1. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Anyone else packed up the oily rags for October?

    It is hard, hard going compadres. My first smoke was in cassiobury park aged about 14 and I've been a keen tobacco enthusiast ever since. There are certain triggers (such as half time in the football) when I'm so accustomed to having a cig that I find myself tapping my trouser pockets looking for my fag packet and lighter.

    Had to pack it in though. The cost! It was eye watering. I can't be spending £10 a pack on cigarettes. It's too much. So now I'm on the vape. It looks pretty pathetic and isn't a great substitute for the real thing, but it works better than patches and chewing gum. I've managed to endure two weeks today without a smoke - and that includes rum drinking and parties where others have been puffing it up.

    As for Stoptober itself, what a waste of time. I hope they ask me for feedback at the end, because it's 1 star out of 10. I suppose they'll be paying some chief executive earning £300k to head up this scheme and it's absolute rubbish. You get a daily email urging you to download their app onto your mobile phone (don't have a mobile phone) or join their Facebook group (don't have Facebook). So that's me excluded from it right away.

    The silly daily emails (which are out of synch with how many days I've actually given up) say things like "Hooray! You've given up for 10 days now and your body is completely free of nicotine!" - No it's bloody not. I've been vaping in nicotine with the e-cig, in the way you nitwits recommend.
     
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  2. sydney_horn

    sydney_horn Squad Player

    Keep going Clive. I gave up 25 years ago. It's not easy but it will be worth it for the money if not for your health.

    You don't realise how smelly it is until you give up so I'm sure your non smoking loved ones will be grateful too! :rolleyes:
     
  3. I stopped smoking pretty much the instant work place smoking was banned, I discovered instead I could walk around all day with one of those plastic pellets in your gob and 'virtual-smoke' all day long. It took 12 months to stop pelleting.
     
  4. Cassetti's Beard

    Cassetti's Beard First Team

    Smoking is bad for your health.
     
  5. **** me. You are forever moaning about how tough life is on your subsistence wages... and you are a smoker. You have been denying your kids a better standard of life because you haven't got the willpower to stop smoking. I genuinely have lost respect for you.
    (but have a grudging well done and good luck for trying)
     
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  6. And before you ask I smoked from 14 to 32 getting up to 40 a day and my wife smoked until she got pregnant with our first. Even 20 years ago it was expensive.
     
  7. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player


    Yeah it's true that I have to say. Couldn't justify it anymore. Can't spend on tobacco when we've got nothing to eat and our shoes are falling to bits!

    As motivation, I've been keeping track to see how much I've saved from not buying them at £9.57 a pack and a pack a day.

    So far: £143.55

    Amazing really.
     
  8. Fair play. Keep going, by the start of next season you'll have saved enough for 2 season tickets, a couple of pints at each game, and have £1,500 left over for a family break.

    Of course, if you want to feel really depressed, if you'd packed it in 10 years ago you'd be £25,000 better off.
     
  9. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    I gave up numerous times until I did it for good in 2004. The first year is tough, I used the nicotine chewing gum, there are quite a lot of nicotine substitutes and everyone has their preference. Keep at it.
     
  10. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    International brands are about a quid a packet here, and as Moog once wisely told me, at those prices I'd be stupid not to smoke
     
  11. StuBoy

    StuBoy Forum Cad and Bounder

    Is nicotine bad for you? Obviously smoking is, but I always just assumed nicotine is ok.
     
  12. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    Nicotine was first isolated in the 19th century, it was believed that it had great medicinal properties. Alas they quickly found that nicotine is highly poisonous, but in the small amounts present in smoking the nicotine is the least of your worries.
     
  13. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    I loved smoking. I gave up a fair few years ago, but miss it terribly. I loved the taste. I loved the first cigarette of the day the most, followed by the one after food. The one with a cup of tea.

    I miss the whole ritual of rolling a fag. I used to smoke in bed at university. I'd wake up and the first thing I'd do is have a cigarette. Most people smoked then so if I was lucky enough to be sharing my bed withsomeoene, they'd have one too.

    I'd smoke in bars, in restaurants, in clubs, in shops. In my office for a short while. No one gave a **** back then, because most people smoked. It was the boring nerdy non smoking fun sponges who were quite rightly looked down upon and considered the weirdos. Not us macho types who played russian roulette with lung cancer 20 times a day (and more on a night out).

    These days you're a pariah if you light up in the middle of an open field.

    It made you look cool and edgy. It made girls want you more at school. It made the other kids respect you. No smoker at school was the victim of bullying.

    Think of the coolest men throughout time: Steve mcqueen, paul newman. Bowie, lennon, hendrix. Clint eastwood. All the cool politicians were smokers. Castro, guevera. You name them, they had a cancer stick clamped between their gnashers.

    I feel sorry for the youth of today, having to put those little plastic dildo things in their mouth. Even that's probably frowned upon by their peers. Rapists and paedophiles are looked upon more fondly these days than smokers.

    Sadly the price increases became too much. Then the ban in pubs, that was the final straw for me.
     
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  14. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    All your BS bollocx you've posted in the past is instantly forgiven by your best, if indeed only, great post.
     
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  15. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    Like RC I liked a smoke but gave up April 14th 2003, (the day after we lost a cup semi final to Soton), due to cost. Yeah it hurts but avoid alcohol and obvious triggers and it won't be so bad. Sod the vapes go cold turkey, the pain is manageable and you'll vow never to let yourself get addicted again.

    The only downside I have now is when I smell a pile of burning leaves I want to jump in there!
     
  16. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    Every single word of it came directly from my tar blackened heart.

