Distract me please??? Make me laugh??

Rowena

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I cheated yesterday....and had 3 cigarettes....

I have NO cigarettes here, and haven't had ANY today....

I can no longer afford to smoke, we are on "Extreme Budget" mode, and we can make it work, provided DH and I don't smoke, something we both wanted to do anyway. But telling ourselves that having that tiny cushion we'd smoked up to buy milk for our kids....is compelling. (Yes, we're both doing this "cold turkey" method.)

But , I am weak....I need distraction. I need goofiness. I need to laugh.

Help me....help me, before I go a smoke from the neighbors...(how I got 2 of the 3 smokes yesterday.....)
 
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Good enough?
 
I'm horrible at remembering jokes, but I wanted to wish you luck. Hang tough!
 
I see that you have some young children. Let me just share with you that my father got lung cancer at the age of 38 due to second hand smoke that he grew up with from his parents. It made his lungs week and very succeptible to the disease. He died when my sisters and I were 16, 14, and 12 from lung cancer. Still want to smoke now??
 

How about I stand on my head, or I can have one of my doggies put their head in your lap and they'll let you pet them until you feel better or your arm falls off.
We could all gather around and do the can can for you. :cool1: Or I guess in this case, it would be the can't can't. ::yes::
 
man, I wish I could have taken pics from the 'Bodies" exhibit here. the lungs from smokers were literally coal black inside and out and 2/3 the size of normal.

good luck on your path. I can't come up with any humorous distractions right now. but you're a good parent for putting your kids and and your long views ahead of the habit, no matter how tough it is. you've got to be strong and break that cycle so your kids don't grow up with it or want anything to do with it.

then sue the *******s at big tobacco. :earsboy:
 
Okay....come to my apartment. Sit down in the LazyBoy...have a blankie on your lap. Now...the kitties pictured below will be asleep on your lap within minutes.

Feel free to order a pay per view....there is Coke and GingerAle in the fridge....I'll go out and get some Godiva Chocolate....chocolate or ice cream....your pick. Or we can put in the Cinderella DVD!

The object is....you can't move once the babies are in place and you can't smoke in my apartment!
 
I'll share my favorite joke my Grandma told me when I was little. It was and still is my favorite!!

A couple is walking in a park admiring the changing leaves of fall. They walk up to this large tree and hear a loud thump. They turn their head towards where the thump came from to see a turtle adjusting his shell, walk up to the tree and climp up it. They watch this turtle with much curiosity as it continues to climb up the tree, walk on a branch, tip-toe to then edge, take a deep breath and jump. <<<THUMP>> the turtle falls to the ground. The girl then looks to her husband and says "Honey, did you see that? Did that turtle really just jump out of that tree?" Her husband shakes his head yes.
The turtle hops to it's feet and goes back up the tree to once again, jump off. The couple watches in amazement for a good while when they look further up the tree to see a birds' nest. Inside this nest sits a momma bird and a daddy bird, just like the couple, watching this turtle.
The couple here they birds talking to each other when they momma bird says to the daddy bird, "Sweetie, should we tell him he is adopted?"

Hope you liked it!!!!! :goodvibes
And GOOD LUCK with quitting!!! I wish all people would follow in your steps! Keep up your dedication!!!!
 
Right...I will be 38 on the eleventh of this upcoming Nov. My paternal grandparents both died due to smoking related disease.

My maternal grandfather had his larnyx severed, lost a lower leg and eventually died, due to cancer and complications from it due to smoking.

Dh's mom died when he was almost 21, from cancer pretty much everywhere except her lungs, despite her 3 pack a day habit.

We both already wanted to quit....I jumped on this particular instance of needing to tightly budget as a reason...

But it's not easy. Thanks for all the moral support...but uh...can I get goofy animal pics or something? I don't wanna smoke, don't remind me of that, please?

Meezers, sounds like heaven! You're kitties are so sweet looking, I'd be there!

IloveWINNIEthePOOH, *snort* I'm actually remembering the squirrel they showed on the news here that was adopted by a cat. But, I love turtles too...and turtle/birds...I can buy that...Thank you!
 
I know you're going through hell Rowena, but I see that picture of that daughter of yours and your touching post about her. I can't pull up any humor right now. I wish I could make you laugh. :)
 
'Canes Fan, thank you. That's enough....Both my kids are worth it. They were the reason I wanted to quit by my birthday this year. I want to see them become the age I am. :)

though I'll admit I'd really like a bad knock knock or elephant joke about now....

Or even baby animal pics.

I keep telling myself...." I don't smoke".

But the knuckles to my temple and the hand/mouth things sneak up on me....(a toothbrush helps loads with the second part of that....but grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.)
 
A guy works in an ice cream shop. A customer walks in and says "I'll have a chocolate sundae". The guy behind the counter says "Sorry, but we are all out of chocolate".

The customer says, "That's ok, I'll have a vanilla and chocolate sundae". The guy behind the counter is taken aback. He says "Mister, we don't have any chocolate"!

The customer says " No big deal. I'll just take one of those Neoploitan Sundaes, you know, with strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate".

Now the employee gets mad. He says, " Mister, not only do we not have any chocolate, but I bet you can't even SPELL CHOCOLATE!"

The customer says, "Sure I can! C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E. Choclate!

The guy behing the counter says " You spelled it wrong, what about the "F"?

The customer says angrily " There ain't no "F" in chocolate!

To which the employee responded " EXACTLY"! :rotfl2:
 
Hope this helps, and i really hope you and your DH won't smoke ever again.Not only for the money, for your life and your kids life.



Trip To Dentist

A man and his wife walked into a dentist's office. The man said to the dentist,
"Doctor, I'm in one a big hurry! I have two buddies sitting out in my car
waiting for us to go play golf. So forget about the anesthetic and just pull
the tooth and be done with it -- I don't have time to wait for the anesthetic
to work!"

The dentist thought to himself, "My goodness--this sure is a very brave man,
asking me to pull his tooth without using anything to kill the pain."

So the dentist asked him, "Which tooth is it, sir?"

The man turned to his wife and said, "Open your mouth, Honey, and show the
doctor which tooth hurts."
 
7 REASONS NOT TO MESS WITH CHILDREN.

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.

The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human
because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.

The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah".

The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?"

The little girl replied, "Then you ask him ".

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work.

As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the
drawing was.

The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."

The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like."

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They
will in a minute."

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.

After explaining the commandment to "honor" thy Father and thy Mother, she
asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"

Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, "Thou
shall not kill."

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the
kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.

She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs
white, Mom?"

Her mother replied, "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white."

The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, "Momma, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.

"Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say,
'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.'

A small voice at the back of the room rang out, "And there's the teacher, she's dead."

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make
the matter clearer, she said, "Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face."

"Yes," the class said.

"Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the
blood doesn't run into my feet?"

A little fellow shouted, "Cause your feet ain't empty."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for
lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: "Take only ONE. God is watching."

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large
pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, "Take all you want. God is watching the apples
.
 
I also hope this thread inspires others....and your post helps them. :)

Small steps....one at a time. This is a big one for me...but small steps, and just trying tomake sure that ground is COVERED before I move on.
 
Rowena said:
PixieDust32, thank you! I'm not all that religious and fall more toward the pagan or Jewish side ((Happy New Year!!)
(not that those go together, but I was raised one.....and if I gotta pick something, it's between those two depending on the day....)

I also hope this thread inspires others....and your post helps them. :)

:confused3
 


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