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28 months since my last dart.
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Message from a former smoker to those still smoking. Today is a good day to stop.
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slowsnake, your description of the cigarette ritual reminds me of a similar description I was given (probably 40 years ago!) by a pipe smoker. He went into great depth about the ritual, the cleaning, the process, then finally (or eventually?) the actual smoking, which in the case of a pipe, seemed to be short amount of time, then re-lights throughout a long period of time, followed by dis assembly of the pipe, and so the ritual repeats. I never took up the habit, but I still remember the vivid description. His was a Peterson pipe. Things you remember...
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My life started with cigarette smoking as a young teen and I smoked most of the way through my 20's and 30's. I had a few attempts at quitting before being successful and didn't touch a cigarette for ten years or so. Then I moved house, met my neighbour and made a few friends, all of whom smoked. I started off with the occasional cigarette and before I knew it, I was full time hooked again. Knowing I had quit before, in November 2020 I decided to become a non-smoker by my birthday (the following April). I'm coming up to the first anniversary of that quit date this month on 13th! I rarely even think about smoking now. I had a couple of days with nicotine patches before just going without altogether. It's doable. The motivation has to come from within. You'll get there.
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Today is 3 years since I smoked my last cigarette.
Never give up trying to give up - it can be done.
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![]() So far have outlived my old man by 11 years. Have not had a single puff...except 2nd hand smoke...and that is getting rarer every day.
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Congrats to both of you. Being able to beat any addiction, especially one that has a substantial substance addiction component (as opposed to a mental addiction) is a significant achievement.
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Find some new "friends".....seriously.
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I've been off the smokes for over 4 years now.
I'm not sure how the average wage earner can afford to smoke these days? I was smoking a carton of 200 a week. At today's prices, that's anywhere from $250 - $350 a week, or $13,000 a year, (unless you are buying under the counter Chop-chop). That's mortgage money. ![]() I've probably saved close to $40- $50K in the last 4 years. |
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*bump*
New Year Resolution time. Not too late to start today. 3.5 years since my last cigarette.
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Today is four years since my last cigarette.
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Good on ya! 1/2/2006 for me. I didn't want to make it a New Year thing.
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Please don't take this as a sermon, or me trying to be high almighty...but as a non-smoker, I've always wondered why people start in the first place ?
Let's assume it was once considered cool (why ?), or let's assume some had it 'forced' upon them during battle scenarios (soldiers). So maybe there were certain circumstances way back that created this acceptance. However, in this day and age, I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would even start ? There is not a single positive reason. It's not considered cool, it's unhealthy (widely accepted that this is true), it's expensive....and it's addictive. I am amazed to see young kids today, smoking...or even using their substitutes to kick the habit. Why...I don't get it ?
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Advertising is almost non-existent, and education on why not to is all around us. Peer pressure is a cop-out to me...sorry. My 20 something Son took up smoking a few Years ago and I had the same discussion with him...I cannot understand why.
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I believe that nicotine plus the ritual of smoking or vaping, ticks a box for people with certain exacerbated mental health conditions.
Plenty of people around me smoke, from Chinese black market cigarettes through to chop-chop and legal roll-your-own. From a financial viewpoint, I wish everyone who wanted to stop, was able to. |
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Can't recall to be honest.
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A lot of us when growing up were addicted to nicotine before we even started smoking. Houses were full of smoke, the car was full of smoke (people didnt even wind the window down, dont know how we breathed), the pub was abolutely full of smoke, restuarants etc etc. I can remember being at the doctors as a kid, and the doctor had a smoke burning away in the ashtray. Probably about 1990s, it started to become polite to go outside for a smoke.
I gave up when I had a nasty chest infection - I had one and couldnt smoke for days, but of course started to force the occasional smoke into my painful, congested lungs when I started to get a bit better. So I kept reminding myself, next time I get a nasty chest infection and cant smoke, dont be an idiot. Took a few years before I got another nasty chest infection, so I had a lot of time to think about it, eventually it happened and it had to be done. Last edited by AMB; 07-08-2023 at 09:09 PM. |
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Have you seen the ridiculous way some of them vape? The trend was to draw in a massive amount of vapour and breath out this massive plume for ages. They're the ones getting lungs problems from it. If you vape like you would a normal cigarette, just puffing on it a bit, then without a doubt its much "better for you" than smoking. Yeah nicotine is carcinogenic and not particluarly good for you, but ther'e a lot of other bad stuff when you burn plant material and inhale the smoke. I always wanted to do this experiment, get 100 people to smoke 20 lawn clipping cigarettes everyday for 20 years, and see how they compare to cigarette smokers.
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Never give up giving up. And if you give up, never say "I'll just have one smoke".
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My mum was going so well to the point I looked so bad and I don't smoke that much in comparison.
She went two weeks straight after 40 years. I'm trying to keep her on track but she has fell off. I think the the stress of dealing with my bro, plus getting the house sold and retiring is a bit much ![]() |
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Dear old Dad was how I never ended up smoking. I got to see what it did to him, rest his soul.
Amusing memory, I was about 13 and getting edgy, and asked him, "hey Dad, this smoking it seems pretty cool. Can I try one?" And being the kind and liberal fellow he was, he said, "Sure, I'll go get one." And he got a cigarette, and he said, "So you want to inhale it deeply." So I did. And what he didn't tell me, being the passionate Francophile he was, was that he'd picked a filterless Gaulois French cigarette. Strong. And so I coughed my lungs up and it was gross! And as I was coughing, he said to me, "And this is why you should never smoke." And it worked.
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Booze got my dad in the end but before that he was packing 50s Horizons everyday.
My whole house was filled with smoke growing up and mum just had it painted ready for sale and wow. I'm working on it and I'm lucky is that I'm sick of paying this BS tax constantly and just have to give this shit up. Not only it's bad for you it's just more tax to be wasted ![]() |
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