SubJeff on 19/7/2011 at 20:03
If you meter the amount correctly then over the long term yes, it's safer. In the short term you're much more likely to suffer the physiological effects of too much nicotine though so I don't know if you can say that overall it's safer.
And saying "it's safer" isn't really an argument, nor does just spamming one line make it a statement of fact.
Purgator on 19/7/2011 at 20:54
Gave up them smokes years ago, but I still have me mullet since 1984. Some things are just too dang hard to let go of.
Tocky on 20/7/2011 at 03:39
I would have thought it harder to let go of the fish.
I've been off the sticks for about a year and a half. Thank heaven for heroin or I never would have been able to kick. I would like to smoke an occasional cigar but I can't trust myself. It's been a long time since I would strangle a kitten for a smoke and I never want to get near that place again.
icemann on 26/7/2011 at 18:39
I'm a smoker and enjoy it. Been smoking since I was 13 (I'm now 30). No plans at all to quit. I smoke 1-3 a day, all of which in night hours. So I don't see it as a major issue. Helps me with my programming (via getting off the keyboard and being outside the house with nothing but my own thoughts to keep me company for 10 mins) + I find it a good stress re leaver.
Jason Moyer on 26/7/2011 at 20:49
I didn't start smoking until I was 19 and I plan on doing it until I die. I can't stand regular, filtered cigarettes (Luckies and Pal Malls are ok) but you'll have to tear the cigars from my dead hands.
Renzatic on 27/7/2011 at 02:05
I've been smoking since I was 18, and I have to say that...nope...don't enjoy it in the least. I smoke simply because of the addiction, that need to have fire in my face, a stick of tobacco in my hand about once an hour, rather than doing it for any particular love or joy of smoking.
You know what I really hate about it? I hate having to spend the first 10 minutes of my day hocking up what looks like escargot out of my throat. I'd love to wake up one day and realize...oh damn...I'm phlegm free! Man, that would be the absolute bee's fucking knee.
Unfortunately for me, I haven't made any significant steps towards quitting. Mostly I just talk about quitting while I'm smoking, which isn't doing me any good whatsoever.
icemann on 27/7/2011 at 18:21
Cutting down over time rather than the cold turkey or patches strategies tends to work for most people. For me back when I was cutting down I'd force myself to stay on the computer and finish off whatever task I needed to do in the game I was playing and then go for one. Course different things work for different people. The cravings lessen over time, though getting through those initially is the tricky part.
frozenman on 28/7/2011 at 04:48
Quote:
"I don't understand," Hans Castorp said. "I don't understand how someone can not be a smoker- why it's like robbing oneself of the best part of life, so to speak, or at least of an absolutely first-rate pleasure. When I wake up I look forward to being able to smoke all day, and when I eat, I look forward to it again, in fact I can honestly say that I actually only eat so that I can smoke, although that's an exaggeration of course. But a day without tobacco- that would be absolutely insipid, a dull, totally wasted day. And if some morning I had to tell myself: there's nothing left to smoke today, why I don't think I'd find courage to get up, I swear I'd stay in bed. You see, if a man has a cigar that burns well- and obviously it can't have any breaks or draw badly, that's really terribly annoying- what I'm saying is, that if a man has a good cigar, then he's home safe, nothing, literally nothing, can happen to him. It's the same as when you're lying on the beach, because there you lie on the beach, you know? and you don't need anything else- no work, no other amusements. Thank God, people smoke all over the world, there's nowhere you could possibly end up, as far as I know, where tobacco's unknown. Even polar explorers lay in a good supply of smokes to get them over their hardships- that's always struck a sympathetic chord in me whenever I've read about it. Because things can go very badly- let's assume, for instance, that things would go miserably for me- but as long as I had my cigar, I'd carry on, that much I know, it could bring me through anything"
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Can't believe it took me so long to remember this quote.
YcatX on 19/8/2011 at 20:49
Bwhahaha... That's awesome. I'm planning on quitting soon. I booted my smoking ex-gf, so I won't be distracted by her smoking.
jay pettitt on 21/8/2011 at 07:13
I ditched the ciggies - oh I've forgotten when - but a long time ago. Pangs and habitual associations were gone within 6 months. Within a year it was as though I'd never started.
All that 'once a smoker, always a smoker' jibe is crap, imho.
Giggling at the US and their big tobacco companies suing the Government for introducing health warnings on ciggie packets. Apparently it's against their god given corporate rights for boardroom suits to make obscene profits from making millions of people sick, ill, dead from mouth cancer and smelly. You know I love you, but this is the 21st Century and I think that says something about fucked up values right there.
