To all you smokers...

[GTIR]

There's a good thread in Health Matters for quitters.

Me, 60 days.

[Bing o]

MGZRod said:

Smoking is great

In that it makes you stink, ages you, makes you unable to walk up stairs without being out of breath, costs a st load, or that it kills you in many unpleasant ways?



(Ex smoker here)

[Rugbyman]

Want to quit ? EX SMOKER OF 2 MONTHS

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Read 'the book' you have nothing to lose ..........

[clonmult]

Bing o said:

In that it makes you stink, ages you, makes you unable to walk up stairs without being out of breath, costs a st load, or that it kills you in many unpleasant ways?

(Ex smoker here)

I wonder how much my cardio would improve when I finally give up; currently I can easily do a 30km bike ride, 10k run, repeatedly run up 10 sets of stairs, there's not enough weight on the inclined squat machine down at the gym .....

But I'm finally starting to cut down, all down to a woman .....

[sleep envy]

clonmult said:

But I'm finally starting to cut down, all down to a woman .....

why the fk do they do this - see a bloke and want to change him??

where as a bloke sees a woman and wants her to stay the same, which they don't

[AJS-]

clonmult said:

I wonder how much my cardio would improve when I finally give up; currently I can easily do a 30km bike ride, 10k run, repeatedly run up 10 sets of stairs, there's not enough weight on the inclined squat machine down at the gym .....

But I'm finally starting to cut down, all down to a woman .....

I don't know how old you are, but for me it didn't really catch up with me until a couple of years ago, when I was about 30.

I had been smoking a pack a day pretty much since I was 14 or 15, and was in pretty good shape, though I've never been a fitness fanatic.

After a few months of relative inactivity I started doing a bit of hill walking in New Zealand and my God it nearly killed me. Suddenly 15 years of smoking just hit me all at once and I had to stop about 3 times climbing a hill that I wouldn't have slowed down for when I was 25.

So I decided to give up hill walking.

Now I'm cutting out the cigarettes, which on balance seems a better idea.

[Bing o]

clonmult said:

I wonder how much my cardio would improve when I finally give up; currently I can easily do a 30km bike ride, 10k run, repeatedly run up 10 sets of stairs, there's not enough weight on the inclined squat machine down at the gym .....

But I'm finally starting to cut down, all down to a woman .....

Well, I went from wheezing 3kms to finishing in the top third in a 14km race in 8 weeks of giving up...

[Rugbyman]

sleep envy said:

clonmult said:

But I'm finally starting to cut down, all down to a woman .....

why the fk do they do this - see a bloke and want to change him??

where as a bloke sees a woman and wants her to stay the same, which they don't

My OH didnt want to bury me ..... she wants to spend as much time as possible with me ...... I cant argue with that

[Muzzer]

Bing o said:

clonmult said:

I wonder how much my cardio would improve when I finally give up; currently I can easily do a 30km bike ride, 10k run, repeatedly run up 10 sets of stairs, there's not enough weight on the inclined squat machine down at the gym .....

But I'm finally starting to cut down, all down to a woman .....

Well, I went from wheezing 3kms to finishing in the top third in a 14km race in 8 weeks of giving up...

I went from a do-able 8k run twice a week with some coughing to an easy 12k run twice a week with no coughing within a month or two of giving up.

You really wouldn't think it makes that much difference until you do it, especially if you're quite active anyway. It was like someone had taken the handbrake off.

Go for it.

[silverthorn2151]

AJS- said:

I had been smoking a pack a day pretty much since I was 14 or 15, and was in pretty good shape, though I've never been a fitness fanatic.

I'm a quitting smoker and part of the 'other' thread about stopping. I'm not here to preach. People have to decide to stop on their own. The one statistic that hit me through that other thread was just how many smokes I had had.

For instance, since you were 14 or 15 you have smoked 110,000 cigarettes. When I worked out how many cigars I had smoked I started to object to the time that had been spent doing just that.

6 mins a cigarette? (makes the maths easier) that's 11,000 hours or 1375 8 hour working days just smoking or 275 five day weeks doing NOTHING but smoking.

I don't know why I had never worked that our for my situation before or why it was so shocking, but it was.

[Bunni8]

At the end of the day a person can/will only give up for themselves.
Not for a new woman or man for that matter.....but if a new partner gives added incentive then I don't think there is anything wrong with that.
It is not easy giving up....I was there 5 years ago....as mentioned earlier in this thread there is a very good supportive thread in the Health Matters forum.

[clonmult]

AJS- said:

I don't know how old you are, but for me it didn't really catch up with me until a couple of years ago, when I was about 30.

I had been smoking a pack a day pretty much since I was 14 or 15, and was in pretty good shape, though I've never been a fitness fanatic.

After a few months of relative inactivity I started doing a bit of hill walking in New Zealand and my God it nearly killed me. Suddenly 15 years of smoking just hit me all at once and I had to stop about 3 times climbing a hill that I wouldn't have slowed down for when I was 25.

