Are you a non, ex or current smoker?

Gassage

As I really need to stop smoking, are you a current, non or ex smoker? If ex, how did you quit? Do you vape? Do you wanna give up or do you enjoy burning the bottom e string as you play? Discuss

dogload

Ex. Although I confess to the occasional, ahem, social smoke.

I started work in a place where to smoke I had to walk half a mile to shelter from the elements in a doorway next to a boilerhouse, so decided that it was time to knock the fags on the head!

PVO_Dave

Ex smoker. I tried just quitting, but that just made me very angry. In the end I bought 'Easy way to give up smoking' by Allen Carr, I felt instantly relieved after reading it, I haven't smoked any since! 

 That was well over 10 years ago, I was previously on 20+ a day

frankus

Giving up smoking is easy, I've lost count of the number of times I've successfully given up smoking.

digitalscream

I'm a smoker...but I've just bought a VapourLites stick and I'm slowly phasing it in. Oddly, the e-cig is making me cough more than normal cigs...

Gassage

digitalscream said:

I'm a smoker...but I've just bought a VapourLites stick and I'm slowly phasing it in. Oddly, the e-cig is making me cough more than normal cigs...

It did me too

dogload

My mate has just given up and has found himself wracked by a flu-like ailment involving loads of mucus!

Gassage

NB- this question applies to tobacco, not weed. As musos we should all smoke weed, that's de riguer

frankus

it might be the e-cigs aren't flattening out the cilia in your throat like a good tar filled tab should.. so your throat is reacting to contaminants a bit more like it should

mike_l

Ex. I quit right after I got Crohn's and the consultant said "if you don't stop smoking you'll never get any better" (or similar, it was 12 years ago).

He did also say "the beer can stay, the one-night stands can stay*, but the smokes have to go".

 

*There was a very, very nice young girl nurse in the room at the time (aside I know her quite well too....)

underdog

I smoke, I don't trust the vapor things. I know smoking is deadly but at the moment I think it's better the devil you know rather than e-cigs. I have a "vape" shop next to our business and they seem to be doing well, but the thing that strikes me is all the staff have one in their mouth constantly, way more often than you'd smoke a cigarette.

GavRichList

I quit 448 days ago (and counting!!). Was a 20 a day man, and haven't had so much as a drag since. (more's the pity)

I quit with Champix. It does work.

Cautionary notes:

1. It makes you go a bit mental.

2. you may or may not suffer stomach rott.

3. whilst I haven't smoked, not a day has passed where I haven't thought about it / wanted to.

BUT! It does make you stop smoking.

VimFuego

ex smoker, stopped in 2001. Seem to recall using nicotine replacement tablets. The nicotine habit wasn't that hard to break, it was the action of smoking that I missed, like after a meal or that feeling of the 1st smoke of the day. Took me years to get over that.

GavRichList

PVO_Dave said:

Ex smoker. I tried just quitting, but that just made me very angry. In the end I bought 'Easy way to give up smoking' by Allen Carr, I felt instantly relieved after reading it, I haven't smoked any since! 

 That was well over 10 years ago, I was previously on 20+ a day

I tried this book before champix. Lasted 17 hours, then tried to rip my drummers head off. Ended up using the cover of said book to fashion a roach for a DIY Cigarette made from Pot Pourri and broken dreams.

meltedbuzzbox

I gave up about 3 or 4 years ago. I just gave up, went on holiday, used the change of scenery and just quit.

My misses used the Alan Carr book and it worked great for her.

and for most people giving up makes you eat more. 

I wil add that I now suffer much more from chesty coughs and sore throats though. 

jeztone2

I quit in 2001, I only smoked 10 a day which was £40 a month spend. So I bought a Marshall JCM2000 tsl60 & 4x12 on interest free credit at £40 a month. You'd be surprised how much that incentivised me. That my cig money had been spent elsewhere.

VimFuego

one word of warning, it was when I quit smoking that I first started liking folk music.

RocknRollDave

Non-smoker.

Stop or don't, please yourself...but please stay out of the frigging doorways of venues when smoking. Your fag will still work if you leave enough room for the band to load in/ out, honest.

mike_l

VimFuego said:

one word of warning, it was when I quit smoking that I first started liking folk music.

Quick give him a cigarette.

mike_l

VimFuego said:

ex smoker, stopped in 2001. Seem to recall using nicotine replacement tablets. The nicotine habit wasn't that hard to break, it was the action of smoking that I missed, like after a meal or that feeling of the 1st smoke of the day. Took me years to get over that.

Definitely. I always used to spark up the first one right after I'd gone and got a paper, and was on my way to work. That was the hardest part, going past that roundabout and not getting a tab out.

Loobs

Smoke roll ups, about 4-5 a day, give or take. A 40g pack here will last me about 2 weeks. That pack costs 4 euros.