Do you smoke cigarettes?

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Do you smoke cigarettes?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 17.9%

  • No

    Votes: 64 82.1%
  • Total voters
    78
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No...

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Well...
 
I tried weed. I hated it. It was terriable I never did it again.
 
I don't expect this to mean anything to you, because it usually doesn't. But I have to try anyway:

My aunt was smoking a cigarette on her one remaining lung when she died of a heart attack at age 60.

My father smoked for 30 years, and he quit cold turkey a couple of years before my aunt died. 20 years after quitting, he died of lung and lymphatic cancer at age 69. A small spot that had been visible in his chest Xray for years suddenly came to life. It literally ate him up in less than five months.

Worth it? Not to me.
 
don't smoke and I don't plan on it. It can't help you, and it can only harm you. Doesn't make too much sense to start huh?
 
I dont think you can tell a smoker anything he has to decide for himself. PoeticSoul952 nothing to be ashamed of lots of people smoke no big deal.
 
Right now, i am having a ciggie, but having just read Neon's post....

On Monday I'll be 36... I quit that day!


Or at least I'm gunna give it a damn good go!


Right someone pass me a pack of Capstan full strength
 
Originally posted by slip2rock
Right now, i am having a ciggie, but having just read Neon's post....
On Monday I'll be 36... I quit that day!
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Excellent plan. Please do give it a shot, and if I can help in any way, just ask. Cold turkey is the only way to do it - just make up your mind to draw a line and end it. My father had tried to cut down numerous times, and he never succeeded until he went full stop. My aunt on the other hand used it as a particularly relentless and slow form of suicide, for reasons I was never able to determine.

I used to smoke lightly (pack a week lightly), and found that it was pleasant for that particular three minutes while I had one going. But before and after were no fun, and there were all the side effects that every body knows - bad breath, lousy food taste, etc. My girlfriend of the time (now my wife) 'forcefully persuaded' me to just knock it off, and I've never really missed it.

I don't think smokers are evil. I think that they just don't see what it is doing - let alone what it can do - on a real level. It's too abstract until it happens to you.

Sincerest best of luck to you, Slip. I mean it - let me know how I can help. If I can do that, it will add a little more dimension to the fact and the story of my dad's death.
 
Originally posted by neon_duke


Sincerest best of luck to you, Slip. I mean it - let me know how I can help. If I can do that, it will add a little more dimension to the fact and the story of my dad's death.
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Neon... When i want to cry cos i need nicotine... I'll PM You!

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Originally posted by slip2rock
Right now, i am having a ciggie, but having just read Neon's post....

On Monday I'll be 36... I quit that day!


Or at least I'm gunna give it a damn good go!


Right someone pass me a pack of Capstan full strength
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Im behind you all the way man............... GO SLIP!!!

Im only 15 at the 'mo, Im bound to experiment sooner or later, both weed and ciggs... I've got a close friend whose into weed, Im still debating inside myself to go and dob him in up with the principal or something... Im getting to that age when Im going out with mates - I bound to try it while out with them, not to be kool, just to try it, see what its like, I dont want to try it and I wont be forced to try it, I just feel that a time will come when I'll try it, not by choice, just for the sake of doing it - If I do experiment, that'll be the last time I try them, I wont become a druggy or anything and I wont become addicted from the first puff.............I hope.
 
Originally posted by Cobraboy


Im behind you all the way man............... GO SLIP!!!

Im only 15 at the 'mo, Im bound to experiment sooner or later, both weed and ciggs... I've got a close friend whose into weed, Im still debating inside myself to go and dob him in up with the principal or something... Im getting to that age when Im going out with mates - I bound to try it while out with them, not to be kool, just to try it, see what its like, I dont want to try it and I wont be forced to try it, I just feel that a time will come when I'll try it, not by choice, just for the sake of doing it - If I do experiment, that'll be the last time I try them, I wont become a druggy or anything and I wont become addicted from the first puff.............I hope.
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Dude... You can't make life descions for other people. It's their own choice. Free society means you can make your own mistakes... Think about it.

