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Considering quitting and getting healthier in 2013

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Gary~:
I used to smoke packs a day [especially with the stress of university]. I tried all sorts of ways to give up and found the easiest way was the nicotine patch. When I first started using them, after only about a day, I was really appreciating the powerful [start on the strongest patch that you can get] pure nicotine high that I was getting rather that a more diffuse high mixed with other nasty toxins.

I greatly enjoyed the patches and although I will never start smoking again I don't rule out giving the patches a go again just for fun.

See the pic below for how cigarette packs now look in Australia. Plain packaging laws came into force a few weeks ago and our health minister was on TV this morning saying that smokers are now saying that they don't taste as good -- yet there have been no changes other than packaging made so purely psychological.

Big tobacco aren't happy though -- they were squealing like stuck pigs. Court challenge didn't work for them -- couldn't have happened to nicer people. Wish I could sue them for all the money I have spent -- I could buy a house with it. Cigarette advertising here has been illegal for years but when I was a teenager they made it look so cool and healthy. MFs.

VoodooSyxx:
Hmmm not so sure how I feel about those Aussie cigarette packs. Seems overkill. Much like the "Truth" commercials over here in the US. Regardless, Ive been seriously considering hitting the gym again to get myself into some sort of shape, other than round. I imagine that alone will make me wish I had laid the smokes down.

Gary~:
Voodoo, a lot of countries are looking to see how things pan out in Australia court-case wise. Phillip Morris I think is still trying to sue Australia in Hong Kong over this but it's not looking good for them. Many, many countries are considering going the same route -- the most recent that I have heard of is India. There is just so much money to be saved in health costs.

The other thing that I forgot to mention is the cost here. Every few months they ramp up the cost automatically with special taxes to discourage everyone. When I was 19 I could buy a 50 g [1.76 oz] packet of Drum tobacco with papers and matches for $1.00. Last time I looked it was $36.00 just for the tobacco -- probably more now.

I would be interested to know how much a packet of tobacco costs in the USA and how big it is. I bet, the USA being the consumer paradise that it is [I am being serious, not joking here] that it is much, much cheaper but I could be wrong.

The other day I was in town and saw a new discarded empty packet and it had a really disgusting pic of a gangrenous foot - if that doesn't put you off then nothing will. It looks incredibly painful. See the pic below -- it is the same except that where it says 'Brand' there is a brand name in plain script and where it says 'Variant' it would say 'menthol' or whatever.

I guess that the main point that I really want to make to anyone who wants to quit is that you shouldn't look at the situation as if you are giving-up something valuable and perhaps pleasant but realise that if you use good strong patches you will be gaining a much better, purer and much more pleasant nicotine high. This only takes a day or so to realise.


Who, in their right mind, wouldn't want to gain a great increase in pleasure from their nicotine?


No need to be too quick to stop the patches -- take your time. And when you get onto the smallest ones instead of just stopping them after the suggested time period you can cut them up into smaller and smaller pieces until you are just using 1/8 or 1/16 of a patch. I helped an old girlfriend get off smokes this way and she stopped the process when she got to 1/8 of a small patch. When she tried to stop without patches she was a complete bitch -- nowhere near as bad with patches.

Please people, give up smoking and gain more pleasure from your nicotine. It's even much better than smoking if you use patches for life so you never have to give up nicotine if you like it that much.

Disclaimer: I positively hate Big Tobacco -- as the internet archives show they are a pack of lying bastards who have robbed all of us blind for far too long. Tell them through your buying habits to 'go and get stuffed'.

VoodooSyxx:
Yeah, the continually hike up the taxes on smokes here too. In my part of Texas, a pack is between 5 and 7 dollars now. It's been a while since I bought just tobacco. Last time was about 6 months ago. I went to a place that sells tobacco and a carton of tubes and then you put it all in a machine and it spits out a carton of cigarettes. Since they only sold tobacco and tubes and not actual cigarettes, there is no tax. I think it cost me about $42 for a carton.

clarinetguy:
Hey guys, thanks for all of your feedback. Sorry to say I have not been successful at quitting yet. Enjoying it too much is an issue for sure. I am going to keep trying.

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