smoking

[icantdecide]

im doing a piece of biology coursework and needed to do a questionaire thing on people who smoke
so
do you smoke?
if so why?
are you worried of the health aspects?
do you intend on stopping?
non smokers, what are your views on smoking?

[EmEd1984]

i'm 23, i started smoking when i was 16 and quit at new year. i swore i'd always be a smoker (tried to quit and er...quit quitting twice before!) and then after a heavy new years party i was too ill to eat let alone smoke, so i just quit. i actually don't feel any different in any way, but i can't believe i was a smoker, and it's in preparation for when me and mr ed have baby eds!

[funnygirl]

I don't know about elsewhere, but here in London, they sell fake cigarettes for half the price of normal cigarettes.

[China Doll]

If I'm stressed I usually need to take a step away and smoking does provide a forum for doing that. But I also enjoy them with a glass of wine and after dinner and it can also be a very social habbit (amongst other smokers). Where I used to work as well I can gurantee the ones who were in the know about the workings thoughout the place were the smokers.

As to smokers quitting if they saw the damage it did. As I mentioned, I worked in the cancer unit and saw it first hand on a daily basis with some patients. Did it make me think? Yes. But that's all it did. When you're actually exposed to it all the time then it can have the reverse effect, not that you think it'll never happen to you but you become apathetic to it almost. The highest number of smokers I knew at one point were doctors and nurses and this included two oncology consultants, one who had a specialty in lung cancer.

[skyep]

I am a non smoker. Hate it! My husband 'was' a smoker, quit about 4 years ago, not going in to detail but it caused problems between us. I think smoking is looked upon as very 'unfashionable' now, if that's the word. It 'irritates' me to see addicts huddled outside pubs ect.. I put up with the effects of smoking for a long time. Now, everything is so much better, health, relationship wise.

[jacko50]

I have smoked since i was 12, 45 years , i have tried to stop twice but only lasted 12 weeks both times, i know it is just will power but when it comes to smoking i do not seem to have any, my wife said she was going to stop eight years ago and has not had one since, her sister then stopped and then my daughter, my son tried and failed, i am ok for about a week then i just lash out at people for no real reason , i may be having a conversation with a friend and all i am thinking is, just shut up and get to the point you moron, this obviously is not normal behaviour but i can't stop it so i had to start smoking again to stop me going loopy or loosing all my friends. i think it is a good thing to stop people smoking in public places , at first i thought it was stupid like most smokers (i suspect) but now i get the whole point of it and can't believe i used to light up in a restraunt or pub with no thought for people who did not smoke ,yes it does worry me but as i am a weak willed pillock i will just have to live with it .

[China Doll]

I have to say actually that as a smoker I welcomed the ban. i never did smoke in restraunts and wasn't that keen on smoking in the pubs. However this maybe because I've always been used to smoking outside and it's a habbit that has carried on in my own homes where I could if I'd wanted to smoked inside.

[Jugglering]

Jacko - you have just been made aware that nicotine is seriously addictive lol...... that's why the lack of having any is making you *lash out* etc etc... Please go to see your GP or Pharmacist - there is a lot of assistance out there nowadays to help you get off your addiction.. it's nothing to do with being a weak willed pillock .... the help is there, take it mate !

[bigmamma]

I have never smoked , seeing my father die young from lung cancer after he smoked since he started in his late teens in the trenches of the war. They used to get given free cigarettes and I guess all the lads joined in as they were passed around. These days I can't be around smoke due to poor lungs , and thankfully non of my family smoke.

[jacko50]

skyep, i think that the idiots huddled outside wish they wer'nt but honestly to a smoker it is just the same as when you need water to drink or food , your brain demands that you have a fag and if you don't well your brain keeps on until you do. i know that people can go for hours without when they are on a plane for instance but believe me you do not want to try chatting to a smoker halfway across the atlantic , they could be like me. i don't think you can know what it is like until you have tried it and that would of course be a stupid way to find out.

