no smoking.

[AdamW]

I would agree that a mobile is more dangerous than the action of smoking whilst driving (cancer aside). However, when someone does something stupid on the road, and I see them trying to drive with a fag in their hand, or synchronise their ash flicking with the gearchanges and so forth, I do think they should perhaps be concentrating on the road.

I tried smoking for a while when I was a teenager (doesn't everyone?), but despite smoking 10 a day for two weeks, I thought it minged and wasn't at all addicted, it was a silly expensive hobby so I stopped. Never figured out why people find it so hard to give up... Perhaps I'm just great?

At uni it was a bit of fun to have a cuban after a big university dinner, but I always found that I only got a few puffs before it got grabbed out of my mouth by someone curious about cigars. Probably equivalent to a day working with plasterboard or something.

 

[JulieL]

Smoking and alcohol are societies 'legal' drugs!

The NHS is overloaded with patients attending/being admitted with smoking and alcohol related illnesses rather than the so called 'illegal' drug users.

Have you seen the advert on the TV at the moment where the children have smoke coming out of their mouths and noses? - it's awful!!!


Ninebob - why are you waiting until your birthday to stop? - cos you know what'll happen - you'll end up having a few beers...then think..........'I'll just have one......'
And before you know it it'll be this time next year!!!

 

[david and julie]

securespark wrote

I think there is a risk when you smoke while driving, but that it is not as great as using a mobile. When you use a mobile, your attention is distracted away from the road for longer periods, and while you are actually talking, your brain is trying to concentrate on two major tasks at once. One has to lose out, and invariably it is the driving

Until the lit end either falls or gets knocked off that is! we must of all seen drivers lifting there ar*** whilst desperately trying to find where the burning end of their fag has fallen.

 

[ninebob]

Ninebob - why are you waiting until your birthday to stop? - cos you know what'll happen - you'll end up having a few beers...then think..........'I'll just have one......'

I actually think it'll be quite easy for me to give up - I hope!

I managed most of my life not smoking at all - like AdamW I smoked for a few weeks at school because it was the "done thing" and didn't carry on. Then when I started socialising in the pub I had the odd one or two towards the end of the evening, it became a standing joke - "Simon's smoking, he must be p*ssed"...

I only started full-time just over a year ago - if you remember the post on here about teaching my friend Beth to drive, she put my car in a ditch - that evening we ended up back at her parent's house and I went through a full packet of her mother's fags just to calm down. The following morning I woke up and immidiately lit one, and the rest (as they say) is history.

My theory, therefore, is that if I can start that quickly, I should be able to stop that quickly. The reason for leaving it until after my birthday is because I'm both host and DJ for my party and I'm going to be a bag of nerves anyway, as I just explained I now see fags as a stress reliever.

So the plan is:

Saturday 2nd July: My party - smoking like a chimney probably
Sunday 3rd July: (my actual birthday) - 1 or 2 to get over the hangover
Monday 4th July: None. No more. Finito. The end of me smoking

Wish me luck!

 

[Freddie]

Best of luck mate from an ex-smoker who knows the truth and wont tell you any ******----oh dear i'm being offensive again

 

[securespark]

securespark wrote

I think there is a risk when you smoke while driving, but that it is not as great as using a mobile. When you use a mobile, your attention is distracted away from the road for longer periods, and while you are actually talking, your brain is trying to concentrate on two major tasks at once. One has to lose out, and invariably it is the driving

Until the lit end either falls or gets knocked off that is! we must of all seen drivers lifting there ar*** whilst desperately trying to find where the burning end of their fag has fallen.

Hehe...I've done just this on the (as was then) M63. New motor (well new to me, but clapped out 79 Rekord), steaming down the 63, drops fag end on trousers.. OUCH!! Envisage unused manhood going up in smoke...

Swift manoevre to hard shoulder!!

Anyone thinking of giving up - if I can do it, so can you. I gave up in April 1994, and have not smoked since. Well, literally a couple of drags, but it hasn't tempted me back at all.

Before I stopped I was on 40 a day. Went on an overnight delivery to Scotland and took 200 with me. By the time I returned to Manchester the following lunchtime, I had only 20-odd left.

