Prop bet: Take up smoking a pack a day for 30 days, and QUIT - Page 8 - Entertainment Betting

lakemonster · 06-03-2012, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by lazurm

That's how I started smoking, with a bet from smokers, after I had been "bothering" them about how they should quit, to smoke a pack a day for 30 days and quit. I had to work up to it which took me about 6 weeks. I lost the bet. When I tried quitting all I could think about was smoking. I got headaches. One of the smokers said that if I smoked one more cigarette they wouldn't count it as a breach since they were curious about what would happen. Well, that "one" cigarette was soooo good I just paid them and joined the club, so to speak. I now smoke more than any of them, more than a pack each day.
I enjoy smoking so it was sort of worth it, but I hate the fact that I was wrong about how easy it is to quit. Even with the smoker's cough and all, I can't quit and now totally understand their dilemma. You'll understand it too if you try it. That bet was 10 years ago.

probably cost you 10 years minimum off your life too...........

B Champman · 06-04-2012, 12:56 AM

edit, math error, but i work at a convenience store and see how impossible it is for people to quit, plus itl cost you 300$ of your max 2570$ if you succeed. 2 grand prob isnt worth it man

Jaydeeze · 06-11-2012, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by toocrispy

no its not that hard....I smoked like half a pack a day for 2 mos and quit cold turkey a month ago. People that claim its too hard to quit are just pussys and want attention. do it and ship the 2500

^^ this. I smoked a pack a day for two years and quit cold turkey no problem. Then I was deployed overseas with the military, started smoking again, basically a pack a day for about 8 months. When I got back to the states, again I quit cold turkey.

I would take this bet a hundred times over.

TheSlipnuts · 06-13-2012, 10:23 AM

The cigarette is one of the most insidious and evil inventions in the history of Mankind. 14 years ago I quite literally watched my own mother die from cancer caused by smoking, yet I'm about to go out on my front porch and puff another one down. I've quit cold turkey 7 times over the past 28 years, working on my 8th try now. Not going well at all. Each time it gets exponentially more difficult. I'd almost rather self-amputate a toe than detox from nicotine again. Everyone's body chemistry is different, and until the nicotine hits your system, you have no way of knowing what your body will think of it. Mine often deems it more important than food.

Knowing what I know now, I wouldn't take that bet at any price.

K2AA72 · 06-13-2012, 11:34 AM

if you get to build up to a pack then smoke a pack for a month and then quit cold turkey for at least 2 months it's reasonable bet... but if you can't ever smoke even 1 cig after that, or if you have to start "cold turkey" with a pack a day, it's almost impossible.

Mr. Muckit · 06-13-2012, 11:39 AM

reverse implied pot odds say: don't take the bet. potential -EV for your health far outweighs almost all potential $ won. Maybe unless you were looking at a HUGE number, which is relative, but a couple g's certainly isn't enough to take that big of a risk. Think of the worst case scenario vs what you stand to win....

Reaper421 · 06-14-2012, 08:16 AM

roggles · 06-14-2012, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by POGO187

You know the feeling where you're really hungry and you're waiting for a meal. Imagine that times 100, thats how you're gonna feel the day after you stop smoking.

Lies. I used to be a very big smoker, far more than a pack a day for several years. I had tons of trouble quitting, but have been successfully quit for a year now (with some relapses when drunk etc). It sucks, and the hunger-analogy is very accurate, but in no way is it 100 times worse than being hungry. If tobacco simply ceased to exist, I doubt that many smokers would suffer that much agony over it.

TMack · 06-14-2012, 06:07 PM

I've been a smoker for 7 years now, I quite once for a month and I came back.. I've been trying to quite a few times and never succeeded, I think its cuz i don't really wana quite (deep inside), I wana quite eventually tho..

Anywayz man, Don't take the bet. Am not saying its impossible cuz it isnt but It won't be easy either and you may quite or may not.. So its not worth it..
Take the advice from smokers, its not going to be easy and it may turn you into a smoker for years (also you will hurt ur body)

Otompsett · 06-20-2012, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by chopchoi

get me 10:1 on my 10k and i'll take it.

Show me you have a consitent heroin dealer after the 30 days have ended and I'll take you up. You have no idea of the physical addiction heroin induces.

KyddDynamite · 06-21-2012, 03:13 AM

I would think this challenge is a complete cake walk. I wouldn't lay $800 to do it just because I think cigs are gross, but if I put up a few thousand getting 3:1, I would not only take the challenge, but I would rebate whoever took the action if I ever took a hit of a cig again in my life.

123454321888 · 06-21-2012, 11:03 PM

I smoked for 7yrs, prob 20 a day for last 5, sometimes more sometimes less. I quit over a weekend and once 3/4 days had gone found it real easy, you get the urge when you always have one, like morning or after food but get past that and is great. All about will power ya don't need know special crap from chemist to help. gl to anyone who may try.

WOLPOT · 06-23-2012, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Death Valley

Risking your life and thousands of dollars on future cigarette purchases to win $825 is RETARDED!....if u do it see who pays for the cigs when you start smoking?

Totally agree

LEMONZEST · 06-26-2012, 07:30 PM

Lol at smoking.
like 10 years ago it was cool.
Now it is like this total faux pas where everyone loooks down on you.
The secret is out..... its bad for you and kills your lungs/causes cancer.

Who would have thought all that smoke was bad for a person?

Richard88 · 08-04-2012, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by LEMONZEST

Lol at smoking.
like 10 years ago it was cool.
Now it is like this total faux pas where everyone loooks down on you.
The secret is out..... its bad for you and kills your lungs/causes cancer.

Who would have thought all that smoke was bad for a person?

Nothing beats a good old smoke imo