Smokers

thebennyboy · 28 Jun 2015 at 23:42

You really are an idiot if you start smoking these days. You are effectively paying to kill yourself, so pointless.

G-MAN2004 · 28 Jun 2015 at 23:47

I was smokin' from the moment I was born. Midwife said I was the best looking baby she had ever seen.

SonniLombardi · 28 Jun 2015 at 23:57

G-MAN2004 said:
I was smokin' from the moment I was born. Midwife said I was the best looking baby she had ever seen.

tbyeah · 29 Jun 2015 at 00:08

To all here, it's never too late to stop and reap the benefits.

HalfBakedJake · 29 Jun 2015 at 01:06

I am vaping now which is great. started around 17 and gave up at 28. slowly reducing my vape intake then will cold turkey it

Malevolence · 29 Jun 2015 at 02:11

I took it up when I first started to go to the pub with mates at 14. Didn't smoke much at all, around 5 or so fags a day for a few years. Used to make a mint at school selling them to others though.

Stopped for a year or so, but then fell back into the habit at University and was soon on 20 a day, sometimes more, for quite some time.

I'm happy to say that I've been smoke free now for around 15 years now.

SonniLombardi · 29 Jun 2015 at 03:26

Your bloody sig does my eyes in everytime! lol

Cosimo · 29 Jun 2015 at 07:17

eatcustard said:
Only the weak smoke

But the strong give up.

fatiain · 29 Jun 2015 at 07:50

I tried a puff on fag about 6 months ago, nearly boaked. Had to buy gum and then scrub my tongue when I got home.

Brenn47 · 29 Jun 2015 at 07:54

After 10 years of trying, e-lites made giving up easy. Now 3 years off the fags.

Brenn47 · 29 Jun 2015 at 07:59

fatiain said:
I tried a puff on fag about 6 months ago, nearly boaked. Had to buy gum and then scrub my tongue when I got home.

When I got told I didn't have cancer, I went out and bought some fags to celebrate, after 2 years of not smoking, they were bloody horrible.

bartledvd · 29 Jun 2015 at 08:01

Started at about 11/12 just purely because i liked to make hoops before i knew it i was 28 smoking 20-30 a day and i was bored of the ritual of shelling out stupid money so said I'm done tried vaping for a week was no use but still never been tempted to try a smoke since that's almost two years

Von Smallhausen · 29 Jun 2015 at 08:57

I've never smoked.

After seeing a post mortem on a smoker it's fair to say I never will.

asteldian · 29 Jun 2015 at 09:03

I smoked as a young'n and moved on to vaping because I refused to be paying near £10 a pack these days.

Vimes · 29 Jun 2015 at 09:07

Thankfully neither my wife or myself have ever smoked and seeing my brother with end stage emphysema (a committed smoker for decades) I am so relieved that neither of us took up the habit.

Ceryndrion · 29 Jun 2015 at 09:30

I wonder, should the government put warning labels on bottles of alcohol just like they do packets of cigarettes.. "Here's a picture of your liver after years of chronic drinking"..

Sandycheeks · 29 Jun 2015 at 09:38

An ex colleague that smoked for 20 years then gave up once told me "I will never be a non smoker, always an ex-smoker"
What he meant was that he felt he could have a smoke right now like he had never gave up in the first place and was still struggling to stay smoke free, obviously there are days when he forgets but on the whole it sounds awful.

anything I don't mind · 29 Jun 2015 at 09:41

If I won the lottery I would start smoking again. Only stopped because the cost. Thanks to government only the rich smoke now.

eatcustard · 29 Jun 2015 at 11:58

Bensons said:
Do you drink?

Not a lot

Orionaut · 29 Jun 2015 at 12:07

The tobacco industry has always denied that they advertise to children. And yet (And this thread more or less supports this) I have always believed that very few people start smoking as adults.

Almost all start as children.

The industry MUST market to children. They have to find 100,000 new customers a year to replace the ones that they kill!

(And that is just in the UK!)

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