In April 94 I bought my next car and it was an non-smokers car - pristine. It ws so nice I vowed not to smoke in it, and thought the best way to do that would be to give up altogether. You hear people say this, and it sounds corny, but it worked for me - I put 40 fags worth of money away every day for the next few years, and it paid off my car loan!!

You can do it.

 

[Richardp]

I don't smoke, the wife does and the more difficult it is for her to smoke the happier I am but I think that their going too far banning smoking in pubs, I think they should put up the price of ciggys

 

[kendor]

like most drugs after using for a while is it actually a pleasure to smoke or is it just that it stops you feeling the unpleasant withdrawal symptoms?
In this day of synthisis of drugs they must be able to find a decent substitute without all the bad side effects that is effective I'm not sure how effective the patches are the gum was useless but if the synthetic drug could be inhaled somehow would it be more effective in weening people off using a gradual cutdown in stages of strength?

 

[TexMex]

I think the point that is missed by this nanny state, is that the PUBLIC places are PRIVATELY owned. If smoke free bars are so popular, surely market forces would have caused the majority of bars to be Non Smoking already.

Publicans are not slow to jump on any gimick to boost their clientelle. Big Screen Football, Karaoke, why not NO SMOKING.

Not everyone wants to see naked ladies. These people just don't go to bars that have lap dancers. I accept that not everyone wants to experience other peoples cigarette smoke. The answer is simple, just choose a bar that doesn't allow smoking.

If I allow other people to visit me in my own home, should I also be banned from smoking? I think not

 

[kendor]

If I allow other people to visit me in my own home, should I also be banned from smoking? I think not

What you do in your own home is up to you but it boils down to common courtesy and if you offend your friends by smoking in their faces chances are you won't have them as friends for long.

 

[pipme]

Banning the foxhunting ban, at this rate.

 

[Freddie]

I think the point that is missed by this nanny state, is that the PUBLIC places are PRIVATELY owned. If smoke free bars are so popular, surely market forces would have caused the majority of bars to be Non Smoking already.

Publicans are not slow to jump on any gimick to boost their clientelle. Big Screen Football, Karaoke, why not NO SMOKING.

Not everyone wants to see naked ladies. These people just don't go to bars that have lap dancers. I accept that not everyone wants to experience other peoples cigarette smoke. The answer is simple, just choose a bar that doesn't allow smoking.

If I allow other people to visit me in my own home, should I also be banned from smoking? I think not

If you lit a fag in my home even if i lived in an open aired barn i would throw you out you dirty smelly foul breathed ashtray

 

[Richardp]

I think the point that is missed by this nanny state, is that the PUBLIC places are PRIVATELY owned. If smoke free bars are so popular, surely market forces would have caused the majority of bars to be Non Smoking already.

Publicans are not slow to jump on any gimick to boost their clientelle. Big Screen Football, Karaoke, why not NO SMOKING.

Not everyone wants to see naked ladies. These people just don't go to bars that have lap dancers. I accept that not everyone wants to experience other peoples cigarette smoke. The answer is simple, just choose a bar that doesn't allow smoking.

If I allow other people to visit me in my own home, should I also be banned from smoking? I think not

If you lit a fag in my home even if i lived in an open aired barn i would throw you out you dirty smelly foul breathed ashtray

Oh dear! and "fag" use to be such a happy word

 

[masona]

I think there is a risk when you smoke while driving, but that it is not as great as using a mobile. When you use a mobile, your attention is distracted away from the road for longer periods, and while you are actually talking, your brain is trying to concentrate on two major tasks at once. One has to lose out, and invariably it is the driving.

Has one the other day in front of me, the driver jammed his brake and I didn't know what was going on. When I went round the car the driver was having a heated argument on the handfree mobile, did look funny though shouting at the windscreen but he forgotten he was on the road!

 

[securespark]

I think they should put up the price of ciggys

Does not work.

When I bought my first pack of 20, they were 48p. How much are they now? 5-6 quid?

Do smokers cite the price as a factor in how much tobacco they consume?