NHS Smoke free advert...puke

Omg the new NHS smoke free advert turned me

If i smoked i would NEVER ever look at a cig again after this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klO-17ECC0E

It's all about the shock factor now.But it still won't stop people smoking.

yea i saw it my lung prolly in a mess after the years of smoke and other things but I'm glad i don't smoke anymore

I've been a smoker for 50 years now (except when I was pregnant).

It's one of only a few pleasures and comforts left to me. This ad won't stop me.

hardcore smoke hey lynda mt red stripe only a few pleasures these days also

i have stopped for near a year now and my mum stopped for 3, im gald cause cancer does run in the family. If this ad stopped even one person its a job well done! but seriously if smoking is the only good thing you have maybe you need to go and do something else...like take a cooking class or something similar try and break the need for that satisfaction if you get me

Yes Steve - hardcore smoker. Oh it's easy to stop smoking, I've done it hundreds of times! (that's a JOKE although an old one).

Hayley, I'm pleased for you and your mum, well done.

I appreciate your concern Hayley but smoking is not the ONLY good thing in my life, I'm a glass half-full kinda gal (albeit an old gal) - I enjoy lots of things (although not cooking sadly! although I can cook properly although not fancily). It's just that I'd rather live my life as enjoyably as I see fit for myself and rather that then give up all my guilty pleasures in the hope of extending my life by a few more years into an increasingly difficult and unpleasant dotage without the things that are SO bad for us these days.

Heavy stuff over.

If this ad stops ONE person from the legal weed then it will be worthwhile.

we both stopped 5 years ago best thing we ever did

Although I found the adverrt repulsive it still wouldn't be grounds for me stopping , price is the driving factor for me these days and will hopefully be on our to do list for New Year

recommend going to the NHS group meetings thats how we stopped they give you 6 weeks worth of patches/lozenges whatever you choose really. Our health has improved lots since we stopped. It did take us 3 attempts though

Wendy and Mark wrote:recommend going to the NHS group meetings thats how we stopped they give you 6 weeks worth of patches/lozenges whatever you choose really. Our health has improved lots since we stopped. It did take us 3 attempts though

Already got some patches as the OH has a prep paid prescription certificate so we have a start , have only got the medium ones though and I will need an armfull of the large ones daily to get me through so have to get her to make another visit

Good luck both of you willpower is also needed. I watched my father die from smoking related lung cancer and decided i did not want the same for me.

It was smoking that finally finished off my father last year but cruel as it sounds there wasn't enough of a bond there to hit me hard, and also seen my mam die 20 years ago with non smoking related cancer so grew up thinking it's not that relevant and when it's your time , then it's your time.

i see your point thats how i used to think but you will feel so much better for stopping. I used to smoke roll ups and i used to wheeze in bed on a night and cough like mad in the morning. All thats gone now and i spend my cash on better things

I could hear my aunty wheezing from the next room when I stayed with her!

I stopped the day I went to a oz, I didn't want to have to bother trying to find cigs all the time . three weeks and I was done . but I was very ready to stop anyway .

if you smoking 20 a day your spending the guts of 3000 quid a year . if there's the two then that's 6, that's a bloody luxury holiday lol

My oh's parents both died of lung cancer & both were only in their early 60's - hardly their dotage!

My mum smoked from the age of about 10 until she was about 50-ish. For about 15 years before that she had suffered from the most awful cough - almost constant. In the end she went to the doctor to get something for it & he said (can't remember the exact words, but near enough) "Why are you asking me for something to stop your cough when you are still smoking? You'll kill yourself if you don't stop now - your lungs will collapse".

She stopped that day & never smoked again.

The cough also disappeared withing about 7 days of stopping.

They have gone back to the shock tactics again to get people to quit. There was a time when all my family smoked apart from me, I never have, all my 3 brothers and my Mum and Dad smoked. I could never see the attraction to it, just looks like burning money in my eyes.

just goes to show Caryl

Lynda wrote:I've been a smoker for 50 years now (except when I was pregnant).

It's one of only a few pleasures and comforts left to me. This ad won't stop me.

