I quit drinking 'proper' several years before quitting the smokes.... it was costing more than the smokes and I wasn't the most pleasant person once I'd had a few.  However, since quitting the smokes I have a few shandies here and there with no craving/urge to light up... that's like an inch of lemonade in the bottom of a glass to a can of mid strength beer, usually Powers Gold.  A carton of 30 cans will last me up to 8 weeks or more, depending on the weather... if I've done the mowing, etc.  However, I drink it for the taste, not the alcohol content, cos I don't like Coke or other soft drink that much as I prefer something more bitter.

As for the smell of a durry....YUK with a capital EEEW!

I lose track, but I think it's 6 or 7 years off smokes for me come May 18th.

Best thing I ever did, quitting.  

In fact, the tobacco is treated with ammonia to make it more available in the smoke and more addicting. 

The only product designed to kill and maim and yet legal.

Actually? Firearms were designed also for defense and for hunting.

Can you say anything positive about ANY tobacco product? 

1,137 days and counting.............

Quoting teddybearcholla,

reply 461

...Yayyyyyyyyyyy Fred!!!!  

Thanks Barb   .........I forgot to mention.......... +25 lbs. and counting.............   I think quitting smoking is easier than loosing the weight that I've put on, it's not like I can just stop eating, and exercise would just be a waste of the money that I saved and then spent on a new couch and TV! 

Yeah, I have put on a bit of beef since quitting.... and exercise isn't that easy when you have arthritis in most every joint in your body.  I try to lose weight and have had some success [about 25 - 30kg] over the last few months, but I could do to lose another 10 - 15kg to be better situated.

I do have a bike and I hope to ride it more often than I have been able in recent times... arthritis and weather permitting.  Might even try riding it UP to Shaunna's place... there's a fechen great hill to climb in order to get there, tho I reckon I'd end up walking it most of the way up to begin with, well at least until I become more accustomed to riding again.  It has been some years since I last rode a bike seriously - like about 45 - but I can still do it without too much wobble... though that could be somewhat different in traffic until I regain my nerve. I haven't really been out of the local precinct, which is quite quiet traffic-wise, so have yet to venture into more populated streets.