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juantoo3 said:
I wish my sense of smell (and taste) would come back. They seem to have been replaced by a horrendous allergic response to life. My sinuses are so congested I haven't breathed through my nose in a couple months...hmmm, right about the time I quit.

*Sigh*
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Juan,

Are you sure you don't have allergies? It is spring and the trees have been pollenating for weeks now. Maybe try an allergy tablet and see what happens?
 
Paladin said:
Juan,

Are you sure you don't have allergies? It is spring and the trees have been pollenating for weeks now. Maybe try an allergy tablet and see what happens?
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Thanks Paladin, but I've tried claritin, flonase, and a couple others to no lasting relief. I take to flushing my nasal passages when I shower, which helps briefly. The thing is, I haven't been allergic until the last few years, and the reactions are getting worse and more prolonged.
 
Funny thing, I get to speak to many people who suddenly in middle age develop allergies. Being in the HVAC trade, people ask for information on AC or HEPA systems and the like. My wife has been getting the shots for about two years now, and they seem to be working quite well. She used to be a shut-in during the spring season, but is out there now enjoying the spring activities she used to miss.
 
juantoo3 said:
Thanks Paladin, but I've tried claritin, flonase, and a couple others to no lasting relief. I take to flushing my nasal passages when I shower, which helps briefly. The thing is, I haven't been allergic until the last few years, and the reactions are getting worse and more prolonged.
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try using LOCAL honey (so you get the honey from your allergens) for anything you'd put sugar in, and buy some bee pollen granules, during the season start out slow a grain under the tongue and double every other day till your upto a tablespoon, let it melt there. (too much too fast and you'll have doozy of an allergic reaction)

I don't know anyone who those two things hasn't helped. Of course for some cutting out dairy and mucous creating foods and increasing water makes those mucous membranes work better. The last thing I'd ever do is take anything which keeps in my body that my body wants out of it...

What does a rich man keep and a poor man throw away??

Highlight the snot answer.
 
I never use to have breathing problems when I was a smoker, except for the typical smoker issues such as pain in the lungs. I think my lungs were too busy with the smoke to worry about the cats. I am allergic to cats, but I live in a house with 10 people and there has always been one or two cats. I began to have lung and breathings problems due to the cats and started to use Advair, which is a Carticoid applied locally by breathalyser, as well as Proventil, a bronchio-dilator for my immediate symptoms. I was able to gradually take away those meds, using them only to treat and prevent symptoms. Now my breathing is good, and I can just take some Breathe Easy tea when my breathing seems slow. I pet the cat to keep in contact with the allergens. I also take Benedryl and other things to cover the ticklish runny nose allergies, which seem to be more resilient than the lung ones and are not necessarily related to the cats. Most allergies must come from living in Eastern USA, I think.
 
Been 48 hours... By now I would have smoked around 90 -100 cigarettes and about 8 joints.

I've smoked the grand total of seven cigarettes and three joints :D

This thread recently has made me look at how much I smoke... I guess I smoke too much.... I have found that I feel like a school kid again lol... I mean I appreciate and enjoy a smoke now instead of just constant habit.... I guess it will help me not be so unhealthy I guess.. Fitness isn't an issue but I am sure health is.
 
ya'll are quitting just in time.

Fire-safe cigarettes are taking over here in the states, they go out when you quit smoking them. Smokers are up in arms as nobody is telling them what chemical was added/modified to make them not continue to burn.

Who cares about the thousands of chemicals that they've been inhaling, for some reason this is a concern.
 
Strange in rolling tobacco which I smoke they have always been like that, they go out when you stop smoking, it is making sure the tobacco is at the right texture, not too dry and not to damp. It is real tobbacco...Strand from the plant. Cut open a normal cigarette and look at the pale dry tobacco shavings in it... Then check out the shag of rolling tobacco.
 
I think I read somewhere that they actually added something to make the cigarettes keep burning..

maybe they removed that element?

I believe I also read somewhere that pot is 10x worse for you than cigarettes.. but who knows that could have been an anti-drug propaganda statement. :)
 
Faithfulservant said:
I think I read somewhere that they actually added something to make the cigarettes keep burning..

maybe they removed that element?

I believe I also read somewhere that pot is 10x worse for you than cigarettes.. but who knows that could have been an anti-drug propaganda statement. :)
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you are correct when it comes to tar/resin. If cigs put out that much the filters would get clogged. So it worse for your lungs, however less addictive than nicotine. And in theory without as many chemicals...unless of course you buy some stuff sprayed with paraquat.

They don't have to use the insecticides as the bugs are just laying around. "Hey man, don't eat that bud it's bad, I mean its good, I mean really bad, it is all cool man, check out that sunset" Can't fly straight, can't remember what they were supposed to get at the grocery store, just keep coming home with chips and ice cream...
 
greymare said:
yeah, its really frowned upon now. its not cool, its unfashionable and smelly. (according to the gen pop) You cant even smoke in pubs or clubs now.
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I think we get wrapped up in our worlds and become so blind sided.... Yesterday, I woke up to radio and for once I heard the news... And they were going on about how bad weed is and someone who is running for some high political position No idea who or what postion some woman, I do not keep up with politics.... Used weed when she was younger...

And she had come to the public to be "honest" about this but still believed she should get this job yet those who smoke it should be punished hard... Because "it is stronger now then when I used it..." lol....

Anyway they were going on and on about how weed is bad and so on (I know this doesn't relate stay with me.)

Then they took a break came back to speak of how tons of drunk football fans in manchester caused riots and ripped down a public television screen in a square and so on and so forth, the place the morning after looked like a war zone..... And you hear of these drink problems all the time... And in my half awake mind I thought....... Uhm.... Isn't that the main issue here? Tell me the last time you heard of a pack of stoners disturbing the peace and causing CHAOS! Or to keep this on track normal cigarette smokers? Yet a **** load of resources and taxes and funds are tied into smoking bans and so on....

I think they need to start looking to alcohol as a dangerous drug that should be highly moderated....

Anyway after this breif report and opinions of the victims and terrorised locals... They got straight back to comdeming smokers......
 
ok, I hear ya. hears another one... (btw, totally unrealated subject, my bad). A gallery had a recent opening here Sydney, I think, anyway, the pictures displayed for this "regal"event were actually photos of children naked. A girl and boy aged about 12 and 10 all over the gallery, naked. Now, to me , yes, our bodies are a beautiful and wonderous thing, blah blah blah and yes I have many photos of my boys in the buff, but.......... this is different. Our prime minister suggested that the gallery should close this show as it was in bad tase. I agree. However, prominent "artsy" people said they it should remain open otherwise it would damage
Australias culture of art in the eyes of the world. ??????? Ok i saw some of these pics and no they werent lewd or suggestive, however....... I really shouldnt have to add anything here, should I???
think about this, if those photos were found on some random males cpmputer he would probably charged with child pornography....
 
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