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  • 5 Stars
    		75
  • 4 Stars
    		22
  • 3 Stars
    		15
  • 2 Stars
    		4
  • 1 Star
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  • 25 of 25 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    pippilli

    5 Stars everybody else is doing it..... 16/10/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Health! (And smelling better)

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Occasionally wanting to gnaw your own arms off due to cravings....

    Stopping smoking that is. And writing about it. I have spent some time reading other people's experiences of stopping smoking and i thought that I would add my two penn'orth in. The more experiences you read about the more likely you are to find someone who feels the same as you. Well it would have helped me to know more about other people's experiences when I was giving up. so here goes: I smoked for fifteen years, 30 a day, through pregnancy, in the rain, on the beach, in the bath, on the loo, full of a cold, during a bout of bronchitis, you name it. I was utterly determined to have my daily ... more
  • 66 of 66 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    CherryBlossom

    5 Stars CLEVER, TRENDY AND COOL? 29/08/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages What? Advantages? You've gotta be kidding!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Just read the thing, will ya?

    Along with 28% of teenagers in the UK, I had my first cigarette before the age of 11. I already knew what cigarette smoking tasted like, having had the occasional puff on lit cigarettes left burning in ashtrays over the years, but I wanted to experience the feeling of smoking proper. I wanted to hold one between my fingers the way I'd seen adults do; I wanted to casually inhale, remove the cigarette from between my painted lips and exhale in a sophisticated manner that'd make me look grown-up and worldly-wise. What I did that fated day, 32 years ago, is without any doubt, my biggest regret in ... more
  • 79 of 79 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 mattygroves

    Member since 23/04/2001

    Reviews written: 160

    4 Stars Smoke Free Me 10/03/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Health, control of my life, wealth

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Cravings, feeling like everyone else is having fun

    “I don’t WANT to quit smoking. I LIKE smoking.” How many times have you heard that litany? If you are a smoker, how many times have you said it yourself? But think…is it true? I’ve been smoking since I was 20 (how stupid was I – I started when I was old enough to know better). In the past year, I’ve been smoking around 40 a day. I can smoke in the office. I smoked in the pub. I smoked at home. I smoked in the car. I smoked anywhere I could. I smoked my last cigarette at 8.30pm GMT on 30 January 2004. I am now into day 40 of my first (and hopefully last) attempt at quitting smoking. I DO get ... more
  • 48 of 48 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ice_pink

    5 Stars Arghh not another smug ex-smoker!!! 02/10/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Health issues, smell nicer, SAVE MONEY!!, no more need for smokers toothpaste!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages It's hard, and you might feel your missing out when friends smoke, but you'll get over it.

    ♥♥ Giving up smoking! ♥♥ I'm not going to give you one of those 'Quitting smoking was the best thing I did' reports, although it probably was. I'm not your typical ex-smoker - I'm in my very early twenties, so I don't even really feel old enough to be an ex-smoker!! I had however been a smoker for six years. I therefore grew up smoking, started my first part time job as a smoker, and started (and finished) college as a smoker. I also started my current job as a smoker! ♥♥ Why did I start? ♥♥ I really don't know why I started smoking. I just did ... more
  • 97 of 97 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Scarlet_Ribbons

    4 Stars STOP IT - YOU'LL GO BLIND! 01/07/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages You get to live longer

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    I was eleven years old when I took my first ‘drag’ of a fag. Eleven years old fancy that. I can remember the day so clearly, I was in the park with my cousin who was three years older than me and who I though was so grown up. I watched with fascination as she took out a packet of Players no ten, popped one into her mouth and lit it with a match. She blew out the smoke in a huge grey cloud, coughed slightly and passed it to me. ‘Go on try it.’ So, not wanting to appear a wimp I put the little white stick to my mouth and took a huge drag on it’. Immediately I started to splutter and choke as the ... more
  • 83 of 83 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Multtinems

    1 Star I'm Dying For A Cig! (Not!) 05/01/2005
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages You feel Better and Richer! Oh and don't smell like an ashtray

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Its hard!

    Shall I or shan't I? That has been a question on my lips a few times over the last 5 days.... I know the answer but still have to ask. Whats the question? 'Shall I have one of my remaining cigarettes?' Answer a resounding 'NO!' I put out my last cigarette on New years Eve and havent touched one since. At the time of writing this review that was 104 hours ago. Very sad I know to have it all worked out in hours, but once I get past the week stage I will refer to my timings in days rather than hours....hey at least I'm not wittering about minutes be grateful! Here are my rambling's and personal ... more
  • 19 of 19 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    iatethewholebag

    4 Stars If at first you don't succeed... 02/10/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages see below

    Disadvantages Disadvantages see below

    How do you write advice on how to stop smoking? I think that probably everything under the sun has already been written about this subject either in the form of leaflets or posters in the NHS or in the multitude of books that you can buy. I have read more leaflets than you would believe for ideas and inspiration on how to quit, searching for that magic piece of advice that would make me never want to smoke another cigarette in my life. Fully aware that reading these leaflets did nothing for me in my quest to abandon the evil cancerstick, I am somewhat hesitant to write yet another piece of ... more
  • 79 of 79 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    The-Operator

    5 Stars This needs no title 12/03/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages You'll live

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    This is hard. Some of you know this story already; if it makes just one of you give up it's worth it. This isn't advice on how to give up and it's not deliberately scary, it's all fact. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I used to adore laying my head on the lovely soft skin of her tummy and to listen to the little gurgles going on inside. I loved to walk up behind her, putting my arms around her waist and squeezing her whilst kissing her neck. We talked about laying in the sand and looking up at the stars; of doing adolescent messing around in the dunes; of going camping in the forest. Never again ... more
  • 49 of 49 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    jayandfoo

    1 Star Just say no... 09/08/2005
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None

    Disadvantages Disadvantages A multitude! Bad breath, smelly hands, effect on health, cancer

    Like the title!? I remembered it from Grange Hill! Anyway, this review could be very short. I could simply say Smoking - DON'T DO IT. But why not do it? Well, there's a vast array of reasons not to and not a single one in favour of it. I was actually a late starter when it came to smoking. I started smoking when I was 21 - 3 years ago. I don't know how or why I came to start, I just know that the addiction came quickly and before I knew it, I couldn't stop. My mum and dad smoked as far back as I can remember and they still do. I remember I hated the smell of smoke and constantly asked why they ... more
  • 40 of 40 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    teacherofhooch

    1 Star Where is your common sense- Teacherofhooch? 03/07/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Health

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Illness and death.

    I read Scarlet Ribbons op on smoking and it reminded me of a poem I wrote. I have been a smoker like her, since I was twelve.. Now that is a revelation. I bet all of you out there thought Teacherofhooch would not be so daft. But she is. I have packed it up many times in my life. During both my pregnancies I packed it up completely. Then gradually went back. I packed it up for six months, nine months, a year, two years, the list is endless, if I go out with a friend who does not smoke, then I don’t either. One time when I started to smoke I actually passed out! Silly woman! This review does not ... more
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