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qiwi
22-Aug-06, 17:30
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 Stop smoking and live longer!!
He attributes his longevity to a healthy diet and the fact that he gave up smoking at age of 90.
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imoutofpeanuts
22-Aug-06, 17:40
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Here comes the Rooster
Sadly, he is in the minority of smokers. But hey, more power to him then
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ioop
minority because he quit, because he is 115, or because he has a healthy diet?
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imoutofpeanuts
23-Aug-06, 00:37
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Barroom hero
Probably just the 115 part to be honest. I don't know the figures, but Im assuming that the majority who smoke eventually quit. As for the healthy diet, Id say smoking is not connected to diet when factoring out the income of the smoker
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qiwi
23-Aug-06, 01:16
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Cough...cough
Of course the opening post was made in jest...
Tobacco, as those of us who have smoked is probably the most insidious drug of them all!.....Jeez, I hope
Bobby' doesn't smoke.
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qiwi
23-Aug-06, 01:17
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correction....
that should have been "...as those of us who have smoked know..."
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Nicotine...
...is more adictive that heroine. I gave up the gaspers 11 years ago and I still miss them. Not as often and the craving only lasts for a few seconds but it is still there.
So... the old guy survived 15 years after quitting so I should have four years left. Maybe I should start again.
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qiwi
23-Aug-06, 12:58
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Mozz...
I did omit to mention that as well as a healthy diet and quitting smoking Emiliano did mention that he had never indulged in that other insidious drug, alcohol...
Jeez...I hope Bobby' doesn't drink!
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Bugger!
Taking that into account, I could pop my clogs at any moment. But then again, if he did drink, he might have lived longer.
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Smoking
This is one of our earliest threads!
Has anyone given up, or started smoking recently?
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stalhandske
17-Jan-16, 23:10
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Smoking
is truly bad for you, says me who smoked for ca. 50 years, but who stopped some 6+ years ago. The stopping was extremely difficult! Could not work properly for a few months; felt like I had lost my best friend. I still smoke those cigars in my dreams, and wake up with a bad conscience .
Unequivocal medical evidence for smoking causing increased risk of a whole lot of different diseases, plus making other diseases hit you harder. For example (and not very generally known), the incidence of urinary bladder cancer is increased some 8-fold (EIGHT TIMES!)
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I'm always curious as to what makes people start smoking in the first place. Most accounts relay that the first one or two cigs (I will avoid the Britishism for cigarettes in case it is misinterpreted ) are really unpleasant. Even ignoring the long term consequences, which I understand people are not really thinking about at the time, they are basically offensive to every sense. I have never understood what motivation there is to start.
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........peer group pressure.....then the nicotine hits and boy o boy!!......I miss 'em every day.....tried a lot of other gear in my younger days but could always take it or leave it.....not the ciggies though....I was well and truly hooked for about 35 years. Only gave them up coz I got cancer...not lung.....and could not in good faith ask the Drs to do everything they could while I kept on smoking.
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stalhandske
18-Jan-16, 02:16
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itchy
aussie is right. That's the usual way it happens - and often enough in the teenages. Then you're hooked and the ciggies (or small cigars as in my case) become important - you always make damn sure that you don't run out of them or forget them! Current research has revealed that there is also a genetic predisposition. Some people are able to smoke just at parties, for example, and to stop any time at will. Others (such as me) won't even try any longer, because of the huge risk of getting hooked once again.
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saintinsanity
18-Jan-16, 20:18
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I'm still smoking ten years later. Help!
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I honestly think that giving up the smokes is one of those few things in life where you have to rely solely on yourself...it's pure and simple a will power thing. No amount of support, cagoling and/or berating from other people makes the slightest bit of difference. Sorry.
.......drugs might help.
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My Grandfather
was born in 1908. In 1938 he quit smoking, a habit he had taken up for at least ten years.
He told me back in 1998 (sixty years after he had quit) that he occasionally still experienced a real strong urge, from time to time, to light up.
Sixty years with such monkey on one's back. I am thankful I never started.
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Same here, I never have smoked. However, I wonder if I get any harmful effects from breathing it from others. Unfortunately, I run into others smoking quite often it seems.
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Jove
Where do you live? Fortunately it is getting easier and easier to avoid toxic smoke these days! I have seen this everywhere in the world, but especially here on the left coast.
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Southern California. Not to change the subject, but I've driven past the Porter Ranch gas leak 6 times in the past 3 days. That's probably about as bad as being exposed to smoke.
On a related note, I was going through there because I was visiting an old friend in the Los Angles area, and at the senior home, it smells like smoke. Most seniors smoke there it seems, which is sad, especially since I've seen No Smoking signs. Possibly the worst senior home, in California at least.
To me, you find many smokers in the L. A. area, or they find me.
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...when I was 30, I found it easy to quite smoking. I did it over 300 times a year. When I was 39, I stopped smoking; and, as Stahl said, it was extraordinarily difficult. My wife quit smoking when she was 62.
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stalhandske
19-Jan-16, 00:15
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Aussie wrote
<I honestly think that giving up the smokes is one of those few things in life where you have to rely solely on yourself...it's pure and simple a will power thing. No amount of support, cagoling and/or berating from other people makes the slightest bit of difference. Sorry>
Absolutely right! Nicotine gum, nicotine plaster etc might help for some, but in my opinion that only lengthens the agony. I also tried Champix which is a pharmaceutical that works on some centers in the brain. www.champix.co.nz
Sure, Champix made those cigarillos taste like s**t, BUT I STILL WANTED TO SMOKE THEM .
What finally helped me across the hurdle was getting the swine flu. Then you simply don't smoke because you cannot!
About "secondary smoke" (see joveyboy1 above), I don't think it has any medical significance, unless of course you breathe smoke in a closed space (such as someone smoking in a car), but I am sure it can be annoying. Strangely enough, for me it is not annoying and in fact "smells good".
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stalhandske
19-Jan-16, 00:16
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chaz-
Was it not particularly difficult for you to stop as your wife continued?
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Stahlandske...
...yes, indeed; but, she was respectful.
Stopping smoking was so difficult, it certainly makes me wonder how "attached" I might become to stronger addictive substances. I think I might be vulnerable. Of course, at my age now, it might not be an entirely bad thing if there were analgesic attributes.
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stalhandske
19-Jan-16, 10:05
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chaz-
From what I've read the "attachment" to tobacco is, in fact, stronger or at least as strong as the "attachment of really heavy narcotics!
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Tobacco has been shown to be more addictive and harder to quit than Heroin. And I understand getting off junk is no fun!!
Marijuana is not addictive. I have smoked regularly for 40 years... But go traveling and have no prob going a year without. I toke almost every day in the evening, but frequently skip days at a time if I am busy, have non smoking friends over or just don't feel like it.
Not claiming there is no harm! And pot is certainly habit forming for many people.
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stalhandske
19-Jan-16, 10:29
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<Marijuana is not addictive>
Are you sure? Or are you just referring to yourself?
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Stal
Depends on how you define addiction. I guess these days, it is considered addictive... About as addictive as caffeine, albeit with stronger psychological effects.
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saintinsanity
19-Jan-16, 11:28
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I smoked pot for 25 years But recently quit for a year looking for work. Got a job and smoked once or twice since then. Haven't tried to get any in about 2 months but i know where to find it.
When i was younger i was much more drawn to It
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