I managed it.Dr Lobster* wrote:i only know 1 person who has just gone cold turkey and never touched a cigarette again.
I know someone else that suffered a bad illness and was very rough for a great length of time on a high dosage of medicine. He went from being a 30 a day man to nothing at all. You speak to him now and he's never touched one since and says he's never been tempted either.Nick Harvey wrote:I managed it.Dr Lobster* wrote:i only know 1 person who has just gone cold turkey and never touched a cigarette again.
Mind you, I WAS coming off a VERY large quantity of (totally legal) morphine at exactly the same time.
I stubbed my last cigarette out at 23:59 on 31st December 2000 and haven't touched one since.
Mind you, I don't think I noticed which was cold turkey from the tobacco and which was from the painkillers, but I managed to get through it.
Oh, I AM, definitely, every time I'm with a group of smokers.Isonstine wrote:he's never been tempted either.
When Brezhnev was banned from going anywhere near cigarettes, he’d get his guards to light up in the car. It was something to watch: the limousine would come to a stop, the door would open wide, and out would come a great cloud of smoke with none other than the Comrade General Secretary himself emerging from it...
He’d ask me to blow smoke over him too. Even during the talks. What would happen was that Brezhnev would look at our delegation and say: “Right, Gromyko, you don’t smoke. And you don’t either, Agentov... Victor, help me out, will you?..” The scene was surreal: the head of state is sitting there, and his interpreter is blowing thick clouds of smoke all over him... That same passive smoking that we now know is the most harmful.
