FDA Announces Comprehensive Regulatory Plan to Shift Trajectory of Tobacco-Related Disease, Death

FDA News Released 7/28/2017

Agency to pursue lowering nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels and create more predictability in tobacco regulation

Change comes from within! A One-Month Celebration

My husband is smoke-free since one month as of today. The first two weeks were tough on him; he had his moments, but they never lasted long enough to get the frying pan out.

I am not interested~!

Being a smoking cessation blog is fun. Especially, when they try to tell me what I should post, or what I should endorse.

“Why I never smoked” Guest post!

Willow, my blogging friend from Willow’s corner, wrote a different guest posts and it hit home, I had to swallow hard,when I read about her twin sister. In her humorous, candid way she wrote a guest post from a non-smokers view:

R.I.P. Common Sense

Lately, I seem to have encounters with people who have never heard of common sense, so it’s time to publish the following obituary. It was printed in the London times a few years back.

No way I spend $1

I was mad and felt upset and so were my friends and my husband. We couldn’t believe they wanted to raise the price to 1 Dollar. Who did they think we were? Rockefeller? We worked hard for our money and it seemed just outrages and unfair.

Sweet dreams~!

An older, tired-looking dog wandered into my yard.

I could tell from his collar and well-fed belly that he had a home and was well taken care of.

He calmly came over to me, I gave him a few pats on his head; he then followed me into my house, slowly walked down the hall, curled up in the corner and fell asleep. An hour later, he went to the door, and I let him out.

Ladybug’s Cottage Salad

It’s springtime and the weather has been great, we had lots of rain and my vegetable garden seems to be exploding. The peppers and tomatoes are getting stronger, the cucumbers and zucchini are growing over night and as usual we planted too many. We will never learn!

National Youth Tobacco Survey 2014

The National Youth Tobacco Survey 2014 is shocking on so many levels. You would think that our lawmakers might find the need to react now, but then who am I kidding. I watched TV last night and I couldn’t believe it, there was an e-cigarette commercial, right at prime time. Haven’t we learned anything? So we don’t allow tobacco commercials anymore, but now we allow the advertisement of electronic cigarettes? 

Come on in…

I love to prepare food for family, friends and neighbors. That is the Italian in me, like a shepherd dog trying to herd them all together around a table, that is my alltime favorite thing to do. I love to plan special dinners and they are not special because of the ingredients, no, they are special because of the company.