Any 'Smokers' Out There?

Question

....From England.?
Feel pressured into quittin'?

Answer 1

why pick on the smokers all the time more trouble caused through idiots drinking too much than a smoker ask your self this your walking down the street and you have too pass a smoker on one side and a load of drunks on the other who would you pass by no contest so stop moaning all you anti smokers and do something instead too all the idiots who drink

Answer 2

Hello from an English smoker.

I am starting to consider quitting actually because of a couple of things.
First I am the last person left in my office who smokes and feel guilty going out for *** breaks on my own when my colleagues are working.
I also started buying fags by the 100 and paying out about £25 per week seems a lot more than a fiver every day or so. So I'm starting to see how much it is costing me.
Plus there's this fascist law that is coming into force on 1st July to stop me smoking in my favourite pub.
It does seem a shame to stop because I genuinely enjoy smoking. (Cue abuse from the anti-smoking element).
Oh well, I'll have to see what happens.

Answer 3

I'm from Scotland and quit 6 weeks ago - chewing nicotine gum like mad.

Don't feel any healthier and now having to diet too. It is all driving me crazy but no way am I going through this again so I'll stick with it.

On the plus side I'm saving £5 per day and bought a new coat I couldn't have otherwise afforded. I don't smell of smoke anymore and I don't have to go out in the cold when I want to smoke.

Please try and quit, you know it makes sense, but only when you're ready and feeling strong and absolutely disgusted with smoking.

Answer 4

I have smoked since before I was 5 yrs old and did it at an early age to impress others and to mentally hypnotise myself into the belief that I was bigger than I actually was - mainly because I was frightened of the peer group around me - who were all older.
I have quit for over 14mths on one occasion but addictions that are habits too can be quite persuasive to a weak mentality.
My intelligence is the thing that puts me under pressure as "IT IS A FACT THAT CIGARRETTES ARE TOXIC" and shall ultimately harm me. I worry about the manufacturers using more addictive substances - as their income is in jeopardy.

My belief is that tobbacco and its products are outlawed within the next year with a 6mth warning to the companies.
The resolve I would personnally take is anyone found with them once the laws were in place - would be to interrogate evertone until we came to the big money maker and then take his money off him.
It is our weakness which allows us to smoke and the large corporations which depend on this have had their time- it is now time for them to but out of the equation and give our children a chance. I'm sure that people will be able to take holidays somewhere and smoke till their hearts give way - should they be so inclined.

Answer 5

Im in the US (in Arizona) and I just quit smoking 2+ packs aday after 21 years, in November.

I really didnt WANT to quit, but just the taxes on a pack of smokes is over $3.50 US, making a pack cost over $5.00. Add to that the treatment smokers receive in this country (We always need someone to look down on- Smokers are the new second class citizens. Cant smoke indoors, employers can fire you for being a smoker, etc. It's a bad habit, I agree, but frankly I just couldnt afford to smoke anymore.

Answer 6

I tried last week and lasted 2 days. Now I have a shitty cough and for some perverse reason am finding it even harder to stop despite the fact that my chest hurts. Only feeling pressured as I would like to stay around and healthy long enough to see my kids grow up..I can but keep trying..

Answer 7

from Wales actually but it's the same situation. Yes i do feel pressured with the new law coming in it's going to make things very difficult. I can understand many restaurants going no smoking and any owner who wants to is within his rights but if an owner wants to allow it and everybody knows that is the case and therefore consents by entering then that should also be ok. this new law is dictatorial and infringes upon you free rights!!! What's next - PROHIBITION? alcohol causes just as much problems so is that next???

Answer 8

I smoke...I won't give in...not yet anyway. I had given up for 20 years and really missed them the whole time, then I had a huge amount of stress and smoked a cigarette so I;m back! I enjoy it. I know all the health risks etc.

With the laws changing in July, I'll still have my ciggies and as Dennis Leary said, I'll be hiding and smoking them under the blankets if they outlaw it even further! lol.

Answer 9

yeah. but maybe its a good thing. im slowly cutting down. and dont smoke everyday, my down fall is when im out drinking and a lot of smokers i know feel its going to hard when out drinking in pubs/clubs.. i went outside for a cig the other week and come back in the house and one of those adverts was on with the hook, it made me feel so uncomforable.it made me feel bad that i smoke, they are outcasting smokers. pressuring us to give up. but im looking at it as a good thing i dont want to be a smoker for the rest of life.

Answer 10

I like to smoke a pack of Iraqi insurgents (small rifle fire is fine) at least two packs a day! I just can't seem to quit... Perhaps if I try a Persian Blend? Koreans a bit harsh I heard, But I am willing to try!