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General => General discussion => Topic started by: stainesy on 06 January 2012, 19:59
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Has anybody used or uses electric fags yet?
I want to no if they are any good or if it feels anything like a real fag.
Just bought a packet of them on the net.
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if you wanna give up, do just that, give up. :shocked:
No patches, no gizmo's
Sorted. :afro:
then start again 19 months later like i did :laugh:
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Yes mate i'v got one and used it for about a month.. ( now back on the real ones )
But there not bad actually.. i was at the bar one time and i got it out and started to puff away on it and the bar man went to have a right go at me untill i pressed it against my mates face and then he realised it was an electric one :laugh: :laugh:
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I gave up for 18months and what killed it for me was the smoking ban in pubs/clubs :lipsrsealed: :laugh:
Being the only f**k*r sat inside not smoking for most the night got boring very quickly. Oh and the stupid little german I had to work for for a year. cu^t
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:laugh: :laugh:
So your back on them i take it?
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yep :lipsrsealed:
Get stressed to easily now to give up. Id end up smashing some cu^t in work with a pair of 24" stilsons.....
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:laugh: :laugh:
So your back on them i take it?
steve has the odd one or two
packets
a day
:laugh:
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only at shows....or when am pissed....or stressed......
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only at shows....or when am pissed....or stressed......
so
mondays,
tuesdays,
wednesdays,
thursdays,
fridays
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:laugh:
I drive for a living.... need i say anymore :laugh:
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yep :lipsrsealed:
Get stressed to easily now to give up. Id end up smashing some cu^t in work with a pair of 24" stilsons.....
I had to read that twice as I thought it said....."a pair of 24" stiletto's"
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Not tried them myself but a friend tried on them and said they're no better than patches or gum, when both he and I eventually quit it was down to will power. I can have a smoke when out with friends drinking and feel really rough the next day from it so reminds me not to smoke when sober,been well over a year since I had one when drunk and been over 3 years since I quite day time smoking.
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No, no fake tits here
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yep :lipsrsealed:
Get stressed to easily now to give up. Id end up smashing some cu^t in work with a pair of 24" stilsons.....
:grin:
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A couple of people in work are using them at the mo and rave on about em. I might give em a go if I can't do it with will power in the coming weeks.
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I thought this was about the Scissor sisters :rolleyes:
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Electric gays? :shocked:
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I quit mid nov using an e-cig, thought it was a really good way of doing it! You use it a lot in the first week or so but because it doesn't taste brilliant and you feel like an utter tit using it you naturally use it less and less, and because its in your pocket it there if you need it, but you don't feel the urge to use it, and that seems to help. Very phychological :laugh:
Getting into some sort of exercise straight away helps and being in the right frame of mind too. ie don't say ' i'm trying to quit', say 'i have quit and don't want to smoke anymore'. Sounds bollox but it works! Apparently the physical addiction only lasts a few days, then its all mental.
You also realise how much you stank when you smell other smokers :sick:
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The physical addiction is nothing, the mental addiction is very strong.
Chuff, why did you start again after so long?
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oh and never go to the pub ever again :laugh:
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oh and never go to the pub ever again :laugh:
The pub was much WORSE when you could you smoke in them :laugh:
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The physical addiction is nothing, the mental addiction is very strong.
Chuff, why did you start again after so long?
I don't know if it's anything like me but there must be a switch in my brain. Can go for months, years even without thinking about smoking and one day, 'click' I'll start up again.
Oddly my brain does the same with stopping, 'click' and I have no desire to smoke again.
It's really odd, and why cigs are so insidious.
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The physical addiction is nothing, the mental addiction is very strong.
Chuff, why did you start again after so long?
I don't know if it's anything like me but there must be a switch in my brain. Can go for months, years even without thinking about smoking and one day, 'click' I'll start up again.
Oddly my brain does the same with stopping, 'click' and I have no desire to smoke again.
