Smoking - did but don't. You?

[G-Zero]

And just the smell of it on other people makes me both heave and cringe with embarrassment at having put my friends through that for so many years

+1

 

[mickle]

Smoked in the womb and then passive smoked until I started myself @ 11, on 20 a day by 16. At age 20 in an effort to cut down I started rolling my own. That was 1982.

Gave up in 1999 for eight months but always had in the back iof my mind that I was missing something. A trip to Cuba and the availability of fancy cigars combined with the will power disolving effect of a free bar got me back on nicotine.

I read Alan Carr's book a few times over the decades so knew I had access to the key - I just never used it.

The death of my parents to cancer - my mum to lung cancer after 45 years of 20-40 a day didn't have any effect. I kept smoking, but I always only ever bought the smallest pack of rolling baccy - constantly fooling myself that I might give up and didn't want to have to throw any away... I've fished it out of manky bins before. It never seemed to be the right time -or rather I kept telling myself that. Until two or three days after my friend topped himself, and it crossed my mind that there was no worse time than this - and therefore no better time.

Coming up for two years in August. I have no desire to smoke whatsoever. I smoked more than enough already.

Gave up alcohol the following New Year - 'for a year', just to prove to myself that I could do it. I was a very heavy drinker. A year passed and I have no desire to go back on that either.

I'm sure that's the key - removing the desire.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Ten a day, and I enjoy every one.

 

[subaqua]

Ten a day, and I enjoy every one.

thats what changed for me , I stopped enjoying them all. I used to enjoy the one I had coming out of the underground , and the one after lunch. most of the others I hated

 

[XmisterIS]

When I was a teenager I spent quite a lot of time on another planet.

Then I switched to smoking copious quantities of ordinary fags.


Nowadays I don't smoke at all, haven't done for 10 years! I well remember going through my rabid anti-smoking phase when I had just stopped.

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Smoked in the womb and then passive smoked until I started myself @ 11, on 20 a day by 16. At age 20 in an effort to cut down I started rolling my own. That was 1982.

Gave up in 1999 for eight months but always had in the back iof my mind that I was missing something. A trip to Cuba and the availability of fancy cigars combined with the will power disolving effect of a free bar got me back on nicotine.

I read Alan Carr's book a few times over the decades so knew I had access to the key - I just never used it.

The death of my parents to cancer - my mum to lung cancer after 45 years of 20-40 a day didn't have any effect. I kept smoking, but I always only ever bought the smallest pack of rolling baccy - constantly fooling myself that I might give up and didn't want to have to throw any away... I've fished it out of manky bins before. It never seemed to be the right time -or rather I kept telling myself that. Until two or three days after my friend topped himself, and it crossed my mind that there was no worse time than this - and therefore no better time.

Coming up for two years in August. I have no desire to smoke whatsoever. I smoked more than enough already.

Gave up alcohol the following New Year - 'for a year', just to prove to myself that I could do it. I was a very heavy drinker. A year passed and I have no desire to go back on that either.

I'm sure that's the key - removing the desire.

A sad story but I am so glad that you have kicked both

 

[Bluebell72]

Never to any.

My Dad smoked Benson and Hedges all the time I knew him - about 60 a day. The first thing he did in the morning was to light up. His fingers were orange, his skin smelt of tobacco even when he'd just got out of the shower. After pooh-poohing the effects of smoking, he had various strokes and was dead before I was 19.

At university, so many of my clever, funny friends became dope heads, then into E and LSD (the big things at the time) and just bombed out of life that it was scary.

After a night out, I still so appreciate coming home not smelling like an ashtray, or coughing the next morning.

My vices are cake and chocolate and both can be enjoyed before, during and after sex.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I started smoking baccy because of the weed. People say it's a gateway drug and by gum it is, just not to the drugs they think. I found I was getting home from work, rolling up a spliff and sitting in front of the Cycling Plus forum for hours on end. Then having another spliff ... eventually, I realised I was spending all my leisure time stoned - which was nice, but unproductive - and I might as well just start smoking. So I did, at the age of 34.
I've given up a few times, but always crept back on to the rollies, but I've been off them completely for six months now and I think I might have cracked it. I don't regret having smoked though, I rather enjoyed it.

 

[2Loose]

Trying hard to quit the baccy (2.5 days on niquitin and counting - thanks East Midlands Riders) as I don't like the idea of being a slave to something that gives so little pleasure...anymore.

I think the other will still be enjoyed from time to time though.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I started smoking baccy because of the weed. People say it's a gateway drug and by gum it is, just not to the drugs they think.

That's a very good point.

 

[Judderz]

Never have never will

 

[XmisterIS]

Never mind weed, I'm on crack, god damn it!

I'm gonna pimp my arse for a rock ...

 

[swee'pea99]

Surely the correct term is 'pimp my ass', hmmm?

Interesting that thus far at least the complete abstainers are running a tad shy of 20%, which must mean something, tho' I'm not at all sure what. I'm sure, tho', that a smoking rate of 4/5 is higher than was ever the case in the population at large, even in the fuggy old days.

 

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Interesting that thus far at least the complete abstainers are running a tad shy of 20%, which must mean something, tho' I'm not at all sure what. I'm sure, tho', that a smoking rate of 4/5 is higher than was ever the case in the population at large, even in the fuggy old days.


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It might just be that the reason why a large number of people here cycle is precisely because they smoked.

 

[Night Train]

I first experimented with smoking when I was 8 years old. By 9 years old I had bronchitus. My Mum put that down to passive smoking via my Dad and he got banned from smoking in the house. I saw the X-rays of the shadows at the bottom of my lungs while I was in hospital and that put me off for life. Dad stopped smoking about 10 years later as he watched his best friend die from lung cancer.

I dumped a girlfriend a few years ago because she started smoking weed and then became a full on tobacco smoker. I couldn't stand the overpowering stink, nor the taste when we kissed. It was the last straw.