How to keep yourself together...
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Sebastian Schneider wrote: at the end of every day, I will put the money I would have usually spent for cigarettes (around 7 EUR) You spend 7 euros a day for smokes? That's nearly half my day's pay!
Most of it's sin tax.
-- CleaKO The sad part about this instance is that none of the users ever said anything [about the problem]. Pete O`Hanlon Doesn't that just tell you everything you need to know about users?
@Vikram: It's also half of what I get to keep after taxes, insurance and rent. @dan: Yeah. But Germany's cigarette prices are civil, compared with those in the UK. For 40 grams of tobacca, I used to pay 3,50 EUR. 1 Pack of smokes would come in at 4,00 EUR. When I visited Scotland, I paid 3,50 GBP for 12,5 grams of tobacco (and nearly had a heart-attack). BTW, I am still clean. :)
Cheers, Sebastian -- Ceterum censeo, borlandem esse delendam.
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My woman read a book called "the easy way" Alan Carr i think wrote it http://www.allencarrseasyway.com/[^] After she finished it she put it (the book) down and hasn't touched a ciggie since. She'd tried the gum, patches etc etc but this has been by far the best.. Bryce
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Hi all, I need some help. After 6 years, I have joined the club of non-smokers again. My girlfriend told me that she didn't fancy kissing someone who tasted like an ashtray, and asked me if I could reduce my cigarette consumption. I told her that I could not, and I would just stop altogether. Now I am back in the office and I feel that urge to smoke that I was so afraid of. I actually start getting up, only to sit down again. Any tipps? And no, I don't want to smoke again. Sid
I'd been a smoker since I was about 18 (I'm 58 now). I'd tried to give up several times ... I'd tried the patch, just smoking cigars or pipes, even tried snuff. Nothing worked and each time I tried to stop, I was quickly back to 30 a day. About nine and a half years ago, I was in England on business. On the day I was due to fly back to California, I woke up feeling like death warmed up ... coughing and spluttering and hacking. I didn't tell anyone because I was scared they wouldn't let me fly. And, of course, I kept on smoking. After I'd flown non-stop from Gatwick to LAX, the first thing I did when I got out of the terminal building was ... to light up, which started me off again. I really felt like death warmed over, my chest ached, and I was half convinced that I had angina. I cought a shuttle from LAX to Orange County / John Wayne. My roomie was there to pick me up and I threw my pack at him, saying "You finish these, I don't want any more cigarettes today." By this time, I was a friend of Bill W, and so I never actually said that I'd given up smoking. I simply kept saying "I'm not going to have a cigarette just for today, but I might have one tomorrow". I've been saying that now for 9 years, 6 months and 2 days. Some days other people's smoke really bothers me, sometimes I still take a deep sniff, but most of the time I don't notice it, and it doesn't bother me at all. I miss the ability to use tobacco to think through a problem (like Sherlock Holmes) and I find I go through ball-point pen caps at an alarming rate. I also miss the occasional post-prandial cigar, but I know that even one and I'd be back to 30 a day again, or worse.