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Whos still smoking?

Allan

Allan

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My friends are over and the wife still smokes.

Here's the scary warning on the pack. In case you miss it there's also a warning on each individual cigarette.

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I quit over 20 years ago, I used a slow detox. I figured out how many i smoked each day ( 20) and slowly cut back 1 a day.. some days i didn't cut back but i never increased the number..took me about 3 months to get down to 4, and then i was off them
 
Allan said:
When I started they were about .50 cents a pack.
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Yeah, same here.
My epiphany moment happened on the outside deck of a pub. I had a pint of beer on the table, a Pom-Pom cigar between my fingers and a wad of Red Man Plug tucked in my cheek. I thought, "Why don't I just shoot myself? It'd be quicker, cleaner and cheaper!" and I quit next day.
 
Grand Mal said:
Yeah, same here.
My epiphany moment happened on the outside deck of a pub. I had a pint of beer on the table, a Pom-Pom cigar between my fingers and a wad of Red Man Plug tucked in my cheek. I thought, "Why don't I just shoot myself? It'd be quicker, cleaner and cheaper!" and I quit next day.
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You're right about shooting yourself as a preferred death.

A friend is a nurse at the Pacific Lung Centre and she talks about the suffering of COPD patients. They can go for years feeling like they're struggling to breath through a straw.
 
Allan said:
A 25 pack in Ontario is $26.00 btw. For her that's almost $10k a year.
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Holy shit, is that what they cost now???

Every once in a while I think about grabbing a pack. I quit smoking cigarettes 12 years ago, but I was never able to give up nicotine, I vape, and it's a lot cheaper than that. But I still think about them from time to time... mostly because I miss my zippo lighter, if I'm perfectly honest.

But at $26 a pack, damn, I'd rather just spend a bit more and get a decent cigar.
 
I'd like to see Canada adopt New Zealand's approach.

New Zealand has introduced a steadily rising smoking age to stop those aged 14 and under from ever being able to legally buy cigarettes in world-first legislation to outlaw smoking for the next generation.
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In addition more support for current smokers - free cessation aids. In Canada Champix is covered but aids like gum and patches are not.

Once you've got enough people abstaining the next step would be to tax tobacco companies into bankruptcy.

www.theguardian.com

New Zealand passes world-first tobacco law to ban smoking for next generation

The country is believed to be the first to implement an annually rising legal smoking age
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Grand Mal said:
Yikes! I think it was about that much for a carton when I quit.
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I think it was like three to four bucks a pack when I quit.

I will add that my lungs felt almost back to normal within a month of quitting. I felt a boost within the first two weeks. I also got really into walking again around the same time, as it was summer when I quit. I'm still walking for exercise all of these years later. Oh, and I also found a quit smoking message board online that divided us up into teams by the month that we quit. I liked the people there and enjoyed the shared experience. I was on that board for a couple years.
 
Somerville said:
For some reason, I never got into smoking tobacco. Tried a couple of cigarettes in high school, had a pipe my freshman year in college. I was the only one in my family who never became addicted to tobacco.
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In university I had a roommate who never smoked and no one in his family did.

I'd wake up in the morning and immediately light up. Our beds were about four feet apart and I'm amazed he didn't strangle me in my sleep.

He'd have been well within his rights.
 
My dad was a 3 pack a day smoker. Killed him at 55. I didn't need more lessons than watching that to convince me it was a dumb damn thing.
 
I smoked Winston since the 80s, But I haven't smoked tobacco in five years, I switched to vaping. I'm addicted to nicotine but vapor makes it much easier to conceal. I have my sense of smell back, and I don't feel winded or fatigued like I remember with cigs. I like to vape the green too 😄
 
I switched from cigarettes to nicotine vape around 2012, and used that exclusively until they recently introduced a 100% provincial and federal tax on nicotine juice. A bottle to last me a couple months used to cost $30, after the new taxes it was $100. Since then I've just mixed my own nicotine free juice (because the tax applies to straight nicotine too).
 
I smoke the occasional cigar, that is about it.
 
I got back into smoking a while ago after my dog died, following a three-year break.
But I think I’ll quit again in a month or two. I never got overly attached to it. At most, I’d have 4 or 5 a day.
 
Allan said:
25 pack in Ontario is $26.00 btw. For her that's almost $10k a year.
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Yikes. Even with the exchange rate.

Grand Mal said:
My epiphany moment happened on the outside deck of a pub.
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I tried over a 7 year period to quit, gave everything a go and sometimes lasted 3-4 months but I was always tempted.

My epiphany moment was standing waiting for my ex-wife to arrive (late yet again) for handover so I could spend time with my boys. Busy puffing away and then when I was stubbing the fag-end out with my toe, I suddenly noticed my son putting his hands down in disappointment as I wasn't as excited to see him as he was when they arrived.

Never wanted to see that look on my child's face ever again and that was my very last one ever. Never felt the desire to try another and that was 24 years ago.
 
anatta said:
I quit over 20 years ago, I used a slow detox. I figured out how many i smoked each day ( 20) and slowly cut back 1 a day.. some days i didn't cut back but i never increased the number..took me about 3 months to get down to 4, and then i was off them
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That's exactly how I quit both cigs and booze.
 
The last pack I bought cost me 50¢...good grief, whoever pays these crazy amounts today is nuts...😲
 
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