@p0ly 497816 wrote:
Same here. I have months and months off smoking (even years) so it’s not really a health or concern to me. i might want a cheeky cig at some point and don’t see why i shouldn’t.
still though may just power through and stop for a month (pfff EASY)… i only may smoke for the small energy boost it provides and the fun ritual. (if i was to smoke it’d be literally not even 5 cigs throughout the month…)
I started smoking in 1988 (some of the brands I smoked are now banned under EU rules :laugh_at: – probably as Dad smoked (though I eventually realised that was another habit what finished him off) and I grew up in the era when you weren’t a man unless you smoked. Dad was also Hokkien Chinese and in Malaysia they say that “Chinese boys are born with a camera in one hand, and a cigarette in the other”.
I gradually cut down from 2005 until 2007/8 (by which time it was just social smoking) – then some time in 2009 (after seeing the price of cigarettes gradually rise to exorbitant levels) I suddenly decided – “sod this for a lark. no more gaspers for me” and haven’t smoked since. A few months ago I did consider buying a pack of whiffs (small cigars) – but I do not smoke inside the house and definitely not my studio/workshop – it doesn’t do the mixer faders any good, and is unsafe as well as unhealthy. So I would only have to sit in my garden amongst the bad weather, the pong of the sewage outflows by the Orwell (worse than the cigars) and the din of squalling kids, the electric trains and traffic. Also an old boy I know from another electronics forum was recently in Addenbrookes because of a throat cancer scare (thankfully he was OK in the end) which shook me up a bit. so I have not touched baccy for some time now.
