Smoking

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:16 pm

jeepers ... just sat here bored , I smoked for 30 years ... thankfully managed to quit in 2001. Assuming an average of 1 packet of cigarettes a day and a fiver a packet, in todays terms that's almost £55,000 wasted on cigarettes. £55,000!!!!!! Jeeesus

and if I'd continued to smoke up to now that wouldve added another £21,000 to the pot .... £76,000 wow !!!!

Those are scary figures

Dai wiskers · Post by **Dai wiskers** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:47 pm

I think they nearer £6 a pack now Steve

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:08 am

slparry wrote: I smoked for 30 years ... thankfully managed to quit in 2001.

Only a smoker/ex-smoker knows what an achievment that is Steve.

Twinspark · Post by **Twinspark** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:20 am

Dai wiskers wrote:I think they nearer £6 a pack now Steve

More like £8 for big brands.

Merecat · Post by **Merecat** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 8:47 am

Scary figures indeed.
I quit in 87, strange how we always remember the date?. I was smoking over 20 a day so some days buying 2 packets which even then were over £2.
Not had one since then.
Congratulations to everyone who managed to kick the filthy habit!!

Mick

Herb · Post by **Herb** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:04 am

I am one of the smug people who never got started.

I tried smoking a couple of my dad's Navy Players that were always knocking around the house. Made me pretty ill and I thought never again.

It was so unpleasant I can't understand how anyone actually goes back for more.

dave1100s · Post by **dave1100s** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:31 am

Just in the process of quitting, it's early days, but going ok so far

It was the financial side that made me think. I could do so much more with the cash, and also put a little less in Mr Cameron's pocket

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:40 am

dave1100s wrote:Just in the process of quitting, it's early days, but going ok so far
It was the financial side that made me think. I could do so much more with the cash, and also put a little less in Mr Cameron's pocket

Good luck with it Dave, once you're free of them you wouldn't believe how liberating it is!

What stunned me was how the addiction tried desperately to reason in my mind that quitting was silly! I love being a non addict nowadays!

dave1100s · Post by **dave1100s** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:54 pm

slparry wrote:What stunned me was how the addiction tried desperately to reason in my mind that quitting was silly! I love being a non addict nowadays!

I know what you mean Steve, the urge that 'just one every now and again wouldn't matter' is driving me nuts! I've got myself one of the NHS quit kits, and to be fair, it's really good at keeping you focused with a little will power

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:42 pm

dave1100s wrote:
slparry wrote:What stunned me was how the addiction tried desperately to reason in my mind that quitting was silly! I love being a non addict nowadays!

I know what you mean Steve, the urge that 'just one every now and again wouldn't matter' is driving me nuts! I've got myself one of the NHS quit kits, and to be fair, it's really good at keeping you focused with a little will power

I was dating an American Dr. and she got me lots of pills n potions, the one that made "THE" difference was Zyban (Welbutrin).

After all quitting smokings easy, I did it loads of times

The only regret I have is as I saw weight going on I thought I'd worry about it later and concentrate on kicking the smokes, bad move as once the weghts on it's a devil of a job to get it off.

It's funny when I was younger I bemoaned the fact I couldn't afford to save for a pension .... while plugging 1000's into buying fags

The Teutonic Tangerine · Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:50 pm

dave1100s wrote:
slparry wrote:What stunned me was how the addiction tried desperately to reason in my mind that quitting was silly! I love being a non addict nowadays!

I know what you mean Steve, the urge that 'just one every now and again wouldn't matter' is driving me nuts! I've got myself one of the NHS quit kits, and to be fair, it's really good at keeping you focused with a little will power

Keep it up Mate I am nearly 2 years smoke free having smoked from age 17 to 53. I used the patches but after a while my skin reacated to the Nicotine so I switched to lozenges and that spray stuff. It got so that both tasted so foul I gave them up as well this all took from February to September so stick with it. I did not "cut down" or "have the odd fag" I thought if this is going to work I just have to stop. I rarely get any cravings now but it's difficult whjen you are abraod and everyones still smoking in a bar. I am not sure if they have changed the law yet but in Austria last year I had to get out of the bar as it was very smokey.

So very best of luck to you if you can wean yourself off the nicotine that's the best way. My Mate used the electric fags to quit and is still sucking on them over a year later so he has not got rid of the Nictine from his system and he is still craving it.

Twinspark · Post by **Twinspark** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:57 pm

I smoked from 18 through to nearly 37 years old. Never counted how many a day, as mostly that was roll-ups.

Had a heart attack on 1st Feb. 2011 (2 months short of my 37th birthday) - and haven't smoked from that day.

Going for my 2 year checkup on Monday...

Boxered · Post by **Boxered** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:25 pm

I'm thinking of taking up smoking, I thought I'd start of with the patches first then work my way up

Steve

dave1100s · Post by **dave1100s** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:28 pm

Twinspark wrote:Going for my 2 year checkup on Monday...

That must have been a wake up call mate? Best of luck with the checkup, I hope all goes well.

Thanks for all the support guys, didn't realise there were so many ex-smokers out there!! Still, now you lot are watching me, makes me more determined than ever!! Cheers fellas

dave1100s · Post by **dave1100s** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 4:36 pm

Boxered wrote:I'm thinking of taking up smoking, I thought I'd start of with the patches first then work my way up

Steve

Good idea, but i've heard they're a bastard to light

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