Help! I enjoy a smoke

[MITCHAY]

Originally Posted by XSR

I'm in this boat. Never had a craving in the morning.

Dunno, maybe I'm just semi resistant to nicotine, prolly why I like 12s. Noone's here on 16s are they!

I have a smoke before I go to bed and when I wake up lol.

Im on 8s. Have the occasional 12 sometimes. Mate cut the butt off a 16 and you won't want to touch another smoke for a little while hahha.

[mcflux]

Stuffing match heads in cigarettes works too ;)

Meh, I'll smoke if I want to, go out in the sun without sunscreen, eat junk food whenever I want, spend the day in front of a computer, etc etc.

I just do what I want. I figure I've got a few decades before I need to worry about any of the cancer/tumor crap. And if I get cancer next year, well, it's my stuff up then.

Life's short. Live it.

-Dave-

[Danny]

I'm similar to XSR. When people are around me smoking, I'll smoke as well (usually when I'm out drinking, and at the AFD when Stevo offered me one : ). I dont usually feel the need to have one, I have them when I want them, not need them more or less. I do it socially.

[BOOSTDEF]

From about yr 10, i smoked loads, and was addicted.... Found a girl who hated smokers, and quit after 2 yrs of addicition....

But to be honest, i never had cravings.. I dont know what it was, but i nver had any.

The trick to affording ciggys in school is to buy a pack of horizon 40s, sell 20 for 50 cents each at lunchtime(darwin at the time, so easily done), and smoke the rest through the day. Use the other $10 to buy the next pack.. I did this for ages and was the major provider to the other kiddie smokers at school.. Till suspension got me :P:P

Anyhow...

[JC]

I am a smoker. Started on 12 or 16s when I was 16. Am now 36 and smoking 1s or 2s - initially went down to these to make it easier to give up. It doesn't work.

Nicotine is the most addictive drug in the world. You are basically hooked from your first smoke. Of course, if you only have the one, then it is easy not to have another. The more you smoke, the longer it takes to rid your body of the addiction. I am 75% of the way through ready EASYWAY by Allen Carr. It is supposed to be the best way to give up smoking. Anyway, in it, he says that within 7 seconds of your first puff of a smoke (any smoke, not just the first one you ever have), the nicotine hits your brain, ending the "craving". 30 minutes later, the nicotine is down to 50% of that initial hit, and after 45 minutes, down to 25%, which is why most smokers smoke roughly 20 a day (one per hour).

If you smoke at all (cigarettes, cigars, rollies, pipes, etc), you are addicted. If you don't believe me, try not smoking for a day. If you last a day, try a week, then try forever. Smoking is slowly killing every single smoker. It is not worth it, but it is also a fairly hard habit/addiction to break - mostly through fear. I hope this book works for me - it explains about the fear!

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by Ghia5L

Stuffing match heads in cigarettes works too ;)

Meh, I'll smoke if I want to, go out in the sun without sunscreen, eat junk food whenever I want, spend the day in front of a computer, etc etc.

I just do what I want. I figure I've got a few decades before I need to worry about any of the cancer/tumor crap. And if I get cancer next year, well, it's my stuff up then.

Life's short. Live it.

-Dave-

Here here. $2,500 per annum well spent! But that's o/t...

I cant really pinpoint when I got addicted or how long it took. My mother smoked, as did the old man. My grandparents were smokers. My sister started when i was about 7. Smoking just seemed normal... i never saw it as a bad thing.

I really started in year 12. 3, maybe 4 or 5 a day. Thouroughly enjoyed it. Probably had something to do with being a chronic dope smoker at the time... Back then, if ya had $4 you could go halves in a pack of PJs with a mate. Next year at uni, still wasnt smoking *much* but then got a job whilst i was studying.... cash = smoking. I gave up for about a month at one stage. Dunno why i started again... i just enjoy it. Yeah, will probably die of lung cancer when i'm 50 but in all honesty i doubt i will have amounted to much by then.

I've always liked 12mgs. Damn B&H changing their branding - it'll always be a medium as far as im concerned!

PS. Social smokers cost me a fortune!!! If you're going to the pub, buy a pack FFS!

