Posted by Mistress_B on Wed 27 Jun 07, 10:05 PM to Mistress_B's blog.
yes this appears on off topic too..............
I am sorry if I offend anyone here
I am and have been a smoker for 30 years... I had a break of 9 years and stupidly started again 12 years ago
next week ( 2 days before my 50th Birthday for those that do not know) the smoking ban comes into force... what does this mean???
It means we can't smoke at work... smoke at work??? I have NEVER been able to smoke at work.....
It means we cannot smoke in our own homes if a workman is present... how often do we have workmen in the home ?and ... we can get round it especially if the workmen smoke
It means we cannot smoke indoors at pubs... all the pubs I frequent have provided adequate outdoor shelter
It means we can't smoke in company cars... so?? take more breaks it will be safer for all of us if company car drivers take the regualtion 2 hourly break
STOP WHINGEING ... we can still smoke !!!!!
| 27 Jun 07, 10:42 PM Skyhook 7 yrs  |
It's killing you. You are fu*king your lungs, you deserve better than that. You smell, your clothes smell, it's really offensive to non-smokers. Why should they have to cough because of you. It's a selfish habit.
Jase, more than happy on twenty gaspers a day "Me? I'm all about the hugs. | ||
| 27 Jun 07, 11:29 PM Prunesquallor UK(RG), 6 yrs |
I find it really interesting the way that smokers have been demonised over the last twenty years or so. Shows how easy it is to manipulate people - invent a few catchy phrases, a bit of pseudo-science, a bit of popular psychology, and you can make the public gratefully bend to your will. We've seen it before, and I am sure we will be seeing a lot more of it in the coming years. | ||
| 28 Jun 07, 12:06 AM sub_2_please UK(E), 7 yrs  |
As a 20/30 a day smoker for 26 years, I finally decided 7 weeks ago that the time was right to give it a serious crack at giving up, especially with the impending Goverment legislation and ban looming fast. Well here I am almost 8 weeks later, still not smoking, £300 better off, feeling much healthier and now back out running for the first time in 10 years. Good luck to anyone else currently going through the suffering of trying to quit this habbit, am sure it will all be worth it. Steve ps. Have a fantastic 50th Birthday next week Mistress_B
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| 28 Jun 07, 7:51 AM Mistress_B UK, 6 yrs |
Congratulations and thank you! Any tips on givig up? or was it will poweer?? | ||
| 28 Jun 07, 9:36 AM sub_2_please UK(E), 7 yrs |
Thank You Mistress_B well when I decided that I had got my mind mentally prepared for the battle, I went to my GP about two weeks before my quit day and got two months worth of patches on a prescription. I used NiQuitin CQ and really found the urges for a ciggie were short lived with these patches. However dont for a moment think that these will work alone, there will still be a lot of will power required. Last week I actually decided to stop using the patches and yes I really did notice the difference without the patches, my cravings lasted a lot longer, however as I had gone seven weeks, there was no way I was going to give up all that hard work, especially when I took a moment to think of all the ways I had benefited up until that day. As I type I have been 9 days without patches and those bad cravings are gradually subsiding, so hopefully I am through the worst. I still love standing next to someone who has lit up and smelling the smoke, it smells so nice, yet I still have no urge to light up myself. There is plenty of help out there now, but you have to want to give up. If I can do it anyone can <smiles> Good luck Mistress_B
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| 28 Jun 07, 9:56 AM MissKitty UK, 10 yrs  |
I'm glad to see a smoker with a positive view of the ban. I have seen too many people suffer horrific deaths recently because they smoked... they said "they didn't think it would be them." As to quitting, my friend has just quit, she got doctors advice and has taken the lozenge route, she pops one in her mouth when she feels the craving and now a few months down the line is using hardly any in a day, the cravings are slowly but surely fading. For going out she has an inhaler as you can't eat and drink with a lozenge. But she has done well, she tried many times to quit before but the ban gave her a good reason to and the motivation, the suppliments help her will power. As a result she has become happier, healthier, lost a lot of weight, changing shape as smoking deposits fat in out of the ordinary areas, she doesn't stink, I'm now happy to loan her some of my fancy clothes as I know they won't stink or have fag holes in them when I get them back - she is very very glad she has quit. So good luck if you try to - yes you need will power but there is a lot of help out there. And if you don't, well I hope it isn't cancer that gets you, it's truley sickening to watch and even worse to have Miss Kitty
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| 28 Jun 07, 10:38 PM Buzz22 UK, 8 yrs |
As somebody who has a company car, who does roughly 100 - 250 miles per day I do not have the time to stop. I pay a shit load of tax for my car, in which as a benefit to which I am taxed for I am not allowed to treat it as my own. I work hard for my pay and benefits and to be told what I can and cant do in it is plain wrong. Some food for thought for you, sometimes I am unable to stop as a hell of a lot of my time is spent in traffic jams for anything upto 5 hours. I am just looking forward to when the government comes down hard on others, I cant wait to say "told you so".
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