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A "tip of my hat" to your question...as painful as it may be 
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all you can think about is smoking.
Arrgh, this is going to be f*****g hard.....
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Just think of all the money you are going to save!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I'm not a heavy smoker but saving $1500+ a year is definitely something to work towards.
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Plus not dying young is a big plus. My wife's father smoked like a chimney and died at 57 of lung cancer.
In addition, I am told, food tastes better and you can smell flowers and things. I never smoked myself so I can't verify that part. However, after living in Germany for six years where everyone, it seemed, smoked, I developed a smoker's cough which, after 25+ years, has finally gone away. So giving up smoking is a public health improvement, not just your own.
I applaud you for trying, stick with it. I am told the first couple of weeks are the hardest.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Almost $5 a day up in smoke is not that far from "heavy smoker", in my view...
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I've known smokers that could smoke over two packs a day and I thought that was excessive. It makes my 12-16 smokes a day pale in comparison.
Member 7989122 wrote: $5 a day
It's $7 a pack here and that's at a tobacco shop. The price at gas stations and convenience stores is upwards of $9. And the cost here is 70% tax to boot (which govm't increases every couple of years). It's like they want their taxpayers to live longer 
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Foothill wrote: It's $7 a pack here and that's at a tobacco shop. The price at gas stations and convenience stores is upwards of $9. And the cost here is 70% tax to boot (which govm't increases every couple of years). It's like they want their taxpayers to live longer
You lucky, lucky bastard.
I don't smoke but my Missus does and I've had the luxury of paying for them for many years of the marriage.
When we started going out in 1988 you could buy a carton of 10 packets of 25 Winfield (well known brand) for aout AUD$20.00. Now for a single packet of 40's of Horizon, Bonds etc (never existed < 2000) will now set you back about AUD$41.00.
Stupid elephanting elephanter didn't start till 19 and watched her Grandmother get her voice box removed in the 70's from throat cancer and from 1998 to 2013 when he died watched her Father live through years of Emphysema, oxygen tanks and looking like an emaciated AIDS victim.
Give 'em up, waste of elephanting time.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: Now for a single packet of 40's of Horizon, Bonds etc (never existed < 2000) will now set you back about AUD$41.00.
That's $30 USD a pack!!  They don't even pay that much in New York. The misses is going to make you bankrupt at those prices.
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Foothill wrote: That's $30 USD a pack!! They don't even pay that much in New York. The misses is going to make you bankrupt at those prices.
Then I better not mention the gambling problem that's been going on for 22 years.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but the rewards are enormous.
After a couple of weeks you'll start feeling better, food tastes better and you'll be able to breathe better.
Good luck...stick with it!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Thanks. It's my first time actually trying to quit long term. I do quit every day for about 8 whole hours. 
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Foothill wrote: I do quit every day for about 8 whole hours.
While you sleep?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Yup. I even manage to go over an hour after waking up sometimes before I would light up my first for the day.
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Mike Hankey wrote: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do
Speaking not as a voyeur but a fellow traveller it's a penance for one of the dumbest things you've ever done - but certainly worth it.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I started in the 60s and we didn't know the dangers then. When I was in the military cigs came with c-rations and the stress I was under at the time made it impossible to quit.
Yes it's the stupidest thing I've ever done but I did quit! Been about 7-8 years now!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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I started smoking in AIT when the unwritten rule was that while in formation (at ease) you were required to have your SMART book OR a cigarette in your hand. After a few weeks, I had memorized the book and started bumming cigs. 
I plan to quit soon.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Think of the bad smelling clothes and the stinging cough if you had a cold.
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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It's the daily coughing up sludge that I can do without.
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In my personal experience and based on your comment, you are not ready to quit smoking.
I am an ex-smoker who smoked 1+ packs a day for 23 years. I have been tobacco free for 12+ years.
When I was ready to quit smoking (after years of trying to quit) I did not think about smoking and wishing I could smoke. I later learned that this feeling you are describing is related to failed attempts in quitting.
In summary, you are psychologically not ready to quit. you have not hit your rock bottom.
good luck. ping me if you need any support, etc.
Edit: Important note, wanting to quit smoking is NOT the same things as needing to quit smoking. You will only quit something when you have decided that you truly "need" to quit it.
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I don't want to wait until I hit rock bottom before I quit. I think 24 years, give or take, of smoking is good enough. I'm only a couple of hours into it so I think that I am a little nervous at this point in time. I've got a patch on but I am struggling to keep my mind wandering to the idea.
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Then post back when you have been tobacco free for 6 months, a year, 12+ years.
I know my post may read a little weird and not supportive, but I speak the truth. I know what I am talking about with this subject of addiction.
Good luck.
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Thanks for the support. It really wasn't that far from the mark. Do I really have to quit smoking? Not really. Is it a wise decision to quit smoking? Yes, very much so. The attempt at quitting is the culmination of an internal war of pros vs cons in my head for the last four years. The cons finally started outweighing the pros.
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Take up jogging. At 27 years old I found out I couldn't run a mile. So I made a plan to stop on the 2nd Sunday in January (after Xmas & New Year excesses over). Told everyone I met of plan. DID IT!!! Within 3 months was running 8 miles and enjoying it. Only downside was re-educating my palate to enjoy malt whisky. Never smoked again and 40 years later I'm fatter & lazier, but still here.
It's worth the effort.
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}I just might have to if I want to maintain my current weight. I wonder if a gym membership is in my future as it's either too damn hot or too damn cold to exercise outdoors most of the year here (we get two weeks of spring and fall if we're lucky).
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