[NC 5ltr]

Originally Posted by 4.9 EF Futura

PS. Social smokers cost me a fortune!!! If you're going to the pub, buy a pack FFS!

i hate it when someone asks if youve got a spare smoke,i always say to them ,sorry i dont carry spares,that normally gives them a good hint to FO

[BOOSTDEF]

Originally Posted by NC 5ltr

i hate it when someone asks if youve got a spare smoke,i always say to them ,sorry i dont carry spares,that normally gives them a good hint to FO

No No No.... the worst are those who grab a smoke just to stand in a group of smokers and join the crowd.. Shocking really.

[Shonky]

Originally Posted by JC-XRWgn

Smoking is slowly killing every single smoker

Not just the smokers... what about all the people who dont smoke but are forced to breathe in the atmospheric filth emitted by smokers?

Personally, I have never smoked and never will. And I dont mind other people smoking, just dont do it anywhere near me for f#cks sake...

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by Young 'un

Not just the smokers... what about all the people who dont smoke but are forced to breathe in the atmospheric filth emitted by smokers?

But you dont mind sitting in amoungst the 500,000,000 benzine chugging cars on this planet??

[mcflux]

I wonder what would happen to your E-series if you poured some nicotine (yes, poured!) into the tank? :

[Gunns]

Originally Posted by Ghia5L

I wonder what would happen to your E-series if you poured some nicotine (yes, poured!) into the tank? :

It would relax & run smoothly, just pour more in every hour to keep it this way.

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Im on 8s. Have the occasional 12 sometimes. Mate cut the butt off a 16 and you won't want to touch another smoke for a little while hahha.

Do you reckon you end up smoking more ciggies if you have lighter ones? Had some 1s a while back, was like sucking on a clogged straw, just gave up - been told they're worse for your health than having the stronger ones?

[MITCHAY]

Originally Posted by XSR

Do you reckon you end up smoking more ciggies if you have lighter ones? Had some 1s a while back, was like sucking on a clogged straw, just gave up - been told they're worse for your health than having the stronger ones?

Yeah well if you think about it you do smoke more of less strength. I would maybe have one 16 to like three 8s. If i have a 16 in the morning I don't want to touch another smoke for a couple of hours. Haha smoking right now too!

I reckon when I get my next car I'll give up. Although that too could turn out to be an unhealthy addiction lol.

[JC]

Originally Posted by Young 'un

Not just the smokers... what about all the people who dont smoke but are forced to breathe in the atmospheric filth emitted by smokers?

Personally, I have never smoked and never will. And I dont mind other people smoking, just dont do it anywhere near me for f#cks sake...

No, I only care about the smokers. What smoke does to non-smokers is their own fault. If you don't like smoke, don't stand near it. There are not many enclosed places these days that smokers are able to smoke in, so if it's in the "fresh" air, then my advice to you would be to move. Never, ever get in between a smoker, and a place they can legally smoke. And never complain about them smoking near you if it's just as easy, or easier, for you to move.

And I hope you never do smoke (apart from passively). It is the most stupid, idiotic thing you can ever do, next to taking illegal drugs, of course.

[Kapn_Kiwi]

Originally Posted by au^ute

If you've got kids, they'll appreciate it when they're older. I've quit for a while now, and i dont get cravings at all any more.

They'll probably appreciate it now. My olds smoke and I can't stand it.

Oh, and an uncle gave up smoking by eating hard wine gums. Hasn't had cigarettes or wine gums since. (ulcers)

[mcflux]

Originally Posted by Gunns

It would relax & run smoothly, just pour more in every hour to keep it this way.

I wonder if it'd fix ticking lifters...

[billyb35]

I used to be very much the same as you.

Smoked like a chimney on weekends. Nowadays I just don't. Took a couple of months with a new GF who didnt smoke and 6 months of continous slow weekends of not going out much and the habit just stopped.

I chew my finger nails. Have done since I can remember. NOW THAT my friend, is hard to give up.

And you dont notice how foul it is till someone smokes around you. My brother started this year and he just lights cigs up in my car without asking. Before I would have said no worries but now it just reeks.

[gtfpv]

not long ago i was sitting in a coffee shop when i heard a lady in her 50's start coughing while she was walking up stairs to enter the shop it went on and on and started to get phlemy and became uncontrolable she nearly collapsed against the wall and persisted coughing i felt so bad . i thought she was going to die right there her husband came out and helped her up the stairs and sat her down with a coffee for her seconds later after gaining enough breath to lift her hed she lit up a ciggy . man i felt worse and couldn't believe my eyes . those things are just pure evil.

[xurbanx]

friend of mine tried going down from 8's to 6's then to 4's then to 1's (possible?).
dont know how his going; moved to qld a few months back