Ahhh....I Knew It Wouldn’t Last.

[Mathazar]

Sorry mush,  I couldn't hold-out,  I went out and bought
another Sultan hookah,  and some Layalina,  Nakhla, 
Al-Fakher,  and Vivi Coals.  Enough to last me at least a
couple weeks.  It would probably be enough to last everyone else a
couple months. I also went online to CigarsInternational and ordered 60
cigars,  hopefully enough to last me the next month until I get my
next check.

I guess I'm the type of person that you literally have to lock-up and
throw away the key for an indefinite period of time to get me to quit
smoking.  I'm Soooo hooked on the hookah and cigars that I just
can't fathom the thought of quitting.  Going as long as I did
without lighting-up was like putting my neck in a noose and hanging
there while the rope gets tighter & tighter.  Well, 
okay,  maybe it's not all THAT bad,  but it was pretty insane
going that long without a smoke.  I forgot how long it's been.
Hmmm......1 week?  Well,  it's in this thread,  I'm just
too lazy to go look for it.

Thanks for all the enthusiasm to quit,  though I guess it went on
deaf ears.  But I am still working-out on the treadmill. 
Although,  because of my bad back,  I can only do a slow walk
at level 2,  which is good because if I'm going to be smoking the
hookah,  I doubt very much that I'd be able to handle the higher
exercise levels on the treadmill.  I probably will be smoking a
minimum of 5 or more bowls a day.  But,  I'm going to try to
cut-back.  I know I've said that before,  but this time it's
for real.....Yeah right Math 

Anyway,  I've got to make this stuff last at least 3 weeks, 
because I'm going to be extremely short on cash,  like
broke,  until I get my next check.  Because of my last
hookah,  charcoal,  and ma'assel purchase over at
Hookah-Shisha & HookahHookah,  I sort of over-extended myself
financially,  and now I'm going to be overdrawn in my checkbook
for the next 3 weeks.  Every week I get $200,  and every 3rd week I get $1500,  so that will
help aleviate the bank's concerns over whether or not to close my
account for going SO far overdrawn.  But,  it's not going to
make them happy.  I'm like around $800 over-drawn because of
several purchases I made recently.  I hate being poor.  I
suppose I'm better-off than a lot of people,  but I never seem to
have enough money to support my hobbies,  which are the
Hookah,  pipes and cigars.

Well,  that's the story for now.  At least I'll have something to post in the forum.

Now I'm off to post in the Vivi Coal thread 

[mushrat]

*sigh* ah well, I tried.
 

[Mathazar]

You're a good sport mushrat 

I'll always remember how you tried to inspire me to quit,  and all
the enthusiasm you injected into your posts to try and help me
out.  Thanks buddy 

[John Deere]

Sad....

[Mathazar]

Have you ever had the feeling that you've heard this somewhere before? 

I QUIT AGAIN 

Only this time it's going to be for awhile,  at least until I've
lost all my weight.  Yes I went out last night and bought another
Sultan Hookah,  along with 2 kilos of Vivi Coals,  and some
sh*tty Layalina and Nakhla ma'assel.  But,  the reason I quit
is not because of the brand of ma'assel,  I quit because I
realised that ma'assel is made with either honey or molasses,  and
when you inhale you are essentially taking sugar into your body. 
Well,  I'm on the Atkins Diet and sugar and carbohydrates are not
on the diet.  That little tidbit of information just happened to
slip my mind as I was buying all this stuff last night.

So,  this time rather than throw everything away,  I just put
everything into the cabinet,  and one year from now when the
weight is gone,  maybe I'll start smoking the hookah again. 
And In all likelyhood,  I probably will start again,  but
with different ma'assel,  because the crap I've got now isn't even
worth opening the cabinet for.  My diet is FAR more important to
me than some stupid smoking habit.  Of course,  I will
continue to smoke cigars & pipe tobacco,  because it doesn't
effect my diet in any way,  and quite frankly I love the flavor
FAR more even than hookah tobacco.

So that's it,  I quit for now,  and nothing will entice me to
go back to it.  The only way that I would smoke that hookah now is
if I had some Romman or Fumari Watermelon,  but aside from that I
have no reason whatsoever to EVER touch the hookah again.  I HATE
Nakhla and Layalina,  I knew it was a mistake buying that
stuff.  But,  I must say,  those Vivi Coals are pretty
damn good.

Well,  I guess maybe this means goodbye for now,  I think I
may take a little break from the forum for awhile.  Perhaps I'll
go play some World of Warcraft or a WWII shooter.

See ya 

[John Deere]

No offense, but I give it 2 days.....

[mushrat]

Try Dark Age of Camelot. Far better than WOW. The pvp in wow is so bad its sending people in droves BACK to Daoc from whence they came...
I'm Mushrat on the nimue server, Midguard realm. If you decide to give it a try I can hook you up there...
Sorry for the off topic. Back to your regular smoking good time.

[Mathazar]

Thanks Mushrat,  I may just take you up on that 

[brother812]

JD-.....LOL
Mush- WoW released battlegrounds and that has made pvp worth doing again where they are lacking is the end game. i lived on EQ for a few years before going to WoW and i am enjoying it allot. as for DAoC i never did play it so i cant comment but from what i have read about it, it didn't seem like the game for me. actually i really miss the depth of EQ but i don't miss the ulcers i got from the endless time sinks . games are like shisha flavors their is no such thing as the perfect one for everyone.
sorry bout the off topic..
Math- well i wish you all the luck in the world quitting........again. if you have allot of time on your hands you want to spend playing a game then look at everquest. i took a year off, burnt myself out working 60-80 hour weeks for a few years and decided to take some time off, in that time i lived on EQ. great game if you have the time to play but it isn't good for a diet i gained 60 pounds that year i sat on my ass playing that game. my best advice for loosing weight is taking a hammer to your computer and all your TV's in time boredom will drive you out of the house and make you more active .....

