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  • Still Smoke. Cancer? Bollocks more like.

    9 8.82%
  • Smoke But Will Quit Soon. What? I Will! After Eastenders Has Ended. Or Thursday.

    7 6.86%
  • I Used To Smoke But Stopped. <--- Iz Smug.

    31 30.39%
  • I Have Never Smoked. <--- Iz Smugger.

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Thread: The Smoking Poll.

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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    I smoke

    I enjoy it as I rarely drink excessively any more (shocking, especially for a student) as in I'm about half of the reccomended weekly intake of alcohol for an adult, and it's something becoming suprisingly social (chatting to fellow smokers outside etc). Don't smoke a huge amount, but that first cigarette of the day with a cup of tea before work feels great

    Don't smoke inside in my shared house or at my parents home out of respect for others and I don't really care what people do aslong as it only affects them, e.g. smoking in a beer garden.
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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    Quote Originally Posted by 0iD View Post
    What I never understood tho, is why start in the first place?
    Duh. 'Cause it's cool of course.



    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzen View Post
    On another note, i can guarantee i am fitter than the massive majority of non smokers
    And yet still hugely more likely to die of smoking related diseases than a non-smoker. Hope the memory of all that physical exercise keeps your morale up when strapped into an iron lung
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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    Quote Originally Posted by Blitzen View Post
    Why do you feel the need to preach to me?
    TO even begin to equate smoking to cocaine or heroine use really isn't you most productive piece of work.

    On another note, i can guarantee i am fitter than the massive majority of non smokers
    Really??? Ok, lets have a look at some Actuarial I've got access to (can't share thou)

    Hmm, deaths caused by smoking > deaths caused by drink.

    Smoking > Class A 'Abuse'

    Yes, why would i equate something like smoking to something that causes far fewer deaths just because someone uses exactly the same logic as the addicts did. Can't think why.

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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    never smoked and never plan to.

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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    Unfortunately I live with a person that smokes, and you can argue with them about "passive smoking" 'till the cows come home but you wont win. The fact is its not good for you in any manner, so why the hell should you be subjected to it. With that said EVEN IF the former isnt true, you, your house and your clothes still stink, and thats what pi**es me off the most.
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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    I'm in the "never smoked" category. Well, other than an experiment or two. I've never been a "smoker", as such.

    I'm sufficiently a non-smoker that I can't see why it should be so hard to quit. But I've seen enough sensible, strong-willed and determined people really struggle, and often backslide even after quite a period, to know that it is really hard, and I guess the only way to really understand how hard it can be is to have to go through it. And to that ..... erm, no thanks. It's an experience I can do without.

    So to those that quit, I salute you. Well done. But keep your guard up.

    To those that are trying to quit, keep at it.

    To those that don't want to quit .... fair enough, it's your life. And health. What's left of it.

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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    2 1/2 years stopped for me, 06/06/06 so yeah, highly smug

    To be honest, I never liked smoking anyway and I haven't missed it once

    Theanimus had an interesting point earlier when he compared Blitzen's behaviour to people on harder drugs, and I have to say that I agree in so much as smoking is an addiction and with all addictions, be it smoking, alcohol, drugs, gambling or whatever, the person really starts to believe their own excuses for not stopping, aka denial. The other classic sign is when they get all defensive when someone questions their habit and try and turn it round on the other person. Done it myself.

    I used to work with a bloke that smoked 20 a day and was in his own words "fit as a fiddle" and could "give you youngsters a run for their money", and he could, but he died before he was 45 from Emphysema.
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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    Used to smoke; started when I was 20, gave up when I was 25. Found it pretty easy actually, I think you have to really want to stop. I'd tried before a few times before but it was more because I knew I shouldn't rather than anything else - pretty much the same attitude as I'm hearing here now; I'd like to quit but I enjoy it.

    However, I ended up connecting the intense heartburn in the mornings after being down the pub as the cigarettes and not the beer. That and the ads on telly at the time with the fat oozing out of the cigarettes was a bit shocking.
    Went down the pub on tuesday night after new years, stubbed out the last from a packet, and that was that. The first couple of times at the pub were hard, and the first time out clubbing again really difficult, but at the end of the day it's not life threatening - and in the back of my mind I knew I wanted to go through with it this time, and knew it was possible.

    Everyone's different though, after 3 weeks I didn't feel like having one anymore, and after 3 months couldn't stand the thought of it. A friend of mine who gave up at the same time still feels like starting again, nearly 5 years later.

