WARNING by H.M. Government, SMOKING CAN DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH

**DrB0b** · 01-09-2009, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Actually been finding it hard to breath lately, for hours at a time. So I've given up, 2 days ago

Bloody hell, that's impressive! The longest I've ever managed to give up breathing for was about 90 seconds

**StrontiumDog** · 01-09-2009, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Actually been finding it hard to breath lately, for hours at a time. So I've given up, 2 days ago

Bloody hell, that's impressive! The longest I've ever managed to give up breathing for was about 90 seconds

Try longer next time.

**blackgang** · 01-09-2009, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by Plan B

Is that the best way?

No, there is no RUSH to any but smoked tobacco, thats the fun part. And thats why nothing works but just wanting to quit and doing so.

**DrB0b** · 01-09-2009, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Actually been finding it hard to breath lately, for hours at a time. So I've given up, 2 days ago

Bloody hell, that's impressive! The longest I've ever managed to give up breathing for was about 90 seconds

Try longer next time.

Not bad, 46 minutes to the obvious reply. I'd expected it to be quicker but I forgot to take into account the fact that I'm dealing with slow thinkers here

**kingwilly** · 01-09-2009, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Actually been finding it hard to breath lately, for hours at a time. So I've given up, 2 days ago

Bloody hell, that's impressive! The longest I've ever managed to give up breathing for was about 90 seconds

Try longer next time.

Not bad, 46 minutes to the obvious reply. I'd expected it to be quicker but I forgot to take into account the fact that I'm dealing with slow thinkers here

could say exactly the same thing about your reply!

**The Gentleman Scamp** · 01-09-2009, 04:50 PM

In Thailand it says 'SMOKING CAN TO DO DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH'...

Ill get me coat.

**StrontiumDog** · 02-09-2009, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by kingwilly

Actually been finding it hard to breath lately, for hours at a time. So I've given up, 2 days ago

Bloody hell, that's impressive! The longest I've ever managed to give up breathing for was about 90 seconds

Try longer next time.

Not bad, 46 minutes to the obvious reply. I'd expected it to be quicker but I forgot to take into account the fact that I'm dealing with slow thinkers here

I do apologise, I have this irritating thing called work that requires my attention occasionally. I will try to get my priorities right in future.

**Adolf** · 02-09-2009, 01:28 AM

Originally Posted by Looper

I have been smoking for 20 years but have also never been addicted. Used to smoke 20 a day for many years because my friends did but never found it hard to stop for a week or a month or 6 months. Now I smoke 1 every week or two.

I used to be similar to that ,however whenever I had a drink I found it impossible not to smoke unless I had an alternative (ie:ganga) - so the addiction was still there even if I'd not had a cigarette for months.

How about you , can you still drink and not smoke?

**oldgit** · 02-09-2009, 04:47 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Quit when Mrs Hat was pregnant . . . started again . . . quit when Mrs Hat was pregnant . . . started again . . . quite when Mrs Hat was pregnant . . .

Three years and not a worry, though the odd one does pass my lips when too much alcohol is involved and there is a smoker among us . . .

Did you twig it was the smokers cough that was the cause to getting Mrs Hat pregnant?

**blackgang** · 02-09-2009, 08:35 AM

No, Pobly the booze that did it, it there was not to much booze and the machinery would not work.
I know when I was a older lad yet [Pre 48 years] and still drank, if I had not had to much and it would stand at attention, I sometimes knocked my wife up while on home visits from jobs.
But now that I do not drink anymore [and don't work] and have less trouble getting it up and have a wife that is not a farang, But as she was spayed we do not have any kids from the couplings.
So I think it must be the booze as smoking does cause some ED as does the booze, but the smoking does more permanent damage to the blood system than booze.

**chassamui** · 02-09-2009, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by larvidchr

I wish that all you guys that wants to quit have good luck with it and manage to quit the habit, if you don't want to smoke there is absolutely no reason why you should, waste of health and money.

I smoke like a chimney and have done so for 37 years, currently about 60 a day more if I am out drinking, I did quit once for about 3 years but then started again for various reasons.

It is one of my great pleasures in life, nothing like smoking and a god cup of coffee, sitting with friends chatting away having a smoke together, the smoke after a good meal with a good movie on the dummy box, or sitting quiet on the porch with a Cuban cigar a brandy and coffee watching the sun go down.

