C'mon man you can do it. Just try to keep your mind on other things, just block out smoking all together. One thing I learned from seeing my dad try to quit is, put one in your mouth when your so grouchy you hurt the people you love the most. My dad was a die-hard smoker, he could have quit if he tried hard enough, but he knew when he tried he would get aggrevated to easy. It's like me I'm down to one pop a day with caffeine. Didn't realize it though until a while back, all I drink is mug root beer and stuff like that and they don't containe caffeine. Just keep tryin' and we won't be mad at you if you wen't and got a pack right know, but atleast you are trying. That's the best way to start. Good Luck JOE

Thank you Joe,I really appreciate the encouragement.

Thank you Joe,I really appreciate the encouragement.

That's what friends are for. To help each other out.

First - You have to want to do it.

Second - You have to make the decision and take the appropriate action.

Third - You can't outguess yourself - you have to know the decision is the right thing. That will keep you going.

Fourth - Keep reminding yourself of the benefits of not smoking - all the time. Get outside and move around - a lot.

I wasn't able to do it all at once. I started in steps like not smoking in the house, then added places where I didn't smoke.

I found that just setting small goals, like "I can go until after dinner without one", or "I can go one more day", etc. really helped.

And I hung around with the people I knew who didn't smoke.

Someplace in the course of doing that - it got a little easier, then a little easier again - until finally I realized that I didn't need

to smoke. That was a long time ago - and, truthfully, it still tempts me once in a while. Then I'll see some poor SOB coughing his

lungs out and hardly able to walk around or carrying around a tank of oxygen - and I think how lucky I am. That makes it a lot easier.

You can do it. It's not easy - but, most of the real good things aren't.

Good Luck,

Paul VS

Where do you go in Zelienople? Rome metal , ( slabs) Main steel (coils) I live and work around town maybe some day I'll catch up to you & buy & a coffee. 75T

Where do you go in Zelienople? Rome metal , ( slabs) Main steel (coils) I live and work around town maybe some day I'll catch up to you & buy & a coffee. 75T

Over to BNZ...or is it BMZ?- it's one or the other, it's over across the tracks near Frankenstein concrete,home of a nice looking Diamond Reo mixer. It might be by that Rome Metal,I don't know. There's a place close to it where I see trucks loading steel but I don't know the name of it. I have loaded at Main Steel before though,but only once. We had three trucks unloading in Zelienople Monday,so it must be a pretty busy place. Anyway,you take 19 North right into downtown Zelienople,then make a left on 288 (tight turn!),then another left just before you cross the tracks,then bear right and another right into their driveway,right across from Frankenstein's.