Stare at Smokers to Stop Them

Murrmurr said:
I never buy that brand. The Marlboro Corporation is not only a 100% nefarious corporation, their sales reps are extremely authoritarian toward the shop-owners that buy & sell their product. And their product contains more chemicals than any other tobacco brand.

(and, just an aside; chemical addiction and mental addiction, or addictions in the mind, are two different things entirely. Mental addictions are more easily curable, just a matter of changing one's thinking, usually through counseling or sometimes hypnosis. Curing a chemical addiction often requires medical assistance because withdrawal is physiological, and can be injurious or even fatal.)
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You forgot addiction that causes physical changes to the brain like benzodiazepines.
 

Murrmurr said:
Anytime, you know that.

Just don't forget you're quit(ting).

That's the new California smoker's motto - Don't forgit; you're Quit - because we are a poetic bunch over here.
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that word Quit would be very quickly changed in the UK to something less pleasant :D
 

Avon said:
Considering Marlbro Gold now cost £12-25 per packet in the UK, I look to see if they are raving looney and have more money than sense. No offence/offense intended.

My wife smoked for 35 years until she ended up in the hospital for three weeks in agony, after which she never touched a fag again and never missed them. Being a chemical addition, I believe their addiction status is way overrated and all in the mind.

The best thing they ever did was to stop smoking in pubs, how I hated that in the winter. Put on a clean Arun wool jumper, and it stunk the house out when a person got home, and still did in the morning.

Then the girls, spend hours buying clothes and make-up to attract guys, then expect the guys will fancy them stinking of fags, no thanks unless for a very quick quickie, perhaps.
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I tend to agree re. the addiction. Smokers who were ready to quit and really wanted to stop smoking more than doing so, found it relativley easy! But when it comes to the stench, I think you forget that most people smoked at one time and nobody would think that their potential partner was "stinking of fags!" Only the handful of non-smokers thought so! And, to this day, I still like the smell of a good cigarette, after thirty-three years of non-smoking!
 
Avon said:
Considering Marlbro Gold now cost £12-25 per packet in the UK, I look to see if they are raving looney and have more money than sense. No offence/offense intended.

My wife smoked for 35 years until she ended up in the hospital for three weeks in agony, after which she never touched a fag again and never missed them. Being a chemical addition, I believe their addiction status is way overrated and all in the mind.

The best thing they ever did was to stop smoking in pubs, how I hated that in the winter. Put on a clean Arun wool jumper, and it stunk the house out when a person got home, and still did in the morning.

Then the girls, spend hours buying clothes and make-up to attract guys, then expect the guys will fancy them stinking of fags, no thanks unless for a very quick quickie, perhaps.
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so excuse me Avon.. but your wife smoked for 35 years... that was one very long quickie for you ..wasn't it ?:sneaky::D
 
Old Salt said:
I tend to agree re. the addiction. Smokers who were ready to quit and really wanted to stop smoking more than doing so, found it relativley easy! But when it comes to the stench, I think you forget that most people smoked at one time and nobody would think that their potential partner was "stinking of fags!" Only the handful of non-smokers thought so! And, to this day, I still like the smell of a good cigarette, after thirty-three years of non-smoking!
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I won 50 Senior Service in the penny slot machine on the pier when I was about eleven years old and smoked them all. I felt so ill I never smoked one again, and what is a good one?
 
Avon said:
... and what is a good one?
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As far as cigarettes go ... 100% natural tobacco from the farmer's curing barn.
No chemical or flavor additives. None. And no taxes because I made each cigarette myself.
Cost was sixty seven cents a pack of 20 smokes. I bought 12lbs of natural tobacco at a time.
12lbs lasted me just over a year. Had a shredder for uniform consistency.
Made each stick one at a time. Machine on my kitchen counter to make one as I headed out the back door for a relaxing smoke.

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Naturally said:
As far as cigarettes go ... 100% natural tobacco from the farmer's curing barn.
No chemical or flavor additives. None. And no taxes because I made each cigarette myself.
Cost was sixty seven cents a pack of 20 smokes. I bought 12lbs of natural tobacco at a time.
12lbs lasted me just over a year. Had a shredder for uniform consistency.
Made each stick one at a time. Machine on my kitchen counter to make one as I headed out the back door for a relaxing smoke.

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For several years I only bought cigarettes made in Korea, where they don't adulterate the tobacco in any way. Interestingly, the filters had to be produced in the USA, and those have chemicals in them.

