June 16, 2002-2009

[rubytuesday]

Originally Posted by vivfox

When I quit cigs were $4.50 a pack and now they currently sell for $8.00 a pack. I feel real sorry for the smokers of today.

Wow they're about $15 here!

[tuigirl]

A relative died a couple of years back due to smoking related issues and I tell you what, it was horrendous to see him like that ( he got stomach cancer). Any smoker who can see someone like that, would surely have quit right then and there, if knowing it COULD happen to them. Maybe taking kids into cancer wards would deter them from starting.... a bit of tough love and all that.

[jannieC]

Because when you're addicted, those things won't happen to you. I quit a 20+ year pack a day habit two years ago this month. Nothing I saw on TV or even my mother's own COPD/Emphysema made me quit.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by jannieC

Because when you're addicted, those things won't happen to you. I quit a 20+ year pack a day habit two years ago this month. Nothing I saw on TV or even my mother's own COPD/Emphysema made me quit.

We're human. We think we're gonna live forever.

[BombaySapphire3]

In my twenties I was a heavy drinker of hard liquor the cigarettes just went along with it ..once I stopped getting sh*tfaced drunk it was easy for me to quit .So I guess I was just a situational smoker.

[sara1998]

Originally Posted by jannieC

Because when you're addicted, those things won't happen to you. I quit a 20+ year pack a day habit two years ago this month. Nothing I saw on TV or even my mother's own COPD/Emphysema made me quit.

Bingo.

I just recently tried to quit, again, and failed. Now I'm back to buying cartons. Ugh. I'll manage soon enough, I'm sure. But when you're going through stressful **** and beginning to pick up a bit of a drinking habit, smoking is hard to put down. I'll get through it, as I always do.

[tuigirl]

how did you all get started, was it peer pressure??? See, as a non smoker, I don't really get how it all works and why it would have started.Interesting topic though.....

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by tuigirl

how did you all get started, was it peer pressure??? See, as a non smoker, I don't really get how it all works and why it would have started.Interesting topic though.....

When I started smoking some 25 years ago(!), there wasn't as much anti smoking campaigning going on. My parents smoked and most everyone I knew smoked.

[tuigirl]

Originally Posted by jannieC

When I started smoking some 25 years ago(!), there wasn't as much anti smoking campaigning going on. My parents smoked and most everyone I knew smoked.

So I'm guessing, that you started because everyone else did it ? I think maybe this is true in quite a few cases, maybe it was considered cool to be a smoker back then.I'm so glad now, it's pretty much banned in most places ( certainly here anyway) like in work, pubs, planes/ trains etc..although not great for you exactly, I guess.