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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2021 15:33:40 GMT
Funny, I survived your best efforts prior to get rid of me, same difference I guess, LOL. i've never wanted rid of you. i appreciate your time on here and have defended you under duress. Humility personified.
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Post by osgood on Nov 15, 2021 10:17:16 GMT
Back to the subject.
Heavy smoker since my teens, stopped for 5 years in my thirties and was stupid enough to return, the old story of just one. Again heavy smoker with a bad conscience for ten years (often trying to quit, throwing away countless half-finished packs, etc.) and quitted definitely 16 years ago, much easier than I expected. Certainly smoke banning in the workplace helped a lot (this ban was only mandatory in Spain from 2006, but was running the year before in the office I was then working in)
Now I cannot tolerate the smell near me.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Nov 15, 2021 10:27:05 GMT
good to hear, oz. i'm always surprised by the number of young smokers there are in valencia. there really isn't an excuse for anyone starting to smoke in this day and age.
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Post by jimbo on Nov 15, 2021 11:00:13 GMT
Smoking joke. Do you smoke after sex? Dunno. I never looked.
Haven't smoked or vaped now for 3 years??? Don't know how I quit but somehow the urge left me right after a bad bike accident and a subsequent operation and blood transfusion. Smoked since I was 12 and vaped pretty much ever since vaping became a thing in the 90s. Though addictive, I am convinced that vaping is way safer than ciggies and it works to take care of the urge.
And I love the smell of others tobacco. I will walk through a gaggle of smokers just for a sniff. Brings back memories.
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Post by cousinlou on Nov 15, 2021 12:44:18 GMT
That reminds me of the old joke. To stop smoking is easy, I have done it many times not very funny, robert. perhaps lost in translation? try this one: what does a duck smoke? quack. That's fantastic. Quack! And that so soon after already having had the stroke of genius in turning CousinLou to CousinPoo. Mwahaha... comedy gold. Give this man a sitcom quick. You can call it 'the show about nobody' subtitled ' you could watch but it's of no consequence if you don't'
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Nov 15, 2021 12:54:39 GMT
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Post by fange on Nov 15, 2021 12:54:39 GMT
I started smoking ciggies regularly just after high school, mostly to keep the high going after a joint or bong, and that was the way it was for about 7-8 years till i met my wife. She is a disapprover, and so i pretty much cut it out in my late-20s. If i am drinking or having some grass i still get the urge for a ciggie, but otherwise i am fine. I never became fully addicted, luckily.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 15, 2021 13:58:39 GMT
Weirdly I didn't start smoking until my mid 20s when I switched from bongs to joints. I gave up in my early 30s then fell of the wagon for a short time in my mid 30s and then again last year where I was up to 40 a day. I quit again though and am determined to not partake anymore.
It is fiendishly addictive and sometimes I do miss 'em but they are a vile habit.
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Post by cousinlou on Nov 15, 2021 15:02:55 GMT
I wrote about the (Roman Catholic) Church in front of our house when I was a child in anokher post. We would play football in front of the Church but at the back, right in front of our house there was a corner of the building, livingroom sized, where a brother of the local fraternity had launched a library for the neighbourhood. Brother Bernadinus.
The opening hours of the lib were on saturday afternoons from about 1400 - 1800 hrs. The brother stocked a lot of comic books besides the regular novels he had.
The comic books attracted a lot of neighbourhood kids but also a bunch of 16-18 year old hippies. As things went at the end of the sixties, the brother was fond of young people (not in that way) so he always had candy, cigarettes and cigars to give away to the visitors as well as a crate of beer for the hippies, who would also bring guitars and music casettes. Usually it was a racket in there.
Anyway, I didn't get cigarettes off him as I was too young for that.
However, behing the lib, there was a reception room that was used for pensioners to play chess or cards on wednesday afternoons. To get there the old men ( only men) had to go through the lib as the Church didn't want to open the front entrance for them.
