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  • Smoking?
     OP - June 26, 2010, 10:16 AM
    Who here smokes?

    I'm seriously considering quitting forever  Cry

    It just goes so well with morning coffee, after a meal and when drinking. And other activities Grin

    I have quit over the years but I have been smoking more or less since I was in high-school. I told myself as a compromise I would only smoke when stressed and when going out, but now I'm back to smoking regularly again.

    My main issue with is that it's so unhealthy but more specifically the health risks. I have a sore throat now and I'm freaking out, I'll just take that as a reminder for a possible and serious health concern. 

    Lung cancer, throat cancer, OK any cancer is bad. But that smoking increases the chances of these two?   mysmilie_977
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #1 - June 26, 2010, 10:19 AM
    Forget killing yourself, you kill others too with second hand smoke finmad

    But yeah, good luck with quitting... I've heard how hard it can be, but maybe if you get into some sort of support system with pals, even online, it might motivate you to stick to moving towards 0 cigs
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #2 - June 26, 2010, 10:21 AM
    Smoking sux. Kthnxbai.
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #3 - June 26, 2010, 10:27 AM
    Grin

    @coco I can quit cold turkey, I think the reason people come back to it, even after a few years, is simply because they enjoy smoking. It's pretty much a drug I'd say, sans the intoxicating factor except for a short nicotine boost. But then you have the withdrawals so yeah like I said pretty much a drug.
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #4 - June 26, 2010, 10:28 AM
    I never smoked before. But I heard that even if you stopped smoking for years, some of the addiction still lingers on forever....hope that's not true :(
    nevertheless, it's good to see you decided to fight it once and for all, and we are all here to support you, dude! or at least, I am! Smiley
    I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
    In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
    Can't it be, can't it be mine

    https://twitter.com/AlharbiMoe
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #5 - June 26, 2010, 10:31 AM
    lol thanks man I hope I didn't come across as a heroin addict Grin

    it's not physiological addiction after a few years, actually after a few months is what i read, but psychological i'd say it could still be there, for some at least
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #6 - June 26, 2010, 10:33 AM
    But it's bad right? A part of me keeps going

    - Old people smoking cigars
    - Old people smoking pipes
    - Old people smoking cigarettes

    So wtf?

    I think it's also a lifestyle issue, but that's dumb. What kind of life would I lead with a damaged voice box :/ I don't want to sound like that  mysmilie_977
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #7 - June 26, 2010, 10:33 AM
    Funnily enough I never got addicted to tobacco. I used to smoke it with weed years ago, and that meant a fair bit of tobacco at times, but I could never figure out how people got hooked on it.
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #8 - June 26, 2010, 10:36 AM
    Yeah I have another friend like you. I find that strange as well.
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #9 - June 26, 2010, 10:40 AM
    BD try substituting it with a little bit of weed (no tobacco) and see if that helps! A puff or two in the morning with coffee, and you are ready to start your day! Afro
    I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
    In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
    Can't it be, can't it be mine

    https://twitter.com/AlharbiMoe
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #10 - June 26, 2010, 10:44 AM
     Cheesy

    Actually, funny enough, I'm not that big on weed. I mean I enjoy it but I don't go looking for it.
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #11 - June 26, 2010, 10:50 AM
    It's good to see you wanting to stop, BD. Afro

    Personally, I am very adverse to smoking. Someone very close to me smoked for about 10 years and miscarried twice.
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #12 - June 26, 2010, 10:54 AM
    Thanks Ferrero Smiley

    :(

    How do you (people in general/non-smokers) not smoke though?

    Are smokers a minority in the West?
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #13 - June 26, 2010, 11:01 AM
    Quote from: Ferrero on June 26, 2010, 10:50 AM
    It's good to see you wanting to stop, BD. Afro

    Personally, I am very adverse to smoking. Someone very close to me smoked for about 10 years and miscarried twice.

    Hey BD, just don't get pregnant and you'll be fine.  Afro
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #14 - June 26, 2010, 11:04 AM
    Here are some demographics on tobacco consumption:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_tobacco_consumption  

    Look at the table for gender x country. It's interesting.

