Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 03, 2015

Going on 37 years now. Five years after my last one, I realized one day that I was still saying, “No, thanks, I’m trying to quit.” And I was.

56 years, I had incentive, Husband said he wouldn’t marry me if I didn’t quit.Started at 14 quit at 21.

And when she does her grocery shopping, she helps you control your caloric intake just by wafting her perfume past you while you are deciding what you want to eat for the next couple of days.

No matter how little or much perfume you wear, and how nice it is or isn’t, its harder to smell when its on you versus on someone else.

And, a point they only tangentially touch, the perfume might have been to try and cover up the cigarette smell. Even with her improved sense of smell, the above issue will make it so she doesn’t notice her perfume really, and she may have forgotten why she started the routine the way she did. Possibly someone could remind her… sadly its unlikely.

I’m also impressed as a teacher she’s still allowed to wear perfume in school, I’ve seen in banned in a lot of places.

I nearly missed the sight gag that Frazz is holding his breath the entire time she’s talking to him.

My father is the embodiment of the Mark Twain quote:“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.”He’s in his early 70s and has been smoking since he was about 13. Every time he quits, it last for a year, at most. The most recent was a few years ago, after he developed cancerous lesions on his vocal cords. He went through radiation treatment, made a full recovery, and quit smoking. For a while.Then one day he noticed the California Proposition 65 warning on an aerosol product that he uses in his woodworking: “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer.” He then said “Hey, I’ll bet this is what caused my cancer, not the cigarettes” and started smoking again.Truly addicted.

Our noses become accustomed to a smell, and stop telling us about it. Or our brains do.

I only smoked for a few months when I was 18 – the smell inside my little volkswagen in the winter was horrid!

Stopped smoking 12 years ago and after doing so for 30 years. The first decade is the toughest.

Really, she went twenty-two months without a (eck!) cigarette? Heck-fire, I’ve gone 42 years without a (ugh)cigarette!

It’s been 47 years since my last cigarette. I had kept them for a couple of months in a small cedar chest to hide them from my parents. A cedar-flavored cigarette was enough to make me quit permanently.

Congrats to all the ex smokers! It really is a battle!

Not a chance, for example a pack of cigarettes now cost more than a CARTON did when I last smoked, and people are still smoking.When you are addicted money is no object.

26 years last month.And there are still times I wish I COULD.But I am sincerely grateful that I do not HAVE TO!

I never smoked, despite growing up in the 60s when it was a common as could be. My father smoked (until quitting cold-turkey when I was 11 & he hasn’t gone back in the 46 years since). I remember getting my grandfather a carton of cigarettes for Christmas — they came in a special Christmas Present design box — plus buying candy cigarettes (that could blow powdered sugar ‘smoke’). Add my kudos to all those who gave up the habit!

Perfume, either cheap, heavy, or both, gives my wife a headache. That’s why she doesn’t wear any, nor do I wear any fragrances. (Even my deodorant is unscented.) We have a friend who used to lay on the Brut thick and heavy. You knew he was coming long before he got there. When we threatened to tie him to the top of the car during a long freeze if he insisted on wearing that much powerful stuff, he got the message.

I’m watching my dad die from the effects of smoking, though he quit 22 years ago when he had a heart attack. It’s heartbreaking to watch him weaken, he who was always so strong and athletic, as the pulmonary fibrosis gets worse. I lost an aunt and a cousin to smoking-induced lung cancer. I hate those things with a passion. They’ve killed too many people I love. Plus… I’m allergic to the smoke.

When my wife was pregnant with twins, we went shopping for a van. We found a Villager in good shape, for a good price, but the owner had been smoking a pipe in it for several years. I have never been in a vehicle that reeked so badly!