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  • D Dalek Dave

    Lighting up a cigarette in my front room! My wife is away for another 36 hours.. I will de-everything the room! But the joy of a smoke and a type is something I havent had for years! Just poll this one, who smokes and who doesn't? (when coding or when outside etc)

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    CataclysmicQuantum
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    I smoke, I like to smoke after a finish a job. I like to smoke a certain wonderful smelling green herb before I start the job.

    The Digital World. It is an amazing place in which we primitive humans interact. Our flesh made this synthetic machine. You see, we are so smart, we know a lot of stuff. We were grown from cells that came from the universe, which the matter and physics I'm typing in it is amazing how the universe is working. Human life is very amazing. How I experience this sh*t its like wow.

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    • D Dalek Dave

      Lighting up a cigarette in my front room! My wife is away for another 36 hours.. I will de-everything the room! But the joy of a smoke and a type is something I havent had for years! Just poll this one, who smokes and who doesn't? (when coding or when outside etc)

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      urbane tiger
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      I stopped when the doc said - no stop, no op - got the scars to prove it too.

      TUT Reward Excellent Mistakes, Punish Mediocre Successes

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      • D Dalek Dave

        Lighting up a cigarette in my front room! My wife is away for another 36 hours.. I will de-everything the room! But the joy of a smoke and a type is something I havent had for years! Just poll this one, who smokes and who doesn't? (when coding or when outside etc)

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        Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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        I quit almost 4 years ago when my girlfriend (now my wife) asked me to quit. Haven't had one since and I had a 60 cigarette a day habit

        "Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon

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        • D Dalek Dave

          I can send you a nice Cuban! I have many I go to Cuba every year and always bring back 100!

          ------------------------------------ "I want you to imagine I have a blaster in my hand" - Zaphod Beeblebrox. "You DO have a blaster in your hand" - Freighter Pilot "Yeah, so you don't have to tax your imagination too hard" - Zaphod Beeblebrox

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          MarkB777
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          Cuba goes for world's longest cigar :)

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          • D Dalek Dave

            Lighting up a cigarette in my front room! My wife is away for another 36 hours.. I will de-everything the room! But the joy of a smoke and a type is something I havent had for years! Just poll this one, who smokes and who doesn't? (when coding or when outside etc)

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            originSH
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            I used to smoke a lot of cigarettes, but I gave up tobacco almost two years ago now.

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            • D Dalek Dave

              By learning to spell 'YOU'

              ------------------------------------ "I want you to imagine I have a blaster in my hand" - Zaphod Beeblebrox. "You DO have a blaster in your hand" - Freighter Pilot "Yeah, so you don't have to tax your imagination too hard" - Zaphod Beeblebrox

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              Rajesh R Subramanian
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              ...and by making posts that has a value of some kind. :)

              Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. - Cicero .·´¯`·->Rajesh<-·´¯`·. Codeproject.com: Visual C++ MVP

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              • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                I quit almost 4 years ago when my girlfriend (now my wife) asked me to quit. Haven't had one since and I had a 60 cigarette a day habit

                "Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon

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                Lost User
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                60 a day? 60/16 is nearly 4 an hour non stop!

                Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

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                • D Dalek Dave

                  Lighting up a cigarette in my front room! My wife is away for another 36 hours.. I will de-everything the room! But the joy of a smoke and a type is something I havent had for years! Just poll this one, who smokes and who doesn't? (when coding or when outside etc)

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                  Lost User
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                  Call me a rebel but I decided to not smoke when I was young, it paid off.

                  Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

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                    60 a day? 60/16 is nearly 4 an hour non stop!

                    Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.

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                    Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                    Yup. I used to chain smoke. The first thing I did when I woke up was a have a cig, before anything and it was the last thing I did before I slept (technically brushing my teeth was the very last).

                    "Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon

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                    • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                      I quit almost 4 years ago when my girlfriend (now my wife) asked me to quit. Haven't had one since and I had a 60 cigarette a day habit

                      "Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon

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                      Paul Watson
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                      How did she ask you? I don't want my girlfriend to start smoking again (she is pregnant so has quit for now but she says she will start again after breast-feeding.)

                      regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                      Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

                      At least he achieved immortality for a few years.

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                      • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                        I quit almost 4 years ago when my girlfriend (now my wife) asked me to quit. Haven't had one since and I had a 60 cigarette a day habit

                        "Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon

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                        Gary R Wheeler
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                        Good for you! I quit smoking January 1, 1991. Starting smoking was the dumbest fucking thing I ever did, and quitting was the smartest.

                        Software Zen: delete this;
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                          How did she ask you? I don't want my girlfriend to start smoking again (she is pregnant so has quit for now but she says she will start again after breast-feeding.)

                          regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                          Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

                          At least he achieved immortality for a few years.

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                          Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                          She used the old aged adage, if you love me you'll quit it for me. But she helped convince me by telling me she wants to grow old with me and she wants me healthy and all that. Between us though, she was all I needed to tip the balance because before she asked I already wanted to quit. Then I did. Cold turkey.