It's really odd, and why cigs are so insidious.
Same for me, i just start on stop as on tap, more of a social thing i think.
Back onto the electric fags - What brand/make has anyone used and can recommend? the missus is after one
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Chuff, why did you start again after so long?
cos i could, 2nd time i had given up for over 12 months .
first time was right after sliding down the road towards a car watching my pride and joy go end to end after hitting said car
now onto week 7 of smoke freeness for the 4rd time .
whoever said the first week was the hardest talks bollox :lipsrsealed:
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I'm giving up white bread at the moment, it's killing me! Do they do electric bread or something? :huh:
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Never tried the ecigs but did go on the doctors help thing,, full time smoker for 18years ,,tried loads of times and failed,, used a drug called champix and I havnt smoked for 6 months now :) dont really think about it anymore an I'm normally stressed to death ;) tbh was piss easy on them ,,,,,worth a look fella
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Never tried the ecigs but did go on the doctors help thing,, full time smoker for 18years ,,tried loads of times and failed,, used a drug called champix and I havnt smoked for 6 months now :) dont really think about it anymore an I'm normally stressed to death ;) tbh was piss easy on them ,,,,,worth a look fella
Cheers, ill take a look. Shes on the patches atm and is doing alright, think its more the physical thing thats doing her nut in
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i'm on e-lites, have been since end of november, just went straight over no problems. I used to smoke menthol roll ups and thought theres no way its going to match it and have to say the menthol e-lite is the best of them all.
I never wanted to quit smoking as suuch but thought if I could still do everything a fag would give me without all the crap in them then i'll give it a go.
havn't touchhed a roll up since.
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I'm almost 4 weeks without a fag now. I'd tried a few times before, given up for a few months at a time twice and both using patches. I also tried the Champix tablets, but all I can think is that I had no real desire to quit that time as I didn't even cut down on them. They didn't stop the cravings, and didn't make smoking taste/feel any different. I find patches make smoking really harsh, so I went on them for just a week, and have been using the electric ones ever since. I'm kinda getting addicted to them though tbh, cos I still get real harsh cravings, and the electric ones just make it go away for half an hour like a real fag!
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The best way is cold turkey & will power because you'll only get addicted to the thing you are substituting the ciggie with. I can go out and have a ciggie and not have cravings now, which pisses my mate off because he'll have cravings for a couple weeks after :grin: I think the after morning taste of ashtray mouth is enough to put me off smoking when not pissed :sick:
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seriously give up!! ( plastic fags are stupid)
i did last week after a mini stroke. tho i didnt know it was that till i saw the doc,who went on to talk to me like i was the biggest waste of his time ever!!
tho i do get it now :undecided:
i have the potential to cost the already hard pushed NHS thousands and thousands of pounds over the years if i didnt stop(money that would save tiny babies lives, or give some young kid the chance to live a normal life after a heart transplant)
i hate the smell of fag smoke.. and cant abide kissing another smoker :sick:
who the fcuk can afford such a disgusting habit anyway? £12 a day for some.. £15.000 over 5 years!( my days you should have seen the mk3 i had visions of when this part was pointed out lol)
and anyway.. you seriously want to watch the look on your familys faces when the doc rolls up and tells you theres nothing else they can do for you??
i started smoking the day my dad died when i was 12.. im 39 now.. ive been lucky.. but honest i have ZERO willpower,so if i can do it anyone can...
1 tip tho. dont swap the fags for sugary snacks cos then you'll turn into a fat git with a huge dentist bill and need a fag to get over the shock :laugh:
go on u can do it ;)
good luck xxx
hope i dont sound [too] harsh.. but smoking has to be the most selfish pastime ever! x
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All the drivers at my work are using them and are getting good results, i smoked for 20 years and then gave up but i still have a few ciggys at bbq's and such.