Me and my friends knew exactlywhere the brother kept the cigarettes and the lib was open without any supervision while the old guys were playing their games.
The rest is history. I have been smoking since I was about 8 years old.
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Post by fearlessfreap on Nov 15, 2021 15:05:29 GMT
I have vivid memories of long car trips in the winter with the windows up and my father smoking away. Cured me of any desire to smoke, but I probably got enough second hand for a lifetime.
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Post by souphound on Nov 15, 2021 15:35:50 GMT
About 15 years ago, the pub where I used to hang out most of the time had a foosball table (table football) in a tiny enclave. There was hardly any room around the thing and the ceilings hung very low, no opening windows of course.
As the evenings wore on, a bunch of us would go and play for hours. Four players with usually about as many watching, waiting for their turn. There were ashtrays on each corner of the table. We would all smoke, letting our ciggies smoke away in the ashtrays while the play went on. Watchers would smoke as well. You can only imagine the thickness of the cloud. Just awful.
The pub/bar had rater poor ventilation, so, against the rules, a friend of mine would sometimes split up and hold the front and back dorrs open simultaneously so that some of the crap could escape.
There was so much coughing in there that random CDs kept appearing in the mail from around the world (fnar fnar)
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Post by Sneelock on Nov 15, 2021 16:38:49 GMT
Though addictive, I am convinced that vaping is way safer than ciggies I doubt you are right but I HOPE you are. everybody I know who smokes ciggy-butts is trying to quit. everybody I know who vapes - I'm pretty convinced will NEVER quit.
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Nov 15, 2021 19:25:30 GMT
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Post by osgood on Nov 15, 2021 19:25:30 GMT
About 15 years ago, the pub where I used to hang out most of the time had a foosball table (table football) in a tiny enclave. There was hardly any room around the thing and the ceilings hung very low, no opening windows of course. As the evenings wore on, a bunch of us would go and play for hours. Four players with usually about as many watching, waiting for their turn. There were ashtrays on each corner of the table. We would all smoke, letting our ciggies smoke away in the ashtrays while the play went on. Watchers would smoke as well. You can only imagine the thickness of the cloud. Just awful. This reminds me of my first time in London 1982. There were smokers wagons in the Tube. I was a smoker but the atmosphere was so unbearable that I couldn't stand it and had to move to a non smokers one.
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Post by souphound on Nov 15, 2021 21:07:38 GMT
We used to have such sections on our intercity busses. You couldn't smoke in the six front ros of seats. You could smoke away all day on the rest of the bus. A lot of good that did. Geesh.
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Nov 15, 2021 22:14:08 GMT
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Post by osgood on Nov 15, 2021 22:14:08 GMT
Well, last rows used to be the smokers section on planes!!
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Post by Sneelock on Nov 16, 2021 0:37:13 GMT
Never really got the habit. Pure luck. the more I think about it the luckier I feel. Both parents smoked at least a pack a day. Hell, as near as I could tell - EVERYBODY smoked. I remember being at the family doctor with my dad in 64 - 65 at the very latest. The Family Doctor had his stethoscope on my Dad. they were both smoking and coughing. "these things are gonna kill you Jim. ha ha ha. cough cough cough" guess what the family doctor died of?
not only did we get THESE babies on Halloween, if the parents got their smokes certain places they would throw in some candy cigarettes for the kids for FREE.
Every gas station had a cigarette machine. kids I walked home from school with had no problem scoring smokes until maybe the mid seventies.
If my Dad or anybody for that matter had their hands full, they would tell the closest kid to go light them a cigarette and put it in their mouths for them.
Another stroke of luck was that I'd smoked a fair amount of pot before my first cigarette. I got that cig smoke DEEEP in my lungs. I thought I was gonna die. By the time I had the occasional smoke trying to look cool, I really hated the way the damned things stunk up my fingers. I got off pretty easy.
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