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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 18:21:34 GMT
Moved out of the Confessional thread
I'd love a cigarette. I mean *really* love one.
But if I smoked one cigarette to day I'll have smoked 23 packs by the end of tomorrow.
There are only two things which stop me smoking;
1) I haven't smoked in 12 years or so and that would make the first cigarette a waste. There would be no such barrier against the second.
2) Giving up was so hard that I will never do it again. So if I start, I stay.
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Post by Humph on Oct 19, 2016 18:39:45 GMT
Yeah, had to go the corner shop earlier to buy stamps. Bloke in front of me was buying cigs. They keep them behind doors now you know. A pack of Marlboro sort of winked at me but I didn't buy them.
I'd like to believe I could have an odd one...Probably couldn't though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 18:46:52 GMT
I love the idea that I could have a cigar at Christmas and on my Birthday.
But I couldn't.
Bit pathetic really, but I'd fall back into smoking so quickly and easily. i didn't give up because I didn't like it. Truth be told I don't really know why I did give up. I trot out the trite health / cost / smell stuff if I'm pushed, but I truly don't remember. But it wasn't those reasons, I don't think. The morning after I gave up in the Village Pub I already knew that i didn't know why I'd decided to do it.
The fact that I was rat-arssed at the time probably doesn't help.
but it was hard. Really really hard.
In all likelihood I was just being gobby after having had a few and then had to live with what I'd said I would do.
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Post by Humph on Oct 19, 2016 19:14:19 GMT
Don't know what they cost in Chile, but I made note today that my old brand are £9.70 a pack now. I used to smoke a pack a day so that's a significant amount of money over a year I suppose. Not sure where the hell it all is though ! Must be spending it on something.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 20:02:39 GMT
About £2 per pack for Marlboro.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 20:07:00 GMT
And I used to smoke 3 packs a day.
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Post by Humph on Oct 19, 2016 20:09:21 GMT
Really? That's a serious habit. You must have had one lit almost constantly?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 20:14:03 GMT
You'd think so wouldn't you, but it never felt like that.
Wake at 7.00, sleep at midnight, 17 hours so on average a cigarette every 15 minutes, or something like that.
Sounds about right. Given that at some times (when driving, drinking or walking) it would be pretty much non stop.
And if going out for a smoke break it would be at least two cigarettes.
When I was in South America at that time the rule was that the most senior person in the office determined if it was a smoking or no smoking office. And since that was usually me, then it was a smoking environment.
I guess about the last 3 years of my smoking habit were in the UK. But my main offices were out of town in rural areas and smoking was still permitted in pubs.
I do drink alcohol at lunch, even on business.
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Post by sooty on Oct 19, 2016 20:40:54 GMT
That's a pretty large amount per day to get through by any score. Did you ever feel it, health wise, when you were smoking that many? Is it legal still in Chile to smoke in offices, bars, places of work etc?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 21:38:57 GMT
I realised that I had a terrible cough. I didn't realise it at the time, but people commented frequently as soon as I hadn't got it anymore.
My office was directly above the Board Room and it was a single flight of private back stairs. I couldn't run up them and have a conversation with my PA as soon as I got up there. I either walked slowly or waited to get my breath back. I never connected it with smoking until a couple of months after giving up I realised that I wasn't out of breath at the top.
Obviously therefore, it was having a terrible effect on my health. But I in no way realised it at the time. I reckon my health improved within 6 weeks. Though it probably took 2 years to get properly 'better'.
Smoking law in Chile is similar to the UK. The one exception being that virtually all bars and restaurants have a veranda / balcony still laid out as a restaurant or bar where you can smoke. essentially the restrictions apply to enclosed public areas only. However, by law Children are not permitted in smoking areas. Inside or outside.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 21:45:41 GMT
On a more superficial note, I do notice two other benefits;
Previously I was forever running out of cash and having to hit the ATM. The truth is that 20 packets a week just take a lot of buying and so I was forever running out, and thus paying in cash. Once I gave up I found I always had a ton of cash in my pocket.
Its a great relief not to have to worry about where I sit or who is next to me.
Other people smoking bothers me not a jot. Absolutely not a jot. Truth be told I quite like the smell. So I am not one of those rabid ex smokers. My wife smokes, for example. Though never around the children, in fact one of them doesn't even know that she does smoke.
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Post by iancapetown on Oct 21, 2016 9:15:04 GMT
Don't know what they cost in Chile, but I made note today that my old brand are £9.70 a pack now. I used to smoke a pack a day so that's a significant amount of money over a year I suppose. Not sure where the hell it all is though ! Must be spending it on something. £9.70 WHAT! Sheesh... That's about 15 x what i pay for my local brand...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2016 15:40:10 GMT
I gave up smoking in August 2003 since then I've never wanted a cigarette but keep toying with the idea of cigars or a pipe. That's as far as it's got so far although I've been dry for seven weeks now so if I'm not drinking alcohol I might start smoking again soon. Or, a V8 Mustang might make the alcohol and tobacco abstinence worth it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2016 15:52:58 GMT
I like the idea of cigars, but I think it'd take me straight back into cigarettes.
As for a pipe, I love the idea, and I tried it once for a while. I enjoyed it but I look a complete prat.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2016 16:00:30 GMT
I was only thinking pipe for the workshop/garage not a public thing. Can you even smoke in public now without being hung from a high place ? With two young-ish, impressionable children I'd do it away from them.
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