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GaDragonfly - 10 Aug 2007 05:30 GMT

Marina, if you find colorful squares of paper that have been scrunched
up into little balls hiding in dark corners of your home you'll know
Barnabus has been to visit. He can be in the opposite end of the
house and hear me open a tootsie Pop wrapper and he comes running at
full speed. I have to flick it off the couch across the room and he
then chases it and throws it around and plays with it for an hour. He
is such a silly cat and he brings pure joy into any room he enters.

Julie

Bragging a little:

Thanks to Chantix
Time Smoke-Free: 28 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes and 7 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 859
Lifetime Saved: 6 days, 13 hours to cuddle a cat
Money Saved: $195.75 to pay for cat toys
Four cats that don't smell like smoke.....priceless
(note I did not smoke in the same room with the cats. Like everything
else it seemed attracted to cat fur)

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jofirey - 10 Aug 2007 07:02 GMT

Just saw the advertising for Chantix at my doctor's office today for the
first time. Wonder if there were a way to get my daughter interested?

Jo

> Marina, if you find colorful squares of paper that have been scrunched
> up into little balls hiding in dark corners of your home you'll know
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> (note I did not smoke in the same room with the cats. Like everything
> else it seemed attracted to cat fur)

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Lesley - 10 Aug 2007 15:35 GMT

> Just saw the advertising for Chantix at my doctor's office today for the
> first time. Wonder if there were a way to get my daughter interested?
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> > then chases it and throws it around and plays with it for an hour. He
> > is such a silly cat and he brings pure joy into any room he enters.

Dunzi and Sarsi have hours of pleasure from the foil from cigarette
packets. Most times we open a new packet, there are two very hopeful
faces looking at us. Only thing Dunzi likes to play with- she's not
that interested in toys

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

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GaDragonfly - 10 Aug 2007 16:34 GMT

> Just saw the advertising for Chantix at my doctor's office today for the
> first time. Wonder if there were a way to get my daughter interested?
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> > (note I did not smoke in the same room with the cats. Like everything
> > else it seemed attracted to cat fur)

Jo,
Has your daughter shown any interest in stopping? That has to be the
first step, but I can tell you, this drug has been far better than any
of the nicotine replacement therapy options or Welbutrin. I'll be
happy to discuss this with you if you want to email me, my email
address is correct.

Julie

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jofirey - 10 Aug 2007 19:41 GMT

>> Just saw the advertising for Chantix at my doctor's office today for the
>> first time. Wonder if there were a way to get my daughter interested?
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>
> Julie

The most I can do is mention to her that I've heard of it and know someone
who has used it. Anything more that that would be seen as far more pressure
and interference that is intended.

Jo

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Lesley - 10 Aug 2007 21:08 GMT

> Has your daughter shown any interest in stopping? That has to be the
> first step,

Okay to be horribly unpopular and made to feel weak willed you've hit
the nail on the head..

You don't have to tell me it's expensive

You don't have to tell me it's bad for me- my best friend died of lung
cancer (ironically he was diagnosed 3 months after he'd quit) aged 58
(and I am 50 in a few months time) and lung cancer also got my uncle
at 75

I know I should and I have cut down a lot (60-70% less than I used to-
on a good day (There haven;t been too many of those of late) have two
all day and I think I can get back there

But I still don't want to quit because I don't want to turn into a
"smoke Nazi"- I mean the worse example I saw of that was in February
in the "Half Moon"...

I was heading for the toilet and I saw this little girl I am hopeless
at judging age but she could just about walk so I looked round because
I couldn't see who she was with and I thought she might have wandered
off from her parents. The next moment, this woman comes out of the no-
smoking section looking furious and she smacked this kid around the
head then picked her up by her arm and shook her again even I know you
shouldn't do that (I think you can dislocate their elbow) and she is
screaming at the child "You're near the smokers! You mustn't go near
the filthy smokers! Bad!" whilse shaking her and I said "Excuse me, I
think you're hurting her (Kid was screaming)

She actually snarled "You're a smoker...a filthy smoker! Don't tell me
how to bring my kid up- you blow poison over your children!"

Ummm..I don't have children and I would never smoke near children (I
once got very narked when a friend said I couldn't come round his
house because one of his kids has asthma and I smoke- I told him I
obey your rules in your house it's called common courtesy)

She dragged the kid off by the arm and I just stood there and thought
there are worse things than smoking in front of children
evidently............

