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With proberbly just over 6 months to go now before the blanket ban on smoking in public,i was wondering how many of us smokers will actually be attempting to quit or will they just carry on regardless?How many will seek help in quitting at the earliest opportunity or maybe leave it until the last minute.As a lifetime smoker who lights up here,there & everywhere(exept my mums......she's a reformed) i'm going to seek help as soon as the festive season is over(but a week or two after new year then it's not a resolution as such).At the moment i've more nicotine replacement pharmacuticals in the house from my last failed attempt from the NHS,so iv'e something to get me started,then it's back up to Accy Vic & more substitutes.How will you cope?

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I'm not a smoker but wish you well in your attempt to give up, you can have all the nicotine products available but without willpower you wont succeed, good luck.

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Tough but not impossible, the financial benefits must be an incentive to giving it up but at least try, best of luck to you.

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Cheers,it surprises that the only two people to reply to this so far are far are non smokers:eek:

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Its amazing what having to stand out in wind rain and the cold does especially when at the pub. I know a few who quit because they would rather enjoy their pint in the warmth than in the so called shelters or doorways. Pubs have a better atmosphere for it as well as an added bonus. I prefer to drink in the house so I am still not getting there butwill have to try harder. :o

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If the breweries and their 'designers' had left the format of public houses as it was IE seperate rooms, lounge,tap or smoke room, snug and games room all tastes both smokers and non-smokers could have been accomodated, leaving freedom of choice for all.

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I tried to give up smoking a few months ago. I only last 3 weeks, but i'll definately be trying again in the New Year. The ban is going to hit a lot of pubs very hard.

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A very good and valid point. Sadley most followed the trend of open to all and made one big open plan area for people.

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hope you suceed, i wont even attempt whilst all this is going on, no buggar tells me owt, i will probably try to give up again at somepoint when/if the interfering sods have shut up,in other words when i choose,not when some buggar else does.end of rant.:cool:

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iv'r got to agree with you cashy, stubborn ain't the word for me, i'll do it when I want .but good luck to all those who are trying to give up .

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I remember the time my girlfriend (now my wife) decided to give up smoking, it was budget day 1984 and we were on our way to Scotland in the car and listening to the results of the budget. I thought she was asleep but as soon as the increase on cigarettes was anounced she sat up and declared, "When these in this pack are finished thats it I'm not going to buy anymore, and I am stopping smoking altogether", and she did and hasn't smoked from that day to this, nt being a smoker myself I don't feel I can comment on this issue but I will say that if she can do it then anyone can.
I think the increase was about 15p on a packet. Good luck to everyone who are trying to stop smoking.

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When all the non-smoking drivers acknowledge that their precious vehicles pollute far more than tobacco ever did I will quit smoking.

Until then I’m with cashy and mez and will carry on smoking until I feel that stopping is justified.

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If the 'anti' smoking brigade have their way there will be a smoker nabber on your tail jambutty, like the one sided race police we have now.

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When i'm ready i'll give up, could be next week (which i doubt) could be sometime in the next decade, could be never who knows. But until then i'll continue to enjoy smoking.

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I used to smoke, and just give up, just like that!! never touched one since and that was 6 years ago!! you dont need these patches !!

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That is the answer I expected from a 'true brit' the Pc brigade will not prosper whilst you are here to sort them out. Regards Ianto.W.

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i gave up when it came in up ere in scotland,the same as a good few of my fellow workers.now at work you have to stand in a bus shelter that theyve put up for smokers.the wagons have stickers on if anyone sees anyone smoking in the vehicle to ring a number. everyone now as to stand outside the pubs for a fag.

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Do you know what is the world comming to, 'if you see a fag smoker ring this number' talk about the green green 'grass' of home.;)

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i was thinking exactly the same iantow,now excuse me i,m goin out for a fag.:D

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My lad went to Scotland in summer.Could'nt get his head round not being able to light up in pubs.Was okay at first but after several lagers,force of habit took over.After three or four warnings he ended up barred.Ended up drinking from the offy & gave the pubs a miss,the rest of the time he was there.

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To those who are tryng to give up smoking - good luck. It's something I've never done so I've never had to struggle to give up.

For those who have no intentions of giving up, I just knew this gif would come in useful some day.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1164664834

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Not sure this will affect me at work. I am a Health care assistant, and the residents have a right to smoke, so they can't ban smoking on the Nursing home grounds. They will have to keep a smoke room for these residents, so I think we will be fine.:)

I would like to give up but I purely have NO will power and always cave in very easily.:o

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wonder what mayhem it will have on the accyweb meets lol!!!!
Not been to an official one yet but from what ive heard theres enough mayhem without the no smoking ban heehee

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Why do the British always obey rules to the letter? The ban on smoking in public places started in Spain on the first of January this year and I admit that I can´t have a ciggie in the bank or the post office but most bars still allow it.

As long as a notice is displayed stating that it´s a ´smoking bar´ it´s legal. The only place I go to where there is a complete ban is the English run Bowling Alley!

I was talking to a couple of girls from Scotland today and they told me that they aren´t allowed outside a nightclub after midnight and can´t have a smoke until they leave at three. Why?? They pay their entrance fee so why can´t they light up?

Classing myself as a polite smoker, I wouldn´t dream of smoking whilst people were eating, neither would I smoke in someone´s house or in their car but as far as I´m concerned a beer and a fag go together and I just can´t imagine supping half of Stella without a ciggie.

Back to the original question.......there is no way I would give up. Tried it once and didn´t like it.

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sorry but no you will not be able to smoke, my wife works in the hospice and the smokers have to go out of the grounds even though they have some where for the patients.

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now junetta and willow you two are talking sense,that will never do -the P.C.brigade will be after you rebels.;)

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I smoke and i would never dream of smoking in someones house that i was visiting unless they smoked themselves and they offered me a cig when i was there. Been to Dublin and i didnt smoke as much as there as what i do when i go out here. Think there will be a boom in patio heaters for sale come July when they do bring this smoking ban in. But how many pubs will like you taking your drink outside the pub if you are going for a cig?

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I'm not supprised the price of fag's in Ireland is enough to put even the most hardened of smokers off.

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The anti-smoking brigade stuck the knife in several months ago and now come the 1st July 2007 it will be twisted.

Not content with that many of the ‘holier-than-thou’ born again non-smokers are beginning to whinge about how they will have to walk through a smoke haze, created by the drinking smokers congregating outside having a smoke, to get into a pub. These ‘holier-than-thou’ sanctimonious born again non-smokers rejoice that no longer will they leave a pub smelling like an ashtray.

Of course they conveniently forget that they will have walked through and breathed in a far more lethal cocktail of poisonous vehicle exhaust fumes getting to the pub. They don’t seem to mind that their hair and clothes will now stink of vehicle exhaust fumes but then most if not all either drive a car or use some form of motorised transport so it’s OK to pollute the atmosphere for others.

Words like sanctimonious and hypocrite come to mind.