Where to start?
Recycling my Dad's fag butts at the age of not-a-lot (still in Primary School) in a pipe and being spectacularly sick halway through the Antiques Roadshow...this led to a period of anti-smoking that lasted a few years.

Time passes.....................

Your hero is a strapping 16. He has learned the delights of the female species, albeit in complete ignorance of their mental processes, but that's a flaw that has continued to this day. Anyway....

Now at the time the first series of Red Dwarf was on, and there was more obvious smoking being done by Herr Lister in those far off days. In a curious moment, I thought I'd see what all the fuss was about and proffed one of my Dad's Silk Cut. That'd be about 20 years ago and I'm still smoking.

Now I've quit a few times, but have come back to the naughty stuff every time there is the slightest stress or excuse going. That's because I have the willpower of a maggot. Constant nagging from Mumsie has little effect, as I'm pretty certain the booze will kill me before the fags.

However, I'm a daddy these days. I've never smoked in front of, in sight of, or remotely near my kids and never will. I don't smoke indoors full stop as I hate the smell of cigarette smoke (not cigar, pipe or some rollie baccy though). I don't smoke in the car. So what, I think, is the frigging point? Why don't you knock the booze/fags on the head and lead a nice healthy lifestyle?

Because I like the stuff. Leaving the joys of alcohol on one side, I like tobacco in most of it's forms. I like obscure brands: Sweet Afton, Woodbines, Players, Senior Service, non-filter Camels/Luckies, Gauloises, Gitanes and so forth (it also means you don't get many people nicking them, at least not more than once after they turn green). The smell of a proper old fashioned tobacconist....bliss.

However, I'm determined to have a proper mid-life crisis. Healthy eating, exercise and all that. Away with the demon drink. Get thee behind me lovely tobacco....







I feel like shit.


The odds are I might live longer but I'll be such a grumpy aggressive gitbag that someone will be paid to assassinate me, probably by my immediate family.

And it's all Red Dwarf's fault.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 11:17, 3 replies)

try it
I was the same, have you seen Allan Carrs Easyway to stop smoking book - tells you absolutely nothing you don't already know, but worked a treat for me
(little lord muthafuckin fauntleroy, Thu 20 Mar 2008, 12:55, closed)

I'm much the same
I'm the classic un-social smoker. I don't let people at work or (usually) my misses know that I smoke most of the time. Only a couple a day or so unless very stressed, and usually on my own sat on a bench in the park with a book.

Hey, a man's got to have at least ONE vice, right? I've given up for over a year at times but always return. I blame the great dope famine of 1983 for getting me hooked on the 'other stuff'.

I'd smoke rolled up Amber Leaf if the smell wasn't such a give away.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 13:11, closed)

Probably the wrong person to mention this to...
... but wasn't Craig Charles (Lister) caught smoking crack not too long ago?

So it's probably a good thing you only picked up smoking cigarettes off him!
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Tue 25 Mar 2008, 15:41, closed)