[TheEpsilon]

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[Jugglering]

jacko... now who is in charge here ? You or the fags ? Yeah.. right now the fags are in charge of you and what you do....
Do you like that situation ? Nope, I bet you don't lol.....

So, take control, decide what YOU are going to be doing with your body and get some help for this addiction, cos that is all it is ! OK, a very powerful addiction, but it's something that millions of other people have managed to get over, so so can you ! Go for it, please.

[kawa4]

hi icantdecide yes i do smoke the biggest mistake i ever made in my life i have lost count of how many times i have tried to giv up it is the only thing that has ever got the better of me. there is nothing in this world i cant do or achieve apart from givin up smokin thus far. but i havent given up giving up yet. i tell my kids if you start smoking you will live to regret it as i do. but not being a hipercrit i never say to them you cant. or dont ever smoke. i am lucky 2 say so far they still dont smoke. and there always on my case 2 give up.

[cameo]

Hi, I'm 40 and have smoked since I was 15. I gave up a couple of years ago for 3 1/2 months.
I've been wanting to quit for ages simply because I am fed up with paying �5 a packet!
So after speaking to my doctor numerous times and contacting the local 'stop smoking organisation', tomorrow is going to be my QUIT DAY.
I've got some patches to help me. I hope I can do it!!
I know it's going to be hard because I do enjoy smoking also my husband smokes, and there is no way he can quit. so any advice from anyone on how to get through this would be really great.
As my hubby is disabled and I'm his carer I think it's going to be particularly difficult as we spend nearly every day at home together, where i can smoke when and where i want!!!

[daffy654]

I am an ex smoker. I smoked for 30 years and I quit 6 months ago for 11 weeks,smoked again for 5 weeks and then quit again.lol
I was diagnosed with emphysema a while back and was given around 10 years to live,less if I continued to smoke,so for the sake of my family I have packed it in and hopefully I will get longer with my family now.I have nothing against other smokers,most of my family still smoke and that is their choice to make.

[Rtaxron]

I stopped smoking on the 16th January when I was taken into hospital and when I came out after 10 days I decided to stop for good for my kids sake, because I saw how worried they were while I was lying in bed..

Its been very hard and I could easily light one up now, as I used to smoke 30 a day..
I have put over a stone on in weight and I am continually hungry and always snacking.

Whether or not its doing me any good or not, I am not sure, because if I get obese I could die of a heart attack, instead of lung cancer through smoking.

[Rtaxron]

cameo,

I have the patches, nicorette chewing gum and most important the nicotine inhalers. You must get theses.

My house smells so nice now after a complete spring clean and washing the tobacco stains from the paintwork etc.
All my shirts, coats, trousers, bed linen, and curtains have been washed and also my 3 piece sofa set cushion covers.

It wont be as easy for you as your husband is still smoking, but you can at least give it a go, and think of the money you will be saving? Good Luck.

[solitude]

Hi - my uncle taught me to inhale when I was 9 and I was on a pack a day by 12. Stopped for 9 yrs with acupuncture because I was up to 4 packs a day in my 20's. But then my non-smoking (ex)husband suddenly picked up a cig and that was it for years and years. Finally gave up in November using Champix. Made it sooo easy and left me with very few cravings which pass within seconds and no weight gain. I thoroughly enjoyed smoking and never thought I would actually stop, but now I'm very pleased to finally be a ex-smoker at the ripe old age of 47.

[lil123]

As a non smoker I feel the smell of them is horrible particularly
the stale smoke smell. Also since the smoke ban I hate it when they are all in the doorways smoking as that stinks too.
I also think what a waste of money and as a person who is into health and fitness the effects it is having on their body is not good either. My grandma dyed of cancer and she smoked at least 30-40 a day I cant ever remember her without a fag in her mouth but then I think back to all those years I was subjected to passive smoking too .

[JonnyBoy12]

No, I do not smoke, and never have done, so not sure what help I can be to you. I am worried about the health aspects of passive smoking, and wish everyone else would stop. They must have money to burn, literally.

If you want to do a questionaire on smoking you should come to my workplace, I am about the only bus driver in the world who does not smoke.