Any ex smokers? UPDATE

[Bahco]

Currently down to about 3 cigarettes a day and wish to cease completely.

Interested to hear of any ex smokers stories on quitting and how they managed to quit altogether.

Gonna beat this one.

 

[megawatt]

Stopped buying them and told my friends not to give me any

 

[noseall]

i was in the pub with me mates and said "no thanks, i'm quitting", and refused another ciggy.

i decided that if i truly wanted to quit, the place to do it was where i would most like to smoke.

i haven't even had a drag in 10 years.

i still dream that i smoke even now and have a few seconds convincing myself that i don't, after waking up!

 

[Bahco]

Stopped buying them and told my friends not to give me any

How long have you quit?

 

[noseall]

the wife's just told me it's 12 years since i quit.

 

[solo]

I'm an ex-smoker in training. The wife keeps nagging me to quit and I keep telling her I'll do it soon. You blokes who were able to just stop can't have been proper smokers in the first place. You do realise that you're depriving the Treasury of much needed funds?

 

[noseall]

You blokes who were able to just stop can't have been proper smokers in the first place.

what would you consider a proper smoker?

 

[megawatt]

How long have you quit?

20 years now give or take a few weeks

 

[namsag]

On subject of smoking, council around our way are photographing and videoing and stopping vans who don`t have no smoking signs on them inside and out and giving 200 quid fines.
Has anyone else heard off this

 

[megawatt]

Our local Hospital has a no smoking policy on its site and this includes smoking in vehicles (Trust or Private) whilst engaged on Trust business i.e. during the working day ... Breaching the guidelines is a disciplinary matter.

It'll soon be an offence to smoke in any public place in the UK I reckon as in some states of the US where the only place you can smoke is in the confines of your own home.

Not sure what I think of this though if I'm honest.

MW

 

[Trazor]

I wonder where ninebob is, he was giving up smoking with the aid of the latest drug.

 

[Bahco]

I went to the pub the other night and went outside where the smokers were congregating and I just stood there smelling the smoke.

It smells beautiful when you are quitting!

 

[chainsaw_masochist]

It'll soon be an offence to smoke in any public place in the UK I reckon as in some states of the US where the only place you can smoke is in the confines of your own home.
MW

Quite right, Mega. I used to live in the US and it is illegal to smoke outdoors in the states of Vermont and Maine and perhaps others now, also. It would be worth seeing how this state prohibition correlates with smoking related diseases on a state-by-state basis.

Two British friends of mine left San Francisco having lived there for five years because of the smoking ban in just about all bars and restaurants there. They thought that coming back to London would be Nirvana...but guess what happened?

Good luck with your endeavours, Bahco.

 

[Bahco]

Good luck with your endeavours, Bahco.

Thanks.

I might do a Give up smoking FAQ next!

 

[Balenza]

Smoking = Filthy habit.