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Statistically smoking is safer than suicide.

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Originally Posted by mccririck (Post 3128414)

Perhaps he's just started or doesnt smoke often. I used to know someone who only smoked when the went out drinking. Gradually they started smoking more often. ie they took a bit longer to get fully addicted than someone who smoked every day from the start.

I don't know anyone that smoked every day from the start...

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Originally Posted by Irridescent Fairysex (Post 3128436)

I live in a constant state of fear because I always think that the cigarette I'm about to light will be the one that gives me cancer. Fortunately all the cigarettes I've smoked have been cancer-free.

lol

BTW:

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A liver enzyme known as CYP2A6 is responsible for breaking down nicotine. As any committed smoker knows, when your body runs out of nicotine you will immediately begin to crave another cigarette. Devices such as the "patch" and nicotine gum try to prevent these smoking cravings by maintaining steady nicotine levels in a smoker's system.

According to Tyndale, the more of this enzyme your liver produces, the faster nicotine is cleared from your system. As a result, people who only produce small amounts of the enzyme tend to smoke fewer cigarettes and find it easier to quit than people who produce large quantities, because nicotine stays in their bodies longer. There is also evidence that people with low levels of this toxin-busting enzyme are less likely to develop nicotine addiction in the first place. So smokers are essentially caught in a paradox - the better your body is at getting rid of nicotine, the worse your addiction will be.

http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/35513.html

Rather interesting. Your experience with Chantix sounds similar to mine KS. You will soon reach the point where you've just had enough with it. I'm more than a month out and I only ever think about smoking when I'm having a beer or two and around other smokers. Other than that smoking has completely lost the appeal.

i stopped smoking for a while during the summer but i've started again. i generally don't buy any of my own cigarettes anymore and just bum them from friends if they're around.

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Originally Posted by Ol' Couch Ass (Post 3128494)

Yeah it's really weird, to say the least. I quit once before cold turkey, for almost a whole year - so I know what the withdrawl symptoms feel like and I'm definitely feeling them today. I've been sitting here chewing on my lips and fingers so much that my jaw is sore, and I can't seem to get rid of this headache, I feel antsy and ready to tear my hair out...

I can easily see how this is going to turn out, like you said you just get fed up with it. Because I could go outside right now and have a cigarette, but I know from the last day that it won't help anything. When before doing it cold turkey, I would've ran outside right now to have one and sunk down on the street with this euphoric grin on my face, then proceeded to smoke one after the other and never quit. I'd go out there now and smoke half of it, feel gross and just end up putting it out and coming back up here.

I'm kinda worried though because I don't have a full supply, I got them from my friend (long story). I think I have 2 more weeks of pills left and today is my first full week on it. Do you think I'd be okay? I mean, as long as I stay away from smokers for a few months I know I'll be okay, I just have to get my body rid of the nicotine without losing my sanity...and that only takes a few days - at best a couple weeks, so I'm hoping I'm right and it works out.

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Originally Posted by smashingjj (Post 3128338)

I'm actually starting to smoke and it's fucking awesome!

hell yeah. on top of that, smoking cigarettes is really cool.

if you drink large amounts of alcohol - which is also cool, by the way - your liver will eventually fail to produce this nicotine-enzyme and you will be freed from your cigarette addiction.

to the brewery!

I sense a little bit of sarcasm there, "cool" as ice cream.

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Originally Posted by aurel (Post 3128340)

You must spread your legs before giving it to smashingjj again.

LOL

bump

let's give it up for smoking!

Yes stick a cigar in every orifice and rejoice!

My favorite brands of cigarettes all got 20c more expensive today. Fuckers.

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Originally Posted by the antipop (Post 3129762)

My favorite brands of cigarettes all got 20c more expensive today. Fuckers.

Smoke one less each day.

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Originally Posted by the antipop (Post 3129762)

My favorite brands of cigarettes all got 20c more expensive today. Fuckers.

Its up to like $10 a pack in canada.

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Originally Posted by Lola (Post 3129767)

Its up to like $10 a pack in canada.

Marlboro etc are over £5.50 in UK. That's about 11 of your dollars.

It's €3,60 for me now :/

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Originally Posted by the antipop (Post 3129773)

It's €3,60 for me now :/

That's fuck all!

i never realized how cheap they are here. a pack of marlboros costs generally between $3 and $4

ouch thats alot of money, fucking bastards.

Thats because we have free health care, your government doesnt have to foot the bill when you get sick.

Do you have a smoking ban in public places in the US?

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Originally Posted by the antipop (Post 3129773)

It's €3,60 for me now :/

sounds cheap. how many cigarettes do you get for €3.60? and what brand is it?

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Originally Posted by mccririck (Post 3129785)

Do you have a smoking ban in public places in the US?

i think they invented the smoking ban.

Its been banned for a long time in canada.

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Originally Posted by mccririck (Post 3129785)

Do you have a smoking ban in public places in the US?

that depends on the state

Cigarettes are $8 in the city, $6 in the suburbs, $4-5 if you go out of Cook county.

We have a state(Illinois)-wide smoking ban that went into effect 1/1/08 and they enforced it at midnight on New Year's...lol So all the party people had to go outside after midnight.