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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    Gave up in May of last year, and it took a lot of NRT and willpower. Wouldn't want to do that again...

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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    Quote Originally Posted by 0iD View Post
    The ban has been particularly tough on pubs & now with the recession a lot just cant stay open any more

    I don't personally have a problem with smokers, just not around the kids.
    Exactly my feelings also.

    I dont smoke anymore, but again have no problem with those that do, however smoking when children are present is totally unacceptable, and people that do it should be prosecuted


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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    Quote Originally Posted by Clunk View Post
    .....

    I used to work with a bloke that smoked 20 a day and was in his own words "fit as a fiddle" and could "give you youngsters a run for their money", and he could, but he died before he was 45 from Emphysema.
    I hear you. But appearances can be deceptive. A guy I knew was certainly very fit, keen runner and cyclist, didn't smoke, never touched alcohol, didn't even drink tea or coffee, and ate very carefully and healthily (almost to the point of obsession) and exercised regularly. And dropped dead in the office one day, aged about 35. The paramedics reckoned it was a massive stroke and that he'd have been dead before he hit the floor. One instant, he's fine, fit and apparently healthy, and the next .... BAMMM.

    On the other hand, a relative of mine smoked like a chimney, and drank a fair bit, and lasted into his 90s.

    Being fit and healthy doesn't guarantee long life, and more than smoking and drinking guarantees an early demise from cancer or liver failure.

    But you are playing the odds. I know people that could play Russian roulette with a loaded .357 and manage to miss 6 times. But that's not odds I fancy.

    There's plenty of evidence about the damage that smoking causes and the risks smokers run. But it's their life/health to risk ..... providing they don't risk mine or others at the same time.

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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    I hear you. But appearances can be deceptive. A guy I knew was certainly very fit, keen runner and cyclist, didn't smoke, never touched alcohol, didn't even drink tea or coffee, and ate very carefully and healthily (almost to the point of obsession) and exercised regularly. And dropped dead in the office one day, aged about 35. The paramedics reckoned it was a massive stroke and that he'd have been dead before he hit the floor. One instant, he's fine, fit and apparently healthy, and the next .... BAMMM.
    You see this is the trap of smoking, it's so easy for a smoker to quote statistics like this to convince themselves that it's OK, I should know I spent a few years doing it.

    But the painful truth is that the chances of something like this happening are probably what 1 in 500,000 maybe 1 in 1,000,000 ? maybe even higher ?

    Whereas the chances of a smoker dying from a smoking related disease are, go on let's be generous, 1 in 2
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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    I've been smoking since I was 14, and it has seriously damaged my health. As much as I enjoyed smoking, I've had to force myself to quit due to having chest pains every now and again.

    It's just not worth it, it should be banned in my opinion.

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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    I was brought up in a pub enviroment from the age of 5 to the age of 13 i was always surrounded by smoke my eyes use to burn it was that intense sometimes, i suppose this was acceptable back then in the seventies i mean i never knew about the dangers of smoking or passive smoking everyone back then seemed to be doing it.

    My mother use to eat them i think i clocked her at 70 a day god knows how but she gave them up over 20 years ago thankfully she's still with us but i know for sure this wouldn't be the case if she hadn't i also know the damage is done because anyone who is out of breath and sounds like a diesel engine when they walk is not good.

    Being brought up in that enviroment probably didn't give me the best of healthy starts and is by no means an excuse for me to smoke now, i've tried over the years the longest i've gone without is 5 months and it is bloody hard and i smoke maybe ten roll ups a day now use to be much more, I've had ex friends tell me its on the same par as giving up heroin and by ex i mean they're no longer alive because of the heroin not the cigs.

    I'm gonna have a bloody good go at it this year as i feel at 39 i'm ready and most importantly i want to do it for me also i'm going do it as secretly as i can because my friends who smoke can be generous sometimes..D:

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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    Never smoked, never will.

    Peer pressure will be ignored. I'm good at that
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    Re: The Smoking Poll.

    Quote Originally Posted by Barakka View Post
    You see this is the trap of smoking, it's so easy for a smoker to quote statistics like this to convince themselves that it's OK, I should know I spent a few years doing it.

    But the painful truth is that the chances of something like this happening are probably what 1 in 500,000 maybe 1 in 1,000,000 ? maybe even higher ?

    Whereas the chances of a smoker dying from a smoking related disease are, go on let's be generous, 1 in 2
    I guess smokers quote things like that. But ... it was me that quoted it and I'm a non-smoker.

    As for the odds .... dunno, but you could be right.

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