Sidebar Discussion #12

[Nore]

I tried it a few times - never worked for me - but glad it worked for you!



I tried chantix too before -but made me sick to my stomach and I still smoked. I have tried nicotine patches, nicotine gum, cold turkey, switching to ultra-lights, switching brands, multiple approaches - nothing ever worked before . . . I didn't want to quit. (I still don't - it just happened).

Yes, you can get different milligrams of nicotine so you can decrease on your own. I am amazed that I don't even think of having a puff first thing in the morning. Sometimes I will be driving home and realize I haven't had a puff for 3 or 4 hours . . . almost like the cravings are disappearing as time goes by. The salesperson can help you figure out how many mg. you need based upon how much you smoke in cigarettes. The cartridges (pre-filled) are $26 for 1.3 carton's worth. The one I can fill myself reduces the cost to approx 99 cents a pack equivilent. Since Cigs are nearly $9 a pack where I live - I have saved so much money! I would never have believed anyone who told me this had I not tried the samples @ the kiosk!!!

I never did decide to quit cigarettes. . . it just happened and it was the easiest thing I have ever done! I still use the equivilent of about 3/4 - 1 pack per day but I was smoking up to 2 packs of cigarettes a day before (some days were worse than others).

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Stick with it. I quit when I woke up at 5am and couldnt breathe out. Thank God for a Combivent inhaler.The only urge I had for a cig. was the day my husband died. but I didnt. Nore.lease:

 

[Nore]

You need an attorney in the States to apply for SSD? In Canada it is a government app with copies of documentation from a doctor proving the disability...:waitasec:

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I didnt know you need one either. I thought you just go to SS. to file. I know it is sometimes hard to get.

 

[Nore]

Thanks, wonders. I'd like to hear from AZ on whether or not this will happen with a civil trial. I've never heard of change of venue in a civil trial, and don't even know if it's a viable request. :waitasec:

I am wondering also. I've never heard of this. Leave it to KC.!!!!!:banghead:

 

[ZsaZsa]

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I didnt know you need one either. I thought you just go to SS. to file. I know it is sometimes hard to get.

You don't need an Atty to file for SS disability. You can walk into your local SS office and start the procedure or go online and fill out their paperwork. It is very detailed. After that, the SS people obtain your appropriate medical records and they take it from there. If your condition meets their criteria they approve your claim- if not they can ask for more information from your physicians or ask for second opinions from their own specialists.
If they make an adverse determination you can then hire an Atty (if you need/want one) to appeal their decision.

 

[ZsaZsa]

I am wondering also. I've never heard of this. Leave it to KC.!!!!!:banghead:

I hope they get it and run up tons of expenses in doing so.
Then I hope they have to pay all of Zenaida's costs also!
aaargh!
I'm a peaceful person but sometimes you just want to SLAP these people!

 

[hand]

After weeks of non activity a new 5 star review came out today.
The book dropped to below 50,000.
I guess he needs some money!!!

 

[ZsaZsa]

"Anthony's lawyers cite extensive coverage of the death of the girl, 2-year-old Caylee, and the murder trial that followed. Though Anthony was cleared of all major charges, "the local media refuses to move on," her defense says.

As a result, "the overwhelming opinion of the public, especially in Orange County... is that justice was not served in the Criminal Case," they argue."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...y-change-venue-civil-20120927,0,1618337.story

Methinks the lady doth protest too much!

(Wm Shakespeare)

 

[jane the dood]

Methinks the lady doth protest too much!

(Wm Shakespeare)

Forsooth!

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
William Shakespeare
(Guess FCA missed that one)

 

[logicalgirl]

Methinks the lady doth protest too much!

(Wm Shakespeare)

I'm thinking maybe it's just plain stalling to wait out her appeal and then disappear and never have to face ZG and Morgan & Morgan at all.

 

[logicalgirl]

After weeks of non activity a new 5 star review came out today.
The book dropped to below 50,000.
I guess he needs some money!!!

I was kind of startled to read that new review. What a crock!

 

[FLmom777]

Thanks for the responses. I printed everything from the ss website and it just seemed to be a but daunting.

 

[sleutherontheside]

Click to enlarge...



So while KC was hanging on to "Zanny" as a real person...JB chose NOT to allow her client to perpetuate a lie??

Pot...kettle......

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

You are so ...determined! I have tried...none of the above! But just this year, I've noticed a tightness in my lungs that I don't like so I guess it's getting to be time....soon...

I just don't do the prolonged type of exercise I used to do so if I won't do that I guess it's time for me to think about quitting. No! wait! I did try nicotine gum to cut down - blech!! What awful stuff. Never smoke more than a pack a day - usually less - and I am just fed up that the price has gone up and up and up the last two years.

