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[Paladin]

Originally Posted by juantoo3

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 They seem to have been replaced by a horrendous allergic response to life.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*

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?

[juantoo3]

Originally Posted by Paladin

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?

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.

[Paladin]

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.

[wil]

Originally Posted by juantoo3

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.

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.

[Alex P]

I today came to work with no cigarettes, I am the only smoker, and our work is in the middle of nowhere... And I did it on purpose lol... Should be an interesting day.

[greymare]

how are you coping, Alex????

[Alex P]

11am not too bad, I admit to take my mind off it I had a joint before work... But I seem ok... That was almost 3 and a half hours ago lol..... I also have a J for the walk home..... Haven't been to work for ten days... :|

[Dream]

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.

[wil]

hmm I used that same replacement therapy to quit nicotine...

of course it took another decade to quit the replacement.

[Alex P]

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

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.

[wil]

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.

[Alex P]

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.

[Faithfulservant]

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.

[wil]

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

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.

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...

[Alex P]

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

I think I read somewhere that they actually added something to make the cigarettes keep burning..

maybe they removed that element?

Yes.

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

I believe I also read somewhere that pot is 10x worse for you than cigarettes..

lolz... no.

Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

but who knows that could have been an anti-drug propaganda statement.

Yes.