Anti Smoking Ads

[Hostile]

I don't smoke and never have. I don't get the attraction.

Having said that, I think most of the non smoking ads we see on TV are obnoxious. In Thailand, this ad ran and I think it actually hits a home run.

http://www.wimp.com/smokingads/

[Sam I Am]

Good stuff.

I smoked for a lot of years. I spend close to 10 years trying to quit. I've done a lot of good stuff in my life, but finally quitting smoking tops them all. Best thing I've ever done.

[Faerluna]

Man, that's a good one.

[rynochop]

Pretty cool, they should do something like that here.

I guarantee if you sent those kids up to enough people, someone would give them a light. lol

[Zaxor]

I started smoking when I was in the military out of boredom (pretty stupid)...guard duty was long and for the most part very boring and you couldn't do anything worth while but they would let you smoke and I had a lot of guard duty...I got to the point where I was smoking around 50 cigs a day...I started to get a bad smokers cough and felt like crap most of the time so I quit after about 20 years of smoking...just threw them away and said no more about 5 years after I quit I got struck with a lung disease common to Soldiers who served in desert storm and as I did serve there also it might be connected but the outbreak from my lung disease was like 12 years later than every other reported case...most of the 20,000 others died from it.. I lived but am medically retired because of it...and as strange as this may sound I would very much like to smoke my pipe again...I enjoyed it, I liked the smell of the pipe tobacco I was using and was just generally at peace when I smoked the pipe (not the same with cigarettes) I used the cigarettes most of the time for the nicotine addiction. I smoked a pipe probably once a day...with my feet up either inside or outside depending on the weather...read a book or newspaper or sometimes just contemplate the day or life itself...and though I tried to do it again without the pipe after I quit nothing was the same and I miss that time and feeling I had.

[HeavyBarrel]

Also, the population of Thighland is 63 million people
It is twice the size of Wyoming.

[Muhast]

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

Good stuff.

I smoked for a lot of years. I spend close to 10 years trying to quit. I've done a lot of good stuff in my life, but finally quitting smoking tops them all. Best thing I've ever done.

One of my friends recently quit and literally you could see the difference in him in a few weeks. He was breathing easier, said he felt so much better health wise. Part of it was the mental aspect of it, part of it was a noticeable health change. He said he has smoked a few times here and there but he doesn't buy cigarettes anymore and has had 2-3 puffs in the last few months. So he went from 8-10 a day to 2-3 puffs total in 2 months. He is really proud of himself, and I'm really happy for him. So I can see why you'd be so proud to quit. It is a tough journey, but once you get passed it, and can live without needing it, it is a huge success. People underestimate the power of addiction.

[ethiostar]

Wow....that's powerful.

I'm still a smoker. I've been trying to quit for years and have quit for various lengths of time in the last few years. I'm still struggling with it and have tried many ways to do it. I've cut down drastically but haven't been able to quit altogether. I'm still trying though and I'll keep at it until I do.

[Afigueroa22]

Originally Posted by ethiostar

Wow....that's powerful.

I'm still a smoker. I've been trying to quit for years and have quit for various lengths of time in the last few years. I'm still struggling with it and have tried many ways to do it. I've cut down drastically but haven't been able to quit altogether. I'm still trying though and I'll keep at it until I do.

If you need more incentive, take a look at your sig.

[ethiostar]

Originally Posted by Afigueroa22

If you need more incentive, take a look at your sig.

Trust me, I think of them every time I step outside to smoke one.

[ROUSH8692]

Originally Posted by Sam I Am

Good stuff.

I smoked for a lot of years. I spend close to 10 years trying to quit. I've done a lot of good stuff in my life, but finally quitting smoking tops them all. Best thing I've ever done.

Weak minded people have a hard time quitting smoking.

[Reality]

They definitely need to run those kinds of ads here ..

#reality

[Jammer]

I like those ads better than the ones they show here. I can't stand the images of the diseased preaching to us.

I smoked for nearly 25 years and on some days I got up to 3 packs a day. My last smoke was at 11:20 PM 1 Apr 1999. Best thing I ever did. I got my mom to quit for about 4 months that same year. I thought she was doing great, but circumstances for her at that time proved too much to overcome and she started to smoke again. Within days she was right back to where she was before.

Now, cancer is devouring her body and it isn't a pretty sight. I keep thinking how different it would be if she could have continued her quit. I'm pretty sure she would be in a lot better health than she is now.

[wittenacious]

That's got to be the single best anti-smoking ad I've ever seen, Hos. I think they nailed it.

Originally Posted by Reality

They definitely need to run those kinds of ads here ..

#reality

I agree.

[SDogo]

Last Cig was June 12, 2012 @ 10pm Est