I quit smoking

[Rebasxer]

I picked up smoking in college, freshman year so I could meet people. I quit that summer for a month, but ended up smoking when I started working. Retail makes me want to smoke just to get rid of the boredom. Got mono my sophomore year and couldn't smoke. Quit for 3 months in the hardest environment, got over mono and was staying strong until I had an awful week (Broke up with gf and a friend of mine died). Smoke steady until about this February. Started actively cutting down from a pack a day to 2-3 a day and than got on chantix in April. Was basically over smoking until I had to pull an all nighter on a research paper and broke down and bought a pack to get me through the night. Been smoking since then but still only like 5-6 a day. Plan on getting back on chantix soon.

As far as hookah goes, I've been smoking hookah since senior yr of HS. Only a few times a month and I don't go to the bars often cause most of my friends have hookahs. We usually just sit on someones porch and relax and talk for awhile. It is good for that. I really don't see any reason to quit.

 

[m1ldslide1]

Originally posted by: Canai
Cheers OP! I smoked for just over two years, from 18-20. Quitting was the best thing I've ever done.

Willie Nelson says that smoking pot saved his life - he started smoking the dope, and stopped smoking the cigarettes. Says he'd surely be dead by now if it weren't for that.

Don't know why I thought of that - must be because I read a Canai post.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Congrats.

 

[Q]

I have no idea what hookah is

 

[Stifko]

Originally posted by: Quintox
I have no idea what hookah is

it is like a big water pipe with multiple hoses for more than one person to smoke from, I think.

I gotta quit smoking, but my vice is cigs. Did you all see this article today?

WASHINGTON - If you smoke, start thinking of yourself as a decade older than you really are. A 55-year-old man who smokes has almost the same chance of dying in the next 10 years as a 65-year-old who's never smoked ? a stark example from newly published charts that aim to put some of Americans' biggest health risks into context.


Risk is a difficult concept, mixing emotion and math ? and people are bombarded with competing warnings of health dangers.

"Useful messages about health risks should address two questions: 'How big is my risk, and how does this risk compare with other risks?'" said Dr. Lisa Schwartz of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in White River Junction, Vt.

In this week's Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Schwartz's team combed government death statistics to update easy-to-read charts comparing the odds of death in the coming 10 years for different ages and diseases.

The charts ? intended for posting in doctors' offices ? stress age, gender and smoking status, not more personal risk factors such as a history of cancer in the family. Among the charts' bottom-line messages:

_Risks change with age. Accidents, for example, are the single largest cause of death for men who don't smoke until age 45. Then, accidents are tied with heart disease until 50, when heart risks take over.

_Smoking overwhelmingly worsens chances of survival. For example, 7 of every 1,000 women will die of breast cancer between ages 60 and 70 ? but 14 of 1,000 will die of heart disease in that period, the charts note. Among smokers, however, the charts show 31 of 1,000 women will die of heart disease between ages 60 and 70, and another 41 of 1,000 will die of lung cancer.

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[dakels]

Originally posted by: Quintox
I have no idea what hookah is

Great site called Wikipedia

 

[uberman]

Congratulations! I'm waiting for the I gotta lose weight thread.

 

[JM Aggie08]

The hookah bars around here in SA are pretty reasonable...

It's 6.99 for a two person hookah, and unlimited coals all night. Plus, the delicious, inexpensive gyros

Find a better bar

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: JM Aggie08
The hookah bars around here in SA are pretty reasonable...

It's 6.99 for a two person hookah, and unlimited coals all night. Plus, the delicious, inexpensive gyros

Find a better bar

The $10 cover charge places I was ragging on are the foofoo places with mediocre everything, but the lights turned all the way down and some John Mayer wannabe jamming every night. I'm usually at one of many nicer (IMO) Arab hookah lounges, $5 for Al Fakher tobacco, $7.50 for Starbuzz.
Unlimited coals? Srsly? That's a given, coal is like $1 a roll. Their main expense is tobacco, a $15 dollar tin/bucket/whatever is usually enough for about a dozen hookahs+, coal is $15 for an entire day's worth of business.

I miss hookah lounges overseas. No frills, just great hookah, an interesting amount of loud Arabs playing tarneeb (kinda like spades, cept you call the trump suit), and best of all, 15 NIS (~$3.25) for two hookahs and two sodas.

Regardless, when I do smoke hookah it's usually at my apartment...but I want to stop smoking period. I'll probably find myself smoking hookah this weekend; one of my friends I've known for years is getting married and we'll all probably end up chillin at a hookah lounge in Chicago. I'm loving this snus, I'm about to place another order

 

[JJChicken]

Good stuff!