A lovely weekend at Delamere Forest C and CC site. Brilliant weather, quiet even though lots of children- well done you lot, great cake at the station cafe next door. Only one thing spoiled our stay. we couldn't keep the door open because we were surrounded by smokers and the van kept smelling of tobacco smoke. Never noticed this before but perhaps it is time to banish the smokers to the corners- downwind of course!.
Keep clear smokers- please
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We stayed there last summer and our pitch was near to the railway line next to the dog walk down inj the bottom corner. Ideal except for one thing. Because the C&CC tend not to use tarmac roadways and because we were on a bend our caravan and car were covered with a chalky dust. This was due to kids doing skids on the bends with their bikes, one idiot totally out of control and just missing the caravan and another just missing awning guy ropes, plus others who think speed restrictions on site doesn't apply to them.
I`m glad this has been brought up as i have now given up for 16 weeks and just use e cigs i think they should ban it altogether and if you are caught with a devils stick you should be shot in front of your family there i feel better now thank you sorry if its a bit harsh but i`m dying for a ***
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Have a drink of water, have a walk round, do anything to get past the momentary craving but leave those cancer sticks alone!!!kopite said:
When I gave up a drink of water helped to take my mind off wanting a cigarette and then we bought a new caravan to make sure that neither of us could afford to smoke
Hi Kopite, I dunno about the shooting bit but I'm with you on the Ecigs, I gave up prob ably about the same time as you and am also on the Ecigs, been a smoker for 40 years and I've tried every which way possible to give up and never done any good and the moods! Well enough said on the moods, the Ecigs tho so far are brill, let's hope we both stick with it eh, good luck mate.
Cheers Beephee your right these e cigs are a god send after 30 years of smoking i didn`t think i would ever give up but a mate said give this a try and haven`t smoked since nor any intention too and its amazing how much more you can smell and taste having a ruby tonight and dont have to rush outside afterwards yipee
There will be a feeling there for years where you wouldn't mind having a *** but the difference is you will be able to resist it because the craving will have gone.
The downside is your tastebuds return to normal and for the first time for years food tastes and smells better. Then the pounds pile on. I went to over 16 stone but decided to do something about it so started a diet which mainly consisted of stopping ready meals altogether. I've now lost 1.5 stones and feel better for it but regarding all those years of smoking the damage is done. The point of stopping is so the damage doesn't get any worse until it is fatal.
As for smoking, yes, I could still smoke a *** after around 15/20 years, but even if the craving came back I'd be an idiot to pay that much for packets of cancer sticks.
Stick at it both of you and you'll be so thankful you did in a few months time.
The downside is your tastebuds return to normal and for the first time for years food tastes and smells better. Then the pounds pile on. I went to over 16 stone but decided to do something about it so started a diet which mainly consisted of stopping ready meals altogether. I've now lost 1.5 stones and feel better for it but regarding all those years of smoking the damage is done. The point of stopping is so the damage doesn't get any worse until it is fatal.
As for smoking, yes, I could still smoke a *** after around 15/20 years, but even if the craving came back I'd be an idiot to pay that much for packets of cancer sticks.
Stick at it both of you and you'll be so thankful you did in a few months time.
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Hi Sir WC kopite
I gave up 4 1/2 years ago. The first six months were the worst. My doctor made me religiously save the *** money in a money box each day. In no time at all £500 had accrued and we had a good spend up whilst away.
Also I did double the patches for double the time . I had to see the Practice nurse each week to see how I was doing. I didn't have another *** or a drag for fear of losing face.
Now I just can't stand the stink, in fact I have been known to cross the road if someone in front is smoking. Since giving up onlytwice have I felt tempted to light up and that was when my dad and FIL died. I didn't succumb. One drag would completely destroy my years of not smoking.
Watch the weight. It piles on like no tomorrow. I gained three stone without realising it. Thanks to Slimming World and a curtailment of the beers I have lost two stone . One more to go!
Stick with it , it will get easier.
I gave up 4 1/2 years ago. The first six months were the worst. My doctor made me religiously save the *** money in a money box each day. In no time at all £500 had accrued and we had a good spend up whilst away.
Also I did double the patches for double the time . I had to see the Practice nurse each week to see how I was doing. I didn't have another *** or a drag for fear of losing face.
Now I just can't stand the stink, in fact I have been known to cross the road if someone in front is smoking. Since giving up onlytwice have I felt tempted to light up and that was when my dad and FIL died. I didn't succumb. One drag would completely destroy my years of not smoking.
Watch the weight. It piles on like no tomorrow. I gained three stone without realising it. Thanks to Slimming World and a curtailment of the beers I have lost two stone . One more to go!
Stick with it , it will get easier.
I stopped thirty years ago, for the third time! It was just one of those daft things, but Herself had to stop because of asthma. I volunteered to stop with her, but she didn't want that, so I smoked for about a year after her.
Then a friend said I wasn't being very supportive, as Anne really was struggling, so I stopped: literally, just like that! From thirty a day, to nothing overnight, and I'm now the most anti-smoking man on the planet!
But I still don't know where the money went.
I do know, though, that we couldn't possibly afford to smoke now.
Then a friend said I wasn't being very supportive, as Anne really was struggling, so I stopped: literally, just like that! From thirty a day, to nothing overnight, and I'm now the most anti-smoking man on the planet!
But I still don't know where the money went.
