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Aggi es share their struggles with smoking
By Lindsay Fielder
THE BATTALION
HPeople do it in the car, on the back
parch, on a break at work and even on
caripus. Lately it seems like everybody
smoking.
■ But some Aggies are not.
■ John Port wood, a graduate student in
education, quit smoking more than a
ydar ago. He smoked at least one pack a
dap when he smoked his heaviest.
■ “I quit because of my girlfriend at
the time, now my fiancee,” he said.
“She hated it and is allergic to smoke,
so 1 had to quit.”
I Portwood tried smoking when he
was 14 and started smoking on a regular
bads when he was 17.
■ “I started [smoking] because 1 wanted
to look cool,” he said. “I started partying,
and I thought it made me look cool.”
Quitting was not easy for Portwood.
He used “the patch” the first time he
tried to quit, but instead of helping his
nicotine addiction, it increased it.
“I used the patch and smoked ciga
rettes at the same time,” he said. “Then
1 was addicted even more, and I had to
wean myself off the patch before I could
even quit smoking.”
When he quit for good, Portwood
went “cold turkey.” To deal with the
cravings, he chewed gum and ate Jolly
Ranchers. When that was not enough to
keep him from wanting to smoke, he got
a prescription from the doctor.
“Wellbutrin is an antidepressant that
helps people stop smoking. I took one in
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RANDAL FORD • THE BATTALION
the morning, and I didn’t want a ciga
rette,” he said.
He said he misses having something
to look forward to.
“I was always looking forward to
smoking a cigarette,” he said.
Portwood said he feels much better
now that he has quit smoking. Even
though the cravings still haunt him, the
benefits of quitting keep him from going
back to cigarettes.
“There are lots of nasty things about
smoking,” he said. “It’s a very dirty habit.”
Portwood is much happier about his
health now that he has quit smoking,
and so is his family.
“My dad was in his 20s when he quit
(smoking). He is 52 now and he says he
still craves a cigarette every once in a
while,” he said. “That helps me get
over it when I’m at a party and I
want a cigarette so bad.”
Cody Hampshire, a junior com
puter engineering major, quit smok
ing in December.
He started smoking during his
freshman year of high school on a
trip to the beach in Louisiana.
“The guys I was with told me
that if you wanted to stay at the
beach cabin, it was a rule that you
had to smoke,” he said.
After his first time, Hampshire
said he did not start regularly smok
ing until his junior year in high
school. After he began smoking
more, it progressed into a full-
fledged addiction.
The cost of cigarettes drained his
bank account.
“I was paying too much for ciga
rettes, and I was tired of smelling
like smoke all the time,” he said.
Now that Hampshire is smoke-
free, he said he feels the positive
effects of not smoking.
“I don’t wake up in the morning
with a sore throat. I’m not tired all
the time,” he said.
Hampshire said he used nicotine
gum to help him quit. When the crav
ings hit, he tried to pacify them by eat
ing a piece of gum.
“I only used about 10 pieces of the
gum, because I still wanted to smoke
afterwards,” he said.
Hampshire said he misses the seven
minute break from the stress.
“I miss taking time out of every hour
to sit and be still. I could think things
over, and if I didn’t solve my problems,
1 lit another cigarette and thought about
them some more,” he said.
Although he misses the physical act
of smoking, he said he does not miss
the smell.
“It’s nice to wear a shirt all day and
when I take it off at night, it still smells
good,” he said.
Adam Bailey, a senior wildlife and
fisheries sciences major, said he tried to
quit smoking four or five times, but
always ended up smoking again after a
month. He tried to quit because girls did
not like it.
“When I started dating someone
new, I would try to cut back, and I
wouldn’t smoke around them,” he said.
A year and a half ago, Bailey decid
ed to quit smoking for good.
“It’s only hard [not to smoke] when
there are other people around smoking,”
he said.
Bailey started smoking at work when
he was 16 and progressed to smoking
two packs a week.
Bailey said the best thing about quit
ting smoking is the health aspect.
“I just like knowing that I’m a
healthier person now,” he said.
Monday, April 22, 2002
Singer Schulz
balances his
music and
his age
By Matt Patin
THE BATTALION
Judging by the A&M posters
that adorn his bedroom walls and
the collegiate paraphernalia that
splashes his room maroon, it is not
hard to deduce that John Wayne
Schulz wants to be an Aggie, like
his siblings before him. But at only
14 years old, Schulz has several
years before he needs to worry
about application deadlines and
the anxious anticipation that
ensues. In the meantime, he
devotes his energy to a hobby that
few his age could ever imagine —
a country music career.
Schulz’s debut album Ropin’
Dreams plays in only a modest
amount of stereos, mostly those
of friends, family and fans made
on the road. But with a calendar
full of gigs, it is bound to gain
momentum.
Schulz has seven Grammy
nominations, including Best
Country Album of the Year and
Best New Country Artist, but
Schulz’s talent was acknowledged
long before the prospect of owning
a golden gramophone.
“My first public appearance
was at a talent show in the second
grade,” Schulz said. “After that, I
was asked to perform at banquets,
county fairs and pageants. I did a
talent show for 4-H in Three
Rivers, Texas, and ended up win
ning. I then realized that [singing]
was what I really wanted to do.”
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