Not Quittin' Smoking

[southeast-isher]

Thurston, sounds a good combination but not one i've tried. There are so many pipe tobaccos not just in this country but overseas too... many different types. You're not limited to flavours so much as you are with other ways of smoking. There is some very good advice on YouTube from PipeFriendCHS... probably the best way to learn.

[southeast-isher]

By the way, that Peterson tobacco is reviewed here:

http://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend_det ... C&TID=2266

A good website for tobacco reviews...

[Millymollymandy]

It's a bit scary that it's the new year and not a single person has revived the Quitting thread. All we have is one person contemplating STARTING smoking! TG - don't!!

[Thurston Garden]

MMM I said to the man in the pipe shop "My new year resolution is to start smoking" He just smiled.

[Millymollymandy]

He would, he wants your money!!! Obviously you will do as you want as you are a grown up and should be able to make informed choices (I'm a smoker so I'm not going to dictate, but precisely because I am addicted to it the thought of someone starting up even just a non inhaling pipe worries me ).

[southeast-isher]

Thurston, what i would say is that i smoke not just because i like the taste of the tobacco but because i like the effects of the nicotine. People do say they smoke a pipe purely for the taste and the ritual... but if i smoke a pipe i am doing it for not just that but the nicotine hit as well. So basically what i'm saying is, for me i don't see the point in smoking if you are not doing it for the nicotine hit. And if you are doing it for the nicotine hit you become addicted or are addicted to it - so be warned!

[southeast-isher]

The idea behind many of my pro smoking posts are for harm reduction to existing smokers - not goading non-smokers into taking up the habit!

[Thurston Garden]

Well I think I have 4 pipes in total. I am not climbing the walls looking for my next smoke - yet. I can see how folk could be come addicted though. There's some sort of party going on in my mouth right now...difficult to describe but it's definitely the pipe thats causing it. It's hardly making me want to go home and light up though. Yet.

[TheGoodEarth]

There's some sort of party going on in my mouth right now...difficult to describe but it's definitely the pipe thats causing it.

That is the very fine hair that is in your mouth and throat that acts as a filter starting to die off. When you stop smoking this grows back and can give you a bit of a cough.

[southeast-isher]

There's some sort of party going on in my mouth right now...difficult to describe but it's definitely the pipe thats causing it.

That is the very fine hair that is in your mouth and throat that acts as a filter starting to die off. When you stop smoking this grows back and can give you a bit of a cough.

Nahhhh... Albert Einstein loved his pipe - he was a clever bloke, did him no harm.

[southeast-isher]

There's some sort of party going on in my mouth right now...difficult to describe but it's definitely the pipe thats causing it.

That is the very fine hair that is in your mouth and throat that acts as a filter starting to die off. When you stop smoking this grows back and can give you a bit of a cough.

Nahhhh... Albert Einstein loved his pipe - he was a clever bloke, did him no harm.

And you advocate the smoking of cannabis... tsk... there would be no theory of relativity... just a lazy Austrian man... still with burnt hairs in his mouth and throat (do we have hairs in our mouth anyway?!)

[TheGoodEarth]

And you advocate the smoking of cannabis... tsk...

Only for medicinal purposes....and.... er....if you go to Glastonbury it's compulsory

[southeast-isher]

Or these people...