So I decided to give up hill walking.

Now I'm cutting out the cigarettes, which on balance seems a better idea.

I started later on in life (late 20s). Stopped for 7 years (married), then started again when divorce came my way. 4 years back with the irritating little sticks now.

Will be 42 this year, but despite the nicotine I'm probably in the best shape I've been in years.

[clonmult]

sleep envy said:

clonmult said:

But I'm finally starting to cut down, all down to a woman .....

why the fk do they do this - see a bloke and want to change him??

where as a bloke sees a woman and wants her to stay the same, which they don't

Thankfully in this case its not at her request, its my suggestion. Apart from the smoking I won't change for anyone.

Doubt I'll totally give up, will have the occasional one here and there with some of the guys at work.

[BliarOut]

sleep envy said:

why the fk do they do this - see a bloke and want to change him??

where as a bloke sees a woman and wants her to stay the same, which they don't

I've still got the same shreddies yet her tits have gone south... Go figure

[clarkey328is]

AJS- said:

Good for you. I've just bought an e-cigarette a couple of weeks ago and I must say it's brilliant.

I still enjoy the odd cigarette with a beer, or after breakfast, but I've gone from 20 a day (or much more iwth beer) to a 20 pack lasting me most of a week, and I actually enjoy the cigarettes I do smoke rather than just doing it out of habit.

I've tried patches, gum, cigars and of course cold-turkey and none of them have been as useful as this, because it gives you the all important habit and ritual as well. And no I haven't become a born again fanatic either!

Is it just like having a cigarette? What would you say the differences are? I've been toying with the idea of getting one of these for a while but am still on the fence.

[DWS]

clarkey328is said:

Is it just like having a cigarette? What would you say the differences are? I've been toying with the idea of getting one of these for a while but am still on the fence.

I bought one the other day & it tasted like S**t.

[Rugbyman]

clarkey328is said:

AJS- said:

Good for you. I've just bought an e-cigarette a couple of weeks ago and I must say it's brilliant.

I still enjoy the odd cigarette with a beer, or after breakfast, but I've gone from 20 a day (or much more iwth beer) to a 20 pack lasting me most of a week, and I actually enjoy the cigarettes I do smoke rather than just doing it out of habit.

I've tried patches, gum, cigars and of course cold-turkey and none of them have been as useful as this, because it gives you the all important habit and ritual as well. And no I haven't become a born again fanatic either!

Is it just like having a cigarette? What would you say the differences are? I've been toying with the idea of getting one of these for a while but am still on the fence.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=211&t=932921&mid=87003&nmt=Quit+smoking+for+New+Year+%3F

Have a look at this thread ........ try reading 'the book' it really does work ....and there is a link somewhere in the thread that links to a free PDF.....so you really have nothing to lose

[clarkey328is]

Rugbyman said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Have a look at this thread ........ try reading 'the book' it really does work ....and there is a link somewhere in the thread that links to a free PDF.....so you really have nothing to lose

Cheers mate, but I don't want to quit really, so I know I won't. I just fancy something that might keep me occupied while I'm inside without stinking the place out

[AJS-]

clarkey328is said:

AJS- said:

Good for you. I've just bought an e-cigarette a couple of weeks ago and I must say it's brilliant.

I still enjoy the odd cigarette with a beer, or after breakfast, but I've gone from 20 a day (or much more iwth beer) to a 20 pack lasting me most of a week, and I actually enjoy the cigarettes I do smoke rather than just doing it out of habit.

I've tried patches, gum, cigars and of course cold-turkey and none of them have been as useful as this, because it gives you the all important habit and ritual as well. And no I haven't become a born again fanatic either!

Is it just like having a cigarette? What would you say the differences are? I've been toying with the idea of getting one of these for a while but am still on the fence.

For consuming nicotine it's as good as a cigarette. It's not just like a cigarette, occasionally I do still want a real one, and when I drink I do still smoke real ones.

It cuts out the cigarettes that I don't enjoy, which realistically was 99% of them.

The other thing I like about them is that it gives you something to fidget with when you would normally smoke. The hard part for me is not really the nicotine but the habit. For nearly 20 years, every cup of coffee, every beer, the end of every meal, every time I leave an office or a meeting etc etc has been cigarette time. A puff of this thing and the moment passes.

Try one. The oneI bought was about 30GBP and if you're buying cigarettes in the UK then that's about 5 packets now(?) so there isn't much to lose!

[MPoon]

Dave200 said:

This.

Did you never wonder why they were pretty much the cheapest cigarettes that money could buy?
Marlboro Gold, Camel Blue and Lucky Strike Silver are about the only things I can bring myself to smoke. Everything else seems to taste like the barrel-scrapings from a decent tobacco company.

hahah don't even call them barrel scrapings, they are more like floor sweepings.

I can bring myself to smoke Davidoff Magnums, but that's about it. I'm a cigar and pipe smoker mostly.