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[buddy bradley]

I'll never quit because I love it too much, but as an aside: is there nothing sexier than a hot girl who smokes?

[Shim Shim]

I did it, but I had some pressure from my girlfriend.

[Mr. Pink]

[maerong]

easy...

get yourself deported. 3 days' cold turkey in the Mokdong Hilton straightened me right out.

then live in the UK...they're 9,000 won a pack in K-money.

[maxxx_power]

Here's some stats I checked out on Korea and cancer. Just call me Real Reality.

http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/20/6/16502631.pdf

[Dan]

I have read that before when I was doing a research paper on smoking. but the statistics are way off. tons of women smoke, a great deal more than 5% to say the least

[shawner88]

I quit here in Korea too over a year and a half ago. My girlfriend at the tim dumped me. I decided to change my life. I joined a health club, got into shape and used the patch to quit smoking. It doesn't work that well, but maybe it's more psychological. I used it for 2 weeks then I was home free. Really the worst part is the first 3 days when you start convincing yourself it's not too late to start again, no one will know I quit, I won't feel that guitly. I am glad I did smoke and quit. Within a few weeks of quitting I fel better than I ever did, more enery, better mood, freer. It still is scary though that after all this time I still get cravings out of the blue, especially around others who are smoking and drinking coffee...I miss that! Maybe I'll go to the store now. I can smoke just one. Hmm...


Seriously, it sounds lame, but there are actually a lot of quit smoking support group websites that have a lot of useful information on smoking and why we're addicted and what's really in a cigarette. Check some of them out. They helped me.

[jacktar]

I quite nine months ago. Everything is cool now but I still get cravings at weird times like when I do something for the first time after having quit.

Today for example, I cooked a huge breakfast. I made bacon and cooked 3 eggs in the leftover bacon fat (maybe I should have had a smoke instead ). I used to make this after a night of drinking in university followed by copious amounts of cigarettes. But I haven't cooked this breakfast since I quit smoking. The first thing I thought about was having a smoke after I was done. This is the first craving for a smoke I've had in a couple months. I didn't submit but I'm sure I would have enjoyed it.

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

I'm an addict. I have a plan to quit though, and I've set myself a very firm date, tomorrow.

[buddy bradley]

[dogbert]

[Son Deureo!]

I quit, but I had to go back to the U.S. to do it. Smoking a pack a day plus Korean air pollution were doing a real number on my lungs and I knew I just had to quit. I went back to the U.S. for 2.5 months, brought one carton with me, stretched it out for 1.5 months and that was it. The first the last two weeks of the carton and the first 2 weeks without smokes were the most hellish month of my life.
If I had been teaching kids during that time I swear I would have beaten at least one child.

It was tough to come back to Korea at first, where drinking and smoking were absolutely rampant. Now, 11 months later, I only get cravings once in a blue moon and just accept it as something I can't have as though I were allergic to it.

On the downside, I put on about 15 pounds or so that I haven't managed to get rid of yet. One step at a time.

I actually enjoy the smell of cigarette smoke now, though. It brings back memories of some of the good times I had as a smoker.

[Butterfly]

[dogbert]

[helly]

It'll be difficult for anti-smoking efforts to get going with the Justice Minister, Kang Keum Sil, stating that with all the hard work that people do in this difficult country, it isn't right to take away their cigarettes, the only stress-reliever they have.

(Looking for a link but no luck. Read this in one of Korea's online English papers.)