Giving up?

[Groggy]

For Alex, Woodborer, Dan or anyone else giving it up.

http://www.silkquit.org/meter.html

It's the meter I use to track money saved and other stuff, looking at it every now and again helps to remind you when to buy a new tool...

Sample info provided is:

Three years, eight months, three weeks, six days, 2 hours, 53 minutes and 39 seconds. 34128 cigarettes not smoked, saving $8,532.26. Life saved: 16 weeks, 6 days, 12 hours, 0 minutes.

[AlexS]

Day 5. Didn't miss the phlegmcutter at all this morning, nor the afterlunchie, as I was eager to get into the workshop. Finished final sanding on latest project.

[Gingermick]

Congratulations to all on the wagon. It is indeed a most noble pursuit.

[Harry72]

If you get a craving urge, stop what ever your doing and do something else, you'll be suprised how easy it is to distract yourself!
You need to assoicate things you do with not smoking ie, when you have breki/lunch/tea soon as your finished, have a shower or read the paper(whatever) this way you are training not to assoicate smoking with certain actions. Like after a coffee have a chewy instead of a smoke, spit it out at about the same time it takes to finish a smoke and then do something that involves thinking hard/intensely(hey your a woodie think of yer next project!).

[adrian]

If you want to give it up you have to be a 'manual smoker' rather than an automatic one. Don't just reach for the packet and light up. Make yourself aware of every process from the moment you light up. Be aware that you are filling your lungs with all kinds of muck and poisons and you are doing it for fun.

When you wake up in the morning and start to cough don't go on about having a slight cold or some other feeble excuse. You have filled your lungs with muck that has probably settled during sleep and you have to move it around to get a clear space to absorb oxygen and reduce the irritation. Ask yourself whether this is the act of a sane person.

If you have kids, you should ask yourself what kind of role model you are going to be be for them. If you smoke around your kids you should be aware that it is child abuse. The only difference between passive smoke and beating the daylights out of them is that the bruises take years to show.
Maybe you should think about getting a list of the carcinogens and the poisons and their doses and inject them into your child's veins so that they will get their fix when they are away at camp. Don't hold the mistaken belief that there is any difference between making them inhale the smoke or getting the chemicals intravenously. Ask yourself what you would do if a stranger did inject your child with the same chemicals.
If you are a parent and you care, then giving up is the easiest thing in the world to do.

As for totally banning smoking in all publc places where it is possible for someone to inhale passive smoke, it is only a matter of time before someone tests the waters by asking for a smoker to be charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Smoking is well recognised by every major health organisation around the world as a major cause of preventable death. As I have said above, there is no difference between inhaling the poisons and receiving the same chemicals as an involuntary injection. The only difference is the ingestion of tar into the lungs when inhaling, which adds an additional danger. Being injected with those chemicals would constitute an assault and it doesn't take a genius to figure out that a smart lawyer working for the anti-smoking lobby could easily prove the case, given that cigarette packets clearly carry warnings of the dangers to others.

[Gingermick]

Are you an ex-smoker too?

[Iain]

Here endeth the lesson.
Sounds like Fred Nile of the anti smoking lobby...................................not that I disagree.

[zenwood]

Good onya adrian.

Shoulda seen my post: my first censored post, and I'm not even a reformed smoker. Just a witness to some of its effects.

[AlexS]

12 days...so far so good.

[Groggy]

12 days...so far so good.

Hmm, at a pack a day, costing around $10 a pack, that should be the first tool purchase worth $120. That'll get you a H.N.T. Gordon special or a Lee Valley, another two weeks and you're a contender for a Lie Nielsen award

Good going, keep it up!

[adrian]

Are you an ex-smoker too?

Yep! It's been about 9 years. I've given up quite a few times but the only effective way I know to stay a non smoker is to acquire a pathalogical hatred for smoking. Which I have done with relish.
As for being the "Fred Nile of the anti-smoking lobby" if that's what I have to be labeled then I don't mind. It's in a good cause.

AlexS
Keep it up. You are over the worst. Just remember when you want to light up again that you are going to have to put yourself through what you have gone through for the past 12 days, again. I found that getting angry at myself for the stupidity was enough to keep me away from them.

I know it sounds like a lecture but if a lecture can change just one person's attitude then it's worth being thought of as a wowser.

[Gingermick]

I find it makes it easy to hate it with a vengeance. And you've been bagging every smoker you know, so you're too sh!te scared to start again too.
Apart from the fact the it does nothing for you, except get you addicted.

[AlexS]

Hmm, at a pack a day, costing around $10 a pack, that should be the first tool purchase worth $120. That'll get you a H.N.T. Gordon special or a Lee Valley, another two weeks and you're a contender for a Lie Nielsen award

Good going, keep it up!

Not quite. was just (?) having 2 cigars a day, at about $2 each. Still, $120 a month's not to be sneezed at.

[Groggy]

Stumbled across this thread while looking for something else so I thought I'd update it. I hope the people who gave up are still on the wagon

Six years, one month, one week, one day, 10 hours, 33 minutes and 2 seconds.

55760 cigarettes not smoked,

saving $18,587.00.

Life saved: 27 weeks, 4 days, 14 hours, 40 minutes.

[Cliff Rogers]

I gave up 27 years ago, that is about 395,000 smokes ago.

How do you work out the cost over 27 years?