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When was the last time you lost your temper and why?
Former smokers - do you have any advice about quitting?
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:13, 200 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:18, Reply)

Alt: man the fuck up and stop sticking fags in your mouth and lighting them, it's not that hard.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:16, Reply)

combined with her being a serious mental and me being an amateur one.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:26, Reply)

If you look at the most popular QOTW post in my profile there are a few more details.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:34, Reply)

When you ask if she minds you smoking, and she replies "No - but they stink and are doing horrible thigns to your lungs", it means "Yes".
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:17, Reply)

before anyone asks no I have never smoked in front of my daughter - I always smoke outside.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:19, Reply)

Every time I went into the kitchen they started fighting, meaning I couldn't make lunch. This happened about 10 times and the "Dad" fuse blew then.
Never smoked but both of my parents stopped just after my daughter was born. Mam used patches then the "fake" cigarette thing. Dad just stopped
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:17, Reply)

All the "how do I quit?" whining is just pathetic, I tried all sorts but in the end it was just a matter of manning the fuck up and stopping, while accepting I'd be an arsehole for a week or so. Anything else is just window dressing, if you lack the willpower, it won't help, if you have the willpower you don't need it.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:24, Reply)

I understand it would be whining if I had stopped and kept going on about it.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:26, Reply)

Me response was honest, if couched in mock abusive tones. You stop by stopping. It's like the whole diet industry thing, there's no beg secret, you just eat better/less and/or excersize more, simple. However, there's lots of money to be made from gum, patches, inhalers and such, which allow you to remain addicted while not smoking. Granted they can be useful to ween yourself off the habit part, but at the end of the day, no willpower = no quit.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:31, Reply)

the rest is psychological, and therefore arguably gum and that shit makes it worse as it extends the physical addiction.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:39, Reply)

It can be a lesser evil han smoking, as it doesn't give you cancer, but dressing it up in all this arguably makes it feel like quitting is a bigger deal than it is.
1) stop smoking
2) sufer for a few days
3) deal with it.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:45, Reply)

If you truly want to give up, it is far easier to find the willpower.
Giving up is hard/near impossible if you do not actually want to do it.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:27, Reply)

That was what both parents said. They actually really wanted to give up and just did. My Dad, being tight, made sure he finished off all his baccy beforehand so he wasnt wasting money
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:29, Reply)

The dad fuse has yet to be used - but then my daughter is only two months old.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:29, Reply)

It's been quite a long time since I absolutely blew my top, can't remember what it was even over.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:20, Reply)

but it is the most pointless, pathetic and disgusting habit. it smells, it is expensive, it is anti-social, it stains your teeth, your fingers, it is bad for you, you have NO IDEA how badly you stink to non-smokers, both in terms of breath and even just following you into a lift or something. and lots of smokers leave their vile butts lying around. i once had a date with a guy who not only smoked cheap-ass rollies, but left half a tonne of them on the windowsills of my balcony without making any effort to clear them up. one of the rudest, most ignorant things i've ever seen.
so quit because you're a winner!
i think my answer to the second question also covers the first.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:21, Reply)

Went to a cessation clinic at my GP's this morning. Plan is stop tomorrow evening once my wife has gone to her parents for a week. That way I will get through the first few most difficult days without shouting at her.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:25, Reply)

and if that doesn't work... imagine this conversation in 4 years' time...
mummy, where's daddy?
he's not here right now, darling.
mummy, what's a bronchioloalveolar carcinoma?
well, that's why daddy isn't here right now, darling...
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:27, Reply)

you will quit if you think of stuff like that, though. seriously, i used to cry as a small child when my grandma smoked, because i thought she was going to die.
she didn't die - but she DID get gangrene in her foot and lost a toe.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:30, Reply)

This is also in my mind - given what a loudmouthed cunt I am.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:33, Reply)

my grandma's blackened toe stump is definitely why i didn't ever smoke when all my mates were getting into it. and when the doctor told her she had to give up smoking, she said defiantly: and what if i don't?
that's fine, he said. but i'll see you this time next year to take off the rest of your leg.
she gave up.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:36, Reply)

Only, you don't notice the tumour straight away because of the utterly ridiculous and unkempt facial hair.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:40, Reply)

But I'm not aware of him having had a throat tumour.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:42, Reply)

i.e. have a glass of water, go for a 10 min walk, etc.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:28, Reply)

