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List of smoking triggers

 
 
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 05:01 pm
@blackwidow,
Maybe you will be able to do that, Robert - you never smoked as much as I did, and I could do that the second time I quit (though the first time I tried a single time invoked another five years).

To me, abstinence is an annoying idea to start with, for anything, I'm just not all that perjorative. But, re chemistry/metabolism/brain signals, don't be trying this at two or four weeks, or whatever it is.
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spendius
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 05:07 pm
@blackwidow,
And the parliament that brought it in, and they used a cute con to do it, was one of crooks, simpletons and liars and the public now knows it. And the members can still smoke in their own bars.

They want to destroy pubs because they know that pubs are the last bastion of freedom and socialists hate the public having freedom.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 05:15 pm
@spendius,
I've enjoyed bars and they're getting more encrusted in my memory, but I surely doubt they are the last bastion of freedom. Wake up, son.
eoe
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 08:24 pm
I don't allow cigarette smoking inside of the house but my husband still smokes cigars and all three of my steps smoke cigarettes. Since i quit, it's never bothered me. Thank God. I wouldn't dare taunt myself by taking even one puff of a ciggie but confess that I've considered maybe when I'm 70 or so, taking off these chains and puffing to my hearts' content.
Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 08:55 pm
@eoe,
Interesting you should say that, eoe. I was 70 years and about two & one half months of age when I had what I hope will be my last cigaret.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 09:03 pm
@Merry Andrew,
I'm eyeing the old 7 - 0 caustically. I always thought I'd start again if I had cancer (no, I didn't, it didn't occur to me, and that is all quite well passed, I've gotten used to full air, oddly.). If I'd had further trouble, I'd a probably wanted some nice plants.
7 - 0, probably not. 8 - 0, I can see it. Plus the odd cocktail in a fabulous glass in the conservatory with a lead pipe and a good book.
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eoe
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 09:50 pm
You're right. 80 would give any ugly consequences much less time to manifest.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 09:53 pm
@eoe,
And then I could be a dowager..
eoe
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 10:08 pm
@ossobuco,
a smoking dowager.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 10:15 pm
@eoe,
There must be a photo somewhere..
eoe
 
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Reply Wed 12 Aug, 2009 10:28 pm
@ossobuco,
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/6933/oldgirlsmoking.tif
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spendius
 
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Reply Thu 13 Aug, 2009 05:15 am
@ossobuco,
Quote:
Wake up, son.


Quote:
Many studies including some sponsored by the federal government, have shown that nicotine may in fact delay the onset and effects of both Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.

Furthermore, it may also improve symptoms of attention deficit disorder and also Tourettes syndrome.

Nicotine has also been found to influence mood, mental alertness, and addiction.

Scientists have discovered that nicotine acts on nerve cells to enhance the release of neurotransmitters, chemicals that relay messages within the brain and nicotine increases a person's ability to focus and pay attention.

Nicotine is also known to switch on receptors on the surface of cells in certain parts of the brain, causing these neurons to release the Neuro-transmitter dopamine, a chemical that is responsible for feelings of pleasure.

Why don’t we take the potential benefits of Nicotine seriously?


Because socialist control freaks want all those benefits taken away so that we are easier to manipulate.

I reckon I can have a good guess at who smokes and who doesn't on here.

And think of the money the medical profession can make out of non-smokers. It's mind boggling. Smoking related illnesses, usually caused by abuse, kill young and kill quick. And, as Rider Haggard said --"there's plenty more where they came from."

What use is that to the medical profession when compared to 30 years of dotage and senility which, in a world of private health care, redirects the contents of wills.

Once tobacco advertising was banned media could get nothing out of it. Hence its opposition to smoking.
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 13 Aug, 2009 05:47 am
Spendi wrote:
I reckon I can have a good guess at who smokes and who doesn't on here.


Well, I'm interested in guesses on that matter.

Please do tell..
spendius
 
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Reply Thu 13 Aug, 2009 06:11 am
@Francis,
What I mean Francis is that I would bet each case at even money and feel sure I would come out winning.
Francis
 
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Reply Thu 13 Aug, 2009 06:19 am
@spendius,
Without a bet, could you name some posters who you'd guess that smoke (or don't)?
spendius
 
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Reply Thu 13 Aug, 2009 10:03 am
@Francis,
Yes, but without a bet I ain't gonna.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 13 Aug, 2009 10:21 am
@spendius,
Given the number of folks that have posted about their smoking status over the years, it's a bit of a gimme.
spendius
 
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Reply Thu 13 Aug, 2009 02:19 pm
@ehBeth,
Come on E. I wouldn't bet with prior knowledge. That is theft. And I also would not offer to bet without allowing that I might lose.

It was only a boast. It couldn't be done without a lot of trouble. The price would never be evens.

It was a sort of metaphor for my opinion that non-smokers are uninteresting people in both conversation and literary composition. I have seen stoppers go downhill at an alarming rate in these respects. Since the non-smokers got smoking banned in pubs they have stopped coming in. They must have been only coming in before to whinge about the smoke. That's another thing about non-smokers. They whinge a lot. Take offence easily. Are short tempered, Often fat. Talk about themselves. Fidget.

I would guess that a professional expert in human behaviour could tell much better than I could.
CalamityJane
 
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Reply Fri 14 Aug, 2009 02:12 pm
@spendius,
Seems spendius is a smoker, otherwise he wouldn't rant like this towards
non-smokers.
spendius
 
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Reply Fri 14 Aug, 2009 02:28 pm
@CalamityJane,
That's not a rant Cal. It is a polite and measured appraisal of the general situation. I can rant on this subject mind you if I choose.
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