Smokers are jokers

Tallon

Right guys, this thread is for the lads out there who aren't cool, the non-smokers

Now I was lucky, 7 people in my family, and I never started. (migrain and all)
I never had peer presure and never felt the need to kill myself slowly while paying for it!

I hate when I'm out with friends and I have to go outside with them just to not feel left out. Or even worse, when they say, "sure leave your pint there, Tal doesn't smoke, he'll watch it"

Eh.... no I ****ing won't :P

I drove in late to work today, as usual. only to see some dude standing out in the 'smoking shed' which lets be honest, is a ****ty cold horrible recycled bus stop! having an aul cancer stick. i mean, i know your addicted, but get a life......

On a side not, i recently went on a photo trip with 20+ boardsies a couple of weeks ago. Sitting around the camp fire, I looked around and said, 'jesus, I just noticed, noone here smokes' strange how out of a random bunch of people who happened to be there, not one smoked! It was great, no "anyone wanna go outside for a smoke"


I want to know your views on this please

And remember, smokers are jokers, so no jokers in here......

Keano

I have tried smoking in the past but it was never for me. It does get annoying on nights out when I either have to spend my night in the smoking sheds or else sit in the bar on my own!

Krieg

Ive been smoking for 6/7 years now, I was off them for 3 months for financial reasons but started again.

Im, somewhat, a considerate smoker. I have my own rules like not to spark up if im in a room of non-smokers and rules permit me to smoke. Or I check wind direction and provide a few feet distance when smoking at the bus shelter.

I have no problem with people telling me its a bad habit, dirty etc Because they are 100% correct.

The smoking shed is great, best place for exchanging information

tbh

I hate smoking. I smoke.

Internal conflict ftw.

Tallon

Sorry! *cough cough* I said *cough cough* no jokers

tbh

tallon banned. No wait, tbh banned. No, wait, eh...:pac:

Tallon

tbh wrote: »

tallon banned. No wait, tbh banned. No, wait, eh...:pac:

If you want something to ban, may I suggest cigarettes

tbh

Tallon wrote: »

If you want something to ban, may I suggest cigarettes

touche, sir, touche

Otis Driftwood

You know whats worse than smokers?

Preachy people that have never smoked.

They have no idea what its like.

The vast majority of smokers know its a nasty habit with no redeeming qualities,they dont need the fact stuffed down their neck by people that dont have a clue how hard it is to try and quit.

Nicotine is one of the most addivtive and quickest working drugs known to man,its not as simple as just stopping when ever you want.

Tallon

ned, this is not a thread for discussing the potential dangers and addictivness of smokes.

Its a thread, As the Op states, for the non-smokers to give their fellings about the silly stuff we have to put up with. if your a smoker, stop posting here, and more important, stop taking it seriously!!

keithg89

i love smoking!!!

Gran Hermano

All this anti-smoking ranting is rather ungentlemanlike and uncouth.

r3nu4l

[Off-topic]Regarding the difficulty of quitting. Both my parents smoked for years. My Dad was a smoker for over 50 years (started when he was about 10) and my Mam a smoker for about 35 years. Both of them puffed away all through my childhood and made the odd attempt to give up every now and then. There were partial successes but ultimately all ended in failure.

I got married over two years ago, went on honeymoon and rang my parents the day I came back to say we were home and had a great time. My Mam told me that my Dad had gone to the doctor the day before to discuss his chest pain due to 'indigestion', the doc sent him to the hospital for tests and when the doctors ran the contrast dye and completed their tests, told him that he wasn't going home and that instead he was scheduled for a quintuple bypass the next day. They said that they had never seen anyone with arteries so badly clogged who had not had an myocardial infarction (heart attack) and told him that if he did have a heart attack it almost definitely would have killed him.

So suddenly Dad couldn't smoke anymore and Mam was advised not to either. It was a hard struggle but since that day neither one of them has had so much as one puff from a ciggie and I'm f*cking delighted for them and proud of them. It's just a pity the motivation didn't come from a different source and had to come from the cold reality of imminent death

Also, the sight of someone following major coronary artery bypass grafting is not pretty. It ages and weakens you considerably. I hope to God I never have to go through surgery like that. Even up to a year later my Dad was wincing with pain when he had to bend to tie his shoe laces.
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So, yeah, I hate ciggies, tried em as a young lad, liked them but gave it up as a 'bad job' Nothing worse than getting off a train (particularly at rush hour) and having a couple of hundred people spark up all at once. The resulting gust of smoke in the otherwise fresh (if not clean) air is horrible, especially if the wind is blowing it back into your face! Same with crowds of smokers standing around the front doors of a premises.

Smoking is a HUGE risk factor for cardiovascular disease and everything that brings with it, it's not just the cancer that's a problem.

Tallon

After 8 major heart attacks and several operations, my dad eventually died before christmas, never managing to give up despite all the warnings.
My whole family tried to quit but its very hard to stop and griev at the same time.
Just another reason I dont smoke, and I also try to eat healty

RolfHarris

Like loads of people I started smoking when I went away to university. Away from home for the first time, with some cash in my pocket and I wanted to fall in with the cool gang. I smoked til I was in my mid-20s and realised all the money I had was gone. I remember sitting on the bus coming home from work calculating how much of my daily pay packet was going on buying cigarettes. I couldn't believe how much it added up.

