My gf's making me give up smoking. Again!
She also has stomach ulcers which means we don't spend the whole weekend getting hammered.

So, to recap, both my hobbies binned, and my life is now empty, apart from my relationship of course. Arsehats!
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 5:34, 21 replies)

to be fair
its not the worst trade off.

She is making you give up two things which lead to an early death.

In 40 yrs you will thank her.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:30, closed)

"Giving up smoking adds years to your life!"
Yes but they're the WORST years, aren't they? They're the years when you're unable to feed yourself, and pee yourself all the time, and can't walk!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:46, closed)

I think you are mixing them up with the drinking years.
Although that may just be my drinking years, I guess.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:48, closed)

But what a boring 40 years it'll be

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:49, closed)

You can die at a ripe old age provided you give up all the things that make life worth living.

Sucks.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:24, closed)

You don't know how old he is now

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:15, closed)

All the above make it out that smoking is what life is worth living for
it clearly isnt.

I smoked for over 10 yrs, gave up (4 years ago).

If you believe that Smoking is an achivement in life, you wont be living much of a life in the first place.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:35, closed)

No.
Just that it's one of life's pleasures, and pleasure is what life is worth living for (unless one is some kind of masochistic freak, in which case one needs to be shot).
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 13:06, closed)

You're fooling yourself if you believe that smoking is one of life's pleasures.

I get it, I know that having that first cigarette of the day, or the one after a meal, or the one after sex, feels pleasurable. It's not really, though. It's just getting you back to the state the rest of us are in all the time.

Smoking = your mind fucking with you, not pleasure.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 14:24, closed)

Fuck me
I'm tempted to start smoking again if it will prevent me becoming this hectoring.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 14:31, closed)

^What she said^
Jesus Christ - sanctimoniousness is never pretty.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 16:09, closed)

Thanks, AV.
I really needed that laugh. That ironic pot, kettle thing is hilarious.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 18:08, closed)

He's going to start banging on about letting the love of Jesus into your life in a minute.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 18:48, closed)

Pffft
You said "banging."
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 23:50, closed)

I have to agree with this.
I used to smoke because I got a buzz, then I smoked because it was something to do, then I realised I smoked because I was craving it. After giving up I've not missed it.
That said, I do li,e the taste of a cigar every now and again, and I have no problem with people smoking around me.
If you want to smoke, do it, but don't pretend for a second it really makes you feel better or that feeling like you need a cig every few hours means you're experiencing some kind of pleasure that non-smokers don't.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 17:52, closed)

I realise giving up smoking makes you feel great,
but it's fucking difficult, and I want to do it in my own time, not because someone with the world's most annoying voice keeps nagging me to do it.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:35, closed)

She needs to have the cure
It's a massive course of antibiotics to kill of the Helicobacter pylori. After having ulcers for years I finally decided to do something about it after throwing up blood one weekend.
Even a madras is no problem these days.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:34, closed)

My dad had them in the 80s
In the days before they believed that bloke who said it was an infection and not stress/acid/other. One of his burst and he had to go into hospital.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:16, closed)

Nasty
It's not fun. Back then they kinda thought you were pulling their leg.
Also had to have the telescope down the throat at an RAF hospital, I dread to think what the RAF nurses got up to.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:47, closed)

Yah, she sort of knows, but the doctors here-Jakarta- tend to be a bit clueless.
She'll be back in the States for while in eleven weeks, so hopefully will get it sorted then.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:32, closed)

One warning
It turns your poo green.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 16:54, closed)