A workmate spends £500 per month on fags

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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Big Joe:

gogzy:
yea but i get 30 to the gallon out of my v8, it sounds better and is more fun…:smiley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNOwjck-D-0

heh heh heh the V8 :sunglasses: bet you smoke some tyres though :grimacing:

on that day i dindt even use any tyres, the tyres i had on will do me another drift day, but the ground was wet and greasy that day so less tyres more fuel…still managed to make some smoke :slight_smile:

Mark your a cheeky git lol, i aint work a kilt in donkeys years :stuck_out_tongue:
as for that bmw, yea its a bit mental though its not road legal…this pic will tell you why :slight_smile:

also heres the other car that my mate who does all the work on my car built, that also has some mean lock on it but nothing on the red one. M3 with racing bits etc mated to a 316 diff…this thing screams its {zb} off at 40 in 4th.

and heres this…22 seconds and 2mins 22 in is me :smiley:

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switchlogic:

newmercman:

switchlogic:
I forgot to mention the ket, purple pills and rent boys…

So you do spend money on ■■■■ :laughing: :wink:

I’m surprised though, with your movie star good looks and charm I thought you’d be beating them off with a stick :laughing: :wink:

Well to be fair I was lying about the rent boys. I’ve not had to pay for it…yet.

Neither did Feddie Mercury just had a short life :exclamation:

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That’s why it’s good to wear an overcoat whatever your persuasion :bulb:

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These days my only vices are a few beers although I only drink indoors if we have guests. I pop in the pub about three times a week in the week il have three pints tops more on a Friday night of in the weekend.
Other than that I spend a few quid on CDs and DVDs and we normally go on a few holidays every year.

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Yeah, you really need to want it to succeed in giving up, if you’re not that arsed, you will probably not succeed.

I’ve always thought whilst smoking over the past 20 odd years that I just didn’t want to turn in to one of those old, chain smoking men who was absolutely ■■■■■■ and still smoking through a tube in my neck.

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billybigrig:
Quit for 2 years, using Champix. Never felt so rough and caught every germ, bug and virus that came within 50 miles of me. I looked rough as a bears ■■■■ as well, both me and her did. Never felt and looked better now after sparking up again. I started about the same age as you Kindle and with a few more miles on my clock :blush: I figure that was to big a change for my body. :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

Happy as a sandboy again now so pass the Marlboro’s :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

This strikes a chord with me…for a couple of reasons.

I know a couple of guys who have given up recently. One, who I work closely with, gave up 4 or 5 years ago completely by willpower. He had smoked 20 or more a day for 30 years and just stopped. Since then, he says, he has never felt worse, he has constant small ailments like colds etc and generally feels like death! :smiley: The ONLY plus side to it is that he can taste and smell things better. He does say he will never have another ■■■ but he wishes that he never stopped!
Another guy has used the NHS pack to help him stop. Is this the Champix that is being talked about? He told me that there was some danger with it and although potentially not very serious, it must obviously be a concern. He immediately piled on about a stone and a half (not sure what that is in new money, sorry :smiley: ) but has stayed off of the ■■■■. He gave up back in the summer but it is his umpteenth try so it must work for some, not for others.

I gave up myself after a bout of the flu, about 20 years ago. I stayed off them for 2 years and I was a miserable git to everyone around me (I’m just amazed that anyone noticed that I was even more miserable than normal… :smiley: ). Due to a marriage break up, I went back smoking but started rolling my own. I smoke about 2 ozs every couple of weeks so it costs me next to nothing.

The point is that although there is definite benefits to your health - especially lungs, I’m not convinced that the rest of your body doesn’t suffer BECAUSE you’ve given up, certainly after 30 years or more of the evil weed.

Medical evidence apparently tells me that I’m talking guff and that I’m a ■■■, so I don’t really need you guys telling me that same, thanks :smiley:

Different people react in different ways to different things…

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Smoking does cost obviously and since I get through 400+per week it’s probably fortunate the ferries still offer a discount but that is being reduced almost weekly.But do I enjoy it…well after smoking for 47years I can honestly say I cannot remember a ciggy I didn’t enjoy.Strange though that newspaper articles are concerned about the elderly living too long,the right to die etc.etc.well strikes me the elderly should be forced to smoke…paying taxes while killing themselves through smoking…a win,win situation for Government.Will admit never ever been ill,don’t know what a day off sick is and still manage to ski each winter.But I do respect the wishes of others,the non smokers which most of my friends are who I will say with a certain surprise do seem to suffer from every illness going indeed I think they are a bit p’d off that a chain smoker like myself seems to be illness free.Never mind when all this smoking catches up with me and I’m suffering from some great illness,when I am laid in my hospital bed with all the other smoking derelicts a certain satisfaction will creep through knowing I got my illness at a reduced price having driven abroad my whole career.Smokers are happy people…Smokers of the World Unite.

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400+ a week. :open_mouth:

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Rich The Stag:
Hi all.

A workmate and his wife spend nearly £500 per month on ■■■■ and he reckons he cant afford a holiday this year!!!

So it got me thinking.

How much do you spend on your vices every month?

This could be interesting!!

I used to smoke 60 marlboro lights ever day, although ciggys here are cheaper than the UK it still hurt, my wife and i got through about $300.00 a month. I started smoking at 14 years old and 3 years ago I was sick one friday night and coughing like hell, I never touched a ciggy since that day.

