<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">at some point, I don’t see why not use them. I will wait until about 85, or a little longer if my health is good then </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">WEll, just keep in mind that many if not most smokers want to quit. It becomes something you have to do, not want to do. You look down at your cigarette and think 'Now why did I do that?" In addition: telling myself that I was tired of wanting to quit was one of my mantras in the early stages of quitting. Lastly, I was a psychologist who dreamed of controlling behavior and I could not control mine. WEAK WEAK.n.<font color="#888888"><u> spike</u></font></span></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 5:47 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-4353628098296629663WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] vaccine was: RE: damn doctors!<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black"> I didn't, but to tell the truth, if I knew for sure that I had a short time to live, I think I would start back</span>…<span style="color:black"> bill </span>w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Bill<span style="color:black">w</span> I have pondered this and wondered, if one is old and in pain, is there a good reason to not take up the feels-good chemicals?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">I can’t think of one. My grandfather smoked from age about 15 to 48. After his high school 30<sup>th</sup> reunion in 1956, he could easily see that if one divided the class into those who did and those who didn’t, the non-smokers were clearly healthier.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">He didn’t smoke until he was about 70, at which time he developed Alzheimers: he forgot that he quit. He quit again a coupla years later. He forgot he ever started.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">So… at some point, I don’t see why not use them. I will wait until about 85, or a little longer if my health is good then.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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