How many cyclists smoke?

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  • Beatmaker
    Beatmaker Posts: 1,092
    Day 50 of quitting. I never felt the need to quit until my daughter was born 18 months ago (I have made a couple of aborted attempts to quit in between now and then) but do wish I had never started in the first place, as the £22,995 I would have saved could have bought a lot of bike kit.
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    Good for you Beat :) Well done!

    My Gran smoked, most of my work mates smoke and I have a Muttley wheeze from it all. I'm glad the smoking ban is in place, that said it's closed many a club down.
    http://www.youtube.com/user/Eurobunneh - My Youtube channel.
  • bobtbuilder
    bobtbuilder Posts: 1,537
    I've never tried smoking. Can't see what the appeal is.

    Why would you pay for something that has nothing but bad effects on you???

    They're not nicknamed coffin nails or cancer sticks for no reason!
  • Seanos
    Seanos Posts: 301
    cathald wrote:
    Perhaps it was not the best place but it was in the open air and until they ban smoking in the street I will continue to smoke there unless I give up (which I hope to do)
    to be honest it was the idea of a cyclist smoking that made them look at me
    So until you are forced by a change in the law you aren't going to act with consideration for other people? :roll:
    cathald wrote:
    BTW I hope you weren't calling me an idiot
    I think what I wrote is quite clear.
  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    I can understand why people started in the war years, cigs were marketed as being good for you. These days most of us should know better yet I still see people doing it; it does seem mostly to start in your teen years because it's supposedly a cool thing.
    http://www.youtube.com/user/Eurobunneh - My Youtube channel.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    edited March 2010
    Bunneh wrote:
    I can understand why people started in the war years, cigs were marketed as being good for you. These days most of us should know better yet I still see people doing it; it does seem mostly to start in your teen years because it's supposedly a cool thing.

    You've got to be over the age of 30!

    People want to feel included. Sharing a pastime or habbit with other people makes you feel included (go see the 'roadies waving' thread for people who feel that same desire).

    The bond's a little stronger with smoking because you develop a kind of addiction bond, like when you're both sitting outside in the pouring rain having a fag.

    I don't think anyone honestly think it's 'cool'.
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    I've felt a lot of social pressure over the years what with a wife and almost all my friends being smokers - it's like a club and I felt excluded to some extent - so I can see why people take it up.

    that and smokers do think they are cooler - at least until they start wheezing just to get up a flight of stairs...and I'm at that age now - luckily my wife gave up a few years ago - but some of my friends are now proving to have quite poor health going into their mid/ late 40s.
  • Ho hum
    Ho hum Posts: 236
    Beatmaker wrote:
    Day 50 of quitting. I never felt the need to quit until my daughter was born 18 months ago (I have made a couple of aborted attempts to quit in between now and then) but do wish I had never started in the first place, as the £22,995 I would have saved could have bought a lot of bike kit.

    Well done on reaching day 50 mate!
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Porgy wrote:
    I tried to start a few times while in my late teens early twenties but could never seem to get addicted.

    So - no, never, though do years of passive smoking with two wives who both smoked heavily count?
    Didn't you ever feel left out when they went outside together for a smoke and a natter?
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    bompington wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    I tried to start a few times while in my late teens early twenties but could never seem to get addicted.

    So - no, never, though do years of passive smoking with two wives who both smoked heavily count?
    Didn't you ever feel left out when they went outside together for a smoke and a natter?
    Er...I didn;t have two wives at the same time - I had to divorce the first one before I could marry the second.
  • dg74
    dg74 Posts: 656
    Ho hum wrote:
    Beatmaker wrote:
    Day 50 of quitting. I never felt the need to quit until my daughter was born 18 months ago (I have made a couple of aborted attempts to quit in between now and then) but do wish I had never started in the first place, as the £22,995 I would have saved could have bought a lot of bike kit.

    Well done on reaching day 50 mate!

    Coffee all over keyboard with laughter :D

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