Smokers

subbytna · 29 Jun 2015 at 17:21

Even if you don't want to stop smoking, you can by using Champix. You take the 2 tablets a day whilst still smoking as normally as you do. By day 14 you won't want to smoke and if you do you feel rough. By day 21 you are a non smoker and wonder why the hell you didn't try this years ago.

SonniLombardi · 29 Jun 2015 at 18:39

Von Smallhausen said:
I've never smoked.

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

Yup, I've seen one to when I used to be an undertaker, the guy was about 80, wasn't a pretty sight.

SexyGreyFox · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:05

LeeUK said:
Do people only start smoking from a young age e.g at the school gates, or do some people take up smoking later in life e.g in their 30s, 40s, etc?

My Dad started smoking in 1975 when he was 40.
A bloke I worked with was 45 when he got a new girlfriend he dearly loved so started smoking so she didn't smell as much.

Cat_J · 29 Jun 2015 at 20:38

ttaskmaster said:
Despite all the whiners about the cost of smokers on the NHS... it'd probably surprise you to find out just how many NHS staff members smoke like chimneys - Almost every single nurse I worked with across several NHS trusts was a heavy smoker!!

I remember reading somewhere the tax income from tobacco is multiple times the cost to the NHS anyway. Its just up to our hopeless government to properly use it.

ttaskmaster · 30 Jun 2015 at 12:23

Cat_J said:
I remember reading somewhere the tax income from tobacco is multiple times the cost to the NHS anyway

There ya go - We paid for the priviledge of wreathing ourselves in smoke, so leave us to it!!

"Non-smokers die.... every day. Sleep tight! See, I know you entertain some kind of Eternal Life fantasy because you do not smoke cigarettes, so let me be the first to POP that bubble - You're dead too!!"
Bill Hicks.

Si_Gregory · 30 Jun 2015 at 12:40

ttaskmaster said:
There ya go - We paid for the priviledge of wreathing ourselves in smoke, so leave us to it!!

"Non-smokers die.... every day. Sleep tight! See, I know you entertain some kind of Eternal Life fantasy because you do not smoke cigarettes, so let me be the first to POP that bubble - You're dead too!!"
Bill Hicks.

Said a man who died in his early 30's

Great comedian as well, such a shame.

ttaskmaster · 30 Jun 2015 at 13:06

Si_Gregory said:
Said a man who died in his early 30's Great comedian as well, such a shame.

Pancreatic cancer, which may or may not have been smoking-related.
But that was his choice and he accepted that.

His main argument was over the volume of carcinogenic substances in our lives, yet it's always the smoking people complained about!

Si_Gregory · 30 Jun 2015 at 13:15

His part about Jim Fixx always amused me. The fitness fanatic who had a heart attack whilst jogging.

But yeah, you're right.. it's easier to chastise the smokers than to go after big business.

StriderX · 30 Jun 2015 at 13:15

ttaskmaster said:
Pancreatic cancer, which may or may not have been smoking-related.
But that was his choice and he accepted that.

His main argument was over the volume of carcinogenic substances in our lives, yet it's always the smoking people complained about!

Maybe because they're so very obvious, people do complain about cars, but its not as amazingly obtuse as a smoker blowing their cloud of death along your path.

Digital X · 30 Jun 2015 at 13:32

Been smoking for 10 years. Roll ups mainly, but will buy a pack of Mayfair (don't judge it's cheap

) every now and then. on about 5-7 a day. 1-2 if I don't go out.

ttaskmaster · 30 Jun 2015 at 16:04

StriderX said:
people do complain about cars, but its not as amazingly obtuse as a smoker blowing their cloud of death along your path.

You don't have to stand there...

LeeUK · 19 Jul 2015 at 22:07

digitalx said:
Been smoking for 10 years. Roll ups mainly, but will buy a pack of Mayfair (don't judge it's cheap ) every now and then. on about 5-7 a day. 1-2 if I don't go out.

I quite like Mayfair Fine when I'm out drinking, they have the same contents as Silkcut Silver only cheaper.

rids57 · 19 Jul 2015 at 22:45

started at 15, then one to two packs a day until I was 50 at which point I quit and haven't had another one in eight years.

robfosters · 19 Jul 2015 at 22:55

I think it's unfair to state that teenagers who take up smoking are weak minded. They are not, they just do not realise the dangers and take them seriously.

I started smoking when I was 15. It was cool, all my friends did and I didn't have to worry about health, I was young, I was gonna live forever no matter what I did to myself.

35 now and finally gave up 6 months ago. It's hard staying on the straight and narrow, but I can feel the health benefits, although 20 years of smoking has done irreparable damage, and the amount of extra money in my pocket is quite staggering. Over £200 a month saved.

Definitely am not starting again. Is there education in schools now about the dangers of smoking, because when I was in secondary school (91-96), not a thing was mentioned.

Narj · 19 Jul 2015 at 23:11

Is it a bit shallow of me to be put off a girl the moment she sparks up a cig? I just find it immensely unattractive.

Redz · 19 Jul 2015 at 23:16

Narj said:
Is it a bit shallow of me to be put off a girl the moment she sparks up a cig? I just find it immensely unattractive.

No, it's probably more likely you are gay and in denial. Sorry about that.

Mr Blonde · 19 Jul 2015 at 23:17

I started when I was young and I've been smoking for 35 years now. I knew the dangers then as I do now, but this has never bothered me at all. To me it's one of my hobbies and I enjoy it.

Narj · 19 Jul 2015 at 23:19

Redz said:
No, it's probably more likely you are gay and in denial. Sorry about that.

Thanks hun. x x x

robfosters · 19 Jul 2015 at 23:21

Narj said:
Is it a bit shallow of me to be put off a girl the moment she sparks up a cig? I just find it immensely unattractive.

No. Would you date a girl who you know is an alcoholic?

OK, the behaviours are not the same, but you are still saddled to someone with a disgusting, premature death inducing habit.

As horrible as it seems, I would be thinking to myself that if I fell madly in love with this girl, years from now, I could be holding her hand, watching her gasp for breath and dying horribly.

EDIT: I've actually seen someone die from stage 4 emphysema. One of the most upsetting things I have ever seen. Will never leave my memory.

esoteric · 19 Jul 2015 at 23:28

Never saw the sense in smoking. Who hear's that something is bad for your health and thinks, "Yeah I'll give that a go", and after experiencing how crap it is the first time do it again, and again then again and yet again.

It's something I'll never be able to get my head around.