Smoking advice "Help Needed"

[alf corbyn]

its entirely up to you whether you pack up;. don't light up when you get up and throw away all your fags and lighter etc. find a substitute like polo mints or something to suck. only you can stop the urge. keep clear of other smokers if you can.

[Captain Kong]

FEAR is the best deterant.
Cheers
Brian.

[Keith Tindell]

I stopped 45 years ago, and still on the odd occasion i dream that i have started again, and wake up in a sweat, and a great sense of relief that it was just a dream, as brian says, the fear keeps it all away, KT

[English Margaret]

I bought an electronic cigarette and filters to help me give up, unfortunately I convenently forgot to buy the charger, so after reading some of these posts I am going to send away for it now! none of my kids smoke and they are not happy that I do, so I am going to be strong for them. Gave up once for 8 years and started again due to stress. What a fool.

[Tony Wilding]

hi Margaret, thats what happened to me, almost 2 years stopped, then had severe problems, so i smoked a cigarette, said i would only smoke 5 a day, no chance, within a week was as befor, just takes one puff and you are hooked again, i occasionally got the craving during that two years, but found it did not last long, was easy to put out of your mind the longer time went by, it was if i had a beer i wanted a cigarette, well i dont drink now, so that wont arise, my lady in the Philippines does not drink or smoke so thats better also, i do mostly out of boredom and being alone, cant stand being alone, am just re newing my passport next week, then i get a Philippine bank account, visa, and flight, sell a few things here, my car, and i go,am hoping within 6 or 7 weeks time, lots of things to arrange, all takes time, but money is the hardest to save when on a fixed income, so bit by bit its happening. so the day i leave here is my last smoke, cant give up befor then , not all the time i am alone. good luck if you can also.

[Captain Kong]

regarding your health as a smoker, it not only affects your Lung Cancer but all your arteries, you develop arterioschlerrosis*,
Hardening of the arteries, which apart from giving you HiGH BLOOD PRESSURE, which makes you a swift candidate for heart attack and or stroke, it also gives you gangrene in the toes, feet and legs, and then you lose your legs through amputation.
and dont forget your wallet.
Not a bright future is it.?
Sorry to be a misery but this does happen and I have seen my friends suffer horribly. Three years ago in the pub I sald to my mate Peter, when he came back from outside having a ciggy, "Why dont you pack it in" he said "I would rather die than pack it in". two years later, last August he died screaming in uncontrolable pain from his lung Cancer.
He had then packed it in.
My ex wife is in a wheelchair, with an Oxygen tank on the back , gasping and wheezing, sucking oxygen through tubes, she has Emphysemia caused by smoking, gone from an active woman to just a shell gasping for air, even tho` she is my ex I feel sorry for her. Her life is now a misery.
.If you start again because of Stress, just think how much Stress does your family have, watching helplessly, as you scream your last in uncontrolable pain, So do not be selfish, think of the Misery and distress you will cause your loved ones.
If all that is not an incentive.
then I wish the best of luck for your future.
Cheers
Brian.

[Dennis McGuckin]

Same as me. After years of not smoking, still have the odd dream. Thank God it's only dreaming.
Yes Capt Kong, it's fear that works best.
That's what happened to my wife last October. She is now suffering from the effects of nearly 50 years of smoking.
Den.

[Charlie Hannah]

Thanks for that advice Charlie,by the way did you used to drink with Pat Brady (no relation) and Eddie Dean?
Regards.
Jim.B.

I know both of them very well Jim matter of fact just got back in touch with Pat and talk to him often on Skype,he got my email address off a good mate of mine Charlie Hobson,before that i hadn't seen him for about forty years,I am now in touch with around a dozen or more of my Old ship mates.all through buying the computer.

[Red Lead Ted]

I bought Eddie Dean, ANOTHER Pint last Saturday before the Cunard yank dissapeared on me. Are you from the Seafoth area Regards Terry. {Seaforth}.

[Charlie Hannah]

I bought Eddie Dean, ANOTHER Pint last Saturday before the Cunard yank dissapeared on me. Are you from the Seafoth area Regards Terry. {Seaforth}.

No Terry i was born and bred in Bootle,last place i lived back home was Clifton Walk off Marsh Lane,Before that Bedford Rd. That,s were i knew Eddie from!