Smoking

LangleyBlue1970 said:
After a horror of a year last year I started smoking. My mate has the ones that are all white and puts menthol pads in to flavour them. That was around October just to find something else to distract from what was going on.


It’s now nigh on April and I’m smoking 20 a week and keep saying that will be the last one. Then I’ll be at the shop.

I actually feel worse. The coughing and what I cough up is rank.

Who the fuck starts smoking on their early 50s? Other than nicking a fag from my grandad in the 80s it’s never appealed to me.
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I tried all kinds of stuff to stop, including going cold turkey, gum and/or nicotine patches, Zyban and Champix. Nothing really worked for any length of time (well Champix did but the side effects were too rough).

The only thing that's ever really helped me is heated tobacco (IQOS and Iluma) and vaping. I'm not completely convinced that heated tobacco is that much better for you than smoking but my lungs feel a great deal better since I've been vaping. I am asthmatic and vaping has made a huge difference to the way I feel and I never have to use my inhaler these days, whereas I was overusing it significantly before.

Obviously I don't know the long-term effects of vaping but I do know that I feel so much healthier now and can work out regularly and live normally without being out of breath. It has really changed my life.

If you can quit, then do so but if you can't, maybe worth giving vaping a go. Much cheaper too.
 
KnaresboroughBlue said:
I tried all kinds of stuff to stop, including going cold turkey, gum and/or nicotine patches, Zyban and Champix. Nothing really worked for any length of time (well Champix did but the side effects were too rough).

The only thing that's ever really helped me is heated tobacco (IQOS and Iluma) and vaping. I'm not completely convinced that heated tobacco is that much better for you than smoking but my lungs feel a great deal better since I've been vaping. I am asthmatic and vaping has made a huge difference to the way I feel and I never have to use my inhaler these days, whereas I was overusing it significantly before.

Obviously I don't know the long-term effects of vaping but I do know that I feel so much healthier now and can work out regularly and live normally without being out of breath. It has really changed my life.

If you can quit, then do so but if you can't, maybe worth giving vaping a go. Much cheaper too.
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I should have said I only smoke when I drink. I don’t smoke during work or through the day or anything. After a few beers I’ve found that I like sitting in the garden, having a smoke and just thinking about shit. Fucking weird.
 
KnaresboroughBlue said:
I tried all kinds of stuff to stop, including going cold turkey, gum and/or nicotine patches, Zyban and Champix. Nothing really worked for any length of time (well Champix did but the side effects were too rough).

The only thing that's ever really helped me is heated tobacco (IQOS and Iluma) and vaping. I'm not completely convinced that heated tobacco is that much better for you than smoking but my lungs feel a great deal better since I've been vaping. I am asthmatic and vaping has made a huge difference to the way I feel and I never have to use my inhaler these days, whereas I was overusing it significantly before.

Obviously I don't know the long-term effects of vaping but I do know that I feel so much healthier now and can work out regularly and live normally without being out of breath. It has really changed my life.

If you can quit, then do so but if you can't, maybe worth giving vaping a go. Much cheaper too.
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i was a heavy smoker for 40 years, one day the other half mentioned every breath i took crackled in my chest, i felt like shite most of the time and sometimes was out of breath doing my job, i stopped smoking took up the vapes,as you say you dont know the long term effects of vaping ,but im now fitter than ive ever been ,the only time im out of breath is after a run, a fucking run,i couldnt of said that 2 years ago, and i feel 100 times better, ive come to realise that smoking is a fucking mugs game, and one day im sure ill realise so is vaping
 
Sir peace frog said:
i was a heavy smoker for 40 years, one day the other half mentioned every breath i took crackled in my chest, i felt like shite most of the time and sometimes was out of breath doing my job, i stopped smoking took up the vapes,as you say you dont know the long term effects of vaping ,but im now fitter than ive ever been ,the only time im out of breath is after a run, a fucking run,i couldnt of said that 2 years ago, and i feel 100 times better, ive come to realise that smoking is a fucking mugs game, and one day im sure ill realise so is vaping
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I very much agree but in the meantime I am delighted to be off the cigarettes and on the vape. As you said, I've really never been fitter, nor needed my asthma medication less (don't use it at all these days).
 
They wouldn’t have been able to reverse my ileostomy if I had been a smoker. A colostomy bag at 44? No thanks!
 
KnaresboroughBlue said:
I tried all kinds of stuff to stop, including going cold turkey, gum and/or nicotine patches, Zyban and Champix. Nothing really worked for any length of time (well Champix did but the side effects were too rough).

The only thing that's ever really helped me is heated tobacco (IQOS and Iluma) and vaping. I'm not completely convinced that heated tobacco is that much better for you than smoking but my lungs feel a great deal better since I've been vaping. I am asthmatic and vaping has made a huge difference to the way I feel and I never have to use my inhaler these days, whereas I was overusing it significantly before.

Obviously I don't know the long-term effects of vaping but I do know that I feel so much healthier now and can work out regularly and live normally without being out of breath. It has really changed my life.

If you can quit, then do so but if you can't, maybe worth giving vaping a go. Much cheaper too.
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I’ve tried everything there is to try to stop smoking. Some of them successful in the short term. But they were never a replacement for smoking. Just make you forget about it for a while. So I’d always end up back on the cigs sooner or later.

But I’ve been on the heated tobacco for a few years now. To start with I’d still have a few cigs when I was drinking. But for the last couple of years I’ve not touched a real cig and actually prefer them. I could never get that with a vape.

They’re not cheap mind. In fact they’re no cheaper than buying duty frees.

Who knows how bad they are for you? All I know is I’ve not had a cough in about two years. Whereas for the previous 40 years whilst smoking I was forever coughing my ring up.
 
Sir peace frog said:
i was a heavy smoker for 40 years, one day the other half mentioned every breath i took crackled in my chest, i felt like shite most of the time and sometimes was out of breath doing my job, i stopped smoking took up the vapes,as you say you dont know the long term effects of vaping ,but im now fitter than ive ever been ,the only time im out of breath is after a run, a fucking run,i couldnt of said that 2 years ago, and i feel 100 times better, ive come to realise that smoking is a fucking mugs game, and one day im sure ill realise so is vaping
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Even if there are long term effects of vaping, they aren’t going to be any worse than smoking so nothing to lose anyway. I think kids taking up vaping without ever smoking is a different matter though!
 
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