Warning : smoking can ruin your whole entire life

[Mavideol]

On 9/22/2020 at 3:32 PM, federico said:

(i realize I probably will not see PSG win the champions League

I do feel for you and wish you the best, enjoy life as much as you can one day at the time,  as for your PSG wish, sorry man ...."pas de chance mon ami"   even if you live (I wish you) to be 100 .... had to tell you the truth and hope I put a smile on your face 555

[mr mr]

smoked for 20 years but quit almost 5 years ago at 39. 

 

good luck to anyone struggling. 

Edited September 27, 2020 by mr mr

[federico]

2 hours ago, Stevemercer said:

Thank you for sharing. Best wishes and good luck. I really hope you are able to make it back to Thailand to visit your daughters one day.

Thank you Steve but my daughters are 100% farang and well and alive in Paris !

cheers

[BusyB]

 

Thanks ever so much for your story OP. I wish you every ounce of strength and humor in your dealing with the big C. The way you write though it looks as if the doctors have written some very clear stuff on the wall.

 

I had my first fag when I was 11. It made me pretty puky, but I was determined to practice  because I wanted to ‚belong‘ to the ‚men‘. Not much cash so a lot of my smoking was sporadic, the ‚couple off‘, ‚gizafag’ kind at the school bogs, the odd pack of 10. At 15 I joined the army and having cash, went up to 10-20 a day self-rolled. Golden Virginia and Old Holborn for those who can remember.

 

Later graduated to Disque-Bleu when I met and fell in love with a French woman. Finished up on Marlboro Rollies. Average consumption by then 30-40 a day.

 

At 35 I had to kick alc and drugs or die. Still hung on to the fags though. 

 

In the end it was Allan Carr and the experiences of kicking the other chemicals that helped me quit smoking at 41.

 

Became a happy non-smoker! Honestly didn’t miss them for a day. Only had one slight temptation since then, about 15 years ago at work, in the middle of a very difficult bout with a supervisor. But I just knew that like every other drug, one would be too much, and a thousand not enough, and I knew I’d feel like faecal matter if I let the <deleted> get to me like that. The feeling left very fast.

 

I’m writing in the hope to first of all say many thanks for reaffirming my decision.

 

Also to say I really do wish you well - but also that I hope I have dodged the bullet, but still can’t be certain that some DNA alteration isn't quietly multiplying inside that I don’t know about. The thing about lung cancer is that it presents so damn late as you know.

 

And also to give anyone else who’s on the brink, or aware of the danger, encouragement. I really sometimes can’t believe that I left the fags behind from one day to the next, or that it was so easy. Can’t believe I did it for so long at such a rate. Or that anybody could stand being next to me the way I stank. (Funnily enough I never had any problems meeting women for one-night stands, affairs or even marriage. Poor sods!)

 

I’d suggest Allan Carr anyway (though take what he says about alc with a pinch of salt… my opinion). Worked like a dream with me.

 

All the best to all ciggy sufferers everywhere.

Busybee

Edited September 27, 2020 by BusyB
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[Pedrogaz]

In the west smoking has become a disease of poorer people. 

[pomchop]

Nicotine is the most addictive thing i ever experienced.  I could not go ten minutes without craving a cig.  Wake up several times a night to smoke.  Developed cough, facial ticks and worse.

Tried and quit dozens of times only to go back.  Finally got off of them 15 or so years ago using the gum and patches and a determination that said NO MORE.  Not easy but it can be done.

 

So very happy to be done with them as my health, both mental and physical, is light years better than during my addiction days.

 

Good luck to OP and thanks for sharing.  Just maybe your story will convince a few more to give it up before the Big C or worse takes over.

[Lacessit]

I gave up smoking in 1983. It's not just lung cancer, there's emphysema and heart disease as well. Many smokers know they are 20 times more likely to die of lung cancer than a non-smoker, but the nicotine addiction is too strong. Plenty of internal memos in tobacco companies discussing how to increase the addictiveness of their products.

