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    I gave smoking seven months ago. And never looked back since. All I can say is that if you want to really kick the habit. It can be done and it not that hard. Friends smoke around me all the time and still I do not feel the urge.
    There are good side effects to giving up.
    Sleep better/longer
    Food taste better
    Feel better
    Sex is much much better
    Hangovers are not as bad
    Rarely feel bad/ill
    save money

    The only real downside is that your tastebuds enjoy the food so much more. Thus you tend to eat alot and pack on the fat alot quicker/easier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slimboyfat View Post
    . My motivation is that my son is approaching teenage and I don't him to copy me (or nick my fags)



    The best motivation for giving up smoking is cancer. Works every time and ain't failed yet.

    Fok I used to love a rolly with my Guinness but give it away years ago, If I'm drinking with a cat that has a packet of rollies I'll bum one but thats as far as it goes.

    I'm happy with that as a few wont friggin kill ya, bladdy lucky as I'm not addicted to the buggers.

    Good luck Fat boy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mathos
    It will take years to clear up my lungs. It's not a pleasant experience either.
    The Xray taken last year my lungs were completely black, and the one taken last week is starting to clear up on the lower ends from about 10 months of not smoking.
    Lucky that I don't have cancer, but they were clear of that and any infection, but the years of welding smoke/fumes and smoking cigs has done the main damage and killed 70% of the function of my lungs and the COPD will kill me and there is nothing they can do about it.
    But what the hell, I am 75 years old, have lived a good life, went where ever I wanted to go and done damn near everything I have wanted to do [except fuck Raquel Welsh] and so I have no regrets really.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Travelmate
    Sex is much much better
    That isn't what the mule says.

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    Guts me to read this and still thinking about that one ciggie I saved last night for this morning, which I'm about to smoke now; I told myself when my son was born I'd stop so he wouldn't smell the stink when I was with him. He's 7 months now and I'm still on around 30 a day.

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    IMO -- It is a bit like drinking and getting high. I tried a thousand times to quit one or the other. It was only when i tried stopping both at the same time that I had any luck.

    A bit off point perhaps but this is my two cents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Pot View Post
    Guts me to read this and still thinking about that one ciggie I saved last night for this morning, which I'm about to smoke now; I told myself when my son was born I'd stop so he wouldn't smell the stink when I was with him. He's 7 months now and I'm still on around 30 a day.
    So why are you still smoking then? Thats not meant to sound preachy BTW.

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    Stress?? I don't really foking know to be honest. Most of these cigarettes have been when mom is with the kid and I'm socialising with a beer or having my own space like, say at work. I've been up around 5 hours now and still not smoked that one ciggie but I am still thinking about it and when I'll smoke it. I keep my son away from smoke it's just the smell on my clothes that I don't want to be associated by from him

    If I have a beer like last night I'll cane 20 ciggies in three hours no problem. When I'm not drinking there still that mental part of it being always on my mind

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    ^^ Addiction, Sherlock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Pot
    Stress?? I don't really foking know to be honest. Most of these cigarettes have been when mom is with the kid and I'm socialising with a beer or having my own space like, say at work. I've been up around 5 hours now and still not smoked that one ciggie but I am still thinking about it and when I'll smoke it. I keep my son away from smoke it's just the smell on my clothes that I don't want to be associated by from him If I have a beer like last night I'll cane 20 ciggies in three hours no problem. When I'm not drinking there still that mental part of it being always on my mind
    Quote Originally Posted by pai nai ma
    ^^ Addiction, Sherlock.
    Put simply

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    Quote Originally Posted by pai nai ma View Post
    ^^ Addiction, Sherlock.
    People have different reasons for smoking Watson. Figuring out why is a way of discovering how to stop.

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    Well youve made a start by not having one today so far, try making it to the end of the day without one just to see if you can do it. If you do try and double that to 2 days, thats part of how I did it, sort of a game or challenge to myself.

    Its easier to think of giving up for one day than forever, you just have to try again the next day and the next etc.
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    If fags went up to 300 baht a pack, I might reconsider, or more
    likely find a way around it.

    Stick with it SBF, fat is better than fucked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by melvbot
    People have different reasons for smoking Watson. Figuring out why is a way of discovering how to stop.
    No they don't and no it isn't. And have your red back.

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    Make that two reds as I just sent you a green.

    And the word I provided you covers the myriad of reasons that humans have for the behavior.

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    So everyone smokes for the same reason do they?

    OK enlighten me as to the reason why everyone in the who world smokes does so, unless its your "addiction" comment.

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    It is.

    Call it what you want but it is what it is.

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    Well that told me didnt it?

    How do you explain social smokers then?

    People who only smoke at weekends when they go out with friends to socialise. I know several people who do and they smoke but I wouldnt say theyre addicted.

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    feed a monkey in a cage an addictive substance and he may go on for hours about the reasons he imbibes. the field of addiction allows for this but ascribes less meaning to the process of inventing reasons than you or the monkey appear to.

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    (now let's let the smokers alone in this thread. start another if you wish)

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    So in other words you dont have an answer, you just want it to sound like you have one. The art of saying nothing with words.

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    I smoke because i enjoy it

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    addiction can affect people differently in terms of the dosage, timing of the desired substance and in terms of the symptoms of substance denial/unavailability.

    while the social context of addiction cant be ignored, the process of addiction is by definition physiological.

    now will you please let it go or start a new thread?

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    Quote Originally Posted by patsycat View Post
    I smoke because i enjoy it
    I don't think you actually do.

    If I had a cigarette now I wouldn't enjoy it. Only the subsequent ones once the nicotine addiction establishes itself again.

    As Allen Carr says, it's something like always wearing tight shoes just for the relief you get when you take them off.

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    ^ I agree.

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