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dill786 wrote:
Sat Mar 04, 2023 2:51 pm
16 months of NO SMOKING weed/cigs
correction!!

19 months nearly

I stopped smoking cigs/weed on the 21st of September 2021
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Butcher Bob wrote:
Sat Mar 04, 2023 5:36 pm
Got 7 months no cigs here.

I like saving the $500/month. :tup:
how many cigs were you smoking a day bob? if you don't mind me asking

$500 a month is a lot on cigs :tup:

and what brand did you smoke,

I use to smoke Benson & hedges cigs, then I stopped the cigs and started smoking tobacco called golden Virginia, you know the ones you roll yourself, it's pure tobacco unlike the cigs which probably have 20 different types of chemicals inside it,

this woman I know who lives across the road from me has COPD and she told me she thinks it was because she smoked tobacco all her life with no filter like cigs......

glad I stopped....
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dill786 wrote:
Mon Mar 27, 2023 5:23 am
how many cigs were you smoking a day bob? if you don't mind me asking

$500 a month is a lot on cigs :tup:

and what brand did you smoke,

I use to smoke Benson & hedges cigs, then I stopped the cigs and started smoking tobacco called golden Virginia, you know the ones you roll yourself, it's pure tobacco unlike the cigs which probably have 20 different types of chemicals inside it,

this woman I know who lives across the road from me has COPD and she told me she thinks it was because she smoked tobacco all her life with no filter like cigs......

glad I stopped....
2 packs a day...Camal Lights...@ $8.03/pack...aboot $480-496 a month

The chemical additives here is bad. Same brand from Canada will be much blander in flavor, because they have better regulations aboot what can/can't be added.

Psychologically, I think I might never get over it. First cig was the summer before I started attending school...by 3rd grade I was a half pack a day. Now it's like a part of me is missing. Right now I'm sitting here more stoned than I want to be, because I keep hitting the bowl in lieu of a cigarette. :p

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you gonna kick yourself if you go back to it, all the hard work will go down the drain, stick with it bob...
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not exercised last 10 days, pulled a muscle in my arm, and was hurting when I was doing arm curls, but gonna get back to it tomorrow after fasting..
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Today is 9 months since I last bought smokes. Still have the full and open packs from when I quit...they're my fukking trophies. :p Irony is that those last packs were $8.03 .....and I noticed last night that the price has dropped to $7.84 now.
I still REALLY want to smoke...but so far I've been successful telling myself 'no'. :)

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that's cheap

£15.95 a pack of 20 cigs so that's around $20
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Butcher Bob wrote:
Sat Mar 04, 2023 5:36 pm
Got 7 months no cigs here.
Some things I've noticed...
Being around friends who are smoking, doesn't have any affect on my desire to smoke...I'm thankful for this.
While my lung capacity has not seemed to improve yet, I have noticed that my morning coughing fits are gone.
I'm smoking more cannabis, but it's only aboot a gram a day.
Still want to smoke...but pretty easy now not to.
I like saving the $500/month. :tup:
$500 will get ya a brand new Volcano classic with enough left over for lunch.

That's what I did back in 05. I used the high price of the unit as a further reason to quit all smoking including the ganja, and nowadays my lungs have hardly ever felt better.
T'was way worth it. I tried a bong session after the first 2 weeks smoke free, because I thought I missed the routine, but upon having the bong smoke I realized that it added nothing but the bad to the whole experience. Never looked back.

To be honest, I did chew the nicotine gum for years. Switched to regular gum for awhile then just completely stopped.

Now a days I'm working on an extreme reduction in my consumption of beer. Not trying to quit entirely, just ceasing the "habit" part of it. I find that no matter whatever urge I have, it's just a waiting game when it comes to overcoming it in the moment. The urge always passes if it's not fulfilled. I practice remembering the negatives whenever the thought occurs. Fwiw

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^ awesome

congrats ripper !!!
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It takes about a year or so to get over the cravings. I was a two-pack-a-day smoker for 20 years.
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