So really appreciate the info about the smokeless cigs. I can see I would find the process helpful. Somehow popping a piece of disgusting gum is not even close to smoking a cigarette...:banghead:

LG, you made me think of my old leather hobo bag, when you posted about blue jeans and sandals before. I had it cramped with odds and ends. A little vial of patchouli oil and a pack of clove gum, two decks of cards, a needle with thread, a coin purse with a few dollars, and at least one dime, so you could make a phone call if you needed to.

I grew up in a time when people smoked in movies theaters and in court rooms, on elevators and in restaurants.

When I had started smoking, cigarettes were twenty six cents a pack, and when bought from a vending machine you got a free pack of matches.

I had a cigarette case and a real lighter. When we got married, my mother in law (she did have some very nice things from Italy) gave me her lead cut crystal cigarette holder and matching tabletop lighter. It was nice to to offer friends a sleek machine rolled cigarette.

Smoking was an event and I was going to do it in style.

I smoked my last cigarette just before midnight January 17, 1978, and never looked back. Cigarettes were forty nine cents a pack.

 

[QueenD]

This is totally ot but I need some advice. My husband has been out of work since May due to various medical ailments. We have decided he needs to apply for social security disability. He is 64. Does anybody know what type of attorney we should call for this? I se ads for attorneys that claim to handle this, but they are listed as personal injury attorneys as well. I'm just nit sure if that is tyre area of law that applies.

Anybody know?

Good luck, most people get turned down many times. That's why so many atty ads. I know several people who are true disable and has had to go through the hiring the attorney.

It's sad cause I have heard of ones that are not truly disable gets it first bat.

 

[atthelake]

Remember the Law And Oder show that was a spin off of this case, it is on right now....

 

[logicalgirl]

LG, you made me think of my old leather hobo bag, when you posted about blue jeans and sandals before. I had it cramped with odds and ends. A little vial of patchouli oil and a pack of clove gum, two decks of cards, a needle with thread, a coin purse with a few dollars, and at least one dime, so you could make a phone call if you needed to.

I grew up in a time when people smoked in movies theaters and in court rooms, on elevators and in restaurants.

When I had started smoking, cigarettes were twenty six cents a pack, and when bought from a vending machine you got a free pack of matches.

I had a cigarette case and a real lighter. When we got married, my mother in law (she did have some very nice things from Italy) gave me her lead cut crystal cigarette holder and matching tabletop lighter. It was nice to to offer friends a sleek machine rolled cigarette.

Smoking was an event and I was going to do it in style.

I smoked my last cigarette just before midnight January 17, 1978, and never looked back. Cigarettes were forty nine cents a pack.

What a great story and thank you - it took me back and much of it sounded very familiar! But what? No little silver flask like janis Joplin? LOL Except my ending and yours are mighty different unfortunately! :what:

Smoking was such a social event in those days.

 

[Silkprint]

I am still so disgusted by the verdict and ALL the Anthony's

 

[Nore]

Good luck, most people get turned down many times. That's why so many atty ads. I know several people who are true disable and has had to go through the hiring the attorney.

It's sad cause I have heard of ones that are not truly disable gets it first bat.

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I've also heard that at least in Ohio you cannot get SS Disability if you are on regular SS.. I never had to try, but took SS. at 62 because my husband was so ill. He didn't work fom '96 ..Thirteen surgeries in one year. Heart, Aortic aneurysm, etc... I'm filling myself with Internet tonight, my bad day~ sons birthday. Really how many 18yr.olds take their mother out for a ride and run out of gas during a gas shortage!!! and there he is dancing with his daughter! ok enough.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

What a great story and thank you - it took me back and much of it sounded very familiar! But what? No little silver flask like janis Joplin? LOL Except my ending and yours are mighty different unfortunately! :what:

Smoking was such a social event in those days.

I never took to drinking, much to my father's surprise, even though I did like the taste when kissed. If that makes sense? But if I did, yes a small flask would of been involved.

I was the thorn in my daddy's side. I remember being "allowed" to hang out with my two sisters when they had sleep overs, and would listen to their advice about which young men to date..then I heard them taking about not dating the Field City boys.... my ears perked up and I knew that those boys needed looking into.

 

[wonders]

I'm thinking maybe it's just plain stalling to wait out her appeal and then disappear and never have to face ZG and Morgan & Morgan at all.

Can she do that? Would she face forfeit (as in if she didn't show up and fight her fight a judgment would be placed against her)?