    I think the general move in recent years, to it illegal to smoke in enclosed public spaces (in the UK at least) has helped people to not smoke since we are not forced to be surrounded by it.
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #15 - June 26, 2010, 12:00 PM
    Smoking is for idiots.
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #16 - June 26, 2010, 12:35 PM
    Thanks a lot, genuis.
    I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
    In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
    Can't it be, can't it be mine

    https://twitter.com/AlharbiMoe
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #17 - June 26, 2010, 12:38 PM
     Cheesy
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #18 - June 26, 2010, 12:45 PM
    Quote from: MoeAlharbi on June 26, 2010, 12:35 PM
    Thanks a lot, genuis.


    I was responding to his question, not making an inflammatory statement

    He asked why non smokers don't smoke, I was responding that smoking is for idiots, and in that regard, non smokers aren't stupid enough to smoke. Or they haven't discovered it yet.
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #19 - June 26, 2010, 01:06 PM
    It also increases your chances of impotency - I would definitely try to quit.
    "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #20 - June 26, 2010, 01:11 PM
    Really? I should be shagging smokers then!

    *throws out condom*
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #21 - June 26, 2010, 01:14 PM
    lol, I would keep the condom - STDS
    "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #22 - June 26, 2010, 01:18 PM
    Quote from: Justlookin on June 26, 2010, 12:45 PM
    I was responding to his question, not making an inflammatory statement

    He asked why non smokers don't smoke, I was responding that smoking is for idiots, and in that regard, non smokers aren't stupid enough to smoke. Or they haven't discovered it yet.


    Yupp you sure sound like a non-idiot to me.
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #23 - June 26, 2010, 01:19 PM
    Quote from: Justlookin on June 26, 2010, 12:45 PM
    I was responding to his question, not making an inflammatory statement

    He asked why non smokers don't smoke, I was responding that smoking is for idiots, and in that regard, non smokers aren't stupid enough to smoke. Or they haven't discovered it yet.

    I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
    In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
    Can't it be, can't it be mine

    https://twitter.com/AlharbiMoe
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #24 - June 26, 2010, 01:23 PM
    Quote from: Heyjustlooking on June 26, 2010, 01:14 PM
    lol, I would keep the condom - STDS



    Rubbing a cock before penetration with the ashes of a cigarette is guaranteed to kill them dirty coochie germs. FACT!
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #25 - June 26, 2010, 01:38 PM
    Quote from: Justlookin on June 26, 2010, 12:00 PM
    Smoking is for idiots.


    I hope I'm not alarming you but the truth is, non-smokers die too.  Smiley

    The only difference is that smokers get to die doing what they wanted to do while they had the chance.
    At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
    Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
    Downward to darkness, on extended wings. - Stevens
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #26 - June 26, 2010, 02:02 PM
    I don't see why anyone would even want to smoke. Everyone on my mums side of the family (except my mum) smokes like fucking chimneys and all you can see is smoke, like a house is on fire or something. More likely to get cancer, stroke, bad skin and your lifespan deecreases, and its a waste of money. Just quit.
    "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself."
    ~Sir Richard Francis Burton

    "I think religion is just like smoking: Both invented by people, addictive, harmful, and kills!"
    ~RIBS
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #27 - June 26, 2010, 02:06 PM
    fascinating statistics on the smoking thing.     Afro
    When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
    Helen Keller
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #28 - June 26, 2010, 02:10 PM
    i'm an occasional smoker. i like smoking at home while watching tv or reading a good theoretical physics book (i used to do this before i was married a lot) - but i can only do this when the wife is away nowadays, otherwise i'd get killed like a dog in the street.

    quitting smoking is really not that difficult - not for me at least, i seem to be able to go on and off smoking whenever i want.
    ''we are morally and philisophically in the best position to win the league'' - Arsene Wenger
  • Re: Smoking?
     Reply #29 - June 26, 2010, 02:42 PM
    I smoke about 10 a day. I've reached the level of addiction. I HAVE TO smoke after a meal and when I drink.
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