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Post by freshnthehouse on Jun 18, 2014 21:14:52 GMT -5
So did mine. Three packs a day. Marlboro lights (at least that's what I remember him smoking). Then on New Year's Eve 2000 he quit cold turkey. luckily I was out of the house by then so I didn't have to be around for it. He always tells smokers that are trying to quit to aim for three months, because for him the cravings got a whole lot weaker after three months. My grandmother, meanwhile, had close to five pack a day habit up until her late 70s when they finally had to hook to oxygen. It's heartbreaking to watch an otherwise healthy woman getting killed by her lungs. Truly awful way to die. |
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Post by freshnthehouse on Jun 18, 2014 21:17:50 GMT -5
the biggest struggle with tobacco to me is I get bored and its there. When my dad quit quite a few of his co-workers did as well, but unfortunately most them went back to it. My uncle was one of them. What bothered him is that when was working on something and it didn't seem to go right he would always put down his tools, stand back, and smoke a cig. The habit of doing that sucked him back in. |
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Post by cfoo on Jun 18, 2014 21:19:39 GMT -5
I wasn't as bad as tony gwynn so I hope I don't die. but 20 years of this (censored). I would dip maybe 2 tins a week in my 20's. I was really healthy though and quitting wasn't that hard either when I did it. I felt totally healthy and like it was my 20's and not that big a deal. when I started smoking is when it got really bad. last 5 years or so a pack a day.
The issue is I do it when im doing this lol which explains a lot. I m on my computer and do it inside and its horrible.
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Post by cfoo on Jun 18, 2014 21:22:13 GMT -5
It gets all in your skin and clothes and everything. its disgusting. but yet I continued to do this for 5 years knowing this the entire time and being completely pissed like what am I doing to myself.
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Post by freshnthehouse on Jun 18, 2014 21:24:30 GMT -5
I was really healthy though and quitting wasn't that hard either when I did it. I felt totally healthy and like it was my 20's and not that big a deal. I think that's how most all people get hooked. They start when they're young and think they're ten feet tall and bulletproof. The next thing you know 10-20 years have passed and it's kicking your butt. Another buddy of mine quit smoking because it was already causing him to get seriously winded when he was in his late 20s. |
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Post by cfoo on Jun 18, 2014 21:27:43 GMT -5
it made me feel like !!!GREENIAC!!! the entire time though. I more meant once I quite I recovered really fast. ive always fought it and know its horrible w hich is good but I still do it. In my 20's im not really explaining that well because I knew it was awful but when I had quit it felt really good.
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Post by cfoo on Jun 18, 2014 21:29:02 GMT -5
dipping I was able to function really normally. its just in your mouth. it would give me head rushes and give me heart palpatations like I was going to have a heart attack sometimes. really bad. I knew it was awful. smoking is worse imo because its all in your body and lungs and everything.
it also made it worse because I had quit and had beat it and started again.
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Post by cfoo on Jun 18, 2014 22:52:50 GMT -5
They don't make hitters like Gwynn anymore though. The game is so predicated on power now. Gwynn was a totally different kind of player. Not sure there is a player like him in the game today or will be again. Too many hr's not enough guys who just ht like gwynn did. I still remember how sweet his swing was.
He wasn't trying to hit hr's most of the time like these guys now. He was just trying to drive the ball and get on base to the opposite field a lot of the time.
He had tremendous bat control. I feel ike if he played today someone would try to make him a power hitter and a pull hitter like Ortiz or something and would ruin him. Ortiz is overrated in that regard. He plays in fenway and a dead pull hitter.
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Post by freshnthehouse on Jun 19, 2014 1:50:37 GMT -5
Tony Gwynn was incredible. He is like the Chuck Norris of baseball, except that all his exploits really happened.
- Against Greg Maddux, Gwynn batted .415 in 107 plate appearances. That’s the most PAs he had against any batter. Gwynn also never struck out versus Maddux.
-For his career batting average to slip below .300, Gwynn would have needed to add 1,183 hitless at-bats to his total — roughly the equivalent of two full seasons.
-In 2,440 career games, Gwynn had only 34 multi-strikeout games. So, the odds were better that Gwynn would get four hits than striking out twice. Let that sink in.
- 1995, Gwynn struck out only 15 times in 535 at-bats. That's insane. As Aceball Stats points out, 27 current MLB players have already struck out than more than 15 times in June.
- Gwynn had 323 career at-bats against Maddux, Martinez, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz and struck out only three times.
- In two-strike counts, Gwynn hit .302. That's a statistic that's only been measured since 1988, and since then, Gwynn's mark is easily the best. Wade Boggs, next on the list, hit .260 in two-strike counts.
- Gwynn's rookie season, in which he played in 54 games, is the only year of his career that he didn't hit .300. He hit .289. His 19 consecutive .300 seasons are second to only Ty Cobb, who had 23.
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