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Sorry I haven't been around lately but I will be back when things have settled down a bit.
If anybody wants to message me, feel free - I have 'Alerts' on :O) Babs x
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I started smoking when I was 14 years old. Those of you slightly more mature people will remember the ‘Penny Weights’ that you could buy at all sweet shops that were situated close to schools. The shopkeeper would break open a pack of ten ‘Weights’ below the counter and, quite shamelessly, slip one across the counter to kids in exchange for a ‘Penny’ (pre decimalisation). It didn’t matter what your age was – nobody was too young!
By the time I was fifteen I was buying packs of ten. Once at work, I slowly progressed on to the more expensive ‘Kingsize’ cigarettes, and the ‘Flip Top’ packs made you feel really cool :O) I tried them all even really expensive Menthol type. Then there
were the ‘Joy Sticks’ about six inches in length. When you lit one up in the cinema you had to be careful not to singe the hair of the person sitting in front of you :O) and you had to keep putting it out to save for later. By the time you got down to a length that was normal for a cigarette it tasted so stale and nasty but you smoked it anyway! Can you imagine, all these kids with cigarettes as long as they were tall and thinking they were soooo cool.
The advertising in those days reported smoking to be a good thing, a cool thing and a beneficial thing. I remember the famous ad with the slogan of “You’re never alone with a Strand” Oh how times change! I finally ended up smoking the low tar cigarettes as, by this time, it was known to be dangerous. I smoked approximately 20 a day, which I was quite proud of really. It could have been a much larger number considering my past smoking record. I decided one day that it was time to ‘give it up’
I bought Nicorette chewing gum ‘Low strength’ and went for it! It worked fine, at first it tasted fowl but I got used to the taste and in time I actually preferred the gum to a cigarette! After the three month period I stopped using the gum and within a week I was smoking again! A year or so later I thought I would try again. After all my sisters had given up smoking with the help of Nicorette. Once again I duly bought my pack of Nicorette and started chewing. Again I found it easy and very soon got the taste for the gum over a cigarette. I went on chewing happily for a time but then one day, I’m afraid I made a decision to actually stop chewing the gum and start smoking again! To this day I can’t think why I did.
Wait! Don’t despair. There is a happy ending I promise.
Now I will get down to the real point of this review. I, once again, decided that I would get the jaw going rather than smoke. Off I trotted to the nearby chemist and bought my, now familiar, box of jaw exercisers.
Approximately 11 years later I am still chewing Nicorette!
Hey! I feel healthier and I don’t cough in the mornings. I may have worn my teeth down (you think I’m joking!) But even the Doc assures me that it isn’t as bad for you as smoking. I really can’t risk coming off it again. If I don’t chew a Nicorette for a long period I find that old familiar feeling - the need of that intake of smoke - creeping over me so I grab for a jaw exerciser instead! And I might add, I can smoke where others can’t! I now cut each one in half and have a special little carry pouch for them (I hear you laughing at me) so I just need to slip one out whenever the need takes me and I feel at least a bit better for only chewing a half at a time now :O)
A lot of you will not find it as hard as me. I did smoke for more than forty years so I think you should go easy on me. Hold on I just need to pop one in my mouth.... ahhh that's better :O)
I get 105 pieces of Nicorette Low Strength for £15.59. Now that I cut them in half they last me almost two weeks. I don’t know the price of cigarettes but I bet it’s a lot more than that.
I understand that they now do flavours but I really like the original taste and, just as a little bonus, chewing Nicorette keeps your breath really fresh all day! No more halitosis – no more teeth, but no more halitosis :O)
Summing up: Nicorette can stop you smoking but what stops you chewing it? A little more will power than I have, obviously!
I did/do find them very effective and never want a cigarette whilst chewing them.
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I smoked for over 30 years (started when I was 11 with the 'Penny Weights') but gave up overnight after having my bowel removed which had died and rotted thanks to clogging of the arteries which is a result of all those years of smoking. I also have pain when I walk as two of three arteries in each leg is clogged. Now I'm finding myself breathless when I walk so have had to a chest xray to see what's causing that. How I wish I'd never smoked! ~Sharon
MAFARRIMOND 02.11.2004 19:19
Chewing gum sounds far better than smoking. Maureen
Nov 2nd, 2004
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