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I bought one a while ago only used it about 3 times didn't like them found them really harsh on my chest, been sat in the kitchen drawer ever since lol
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Well thought I would update. A month ago a found out one of my best mates has cancer from smoking and it is looking to be terminal. The day I found out I stopped smoking. Just stopped dead and also made my wife do it with me. After a couple of weeks I was totaly fine and not even craving anymore. Dwell really good in myself and have even started going to the gym pretty much every day. It took the shock of my close friends terrible news to make me realise how sucking on a rolled up bit of paper with crushed leaves in it isn't worth my life. It scared me more as he is the same age as me and I only 33.
I have has the odd one here as there if I have had a very hard day and just had one off a mate but that is it and I'm no longer thinking about them or needing them.
I will just add though a week after I stopped I felt like crap. Almost like a very bad cold that seemed to last a hole week. A few of my mate that have given up smoking also told me they got ill after quiting aswell.
Did any of you notice this?
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I don't understand how people can have the odd one, if i did that, i would start again.
I would like a smoke, but it has been 11 months, it only takes one to be infected again.
Let's face it, it's not a habit, it's an illness.
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I did that, had the odd one,
nowt for a month
then show season came about :lipsrsealed: :laugh:
big test for me again friday, all day session, but i have managed one already without the need to light up
lets hope its raining :grin:
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And whats coming up in a couple months.... You'll be spending time with me :lipsrsealed:
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not doing shows this year :lipsrsealed: , buying houses instead :grin:
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I will just add though a week after I stopped I felt like crap. Almost like a very bad cold that seemed to last a hole week. A few of my mate that have given up smoking also told me they got ill after quiting aswell.
Did any of you notice this?
Yup, but when I was a smoker I was always ill too - not sick as often now unless the kids pick something up at school :smiley:
I don't understand how people can have the odd one, if i did that, i would start again.
Change the way you think about ciggies, don't think about it as quitting but rather changing your life style. I'm quite happy to have a few at the pub or a party and not crave them, they usually make me feel worse in the morning so that probably helps not going back on to them. I just get a bit of peace and quiet, after the moaning, because the wife gets the hump if I've had a smoke :laugh:
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Well thought I would update. A month ago a found out one of my best mates has cancer from smoking and it is looking to be terminal. The day I found out I stopped smoking. Just stopped dead and also made my wife do it with me. After a couple of weeks I was totaly fine and not even craving anymore. Dwell really good in myself and have even started going to the gym pretty much every day. It took the shock of my close friends terrible news to make me realise how sucking on a rolled up bit of paper with crushed leaves in it isn't worth my life. It scared me more as he is the same age as me and I only 33.
I have has the odd one here as there if I have had a very hard day and just had one off a mate but that is it and I'm no longer thinking about them or needing them.
I will just add though a week after I stopped I felt like crap. Almost like a very bad cold that seemed to last a hole week. A few of my mate that have given up smoking also told me they got ill after quiting aswell.
Did any of you notice this?
Smokers are less likely to catch colds and virus the reasons being the smoke itself kills off alot of germs and bacteria.
When you quit the new tissues forms in the throat and is more exposed and seceptable to germs and bacteria.
Hence the after quit colds.
I love smoking it wil be the death of me :lipsrsealed:
Plus watch the weight put on due to vitamins not getting destroyed by chemicals
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Well thought I would update. A month ago a found out one of my best mates has cancer from smoking and it is looking to be terminal. The day I found out I stopped smoking. Just stopped dead and also made my wife do it with me. After a couple of weeks I was totaly fine and not even craving anymore. Dwell really good in myself and have even started going to the gym pretty much every day. It took the shock of my close friends terrible news to make me realise how sucking on a rolled up bit of paper with crushed leaves in it isn't worth my life. It scared me more as he is the same age as me and I only 33.
I have has the odd one here as there if I have had a very hard day and just had one off a mate but that is it and I'm no longer thinking about them or needing them.
