If you live in the Philippines, giving-up smoking is not quite as easy as it is back in the UK. For one thing, cigarettes are a lot cheaper here: a pack of locally-manufactured Marlboro Lites costs around 70p (those imported from the US cost over double that amount though), other brands are even cheaper. Then there's the smoking ban which, outside Davao City, is not enforced as assiduously and evenly as it is in that city. But the biggest hurdle to overcome is the lack of nicotine replacements - there are no patches or gum (which I think are one and the same!) here. But there are electronic cigarettes, or "e-cigs", starting to appear on the market and a typical starter kit with a USB charger costs around Php 1,500: Also a good variety of flavours of "e-juice" - a base of propylene glycol with nicotine and flavouring added - in varying strengths is available from e-cig stockists. Each 10 ml bottle costs Php 200. I've been using mine since Monday morning - I smoked my last cigarette the evening before - and I'm impressed. I opted for the lower strength e-juice and each "hit" seems to me to be roughly the same as half a Marlboro Lite cigarette; certainly I get no craving for "the real thing". In the past I've tried both patches and nicotine gum but neither worked for me. E-cigs may be the answer; I'll let you know in a few months' time.
Good luck My ex wife succeeded eventually. Driven by sheer cost and economics on the one hand and deteriorating health on the other. She was nigh on a 40 a day smoker, partly fueled by the duty free cigs I brought home every trip. Sheer cost once we were seperated / divorced. As I stopped buying them for her.
Good on you Mark. I have a wierd smoking thing. I don't smoke in the mornings, I rarely smoke in the UK, I don't smoke when my ship is at sea only in port and I smoke in the philippines. Strange. I'm not a heavy smoker, 20 fags can last me 3-4 weeks depending on my mood.
Goodluck on quitting. I was a casual smoker years before that escalated to a more habitual one after a break up. I eventually quit though. My cousin has been using an e-cig for more than a year now and he hasn't touched a cigarette since then. Though there are still cons in using an e-cig but I guess it is less evil than a traditional cigarette
Started round the back of the bike shed at school, escalated to 40 Senior Service a day fuelled by bonded stores at sea, finally stopped after 30 years 14 years ago. Best method I found was to wait until I had 'flu and had to take to my bed; I just didn't re-start.
Good luck Mark. Never took up smoking myself, I think because my late mother was such a heavy smoker (it was the cause to her cancer in the end) that I really hated them growing up. Apart from trying a Shisha so I could say I tried it, I've never bothered with smoking and I don't think I ever will..
Good luck, I stopped 27 years ago after smoking for about 10 years, I would smoke two tins of Golden Virginia from Sunday to Wednesday and about 140 Benson and Hedges or the likes between Thursday and Saturday night, could not afford it even at the prices back then, just stopped one day in 1986 and never touched them again.
It was undoubtedly the availability of "Three Castles" in the Crew Bond that 'did' for me. A Three Castles cigarette was the same length but slightly fatter than other (King Size) brands and at seventeen shillings and six pence for a carton of 200 back in 1968, they were cheaper than the so-called "luxury" brands - Benson & Hedges, Dunhill, Rothmans and Du Maurier - which cost two bob more. If memory serves, a single pack of 20 Benson & Hedges cost around five shillings in those days ashore in the UK. Crew prices did rise over the years but not nearly as steeply as those sold retail; passengers, however, paid about double the crew price (and not just for cigarettes). WD & HO Wills, which manufactured Three Castles, used the same "recipe" for their export cigarettes as they did for their domestic ones whereas the other brands available onboard were manufactured for export and had much more 'filler' including saltpetre which made them burn hotter, faster and with an almost white ash.
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4 years and 16 days since I stoppoed smoking............ But I ain't counting............... After 5 days in hospital, and not feeling a single craving for nicotine, I thought to try and see how long I would last without a fag....
Yeah but whats really riling the authorities is the potential loss of revenues. So first they (the hypocrits )have to demonise it befor they control and tax it there are no proven harms from nicotine
Not what I read. Nicotine is a poison, 40–60 mg (0.5-1.0 mg/kg body weight) can be a lethal dosage for adult humans.
Ah Rats less in mice Nicotine rat, oral mice, oral 50 mg/kg 3.3 mg/kg 0.05 0.0033 [29] [30] of course the LD50 of a ton of feathers dropping on your head is even higher. Here the context is conected to the ingestion by inhaltion in a controlled manner otherwise given the amount of nicotine we have used I guess you are already dead.
It's been over a month since I stopped smoking and since I was bed-ridden with 'flu a few days after I quit, I've not needed to use the e-cigarette much either. Get the occasional pangs for a cigarette, mostly if I'm under stress for some reason or other, but other than that it's been pretty much plain sailing.
Do you feel any different though? Thing I noticed first was in the pub how much ashtrays stank and my clothes as well. Plus I could taste food better as well.
