I tried to stop smoking once. I smoked only after making love. I was down to a pack a week in no time.

:rolleyes:

I don't know whether or not I smoke after sex.....I never looked.

first of all i want to say j geoff, congratulations on this one. i'm 19 and i started to smoke one year ago. i used to smoke sometimes with my friends or bought them somtimes, but they did last for 2-3 weeks, but since last year i buy them and smoke almost everyday. it depends on where i'm at and what i'm doing. i wouldn't say i smoke a lot. 2-3 a day or 3-4 a day during the week. on weekend it's not like that though. i smoke almost 20 cigarettes on weekends, it can be more sometimes. During holidays i smoke a lot. As i started last summer to smoke too much i tried to stop after i came back from holidays. i didn't smoke for a month, i didn't tried nicorette though or anything else. i just stopped like that. it was ok for me, i didn't really feel the need to do it. but after a while, i started again. i had stress at work and i started to get nervous all the time. so i started to smoke all over again. sometimes when i had colds, (i never smoke when i got a cold) i stopped smoking for a while, even after the cold was gone. maybe for 2-3 weeks, but than i started all over again. i know it's not good for my health, but i feel like it's really hard to stop, when you started once. i used to say i can stop whenever i want, but now i dont feel that way anymore. i mean i can stop maybe for some weeks or a month but i guess i will start again.

Wow, a rambling thread started at 2 in the morning leads to this...a whole communion for Smok-aholics Anonamous? :p

Only kidding; well done man. I've never even had a puff of a cigarette, and hope I never will, but just wanted to post some (irrelevant) information that I heard on the local news tonight--that is the most depressing programme in the world that picks out all the bad things and never the good. Anyway, it turns out that my region (the North East) of England apparently is the worst region for smokers, smoke-related diseases/deaths etc., so there is going to be a ban on public smoking coming into place.

Not sure when (or even IF), but I think it's a good idea. Then again, I don't smoke, and like JG said in his opening thread, non-smokers don't really understand what quitters have to go through in the opening period of non-smoking. I was wondering if you would approve of the idea in your area, if it was put into place...?

Mick

Actually, that is not entirely true. Anyone with an addiction of some kind, rather its food, alcohol, sex etc. and wants to quit, does understand how hard it is to quit.

By all means Partagas...Congrats!
And Congrats to Geoff, going on week #3 and turning the BB nicotine free

I started smoking at the age of 18, and Ive been telling my girlfriend "This is my last pack" or "I promise, I'll quit smoking just for you"

Let me tell ya Its easier said that done

My best advise is Dont Start