I will just add though a week after I stopped I felt like crap. Almost like a very bad cold that seemed to last a hole week. A few of my mate that have given up smoking also told me they got ill after quiting aswell.
Did any of you notice this?
Smokers are less likely to catch colds and virus the reasons being the smoke itself kills off alot of germs and bacteria.
When you quit the new tissues forms in the throat and is more exposed and seceptable to germs and bacteria.
Hence the after quit colds.
I love smoking it wil be the death of me :lipsrsealed:
Plus watch the weight put on due to vitamins not getting destroyed by chemicals
I don't think all of that is strictly true :lipsrsealed:
Colds and flu are much WORSE for smokers than non smokers.
I don't think it's the smoke that kills the germs, it's more the body will eject the poison when you actually completely stop taking it, so hence most people that quit get a really bad cough when they quit.
The body doesn't bother to eject the poison while you're adding to it.
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i've never been as ill as i have since i quit smoking. sinus infections, ear infections, flu. I also got sarcoid and my blood pressure went mental!
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Well thought I would update. A month ago a found out one of my best mates has cancer from smoking and it is looking to be terminal. The day I found out I stopped smoking. Just stopped dead and also made my wife do it with me. After a couple of weeks I was totaly fine and not even craving anymore. Dwell really good in myself and have even started going to the gym pretty much every day. It took the shock of my close friends terrible news to make me realise how sucking on a rolled up bit of paper with crushed leaves in it isn't worth my life. It scared me more as he is the same age as me and I only 33.
I have has the odd one here as there if I have had a very hard day and just had one off a mate but that is it and I'm no longer thinking about them or needing them.
I will just add though a week after I stopped I felt like crap. Almost like a very bad cold that seemed to last a hole week. A few of my mate that have given up smoking also told me they got ill after quiting aswell.
Did any of you notice this?
Smokers are less likely to catch colds and virus the reasons being the smoke itself kills off alot of germs and bacteria.
When you quit the new tissues forms in the throat and is more exposed and seceptable to germs and bacteria.
Hence the after quit colds.
I love smoking it wil be the death of me :lipsrsealed:
Plus watch the weight put on due to vitamins not getting destroyed by chemicals
I don't think all of that is strictly true :lipsrsealed:
Colds and flu are much WORSE for smokers than non smokers.
I don't think it's the smoke that kills the germs, it's more the body will eject the poison when you actually completely stop taking it, so hence most people that quit get a really bad cough when they quit.
The body doesn't bother to eject the poison while you're adding to it.
From a trained nurse!
The reason you're coughing up stuff, having a sore throat, ear issues etc... your cilia in your airway, which are tiny microscopic tubes that move mucous and saliva along, get killed by your smoking. Ever had a cold when you smoked, and the smoking actually kind of seemed to make you cough less? However, these little guys are able to regenerate. So, when you quit, and they start coming back, of course they start working again, and start bringing all that crap that has been sitting in your lungs the whole time, and bringing it up to the surface
That Mucous spreads the cold and germs so indirectly the smoke kills the initial start up.
Alex here is why for you aswell!
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Well thought I would update. A month ago a found out one of my best mates has cancer from smoking and it is looking to be terminal. The day I found out I stopped smoking. Just stopped dead and also made my wife do it with me. After a couple of weeks I was totaly fine and not even craving anymore. Dwell really good in myself and have even started going to the gym pretty much every day. It took the shock of my close friends terrible news to make me realise how sucking on a rolled up bit of paper with crushed leaves in it isn't worth my life. It scared me more as he is the same age as me and I only 33.
I have has the odd one here as there if I have had a very hard day and just had one off a mate but that is it and I'm no longer thinking about them or needing them.
I will just add though a week after I stopped I felt like crap. Almost like a very bad cold that seemed to last a hole week. A few of my mate that have given up smoking also told me they got ill after quiting aswell.
Did any of you notice this?
