Dying for a Fag - ?

[raleighnut]

Vaping made it possible for me to stop smoking. I had tried many times before that. I did vape regularly for maybe two years and then got bored and just stopped doing it. It was surprisingly easy to stop compared to my efforts at stopping the fags.

I felt considerably better when vaping compared to smoking and noticed no real difference when I stopped vaping. Of course it's better not to vape at all, but I am convinced it is a much less dangerous option than the fags.

My biggest gripe with vaping now is the use of disposable vapes that people seem to throw away. Cigarette buts littering the streets is bad enough but throwing away batteries is bound to leach dangerous chemicals into ground.

My cigarette addiction is completely cured. I have no interest in ever smoking again. Sometimes I can look at someone else sitting relaxing with a cigarette and think I used to enjoy that, but then I remember it is not a one off. They have to go on smoking, probably 20+ times a day. They can't function properly until they've coughed their way through their first smoke of the day. Every time they get on a bus or train, go to the pictures or theatre, visit the home of a non-smoker, they are just thinking about when they can next smoke. Life as a smoker is both shorter and more miserable and you pay a fortune for the privilege. Every day I feel grateful I no longer smoke.

Still smoking has saved me a lot of money, I no longer go to pubs spending a lot of cash on overpriced beer in the company of boorish twunts and listening to shite on the 'jukebox'. At nearly £6 a pint I can get a bottle of wine cheaper and sit in front of my HiFi listening to music I like without the worry of getting home and maybe someone who takes exception to how I look attempting to change it.
One good thing about the 'smoking ban' is that if you're outside smoking a doobie no-one gives you a 2nd glance, but before if you were outside having a toke people knew.

 

[All uphill]

So where's the £100,000 I've saved by not smoking?

 

[PaulSB]

If you were to offer me miracle rolling tobacco that has no health risks but was in all other respects like tobacco I'd be on to it like a shot, and I haven't smoked cigs regularly for about 30 years. I still sometimes "smoke" pens and the like. Booze on the other hand, I wouldn't go back to even miracle safe booze.

Absolutely. I didn't always "enjoy" smoking but there were occasions when I did. Sitting back in the sun with a whisky or brandy perhaps a glass of red. Boy, I miss that and I could do it again at the drop of a hat......and then it would start again and the last however many years would have been wasted.

Nicotine is like any other addiction, it's always there just easier to fight off and ignore as the years roll by.

 

[raleighnut]

So where's the £100,000 I've saved by not smoking?

Spent on sweeties and chewing gum.

 

[Vantage]

I was 19 when I started. It looked cool. I can't forget how much coughing I did after that first one and I still wonder what the hell made me think it was ok after nearly emptying my lungs onto the ground. My mates had a good laugh about it.
I was 36 when I gave up having peaked at 40+ cigs a day. I'd tried 7 or 8 times to quit before that.
I've lost a grandad and several aunts to cancer over the years. Thankfully, all but one of them have also quit smoking.
Fizzy lollipops were my go to in place of cigs.

 

[Vantage]

I read in a news feed the other week that 'celebs' are making smoking cool again.
Scary.

 

[fossyant]

Vaping is a big issue. My son vapes, as do his mates. We go nuts if he vapes in his bedroom - the window is open he says. Well he can fark off, as it leads to MrsF ending up on her asthma inhaler. Whilst better than smoking, to carry on doing it in our house is not acceptable. He's had some right telling offs - 24 going on three. You wanna smoke, go outside.