View Poll Results: Are you a smoker?
Yes, I smoke 1 to 20 Cigarettes a day
22
15.94%
Yes, I smoke 21 to 40 Cigarettes a day
5
3.62%
Yes, I smoke more as 41 Cigarettes a day
1
0.72%
I want to quit <> asap
4
2.90%
No, I'm a non smoker
73
52.90%
No, I'm an Ex smoker (successful at quitting)
31
22.46%
I don't want to quit
2
1.45%
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From: Germany
Smoking
hi folks,
regarding this posts I'd like to know
the percentage of smoker / non smoker of our FTE Members:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...&threadid=5507
For all who want to know: I'm now a ex smoker
Jens
regarding this posts I'd like to know
the percentage of smoker / non smoker of our FTE Members:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...&threadid=5507
For all who want to know: I'm now a ex smoker
Jens
Last edited by Jens; Jan 24, 2003 at 11:49 AM.
More Turbo
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 721
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From: Floyd, Va
Smoking
Tried the whole smoking/drinking/chewing thing in HS, but it seems the only one that appealed much at all was the drinking. Havnt done much of that either lately. Never got much out of smoking or chewing, just seemed to irritate the girls.
Tony Warren
Tony Warren
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Joined: Jun 2002
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From: Brooklyn
Smoking
We have been down this road before. It can raise some "smoke" for sure. I have been free from nicotine for over 25 years, and darn glad of it. I don't care if others smoke tobacco, pot, or even monkey dung, it just "aint my business". 
Fleet Owner
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 29,941
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
Smoking
Huh...
Can't say I've ever tried monkey dung before, but it's probably cheaper than cigarettes (which I like every way 'cept barbequed).
I had quit for 6 years at one point, but it's not an easy habit to break and one way or another I got started up again several years ago.
For those of you who have successfully quit and might have thought one or two won't get you started again, I've got news:
They STILL taste like CRAP, so you save your money and very possibly your life while you're at it...
*note: On the average, the urge to smoke only lasts 5 minutes, and then it goes away again.
Can't say I've ever tried monkey dung before, but it's probably cheaper than cigarettes (which I like every way 'cept barbequed).
I had quit for 6 years at one point, but it's not an easy habit to break and one way or another I got started up again several years ago.
For those of you who have successfully quit and might have thought one or two won't get you started again, I've got news:
They STILL taste like CRAP, so you save your money and very possibly your life while you're at it...
*note: On the average, the urge to smoke only lasts 5 minutes, and then it goes away again.
Tuned
Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 352
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From: Kansas, USA
Smoking
I'd like to have back the money my wife has spent on cigarettes in the past 42 years. But then, she probably like to have back the money that I have spent on motorcycles, chainsaws, tractors, trucks and beer just to name a few.
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Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 18,488
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From: The Big, Oregon
Smoking
I have smoked nearly a pack a day since I was 16. One thing I have noticed, that always seems odd, is that more broke people smoke than well-off people. I mean, you might see a rich guy with a cigar, but most middle class people don't smoke, with the exception of women. My girlfriend is really bugging me to quit, but I really don't want to, and you have to want to quit to be successful. That reminds me, it's time to go out in this 20* weather and have a smoke.
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 229
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From: Covington USA
Smoking
I have been close to a pack a day since I was 16, so about 17 years now, though I did quit for two years then went drinking a started again. Did not realize it til the next day though......
I think I am just to stupid to quit.
I think I am just to stupid to quit.