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gogzy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNOwjck-D-0

not bad fella, but what happened to the transition at 28 seconds? :laughing: :laughing:

stevie

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Thats what i thought…thats opne hell of a lot to be smoking in a week, but hey ho, your body, your choice.
I trieds to, pack it in after my heart attacks, well i did whilst in hospital, then i visited the anti smoking nurse at the doctors surgery, ( who kept popping out for a ■■■ every ten minutes ) really !
Anyway she recommended CHAMPIX, gave me a quick test on some blow meter, and that was it.
How it works is like this, you continue to smoke as normal for the first week, on the second week ( the tablet dose is stronger ) then get into your head, when you want to stop, and low and behold, it works, i actually went a whole day without realising that i had. I finished the course, and that was me stopped after 47 years.
That year whilst on holiday, my wife came home before me, and after seeing her to the bus stop, went and had a beer, and looked at others around me who looked like they were enjoying their ■■■■, ( and seeing as there was a kiosk across the road ) thought, oh well, one wont hurt, then 2, 3, a packet, better buy another packet incase i run out…here i am smoking once again, well not actually here, cos im not allowed to smoke in the living room. I have had friends who stopped, and were dead within a year, so i think, when you go , you go, but at least ive gone enjoying myself. At the moment, my wife and youngest daughter dont stop coughing, yet theyre non smokers, me, i never cough, get colds or flu, so whats that all about.
When i cant get duty free, my Dunhill International are £7.40 a packet, and i get through approx 6 packets a week. The lottery costs £12 a week, and i spend approx £12-£15 weekly on beers, so my luxuries are around £70 a week, without the other bits and bobs like food, teas and coffees when i`m working, which is 3 days a week. I can afford my luxuries, and the economic climate doesnt affect me, and i deserve them.

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Since i quit smoking some 2-3 yrs ago without all the (zb) patches gum ect ect, I just made a decision to quit,
The price of them in this (zb) country was probably the main factor for me doing so, and my health secondly
But i have never suffered with multiple colds ect since, in fact it must be over 12mths ago since i last had a cold/flu,
But maybe thats got more to do with other lifestyle changes that i made such as eating healthier foods,instead of the junk foods burgers, full breakfasts fizzy drinks full of sugar (pepsi ,coke ect)

I cut out added salt and sugar completely i very rarely will eat cakes chocolate ect and now make a concerted effort in getting more exercise even if it’s only a 2 mile walk everyday since doing this Ive lost around 3 stone and feel a hell of a lot better for it ,

I will say one thing though after this long you can tell who is a smoker if amongst people in shops ect because they stink of stale tobacco smoke, even smell it from several cars in front of you when sat at traffic lights (if they are smoking & have an open window)

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Give up smoking ten years ago when I got a job on shell used to smoke 50 grams tobacco every two days just woke up one morning and said to myself I am not going to smoke anymore but it was the day my first daughter was born. I have to tell myself everyday not to smoke as the need for a ■■■ has never left me and some days I would kill for one.

Last year I was diagnosed with severe asthma what would this have been had I not stopped smoking.

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In the past 2 yrs i have only even thought about smoking twice, and then for only a brief moment, but i would put that down to habit (what i was used to doing faced with certain situations) rather than a craving for them as i don’t crave for cigarette’s i think the first month was the hardest for me after that it stopped bothering me i can get ■■■■■■ up get stressed out without craving for a smoke , i smoked for around 25-30yrs too, But it doesn’t mean that i never will crave for a cigarette in the future

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I still get cravings from time to time and my wife still smokes but I find the smell revolting so although I would love a damm ciggy now and then the thought of all that coughing and the smell stops me.

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I think about giving up, I could do it no problem, if I wanted to, but I don’t really, I know the benefits and I don’t even enjoy a smoke anymore, but deep down I don’t want to, so any attempt to do so will be futile.

Plus I have the benefit of knowing that I will die of something, all the health freaks will be lying in their death beds dying of nothing, end result is the same :laughing:

Has anyone tried hypnosis to quit, I did, the bird asked me to name something that I really hated the taste of, I said courgettes, she then spent 20mins chanting some tripe about courgettes and cigarettes, came out and never smoked for the rest of the day, I ate 4lb of bloody courgettes though :laughing: :laughing:

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My wife is a heavy smoker, roughly 20 plus a day and has recently spent three weeks in hospital, not a smoking related illness.
The consultant knew she smoked and would benefit from the odd ■■■ a day to keep her calm. He actually put on her notes that she could be taken to the smoking room by a nurse a few times a day.
Later she was transferred to Wythenshawe hospital and the room was near a fire escape, the nurses let her out and gave her a chair to sit on. After her operation she had to stay in bed for a day or two and the nurses brought her a packet of imitation cigs which are supposed to taste like the real thing and give of a bit of steam like smoke.
I was hoping she would stay on them but now she is finally back home she is back on her 20 a day.

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Yes, the real enemy is all of these boring and whining non-smokers who live to be 100 and cost the taxpayer a mint. Smokers pay a fortune in taxes and drop dead when they are 70 which is a far more public spirited thing to do.

To my mind, the government needs to worry a bit less about smokers and drinkers, and a bit more about these wobbling lardarses you seem to see everywhere these days. Perhaps every branch of McDonalds should be forced to have a picture of a fatty on the front.

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gogzy:
also i need this sort of lock…70 degrees of lock, and a 4.4 litre v8 stuffed in it

Wont get you round corners any quicker :grimacing: with that terible lock on ya black mans wheels