[QUOTE=āBrimmer Bradley, post: 1110631, member: 2839ā]Ah here. Tass emigrated to London from west Clare, he was immediately employed/ targeted as a rent boy. The obvious step for him while being anally gouged on a daily basis for monetary reward was to blot it out with drink and drugs.
By some lucky stroke he got a job as a binman and has now found his feet again and is on here daily giving it big licks about how good his life is and cannot recommend the drink/ drugs free lifestyle to all and sundry.
His base starting point was well low to start with so Iād take anything he has to say with a liberal pinch of salt.[/QUOTE]
Try putting wages on the table for 20 lads every week you fucking cunt.
I usually spend ā¬45 a week on cigarettes - thatās five packets of 20 Camel Lights which are exactly ā¬9.
I sort of want to quit but Iāve become dependent, as well as still (mostly) enjoying them. Iāve really only become an everyday smoker in the last two years. Before that Iād buy maybe two packets a week and was quite easily able to go a week or two without one. But now, anything stressful and I need a cigarette. I had my bike stolen at the Leinster Hurling final in 2013 and strange as sounds this is what made me start smoking everyday as I was furious with myself for parking it in a dodgy place and leaving it there by going off drinking afterwards. Then I decided to go on a cigarette run to Poland to stop paying Irish prices and brought back 1600. When I went through those I went to Prague for 24 hours and brought back 2000. Then I brought back another 800 from Abu Dhabi on top of that. Now Iāll probably never get off them.
Ken Early had a tweet a month or two back about trying to give up smoking:
āi heard stopping smoking would give me increased energy, & it has, but all the new energy is in the form of hate. not sure this is progressā
This is exactly how I feel when I go 18 hours without one. I become hyper and canāt sleep. But it also makes me feel fear. About everything. The dependence is a cunt.
[QUOTE=āSidney, post: 1110674, member: 183ā]I usually spend ā¬45 a week on cigarettes - thatās five packets of 20 Camel Lights which are exactly ā¬9.
I sort of want to quit but Iāve become dependent, as well as still (mostly) enjoying them. Iāve really only become an everyday smoker in the last two years. Before that Iād buy maybe two packets a week and was quite easily able to go a week or two without one. But now, anything stressful and I need a cigarette. I had my bike stolen at the Leinster Hurling final in 2013 and strange as sounds this is what made me start smoking everyday as I was furious with myself for parking it in a dodgy place and leaving it there by going off drinking afterwards. Then I decided to go on a cigarette run to Poland to stop paying Irish prices and brought back 1600. When I went through those I went to Prague for 24 hours and brought back 2000. Then I brought back another 800 from Abu Dhabi on top of that. Now Iāll probably never get off them.
Ken Early had a tweet a month or two back about trying to give up smoking:
āi heard stopping smoking would give me increased energy, & it has, but all the new energy is in the form of hate. not sure this is progressā
This is exactly how I feel when I go 18 hours without one. I become hyper and canāt sleep. But it also makes me feel fear. About everything. The dependence is a cunt.[/QUOTE]
Iāve shared a few cigarettes with him*. I particularly enjoyed the two I had when he launched into an angry tirade against Cian OāConnor in the rooftop beer garden of a pub in Kingās Cross the night Katie Taylor won her gold medal.
*Not literally, both of us had our own, separate, cigarettes.
[QUOTE=āSidney, post: 1110693, member: 183ā]Iāve shared a few cigarettes with him*. I particularly enjoyed the two I had when he launched into an angry tirade against Cian OāConnor in the rooftop beer garden of a pub in Kingās Cross the night Katie Taylor won her gold medal.
*Not literally, both of us had our own, separate, cigarettes.[/QUOTE]
His some man to drink a rake of pints with Iād say, the most likeable of that trio without a doubt although not at the first listen.
Early is by a considerable distance the least annoying of them, because he still retains a degree of cynicism. I donāt trust people who are not cynical about most things. I find that smoking nurtures a sort of anaesthetised cynicism that is essential for living sanely.
Good luck, @Fran. Youāre a stand up guy and I think you can do it. So what if you have a few falls along the way, just dust yourself down and start again.
Best of luck @Fran. Iām off them 2 years at the end of June. Ms Lockeās father dying of lung cancer did the trick for me. Havenāt even craved one since.
Iām off them a year next Sunday. I was a 15-20 a day man. Easy enough do it in the end. Do something that will utterly bollix you like a 15 mile run or something like that. Then smoke 4 or 5 fags straight after and you wonāt want to smoke ever again. In my case it was the last round of golf I ever played.
His some man to drink a rake of pints with Iād say, the most likeable of that trio without a doubt although not at the first listen.