Smokers

[action man]

i am 21 and have been smoking since the age of 15, what i have realised is that heavy smokers don't actually realise if they need one or not.
I smoke about 20 a day but when sitting down on the setee for a 6-8 hour session i need a 40 deck for my piece of mind.
   When at a non smoking cardroom i feel it is bad etiquette for a player to look at his cards and leave them, effectively passing out of turn so they can go for a quick ciggie, but i also don't like the blokes with the fans the size of a windmill, blowing cold air everywhere.
There has to be a happy medium.  But on the other note if people are that opposed to smoking card rooms like notts or sheffield, they shouldn't turn up. And vise versa for the Grosvenors. However the breaks in the grosvenor tourneys give smokers the chance for a ciggie, as well as the option to go for one whenever you want.

I personaly feel that Smoking should be banned from all u.k cardrooms. This may even help existing smokers stop, as if you can go up to 8 hours without a fag in pressure times at the poker table, you can go without a fag full stop. Maybe someone can bring this issue up at the Grosvenor meeting.

[ACE2M]

Just had my 1st ciggy of the day and it was great. I don't know how the f**k i am going to give up.

[Junior Senior]

Who's up for the let's stop smoking thread?

Total honesty, if you break you break, fair enough but we could all try at the same time.

The first non smoking forum on the net, that would be something!!!

Ok, I'm up for giving it a try.

I've been wanting to give up for ages, but it is seriously difficult. But after sitting next to junior last night, I really felt like a leper smoking -  given he's a sound fella I was trying to vacuum the smoke away with his fan, I wasn't really enjoying them, and this morning my clothes reaked and my throat kills.

So along with Kev i'm giving the Monday 12th pledge to quit -  if anyone see's me next week, words of encouragement please 

sorry Chesney! - didn't mean to make you feel bad - i just prefer to have the smoke blowing away from me - hence the fan!
good luck giving up, it is for the best!
and now your retired from the pop charts and you've had your mole surgically removed smoking just aint so cool now!

[Rod Paradise]

My ex read the Alan Carr book about giving up smoking & stopped, this was when she didn't really want to give up - started reading the book because I'd bought it & by the end hated smoking. She became a real anti-smoking nazi for a while as well. then we broke up & she started again.

Never smoked tobacco, but when we broke up I started the herbal pipes again  

On that note - this giving up is for tobacco only, the 'erb is sacred.

[Junior Senior]

you see i hate this sort of dicussion cuz it always turns into a "i hate it when casino's/pubs/restaurants etc. allow smoking it affects my health blah blah blah"
point 1, junior air con is for chilling the air not extracting smoke
point 2, if they had decent extraction you wouldn't notice the smoke (trust me i designed these systems for 9 years)
I as you might guess do smoke, i have no intention of stopping cuz i don't want to.
Believe it or not i HATE people blowing smoke at me it drives me nuts but all this secondary smoking malarchy doesn't wash with me.
Ian

Yeah, i meant extraction, its all the same to me, i'm not much of an engineer! - perhaps you should contact mr nightfly and arrange a date for going down to notts to get their system fixed then.  I could barely see the table next to me for the smoke. What happens when the flop is no longer visible?!! - slight exageration but it really is foggy in  there.

[AdamM]

smoked from aged 12 to 29. started trying to give up at 26. managed anywhere between an hour and a month but always back on.  I finally cracked it through a combination of patches an plenty of exersize. I spent a year training hard for a black belt grading which, quite simply would have been impossible smoking. I gradually felt my health, fitness and lung capacity increase the longer I went without smoking. When I was desperate for a fag I'd press on the patch as if to squeeze extra nicotine through the skin. deep breaths help too. part of the relaxation you get from smoking is from the deep breaths you're taking, rather than just from the drug. most of all talking about it helps. you need to tell people how well you're doing and how bad you feel. the first month is the hardest but once you've got to the point you're counting in months rather than days you're about there.

to those giving up, good luck
to those with no intention of giving up, shame, hope you change your mind.

[Phil]

I managed 3 months once. Although I decided to reward myself with a cigerette and i was back where i started!

[Trace]

I started at the age of 15, but stopped and started throughout the next 21 years - biggest stops were actually whilst I was expecting and after my last I didn't start again for 2 years, until I started seeing a smoker and that made me start again.  (Yes baby, it's all your fault!!!)  lol

I know I have to stop again, and it has been on my mind a lot recently.  I have even gone as far as buying the Paul McKenna "Quit Smoking" CD, it sat in it's wrapper for a few weeks, only opened it to copy it for someone, and it is now sat back in my CD rack screaming at me to listen to it.

I WILL stop again.  Just as yet having got my head around it.  I was hoping that another pregnancy would help me to stop, but I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon.  We are due to go on holiday in the last week of October, so I'm planning on giving it a stab after I have smoked the duty free I bring home.  lmao

Good luck to all you guys that are about to try, if any of you want a copy of that CD, just PM me.

Trace
xx

[ifm]

Good luck to all you guys that are about to try, if any of you want a copy of that CD, just PM me.

Careful Adam's gonna get ya

[matt674]

I started smoking at the age of about 18 but never usually more than 5 a day unless i used to go out in the evening and then it was more like 20. I gave up on so many occassions only to start again so in the end i decided to "give up" giving up. Then on April 27th 2001 at 6pm i was walking home from work having a cigarette when i got a phone call from my mum asking could i go round which i did. When i got there she was upset and told me to sit down, she then went on to tell me that the "cold" she'd had for the last 3 weeks had been diagnosed as lung cancer and she had between 6-9 months to live. She made me promise there and then that i would never smoke again. She started smoking when she was my age but gave up in her late 20's as she couldnt afford to bring me and my brother up on her own and smoke.

When she told me i too was in my late 20's and I've never even felt the urge to smoke since.

I knew when i smoked that it was bad for me but never had enough will power to stop - it took something unthinkable to give me the will power.

Good luck to all those trying to give up.

[The_nun]

Smoking causes premature ageing.. U only have to look At Tikay for proof.. He's only 25

[RED-DOG]

Smoking causes premature ageing.. U only have to look At Tikay for proof.. He's only 25

Yes, but where he comes from, you can't breath the air unless you filter it through a fag

[doubleup]

I'm "experimenting" with the idea of giving up at the moment, by trying to resist some of the key times I tend to need a ciggy - went from 7.15 am till lunchtime yesterday without one and hit some bad traffic jams on the way home today, normally a cue to light up, but managed to resist.  Scotland goes non smoking in public places next year, so I might as well jump before I'm pushed 

[Phil]

I'm going for it too. Convinced the guy I work with to give up and the smoking flat mate of mine is giving up too... should be easy I reckon.

[ACE2M]

Everyone going for it on the 12th then? (monday)

List your names if you are.