smoking

[Alex P]

Wow... Unique and amazing idea there...

[Alex P]

Yeah, so I've just this moment decided not to smoke anymore... So I've quit (as easy as that? yeah right!) Yeah, as easy as that... Only just made the decision... That is the final drug to quit, -I am- now totally free.

Life is worth living.... And it took a person I know who has over the past four(or so) months gone lower and lower to show me that.

[greymare]

good for you alex.

[China Cat Sunflower]

Way to go Alex!

Chris

[Alex P]

Have you noticed how much of it is just... Subcon? I woke up.. Yup stopped smoking strolled downstairs got my coffee nice... Grabbed the household tobacco pouch and was going to roll a cigarette... I know I had only just woke up, but still I was oblivious to what I was doing.. I kinda like checking for puppet strings on my hands... lol. My hands nearly caught me out lol.

[Snoopy]

Originally Posted by Alex P

I kinda like checking for puppet strings on my hands... lol. My hands nearly caught me out lol.

Have you looked to see if you've got Gerry Anderson living in your loft?

s.

[juantoo3]

It's amazing the rut (or as one prof. put it, "ritual") we get into. That is one reason I went to "jailhouse roll-yer-owns," so that I would have to make a conscious decision for every smoke. It is too easy to pop one of the "tailor mades" out of the pack and into the mouth and light up without ever thinking about it.

At least you caught yourself, Alex. That's a good first step. Good for you. Keep trying, even if you goof. I still want one every day, but it seems like a residual memory at this point. Something tells me, (OK, past experience) that if I were to light up right now I would gag and think "what the hell did I ever see in this to do it for so long?"

[juantoo3]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

Have you looked to see if you've got Gerry Anderson living in your loft?

s.

OK now, don't be dissin' Gerry Anderson.

I grew up with the Thunderbirds. I used to pilot Thunderbird 4 to meet Jacques Cousteau, long before I could ever spell the man's name.

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by mee

How You Can Quit Smoking
Tobacco use is the major preventable cause of disease worldwide.............Are you a slave to this habit interesting link about smoking

Food (especially fast food) and lack of exercise is just as much of a killer as smoking.
Smoking increases chances of getting cancer, and promotes it, but it doesn't initiate it.
I have known loads of people in their 70's, 80' & 90's who smoked all their lives and never got cancer.
If somebody wants to smoke and enjoys it, then smoke! Life's too short

[Alex P]

Originally Posted by juantoo3

It's amazing the rut (or as one prof. put it, "ritual") we get into. That is one reason I went to "jailhouse roll-yer-owns," so that I would have to make a conscious decision for every smoke. It is too easy to pop one of the "tailor mades" out of the pack and into the mouth and light up without ever thinking about it.

At least you caught yourself, Alex. That's a good first step. Good for you. Keep trying, even if you goof. I still want one every day, but it seems like a residual memory at this point. Something tells me, (OK, past experience) that if I were to light up right now I would gag and think "what the hell did I ever see in this to do it for so long?"

thanks for the post... I know what you mean.. I have actually done it twice now! early last night I went to do it... I am not even thinking of doing it lol I just have some kinda set programe in me... I think there must be something I haven't understood that triggers the reaction lol..

Originally Posted by juantoo3

OK now, don't be dissin' Gerry Anderson.

I grew up with the Thunderbirds. I used to pilot Thunderbird 4 to meet Jacques Cousteau, long before I could ever spell the man's name.

OOOOh thats who Anderson is... lol

Originally Posted by Penguin

If somebody wants to smoke and enjoys it, then smoke! Life's too short

I ain't gonna preach to anyone... There is no high horse in sight believe me... (as I loathed it when ex smokers preached at me.... Who are they to talk.)

But I lived by that statement... Life is too short... Yes, yes it is... Why make it shorter?

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by Alex P

But I lived by that statement... Life is too short... Yes, yes it is... Why make it shorter?

Not everybody dies a premature death because of smoking, as I already said above I know people who have smoked all their lives and have lived a long and happy life.
When it's time to go, it's time to go, regardless of tobacco, that's the gamble

[Alex P]

Yeah true, but youre raising the odds/stakes... Anyway wish to smoke go and do it, that's cool... Just something to think about is all.

[greymare]

And its a terrible way to go..........

[dauer]

The biggest problem I have with smoking is second-hand smoke. If you want to raise your health risks, fine, but consider the people around you that you're potentially putting in harm's way. I know someone who grew up in a house with two smoking parents. She's still in that house with both of those parents, but now her sister and her sister's boyfriend are also there smoking. She's only 22 and she's developed breast cancer.

[juantoo3]

Not trying to defend anything here, but does anyone else find it curious that humans warmed their shelters by burning wood (or other assorted combustibles, like dried dung) for ages, breathing in all that smoke, yet prior to the tobacco industry lung cancer was practically unheard of?