smoking ban

[dave o]

just over 3 weeks to go until the smoking ban, who agrees/ dissagrees?
me and the wife packed in (again!!!) nearly a month ago. we thought that we would make a serious attempt this time. we phoned the doc to make an appointment and was told that the next available was in 6 weeks:eek, so off we went to the chemist. all you have to do is fill a form in, blow in a co2 meter and they give you a prescription there and then for patches etc. you go back and do the same every week for a month then they give you a prescription for a lower type of patch. another month and your on the lowest type of patch for the final 4 weeks. you can get an inhaler which helps when you get an overwhelming urge, which is working quite well.
we didnt think that it would be this easy to pack in. once you get over the first week and your body gets used to a lower nicotine intake its plain sailing;)
all you smokers who want to pack in, try this way. you only pay for the prescriptions which is cheaper than buying 20 fags a day for a week.

[peggy]

I don't smoke neither does my other half. The Pub/Restaurant next door is completely a no smoking place, so we are very happy about that.
On the other hand, I feel there should be somewhere for people to smoke if they wish to do so, so long as I don't have to breath in their smoke. Those who wish to slowly kill themselves, can get on with quietly and happily out of my sight.

In Lanzarote, the no smoking ban is a total mystery to me, it seems the bar owner can decide whether or no you can smoke. There are many bars over there we don't go into now.

[Snorkelling Del]

Dave O

Congrats to you and the missus - keep it up.

Tried the patches and stuff myself, but I had a reaction to them. So its down the sheer willpower for me and I admit it is not working at the moment.

Keep trying and trying and ........

Tracey

[Jackie H.]

Well done so far Dave-keep up the good work and hope this attempt is succesful for you both.

Tried the patches once myself and they made me feel really ill.

[MADSTOCK]

The patches gave me terrible nightmares but they worked where all else had failed.
I was a 40 a day man and had tried to give up many times but I was amazed at how relatively easy I found it once I tried the patches.
It's now been 4 1/2 years but I do still get the urge from time to time.
Well done to both of you and stick with it.

Keith.

[Jacksback]

I am planning on giving up on 1st September (various reasons for that date :lol ) but I don't agree with the blanket no smoking ban, as Peggy says why cant it be left upto the individual establishment? If it is a smoking pub don't go in it if you don't want to smoke.. surely we should be given a choice!!

[Hotpot]

I'm a smoker. I'm also very much against the adverse and unwanted impact of one person's habit or pleasure upon another.

That's why I recently had a stand-up row with the restaurant manager of a 4-star hotel we were staying at in the UK, where breakfast was quite properly a smoke-free affair -- but where unwanted and unnecessary music was being pumped out from ceiling speakers.

I twice asked for the ludicrous thudding rap rubbish to be turned off and was ignored. So I sought out the restaurant manager and produced my cigarettes and lighter on the basis that if the hotel was happy with noise pollution, it must presumably be happy with smoke pollution, too.

The noise was turned off soon after.

I've nothing against the smoking ban in public places, but the whiff of political correctness that has surrounded it (our local library in the UK even managed to clutter up its narrow entrance with a sort of sandwich board reading so-many-days-to-the-smoking-ban!!!!, begging the question: when the hell was smoking ever allowed in the library anyway?) has often been as strong as the smell of burning tobacco.