And extremely effeminate.
So, win/win for Battered
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:29, Reply)

So there is no need to go over them again here.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:33, Reply)

lots of girls find the smell of cigars masculine and sexy!
AND some guys find girls smoking cigars to be sexy for some random reason.
prob because the cigar looks like a cock. men are subtle like that.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:34, Reply)

My knowledge is more in the field of things that they find wholly unattractive.
But before I hush, I'm interested to note that you think that a phallus in the mouth is a sexy look for a man...
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:40, Reply)

curious. *pages Freud*
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:47, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:33, Reply)

I'm a fairly recent convert to rollies, and have found that I've cut right down as a result of not being arsed to keep making them. Last night, as I sat down in the porch freezing my nuts off, I figured that winter time is as good a time as any to try giving up. Especially if it's a fucking cold winter.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:31, Reply)

Why are taxi drivers permitted to use bus lanes? Especially bus lanes with their own traffic lights which override the sequence of the normal lights? This makes me angry.
Alt: I gave up cigarettes at college and smoked week instead (because weed smoking doesn't count as smoking). While it is true that you will not smoke the same amount as you would with cigarettes, I would not recommend this method. Especially to a new father.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:26, Reply)

Nor will I - would mess with my epi meds.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:27, Reply)

Took no cigarettes, just gum. By Monday I was barely bothering with the gum.
The key, though, was smugly telling everyone how easy it was. Once I was back in familiar surroundings I got the craving back full force but if I'd caved, I'd have never heard the end of it.
It ended up taking about two weeks of gum to get through it - hard and unpleasant but I just about got through it.
Don't bother with the electronic cigarettes, they don't help with the psychological addiction so you might as well go for gum or patches.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:32, Reply)

This thread is really making me want a cigarette. :(
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:44, Reply)

2) Be prepared to put on a bloody stone in weight. If you fancy a bifter, eat something. If you can eat healthy snacks fine, but if you fancy naughty snacks, you deserve it - you're giving up smoking. You can go on the diet afterwards.
3) Find something else to do. A project, something with your hands, whatever. Be busy.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:32, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:37, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:38, Reply)

If you want to do it, you will, and if you don't or you're doing it to please someone else, you probably won't.
I still have the odd fag very, very occasionally when I'm drunk, but I accept that as fair price to pay for 20 years of smoking.
I do "get" some of rswipes argument about it as a habit generally, but I'm obliged to point out it's certainly no more antisocial than a fair few other habits. and it's no more or less pointless than drinking, it's just providing a narcotic to your body.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:33, Reply)

you think any of us believe you have to be drunk to have a fag?!
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:35, Reply)

not a tag team, though. you have your fags on your own time, ok?
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:37, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:40, Reply)

What, if I give you my address are you going to post one back to me or summat?
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:42, Reply)

but no.
you're still bent!
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:43, Reply)

so the word "still" is a touch superfluous.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:46, Reply)

so you can recover from it if you like.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:47, Reply)

I've edited but now your answer doesn't make any sense - apologies.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:48, Reply)

everyone can still see that i had to turn you down, what with all the persistent pleading cock-gazzes and everything.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:50, Reply)

/more to the point - do girls on there REALLY get men cockgazzing them? Seriously?
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:51, Reply)

i have had a fair few over the years. some by text, admittedly. so there might be a small degree of contributory negligence there.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:53, Reply)

badger put a couple of pics on that, i believe.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:53, Reply)

Unless it's Spak's.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:54, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:39, Reply)

i hope battered has more willpower than i do on that particular score.
if we were on fb right now, i would say "it's complicated".
and made much more complicated after recent dating events.
all good fun though.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:42, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:05, Reply)

alt: don'y tell anyone, cut out the habitual ones that you don't really need first then the day to days and then the ones with drink.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:38, Reply)

So I won't IRL.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:40, Reply)

sometimes telling people gives you an extra incentive not to let them down, so helps. But it really will only work if you are stopping fundamentally for yourself.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:42, Reply)

So that would have been pointless in my life anyway.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:41, Reply)

But I like the positive viewing of the whole thing
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:21, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:39, Reply)

I'm more of a sulker.
I bought a new coat on saturday, I love it.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:47, Reply)

this one www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10001_10001_044010562963_-1?breadcrumb=Home%7EMen%7ECoats+%26amp%3B+jackets
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:53, Reply)