I really felt like calling someone but didn't know who to call and
anyway she stormed out of the pub

I guess she must have had serious problems

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

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Matthew - 10 Aug 2007 21:14 GMT

>> Has your daughter shown any interest in stopping? That has to be the
>> first step,
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>
> Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

I think you should have to have a license to have children. It would save
many from a world of heartache

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Lesley - 11 Aug 2007 15:49 GMT

> I think you should have to have a license to have children. It would save
> many from a world of heartache-

Only problem with that is the uneasy feeling my parents wouldn't have
got the licence!

The single worse case of parenting I ever saw though wasn't even
violent, the woman probably read somewhere this is the right thing to
do.

It was at the South Bank complex and this todder was walking along the
edge of a walkway, she was so small she wasn't too steady on her feet
nor could she reach the handrail above her.

Below the walkway was a 40 odd feet drop into the car park and she's
walking on the edge..and her mother's idea of trying to stop her was
using reason! I kid you not, she was standing there saying "Now come
on Isadora! Isadora you don't want to walk there if you walk there and
you fall you will hurt youself and you wouldn't want to hurt yourself
would you?"

I'd have picked the child up and told her "No!" and I'm the woman that
all my relatives keep away from small children after I nearly
strangled my cousins little boy. It wasn;t that I was the only one to
notice the kid was missing and the front door was open...It wasn't
that on realised he was about to stand on broken glass with no shoes
on I snatched him off the ground.

It was me wondering why he was struggling because it never occured to
me that Human babies don't have a scruffing rellex......

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

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Matthew - 11 Aug 2007 17:17 GMT

>> I think you should have to have a license to have children. It would
>> save
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>
> Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

In my office I have a glass shield one way see thru I watch these parents
all the time. Seen them beat their kids, scream at their kids a whole bunch
of horrible things all captured on video. When Child protection services
arrive or the police I always love their reaction of oh no I did not do
that and when the video is shown to them oh that is not me
My favorite is when they have small children and let them run loose. the
sign in my stores windows say all small children must be accompanied by an
adult. The people let them run free and don't even notice I think the
longest was 2 hours that the kids were in the security office

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Marina - 10 Aug 2007 08:25 GMT

> Marina, if you find colorful squares of paper that have been scrunched
> up into little balls hiding in dark corners of your home you'll know
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> then chases it and throws it around and plays with it for an hour. He
> is such a silly cat and he brings pure joy into any room he enters.

So that's where they were coming from. ;) He sounds very much like
Caliban. Sometimes it's enough to just look at him and I can't help
laughing, even if he isn't doing anything.

> Bragging a little:
>
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> (note I did not smoke in the same room with the cats. Like everything
> else it seemed attracted to cat fur)

You have every reason to brag. :) Ooh, I should calculate how much money
I've saved. No, maybe not. I would just wonder where it all went.

Signature

Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

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Matthew - 10 Aug 2007 21:25 GMT

Congratulations I quit many many many years ago. It was the best thing
that I ever did.

When I quit this was before I owned my stores. I used the money I saved
from 2 packs a day to buy a vehicle

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Enfilade - 10 Aug 2007 22:47 GMT

That is awesome Julie, good for you.

DP and I are not smokers but my brothers in law both are. So was
Captain Hancock (the man who tamed Smokey) and incidentally Smokey got
his name from hanging out in the smoking pit all day putting the moves
on smokers for a bite of their lunch.

Anyway, Daniel and Dorian (cat haters) lived with me for a few months
last fall and they wanted to know why Smokey was ALWAYS sleeping on
their jackets, like it was his comfort blankie or something, and he
simply would not leave them alone. and I was like "dudes. My cat
loves the smell of cigarettes. The more you smoke, the more he wants
to be on you."

My rule for them living there was that they smoke on the balcony,
where me and the cats wouldn't have to breathe it in. They did a very
good job of following this rule, much to Smokey's disappointment.

--Fil

> > Thanks to Chantix
> > Time Smoke-Free: 28 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes and 7 seconds
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> > (note I did not smoke in the same room with the cats. Like everything
> > else it seemed attracted to cat fur)

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Lesley - 11 Aug 2007 15:53 GMT

> My rule for them living there was that they smoke on the balcony,
> where me and the cats wouldn't have to breathe it in. They did a very
> good job of following this rule, much to Smokey's disappointment.

And if I came to your house then I would do that. I once had to go for
a very long car journey with a manager of mine and when we got out at
the other end, she said "I just want to thank you for not smoking"

I was pretty stunned as it had never occured to me to light up in her
car because I knew she didn't smoke...And given that the woman once
admitted to me that if she had to drive me to commit suicide she would
to get rid of me and did almost suceed but I went sick with stress
(And I don't stress easily but one morning I opened the front door to
go out to work and started shaking so much at the thought of another
day of it...) perhaps revenge would have been 40+ unfiltered Woodbines
over her leather upholstery

But no I'm too polite for my own good!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

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