I saw the ad yesterday for the first time. Have to say it won't stop me. Only me can stop me and i'm not ready to give up yet. I gave up for 3 years no patches or anything just will power but one day I just got a taste and fancied one. Probably the the worst thing I could have done but oh my god it was the best taste ever.

I will give up again but need to be in the right place first

Well done to all that have given up and stuck at it

I've heard people say about the wonderful taste of a cig, but when I tried one for a bet the taste was bloody horrible!

And the smell that's left on your clothes & breath.....

its the nicotine I highly doubt anyone would smoke if it was purely for the taste lol

Well nicotine is the contributing factor obviously lol but that first ciggie after three years was like heaven.

Aaahhh, that's the addiction, though, not the taste!

after 3 years of not smoking believe me the taste was good. Now though it's all down to addiction just like the addiction to diet coke although I have been good on that one and switch to caffiene free.

I'm not painting a very good image here am I lol. Honestly my teeth aren't black and rotten

There is a fantastic moment when it is possible to really enjoy a cigarette , remember times when I have been in meetings all day and hosting non smoking customers so 6-7 hours without a cigarette and a massive buzz, it's the 10 you smoke after that to catch up that don't seem so good

i can't even have a quick puff on one when im drinking anymore. turns me really does. I even got to the point i wouldnt like to see a lad who was smoking.

Hayley wrote:

i can't even have a quick puff on one when im drinking anymore. turns me really does. I even got to the point i wouldnt like to see a lad who was smoking.

That's ok I'll just bring a paper bag for you to put on your head

Caryll wrote:I've heard people say about the wonderful taste of a cig, but when I tried one for a bet the taste was bloody horrible!

And the smell that's left on your clothes & breath.....

You only get the taste thing after smoking for a while. When you smoke one it just tastes like smoke. I do miss smoking but at the same time glad I don't. Much better off without them

I still like the smell if someone is smoking but the smell on clothes etc the day after I never liked when I smoked

I must say I looked away, but it wouldn't stop me smoking, if you going to stop you really have to want too, otherwise you'll start again if that makes sense!

Does to me Janey
I stopped because of me. Not because they changed the fag pcket and it no longer looked appealing or because they put some advert on.

Stopping smoking - I KNOW, I KNOW it makes sense. Everybody above makes sense. I wish I didn't have to spend shed loads of money on cigarettes - I wish I didn't have a smokers cough - I wish I didn't stink of cigs (no-one has told me that I do, but I bet I do) - I wish I could have an evening out without having to go outside for a fix - I wish I didn't NEED that fix.

I gave up smoking last year in the summer, the time seemed right. I had the patches, the help, and MOST IMPORTANTLY the determination. All was fine for 4 weeks (well, not fine it was still a struggle - I got so TEARFUL, a side-effect of kicking it apparently; but you know what I mean). Even an idiot crashing into my parked car and denying it was his fault didn't make me light up again. But a week later I wiggled the mains lead into my computer and the whole thing blew up in my face and that was it - I went straight out and bought a packet of fags and lit one up -OH THE BLISS. It didn't mend my computer of course, but it sure helped with the stress of it all.

I'm now back on nearly 40 a day and am hoping that one day, when my life is perfect, I will have a strong urge to quit - AGAIN. Until then ...

Heck advert scary. I stopped smoking about 10 years ago as I've got asthma and mild emphysema. My lung collaspsed too and I wasn't a heavy smoker! None of my family and only 2 of my mates smoked I got sick of being an outcast and I hated the smell!! Mind I used to love smoking it was a real pleasure peeling the wrapper off that silver packet and lighting up that Lambert and Butler mmm

Lynda you might want to try the e-cig. My stopped smoking in it. Granted she still smokes that e-cig and spend money on it too but her health has improved drastically and her persistent cough is gone and the house don't stink anymore. My aunty stopped on it too. Infact half the town did and my mum is like an advocate for them haha really good stuff

Ah Hayley, thank you for your advice but I already tried the e-cig. It's great in its way but just prolongs the agony as far as I'm concerned. I'm glad to hear it works for other people though (my daughter is going to give e-cigs a go in the New Year, she is by no means such a hardened smoker as me - doesn't smoke as many and not as strong so it MIGHT work for her).

Oh the evil weed!