But anyway, the Marlboro Corporation ....I mean, the US Dept of Commerce stopped allowing imports of Korean tobacco products a couple years ago.
 
Paladin1950 said:
I'll just wonder why they keep smoking those stinky cancer sticks. Smoking is a smelly dirty habit. You make your bed, you have to lie in it. If I would have smoked just like my father, I would have been gone 30 or 40 years ago.
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Smokers have a hard time quitting because Nicotine is an addictive drug. Should be illegal coast to coast! Killed my mother.

https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-nicotine-e-cigarettes/nicotine-addictive

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog...ned-and-how-medications-can-help-202107272554
 
These days, I buy Good Stuff all natural tobacco a pound at a time, already shredded.
No chemical or flavor additives, although some Good Stuff tobacco is available with flavor additives.
I just prefer all natural. Nothing but tobacco and nothing else.
No taxes since it isn't a manufactured cigarette product.
And while called pipe tobacco, no pipe smoker in their right mind would burn it.
Still less than a dollar a pack. Machine still on my kitchen counter.
Been a smoker for over 50yrs. Quite twice for short periods. Tried vaping for just over a year.
When vaping, I preferred non flavored juice. Figured if I couldn't enjoy the vape with pure PG/VG, then I couldn't vape.
Besides, some vape flavor additives are carcinogenic.
OH ... and when vaping, I made my own coils with wire and cotton. Have rebuildable atomizer decks.
I was what the vapers called a "tootle puffer". Vaped 1.8ohms at 7watts.

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Old Salt said:
I had my doubts about nicotine addiction for the longest time since, in my experience, people who wanted to quit found it "relatively" easy, while those who felt forced to do so by external pressure found it almost impossible to give up smoking. But everyone seems to be proving me wrong so I have given up on my theory!
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That's it, in a nutshell. Once I wanted to quit, it was the easiest thing I ever did. I just wish that I had wanted to quit 45 years sooner. :rolleyes:
 
Naturally said:
These days, I buy Good Stuff all natural tobacco a pound at a time, already shredded.
No chemical or flavor additives, although some Good Stuff tobacco is available with flavor additives.
I just prefer all natural. Nothing but tobacco and nothing else.
No taxes since it isn't a manufactured cigarette product.
And while called pipe tobacco, no pipe smoker in their right mind would burn it.
Still less than a dollar a pack. Machine still on my kitchen counter.
Been a smoker for over 50yrs. Quite twice for short periods. Tried vaping for just over a year.
When vaping, I preferred non flavored juice. Figured if I couldn't enjoy the vape with pure PG/VG, then I couldn't vape.
Besides, some vape flavor additives are carcinogenic.
OH ... and when vaping, I made my own coils with wire and cotton. Have rebuildable atomizer decks.
I was what the vapers called a "tootle puffer". Vaped 1.8ohms at 7watts.

wvUC1cP.jpg
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If my hatred of the things was not so great I would post well done Nat, but each to their own is my view unless they puff the smoke over me. Here, some save money by collecting cigarette butts in the street, some putting tins out for collection. My nearby town, however, fines a person £70 for throwing a used butt on the ground.
 
Although not currently used, I have these two vape devices ready to go.
Just toss in some pure non flavored 18mg nic PG/VG juice which I have a liter of stored in the frig.
The tanks are rebuildable Svoemesto Kayfun Lite 22mm and 24mm.
And while I have a couple of Dicodes mods, I prefer these Eleaf Pico's

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Naturally said:
... y'all need to stop staring at me ... your eyes'll dry out if you don't blink ... I saw you blink ;)
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I didn't blink... I rolled my peepers :rolleyes: to which you can say "they're gonna stick that way!"

Not making light of this subject... I smoked for 20+ years except for the time I was pregnant... and then quit about 18 years or so ago. I was one of the lucky ones... got armored up with my stubborn suit and said "okay now, darn it.... ENOUGH!" and just quit cold turkey. All these years later I still sometimes catch myself inhaling deeply when I walk past someone who's smoking... not because I'd ever start again, but because it was so deep/strong of an addiction. @Naturally
 
I have a younger brother, retired pastor, soon to be 69yrs old and he has never smoked at all. Ever.
He had open heart surgery last year.
I have a sister, registered nurse, still working (for now) 66yrs old who smoked and quit a decade ago.
She just had her second of six chemo therapy treatments for breast cancer and is now bald.
... I've been both blessed and lucky ... so far.
 

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