The first time I quit

hamidm:

pull out your dog-eared copy of the book

tell me if it mentions cigars...(ok i`ll settle for bidis too)

while at it...also tell me if it mentions cell-phones...(ok i will settle for rotary dialled phones too)...aeroplanes (not ababils)...parka...snow...am on a learning quest tonight

Zehrajee, ever wonder which Stalinesque brute decided to ban cigarettes in NYC restaurants and bars? I mean what was he/she/they thinking!! Still, that provided an impetus for me. After innumerable episodes of fist-biting, random outbursts at innocent passersby and ahem…several packs of nicorette, success ensued.

But once in awhile that cloying smell and wispy haze…..sigh :).

hamidm:
`xactly! i smoke when i drink and if a friend offer one... and i dont inhale it as ``that would give me cancer`` ..
man woody allen nailed the formula just right... i have been at it for like a cupl years and never ever felt the urge to smoke on my own...so i guess i am a smoker out to seek communal-experience...

casual, perpetual and closet smokers ......


......... it is a terrible habit and everyone should give it up - that goes for casual and perpetual smokers ........

............ but lately, since smokers have been put in the same category as lepers and suicide bombers, i have noticed that there are a lot of closet smokers and then there are smokers who are in denial ............ ``oh, i only smoke when i have a drink, or ``i only smoke after sex``, or `` i don`t inhale ``, or, my neighbour who has been smokinga cigar in his garage for the last three years, `` as soon as i run out of this box, i am quitting ``.........

.........i would really like to hear ntsyed`s excuse for smoking ! ............ if smoking was haram would he still smoke ?

zehra,

haven`t you seen those signs around saying `kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray`

ab tum bari ho gai ho, it`s time to fight back the urge

Re: # 5

sattar,

Touche on all counts! I couldn`t have said all that better than you did. I`m going out for one myself without the martini. Like you said, a bad thing should be acknowledged as one, but shouldn`t overblown beyond proportion as the Americans have while destroying the enviroments and causing far deadlier pollution than a tota smoke.

When I got married, one of my friends gave me a very witty excuse to silence my wife on the topic...``this is the only thing in life always ready to come to my lips any time I want...it`s burns away it entire life for me....you know the rest of the BS`` lol

Now that all my children learn about hazards of smoking, they`ve joined the rest of family members in getting on my case about quitting it. Honestly, I quit it every few months but the damn thing ``pulls me back``.

Perhaps I should start using the brit slang for it. ``Begum, I`m going out for a fa g.`` or ``I need a fa g``. Hopefully, she`ll lose her top and force me to quit and that may do the trick for me. But for Zehra, I dunno...fags and girls kinda get along pretty well. ;-)~~

pontifications on casual and perpetual

sattar:

..yes...with the ducks;)

there are two kinds of whiners...casual whiners and perpetual whiners...just like there are two kinds of quitters...casual quitters and perpetual quitters…hey i like this…casual muslims and perpetual muslims…casual hindus and perpetual hindus…casual agnostics and perpetual agnostics….casual mullahs and perpetual mullahs…well, ok…more on this for another time…another i-log…back to zehra…no, no…not turning my back to zehra…but back as in back?..theek hay?....palat, tera dhiyaan kidahr hay?...she is a casual quitter!

zehra like most smokers quits every night just before wandering off to sleep...

(now i might be venturing off to deeper waters…better attach a caveat for the humour impaired)

caveat:

the general nature of above observation should in no way be construed or misconstrued for what it may or may not imply...i`m as some can vouch for physically (if not always mentally) in TO...she is in there somewhere....i`m a man...again as my doctor and M can vouch...she is...duck, where am i going with this...and why?...

rgds

t

zehra, t and sattar - :)).

hey, i`m with you on the eating healthy and drinking part - one life to live, right? But watching your own dad whom you love one hell of a lot almost die kind of gets the point across to you in big huge caps - so no smokie-smokie for this little girl or her big brother, thanks. I guess the big thing about cigs and me is that I`m a big passive smoker [all my friends are smokers bar two] and I hate it as much as I find it comforting in a strange way [the smell brings back memories of my childhood mornings]. Thing is - you can drink in moderation and eat fatty foods in moderation and be a self contained disaster area but no matter how much you smoke in moderation, you`re still going to affect other people every time you light up and in the long run too.

.... other people`s cigarettes ...........

........ i haven`t bought a pack of cigarettes in twenty five years but still manage to smoke one or two a week - it is amazing how many nice people you meet in bars who are more than happy to share with you !.......... sometimes, after the third manhattan, i will break down and offer to exchange a seven dollar drink for a lousy twenty five cent cigarette .......... then there is always the bar tender who keeps a pack for his ``friends`` ! ...........

............it is rather pitiful and i always feel bad about it the next day, but what are the alternatives ?.........i could give up drinking and join the tafseer circuit and go for tahajjud to the mosque every friday and then sleep in all day saturday to recover from the religious hangover ..... no fckuin way - i might as well shoot myself in the head !

..........but nothing beats an occassional cohiba and if all the bars started selling cigars i`d give up smoking completely !

Mahesh … no, I don’t want alcohol banned … only want this anti-smoking thing to be put in perspective …

Smoking cigarettes has no benefits, agreed … but neither does eating chocolate. However, smoking is so damn cool and relaxing … esp. in a quiet, dark room after sex … how can we ever ban it? gawd … that would be the lowest point for a civilization … simply atrocious …

Amrita … now it is stories like these that we don’t want to hear. My own take is that eating healthy, not smoking, not drinking does not make you live longer … it only seems that way (on a more serious note, your point is noted, albeit grudgingly – hmph).

Zehra, so did you quit or what? I couldn’t tell from your posts …

temporal seems to have the right idea ... duck man duck ...

i plead the fifth

...zehra, cigarettes, amrita...the list is long and not in alphabetical order

;)

maut ka ik din moa`yyion hay...