So the commercial says for every ciggie I smoke, I lose 26 minutes...

[Deja Q]

Okay, so I've lost 54 minutes.

Big huff.

Now, how many years have I lost due to not exercising (or porking!) despite eating very healthily?

[KitchenWitch]

1. Jesus, for all the ciggies I used to smoke, I should be dead by now!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. Hell, I should have died before I was born!

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

3. Well, you got ME beat!

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

5. Beating is wrong, don'cha'know?

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Be smart - smoke them faster

[lost-in-nj]

6. Hey

here are my Stats!!!


My Stats:
Your Quit Date is: 2/15/2007 10:00:00 AM
Time Smoke-Free: 224 days, 9 hours, 43 minutes and 47 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 8976
Lifetime Saved: 2 months, 8 days, 13 hours
Money Saved: $1,568.00


and I feel great


:hi:

lost

[tandot]

9. Boy, GREAT stats. Congrats!

What are you going to do with the $1568???

I quit 13 years ago. I wonder what my stats would be.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. It's 26 minutes now?

Strange. PSAs in the '70s said "heavy" smokers lose a minute for every minute they smoke — so, about five minutes per cig.

I guess in another 30 years, you'll drop dead if you're within 10 miles of Winston-Salem, N.C.

[Capn Sunshine]

8. well, amigo

it may all seem like fun and games now, but when you get into your 50's which isn't that old, you'll see why everyone says quit now while you're young.

The romance of dying young kind of loses its appeal

[Downtown Hound]

10. If that was true my grandfather would have lived to be about a thousand

years old. He smoked a pack a day from the day he turned 21 until his death at age 78. And no, he didn't die from lung cancer either.

[Deja Q]

11. Ah, the pure stuff - before they put in all those lovely chemicals...

Wowzers.

[Downtown Hound]

12. Actually he smoked Kools for many years,

long after they had put in all the lovely stuff. I'm not defending smoking or saying it's safe, it clearly isn't. But the blanket statement that people make about how an individual cigarette will take X amount of minutes off your life is just bullshit propaganda. My grandfather just had the kind of chemistry to where he could take it. Not everybody does.