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You know what they say... Rehab is for quitters.
Cigars are much cooler. There's something deeply decadent about a woman with a stogie. Or a pipe? A thin, clay one, for wise gyspsy mystique. I mean, I know it's still smoking, but it's less unhealthy because you don't inhale so much.
Keep it up. It's a lot harder if you think about. Think about something else. Like ... um ... anything ... um pebbles. Pebbles are very non cigarette like.
Aaargh Matt! Not helping...
Tim, this tactic is emphatically NOT endorsed by Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking - "It's easy with Allen Carr - stop smoking fags - take up cigars!" Though I agree with you, there's something about a cigar...
Pebbles? Is this all you've got for me Adrian?
Don't do it Annie!! Stay away from the ciggies! I would love to quit LOVE it! but I am weak willed and frightened.
You are strong and teacherly, you must show me the way so that I can follow and stop blowing my cash on cancer sticks.
Mmmm... cancer sticks....
Sorry for not helping Annie, it's just that I love fags. Really, I love them. Dying a couple or three years earlier or whatever is worth it for 5-7 "mmmmmmmm..." moments each day, imho. Plus my cousin (who's a doctor) says only chav fags give you cancer, so as long as you're not smoking L&B or Rothmans you're fine.
A friend of mine, who's a girl (well, a woman really, not an old woman, she's like, 30 or something... anyhoo) smokes cigars. You don't inhale so much, so the risk of lung cancer is slightly less, but the risk of mouth and throat cancer is about 400% more, apparently.
Stay strong, Annie, stay strong!
I did it and you can too!!
Stay strong, stay strong! (I have given up twice this week.)
This story must be bollocks, but I did once hear a theory by a million-a-day-smoking Danish scientist that the problem with smoking wasn't the tobacco but using a lighter. He swore by matches, and when he snuffed it and they examined his lungs, they were, the story goes, as clean as a whistle. (Don't know if he reached a ripe old age, though, or died at 19.)
At least fags suppress your appetite. I'm addicted to chocolate, and that's turning me into a fat knacker.
I've been off 'em for over 3 years, but still crave them from time to time...
Sorry, that's probably not helping you is it ;)
Heather my love, the responsibility! You can do it, you are young and your lungs are still clean and working!
I love them too Matt. Though this is because they are HIGHLY ADDICTIVE and not because they're inherently lovable. Doctors are strangely laissez-faire about smoking I find - when I told mine I smoked about 10 a day she shrugged as though to say "pssh, that's nothing."
Thanks Alda! I did it once before, the trick is to stay stopped...
BiB, good luck! Is it harder to quit in Berlin? I found it quite tough in Spain, they seem way behind with the health campaigns in the rest of Europe. (If I start again, I'll stick to matches, which is handy as I always lose my lighters)
Del, I've tried replacing them with carrots but it's not the same and I fear I might turn orange, so may be joining you with the chocolate addiction.
Anxious, I salute your will-power! They say once a smoker always a smoker - still, one day at a time hey...
Annie, I gave up smoking on the day West Ham got relegated! If I can stay off of the fags after that then you can stay off the fags.
BTW It was the day I'd chosen to quit. I hadn't realised at the time it'd be the last game of the season. Imagine how shittily low I felt after that.
Oh, and I used a combination of gum, and microtabs and it took me 9 months to get off of them but it worked.
I do still miss smoking though. Not only did it make me feel big and clever it also made me inherently cooler and far more attractive to the opposite sex.
Especially after a beer! :D
Oh Rad, major respect to you for stopping that day and not thinking 'I'll stop tomorrow...'
Microtabs... sounds like little mini cigarettes... must look into this...
I know, I'm suffering with the cooler/sexier thing as well.
And the cigarette-for-every-occasion - the waiting-for-the-bus one, the one that goes with coffee, the one that goes with a drink, the nervous-before-a-job-interview one,
the one you smoke after the interview in celebration, the first one after leaving work for the day, etc etc etc...
Microtabs are little tablets you slip under your tongue when you get a craving. You're only supposed to use Nicotine replacement therapy products for 3 months cos it can play your belly up a bit. There was no way I was ready after 3 months though.
I did also wobble occasionally at times of major stress. But once you've been off of the smokes for a fair while, you discover that rather than the yummy scrummy things you thought they were, they actually taste like arse! It's true. I still love the smell of tobacco but the taste is fucking foul!
The best t-shirt I ever saw was of a classic 1940´s woman, cig in hand with the caption: "She gets the blokes, because she smokes". I still secretly believe this to be true!!!
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