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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (26705)	5/30/1999 7:52:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

tried the gum, it got me through the first 24 hours. The truth is (and I have quit twice before) that I am convinced it has a lot to do with 1. intention 2. nutrition The first time I quit, I quit cold turkey, and had zero "symptoms". I believe this was because I just decided to quit and quit, and that was all there was to it. A year later, I smoked one damn cigarette...then another one... and the next day I was a pack a day again. The second time was because my wife demanded I quit. It was friggin' painful. Very, very horrible. I did it, but it took two weeks before I was not antisocial. This time, it was not a big mental thing. I just got tired of coughing, and I noticed that if I coughed and then smoked a cigarette, I would stop coughing. This was, I thought, a clue that I had reached the absolute limit on nicotine ingestion and if I didn't quit, I might be very sorry in a couple of years. So I did some research on nutrition. When I quit 3 days ago, I immediately had a craving for sugar, refried beans, and polish sausage. This I interpreted as my body needing protein, B vitamins, and the sugar I thought was probably just a bad reaction to being cut off from all the drugs. I ate some sugar and it tasted like sh**, but the sausage and refried beans were excellent. Now, this brings up something else. I have, in my research, come across some stuff on breast cancer. Fortunately I am not a candidate, but I had an idea. The crap and chemicals and preservatives that we have been ingesting for the last 40 years, and especially the last 20 years, are, in my opinion, bad. Nutri-Sweet is poison. Sugar is not good. I stopped eating all that chemical stuff about 3 years ago. Food costs more, but I'm telling you that it makes a difference. About a year ago, I ate some KFC Fried Chicken and I got really sick. I mean really sick. I called the store and asked them what was in the chicken. They said nothing. I asked if there was ANYTHING added to the spices. Turns out it was MSG. I had not eaten any MSG for 3 years and when I did, I got violently ill. That's scary. Sugar does almost the same thing to me now. EVERYTHING at a normal supermarket has sugar and chemicals in it. My wife did some research on trans-fatty acids and how microwaves screw food up and all that. The idea I had was this: perhaps the breast cancer is happening because a woman's body naturally processes food in a specific way to pass along nutrients to a baby. Perhaps this is a "genetic code" kind of a thing. And perhaps all these poisons and other crap are somehow being "processed" in a concentrated manner into the breasts, where there is a natural reaction by the body which results in cancer. I am guessing that even if one had cancer, that with some sort of proper nutritional handling (which I have no idea what it could be) the body could actually throw off the disease and heal itself. That's kinda one of the reasons I quit smoking.