I do know, though, that we couldn't possibly afford to smoke now.
yay for packing up the fags & a bigger yay to Slimming World!!! I run our local slimming world group and it's the best job in the world and when i hear members talking of how it's changing their lives for the better it makes my job all worth while, there isn't a single job in the world that offers satisfaction like mine!!
Does that mean that we can keep each other on track at stowalot???
ps this is the missus (aka Lady Top Trumph) not Sir WC Kopite
Does that mean that we can keep each other on track at stowalot???
ps this is the missus (aka Lady Top Trumph) not Sir WC Kopite
yay for packing up the fags & a bigger yay to Slimming World!!! I run our local slimming world group and it's the best job in the world and when i hear members talking of how it's changing their lives for the better it makes my job all worth while, there isn't a single job in the world that offers satisfaction like mine!!
Does that mean that we can keep each other on track at stowalot???
ps this is the missus (aka Lady Top Trumph) not Sir WC Kopite
Does that mean that we can keep each other on track at stowalot???
ps this is the missus (aka Lady Top Trumph) not Sir WC Kopite
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Lady Top Trumph think you had us all going there for a minute,kopite said:
At least Sir Kopites weight add on will be tended too
I wish him and Beepee all the luck in the world and hope they have more will power than me!! I managed to give up in the middle of 2010 for 51 weeks (yes 51) and then the will power gave way. So just a little warning the craving does goes on and on as others above has said. Good luck
They say Ex- smokers are the worst, and in my case it is certainly true.... 40 a day smoker, packed in 6 years ago with the help of the GP Practice nurse and patches...and now hate anything to do with the dreaded ciggys, cannot stand being near anyone that is smoking. it has taken the pleasure of going to the local pub, because you cannot sit outside and have a quite pint, because all the smokers are there polluting the air...As for craving for a ***... no chance would not put one to my lips again..
I will now get of my soap box..... and best of luck to them who are trying to kick the habit... it is hard but stick at it
I will now get of my soap box..... and best of luck to them who are trying to kick the habit... it is hard but stick at it
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I stopped 12 years ago after 40 years and I still miss them, I think it is like being an alcoholic. One smoke and I would be back on 20 a day inside a month. I motivated myself to quit promising myself a Merc instead of the Citroen I was driving and singing the Janice Joplin song to remind myself why I was doing it.
I try not to be a sanctimonious ex smoker, I didnt care about other peoples preferences for the 40 years I polluted the air and I try to remember this when it irritates me now and I realy have no time for those who preach never having done it themselves , they are enough to make me start again for the better company in the smokers corner but I wont .
David
Recovering smoker Merc owner
I try not to be a sanctimonious ex smoker, I didnt care about other peoples preferences for the 40 years I polluted the air and I try to remember this when it irritates me now and I realy have no time for those who preach never having done it themselves , they are enough to make me start again for the better company in the smokers corner but I wont .
David
Recovering smoker Merc owner
Dustydog said:
DD has a valid point. This is something you will find out if you are successful and that is that smokers stink. I'm not being nasty. It's a fact. My wife as never smoked and I often wonder how she put up with me all those years stinking like that. The problem is, that as a smoker, you can't smell it because through smoking your sense of smell is dulled.
As for Emmo saying he's the worlds biggest anti-smoker I must run him a close second.
Hi,TonyG said:They say Ex- smokers are the worst, and in my case it is certainly true.... 40 a day smoker, packed in 6 years ago with the help of the GP Practice nurse and patches...and now hate anything to do with the dreaded ciggys, cannot stand being near anyone that is smoking. it has taken the pleasure of going to the local pub, because you cannot sit outside and have a quite pint, because all the smokers are there polluting the air...As for craving for a ***... no chance would not put one to my lips again..
I will now get of my soap box..... and best of luck to them who are trying to kick the habit... it is hard but stick at it
Well thats fine Tony, But guess who put them out there in the first place?, Yep the complaining non smokers got there way and banished all to the cold outdoors that is until the nice warm summer evenings "payback springs to mind"
not that it bothers me you understand? I've been teetotal for over 20years and never go near the pub can't bear to be near anyone that stinks of alcohol and wants to take on mike tyson after 3 pints, the sheer smell of the stuff turns my stomace. unlike cig smoke that I don't really mind although I gave up 2 years ago after smoking for over 40years I never got the cravings and the weight gain because the diabetes diet didn't allow the sweets and snacks that you pick up for something else to do,
the way I stopped was simple if I wanted a ciggie I had one but waited as long as possible first. the periods got longer and the consumtion dropped to nothing it took about 3 months to quit alltogether,
unlike many ex smokers I do understand what drives them and sympathise with their plight, but to cut ones self off from anyone who smokes just because they smoke is just plain daft to my way of thinking,
one thing that is for sure smokers are very communial they have to be confined to smallish shelters and all that but thats where you will find me at break times out there in the fresh-ish air, instead of in the canteen full of miserable gits reading and playing with their phones too busy to actually speak to someone else,
i packed smoking in 18 months ago. 40 a day for 45 years
i went to my doctor and told him that a friend reccomended CHAMPIX.
he prescribed me a course and three weeks into it i stopped smoking.
i had my last ciggarette on 20 Oct 2010 at 0930.
not really bothered about being around smokers.but dont like the smell of them.
bob
i went to my doctor and told him that a friend reccomended CHAMPIX.
he prescribed me a course and three weeks into it i stopped smoking.
i had my last ciggarette on 20 Oct 2010 at 0930.
not really bothered about being around smokers.but dont like the smell of them.
bob
I really can't understand all this fuss about smoking, I've given it up hundreds of times, it is so easy.AGD
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