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Do you smoke?

Do you smoke?

  • Yes, like a train

    Votes: 31 23.3%

  • Nope, given up

    Votes: 64 48.1%

  • Never smoked

    Votes: 38 28.6%
  • Total voters
    133
I've never smoked and am never likely to as I see the effects of tobacco in close-up every working day.........don't do it kids, it's not big and it's not clever.
 
I gave it up after nearly forty years of pleasure, went cold turkey in a High Dependancy unit after suffering a Heart Attack. That was 7 years ago, i think it took about 4 years before i really felt i had given it up. Fishing has never been the same but i have never felt so healthy.
 
Thanks for the replies. I do find it interesting/admirable that over half of us have given up. While 25% still smoke. So that means 75% of fisherman have smoked or still smoke. Feels about right.

So being a fisherman over the past few decades means we're more likely to be smokers than the non-fishing general population.

Has fishing contributed to our propensity to smoke? Or smoking our propensity to fish!?

I'm off for a run
 
Think it would of been interesting to have a 'only when I fish' option in the vote because none of the other options relate to me.
 
I think we should have a group 'giving up' thread where everyone who wants to quit can do so on the same day and report their progress. I do want to give up, but, strange as it may sound to non smokers, I enjoy it too much. Listening to the scare stories and non-smokers advice just sounds like a stuck record after a while and has very little effect. My aunt died of lung cancer a few years ago, but that wasn't nearly enough to make me consider giving up. I have set myself a target to give up by the time I'm 35....4 years to go! :)
 
Re. smoking/fishing. I think you have to be an optimist and a bit of a gambler to invest the time fishing year in and year out. The same applies to smokers. I smoke, I enjoy it, and I dont think I'll ever give it up.
So there!:)
PS..I had a friend that died of lung cancer at 23. He was cycling mad, cycled everywhere, and had never smoked in his short life.
PPS..I guy I knew well died of cirrhosis of the liver 3yrs ago. He drank half of lager per week as he played snooker (plus a sherry on Xmas day)
If your names on the bullet.....
 
having smoked since 12yrs old and having to rely on a inhaler to get the lungs stated 2twice a day and the cost that left me skint i gave up 8yrs ago aged 40 .it changed my life:) i now only have a inhaler for emergencies no more weasing /spluttering/ i can now afford to buy what ever tackle i fancy :)the only down side for me is when i gave up i weighed 11st now i must be at least 14&1/2stone:eek: if your going to do it right get help from doctor /smoking clinic and get the patches to ease the craving they really help me & get wife to get lock ont fridge, its was easier for me to give up the baccy tin, than it was for me to give up the bicci tin:D now weres them jaffer cakes
 
Terry Christopher said:
Re. smoking/fishing. I think you have to be an optimist and a bit of a gambler to invest the time fishing year in and year out.
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Agree.

Terry Christopher said:
PS..I had a friend that died of lung cancer at 23. He was cycling mad, cycled everywhere, and had never smoked in his short life.
PPS..I guy I knew well died of cirrhosis of the liver 3yrs ago. He drank half of lager per week as he played snooker (plus a sherry on Xmas day)
If your names on the bullet.....
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While that is a couple of sad examples the overwhelming medical evidence says that if you were a gambler you wouldn't smoke, because you know the odds of serious ill health if you do smoke. I work for an organisation that is all about evidence based medicine, the incontrovertible facts.

I think I'm right in saying smoking is bad for you :eek:
 
Yes, I think smoking IS a very bad habit that makes you smell of stale tobacco, and is costly. I do not advocate smoking.
Yes, it is incontrovertible that smoking CAN (it has the potential to) adversely effect your health, but it is NOT incontrovertible that it will. That is the gamble that smokers take.
PS..I was a scientist for 35yrs i.e. I dealt in proof/facts, and 10yrs in hypnopsychotherapy (including helping people give up smoking).
It might be a 'nanny-state' in which we are condemned to live, but thankfully we still have SOME choices left to us. Each to his own, that is until smoking is banned on the banks for fear of the effect of passive smoking on non-smoking fellow anglers:).
 
That's a fair comment Terry, however many do not know, or choose to ignore, the downside of tobacco. I think it's fair to say that very few dodge the nicotine bullet in the end.
 
well, I definitely choose to ignore. I mean, come on, there's pictures of tar clogged lungs on every packet. We all know what it's doing...give us some credit!
 
Ian Hugo Arnott said:
Giving up smoking is easy, I have done it hundreds of times.

Have given it up again today and don't feel the need. I have been awake for an hour and stopped smoking at 1900hrs yesterday. Not able to fish until Saturday, so watch this space!

Regards

Hugo


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Went fishing with Mr T yesterday. We started off with a pub lunch and then fished a beautiful lake. Had some cider in the pub and some more on the bank.


Have I still given up?

What do you think?

Giving up again today!



As ever


Hugo
 
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Marc Bridger said:
well, I definitely choose to ignore. I mean, come on, there's pictures of tar clogged lungs on every packet. We all know what it's doing...give us some credit!
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at school we had a real one, didn't work, well it did for about 5 days..lol
 
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