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 update/smoking, Angel, 20. Oct 2003 23:10 | ||
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| I'm reading the posts and responding to an easy one when I can but I'm still a little fuzzy upstairs - however...I'm now 3 days w/o a cigarette for the first time in 25 years... and I was beginning to think again... If I got up once an hour from a table that was getting out 33 hands per hour and missed three hands because I ran outside for a smoke once an hour...and I have an EV of 1.5 BB/hr or a +EV of 0.045 BB per hand, then I just gave myself a raise of 0.136 BB/hr which is pretty snazzy. Not only is it pretty snazzy - at $20/$40 that works out to an additional $8.18/hr. and at 2000 hours a year that's 16K. *sigh* The American Cancer Society should sell quitting this way... Anyway, in spite of still being a bit fuzzy - I'm done. No need for further updates because I'm on the other side. Roy, Grant, and reMMy - sincere thanks for the kind words and thoughts; they meant something. Angel | ||
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| Re: update/smoking, modestmice, 20. Oct 2003 23:14 | ||
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| on 20. Oct 2003 23:10 Angel wrote: > I'm reading the posts and responding to an easy one when I can but I'm still a > little fuzzy upstairs - however...I'm now 3 days w/o a cigarette for the first > time in 25 years... and I was beginning to think again... > > If I got up once an hour from a table that was getting out 33 hands per hour > and missed three hands because I ran outside for a smoke once an hour...and I > have an EV of 1.5 BB/hr or a +EV of 0.045 BB per hand, then I just gave myself a > raise of 0.136 BB/hr which is pretty snazzy. Not only is it pretty snazzy - at > $20/$40 that works out to an additional $8.18/hr. and at 2000 hours a year > that's 16K. *sigh* The American Cancer Society should sell quitting this > way... > > Anyway, in spite of still being a bit fuzzy - I'm done. No need for further > updates because I'm on the other side. Roy, Grant, and reMMy - sincere thanks > for the kind words and thoughts; they meant something. > > Angel thats excellent man, i smoke but ive cut down to 5 a day from 20. i still have to have a smoke after a bad beat. eventually i hope to stop | ||
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| Re: update/smoking, Blade, 20. Oct 2003 23:17 | ||
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| Keep up the great work. Stay positive. You should also be saving yourself some money as well | ||
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| Re: update/smoking, Hatchthunder, 21. Oct 2003 06:48 | ||
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| Angel, Set aside the money you would have normally spent on Cigarettes, put it in a cookie jar or something. You will really see how much of a positive EV that will have on your life. Both my parents were smokers for over 30 years. They quit last year and went on vacation on their smoking money this year. I wish you good luck and continued success. Even though you have beaten the physical addiction, Nicotine is out of the body after 3 days or so. The mental part is the toughest. I know that my Mother would start smoking again in a second if she did not have a granddaughter to watch grow up. | ||
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| Re: update/smoking, Roy Cooke, 21. Oct 2003 08:56 | ||
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| HANG IN THERE :-)! Roy Cooke | ||
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| Re: update/smoking, Blue Sky, 21. Oct 2003 11:39 | ||
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| Angel, Good luck. I've tried to quit many times but because of lack of any kind of will power on my behalf I'm back at it. A friend of mine has recently quit and he said that everytime he got the craving he thought of the Woody Harrelson line from Kingpin - "Who's done more research on smoking then the good folks at the American Tobacco Institute, if you die they can't sell you anymore cigarettes - so smoking has to be ok for you." I've proabably butchered the quote from the movie but my friend said that whenever he felt the need to lit up he thought of this line and laughed and some how didn't have the craving any more. | ||
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| Re: update/smoking, MozMan, 21. Oct 2003 19:10 | ||
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| Way to go Angel!! As a smoker who knows, first hand, the difficulties of quitting, I want you to know how proud I am of everyone I know who successfully quit... and that means you too. -Moz "There's too much caffeine in your bloodstream, and a lack of real spice in your life." | ||
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