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Nice forum, thanks

Im not chain smoker just a regular smoker.. say 2 or 3 cigar per day but sometimes i dont smoke for whole day and even i can take not smoking 3 or 4 days

now i just want to quit smoking totally

where will i start ?
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As someone who has smoked in the past, I see both sides of this coin.  I smoked for 30 years before quitting and I quit not because of my health but because of being treated like a second class individual by employers and businesses and then shoved outside in the cold to have my nicotine fix.  I have been a non-smoker for 20 plus years now but I still want to have one now and then.  I enjoyed the taste of smoking. 

I think smokers do have rights the same as those of us who dont smoke.  I think all businesses should have places outside and away from entrances to their facilities where smokers can go and smoke.  This total ban on smoking just makes it difficult for smokers and they will leave the premises and go have their cigarettes. I find it cruel actually to force smokers to leave the premises to have their cigarettes. Nicotine is highly addictive and a smoker will need a fix during their working hours.  Some smokers will get very irritable when not allowed to have their nicotine level kicked up during the day.

Smoking cigarettes is also not illegal but you would think it was the way smoking and smokers are treated.  They are people.  They are people who happen to smoke but we, non-smokers, just seem to keep making their lives hell.  I find it tragic and sad. 

As far as lung cancer is concerned, it affects, most of the time those who have smoked strong, higher tar and nicotine cigarettes for 30, 40, 50 years.  Smokers who start and quit within a 20 to 25 year period from various studies I have read are in the same ranks of non-smokers with the chance of getting lung cancer.  One must note too that half of lung cancer is from smoking.  What is the other half caused from?

This is a hot button topic.  I see both sides and both sides have legitimate arguments. 

And naturush, I agree, in that I highly dislike laws that tell me what I will or will not do especially when it is legal.  It is legal to smoke.

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I have read your article about the doctors urge public smoking ban. It is really true fact. Passive smoking really harmful to others. Government should take the steps about the public smoking.
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Is it possible to quit smoking through natural methods, I mean without using those nicotine patch or medications. I don’t have much faith in medications.

I didn't think I could do it, but today is my 5th month without cigarettes...Thank You to whomever invented hookah!"

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Kasandra2409

This thread is just superb !


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Elyse589

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