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Original poster

Remind me why I don't want a fag

26 replies

colditz · 21/12/2006 14:21

I haven't smoked for years but am in the grip of a craving (God knows why!)

Please can someone list the reasons to remind me why I can't have just one>?

OP posts:
marymillington · 21/12/2006 14:22

cos they stink
cos they make you stink
cos they give you cancer
cost they give other people cancer
cos they cost a fortune
cos you'd have to go outside to smoke it and its fecking freezing

enough?

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 21/12/2006 14:23

Because you're a non-smoker

MamaG · 21/12/2006 14:23
  • they make you smell
  • they make your teeth yellow
  • they make you look older than your years with horrid little wrinkles around your mouth
  • they make you die of cancer
Quootiepie · 21/12/2006 14:23

cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough

stink stink stink stink stink stink

cough cough cough cough cough cough cough cough

moljam · 21/12/2006 14:23

i havent smoked for year but still get cravings.
if you have one it will smell and youll want another and it will cost lots?not very convincing.

mrsflowerpot · 21/12/2006 14:24

because if you really haven't had one for years then you will feel royally sick if you do.

because if you do then you will have to go the same number of years again before you can say you've not smoked for x years.

because it will make you smell.

BettySpaghetti · 21/12/2006 14:25

Because it will undo the years of good work you've done!

I smoked until about 10 years ago and haven't even had 1 drag since as I know it would be the start of the slippery slope.

Its weird how you can still get brief cravings years later isn't it. I sometimes get a waft of a freshly lit cigarette and think I could quite happily smoke one again.

Original poster
colditz · 21/12/2006 14:25

Yes. Al;l is true

I have quite nice white teeth and I want to keep them that way, thankyou.

Plus I have children and don't want to die of lung cancer.

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Original poster
colditz · 21/12/2006 14:27

I am fine until I see someone really enjoying a fag, then I smell it and all I can think is "ooohhhhh suck suck suck, ahhhhh"

Once an addict, always an addict.

OP posts:
expatinscotland · 21/12/2006 14:27

I like a fag every now and again.

Tortington · 21/12/2006 14:28

its just horrile dont do it.

i have tarted after months of giving up will give up yet again in new year with charliecats help.

have had annus horriblus so am not beating self up about it

charliecat · 21/12/2006 14:32

custardo
You dont want Just one, because, rarely, is it ever, just one.
Ask any smoker, how they ended up smoking again after stopping...and they will say Oh ..I just had one...
...and that was 7 months ago...

charliecat · 21/12/2006 14:35

The Smokers Vow

JINGLEBELLgianbun · 21/12/2006 15:16

So you can be around for future Christmases and NOT be the ghost of christmases past!

DingDongDraculaOnHigh · 21/12/2006 15:38

because you will feel a right twit when you are on oxygen in hospital dying of emphysema or lung cancer with your children sobbing at the foot of your bed

pesme · 21/12/2006 15:39

cos you dont want to sit opposite a doctor telling you are going to die of emphesma/lung cancer etc thinking 'oh fuck its all my fault'

DingDongDraculaOnHigh · 21/12/2006 15:39

(so I tell myself every time i fall off the wagon)

lornaloo · 21/12/2006 15:41

Because one always leads to another. Thats how it all started in the first place.

Blandmum · 21/12/2006 15:44

Because if you don't you will not have to spend the afternoon as I have, setting up a trust fund for my children, that will come into play when my DH dies.

However hard it is to quit, it is no-where near as hard as explaining to your children that their daddy is going to die.

Dh never smoked, and his cancer is not his 'fault'. You don't want to be so daft as to risk an avoidable cancer, do you?

sending you all the will power in the world.

fiiiivemadmarchhaaaares · 21/12/2006 15:44

You cant just have one. I have tried for years to give up and just of the odd one when Im out but it always bulids up again.

Makes yer feel like shit as well.

ashoesandbagsbird · 21/12/2006 15:45

Because you will really hate yourself if you do.
You don't really need one.

mousiemousie · 21/12/2006 15:45

Because just one burns all the little protective hairs of your throat which take months to re-grow

Just one will make you smell horrible and make you feel ill

Resist and feel proud, sucumb and feel crap

If one leads to more you will look like those candidates on 10 years younger with yellow crinkle sag skin

fiiiivemadmarchhaaaares · 21/12/2006 15:46

YOur mouth will look like a dogs arse

Elasticwoman · 21/12/2006 16:01

A great book to read is Stop Smoking, Stay Cool by Richard Craze. Richard died aged 56 this year, leaving a widow and several young children. See White Ladder Press for book. It was first published as The Voice of Tobacco.

JINGLEBELLgianbun · 21/12/2006 16:56

Think MB's post says it all it the most real terms! Good luck colditz!