Smokers are less likely to catch colds and virus the reasons being the smoke itself kills off alot of germs and bacteria.
When you quit the new tissues forms in the throat and is more exposed and seceptable to germs and bacteria.
Hence the after quit colds.
I love smoking it wil be the death of me :lipsrsealed:
Plus watch the weight put on due to vitamins not getting destroyed by chemicals
I don't think all of that is strictly true :lipsrsealed:
Colds and flu are much WORSE for smokers than non smokers.
I don't think it's the smoke that kills the germs, it's more the body will eject the poison when you actually completely stop taking it, so hence most people that quit get a really bad cough when they quit.
The body doesn't bother to eject the poison while you're adding to it.
Your a non smoker aren't you?
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no coughs for me
no weight gain for me
no illness for me
I have even cut down on the booze too :smug:
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no coughs for me
no weight gain for me
no illness for me
I have even cut down on the booze too :smug:
I don't drink since I was 18 and best decision of my life, I would not be here if I still drank :lipsrsealed:
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no coughs for me
no weight gain for me
no illness for me
I have even cut down on the booze too :smug:
Must not post :lipsrsealed: :grin: :kiss:
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Well thought I would update. A month ago a found out one of my best mates has cancer from smoking and it is looking to be terminal. The day I found out I stopped smoking. Just stopped dead and also made my wife do it with me. After a couple of weeks I was totaly fine and not even craving anymore. Dwell really good in myself and have even started going to the gym pretty much every day. It took the shock of my close friends terrible news to make me realise how sucking on a rolled up bit of paper with crushed leaves in it isn't worth my life. It scared me more as he is the same age as me and I only 33.
I have has the odd one here as there if I have had a very hard day and just had one off a mate but that is it and I'm no longer thinking about them or needing them.
I will just add though a week after I stopped I felt like crap. Almost like a very bad cold that seemed to last a hole week. A few of my mate that have given up smoking also told me they got ill after quiting aswell.
Did any of you notice this?
Smokers are less likely to catch colds and virus the reasons being the smoke itself kills off alot of germs and bacteria.
When you quit the new tissues forms in the throat and is more exposed and seceptable to germs and bacteria.
Hence the after quit colds.
I love smoking it wil be the death of me :lipsrsealed:
Plus watch the weight put on due to vitamins not getting destroyed by chemicals
I don't think all of that is strictly true :lipsrsealed:
Colds and flu are much WORSE for smokers than non smokers.
I don't think it's the smoke that kills the germs, it's more the body will eject the poison when you actually completely stop taking it, so hence most people that quit get a really bad cough when they quit.
The body doesn't bother to eject the poison while you're adding to it.
From a trained nurse!
The reason you're coughing up stuff, having a sore throat, ear issues etc... your cilia in your airway, which are tiny microscopic tubes that move mucous and saliva along, get killed by your smoking. Ever had a cold when you smoked, and the smoking actually kind of seemed to make you cough less? However, these little guys are able to regenerate. So, when you quit, and they start coming back, of course they start working again, and start bringing all that crap that has been sitting in your lungs the whole time, and bringing it up to the surface
That Mucous spreads the cold and germs so indirectly the smoke kills the initial start up.
Alex here is why for you aswell!
Not doubting your word of course, but i've certainly had less colds since i quit.
Maybe in the short term it is worse, but i suspect smoking certainly lowers your immune system in the long term.
If you want to use it as a reason to carry on then it's up to you, but unfortunately it is a one way trip to the graveyard :sad:
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no coughs for me
no weight gain for me
no illness for me
I have even cut down on the booze too :smug:
Must not post :lipsrsealed: :grin: :kiss:
thats a first :lipsrsealed: :laugh: :kiss:
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Well thought I would update. A month ago a found out one of my best mates has cancer from smoking and it is looking to be terminal. The day I found out I stopped smoking. Just stopped dead and also made my wife do it with me. After a couple of weeks I was totaly fine and not even craving anymore. Dwell really good in myself and have even started going to the gym pretty much every day. It took the shock of my close friends terrible news to make me realise how sucking on a rolled up bit of paper with crushed leaves in it isn't worth my life. It scared me more as he is the same age as me and I only 33.