So I bought Allen Carr's book on giving up smoking. One of his tips is to pick a date and tell everyone you know that you're stopping on that date. I remember a colleague laughing when I told him I was going off the fags and his laughing was my main motivation. A week later - November 2001 - I had my last cigarette and I've never had one again since.

Smoking is good. You smoke because it's nice and people who have never smoked can't understand that. It's relaxing, it gives you time to think and it calms your nerves. For a while. But it does do something.

The smoking ban has really got rid of the romance of smoking. There's nothing quite as un-attractive as a group of women huddled around the doorway of a pub, in the p*ssing rain, gasping on a cigarette.

L31mr0d

Smoked for a year in secondary school, mainly cigars (liked the creamier taste and texture), then just gave it up one day. Couldn't be arsed anymore. It was a waste of money and time, plus I hated breathing in other peoples smoke. It felt like collective farting. Standing around with a bunch of guys expelling gases. Sure you can stand your own, but breathing in other peoples smoke was just annoying.

Was never really addicted. I think I value time and my freedom to do whatever I want with it as more important. I felt like the cigarettes where dictating when I had to smoke them and I didn't like the loss of control. When smoking on my own it felt like an utter waste of time, I would never smoke indoors as it made everything stink for days. Same reason I never really drink, I like to have the maximum amount of my thinking faculties with me during all waking hours. Alcohol just dulls the senses for me.

That's not to say I don't enjoy the odd 18 y/o Jameson on occasion. Drinking for me is all about quality rather than quantity, and usually only as a night cap.

who what when

I often wonder how future generations will see the whole smoking thing.
On the one hand we live in a time where society and technology are advancing at an enourmous rate and mostly for the betterment of humankind. But on the other a huge number of us take the conscious desicion to kill oursleves by sucking on these previously mentioned cancer sticks.

It really does boggle the mind when you really sit down and logically way up the pro's and con's that smoking is still legal. But not even that because it shouldnt even be necessary to make it illegal as you'd imagine that people quiet simply wouldnt smoke considering theres not one single advantage in doing so!

Hellrazer

Well Im becoming the worst type of smoker ie The reformed one.Been off them now for 3 weeks bar one smoke I had after a few drinks couple of weekends ago.


I really am becoing an absolute bollox--coughing when people light up around me and sparaying air freshner everywhere to counter the smell-all this after 3 weeks.What will I be like if stop for good.

Like the OP Ive noticed its a real no-no these days.Im in the motor trade and when I started(15 yeras ago) everyone in the place smoked--now theres only 2 smokers left here.

L31mr0d

who what when wrote: »

I often wonder how future generations will see the whole living on fault lines thing.

On the one hand we live in a time where society and technology are advancing at an enourmous rate and mostly for the betterment of humankind. But on the other a huge number of us take the conscious desicion to kill oursleves by living where there is a good chance of an Earthquake.

It really does boggle the mind when you really sit down and logically way up the pro's and con's that living near Volcanos, Earthquake zones and frequent hurricanes is still legal. But not even that because it shouldnt even be necessary to make it illegal as you'd imagine that people quiet simply wouldnt live there considering theres not one single advantage in doing so!

fyp

Let's not have this argument. Humans still do, and will do, activities and make decisions that have the possibility of endangering their lives. Technology will not change this. Life is not defined as wrapping ourselves in cotton wool so that we can merely exist until we die.

OldGoat

Tallon wrote: »

Right guys, this thread is for the lads out there who aren't cool, the non-smokers
<SNIP>
I want to know your views on this please
And remember, smokers are jokers, so no jokers in here......

Tallon wrote: »

Sorry! *cough cough* I said *cough cough* no jokers

One wonders at the ligitimacy of a thread where only one side of an argument is permitted. I think smokers will find being called jokers and not being allowed a rebutal is a tad offensive. :rolleyes:

Tallon

OldGoat wrote: »

One wonders at the ligitimacy of a thread where only one side of an argument is permitted. I think smokers will find being called jokers and not being allowed a rebutal is a tad offensive. :rolleyes:

\facepalm

Its not an argument, is a discussion of the phsyical challenges we face like wadding are way thorugh a sea off chimmney sweeps to get to the entrance of a pub

only to be left wallowing in why oh why are we not cool enough to join the -18° people outside

the_syco

Hellrazer wrote: »

Well Im becoming the worst type of smoker ie The reformed one.

Gah. Once you don't start coughing in the smoking area, or in the smoking gardens areas in pubs. BTW, well done on quitting.

=-=

I'm in the tech monkey industry, and I see people starting smoking after working here for a few days/weeks/months. Meh. I'm down to smoking at the weekends, but christ, there are some nights when I'd really love a smoke. Meh. When I drink, I usually smoke. If it's really sunny, my desire for a smoke rapidly increases.

tbh

tbh