I am most likely not going to quit before it is to late as BG states, but it is a conscious decision, now I don't remember how old BG is but he has had a decent run on life, but there is absolutely no fun in what he is going through now, and I truly feel sorry for him, but we all make choices, really I should have been dead a long time ago but have been shit lucky, smoking is for sure not the most dangerous thing I have done, it isn't even close, and if it takes 10 - 15 years of my life length so be it, because thinking back I would not have been without it.

You don't know when your time is up it could be in the car tomorrow, in 20 years it could have been everyday at work for me, smoking is just one of the hazards of life that our generations was given without really "knowing/caring about" the dangers back then, the two generations before mine died in the millions in big wars, and the future generations will have other hazards to worry about, I think I have been lucky like hell growing up in the most peaceful time in the history of western Europe.

Smoking or not, death will find a reason and you don't know when he will be knocking at your door, my lovely old neighbour Don died just about a year ago 79 years old, he had been fit as a fiddle all his life bar the last 6 month's, he died from intestinal cancer, he had been a smoker all his adult life and was a happy go getter right up until the end, my dear old Mother is 75 and is smoking and has been since she was 10 years old, she goes swimming twice a week rides her bicycle and are enjoying her retirement.

Life has many risk's you just never know, I think worrying to much will kill you sooner than anything else.

I can only manage about forty a day if i try really hard, but my excuse is the same as yours. I just don't see the point anymore. At 55, any damage is done already and i do enjoy the one with coffee, or after a meal.

I had an uncle who chain smoked except when he was at work, down the pit. He used to get up several times during the night for a fag and got through eighty a day. Had he not been a miner he would not have been able to afford it. Lived to ripe old age too.

I realise it is a dsigusting, smelly, unhealthy habit, and i wish i was like Looper, and i could take it or leave it, but i can't. The truth is, i enjoy it mostly and i try to counter any negative effects with regular exercise.

I stil think the nasty pictures on fag packets are pornographic.

**blackgang** · 02-09-2009, 03:59 PM

As far as lung cancer goes I think you are pobly right, but emphysema is quite another thing, every cig contributes to it.
My Dr. in the states told me that and I should quit, also he gave me a months ZYBAN free of charge and prescripts for 2 More months, but I didn't quit, I just did not have the will power to resist, and even smoked while on it and also with nicodent and patches,, had some severe nicotine OD headaches.
And my Dr. put in my records that I still smoked because I did not want to quit, the prick, I notices that entry after I was here and looked at the med records I had brought.
But my Dr. here said the same thing, even told his father that, he didn't quit and died last month.
But when I was in the hospital he told me as I stated before could do nothing if I continued, but after I had been off cigs for a year and had a slight case of walking Pneumonia while up in CM last year and came home and he got that squared away and did a full exam, he said the rest of my systems were very good shape and if I watched and took care of my lungs as best I could that I would live a good many years and with the longevity genes in my family's that I could live to see 100,, I sure the hell hope he was wrong.
And the reason I did not quit smoking 20 years ago is exactly as that US Dr. said, I did not want to quit, as I always enjoyed the rush, even when I was coughing up chunks of lung and asshole..

**Travelmate** · 02-09-2009, 04:35 PM

^ Well I am sure you are regretting not quitting so many moons ago.

**blackgang** · 02-09-2009, 07:34 PM

well not really, there are some things I can't do now, but there were always some things I could not do and always wanted to.
Like fucking Raquel Welsh, or flying a jet past Mach-1, or going down to the bottom of the Marianas trench in Trieste.
But I always enjoyed a smoke, even when I was a little kid and had to roll em up with BULL DURHAM that I took out of my grandpa's stash.
And I always drank to much as I drank for effect, not because I enjoyed the stuff or actually never really enjoyed being drunk, but I always got that way and stayed as long as I could.
In this life you very seldom get exactly what you want, It is what you do with what you get that counts, and I have done as good as I could with what I got and am not sorry for anything I have done really.
There are some things I am not to proud of and should have done different, but I thought it was right at that time.

**kingwilly** · 02-09-2009, 08:52 PM

4 days now, beers with dinner but still resisted urge

**Rural Surin** · 02-09-2009, 08:58 PM

The tobacco corporations and government consortium. Quite the racket...

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