THE Quit Smoking Thread

[Dave 85]

im an expert at giving up smoking, i've done it loads of times:sifone:

I quit minimum twice a year. Been off em for a month this time, got a feeling this one's gonna be serious though.

 

[Des 56]

Smoking is not a good habit. You should quit it immediately if you want to live your life properly and healthy for long period of time. Otherwise you will die very soon.

Cheers mate,just what I wanted to hear

I have been smoking over 50 years and will definitely make sure I take on board what you say

Up till now,it has caused me to not lose any of my hair,defintely no grey either
Made me still have the fitness and dexterity to jump up and down attics regularly
Never in my life use the taxes I have contributed to the Health service for my own use other than a broken ankle recently (smoking must have defintely caused that one)
Caused me ever to be in trouble with the law and finally become poverty stricken because of the waste of my own money

Just wish I read your conclusions before I ever started

 

[ackbarthestar]

Good to see the smoking lobby has been mobilized ....

There's a lot worse than smoking the occasional spliff, or was that a cigarette ? I don't know anymore since I'm sailing away with fairies in my greenhouse. :rockon2::rockon2:

Advantages: Not much, except the bird to those are fanatical about you stopping and are determined to make you suffer to not bending to their will.

Disadvantages: It makes your clothes and furnishings stink ....:sifone:

 

[Silly Sausage]

This lot... About Action on Smoking and Health can go and boil their heads.
I bet they're quite happy using the tobacco tax funded NHS when they've broken down from being so up tight.

 

[RobWansbeck]

ASH is a 'fake charity' whose principal funding source is the UK taxpayer.

We're paying tax to fund a 'charity' that lobbies government to raise taxes.
Sadly, they are not the only one.

 

[Dave 85]

In the words of ozzy Osbourne in regards to ciggarettes:
"That sh*t will kill you quicker than crack"
Never a truer word said.

I've smoked on and off for years, but have always seen it as a problem and never given up giving up.
I've never understood people who criticise anti smoking enforcement. Even while being a smoker I welcomed the smoking in pubs ban, welcomed the upping of the age limit to 18, welcome the restriction on displaying tobaco products and to be honest would welcome an all out ban on the sale of tobacco products if it were possibble.

Why are people so determined to exercise and fight for, their right to smoke. Its completely pointless and doesn't benefit you in any way.
At least getting pi**ed is fun.

I bet half these people are the same people moaning about how bad it is that people are willing to risk their lives doing DIY electrical work and should be stopped at all costs.

 

[ackbarthestar]

It will all pass away, just like the extra tax on Gin or the reduction of light into your house in the C18 , prohibition in the 20's America, or the future legislation, (when somebody realizes the damage it does to peoples lives) that will put an end to gambling in this country.

 

[Silly Sausage]

I've smoked on and off for years, but have always seen it as a problem and never given up giving up.
I've never understood people who criticise anti smoking enforcement. Even while being a smoker I welcomed the smoking in pubs ban, welcomed the upping of the age limit to 18, welcome the restriction on displaying tobaco products and to be honest would welcome an all out ban on the sale of tobacco products if it were possibble.

At least getting pi**ed is fun. This is never in dispute!

I bet half these people are the same people moaning about how bad it is that people are willing to risk their lives doing DIY electrical work and should be stopped at all costs.

I basically agree with what you're saying there, you shouldn't smoke in the presence of children especially.
What urinates me off about it is their self righteous attitude, once they've eliminated smoking, who'll be next, the obese chip munching lot or climbers etc (have a look at Daily Mail online...quality hyperbole there!)
We're just easy targets, like most motoring offences are for our glorious Police force.
If I want to kill myself slowly, that's my business, so they can all go and........

Now where's that bottle of Peroni?

 

[ash77ah]

11 day with out a smoke today!

 

[jhampson1874]

I am part of a quit smoking group on Facebook and someone recently posted this:

Interesting Facts About Smoking [Infographic] | E Liquid Blog

Its quite shocking...I always knew that cigarettes contained harmful chemicals but cyanide and arsenic?? The sooner I can quit the better. What makes it worse is I am part of a gym and feel that all the hard work I put in I am wasting every time I light up.

 

[tomh1982]

I quit in march 2011. I left a job I hated to somewhere else and decided that was the time to stop smoking & pleased to say I havnt touched one since. Hopefully I won't go back to it!

 

[markc123]

Haven't read the thead, cba...but i think i may be a minority here, i am on-site anyway WHICH IS NOT FAIR BTW...i've never smoked, ever in my life. Disgusting habbit lads you should all be ashamed

And why it isn't fair i hear you ask...you all get smoke breaks every half an hour, and muggings over here has to carry on working lol.

 

[sparkless]

yes, but you get to live longer.

so, you get all them smoke breaks back

 

[dim_bulb]

I've stopped smoking for 11 days now had major cravings initially but starting to forget get about them. I stopped because I was Ill I thought that was a good spring board.

 

[SAILOR48]

I am not the most appreciated poster on here I know, I like a joke and stuff
But I feel one of the best thing I ever did was to give up smoking it was one of the hardest but most rewarding.
Its one day at a time if you fancy a smoke leave it a day then another think I have gone through this, if
I have one it’s for nothing.
You will find that you will find excuses such as “I am under stress, I have had a drink blaa blaa de blaa.
Its not it’s the addiction to tobacco.
Don’t have mini cigars you can have no tobacco, I have given up now for 35 years but if I smoked 1 smoke now I think I would start again

All the best to you, you can do it.