Tobacco and Fly Fishing
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Whatt is about Tobacco and Fly Fishing? Why is that so many think that they go hand in hand? Does it enhance the experience for people? Or is it simply something guys do when they are away from their wives?
The reaon I am starting this post is because I am a chewer. I have been now for over half of my 40 years of life. I would like to quit and have tried so I many occasions. I am a very discrete chewer I don’t spit 99% of the time you would never know I had one in. I am so discrete that it is the one secret I have kept from my wife.
Guilty as charged but I won’t tell my patients. I quit trying to analyze it long ago and no longer try to hide it from my wife.
Neil I am very surprised! I distinctly remember you asking someone in a post last year if they had a chew can in their pocket and warned them of the dangers of starting such a bad habit. I guess you were just speaking experience…
Joel
No man is ever old enough to smoke a pipe, yet I have one and I will certainly indulge on a cold day on the water.
My great grandfather had to have part of his lower lip and lower gum removed due to cancer. Just picture that next time you’re thinking of putting a chew in.
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My great grandfather had to have part of his lower lip and lower gum removed due to cancer. Just picture that next time you’re thinking of putting a chew in.
I got cut for the second time last Friday.
I started smoking when I was maybe 12. I stole smokes from my parents then my friends and I would take our fishing poles, .410’s, or pellet guns out to the woods were we would hunt, fish and smoke. I smoked until I was 22 by then I was smoking three packs of either Lucky Strikes or Chesterfields which ever was cheaper, a day. I watched my grandmother who lived with us die from lung cancer and then my father die from it too, this whole time I continued to smoke. I decided one New Years to quit, my friends bet me(“Never bet against a Sicilian when death is on line” I’m Welsh but you understand)
I quit smoking for two years now and never regretted that. My girlfriend and i quitted both for her to become pregnant. Two weeks later we found out she already was pregnant a few weeks before we gave up smoking :).
But like Mike said when someone lights up a smoke when we are fishing i feel the need again.
I would love to hear all of your opinions and any suggestions on how to end this bad habit.
Not having to tell your wife that you have mouth cancer (and explain why) is probably a good reason to quit.
Joel, you’ve got some really good replies. I encourage you and wish you the best with breaking the addiction.
Your wife may be more observant than you give her credit for.
Fine cuban cigars and camel cigarettes are a weakness of mine also. I would definitely love to quit for my own sake and the sake of my children. I would hate to know any of my kids picked up this nasty addiction because daddy does it. I have never smoked in front of any of my kids. I also know that it does not matter what you buy, or what programs you enter, the only way to stop smoking is to not smoke. I know it sounds easy to the man that has never smoked, but I think its the hardest thing I have ever tried to do.
I would love to hear all of your opinions and any suggestions on how to end this bad habit.
Not having to tell your wife that you have mouth cancer (and explain why) is probably a good reason to quit.
That should hopefully be enough motivation to make you resist the temptation.
Good luck to you. Stick with it.
Joel one day you’ll wake up, get out of bed and just know that today is the day you quit. Anything else is just pure BS and until you get to that day your only fooling yourself. No amount of greif from your wife will change that, no reprimands from your children will change that, no snake oil salemans, or pardon my language feel good crap is going to change that.
You can want to quit for all the right reasons and then some but it hasto come from you My 2c, if you can’t be honest with yourself whats the point of anything else we do.
Basically why sell yourself out by living a masquerade.
Either smoke or chew and enjoy it
or dont.Ive been smoking since I was 12 I’m now 44. yes I know the risk.
I’ve also buried more friends than I care to think about be it car accidents, stomach cancer, brain cancer, heart attacks at 34.
Hell they first found polyps in me when I was 36.I’ve quit “twice”
Once when I was younger (19). The day after my father told me he had lung cancer. back then it was blamed on his smoking. Today they know better, its more likekly due to the fact he was firefigter.For most of my life I’ve “wanted to quit. Tried a few times, each time it might last a day or three My wife, my kids, people have pressured me…including myself. But until your ready your just setting yourself up to fail. Sneaking smokes behind your wifes/families back…whos fooling who?
then one day I woke up and said…..not today.
Cold Turkey just like that 18 months without nary an itch.
Then one day a train hit me at work, figuratively, not litterally. The Stress was unreal…needed to clear my mind, purge some things..Bummed a smoke off a co worker thinking Id be ok.
Not so.
So now Im back on for the time being. not fooling myself, no promises of tomorrow.
One day soon I’ll wake up and know Im ready again. if it doesnt come from you and you will know that day, its not going to happen. No snese in fooling yourself until then. Do it, enjoy it, no guilty conceince and when your ready, be ready.
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