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Holy SHIT, I want a FUCKING CIGARETTE.

I have been struggling with this for years. It is very tough. You may even quit for a long period of time and then fall back. (I have) Hang in there. You gotta want it. My freakin problem is that I really enjoy having a smoke and honestly if it wasn't unhealthy, and potentially deadly, I probably would never quit. The monetary cost is becoming a factor also though. It certainly isn't easy.

It's almost 3 grand a year to smoke at 1 pack per day. That will buy a nice vacation.

steveo777 wrote:It's almost 3 grand a year to smoke at 1 pack per day. That will buy a nice vacation.

A pack of cigarettes is over $8 now?

KenTheDude wrote:

steveo777 wrote:It's almost 3 grand a year to smoke at 1 pack per day. That will buy a nice vacation.

A pack of cigarettes is over $8 now?

Around here they are. Washington has a "sin tax".

KenTheDude wrote:

steveo777 wrote:It's almost 3 grand a year to smoke at 1 pack per day. That will buy a nice vacation.

A pack of cigarettes is over $8 now?

It's over $10 in Canada. I quit about 8 years ago, and I remember somebody telling me the first 3 days are the addiction and the rest is the habit. I did it cold turkey. LOL I remember being a total hellcat to be around those first few days but it did get easier, especially if I stayed away from some of the triggers. I remember grabbing a handful of those little brown plastic stir-sticks when I got my coffees and would chew on them randomly through out the day if I reeeeeally wanted a smoke. Another thing I did was reward myself with something material......each year that passed from the money I would have saved from not smoking. First year was a dvd player. The next year was a trip to Vegas. Just got to the point I hated paying out that kind of money for smokes. If I was still smoking there is no way in hell I would have had the funds/opportunity to travel and see some of my favorite artists perform the last few years. Waaaaay funner and healthier way to go.

Best of luck Liam!

Money is becoming the bigger reason, trumping health. They're not HORRENDOUS prices in College Station Texas. About $4.50-$6 depending on where ya go. I find it funny that Walgreens and CVS are the cheapest. LOL
But I just figured 20 years is enough. That....and coughing up some nasty shit every morning isn't helping. LMAO (I'm sure you ALL wanted to hear that last part. )

I quit smoking about 8 years ago. I remember seeing an interview of Tammy Faye Baker about 2 days before she died of lung cancer. It scared the hell out of me. Went cold turkey. First week was the worst. Gained 30 lbs I didn't need. That part sucked. But I'm still glad I quit.

Hang in there. You will be more attractive to women, taste your food better, save money, live longer, and you won't get the ugly side affects that attack your looks. You will win all the way around!

No smoker's hagging voice.

No yellowing walls in your house.

No smell on your clothes and in your car.

More pluses than minuses to quitting. I am pulling for you!

I am highly allergic to the smoke. My eyes swell shut in a room with a lot of smoke, then bronchitis hits me hard and can lead to pneumonia!

The only downside is you cannot make me ill if you quit!

As a boy, I saw my HILARIOUS, energetic grandpa wither away and then die in his early 60s because of smoking-induced lung cancer. So I've never touched the shit (other than a few cigars over the years), and I'd encourage anyone who has to put the shit down. So hang in there and tough it out. Find another, less harmful vice if you must (coffee? pop? anything is better, even stuff that's still relatively bad for you).

$11-$15 a pack in New York

Plus not to mention the many cancers and other health issues such as hardening of the arteries that long term smoking causes. Recently I spent a few years working on various projects for a company called Genentech. One such project was reviewing data gathered over a period of years from across the nation in regards to cancers related to tabacco usage. Lots of nasty things in that data which really makes me stop and think how lucky I was to never have started such a habit. Nevermind the cost of the tabacco or the other issues such as a bad sense of smell and yellow walls in the house. What it does to the human body and what type of cancers it causes and how those cancers are addressed is much more disturbing. Out of thousands of studies that I reviewed which in large was data from case studies conducted across the nation which involved people of all walks of life, age and ethnic makeup, one thing for sure was that the rate of coming down with some type of tabacco related cancer is greatest between ages 42 and 64. Meaning, if you've been a heavy smoker since high school, the chances of coming down with some type of tabacco related cancer is greatest between 42 and 64 years of age. After age 64, your not completely in the clear if you're a smoker or some type of tabacco user, but your chances are greatly reduced, according to the statistical data. I never was much into playing the odds with anything so I never started in the first place.

On the other hand, look at smokers in history such as George Burns, he smoked at least one cigar every day of his entire life since he was a very young man and lived an entire friggin century. And in the end it was a bathtub that contributed to his departure.