Metropol

Hello people,

Was just outside having a fag and I suddenly thought, "hmmmm, I wonder how many fellow TV Forum and Metropol-ers participate in this disgusting habit?"

I really need to cut down - I gave up a few weeks back and didn't touch one for over four weeks, but I've since got back into it and seem to be going through 20 a day

So who smokes and who doesn't? I think we should be told.

all new Phil wrote:Hello people,

Was just outside having a fag and I suddenly thought, "hmmmm, I wonder how many fellow TV Forum and Metropol-ers participate in this disgusting habit?"

I really need to cut down - I gave up a few weeks back and didn't touch one for over four weeks, but I've since got back into it and seem to be going through 20 a day

So who smokes and who doesn't? I think we should be told.

Never seen the need for drugs myself, especially that one.

Makes you stink, shortens your life and now it's been discovered that it you blind anyhow.

I used to smoke a hell of a lot, but havent had a fag (apart from two roll ups) in nine months. I feel the better for it. Being a former smoker I cannot object to those who smoke, but the benefits financially as well as health wise are more than noticeable when you quit.

I tried smoking at a very early age, but thought nothing of it, and never done it again. I often get a really strong urge to smoke, usually at stressful times (like now).

I don't think I could ever become a real smoker, if I did smoke it would be as rare as about one or two a month. Like drinking, sometimes I want to get totally arseholed. I have one drink then get bored of it. Although one time I went a little too far - but only because Salty encouraged me.

I have a strange view to smoking.

If I didn't smoke, I know that there's no way I would consider going out with someone who did smoke. Even now, I find the smell of other peoples cigarette smoke quite repulsive, and yet I smoke!

Saying that though, I find women who smoke quite a turn-off anyway. If I see a woman lighting up in a pub, outside an office or even on webcam, I do wince a little bit. I don't know why!

I really really wish I had never started - but it's true that if you do smoke you eat less and therefore don't gain as much weight as you would have done if you didn't smoke.

The financial cost doesn't bear thinking about. £4.00 a day for 365 days a year is a hell of a lot of money. I am seriously going to cut-down and hopefully quit. I'm not a big drinker, so not much of my money goes on booze, but cigs are nothing but evil.

If smoking patches were a bit cheaper (and not £25!), I would have bought them long ago - but when you have the choice over spending 25 quid or 4 quid in the supermarket, you're going to go for the cheaper, and dare i say it, more deadly option.

And finally, for someone who has an unbelievable fear of death - It doesn't make sense that I am slowly but surely shortening my lifespan.

Jamez wrote:If smoking patches were a bit cheaper (and not £25!), I would have bought them long ago - but when you have the choice over spending 25 quid or 4 quid in the supermarket, you're going to go for the cheaper, and dare i say it, more deadly option.

You can get them free on the NHS - but that's obviously not quite as convenient as just picking them up in the supermarket! But if you're still interested, you can find your local service by phoning them on 0800 169 0 169 or texting GIVE UP and your postcode to 88088. Or looking on their pisspoor website. Advert ends here...

I just phoned that number, and I swear the woman was either drunk or it was her first day.

She spoke so...slowly...and slurrreddd.... and she didnt know the phonetic alphabet, so giving my postcode to her took ages along with my phone number which begins 02920. She was going "0....2..0...9..9....."

"No, no...it's 02920..."

"0.........2....9....0...2.."

"02920..."

"0...2....9...2...0......"

And after all that kerfuffle, she gave me a local number to ring. So I rang that, but they aren't open at weekends.

Anyone would think that no one cared if I gave up!

Never smoked a single one. Hardly advisable in someone with a replacement heart valve anyway.

Haven't had one since 23:59 on 31st December 2000.

What's that? Four years, eight months, nine days, thirteen hours and about fifteen minutes, NOT that I'm still counting, or anything.

Prior to that, yes I DID smoke for something over forty years.

Horrible, Horrible habit with all the disguisting smells attached.

Tried it once at school, thought it was disgusting, never did it again.

I would say that I'd never go for someone who smoked, sadly my theory is out the window just now.

babyben wrote:I would say that I'd never go for someone who smoked, sadly my theory is out the window just now.

Because no-one, smoking or non-smoking, would ever go for you?

On a fabber note - I'll now celebrate that my 500th post was one of such wit!