Smokers

[Phil]

I'm starting today... but if I fail i'll start quitting again on the 12th!! 

[Rachman]

new medical report released recently. smokers are twice as likely to go blind in old age. difficult to play poker when your blind......

and i really would give the Mckenna cd a go, he uses anchoring techniques which are probably the best way to give up smoking.

i would join the "give up smoking on the twelfth" drive, but unfortunately thats the same day i start on my new (and first) career as an accountant, which is going to be stressful enough. So unfortunately i'm going to continue sucking on my cancer sticks for a while at least.....

[ifm]

hmmmm, statistics...........does that mean you're twice as likely not to go blind?
or
90% fat free............does that mean 10% fat?

I once did a little research on smoking in order to create a 'smoking policy' at work. One statistic went like this:-

From a sample of 100,000 people how many have cancer?
Say (for arguments sake) it's 10,000 or 10%
How many of them smoke?
Say it's 5,000
Now you can say 50% of people who smoke will get cancer, when actually it's 5%.
This is how some early stats were used.

Wasn't it Bob Mortimer who said "67.3% of all statistics are made up"

BTW I banned smoking throughout the entire site
Ian

[snoopy1239]

new medical report released recently. smokers are twice as likely to go blind in old age. difficult to play poker when your blind......

and i really would give the Mckenna cd a go, he uses anchoring techniques which are probably the best way to give up smoking.

i would join the "give up smoking on the twelfth" drive, but unfortunately thats the same day i start on my new (and first) career as an accountant, which is going to be stressful enough. So unfortunately i'm going to continue sucking on my cancer sticks for a while at least.....

old medical report released ages ago, smokers are more likely to die in old age.

I'd say that was all the motivation u need.

Gl to all the quitters. I sincerely hope you succeed. 

[The Baron]

I've smoked since I was young. I swore that after uni I would stop smoking. I knew it'd be a struggle as I'd tried to give up a million times before.

In case anyone hasn't noticed I'm a Liverpool fan and on the night of the Champions League final I went through 20 in the first half. Knowing we'd never win it I swore in front of a room full of mates I'd give up for life if we won it that night. (Well at 3 - 0 down to the best team in the comp it was a pretty safe stake!)

I'm sure everyone knows Liverpool won that night. It was hard but after such an unbelievable game I felt I had to quit. The hardest time has been when playing cards. I've had the odd one here and there (usually when drunk) but generally I've stuck to it.

[AlrightJack]

I smoked from 16/17 until 2 weeks before my 30th birthday.  I remember my dad had told me he'd been a heavy smoked but had given up by the time he was 30, so I wanted to do the same.  I'd had a bad smokers cough and sore throat for about a month and a half and mid way through what was to be my last cig I simply stubbed it out and have never had another one since in nearly 4 years. 

So, how did I do it?  Well, I convinced myself that I had already caught throat cancer so I went into a state of extreme worry about that for the next week or so.  Being so worried about that meant I had no time to even think about missing cigarettes.  A week later I went to the doctor and told him about my worries and having examined me he said my throat looked normal and it was highly unlikely I had cancer.

He also informed me that it only takes 72 hours for the physcial addiction to nictotine to go away, beyond that its just about habit forming behaviour. I'd missed all the physical aches and pains of giving up due to the cancer worry and as I'm not a big drinker I simply stayed away from the pub for a month or so to let the habit forming bit go away too.

My advice to anyone trying to give up is don't use patches, gum or an inhaler - the nicotine bit goes away quickly, but if you keep topping yourself up with nicotine you're not really giving up. Put yourself through 3 days of hell, or like me, convince yourself that your going to die and you won't notice it.

Its not really that hard to give up - thats just an excuse used by people with no will power.

[Rachman]

smokers more likely to die in old age Snoopy?..... prefer that to dying young.... :-)

and i havent a clue about the actual report and how the stats were compiled, just relaying what i just heard on the news

[Phil]

This is all going a bit Bill Hicks....

"Non-smokers die every day. Sleep tight! I know you've employed some kind of eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke. Let me be the first to pop that bubble and send you hurtling back to reality - because you're dead too. And you know what doctors say? "Shit, if only you'd smoked - we'd have the technology to help you. It's you people dying from nothing who are screwed". I've got all sorts of neat shit waiting for me - oxygen tent, iron lung...it's like going to Tandy."

 

[ifm]

Love Bill Hicks (or loved).
Smoking is not an addiction at all, it's quite simply an habit.
It was one explained to me like this:-
An addict is someone that cannot go without something for a certain period of time, i.e. a heroin addict cannot sleep for more than a few hours at a time without waking with the craving.
A smoker will smoke , i dunno 1 every half hour all day and then go to bed for 8 hours and not need a cigarette.
Ian

[Rachman]

your friend failed to take into consideration the various physiological changes within the brain during sleep

those members of gamblers anonymous will be able to sleep easy tonight though...

[RyG]

Smoking Kills

[snoopy1239]

smokers more likely to die in old age Snoopy?..... prefer that to dying young.... :-)

good point. 

[ifm]

Smoking Kills

so does fox hunting

[REDS-DAD]

It's easy to stop smoking. I've done it dozens of times.

[Colchester Kev]

so does hanging frogs