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From: in the country
Smoking
When i finally "quit" it was the culmination of about 6 consecutive months of starts and stops. Needless too say , it was a very frustrating process. I really didn't "chain smoke" cigarettes , rather i smoked those stinking little cigars called 'Have A Tampa Stinking jewels". I like to use very degrading adjectives when describing the"Jewels" as they were just as harmful as cig's , snuff , or any tobacco product and just as smelley. I finally started visualizing them as a poison pill that was very addictive and I couldn't think of any plausable reason why I should be voluntarily "Killing" myself and paying for the product to boot. When you put the "Habit" in the proper perspective and go look at yourself in the Mirror sucking down those little poison pills it really should "Tick YOU off enough" to get mad as Heck and Quit. ....I'm trying to make You so mad, you might want to try to quit!!!!I know hard it really is.......fd
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From: DC
Smoking
It took me six times to quit. I started smoking in college while I was living in Japan. They smoke like chimneys over there and their cigarettes are really strong. After college, I smoked with the smokers at work. Finally, I started noticing that my chest felt tight when I was bicycling and I started to try to quit. I kept quitting until one vacation when my dad asked me if I was smoking (I was sneaking them) and I quit out of shame.
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From: VA/USA
Smoking
I "feel" desperate to quit. But as I have quit MANY other things (bad - UNHEALTHY "habits" in the past 5+ years), I realize that my desire to quit MUST outweigh my desire to continue the "insanity".
I'm 42 (43 in about 2 months), smoking (cigarettes!) since the bus pulled up to the the gates of Ft. Benning (20 years ago), have a gorgeous wife, (8 yrs younger!), beautiful 16 & 20 yr. old daughters, (20 year-old doing very well in her junior year of college!) and now an 18 mo. old beautiful, bouncing baby-boy TOUGHLover son - and I KNOW ALL TOO WELL THAT THIS IS BS - but I've just gone through, by far, the toughest year ("+") of my life - a few too many (more than my share) medical & financial "issues" (my 16 year old is pregnant, apparently by the "Missing-Link"!) and I have been UN-"gainfully" employed - though working (!) - for a little over a year now, spine surgery, (for one med. problem), had to close business - about to start a vocational rehab program and, well, it's already been said - it is EXTREMELY hard to quit - STRESSORS do not enhance the process - gotta' find a way to wrestle victory from the hands of defeat ... SOON!
Sorry to bleed all over this thread - ANY suggestions???
I'm 42 (43 in about 2 months), smoking (cigarettes!) since the bus pulled up to the the gates of Ft. Benning (20 years ago), have a gorgeous wife, (8 yrs younger!), beautiful 16 & 20 yr. old daughters, (20 year-old doing very well in her junior year of college!) and now an 18 mo. old beautiful, bouncing baby-boy TOUGHLover son - and I KNOW ALL TOO WELL THAT THIS IS BS - but I've just gone through, by far, the toughest year ("+") of my life - a few too many (more than my share) medical & financial "issues" (my 16 year old is pregnant, apparently by the "Missing-Link"!) and I have been UN-"gainfully" employed - though working (!) - for a little over a year now, spine surgery, (for one med. problem), had to close business - about to start a vocational rehab program and, well, it's already been said - it is EXTREMELY hard to quit - STRESSORS do not enhance the process - gotta' find a way to wrestle victory from the hands of defeat ... SOON!
Sorry to bleed all over this thread - ANY suggestions???
Senior User
Joined: Jan 2002
Posts: 460
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From: Right Here!
Smoking
I quit for like 5 years, then I had a bit of a bad luck streak at work, and then I was eventually laid off....long story...but I got drunk one night, had one drag of a parliament...and it was over. Im trying to cut down now, and hopefully will be quitting again soon!
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From: Kansas
Smoking
Don't smoke cigs but I do love a fine cigar while taking a walk. A long walk. I prefer a 45 minute to 1 hour cigar. I find that it keeps me motivated to keep on walking while I wait for the cigar to burn down.
I tried cigs for a while and dumped them. Chewed leaf for a while and dumped it. Cigars are nice and I smoke them when I can. Sometimes 4 X's a week and sometimes 1 every 2 or 3 weeks.
Beer, on the other hand is a different story.
I tried cigs for a while and dumped them. Chewed leaf for a while and dumped it. Cigars are nice and I smoke them when I can. Sometimes 4 X's a week and sometimes 1 every 2 or 3 weeks.
Beer, on the other hand is a different story.
