Smoking is good for you

[STEED]

Originally Posted by micky1up

its because you have done if for so long and you have no will power

Correct.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

Following some heated debate and such forth with Skybird and some other chap who wound me up...

If you carry on your experiment of this weekend, maybe the biting and balking was worth it.

Which has led me to realise, smoking is a very automatic thing! You just do it without even thinking.

You sound promising!

[joea]

Good news, courage to Penelope and Dowly you guys can do it!!!

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by joea

Good news, courage to Penelope and Dowly you guys can do it!!!

You think I chose to do it!? I´m just out of cash ffs!

[joea]

Originally Posted by Dowly

You think I chose to do it!? I´m just out of cash ffs!

Ah well... good luck til you can get some cash.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by joea

Ah well... good luck til you can get some cash.

Yeh, if I dont get any today, I most propably quit all together. Buuuut, I´ll fight till the end! :rotfl:

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Dowly

It´s 19hrs from my last smoke & I am jumping on the walls here. I feel like a angry gorilla with a electrified pole up my ***.

:rotfl: :rotfl:
I have tried to give up so many times i just dont bother now, i think the only way for me is to go and see a hypnosis.

But i know what your going through. I can never get past the 3rd day. Told by a mate once ya get pass the 3rd day its a tiny relief, after the 7th day, your gotten through the hardest part. Its a breeze after that.

Good Luck man!

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Good Luck man!

No needed, just got a pack of smokes. Thank G-d. :rotfl:

[1mPHUNit0]

No needed, just got a pack of smokes.

It's Pasqua...were have you find it?
And they say that are laical states...all closed
i need a coca colaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[U-533]

I quit smoking 7 years ago...

I bought a pack of smokes for 4 American dollars " Marlboro Reds in the Box " if you please.

They had just gone up in price from $3.50 a pack( I never went skimpy when I smoked so none of that off brand crap for me), I did some quick math

2 packs a day

sometimes 4 packs on Friday and Saturday cause the band would have a gig those nights

so...
lemme see


365 days X 2 + 49 weekends X 4 + an occasional pack thrown in to cover emergencies + the cost of two 99cent lighters per week - Im not gonna add in the cost of gas and wear and tear on my vehicals just to go get the damned things---------umm 3 carry the 9 ---umm hummm --- holy cow---

$2301.55

Give or take $100 for emergencies


This figure will very even more if I include the time lost from work because of sickness due to smoking and having to replace a pack that fell overboard out of my shirt pocket or got crushed cause I sat on them...

Maybe... umm ...round 4k a year

4k is being very flexible

If you want solid ...umm... $3500 is a number I can live with

So ...

3500 x 7= 24,500

$24,500 is what I have had to play with over 7 years...

$3500 a year buys a nice vacation or used car or boat...

User paritcipitation and addiction will very according to user will power. Your results will very.Remmember smoking is your chioce only you can prevent forrest fires and you will pay all costs for your choices. Only cigarettes smoke you suck.

[LoBlo]

Originally Posted by Skweetis

Thankfully I live in Canada, where the (justifyably) outrageous taxes I pay for cigarettes pays for our "free" health care system. At nearly $10 a pack (ie 25 cigarettes)... yeah, I pay my dues, and feel no guilt. If they banned smoking in Canada, goodbye healthcare, or welcome to GST Redux... 20% anyone?
.

For $10 per pack... hm... ok, smoke away. More money for doctors . Though you have to be an idiot to burn money like that. A pack per day smoker is burning $300 per monty, $3600 bucks per year, and hundreds of thousands of dollars per lifetime.

Originally Posted by Skweetis

Im being a smartass here when I say: how many times have you visited any fast food joint this year, how many litres of booze consumed, ever use that mayo in your fridge that is at or beyond expiry date thinking "its only a suggestion" then wonder why your bum gets a little nervous the next day?

By this logic that the things we partake in that do not advance person and society, and only result in a drain on the medical system, then by default precedent, these also have to go:

Non Medical Alcohols
Fast/Fried Foods
Soft Drinks
Twinkies, Chips and other Junk Foods.
(the above will contribute more to health care drains in the next 20 years than smokers EVER had. Cancer aint curable, and not necessarily treatable in most cases. We die pretty quick, a short term but expensive drain, but diabetes... that **** sticks with you and you can live. Not to mention related kidney and liver issues, both of which in most cases they can keep you going a hell of a lot longer at higher than bargain prices!)

Mountain Biking
Sky Diving
Skate Boarding
(in fact, just about any extreme sport or activity that can result in prolonged medical care that serves no social purpose other than an Adrenaline rush. This does not include professional athletes, as the revenue and subsequent taxes more than adequetly cover their medical costs.)

Aluminum Cookware (I think this is already taken care of though)

I could name more, and I will if necessary, but I think I made my point.

So unless you are growing your own tomatoes with no pesticides, eating the boiled pork you just cut from your own slaughtered sow that has never been exposed to consuming animal by-products, growth hormones, excesive antibiotics, drive a hybrid car (bikes are dangerous, just ask my face, and fossil-fuel internal combustion is only, like, a hundred years outdated), have never sampled your brother -in-laws Secret Christmas Asskicking Eggnog while scarfing down some chinese food and only use stainless steel for cooking...

Don't razz me about a smoke or two

Don't get me started on unhealthy diets. Two words.... "Fat tax"

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by LoBlo

For $10 per pack... hm... ok, smoke away. More money for doctors . Though you have to be an idiot to burn money like that. A pack per day smoker is burning $300 per monty, $3600 bucks per year, and hundreds of thousands of dollars per lifetime.

Yes that is crazy thats why i smoke "roll your own" tobbacco, a packet of 30gram tobbacco "Port Royal" cost me $17 and lasts about 10 days. I can roll around 100-130 ciggarettes from it.

Tobbacco works out way cheaper tastes better and has less nicotine compare to no flavour 20pack tailormades.

[STEED]

All smoking is banned on the internet in the UK, that means no smoking on line.




Another great idea bought to you by the British Labour Government.

[kurtz]

Originally Posted by micky1up

there is no link between being overweight and premature death same as there is no link to global warming being caused by humanity

I beg to differ on both counts!

[Wim Libaers]

Originally Posted by Dowly

It´s 19hrs from my last smoke & I am jumping on the walls here. I feel like a angry gorilla with a electrified pole up my ***.

When people make such comparisons, I always wonder how they know how the animal would feel. Then again, perhaps I do not really want to know the answer...