Thread: Quitting nicotine, wanting to want to ....

I read the thread on the E-cigs with interest. Sounds like a great thing that might work. I smoked Camels with no filters for 36 years. Quit those ten years ago. I've been smoking a pipe for over 20 years and still do on a too regular basis. I might smoke 15 to 20 bowls a day. At work when I'm actually tattooing I can't smoke so I dip Copenhagen snuff to take the edge off.

Seriously addicted to nicotine not to mention the habit and ritual that goes with it. The doc says I am pre emphysema and I don't doubt it. I don't inhale the pipe and I ride bicycles a lot. One of the main reasons I'd like to quit is to improve my performance on road and on the trail.

Anyhow, I remember when I was in AA years ago a mentor of mine told me that some guys, "want to want to, but they don't want to." He was referencing quitting drinking. That is where I am at with the tobacco. Smoking GL Pease Blackpoint in a Peterson as I type this.