Have You Smoked/Used Tobacco?

[Blooming Lotus]

There are alot of arguements as to how smoking will do this or that but fact is many ppl smoke a pack a day, still have their night caps and live to 90+ dying with a smile on their face.

I don't advocate smoking , but I think it also depends on how else you treat your body ( exercise, diet, fluid intake / skin care etc) . I have smoked for 18 yrs ( my gawd I 'm getting on!!! :0 ) and only really stopped for more than 1 week at a time once while I was I pregnant. I do have a date to stop indefinately within the next month, but to be fair, when I was pumping out my > 12 hrs training a day ( last yr), I was still smoking and was still fitter and healthier than most. Still a bad choice, but I genuinely believe, if it's your only evil, you just may get away with it.

cheers

BL

 

[Adept]

I read somewhere that your chances of contracting cancer from smoking are almost directly opposite to the health benefits gained from owning a dog. So smoke your lungs out, have a dog, and everything evens out!

On a more serious note, tonight I have made the decision (hopefully for the last time) to quit smoking (again). I will throw out the rest of the pack in the morning. Wish me luck!

 

[INDYFIGHTER]

Good luck Adept! Just take it one crave at a time, one day at a time. I hope you will check out that website- whyquit.com and also the sharemeter.com. Best of luck!

 

[getgoin]

I strungle everyday not to smoke or drink. I learned that I smoked "most" when I drank. I gave up both Sept. 18, 2004. I am getting to the point that I am not liking the smell of cigarette smoke. I started to run 3 or 4 days a week, go to the gym 4 or 5 days a week and do MA 3 or 4 day's week. I boosted my working out to replace my addiction. It's real tough sometimes, I'm a casino worker.

 

[Kamaria Annina]

I grew up with my father being a heavy smoker. Somewhere along the line, I was a real brat as a child and said something mean to my father. I have no idea as to what it was, but whatever I said, it made my father quit smoking. I don't care what I said now, but I'm thankful for speaking my mind and stopping my father from the awful habit.

It hurt watching my father go outside to smoke, just knowing what it was doing to him. I never have thought of picking up a cigarette, and I don't think I ever will.

 

[TigerWoman]

I grew up with my father being a heavy smoker. Somewhere along the line, I was a real brat as a child and said something mean to my father. I have no idea as to what it was, but whatever I said, it made my father quit smoking. I don't care what I said now, but I'm thankful for speaking my mind and stopping my father from the awful habit.

It hurt watching my father go outside to smoke, just knowing what it was doing to him. I never have thought of picking up a cigarette, and I don't think I ever will.

I think I felt that way about my father. He smoked so much probably to ease his stress like most eventually if not from the habit. But I was the always the one to go to the store and get him more cigarettes and tobacco.
It wasn't a choice but it could have been, although he would have yelled at me. I felt I had my father for a very short time. Rest in peace, Dad. TW

 

[OnlyAnEgg]

I've smoked for almost 30 years. Quit once for nine months, then quit again for a month or so. I am now better than two weeks into a Patch regemin. About12 days from now, it will be no patch, no tobacco. I do look forward to it.

 

[Kizaru]

I started smoking when I was stationed at Ft. Benning, GA. Me and another "Yankee" friend of mine found a brand of cigarettes down in Georgia called "Black Death" cigarettes; we thought the name was so cool, we should give 'em a try. And we did for quite awhile. Complicated story as to why I quit, but it had something to do with a chain smoker in my unit with no tobacco, twitchy fingers when without nicotine and an assault rifle.

As far as cigarettes and martial arts, since I've been in Japan the last four years, I've been amazed at how many Japanese martial artists smoke (a good 65%).

 

[TigerWoman]

As far as cigarettes and martial arts, since I've been in Japan the last four years, I've been amazed at how many Japanese martial artists smoke (a good 65%).

That is surprising. Considering I can always tell the guys who smoke in our classes. They're the ones that huff and puff at the end of cardio workout. TW

 

[Ray]

Oh man. I started smoking when I was 28...how stupid was that? (My mother was dying of lung disease from 45 years of smoking at the time) I thought it would be amusing to blow smoke rings in a bar and did it without inhaling for quite a bit over a few weeks. One day, I discovered that I was addicted.

After quitting twice and starting up again: I was sitting in a comedy club smoking. The comedian make some remark about smoking and asked if I would quit. I told him I'd already quit twice and he said "nobody likes a quitter."

The third time I quit was the charm...almost 10 years ago. Terribly addictive habit...there are still times when I feel like I'd really like to have a smoke.

 

[Fightback2]

I've never touched a cigarette. I watched my father die from lung cancer (he passed away at age 56, I was only 13). It was a horrible thing to witness but taught me a valuable lesson.

Good luck to anyone who's trying to quit.

 

[Simon Curran]

I am in the unfortunate position of knowing it is a bad habit, but still smoking, however I am in the process of reading Allen Carr's Easyway, and looking forward to the day where I can be free...

 

[Adept]

On a more serious note, tonight I have made the decision (hopefully for the last time) to quit smoking (again). I will throw out the rest of the pack in the morning. Wish me luck!

Well, that didn't last as long as it should. Ah well, maybe next time...

 

[Simon Curran]

Well, that didn't last as long as it should. Ah well, maybe next time...

Know the feeling well...

 

[TigerWoman]

For those of you who have trouble quitting...think about emphysema, dying because you can't breathe anymore. Rest in peace, Johnny Carson. TW

 

[Simon Curran]

For those of you who have trouble quitting...think about emphysema, dying because you can't breathe anymore. Rest in peace, Johnny Carson. TW

The trouble is, most of us who have difficulty in stopping are well aware of the detrimental effects smoking has on health, but that doesn't make stopping any easier, it takes a smoker to understand that.

 

[TigerWoman]

I realize its an addiction, both my mother had it and my father. My mother stopped and she is alive at age 86, my father died at 50. Get into a program, if something doesn't work, that it isn't just a matter of willpower or discomfiture, really doesn't work then find something that does. This is in essence, a fight for your life. We fight harder for the black belt sometimes than against smoking. I will pray for you. TW

 

[Simon Curran]

I realize its an addiction, both my mother had it and my father. My mother stopped and she is alive at age 86, my father died at 50. Get into a program, if something doesn't work, that it isn't just a matter of willpower or discomfiture, really doesn't work then find something that does. This is in essence, a fight for your life. We fight harder for the black belt sometimes than against smoking. I will pray for you. TW

Thanks, and I still haven't given up on giving up.

 

[edhead2000]

This was in a lecture we had in class about smoking cessation -- one of about 50 we've had! -- I think it's a pretty interesting little bit of fact! I'm going to start saving and become a millionaire!



So, what are you going to buy with your million?

 

[Simon Curran]

I tried to do the "saving the money I'm not spending" thing before when I have tried to quit, but it doesn't really happen, we find money that we sometimes don't have in order to feed our addiction.