Barack Obama, US presidential candidate
Albert Einstein, probably the world’s greatest ever scientist
Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, phonograph etc
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967)
Edwin Hubble (1889 – 1953)
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during WW2
Franklin D Roosevelt, American president during WW2
Bill Clinton
Helmut Schmidt: (West) German chancellor from 1974 to 1982.
Gerhard Schr�der: former German Chancellor
Queen Margrethe II: queen of Denmark
Princess Stephanie of Monaco
King Hussein of Jordan
Camilla Parker Bowles
John F Kennedy, former US president
Gerald Ford, former US president
George Orwell
Oscar Wilde
Jean-Paul Sartre
JR Tolkien (1892 – 1973), writer of “The Lord of the Rings”, one of the top selling novels of all time
J.K. Rowling wrote many of her Harry Potter books as a smoker. After she quit smoking she became a Nicorette chewing gum addict.
CS Lewis, Irish writer
Monica Bellucci
Christopher Lee (b. 1922), famous for playing Dracula
Whoopi Goldberg
James Dean, 2 packs of Chesterfields a day
Demi Moore
Keith Richards
Elizabeth Taylor
Robert Palmer, UK rock star
Sophia Loren
Kate Winslet
Raquel Welch
Luciano Pavarotti, cigar smoker, the greatest tenor of his generation
Catherine Deneuve
Geri Halliwell, cigars
John Wayne (1907 – 1979)
Nicole Kidman
Mel Gibson
Britney Spears
Kate Middleton, Prince William’s girlfriend
Joanna Lumley
Shakira
David Carradine
Russell Crowe
Frank Sinatra (1915 – 1998)
Robbie Williams
Avril Lavigne
Pierce Brosnan
Marilyn Monroe
Meg Ryan
John Lennon
Pat Benatar
Al Pacino
Robert De Niro
Eddie Van Halen, chain smoker!
Vincent Van Gogh
Ivana Trump
‘Abuelo del Mundo’ (Grandfather of the World) Joan Riudavets Moll, a lifelong smoker who died aged 114 in 2004
Jeanne Calment, the world’s oldest ever person who died aged 122, only quit smoking aged 117
Claudia Schiffer
Alfred Hitchcock
Maurice Ravel, the composer of Bolero
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Auguste Renoir
Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973), the most famous painter of the 20th century, died aged 92.
Che Guevara
Aaron Spelling (1923-2006): the world’s most succesful TV producer ever.
David Bowie, quit after a heart attack
Johnny Depp
Joaquin Phoenix
Marlene Dietrich, lived to 90
Joseph Stalin
Jennifer Aniston, 2 packs of Merit a day
Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie
Ben Affleck
Kate Hudson
Goldie Hawn
Colin Farrell, a pack a day
Ashton Kutcher
James Woods, after smoking for 33 years, lit his last cigarette on 29th December 2003
Lucille Ball, most of her life
Drew Barrymore, Red Marlboros
Kurt Cobain
Chris Cornell, quit already, lead singer of Soundgarden & Audioslave
Ian Curtis, before his suicide
Bette Davis
Sammy Davis Jr
Deng Xiaoping, China Paramount Leader smoked Panda Brand until over 90 years of age.
Mao Zedong
Walt Disney of Disney vacations fame, chain-smoker, died aged 65
Layne Staley, lead singer of Alice in Chains
Pete Doherty, lead singer of Babyshambles
Bob Dylan, 80 cigs a day, quit already
Siobhan Fahey, Bananarama and Shakespear’s Sister singer.
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
George Harrison, chain smoker
Audrey Hepburn, several packs a day
Lyndon B. Johnson, heavy smoker for most of his life. Habit contributed to his death from a heart attack at age 64 in 1973.
Shah Rukh Khan, rarely without cigarettes off screen, though he vowed to reduce smoking on his 40th birthday.
Lindsey Lohan
Dean Martin, smoked on stage and on television. Lung cancer.
Freddie Mercury, heavy smoker, quit after being diagnosed with HIV
Joni Mitchell
Kate Moss, smokes four packs of Marlboro Lights per day, starting at age 12.
Leonard Nimoy
Jimmy Page
Sean Penn, 4 packs of American Spirit cigarettes per day
Richard Pryor
Mike Dirnt, Green Day bassist
W Axl Rose
Angus Young, AC/DC guitarist
Frank Zappa
Fidel Castro, quit cigars at age 59
Joan Collins
Bill Cosby
Bo Derek
Danny De Vito
Linda Evangelista
Sigmund Freud
George Gershwin
Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general and U.S. President. Twenty cigars a day. Died of throat cancer.
Saddam Hussein
Samuel L Jackson
David Letterman
Pope St. Pius X, smoked on occasion.
Pope John XXIII, who died in 1963, was a cigar smoker in his youth.
Charles Spurgeon, British Baptist preacher, who reportedly said “When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.”
Sylvester Stallone
Kevin Costner
Christina Aguilera

[TheGoodEarth]

ah..... but Bill Clinton did not have inhalation relations with that cigarette.

[southeast-isher]

Now i love a good smoke but there are other times when i'm just feeding the nicotine demon or it's just simply not the done thing to smoke where i am. So... i ordered some Nicogel. It's aimed not for quitters but for inbetween smokes so they call it cigarette replacement therapy rather than nicotine replacement therapy. When it arrives and i've tried it i'll report back...

Here's the BBC featuring it on the box:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhx3eJynWeE