I have has the odd one here as there if I have had a very hard day and just had one off a mate but that is it and I'm no longer thinking about them or needing them.
I will just add though a week after I stopped I felt like crap. Almost like a very bad cold that seemed to last a hole week. A few of my mate that have given up smoking also told me they got ill after quiting aswell.
Did any of you notice this?
Smokers are less likely to catch colds and virus the reasons being the smoke itself kills off alot of germs and bacteria.
When you quit the new tissues forms in the throat and is more exposed and seceptable to germs and bacteria.
Hence the after quit colds.
I love smoking it wil be the death of me :lipsrsealed:
Plus watch the weight put on due to vitamins not getting destroyed by chemicals
I don't think all of that is strictly true :lipsrsealed:
Colds and flu are much WORSE for smokers than non smokers.
I don't think it's the smoke that kills the germs, it's more the body will eject the poison when you actually completely stop taking it, so hence most people that quit get a really bad cough when they quit.
The body doesn't bother to eject the poison while you're adding to it.
Your a non smoker aren't you?
I really should be yes, but i've been really wanting a smoke for the past couple of months :lipsrsealed:
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True I hear what you are saying but I like to smoke simple as that!
Far more worse vices out there, but mine just happens to be smoking!
I used to smoke 60 a day benson mobo the lot, these days Amber leaf and maybe 20 small roll ups a day if that?
LOOL @ richie!
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True I hear what you are saying but I like to smoke simple as that!
Far more worse vices out there, but mine just happens to be smoking!
I used to smoke 60 a day benson mobo the lot, these days Amber leaf and maybe 20 small roll ups a day if that?
LOOL @ richie!
Don't get me wrong i don't hate smokers at all.
Smoking makes the brain release dopamine, that's why it's enjoyable.
Unfortunately for most people it's not a case of being able to have the odd one.
It's very much a case of enjoy it now and pay later :sad:
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I've had a phlemmy cough ever since quitting. :sick:
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Also not sure if it related but since quiting also for the past 5 days I have had tonsillitis. And it has been the worst I have ever had it.
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I used an electric cig and have since quit smoking, now ive not read the whole 6 pages of this thread but I would recommend them to any one who really does wanna quit. It takes a couple of days to get used to the novelty of it not being a real cig but once your past that it is easy.
Basically after 4 weeks of using one, over that time i was using it less and less, now I don't use it at all. I'm 23 now and had been heavy smoking since I was 16/17 (could buy cigs at 16 back then).
There are lots of different types of e-cig, but i went for the kind of "top" one which was a 'Totally Wicked Tornado Tank', i went for this because you can use different flavour niqotine liquids in it, literally any flavour you can imagine, I liked vanilla and cherry :p
but yeah blah blah blah
If you WANT to stop smoking, this is a good, satisfying, tasty way to go about it!
Hope this helps somebody to quit :)
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Also not sure if it related but since quiting also for the past 5 days I have had tonsillitis. And it has been the worst I have ever had it.
Most people have a constant chest infection when they smoke, but it's just kept at bay underneath a layer of tar.
When you stop smoking, you stop adding to the layer of tar, slowly it breaks away.
This means sometimes you will cough up bits of black, and eventually when the infection surfaces you get a full on chest/throat infection.
Don't be surprised if you start coughing up blood :sick:
I quit smoking for a year, it was 3 months before I went to uni. After a year I had put on 6 stone!
Most people put on weight at uni and after smoking, and the two mixed together didn't help.
I've now been smoking again for a year and a half and I love it.
Tempted to get the e-cigarettes for when I leave uni and go into the big bad world.