Grant Brown (Struth) Moderator - RIP

Actually I'll save you all the bother - there is some benefit in giving up - but not for all problems.

See https://chatgpt.com/share/69c5b8bb-7...e-adaa5235e1fd

My doctor recently gave me the hard sell about stopping smoking, telling me how smoking (and vaping too for that matter) are really bad for blood pressure. My blood pressure has got into the "dangerously high" category (around 190/90), so something had to be done.

I'm now into my fourth week of not smoking, and I do feel a bit better, though boredom-eating is the new enemy. But I can only fight one battle at a time...

Saving me some money as well, which is nice - so far the saving has paid for a nice little gold sapphire ring for Anita and a five quid record for me :lol:

COPD can be a nasty after effect.
My Mum ended up with it after 30+ years on the fags.

It took out Mr Spock too,
His chronic smoking habit got Nimoy in the end.

My mum too. I'm hoping that giving up in my early 50s is enough for me to avoid it.

So glad I gave up when I was 25.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Lawrence001

My mum too. I'm hoping that giving up in my early 50s is enough for me to avoid it.

---

It can only help, Lawrence. But have you given up fags, or just given up buying them? Because I know what you're like :ner:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Firebottle

So glad I gave up when I was 25.

---

Yeah, wish I'd done that. I'd be about £70k better off now. That'd buy a nice stereo and a dedicated listening room to put it in :)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

It can only help, Lawrence. But have you given up fags, or just given up buying them? Because I know what you're like :ner:

---

This is a good point I skanked a couple of rollies at the Whittlebury show [emoji23] but if I bought a whole packet I'd smoke the lot. If they still sold 10s I'd probably buy those but they said it stopped people giving up. For me it just meant I'd have to smoke 20 instead of 10 on a night out and the next day.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Lawrence001

This is a good point I skanked a couple of rollies at the Whittlebury show [emoji23] but if I bought a whole packet I'd smoke the lot. If they still sold 10s I'd probably buy those but they said it stopped people giving up. For me it just meant I'd have to smoke 20 instead of 10 on a night out and the next day.

---

:) That's how it would be for me... You'll be too young to remember this, but in the early 70s a lot of corner shops would sell you single cigarettes (seppies) for two or three pence each! I suspect their target customers would be schoolkids who might choose a fag over a bag of crisps with their lunch money. We never stood a chance.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

:) That's how it would be for me... You'll be too young to remember this, but in the early 70s a lot of corner shops would sell you single cigarettes (seppies) for two or three pence each! I suspect their target customers would be schoolkids who might choose a fag over a bag of crisps with their lunch money. We never stood a chance.

---

Still the case in the 1980s, I think the going rate was 10p then. I didn't smoke as a teenager though.