At the grand old age of 35 I have no appreciable signs of smoking other than a bit of a tightness in the chest after a heavy night, but right now i'm a bit worried.....

Thanks for the support, I'm gunna give it a damn good go.
 
Originally posted by slip2rock


Dude... You can't make life descions for other people. It's their own choice. Free society means you can make your own mistakes... Think about it.
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I know, but its just what hes doing. Dealing marijuana in the school gets you an automatic suspension and you are forced to go to another school. My mother is on the board of trustees and they get one suspension every two weeks or so, thats about 20 out of a possible 100 kids getting suspended for dealing marijuana. Now I know that this friend of mine is dealing and smoking it, but I dont know if I want to dob him in - ruin a friendship but help the school and my mother, or to be a friend, not dob him in, and let the school down. It get so depressing sometimes, for me anyways, I think too much about what others think than what I think, "Will they do this?", "What will they think?" - Its called self-something, I cant put my finger on it. It gets my so down sometimes....

But anyways, make sure you keep us updated on how you're doing, if you dont manage to quit, dont worry, just keep your mind set on a certain amount of smokes a week and keep a diary, eg: Limit yourself to 20 a week, then 15, 10, 5 until your done. If you go over you're weekly limit, punish yourself, or get bird to punish you............... 😈 ;) ;) :lol:
 
dob? I hope you can quit Slip!! I tried cutting down...doesn't help because somehow you start smoking more...or atleast thats what happened to me...Colorado...if you want to get some idea of what either ciggs or weed is like just PM me or give some way of contacting you...I have experimented with both...weed and ciggs...ciggs stuck around..
 
Originally posted by PoeticSoul952
dob? I hope you can quit Slip!! I tried cutting down...doesn't help because somehow you start smoking more...or atleast thats what happened to me...Colorado ...if you want to get some idea of what either ciggs or weed is like just PM me or give some way of contacting you...I have experimented with both...weed and ciggs...ciggs stuck around..
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:confused:
 
I lost count of how many I have had in my 1 and a half years of smoking...I doubt anyone really knows how many they've had...always could take a guess at it though. Any guesses slip?
 
Well... I said on Friday night i was going to quit today. But i woke up on Saturday morning feeling like I had a fat guy sitting on my chest and as i'd finished the pack i decided to start quitting there and then.

Halfway through day three, no real problems so far. But i expect the shakes to kick in around 9pm tonight (it's about mid day now) after i get home and have had some supper and a chill....

But hey, i didn't used to smoke that much anyway, normally only in the evening sooooo!
 
Great job so far, slip - a good head start. That's what made my father quit: 10 minutes of coughing in the mornings that only seemed to be solved by another cig. After a month or so that part was all gone - no coughing at all.

Off to a good start and keep us posted. I'm pulling for you - and feel free to PM me if I can help.

Duke
 
Yeah good job man...that happened to me today...:(...as of now I've been coughing all day long. Even through school. Although it did get better as the day went on...my throat still hurts...:(...no smoking tomorrow. If the coughing doesn't stop I might consider giving up cigs all together...
 
Last night was real hard. After a posh pizza and a bottle of wine (thank you Bird :inlove: ) we went over to a bar for a couple of drinks and not having a ciggie was driving me nuts. Finding something to do with my hands was one of the biggest problems. Also i drink faster without a ciggie..... Have to watch that, i'm quite a boisterous drunk......
 
it's a rough go trying to kick that habit. Keep a pen handy, or some loose change. Flipping coins between your fingers keeps them occupied. Twiddling the pen can give your fingers something to do.

Ahhh..the wonderful side effects of quitting...You drink more. Just wait until your taste sensation comes back.

Glad to hear you made it through the day without picking one up. Good luck and keep with it.

AO
 

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