    One thing worse than a pious non-smoker, is a pious ex smoker. Those who sneer and look down their nose at the poor saps still gripped by addiction.

    Far from deserving our scorn, these few brave souls demand nothing but our utmost respect. They are the last wheezing, dying embers of an era that is no more and will never come again. A far better era than the joyless, judgmental, puritanical time in which we now exist.

    A friend of mine - huge watford fan - would ride to work on his bike. Up and down batchworth hill in ricky twice a day with a fag on both ways. This chap would smoke while exercising! Have you ever heard of dedication like it! Tragically, smoking related disease struck and he had a lung removed. But even then stupid damn fool, the stupid brave ******* didnt give up. Every day, up and down the hill with a fag on. Dead now of course.

    Rather than those awful elton john lyrics, I'd rather have written on the stands "the smoker is a silly t1t, fags just make you stink like sh1t", in his honour.
     
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  17. Arakel

    Arakel First Team

    My wife stopped cold turkey early on in our relationship because she knew I hated it. She read this book:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/1405923318

    Never once relapsed or even had a single drag of a cigarette again.

    I do find it a bit sad, though, that it is financial concerns rather than health concerns that seal the deal for so many people.

    PS: Yes Moog, it does come in a Kindle edition.
     
  18. zztop

    zztop Eurovision Winner 2015

    I was waiting on the tram platform early yesterday morning standing near this guy who was smoking a vape. The humidity and/or temperature must have been just perfect, and with no wind in the air everytime he exhaled he COMPLETELY disappeared in a cloud of vapour for about 30 seconds - and he must have been about 16 stone.

    It was quite amusing (as I am easily pleased). I could have nicked his bag on the ground and he would never of known I was there.

    I asked him what the flavour was as he seemed to be enjoying it so much.

    "Cinnamon", he said.

    What sort of girly flavour is that? Don't they do granite flavour or something?
     
  19. RunkleHorn

    RunkleHorn Academy Graduate

    At a pack a day, the cost of a weeks worth of fags would procure you almost an oz of the finest indica money can buy. Just saying
     
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  20. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    That’s the modern metrosexual male for you. In my day vapists would have had diesel or wD40 flavoured vapes.

    I’ve had my fill of all these giving things months, Stoptober, Movember, Dry January. Can we have a Startember next year when we can take up something that we’ve never tried before?
     
  21. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    The flavouring thing is just weird. They all smell quite horrible to me. I was never much of a smoker, but I did rather enjoy sniffing in the smoke from someone else's burning ciggie in a pub, at a bus stop etc (added enjoyment if it was an attractive woman smoking). Now, when I get a nose full of someone's exhaled vape, I just feel sick.
     
  22. Optimistichornet

    Optimistichornet Penguin Assassin

    Ouch....if only people knew. My nan has smoked all her life, god only knows how much she has spent on it!
     
  23. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

    My dad used to say you could stop smoking and drinking, go jogging etc you might not live any longer but it would sure feel like it.

    My take is, you could stop smoking and drinking, go jogging etc, if you do get extra years it's when you least want them.
     
  24. Optimistichornet

    Optimistichornet Penguin Assassin

    I dunno about that I know of plenty of relatively young people end up with liver and lung problems from smoking and drinking. In fact liver disease in young people is one of the most serious concerns for the nhs today.
     
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    Optimistichornet Penguin Assassin

  26. PhilippineOrn

    PhilippineOrn First Team

  27. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Back to smoking.

    I’ve had the mis-pleasure of going into That London a few times recently and on these unpleasant journeys, I noticed that there appear to be as many smokers there as there are in Hemel Hempstead, which is second only to Paris for the number of fag breath Freda's. What also surprised me was to see so many youngsters, 16-21 year olds. Advertising is strict, it’s not plastered on formula 1 cars anymore, no tv ads and there are no film heroes puffing away. It is also scorned upon by society, you can’t smoke in most public places now and that are locked out of site in shops.

    So my question is, in light of what I see as less cool with less peer pressure than there was years ago, what is encouraging these youngsters to spend their money on slow-release lung disease sticks?
     
  28. Burnsy

    Burnsy First Team

    I stopped smoking when I realised I wasn’t James Deen and women didn’t think it was cool. But mainly when I realised that Walter Mazzarri smokes.
     
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  29. Maninblack

    Maninblack Reservist

    and again....

     
  30. Jumbolina

    Jumbolina First Team

    Just realised the filter made my insult look worse than it was by the way. I called you a b e 11 end. On the negative side for you I probably stick by my opinion and would rather have a beer with the primitive beast that is Relegation Certs but there we go. Just wanted you to know I hadn't gone completely over the top with my insult :(
     
  31. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    I've packed up smoking and even I'm less bad tempered than the people on this thread.
     
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  32. RunkleHorn

    RunkleHorn Academy Graduate

    I'm less bad tempered than you, you ******* ******* ***** ****
     
  33. reids

    reids First Team

    Me and @Cassetti's Beard tried it one year. Whatever the non drinking one is. We lasted barely 2 weeks. Carried on drinking, didn't tell anyone and made £70 for charity. Everyone was a winner.
     
  34. hornmeister

    hornmeister Tired

    I've tidied this thread up as best I can. The term was insulting at best and the following conversation about it deflected from the original interesting subject.

    Just a note. Mods don't read every thread so can't be expected to pick everything up. If you see something that is out of order please assist by clicking the report link at the bottom of a post.


    Any possibility of getting the thread back on to the original subject?

    Thanks.
     
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  35. kVA

    kVA Reservist

    Bump, update please

    So, did Stoptober end?

    Hope it turned into NOvember.
     

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