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Been mostly stopped for 2 years now. I used to really enjoy smoking, as hard as that may be to understand. However I got up to 20 a day for a number of years and knew it was a pretty uncool thing to do.
Think over that time I have smoked on average 1 weekend every two months or so, usually coincides with a weekend away sailing, camping or on holiday etc.
Feeling a lot healthier and good not to be dependent on always having tobacco on me.
But I still allow myself a "Dirty Weekend" every couple of months. Strangely I find this remarkably easy and rarely think about fags.
Until threads like this come up...
It's when you consider reporting your debit card lost and getting 'emergency cash' out of your NatWest account just so you can buy some fags - because you left your wallet at work [i]overnight[/i] - that you realise it's all got a bit silly.
Hopefully, anyway.
Not had a snout since new year. On the electric ones now though, so kind of cheating really.
Looking back, I probably didn't enjoy the vast majority of smokes I had, but every so often, the ones with a beer in a sunny garden were awesome. Unfortunately its not so easy to pick and choose the ones to have.
Well done everyone who's quit successfully and keep going those who are going through it now.
I smoke about 2-3 cigs.
Every 40 years. I think half of those weren't even inhaled!
Mostly because when I was a teenager everyone told me not to. And death or illness seemed so irrelevant and far away.I've never had the urge to smoke myself but would be interested to know why you did start?
That too. And by the time they wore off I honestly enjoyed it. Or thought I did, I'm not sure anymore.When I first started it also used to give me the most amazing headrushes
My mum finally gave up smoking. It had killed her 🙁
Last one Xmas Eve...same day as my son was as born. No hurry to take it up again...how else will I buy him his first bike?!
The Pinkster - Member
I've never had the urge to smoke myself but would be interested to know why you did start?
I was 9.. it was cool
Been given up pretty much about 18 months now I think, after a couple of years of nearly managing it..
I quit being a full time smoker a year and half ago. Since then I only smoked when I was drinking. I have now though quit drinking for a year so that should put a final stop to the smoking too.
19 years this summer, went cold turkey on a holiday to lake Garda & can't imagine ever smoking again
Feb '98 for me. cold turkey, got up one day with about 4 left in a pack in my work jacket. decided "I don't want to do that any more" and binned 'em, never been back since
31 years. Ran up a steep hill one evening and felt so out of breath I quit there and then! So glad I did 🙂
At £8.20 for a pack of 20 wonder how people am afford it these days?
weare138 - MemberAt £8.20 for a pack of 20 wonder how people am afford it these days?
It were 10 pence a smoke when I was a lad in the 80's 😉
I still miss the head rush though...