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My only real vice is beer and the odd Jim Beam or twelve.
I'm an ex smoker, coming up for 3 years in Nov. The ex as opposed to non is an important distinction for me, but don't worry, it isn't as bad as it sounds.
I smoked from the age of 17 to 30. From about 20 onwards I was a proper smoker, and from 22 onwards I was 12-16 cigs a day. Last 5 years were rollies (which I loved).
I got fed up with smoking I'd say a full 12 months before I gave up. Form my mid 20s I was constantly THINKING that I should give up, but never felt like I wanted to and as such was scare of failing.
When I did give up, I felt that I'd built up to it, and actually smoked more by the end. I didn't enjoy about 75% of the ones I had.
I used champix, and I must say, the results were amazing. The urge was completely removed. It was a very strange sensation. It was very very easy to stop. The urges actually got stronger about 6 months after I'd stopped, but they were pretty easy to ignore.
I say that I'll always be an ex-smoker as opposed to a non smoker as I still get urges to have a fag. The difference is that those urges come and go in an instant. It's not like when you actually smoke, and you have the urge for one, and the urge wont leave you until you have one.
Overall, if you WANT to give up, you should find it quite possible, and you'll feel much better for it. If you FEEL YOU SHOULD give up but don't want to, I think you'll find it a lot harder.
Good luck to you though man.
I'm a big fan of being alive, and don't even particularly enjoy being drunk either. I'm a right prude!
Vintage v400mh mahogany topped dreadnought acoustic FS - £100
Waste of money- or is there a better way to spend it?
The tax argument
The poison argument
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
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Currently smoke. was a social smoker then due to stress started properly.
Now wanting to quit but finding it very difficult.
I like the idea of putting the money into an object i'd like - that would probably incentivise me.
I've actually given up coffee recently and feel much better for it.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
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This sounds ridiculous to me. Despite doing it, I think vaping is daft! Better to have never got into the nicotine habit in the first place. I know vaping is still relatively un-researched, but to believe that smoking is safer, after all the research and all we know about smoking's dangers is absolute madness.
I really wish I could do likewise
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
My Dad quickly realised that the only way to deal with the root cause (peer pressure) was to create utter confusion amongst the peers. So he gave me money to spend on a different vice.
Thanks Dad.
I have never smoked (since).
Current smoker, although I only even get the urge when I'm having a beer (think it's the old 'pint in one hand, fag in the other' habit) or recently when I go 'round to my mechanic's where EVERYONE seems to smoke so you'd hardly converse if you didn't.
I don't think I'd find it too hard to quit if I really wanted to (had periods of days or weeks when I haven't had one through sore throat / gut ache / just not fancying one and haven't had cravings), but I DO enjoy it at the right place and time and it hasn't done me all that much harm (still relatively fit, all me own teeth etc ). 'course, I know it's doing me any GOOD, but neither is breathing the air in Birmingham.
The tax argument does it for me!
Non smoker btw, despite growing up in a family who smoked and worked for WD Wills &Co., (free fags and cigars)
Many guitars have a re-sale value. Some you'll never want to sell.
Stockist of: Earvana & Graphtech nuts, Faber Tonepros & Gotoh hardware, Fatcat bridges. Highwood Saddles.
Pickups from BKP, Oil City & Monty's pickups.
Expert guitar repairs and upgrades - fretwork our speciality! www.felineguitars.com. Facebook too!
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)