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The 'quit smoking' thread

Shnouzerpuff said:
Apparently the idea is now that in adverts to stop smoking or drink driving the target audience is no longer the smoker or the drink-driver, but their nonsmoking and nondrink-driving peers.

Give their social circle a message and they will bleat it over and over ad nauseum to the person who has the unhealthy behavioral habit.
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interesting because i can also see that as working from the angle of advertising companies focusing their attention on keeping the non smokers as they are, thus eventually [if it works] reducing the total number of smokers that there will be in the future.

but as for non smokers lecturing me on how bad smoking is and thus making me feel so guilty that i want to quit... fat bloody chance. it's my choice what i want to do and therefore i will quit for my own sake when i am ready. well that's my philosophy anyway.
 
drEaMtiMe*@# said:
interesting because i can also see that as working from the angle of advertising companies focusing their attention on keeping the non smokers as they are, thus eventually [if it works] reducing the total number of smokers that there will be in the future.
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Yeah that is true as well.

Still, I am sure it has been mentioned earlier in the thread, the amount of advertising the Govt. spends in anti-smoking campaigns is something ridiculous like 5% of the total revenue they claim from the tax on cigarettes.

Which makes you ask questions like "do they really want people to stop smoking or are they only putting out widely shown adverts that have questionable impact to just make it look like they do?"
 
^^Hahahaha.

I'd just like to point out that any single women that are trying to give up smoking, please do it quickly. There is nothing more unattractive than a hot lass sucking back on a cancer stick. Ewww.

/non-smoker rant
 
ooer its been awhile since my last post in this thread :D
i quit (cold turkey) for about a month after my 21st (march) - found it almost too easy (had been smoking heavily for a number of years). but then i had the idea that i proved to myself that i could do it and i'd have a few while out cause i felt like it.. and ive been smoking again ever since lol.

honestly, as much as i want to quit, another part of me is like.. what the hell, its still fairly enjoyable so dooo eeeet, and i just cave in right away o_O oh well, maybe ill actually have the will power to stay 'quit' next time, cause i know i can do it after my last attempt fairly easily.

good luck to all the people struggling.
 
Hey eternity.. i will tell you from experience that it dosnt get any easier the second time or third or fourth or fifth time etc
 
Those pictures scared the piss out of me and I quit. I fully think they'll cause a big decline in smoking, along with curbing where you can smoke.

I can't beleive I took it up again. Yuk. It was first only socially then it got to between social times and then all the time up to about 7 a day. Double Yuk.
 
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I had a discussion about these new images with a colleague the other day.
He wants to start a business selling cigratte pack socks [not dissimilar to IPod socks]. We both decided he would make millions and be able to retire on the profits.

I took one look at his gangrenous toe packet and almost threw up my lunch [although I was then fascinated and wouldn't give the pack back for a good twenty minutes].

I honestly hope it makes some smokers think twice and give up. If it actually makes some people change their minds then it's achieved enough, IMHO.
 
^ For serious smokers they have the opposite effect. By serious i mean the people who dont want to quit, they think they like the taste/smell and think its a quality of life decision to continue.
Brute force polarisation of opinion.

`eternity-dre said:
ooer its been awhile since my last post in this thread :D
i quit (cold turkey) for about a month after my 21st (march) - found it almost too easy (had been smoking heavily for a number of years). but then i had the idea that i proved to myself that i could do it and i'd have a few while out cause i felt like it.. and ive been smoking again ever since lol.

honestly, as much as i want to quit, another part of me is like.. what the hell, its still fairly enjoyable so dooo eeeet, and i just cave in right away o_O oh well, maybe ill actually have the will power to stay 'quit' next time, cause i know i can do it after my last attempt fairly easily.

good luck to all the people struggling.
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With a bit of ego quiting is inevitable if you put your mind to it - understanding that you're dellusional to want it is a different skill entirely :\
 
I quit again...been 2 days now....
I always get the lung rejection symptoms when i quit. Coughing up phlem and weezing....god i hope it goes aways soon...:\
 
I'm trying to quit atm, but it's not really working very well. The only positive to this is that I've only had 2 smokes today, as opposed to the 7 I'd have probably already had by now. :)
 
Like C'Roses Won't Get Me First

These things get lost, so 2x fo' yo' min'...
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I jus' went an' bought a packa St. Moritz from the 7.
Who else has been for a twenty minute constitutional in the last Francis Ford hours?

That's right.

Get up off yo' desk an' go fo' a jog.
Like that guy in Devil's Advocate.
 
I've quit!! =D

It's day 7 for me (although i did have a couple on fri night at a party when i was drinking but i'm trying to not include that)

and i know it's early days but i'm determined not to be a smoker anymore.

I've been smoking for 14 years and i've really started to feel it on my lungs in the last year. My son has been begging me to quit for years and i'm finally doing it!

I think what the cincher was was those pics on the packets for sure....
 
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