[yashman19]

I could never afford the Pay to Play Games. So I just stuck to Diablo
II Lord of Destruction. Yes the game has more hacks than  EQ or
WoW, but they come out with patches every so often and its a fun, cheap
thrill of a game. Anyone else play?

[Mathazar]

bro812.........I don't mind if this turns into a gaming thread,  where else are we going to talk about it.

I played EQ for 3 years............NON-STOP 

I actually LOST weight playing that and a few single/multiplayer
games.  The fact that I couldn't tear myself away from the
computer,  which at the time was an intriguing piece of machinery
to me,  I ended-up loosing 110 pounds.  Of course, 
being on the Atkins Diet at the time didn't hurt.  I lost 110
pounds in 10 months.  Literally,  the only times I EVER left
the computer was to eat,  pee,  and sleep.  And many
nights I just fell asleep at the computer all night long, 
waking-up with a VERY stiff neck.  I never got ANY exercise, 
and I lost all that weight just sitting there playing games. 
Nowadays,  games tend to bore me.  I don't know if it's
because I'm getting older,  or if it's because there really hasn't
been any GREAT game releases in the last 2 years.  Having wasted
time & money on EQ2,  I'm thoroughly tired and sick of MMORPGs
based in Rennaisance Period games,  such as EQ2 and DAoC. 
I'm an Action/Adventure Gamer,  but the problem with Adventure
Games is that you always have to solve stupid puzzles,  such as
with Syberia or The Longest Journey,  in order to advance in the
game.  If you guys want to play a REALLY sensational
Action/Adventure game,  go to:

www.TryGames.com

and run a search for OUTCAST.  You can download the full version
of the game right off their site for $14.95 and I guarantee you it's
WELL worth it.  You'll want to play this game over & over
again.  The graphics are a little dated,  as it was released
in 1999,  but I swear you're gonna absolutely fall in love with OUTCAST.

Here are the Cheat Codes if you need them:

www.gamewinners.com/DOSWIN/bloutcast.htm

You may find "Give All Weapons" & "Unlimited Ammo" useful,  as I did.

After you download & install the game,  right-click on the
desktop icon for OUTCAST,  click Properties,  Click
Compatibiltiy Tab,  and under Compatibility Mode,  put a
check in the box for Windows 98/Windows ME.  This is for all of
you running WinXP that might have trouble running the game because the
game was built to be played with the Windows 98 Operating System. 
This is the MOST KICK-ASS Action/Adventure game I've ever played. 
You can roam around freely, and do the quests in any order you
want.  It's AWESOME!!! 

As far as quitting,  my diet is so much more important to me than
smoking the hookah.  I just wish I had realised that before going
out and buying all that stuff

[Mathazar]

[quote name='John Deere']No offense, but I give it 2 days.....[/quote]

Yep,  JD,  2 days was about right  

What can I say,  I'm a DIEHARD addict.  I've bought 10
hookahs,  each time trying to quit.  I couldn't do it then
and I can't do it now.  Ho-Hum! 

I'm hooked for life 

[Soup]

Math, like we've been saying...keep it in moderation.  Cut back little by little.
Heres something to go by:
Make it your goal for only one bowl a day.  Once you've reached that and have not the cravings for more than one a day, go to once every two days.  Keep that system going untill its once a week.  It may take some time but I believe you can do it!   Go Math!!!

[Mathazar]

Well,  you know what Soup,  that's not going to be a
difficult goal to achieve,  because the ma'assel that I'm smoking
absolutely BLOWS!!! 

I've found that that's my key to success with smoking in
moderation,  smoking tobacco that SUCKS!!!  Right now I'm
smoking Nakhla Double Apple & Lemon and Al-Fakher Grape & Ark
Sous.  Actually,  the Grape & Ark Sous aren't
horrible,  they're smokable,  but I don't see myself getting
hooked to them anytime soon.  I've been doing 2 bowls a day with
Vivi Natural Wood Coals.  And I could EASILY see myself going down
to 1 bowl a day,  considering I smoke in the range of 3 to 4
cigars a day.  Cigars are my weakness.  I'm not even that
addicted to Pipe Smoking,  mainly because I haven't found a
tobacco I really like.  But,  cigars are my passion. I was
sitting online today looking at Cigar Humidors and thinking about
taking-out a $10,000 Personal Loan so that I can buy the MOST
sophisticated Humidor/Humidification system I've EVER seen!  This
thing is FANTASTIC!!!   I've been
looking several months for a Cigar Humidor like this, and I'm just ONE
financial loan away from getting it.  I more than likely will not
go into debt to buy this system,  but it SURE IS TEMPTING 

Thanks for the advice Soup 

[uselessdreamer1]

how can you ruin your like and credit over some friggin tobacco.. tisk tisk tisk

[Mathazar]

Well,  it's like I said,  I more than  likely won't do
it.  But it's one of those FANTASTIC things in life that SURE
would be NICE to have!!! 

[HookahCulture]

Welcome to Hookahs Anonymous.

"My name is Mathazar, and.....I'm a hookah addict."