Smoking advice "Help Needed"

[Captain Kong]

To have that Ball of Fear in the gut is the best way to finish, no hang ups. that is what cured me,
Today I would hate to have to go in the yard of a pub in the cold and wet just to have a fag.
I see them all the time and wonder....

[Captain Kong]

Here is a song from 1947........................
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.Country-western songwriter and entertainer Sollie "Tex" Williams, a heavy smoker best known for his tune, "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette," died after a year-long battle with cancer, his daughter said. . . . her father, who was diagnosed a year ago as having cancer, smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, dropping to about a pack a day before he died. "He tried to quit, but he couldn't," she said.


Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!(That Cigarette)


Now I'm a fellow with a heart of gold
And the ways of a gentleman I've been told
Kind-of-a-guy that wouldn't even harm a flea

But if me and a certain character met
The guy that invented that cigarette
I'd murder that son-of-a gun in the first degree

It ain't cuz I don't smoke 'em myself
and i don't reckon that it'll hinder your health
I smoked 'em all my life and I ain't dead yet

But nicotine slaves are all the same
at a pettin' party or a poker game
Everything gotta stop while they have a cigarette

CHORUS

Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Puff, puff, puff until you smoke yourself to death.

Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait,
But you just gotta have another cigarette.

In a game of chance the other night
Old dame fortune was good and right
The kings and queens they kept on comin' around

Aw, I was hittin' em good and bettin' 'em high
But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy
He kept callin' and layin' his money down

See, he'd raise me then I'd raise him
and I'd say to him buddy ya gotta sink or swim
Finally called me but didn't raise the bet!

--Hmmph! I said Aces Full Pal -- I got you!
He said, "I'll pay up in a minute or two
But right now, i just gotta have another cigarette."

CHORUS

Now the other night I had a date
with the cutest little gal in any state
A high-bred, uptown, fancy little dame

She said she loved me and it seemd to me
That things were sorta like they oughtta be
So hand in hand we strolled down lovers lane

She was a long way from a chunk of ice
And our pettin' party was goin' real nice
And I got an idea I might have been there yet

So I give her a kiss and a little squeeze
Then she said, "Travis, Excuse me Please
But I just gotta have a cigarette."

CHORUS

[Gulliver]

To have that Ball of Fear in the gut is the best way to finish, no hang ups. that is what cured me,
Today I would hate to have to go in the yard of a pub in the cold and wet just to have a fag.
I see them all the time and wonder....

Brian,that’s very true.Seeing as how we’re all baring our souls,I had a mini-stroke (TIA) twenty years ago when I was 38. Although smoking is just one of the factors that can contribute to strokes,I was thoroughly checked out of course and they discovered my arteries were narrower than usual.. I had smoked for thirty years (most of us did)and thought nothing of it. I had to stop or become an invalid in my 40’s.
When I recovered,I chose my day to stop,and just did it,cold turkey.It was only the first 5 days in my case that were the hardest..After that it just got easier and easier.Now I’ve never felt better,and would almost certainly say,that stopping smoking was the most single most positive thing I ever did to control my life.,and although some damage has already been done,it’s almost certainly prolonged my life.
And at £6.12p for 20 (£8.50 in my pub’s cigarette machine!) I ‘ve had many a good holiday jaunt out of the thousands of pounds I’ve saved !

[Jim Brady]

I have'nt smoked since March after having smoked for over 55 years.I have listened to people complaining about the smell of tobacco smoke when they are entering public buildings like hostpitals etc where people are congregated smoking.I always thought that these people were exagerating and were over egging it.For the past 55 years I have obviously not been able to smell tobacco smoke,now the longer I am away from the weed the more acute my smell has become.I have just come back from a week at Llandudno,on using the lift when we got out I would say to my wife "someone has been smoking in that lift"no my wife would reply"it was that man/woman that you could smell".When I think that I must've stank like that it is more incentive not to go back on them.Now I can realy smell the smoke when passing people on the street who are smoking and quite honestly its not very pleasant.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Ivan Cloherty]

I have'nt smoked since March after having smoked for over 55 years.I have listened to people complaining about the smell of tobacco smoke when they are entering public buildings like hostpitals etc where people are congregated smoking.I always thought that these people were exagerating and were over egging it.For the past 55 years I have obviously not been able to smell tobacco smoke,now the longer I am away from the weed the more acute my smell has become.I have just come back from a week at Llandudno,on using the lift when we got out I would say to my wife "someone has been smoking in that lift"no my wife would reply"it was that man/woman that you could smell".When I think that I must've stank like that it is more incentive not to go back on them.Now I can realy smell the smoke when passing people on the street who are smoking and quite honestly its not very pleasant.
Regards.
Jim.B.

My wife and I being non smokers but having smoking friends used to go dancing (still do) when smoking was allowed in public places, on returning home from our dancing and entering the house it was only then we realised how much our clothes stank of smoke. We always (had to) get undressed downstairs so as not to carry the smell upstairs. Since the advent of not smoking in public places has been enacted our routine has changed, no need to get undressed in the hall. Also no more burnt dance dresses on the dance floor, as you always got those people who couldn't let go of their ciggy even to go have a dance. So apart from the health benefits there are other benefits from not smoking apart from the the health and financial ones. I think that smokers just do not realise just how much they and their clothes smell, sorry if that sounds rude, but unfortunately it's a fact.

[Pete Leonard (Bruno)]

My next door neighbour used to smoke like one of Harrisons until he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. His wife did not smoke but, after she had visited us on her own, my wife would go round with the air freshener to take the smell away. Her clothes were impregnated with the smell. My wife said that I smelled like that when I smoked.

[Keith at Tregenna]

News: Satellite could hit earth tonight:

Best not go out for a ciggie just in case:

SMOKING COULD REALLY KILL YOU.

There is a satellite that may hit the Earth around September 23rd. NASA says there is a 1 in 3,200 chance of a piece being big enough to hit the ground intact instead of breaking into bits. The piece would be around 350 lbs if it hits. Again 1 in 3,200 chance.

It could land on your house. then best your out for a smoke ?

I believe most of the 'bus sized' satellite will disintegrate once hitting Earth's atmosphere. Wouldn't mind having a rough time guide though?

Will not attempt to catch a bus tonight:

Apparently safest is North, Scotland or Quebec etc.

Gone north till tomorrow.

But like the free beer tomorrow, tomorrow apparently never comes.

Mean while seems the sky is the limit.

LOOK UP, LOOK OUT, ANYTHING OUT OF THE NORM, RUN. WE MAY MEET?

K.

[alf corbyn]

you get up in the morning look in your tin. you have enough for three roll-ups. walk over to the gash bucket, throw the tin in followed by your lighter. thats it!! you have stopped. i don't think that patches help thou they might help some. cold turkey is the best way. unfortunatly i had a few pains in the following weeks from eating so many polo mints. alf
PS i used to smoke at least fifty a day. started when i was seven, packed up at sixty two.

[Captain Kong]

Good Lad, Alf.

[John Cassels]

Wish I could do that alf , oops just dropped some ash on tkse keesvbotrd..