My best wishes to the OP, hope the chemo goes well.

[billd766]

I started about 12 or 13 in the md 1950s but never stuck with it. As a boy entrant in the RAF from 1960/61 I needed a permit signed by my Mum and as a smoker she refused to sign. Later I went through a phase of tailor mades, roll ups, a pipe and even cigars for a while.

 

I gave up successfully 5 times in the late 1960s and started again in 1969 with duty frees and back in mid 1970 I gave about 600 fags to my mate and all my coupons and I have never smoked since. My Thai wife has smoked all the 27 years I have known her but even she has cut back in the last few years.

 

I stopped drinking on June 1st this year as I thought that 3 bottles of Hong Thong a week were getting a bit much, and at 76 after 60 years of drinking I thought it was about time my body had a rest.

[xtrnuno41]

Fred, it's a choice you made in life, you cant turn it back.

Also made that choice when i was 13 and still smoking now after 48 years.

It is hard now as you realize, you are going to miss good things, but it's life.

 

When i started working i was working in a chemical area.

Many chemical substances, could cause cancer. That time was also not about prevention of contact with it. Same as for smoking, it all came later. Too late for me, as i liked smoking then.

Many attempts for quitting in my life, i know it is in the mind.

 

Should i have stopped my working? I did not, worked 32 years in that environment.

It's a choice. There was even a substance, if you smelled it, you were way above max level.

Worked also with asbestos gaskets. Asbestos is still around in the world.

But at that time no one cared and you even had asbestos plates in the kitchen. 

In your younger days, we had lead in our petrol and no one cared, first. Just because of one man

it disappeared, as it was really toxic for humans.

 

I know the smoke of a cigarette has about 300 chemical substances in it not right for you.

However a medicine (statines) for high cholesterol gave me more problems then all the smoking.

I stopped with that medicine, weird i could, but ok it's not addictive like nicotine.

It is a choice, but saw that medicine could bring down my body, health real bad. Positive thing it worked for high cholesteol.

Now i take curcuma, specialistdoctor said it wouldnt work. Yet my cholesterol went down.

 

My former father in law had chest pain, was a infection on breastbone. But they found out he had a small spot on his lung, cancer, Was operated, took out half a lung and he lived another 20 years.

He did stop smoking then.

 

Fred, as far as you can, live it up and make it worthwhile for you with your family.

Succes and strength to cope with your thoughts and illness.

 

[The Theory]

12 hours ago, Benmart said:

On 9/22/2020 at 6:34 PM, Tagged said:

 

Todays poison is unhealthy food and sugar, and people do not move their body. 

I avoid both.

Please don't forget to mention "salt". 

[bbbbooboo]

Hmmm.... also avoid fast women and slow cars Well done Fred

[micmichd]

5 minutes ago, bbbbooboo said:

Hmmm.... also avoid fast women and slow cars Well done Fred

Easy said. 

My lady is a fast working woman and a good driver. She never made any accidents, though, that's why I let her drive the car. 

Many Farangs here in Pattaya call her a bit "crazy", but she's just a bit overstressed by her hard time management. She gets on my nerves sometimes with her permanent "quick quick" 

Still everybody seems to like us when they see us coming. The young Thai working woman and the older once working Farang who's now a pensioner. Long-distance relationships can come in many strange ways, you know. And that's our way. 

[Dustdevil]

On 9/27/2020 at 12:44 AM, micmichd said:

Yet the Marlboro cowboy died long ago... 

Oh, yes, and I'm so glad I quit so long ago.

[Jillie Norman]

On 9/28/2020 at 1:42 AM, The Theory said:

Todays poison is unhealthy food and sugar, and people do not move their body. 

True, all the processed food are causing deadly diseases like cancer, and people can't stop eating them. 