                          "Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon

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                          • G Gary R Wheeler

                            Good for you! I quit smoking January 1, 1991. Starting smoking was the dumbest fucking thing I ever did, and quitting was the smartest.

                            Software Zen: delete this;
                            Fold With Us![^]

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                            Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                            Gary R. Wheeler wrote:

                            Starting smoking was the dumbest f***ing thing I ever did, and quitting was the smartest.

                            That's exactly how I feel, only I feel getting married to her was the smartest thing I ever did :)

                            "Every time Lotus Notes starts up, somewhere a puppy, a kitten, a lamb, and a baby seal are killed. Lotus Notes is a conspiracy by the forces of Satan to drive us over the brink into madness. The CRC-32 for each file in the installation includes the numbers 666." Gary Wheeler "You're an idiot." John Simmons, THE Outlaw programmer "I realised that all of my best anecdotes started with "So there we were, pissed". Pete O'Hanlon

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                            • D Dalek Dave

                              Lighting up a cigarette in my front room! My wife is away for another 36 hours.. I will de-everything the room! But the joy of a smoke and a type is something I havent had for years! Just poll this one, who smokes and who doesn't? (when coding or when outside etc)

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                              Roger Wright
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                              I cut my IT (and engineering) teeth with a huge mug of coffee and a cigarette smouldering in the ash tray on my desk until the wee hours of morning, long after the common herd had left for the day. It is still difficult for me to tackle anything requiring deep concentration or intense creativity without a smoke burning beside me and caffeine coursing through my veins. Smoking is a definite aid, wonderful for those mini-breaks necessary to survive a furious brain-storm, and the anti-smoking bias that has swept the world has greatly diminished the productivity of technical workers world-wide. On the other hand, though, the dullards left in the industry will live a lot longer. :-D

                              "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                              • D Dalek Dave

                                Lighting up a cigarette in my front room! My wife is away for another 36 hours.. I will de-everything the room! But the joy of a smoke and a type is something I havent had for years! Just poll this one, who smokes and who doesn't? (when coding or when outside etc)

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                                Member 96
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                                I smoke unfortunately. Quitting is easy, I've done it a million times. We started a bad habit of smoking inside over the winter and now the house reeks, historically we've always smoked outside. I smoked once while coding for a couple of months and turned almost instantly into a *heavy* chain smoker and realized that was a very bad idea. I don't plan on trying to quit, instead I plan on cutting back to just a few essential ones for a while then think about it once I'm down to a reasonable amount.


                                "The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying." - David Ogilvy

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                                  How did she ask you? I don't want my girlfriend to start smoking again (she is pregnant so has quit for now but she says she will start again after breast-feeding.)

                                  regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

                                  Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

                                  At least he achieved immortality for a few years.

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                                  Member 96
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                                  It won't matter at all how you ask, all that matters is that the smoker wants to quit in the first place. If they don't there's nothing, literally nothing you can say that will make any difference. It's commonly reported that smoking is harder to quit than heroin or alcohol and the person has to *really* want to quit, once they do it becomes very easy.


                                  "The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying." - David Ogilvy

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                                    I smoke unfortunately. Quitting is easy, I've done it a million times. We started a bad habit of smoking inside over the winter and now the house reeks, historically we've always smoked outside. I smoked once while coding for a couple of months and turned almost instantly into a *heavy* chain smoker and realized that was a very bad idea. I don't plan on trying to quit, instead I plan on cutting back to just a few essential ones for a while then think about it once I'm down to a reasonable amount.


                                    "The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying." - David Ogilvy

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                                    Mycroft Holmes
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                                    For years my wife tried to convince me to quit, I still remember a keyboard littered with ash and a huge ashtray to the left of the screen. I did it the way you are going to try, cut back from 3 an hour to 2 and slowly got it down to 4-6 a day. I went skiing one day and forgot the smokes - didn't bother for the rest of the week and just kept going from there. That lasted a year but I eventually took it up again when we shared a house with a smoker :rolleyes:, never to the original volume but 4-6 a day was my intake. It was even easier the last time, I've quit now for 4 years. You are right in that unless YOU want to quit nothing will make you. Best you can do is cut down. Hope something changes your mind soon :)

                                    Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                                    • D Dalek Dave

                                      Lighting up a cigarette in my front room! My wife is away for another 36 hours.. I will de-everything the room! But the joy of a smoke and a type is something I havent had for years! Just poll this one, who smokes and who doesn't? (when coding or when outside etc)

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                                      Brady Kelly
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                                      Haven't touched the weed for just over a year now.

                                      Pits fall into Chuck Norris.

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                                        how did u bcame a silver member?

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                                        Brady Kelly
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                                        WTF has that to do with this thread? :confused:

                                        Pits fall into Chuck Norris.

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                                          WTF has that to do with this thread? :confused:

                                          Pits fall into Chuck Norris.

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                                          This is the lounge. it doesn't have to be related to anything ;P

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