That's mental. Never got people who do this. I stop drinking caffeine mid-afternoon, the exception being if I decide to have an energy drink if I'm doing some sport or in the gym in the evening. Trying to cut it out completely, managed a couple of months but am liking cups of tea again now. But i alternate between builders tea and mint tea.
That not the only thing either. Fairly often she tells me she has a head ache and needs a coffee. We once ran out of coffee so she had to go without for a day or two (must have been skint too) and guess what, that's right, her head ache disappeared. Yet she still bloody drinks it
I'm no doctor but if you're doing something regularly and getting regular headaches but those headaches stop when you don't do whatever it was that you were doing...
The headaches are just a classic withdrawal symptom. You get them if you deny your body anything it's become dependent on, I got them when I went on a strict no processed sugar diet a few years ago!
That's £3,285 per year (£3,294 in a leap year ). Or, if you prefer, a all expenses paid family holiday abroad with change And I sometimes feel guilty about spending £15 a week on playing football
We worked out the other day that if we were still smoking, the Mrs (married) & I would be spending about £6,000 a year on ***s!
How much are a pack of 20 Marlboro lights these days, they're one of the more expensive aren't they? Is it really 9 quid a pack Tobes??
Funny enough they were what we smoked and it was just happening to see the price of them in the garage that sparked the conversation - they were £9.26!
Jesus! They were what I used to have when I had dalliances with the old death sticks. I think those sorts of prices should put people off as you're essentially paying a tenner for paper and a sprinkling of the special dust, less than a side of A4 paper at that. I can get a bulk deal on printer paper for that money.
You're far too sensible to have ever started smoking and I think you said one time before that you don't have an addictive personality and that plays a big part in this - big appetite most definitely I wonder if the smokers on here are also gamblers and have had multiple relationships for example.
And that's per day for most. Twice a day for some I smoked for about six months when I was twelve. Fell out with the mate I was smoking with and just stopped. Hardly long enough to claim an addiction but I occasional smoked in social circles for years after without ever feeling the need for one. Not smoked one for about ten years now though. Did other things too, never felt the need to keep doing them. I'm the same with alcohol, I like a drink but never 'need' one. I quite drinking for nine months when we were expecting our first born
You don't have an addictive personality that's quite clear. What you describe is the difference between use and abuse. An addiction has been said to be an out of control habit and as with all addictions [harmful and benign] there's a subtle interplay between social, psychological and physiological factors.
