I know. Over 20 years since high school and I still wear the same sized jeans. I look a whole 15 to 20 years younger than my age (that is NOT my own assessment - that's what people guess at all the time). Those who've met me here from Calguns can vouch for that. And I still have the energy of a school of Blue Shark. I sleep maybe 5 hours a night on top of that.

Funny story: a few weeks ago, I met a girl that was incredibly hot, who I thought was about 25 or 27. She and I were talking for a good while, and hitting it off. Now that's young for me as it is. But when I mentioned she and I should hit a coffee shop or a bar later on, she said "A bar? I'm only 20". She thought I was about 25 or so. DOH!! I didn't say a word but carefully took note of it. (for me, they need to be at least 25 or so).

I should probably volunteer for some kind of gene or physiological study toward discovering the attributes of people that are at the extreme opposite end of any kind of addictive nature and adverse to aging.



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[USN CHIEF]

It looks like a good deal..

[rivviepop]

Never started to begin with. Never saw any logic or sense to it. Always seemed like a great expense to me for such little to absolutely no pay-off or returns.

I can offer my insight - I was 15 (?) living in rural PA and there was this cute girl who smoked. So I started smoking to hang out with her and thus it began. At 15 we're all not the smartest of cookies yet...

[Ech0Sierra]

I enjoy an occasional cigar, but the habit never stuck.

[radioactivelego]

This is the funniest thing you could possibly show me on a Saturday. Metro Shot is just too cool. Thinking for you, the customer, when it comes to blowing $5 on a pack of cigarrettes instead of roughly 15 rounds of 9mm.

[CALI-gula]

I can offer my insight - I was 15 (?) living in rural PA and there was this cute girl who smoked. So I started smoking to hang out with her and thus it began. At 15 we're all not the smartest of cookies yet...

In that case.... "cute girl" is a perfectly valid reason. Instinct is not thinking, so smart doesn't even enter as a factor. Totally acceptable.

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[aplinker]

I can offer my insight - I was 15 (?) living in rural PA and there was this cute girl who smoked. So I started smoking to hang out with her and thus it began. At 15 we're all not the smartest of cookies yet...

Did it work?

[rivviepop]

Did it work?

go ahead, rub it in. no, it didn't - but I did end up dating a cute friend of hers later though, so it's all good.