On Thursday, during my weekly shop at Asda, I'd bought a pack of nicorette gum.
A change was in the air, a storm was brewing, & the fog had lifted.
For the first time since I was 15, I thought about trying a day without cigarettes.
I woke up this morning & made a cup of tea. The nicorette gum made it taste like shit. The gum left my mouth burning which pissed me off even more than the fact that it costs £5.89 for a pack. That's 35p more than 20 camel lights.
Anyway, after a bowl of Alpen & a shower I went to see my 5-year-old son play football in his first competitive game.
I kept myself quiet throughout the match, although I wanted to shout, "Go on Louis, get into him!" at one point.
I also wanted to shout, "The referee's a wanker" for no real reason, but I didn't.
It wasn't that bad, not having fags. It was a nice sunny morning, sat on the grass & I felt strangely warm & healthy.
After the game, Louis' Grandad took him off, & I went off into town to meet some friends.
Yeah, it's all right this no-smoking game, I can do this. I was feeling pretty fucking pleased with myself.
So I stopped at the co-op to buy myself a treat. I grabbed a pack of Fox's chocolate Viennese biscuits, got to the counter & said...
"And twenty camel lights please mate".
21 comments:
Did you really ask for cigarettes? Or did you ask and then say "Whoops! Sorry, force of habit!"
Kick the habit! Please!
Hey, I heard chewing regular gum helps, so chew that if nicotine gum makes everything taste horrible
I'm gonna go against the grain here. Personally I hate ciggarettes, but majority of the people I know smoke. Many of them have tried to kick the habit, but they come back to it eventually. So if it makes you happy or you just don't feel ready yet to quit,then I say do what you gotta do.
Did you buy 20 cigs or 20 packs?
If Courtney Love is quitting then you can. They found nodules in her throat. NODULES!
Oh NODULES! So THAT'S why she can't sing! I saw her smoking on stage a week ago.
I don't think the nodules are the reason Courtney Love sounds like she does.
Rob what are you going to do once the ban kicks in on the 1st? Lots of people I know are quitting (On that day, which I find a bit odd. Why not just quit now?) so maybe you could give it a try...?
I'm not one to preach to people about what they should and shouldn't do. Each to his own. But I was in St James' Park yesterday enjoying the sunshine, as were many other people, and it surprised me that so many people were sat on the grass smoking. What's the point of going out for some fresh air and sunshine if you're going to smoke while you're there?
Oh, and I'm glad you're back blogging :-)
I wish I could smoke on stage as good as Courtney.
She's a real pro smoker.
She could be a session smoker & smoke on all the top records
Give up the flying saucer!
I know! Maybe you could make nicotine brownies! Yum!
If you're going to smoke something, make sure you have fun doing it. If not, it's just a waste of good lung. ;)
I'm afraid I am a smoking enabler. I have been around smokers my whole life and when they light up, I wind down. I know it. (But I can't smoke myself, my lungs simply won't inhale.)
All I can do, is wish you well, General. And try not to be twitchy around you if I see you. Or, for example, buy you ciggies as a reward for being good. And because I know you want one.
From what I hear, it is easier the 7th or 8th time.
:)
Well, pfft. Why was that anon?
(Ironically, the security code/verification word below is cFAGzl. Last time, it had "Gaz" on the end.)
I just want to clarify that I didn't willfully go to see Courtney Love. She was a 'surprise' guest at a show I was being paid to bootleg.
I'm delighted to hear about the UK smoking ban!
I wrote a blog to smokers to tell them all the hardships they cause non-smokers that they don't realise because all they can smell is smoke all time, but I never posted it for fear of becoming unpopular. I thought I was more ballsy than that, but I guess not.
They banned smoking in Seattle a couple years ago. The biggest downside is now you can smell tons of farts at gigs.
Rob stick to your guns man! You'll still be one of my heroes! I say do whatever you want. You're in the best band on earth you can do whatever.
Cheers,
Connor
Talking (electronically) to Steph and Simone last night, when I was in the office until 1 AM (and seeking some company, to relieve my intense irritation), I happened upon the following memory (which seems appropriate to share with you here).
We were writing (a screenplay; as usual) and Ginger offered to take me to Atlantic city and give me an extra (I can't remember $20 or something) for every 10 pages I produced between the time the clock was set and the trip to AC. (Not pure crap, mind you. Useable stuff.)
So, I wrote like a demon. (Oh, this only make sense if you know that we had agreed to a pre-set limit -- mostly because we know I LOVE to gamble and would put every nickel I had on me into a slot machine if I was just sitting there. I don't dare go near the tables -- I would be hooked, I KNOW it.)
Anyway, I made some more cash and we got on the bus and got our "$20 to spend in the casino" coupons (they WHOLE thing is depressing from the trip through Staten Island (retirementville) to the humungous amount of flesh on the boardwalk -- I swear, the very *largest* of Americana is represented on that boardwalk; and they ain't doin' a lot of walking).
Anyway, I digress.
We went to the "non-smoking" section of some slots (two rows away from the smoking section, so that's a real deal right there) and we were idling our time away when some guy came sidling up to me and started fiddling with stuff and mumbling and shuffling around a cussing up a storm and looking sideways at us. Then he lit up. I asked him to move and he got mega belligerent and went away.
Then he came back.
He was very quiet for a couple of minutes. Then he said, quite calmly, "I am going back to my room and I am going to get a gun and I am going to come back here and shoot you".
So he left; and I went directly to security to tell them.
I spent the rest of the night waiting for hot lead.
Ginger went outside for a smokie.
Quit 15 years ago after discovering I 'forgot' to smoke for three days. Never touched a ciggie since.
Quitting is most succesfull if you're truly convinced to do so, or just kinda run into it, like I did.
Advice to Rob: better stop eating chocolate biscuits once stopped!!
I started working in a bakery with mentally handicapped three months after quitting and 'helped out' getting rid of the cookies being in the oven a bit too long. At the end of the year I gained 20 kilos in just three months.
15 years on, only half of it has slowly vanished.
Not to distress you, but just a word from experience on this side-effect.
That's good advice from Underground. Maybe you should wait until the promo photos for the new album are done. You'd hardly want people saying "I do like that new Supergrass song, but they're a bit too pudgy for my taste..."
Gotta quit the ciggies Bob...
So recording over, onto the mixing - how were the sessions? what's the vibe from this album gonna be like? like RTR? glitzy like LOOP? will the Kick Horns make a reappearance? is Satan Singh in the mix again??
Throw us a bone here Bob....those concerts are too long away.
The Bhoy
Ello!!Personally I don't find it hard to quit cigarettes, because I smoke on and off - and maybe thats because I'm scared of getting addicted or maybe I just don't think they are addictive, either way - nobody beleives me.
Hey!!! Anythings fine as long as you don't over do it!!! And some people just over do it and spoil it for everyone, and now we almost have an OFFICIAL SMOKING POLICE REGIMENT, - however they never wear uniforms! A badge would be nice, let me know what you think - write to me!
King Pizzle
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I hate the smoke , and in really i don't know many people that smoke , nearly all my friends are not smokers .. but my mother , my grandmother and my aunt , they are enough to intoxicate my existence for all -.- .. i , personally , don't know if is hard or not leave the smoke , my mother says me always .. "if I stop to smoke I fatten" .. strange teory i think ... the abstinence carry to the madness , she is like a drugster O.o ... that's scary .. i'm happy of not to be a smokers ( but i'm Nutella dependent ^^" ) however looking my mother, I can makes an idea of how much hard is leave the cigarettes .
(hi Rob :P )
heehee i saw you in NME this week. isabel
Blog more, man. We miss you.
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