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Outlander Systems
12-30-09, 21:51
The new year is upon us, and surely everyone has some "plans" for 2010.
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Number one on my list is to ditch the cigarettes. Since I've never made an effort to do so, I figure now is a good time.
Other than that, I resolve to finish fixing up my 1911.
Live a healthier lifestyle, better food, less booze and attend a kickass carbine class! :D
Really start a SBR project!
More training is were my money should go.
Get rid of a good chunk of debt, go to SFAS and hopefully get picked up for SF, and make the list for SFC.
Number one on my list is to ditch the cigarettes. Since I've never made an effort to do so, I figure now is a good time.
I wish you luck and hope that you will be as lucky as I was. Before May of 2008, I was lucky if all did was two packs a day. Got into a situation that made me rethink my habit a little bit, and one day, just stopped. Didn't have any desire from then on, its almost like I wasn't addicted in the first place!:D
But back on track. This years resolution would be to spend more time with family, get back to Iceland, and some well spent training and ammo!
Happy New Years to all, hope that this year has treated you and your families well, and that the new one coming in will bring you all the same and more!
Outlander Systems
12-30-09, 22:14
...I was lucky if all did was two packs a day.
That's where I'm at now. I have GOT to quit.
SeriousStudent
12-30-09, 22:22
Get rid of a good chunk of debt, go to SFAS and hopefully get picked up for SF, and make the list for SFC.
Best wishes for success on all counts.
I had heard that it's three weeks now, and not two.
And thank you for your service to our country.
MarshallDodge
12-30-09, 22:22
Navigating Collapse - Great resolution, I wish you the best.
My goal is to get more exercise.
That's where I'm at now. I have GOT to quit.
The hardest part about quitting smoking is the fact that you more than likely have a few/many close friends that you spent much time with that also smoke, and that have no desire to quit smoking. Trying to stop with your buddies lighting them up one after another makes it very difficult.
I used to do it just to pass time at work. Standing outside a doorway in well below freezing weather for 6 hours at a time with people yelling at you telling you its cold and they want in is impossible without smokes.
Chewing gum helped me keep my mind off of the fact that I didn't have a cigarette in my mouth.
Quit dipping.
Ensure that I don't eradicate my wife's entire family.
Keep the business books better so I'm not scrambling at the last minute to get everything right.
Fairly simple
tracker722
12-30-09, 22:24
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Outlander Systems
12-30-09, 22:25
Trying to stop with your buddies lighting them up one after another makes it very difficult.
The wife smokes. :eek:
That being said, at approximately 8 bucks a day, I'm smoking a LOT of ammo...
The wife smokes. :eek:
That being said, at approximately 8 bucks a day, I'm smoking a LOT of ammo...
I'll be honest, it will not be easy unless she agrees never to smoke with you anywhere near her. Designate an outside smoking area will go along way to help with the temptation.
Business_Casual
12-30-09, 22:32
I used to smoke a lot and for a long time. There was no way I would have ever quit without help.
I used to get sick twice a year and I was on the strongest antibiotics available to clear the infections. I just got sicker and sicker each time. The last time I had a prescription for Chantix and Levaquin. I was in bed for two days so I didn't smoke then (I actually tried to get up and go outside) and it was long enough for the Chantix to start working.
As I understand it, the medicine bonds to the same receptors that nicotine does. So if you smoke you don't get any rush from the nicotine. You realize how stupid smoking is at that point and you can break the habit. At least that is how it worked for me. It is expensive unless you count how much you spend on smokes.
Resolutions? I'll do more mag changes and dry fire.
M_P
To verify Zero, before leaving to go to a class.
Blue Loc tite all screws.
Paint pen witness mark all screws.
Those are my New Years resolutions.:eek:
parishioner
12-30-09, 23:25
I've read that once you quit smoking, your lungs repair themselves surprisingly sooner than you might expect. After 7 years, its almost as if you never smoked, in terms of your lung damage.
Little facts that show just how fast the effects can begin to take place
* "Just 20 minutes after your last cigarette, your blood pressure and
pulse rate drop to normal and the body temperature of your hands and
feet increases to normal."
* "A mere 8 hours after your last smoke, the carbon monoxide level
decreases and the oxygen level in your blood increases to normal."
* "Just 24 hours after your last cigarette, you substantially lessen
your chances of having a heart attack."
* "Two days after your last cigarette, you will notice that your
ability to taste and smell is enhanced."
* "Three days later, your breathing should be noticeably better
because your lung capacity will be greater."
* "Your circulation will improve and your lung functioning will
increase up to 30% within two weeks to three months after quitting."
* "Between one month and nine months, the cilia in your lungs will
regenerate, allowing your body to clean your lungs and reduce
infection."
* "One year after quitting, your risk of coronary heart disease is
half that of a smoker."
* "Five years after quitting, your risk of stroke is reduced to that
of a nonsmoker."
