Smokers

[Atwinator]

I don´t think smoking makes you phyical addicted

Nicotine is highly addictive. I was highly addicted. Part of me really loved it too. Especially the first cig or two of the day, especially with coffee, and definitely with beer!

Why would the goverment wants you to quit?

Because they genuinely care about us! Ha.. what a joke! No seriously I would have to say because of the incredible cost of health care. I think that alone pretty much proves it's horrible for us. I think we cost them less by staying alive and paying taxes on other things than by being unemployed collecting benefits and dying needing chemo, lung removal etc. and bedspace. Once your dead it doesn't cost them but the bill from the diagnosis to death is astronomical. I'd wager more than a lifetime of tobacco taxes.(depending on how long you suffer of course)

I agree though that governments go too far with many laws in an apparent effort to protect us from ourselves. But in many more cases than not they make huge money from doing that, like workmans compensation for example. Big, big profits and salaries(in Canada anyway). And of course they will deny your claim in a heartbeat because, once again, healthcare is very expensive and in Canada the government pays for that. (From your taxes of course)

 

[Sad Max]

I don´t think smoking makes you phyical addicted.

This is one of the best examples I have seen, of the "well it doesn't match what I feel in my gut, so it can't be true."

Never mind thousands of individuals in decades' worth of controlled studies.

Never mind overwhelming statistical evidence.

No, all those researchers and physicians are just foolin', because, well, without having conducted a single controlled study, without having completed a single lab test, you and your gut just know better.

Ridiculous.

 

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

I don´t think smoking makes you phyical addicted.
I smok a pack a day and love it.
But when working as an editor in a studio, I´m not allowed to smoke there so I don´t smoke for 8 hours or more.
When I come home and find myselfe out of cigarettes I´m often too lazy to get out again and get me a pack.

Never experianced any hangover or cold turkey.

I'm sorry, but you still smoke a pack a day right?
Ever gone a week without smoking one cigarette after smoking a pack a day on a regular basis?

Mike

 

[Postmaster]

@ Atwinator and Sad Max.

Hmmm..would you say my behavior sounds addicted? (Not smoking the whole day and beeing to lazy to get a pack in the evening?)
I know guys that would sell their grandmother for a cig after a view hours

@ Michael I quit a whole year because I had a non smoking girlfriend. No Hangover/Turkey whatever just stoped to do her a favour.

After she was gone there was no reason to o abdicate any longer and I started again cause I enjoy smoking - it´s a plessure not a problem for me.

By the way, Nicotine is good for your brain.

Frank

 

[Sad Max]

@ Atwinator and Sad Max.

Hmmm..would you say my behavior sounds addicted?

I'm not interested in your own personal anecdote, when there is such an overwhelming collection of evidence that yes, nicotine is an addictive substance.

People have used heroin without forming long-term addicitive behavior patterns, too, but you don't see a lot of people foolish enough to run around claiming that heroin is non-addicting.

 

[J.R. Hudson]

I'm sorry, but you still smoke a pack a day right?
Ever gone a week without smoking one cigarette after smoking a pack a day on a regular basis?

Mike

I quit for 2 years, straight, cold-turkey.

Started back and am now looking at quitting again after smoking for almost a year. At least this time I know what to expect. It really isn't that hard.

 

[Luis Caffesse]

At least this time I know what to expect. It really isn't that hard.

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes...

“It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.”

-Mark Twain

 

[JConnors]

Smoke, 5-6 a day, not a whole lot.

As far as the argument if it's bad for you or not? How could it not be, it's on fire.

 

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

I quit for 2 years, straight, cold-turkey.

Started back and am now looking at quitting again after smoking for almost a year. At least this time I know what to expect. It really isn't that hard.

I'm not saying that it can't be done. Not at all.

I'm sure there were some side effects of withdrawal though.
That was what I was getting at.
Whether it be a craving or irritability.

 

[Michael Anthony Horrigan]

Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes...

“It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.”

-Mark Twain

LOL! :grin:

My Dad used to do and say the same thing. He would quit on a bet and last the alloted time required and then be right back at it.

Died of cancer many years ago now.

For some people to pretend that it's not addictive or harmful is very interesting. Maybe back in the 50's you could get away with that line of thought but you would have to foolish to think that way now.

Cheers,

Mike

 

[Atwinator]

Postmaster wrote:

Hmmm..would you say my behavior sounds addicted? (Not smoking the whole day and beeing to lazy to get a pack in the evening?)

Not as much as some possibly but it might also mean you have a bit of will power or even unwillpower(new word). Smokers love nicotine because it makes them feel"right". Without it I always felt off because I was addicted to it. My particular personality would ignore my laziness and get me that pack! More of a psycholgical difference I would say but not a real statement on the addiction factor.

 

[ddp]

I smoked for a couple of years in my late 20's. Got tired of cleaning the inside of my car windshield because of the brown uv filter I was exhaling....... Quit While I had the flu. Not sure if it was withdrawals or the flu but a week later I was all better and a non-smoker again. Of course within 6 months of quitting I packed on about 75 pounds that's taken me 15 years to take off so what's a worse health risk cigarettes or obesity?

I'm glad they've passed laws keeping smoking out of public places around here but I do love the smell of a cigarette as I walk by a smoker outside.