It doesn't mean you've failed, just slipped - get right back on the quitting horse straight away.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:59, Reply)

I only started smoking cigarettes a few years ago and only do so in evenings and weekends. I don't think I am addicted as I go a minimum of two days a week with absolutely none. Why I am telling you this I don't know - it's of no use to you whatsoever.
Sorry old chap.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 11:59, Reply)

IHTH
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:01, Reply)

I fear it's gone for ever.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:02, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:09, Reply)

I requested an angry midget and instead have a weird shiny-looking 5 inch record which appears to be by some kind of 'urban youth'. What the fuck am I supposed to do with this?
Yours etc.'
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:12, Reply)

Surprised your not addicted given your liking of certain other substances.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:02, Reply)

What about MDs? Are you cutting them down with your new financial situation (i.e Greek)?
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:02, Reply)

my quest to woo Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou. I am prepared to give it a try.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:13, Reply)

And by 'free' I assume he means in exchange for use of his arse by his dealer.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:04, Reply)

Still, you should save money on anal reconstructive surgery.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:14, Reply)

I've also cut drastically down on Small Drugs, which has led to the increase in cigarette smoking, used as a cheaper alternative to reefers.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:09, Reply)

What kind of peer pressure led to that?
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:20, Reply)

but a work colleague who's been on 20+ a day since he was in his teens (he's now nearing 50) has been put on Champits(sp?) tablets. He's now 40+ days without a fag.
However, he comes off the tablets in a few weeks, so that'll be the real test.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:10, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:13, Reply)

However he's a grumpy bastard at the best of times, so it's hard to tell.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:22, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:14, Reply)

And at work for being short staffed and impossible to keep up with.
I'm pretty fucking miserable today, all round.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:16, Reply)

can't be more embarrassing than /talk's dildogate.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:17, Reply)

and they gathered around my monitor so I could take them through it all. By the end total strangers who aren't even on b3ta were laughing and taking the piss out of Baldmonkey. It was glorious.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:23, Reply)

but occasionally, quite by accident, he can be excellent value.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:27, Reply)

The witless downs-a-like.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:28, Reply)

just to watch the ensuing fun.
Scarily he has kid(s).
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:29, Reply)

While Two Hats, who seemed the better of the two, solely by virtue of not being Baldmonkey, has sodded off.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:27, Reply)

more worrying is the sheer number of people who think a rampant rabbit is a dildo. it is not a dildo. it is a vibrator. there is a difference. a DIY difference.
if you're going to fake something that has already been done in "american pie", at least be accurate about it...
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:35, Reply)

I don't really care, but I do know.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:48, Reply)

it's like that ghastly THATS THE JOKE picture with the missing apostrophe. it's offensive.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:48, Reply)

I could be wrong, but I don't think I said dildo anywhere.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:51, Reply)

I was close to tears. I had to post in it to congratulate everybody.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:25, Reply)

It might never happen!
Turn that frown upside down!!!!!
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:18, Reply)

Clearly I'm miserable because it already has happened. It's an idiotic thing to say.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:21, Reply)

Makes me want to punch a wall ala BM.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:24, Reply)

it was a large black veined thing.
You'll forgive me if I'm not totally up to speed on female masturbatory aids though?
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:43, Reply)

it did!
b3ta.com/talk/7368115
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:44, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:23, Reply)

( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:25, Reply)

In the middle of another application, with another to complete afterwards.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:34, Reply)

I can't advise against giving up smoking as it was a piece of piss for me.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:36, Reply)

I think it would be quite scary.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:47, Reply)

The fucking chemist where I pick up my weekly pills gave me the wrong ones, I got double morphine and no methadone. Which means I'm going to have to leave work early today to get them before they close. When it's now 12:50. So today, thanks to doctors, I'm only going to be in work for about 3 hours 45 minutes.
Fuck's sake, this is like the 5th time she's done this.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 12:54, Reply)

Sad Times.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 13:15, Reply)

that way if you cave you will just have the one rather than going out and buying a new pack which you "might as well finish" I quit nearly 4 years ago and I still have the pouch I quit with. If I cave now it tastes like shit.
Also, don't bother cutting back. just quit. Nicotine withdraweral only lasts a few days, after that its just habit.
( , Mon 7 Nov 2011, 13:17, Reply)
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