The easiest way to give up smokes for ever.

**slimboyfat** · 26-09-2006, 05:38 PM

Originally Posted by Macha

Why don't you all smokers join us Muzzies in this holy month of Ramadan. That way you all can quit.

Anyone?

i see all the muslims sparking up after sun down.

**buadhai** · 26-09-2006, 05:41 PM

Can we give up just the smokes and keep on with the gin and tonic?

**machangezi** · 26-09-2006, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by slimboyfat

Originally Posted by Macha

Why don't you all smokers join us Muzzies in this holy month of Ramadan. That way you all can quit.

Anyone?

i see all the muslims sparking up after sun down.

If I can quit for 10 hrs (fasting time 10 - 12 hrs), I can quit for ever! I won't touch it again.

**mrsquirrel** · 26-09-2006, 05:55 PM

Sorry Lilly but the time had come.

Not sure how long the drinking will be stopped for but it's week 6 now maybe 7 and I'm happier than ever.

Getting drunk at home alone was going to always end in trouble.

I made a really nice spicy pumkin soup the other weekend and some flapjack as well.

I also made pickled eggs.

I am trying to find out about Indian curries just now. I have a lot of the igredients but I can't find any nutmeg locally.

All the recipes keep talkking about Massala gravy as well,

**mad_dog** · 26-09-2006, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Getting drunk at home alone was going to always end in trouble.
,

Nonsense. An eclectic play list, 6 Chang and a small Sang Som and you are a legend in your own lounge

**Marmite the Dog** · 26-09-2006, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

I have a lot of the igredients but I can't find any nutmeg locally.

Do you want me to have a look in Tops? I'll mail it to you if I find some.

**barbaro** · 26-09-2006, 08:41 PM

Good luck to Bung and anyone else who wants to quit.

I quit almost 6 years ago after smoking my brains out on a couple of month long holiday in Pattaya. Bronchitis twice.

**mrsquirrel** · 26-09-2006, 09:38 PM

Do you want me to have a look in Tops? I'll mail it to you if I find some.

Cheers

Can you buy garam masala in BKK?

**kingwilly** · 26-09-2006, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by Macha

Why don't you all smokers join us Muzzies in this holy month of Ramadan. That way you all can quit.

Anyone?

was offered already. no thanks.

do u do the whole no water or anything over the entire day ?

today was from 4.00am - 6.00pm ?? (give or take a few minutes)

nothing gets done in this city during ramadan

its like January in Aus everyone turns up to work but does nothing...

**kingwilly** · 26-09-2006, 09:46 PM

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

I have a lot of the igredients but I can't find any nutmeg locally.

Do you want me to have a look in Tops? I'll mail it to you if I find some.

they have it .. and the masala too if i not wrong.

otherwise gourmet in Emporium will....

**ceburat** · 26-09-2006, 10:55 PM

I recently quit smoking using "Nicorette" Gum. Available in most drug stores, Watsons, Boots, etc. It works great. Better than the patch.

I smoked for about 57 years. I quit once using the patch and after five years, like a fool, I tried to smoke one day and started again full steam.

After smoking again for about 13 years I tried the Nicorette Gum. I started using the gum on the 21st of May 06. I have not had a cig since. I stopped the gum after a week. No need to develope a new habit if you don't really need to.

Good Advice, IMO: Throw out all cigs, ashtrays, lighters, etc. If possible avoid other smokers for a few days. NEVER try a cig to see what its like after you quit. That is the cause of most people starting back up.

And don't worry. You will always want a smoke. I did for the five years that I quit before and I want one now. The difference is, there is far less withdrawal symptoms using the gum.

**Marmite the Dog** · 27-09-2006, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Do you want me to have a look in Tops? I'll mail it to you if I find some.

Cheers

Can you buy garam masala in BKK?

I'll have a look in the morning if I remember.

**Sanuk Canuk** · 28-09-2006, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by mrsquirrel

Sorry Lilly but the time had come. Not sure how long the drinking will be stopped for but it's week 6 now maybe 7 and I'm happier than ever. Getting drunk at home alone was going to always end in trouble. I made a really nice spicy pumkin soup the other weekend and some flapjack as well. I also made pickled eggs. I am trying to find out about Indian curries just now. I have a lot of the igredients but I can't find any nutmeg locally. All the recipes keep talkking about Massala gravy as well,

Damn here I had this vision of MrsQ being a 'ard, 'ard man. Now I just don't know what to think.....Ah well at the least he appears to know his bikes!

**Bung** · 28-09-2006, 09:14 AM

^
Imagine him in an apron making pickled eggs!?

**Storekeeper** · 28-09-2006, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by ceburat

NEVER try a cig to see what its like after you quit. That is the cause of most people starting back up.

Excellent advice ceburat. I quit from 89-94 and then thought one wouldn't hurt me; quit again from 98-00 and once again confidence got the better of me; made it three weeks this past March so I still know I have the willpower to handle this devil cold turkey. Hell, I made it till 0930 this morning without one.

**ceburat** · 28-09-2006, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ceburat

NEVER try a cig to see what its like after you quit. That is the cause of most people starting back up.

Many people have told me that giving up the smokes is harder than giving up hard drugs. There is suppose to be a report out on the subject. Has anyone ever seen the article. I think it was done in the US about a year ago.

**LesBonsTemps** · 28-09-2006, 11:10 PM

Good luck to Bung and anyone else who gives it up.

My dad smoked from the age of 13, was up to 3 packs a day at one point. After 60 years, still could manage no fewer than 6 cigarettes a day.

Then he visited me for Christmas and caught my nasty bronchial flu, one of those that hung on for 3 weeks. Couldn't smoke during the flu, so Mother told him he was done. The doctor said that a smoker's lungs rehabilitate to almost non-smoker health after five years, and Dad is still going strong at 84 years old now.

It's absolutely an addiction. My dad's dad died of lung cancer at the age of 57 (rolled his own, unfiltered!) and even then my dad couldn't stop.

Do anything you have to do to live longer.

**Bung** · 28-09-2006, 11:28 PM

I'm finding it easy now that I'm sick and on antibiotics - no booze - but the real test will be when I get home and out to the beer garden.....

**DrAndy** · 28-09-2006, 11:32 PM

the best way to give up smoking is to get lung cancer

it really focusses the mind

**Storekeeper** · 29-09-2006, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by DrAndy

the best way to give up smoking is to get lung cancer

it really focusses the mind

Still doesn't work in many, many cases ... death seems to take care of addictions though.

**ceburat** · 29-09-2006, 03:57 PM

Still doesn't work in many, many cases ... death seems to take care of addictions though.

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So sad, but, So very true.

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