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Cigarettes Are bad.
I am sure we all know this. Dammit, I know it too.
Tabs. Snouts. Cigs.
They have a million names. One amusingly that is quite popular in Britain is even fags.
I know. Lord knows where that expression comes from but it is quite a common one. No doubt it can cause some confusion in America when a Brit says they are going out to smoke a fag.
It doesn't really mean they have became a bloodthirsty maniac trotting off to commit murder.
I used to be quite the smoker. When I became a father I stopped.
Sometimes when I got a little drunk I would give in and get some and smoke. Not good but I couldn't help myself and always promised myself that I would quit again and largely stuck to it.
Gradually though, over time I smoked less and less. It's quite easy to quit in Britain I think, given that they cost an arm and a leg to buy.
When you go on holiday and overseas the price is less than half they are at home and it's easy to slip into the habit. And slip I did recently.
I pledged to quit to quit on my return. So ladies and gentlemen of the blockchain. I present to you in the cover picture, my last cigarette.
I find it easy enough to quit. Sadly I slide back now and then. Sometimes so much so that I coined the phrase.
Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it hundreds of times.
It is an insidious thing though. Easy to fall back into. A combination of addiction and marketing.
When I smoked regularly. I would find myself outside in conversation with other smokers who obviously saw me as a kindred spirit. I usually kaiboshed this by proclaiming.
Smoking really is a dying art, isn't it?
And it is. Less and less people are doing it. Although many are quitting it by vaping.
For me the art of vaping has never really appealed. You see them everywhere, every one sucking on what looks to be a gun barrel and blowing out gigantic puffs of vapour for all the world like Puff the Magic Dragon.
Well no more of you, you stinky dragon nemesis. I am done with you.
Have you given up? Found it hard or easy? Please let me know in the comments. I always like to hear other dark mother rejecters points of view!!
So true. Nicotine is the hardest addiction to beat. Kudos to you for doing so. As for myself, still trying to beat. I enjoy smoking but I know I have to stop soon. After all, Health is your #1 wealth.
I like that phrase! It is a hard thing to do. That's the problem, it associates itself into you so much that you do enjoy it despite people telling you it's the addiction talking!
it's your last? cheers to that!
It certainly is!! Damn things!
Cigarettes are bad, bacon is bad, alcohol is bad, porn is bad. Everything we like in our lives is bad. Tell us who? Hm, I'm wonder? Government? I'll take it with a grain of salt. Oh my; salt is bad too?
It's all bad!! Except cotton wool. I think that's still ok :0)
Smoking will kill you...Bacon will kill you...But smoking bacon will cure it.
What the.
That's brilliant!
Yeah!! Let's smoke that bacon!!!
I have quit smoking for the last time on April 1st, 1978 (or around this date) when I was 28 years old. It had taken me several years to quit. I found it hard to do.
I found it hard many times before. The price these days makes it easier as it's quite hard to justify. It's almost £11 a pack here!
Well done for stopping so well!
When I was a cadet, at the French naval academy, in 1968-1970, for the equivalent of US$1, every month we were given 16 packs of black tobacco cigarettes ("Gauloises"), without filter, of course.
I was already smoking before starting the naval academy, but was limited by my finances: you could buy a pack of Gauloises for a little less than 50 cents, and that was expensive for me, as I had no money allowance from my parents.
I have heard many times of Gauloises, they were meant to be ridiculously strong werent they? That must have been the black tobacco part. It always amazes me that they didnt have a filter. That kind of smoke would send peoples heads reeling.
Well, as a smoker I understand you. I can say, as you, "Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it hundreds of times.", but I'm still a smoker (so bad, I know). Every time that I tried to stop, it was very difficult for me and for who lives around me because I turn myself in a very bad person. Maybe there will be the right time to quit smoke for me, but maybe it's not now :(
Cheers Silvia, I know what you mean. You can't do unless it feels like the right time that I do know!!
I've done my share of smoking. Started with my girlfriend in college when I was 21. She broke my heart :( I hate her, no I don't. The habit lasted longer than her, all the way to my 28th birthday.
I only managed to stop because I was thinking about doing it for a year or two and then I hit gold:
Ridiculously dumb book but it works. Well it did for me, not for my parents.
If you or anyone else needs help I have a pdf or you may download it from pirate bay where it may or may not be available. I don't know, I never downloaded it that way.
On the other hand, I did buy the translation for my parents.
But it went sooooo well with beer :( I wish this stuff doesn't kill. I wonder how pricey would it be then :/
I have actually read this. On eof my early attempts to give up was fuelled quite successfully by this book. I have gone for years at a time without. My devil may care do things for fun approach is what lets me down. You know the voice that always says, oooh this would be a cool time to have a smoke
I listen then think, what the heck I havent smoked in a year, one wont hurt. Boom! NExt minute a pack aday.
I am determined this time to not smoke when I drink. I have instructed all my friends to deny me if I go wild and demand one :O)
I hate how cigarettes kill people and its legal, and nobody has died from marijuana alone(without driving or doing an activity to be killed) and its illegal.
I know, the whole legal yet deadly aspect is a right pisser. Its what gets lots of people started. Thankfully now its not so common in the youngsters
still more common than I;d like. I don't get why young people take on smoking..is it even cool anymore?
You would think not. Just all the older people who got sooked in by the advertising and peer pressure when young. Ihope
Quit smoking 15 years ago. Part of the reason, becoming a Dad. ;-)
Never wanted it any more after quite a rough time staying away from the bad habbit, I made it. The first day was the worst, then the week after that. And I got confident after half a year.
Drastic measures, no ashtrays in the house anymore. Guests had to go outside for a smoke. Did not make everybody happy. But it was all worth it.
Started to love food though, the smell, the taste, too much for a while, hahaha. But that also went back to normal.
Glad I decided to stop 15 years ago.
Good luck with dumping Fag the Stinky Dragon for ever!
I am going to make sure it stays dumped. I had stopped since the birth of my daughter but gradually over the last year it crept back when I was drinking then after my holiday I was just plain old smoking again. Had to stop!
Good luck, you'll make it!
Cheers dude, I kinda know I will this time!
I've been down the same road buddy. You've got really a want to quit for it to stick. I started smoking when I was 12 and couldn't ever imagine not smoking, especially when drinking.
I was flying back from Las Vegas a few years ago with 2000 'fags' stashed in my stuff hoping I wouldn't get pulled by customs and thought WTF! Why am I doing this, I got home, sold the Malboros and haven't had one since,it was 6 years ago.
You do get a WTF moment dontcha? Mines was hiding out the back garden so my daughter wouldnt see me smoke and I thought jesus man Just quit! Well done on staying off them!
It was lucky as the very 1st e-ciggie had just come out so I had that as a crutch for a while to help break the habitual stuff. I'd be tapping my pockets when I got off the tube etc looking for something to do with my hands. It was hard when having a few jars, but you do break it.
Hardest was the doobies but just went back to the bong 😀
The payoff was the extra cash as I was 40 Malboros a day