[ellisael]

i completely and absolutely agree with the conversation that is going on- encountering smokers while traveling is one of my nightmares. However, I must come clean and tell you that my partner was a huge smoker for the first 5 years of our marriage- we read one too many ways of getting over the habit for him. In the end, enrolling him to an anti-smoking course taken by a leading habit-breaking psychologist was really helpful- to this day, we read good psychology blogs about addiction and psychology together- glad to be out of that stressful time. We are currently reading Psychological Science and it has an elaborate part of addictive bhr and its ways of coping

[sanuk711]

As a non smoker "ever" one of the things I liked about Thailand when I came to live here 20+ years ago, was that not many Thai girls seemed to smoke, & Just about every Thai male did.

[micmichd]

On 9/27/2020 at 6:55 PM, BusyB said:

 

Thanks ever so much for your story OP. I wish you every ounce of strength and humor in your dealing with the big C. The way you write though it looks as if the doctors have written some very clear stuff on the wall.

 

I had my first fag when I was 11. It made me pretty puky, but I was determined to practice  because I wanted to ‚belong‘ to the ‚men‘. Not much cash so a lot of my smoking was sporadic, the ‚couple off‘, ‚gizafag’ kind at the school bogs, the odd pack of 10. At 15 I joined the army and having cash, went up to 10-20 a day self-rolled. Golden Virginia and Old Holborn for those who can remember.

 

Later graduated to Disque-Bleu when I met and fell in love with a French woman. Finished up on Marlboro Rollies. Average consumption by then 30-40 a day.

 

At 35 I had to kick alc and drugs or die. Still hung on to the fags though. 

 

In the end it was Allan Carr and the experiences of kicking the other chemicals that helped me quit smoking at 41.

 

Became a happy non-smoker! Honestly didn’t miss them for a day. Only had one slight temptation since then, about 15 years ago at work, in the middle of a very difficult bout with a supervisor. But I just knew that like every other drug, one would be too much, and a thousand not enough, and I knew I’d feel like faecal matter if I let the <deleted> get to me like that. The feeling left very fast.

 

I’m writing in the hope to first of all say many thanks for reaffirming my decision.

 

Also to say I really do wish you well - but also that I hope I have dodged the bullet, but still can’t be certain that some DNA alteration isn't quietly multiplying inside that I don’t know about. The thing about lung cancer is that it presents so damn late as you know.

 

And also to give anyone else who’s on the brink, or aware of the danger, encouragement. I really sometimes can’t believe that I left the fags behind from one day to the next, or that it was so easy. Can’t believe I did it for so long at such a rate. Or that anybody could stand being next to me the way I stank. (Funnily enough I never had any problems meeting women for one-night stands, affairs or even marriage. Poor sods!)

 

I’d suggest Allan Carr anyway (though take what he says about alc with a pinch of salt… my opinion). Worked like a dream with me.

 

All the best to all ciggy sufferers everywhere.

Busybee

I smoked at least 50 rollers a day, and then quit smoking with a finger snip because I didn't want to ruin my gum. I still had a bag of tobacco with me and rolled one after another in my favourite bar in Heidelberg. Until the <deleted> hit the fan: a long-legged German woman came up to make love with me, and we shared the "cigarette after"

Ever since I've travelled in so many planes where smoking is prohibited that I was forced to quit every time. 

 

Nicotine chewing gum is a helpful way to cure your physical addiction, and playing around with your mobile or your girlfriend is a good way to cure your mental addiction. 

[Jillie Norman]

oh, and it could ruin the life of the people around you, particularly their health.

[duncanwilliam]

It's really hard to stop when you are addicted to one thing. But being free from them is so satisfying! 

[rascalman]

I am a US veteran who has been around the world, I have met, connected with many. I have seen, known many smokers. As I have reached old age not smoking was a great choice. I have lost a few close friends to lung cancer. I never will forget them.  SMOKING IS ONE OF THOSE LIFE CHOICES WE ALL MAKE. Please think about it first and quit now! No more yellow fingers, smelly stinking breath. Plus all the money you will save! Now Save your own life please! Think!