* "Ten years after quitting, the lung cancer death rate is about half
that of a continuing smokers. The risk of cancer of the mouth, throat,
esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decreases."
* "Fifteen years after quitting, your risk of coronary heart disease
is that of a nonsmokers.
Good luck guys.
And for me, I want to work harder, save some money, and try not to sweat the small things that wont matter in 5 years.
get back to the gym... since my last year in college i have put on about 50 pounds...
woodandsteel
12-31-09, 00:06
Lose 40 lbs. Or, at least lower my BMI.
Also, I need to start drinking more water and less beer. :(
I already gave up drinking Diet Coke, and all soda in general, after reading this thread, https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?t=36138
kaiservontexas
12-31-09, 02:12
Quit the nicotine. I am a horrible smoker and have tried many times to stop. I think I may just go sit for 72 hours in a tent in a state park. I want to start my own business. I have nothing to lose. Get out of debt. Get married to my fiance. Get stronger. That is all off the top of my head. Get the amateur radio license 1st level. Get my hunting license, and go hunting. *Grandpa died before he could take me and I feel this rite of passage sorely lacking.*
Smoking's gotta go bye-bye this year. My odometer flips in January (40, holy f**k!), and I think that 16 years is just about enough of that nonsense. Not really a New Year's resolution, though, just a decision that's past due.
Outlander Systems
12-31-09, 08:24
Ok. That is it.
I just did the cost analysis of my personal smoking habits.
I smoke the equivalent of ~500 rounds of 5.56 FMJ a month.
Smoking has got to go. I keep bitching that I can't afford to shoot like I used to.
Shoot or smoke, the time has come to make a choice.
I've turned into flubber over the years and need to get in shape
My resolution is to lose weight and get over the black rifle disease!
heartbreakridge01
12-31-09, 08:52
Shoot/train more, Go to a carbine/pistol class, save more money (or spend less on petty shit)!
DeputyMend
12-31-09, 09:37
Get more training.
Work out more.
Save more money.
I more or less make the same resolutions every year and usually I accomplish them. If I set the bar a little higher each year, eventually I will be perfect. ;)
Quit smoking, cold turkey, 5+ years ago, good move except for one side effect.
For 2010, I resolve, before the year is done, to see my belt buckle without looking in the mirror.
Start reloading and try to afford some training as well.
To everyone wishing to stop smoking I wish you all the luck in the world..
Oct. 2007 i quit.
I cant begin to tell you how much better you will feel, Plus you will find it much easier it is to run all the training coarses now that you can breath.
once you quit, if your in a room with 50 people, and only one smoker, you will be able to pick him out because of the smell, That person used to be you.
GoodLuck.
My New Years res. is to get some training..
woodandsteel
12-31-09, 10:07
I've turned into flubber over the years and need to get in shape
My resolution is to lose weight and get over the black rifle disease!
Man, are you in the wrong place for that!:eek:
:p
No resolutions here, never stuck to any I made.
kaiservontexas
12-31-09, 11:52
Ok. That is it.
I just did the cost analysis of my personal smoking habits.
I smoke the equivalent of ~500 rounds of 5.56 FMJ a month.
Smoking has got to go. I keep bitching that I can't afford to shoot like I used to.
Shoot or smoke, the time has come to make a choice.
I have done that before, and the firearms alone I could buy in a year would make one think I would have quit by now. It is pretty amazing how much effort and time is wasted on self-destruction.
I'm going to try to shoot more.
Outlander Systems
12-31-09, 14:01
I'm going to try to shoot more.
Seriously? Does this mean you're getting something belt-fed?
:D
Build an AR
Get a Glock 19
Get a 1911
Move Out (Only 18)
Get Into a University
Join the CF
... In no particular order.
To come within top 10 consistently IPSC shoots and tac 3 gun shoots.
seems like several want to get in shape. Alas I too want to get in better shape. Not really a res yet but seriously considering it.
1. Get in better shape
2. Get a new non-insane girlfriend
3. Get some more training this year
4. Start my Masters Degree
Buy at least 2 new guns this year
CarlosDJackal
01-01-10, 00:24
Assuming that I receive a clean bill of health from my Cardiologist and I am given the go-ahead to start exercising:
(1) Start exercising regularly to get back into shape.
(2) Pass my APFT.
(3) Get back on Jump Status (once I pass my APFT).
(4) Attend a Captain's Career Course.
(5) Volunteer for overseas deployment.
cannarella
01-01-10, 00:37
1. Keep the diabetes in check, damn genes
2. Exercise more. See #1
3. Learn as much as I can here.
For those looking to get out of debt, check out Dave Ramsey. Did us good. It is a strait forward plan that works.
I don't know what my new year's resolution is.
Anyway good luck NC.
1 - Getting rid of all the junks and get top of the line stuff
2 - Reload more ammo
3 - Quit smoking
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