Smoke Kills

[JetSwing]

You're about to see pretty funny flash animation. What you won't see is anything graphic or offensive...unless you think an intern giving a bj is offensive. :lol:

http://media.putfile.com/smokekills

[Blazinjr]

I used to but quit at the beginning of this year.

Now I'm almost done with the snuff too.  The last couple cans I bought dried up before I used it all.  

I am also back to 2 cans or 20 oz bottle of pop a day.    I guess every little bit helps.

[Alphamazing]

My father does, and he keeps trying to quit, but can only last for about 6 months before he gives in again. I am really trying to get him to quit, but it's hard on him. Does anyone have any advice for him and me? It would be greatly appreciated.

[Blazinjr]

You kick him in the nads whenever you see him with a cigarette

It work with the dog,  he don't poop on the floor anymore. :dunno:






:mrgreen:

[un1261]

I quit over 2 years ago. Thanks to drugs and a really good support group.

[vtlion]

I smoked 1/2 to 1 pack each day from age 16-20.  Then the chronic coughing started and I gave it up.  I went about 5 years without so much as a puff, and now I allow myself the occasional celebratory cigar (maybe four or five in a year).  I don't consider that to make me a smoker.

[Narcissus]

I don't even think I wanna watch the video. I'm not too bad though, I hardly smoke at all throughout the year, its just during the summer when I'm on course with the infantry that it gets to me.

[JetSwing]

I don't even think I wanna watch the video.

it's just a funny flash animation...nothing graphic or offensive to smokers as the title might indicate.

[sys49152]

I quit a few years ago.  I really wish I had never tried it in the first place.  That way I wouldn't know what I was missing...

Hanging out with my friends having a few beer.. time for a smoke

Just finished an awesome dinner.. time for a smoke

Half way down one of the most beautiful ski slopes, let's stop.. time for a smoke

Can't solve this damn problem, need some time to think.. time for a smoke

There are probably a few hundred other examples.   I'll be the first to admit that you never really forget how good they really are.  It's just a question of life time control.  It would be soooo much easier if they just stopped selling them everywhere!  

I cold turkey'd the crap out of my system.  3-4 days before your body starts making acetylecholine again and you don't feel like a bag of crap.  And a life time of psychological training.  My wife's a big fan of Zyban + the patch.  She's had a very very large number of her patients stop from this combination.  It takes the edge off the depression which I think is half the battle.  After getting off nicotine nothing feels "fun" for a long long time.

[weaselnoze]

dude now i dont want to quit.  life is depressing enough and now ur sayin nothing will be fun for a long long time..  i wish i had never started either.

[sys49152]

Yeah, that was way more negative than I wanted.

I have kids now.  I want to play ball with them.  I want to help them through school.  I want to see them get married.  I want to play with my grand kids.  I want to keep my wife company as long as she'll have me, even after viagra loses its charm.  I want to be around for a while.  That's why I quit.  Yeah, you miss it, but there's a lot more you'll miss more.

[Roadstergal]

My dad quit cold turkey when I was maybe 5.  He's ridiculously stubborn, though, and that probably helps.  I was never even vaguely tempted to try smoking.

Tangentially - it pisses the ever-loving goddam crap out of me to see/smell/feel people flicking their ashes and butts out of their window.  If you want to smoke, fine, but keep that shaZam! in your car.  You have an ashtray for a reason.

I did see someone in a Grand Cherokee flicking his ashes out of the window - and the airstream drew them right into the open rear window.

[yamahonkawazuki]

video was pretty good, until that animated plane hitting what resembled wtc :x

[Blueknyt]

smoked for over 12 years, and ive been off them for about 4.5 years now.  when i finnaly decided to quit,  every time i wanted one, i would put it in my mouth but not light it and continue with what ever i was doing. after a min or so i would slide it back into the pack and tell myself i would have it later on.  after about 2-3 weeks your body has gotten over nic withdrawls and its all mental from there.  for 2 weeks i carried around 3/4 a pack of smokes finnaly i passed them over to my wife who still smokes.   every now and then i want one, but it passes quick, hell now an then i have a dream im smoking and wake up confused.   If someone truely wants to quit, they have all the tools they need in thier head. alot of gimmicks are just that. they make you believe they work but its just a crutch to take the edge off the withdrawls.

[Blazinjr]

Tangentially - it pisses the ever-loving goddam crap out of me to see/smell/feel people flicking their ashes and butts out of their window.  If you want to smoke, fine, but keep that shaZam! in your car.  You have an ashtray for a reason.

Not all the new cars have ashtrays.  I am not defending them just stating a fact.  They have what they call a smokers package.

[Jake D]

I chew Skoal.  I only smoke when I'm drunk.

[zukiGS500]

I tried telling myself that I would only smoke when I was drinking. That didnt go over very well. I found myself opening a beer after I woke up the morning after a party, or in between classes. But hey I was sticking to my goal.

[Badger]

I smoke about a pack a day, and have for somewhere around 16 or 17 years.  I've compiled a quick list of the "top ten reasons smoking rocks"...

10. People with screaming children don't usually sit in the smoking section of restaurants.  (not that we have smoking sections in restaurants anymore, but it was nice when we did).
9. Free pass to avoid the slow, steady decline of old age...No need to save for retirement!
8. Living the excitement of wondering what is going to kill you first, cigarettes or some random idiot.
7. You get to be the social scapegoat so that people don't have to concern themselves with the real health problems they're bringing on themselves.
6. Perfect strangers freely express their concern for your personal well being by lecturing you on how bad for you smoking is.  As if it was news to you.
5. The smoke you're breathing in is probably healthier than the 'normal' polluted air around most major cities (hey, at least it's filtered).
4. You get to feel like a hostage when unable to have a cigarette for 12 hours because you're flying cross country with multiple stops (too short to go out and back in through security, and not a single smoking area)...but once you reach your destination you get to have the Best. Cigarette. Ever. (provided the TSA didn't confiscate your lighter and/or matches in the random enforcement of arbitrary regulation).
3. You get that "runner's high" just walking up a flight of stairs.
2. Constant entertainment examining the wealth of fascinating things you cough up on a regular basis.

And the #1 reason smoking rocks:

1. You live in a world filled with irony:  it's always the folks that think "exercise" means lifting a quarter pounder to their pie hole that like to lecture on the "health risks of smoking", the people that wear an entire bottle of cheap perfume that complain about how bad cigarettes smell, the folks that drive rediculous SUV's that speak of "polluting the air", and the mothers who take their screaming children to restaurants that berate you for forcing your cigarette smoke on them.

[Roadstergal]

1. You live in a world filled with irony:  it's always the folks that think "exercise" means lifting a quarter pounder to their pie hole that like to lecture on the "health risks of smoking", the people that wear an entire bottle of cheap perfume that complain about how bad cigarettes smell, the folks that drive rediculous SUV's that speak of "polluting the air", and the mothers who take their screaming children to restaurants that berate you for forcing your cigarette smoke on them.

I fit none of the above, and although I think everyone is free to harm themselves in whatever way they see fit, I don't think everyone is free to harm others when the others have little choice in the matter.  Smoking involves everybody around you.  At least guys who eat 3 Big Macs a day and die of a heart attack at 40 don't drag me into their self-destruction.

[Badger]

I don't think everyone is free to harm others when the others have little choice in the matter.  Smoking involves everybody around you.

I'm just going to assume that any debate on the validity of the ETS studies and findings would be a waste of everyone's time.