Don't tell me that Mike, I am right at that just about to give up for good, but don't want to have that damn craving 10 years down the track, especially after a hot hard bike riding day and having a couple of beers.
It was a craving for about one year, I was a serious smoker, but then progressively lessened. Nowadays (and for many years) it has been easy to ignore but at times eg. when I walk past a smoking area and get a whiff of tobacco I do think "That smells good" but I have no trouble ignoring such.
Give it up Ric, as soon as you can, the damage to ones health is immeasurable.
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"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken"
Oliver Cromwell, 3rd August 1650 - in a letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland
I gave up 49 years ago, cold turkey, just forgot my cigarettes going to work and challenged myself each period.... will wait and buy some at lunchtime.... no, wait until I get home... no, have lasted all day will start tomorrow..... no, will wait another day.... I never smoked again, saved a fortune, got rid of smokers breath. One of the best decisions I have ever made.
When I gave up, a pack of Styvesant(?) cost 37 cents, how can anyone afford to smoke today??
34 years since I gave up, took two years for the craving to minimise but, damn!, I still miss it :)
heavy smoker for nearly 60 years .tried every thing to quit, cost nearly as much as the smokes for all the patches, pills and potions some worked for a while ,then something would trigger the desire for a smoke . then one day i said to my self ,self lets get serious you can do it. cold turkey five years on still miss a smoke occasionally with a beer or a coffee, but like the man said one day at a time
I believe it is still the case that nicotine is the most addictive substance we know, more so than heroin.
For *serious* smokers giving up is f****** hard! And I get very grumpy with the holier than thou brigade who demean smokers but, no doubt, consider drug addiction to be "an illness we should be sympathetic towards", gggrrrhhhh....
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"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken"
Oliver Cromwell, 3rd August 1650 - in a letter to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland
Mike, even though I am a smoker, or on the waining side of one, I am really fit. Covid, has stopped me from doing interstate trips on the bike, due, to having to to be able evacuate a state in a hurry. That is not possible on a bike. But even at the height of my smoking, I could put in a 150km day, back to back, and do a 5000km trip with my dog in tow, up some pretty narly hills, and not notice it in my chest. Yeah, sure not smoking will make my breathing much better generally, but I don't think it will change much out on the road.
-- Edited by Bicyclecamper on Saturday 31st of July 2021 05:37:59 PM
