So Slash Smoked 60 Cigs A Day

I'll be honest, I didn't realize Slash had stopped smoking. When I saw them on tour, I didn't think much of it but looking back, I guess Slash didn't light up and he didn't have a cigarette sitting on his guitar like normal. Reading this interview, he admits he smoked 60 cigs a day which just blows my mind. I've never smoked so I can't relate to the struggle of quitting, but I have plenty of friends who have smoked and quit. None of them were at 60 cigarettes a day, though!

Hopefully this means we'll have Slash around for a long time.

Comments

[Fletch]

Tomorrow, 12/31 will be 21 years since my last cigarette. In addition to nicoerette gum, I would smoke the occasional joint, and while "high", I would think of everything I hated about cigarettes- the price, smell, addiction, effect on the body. It completely helped me breaky nasty habit. I used marijuana medicinally before it ever became en Vogue. #truth

[Dj]

Three packs a day? Gross. I only got up to a pack and a half and am trying to quit currently. It's a tough thing, you almost need to find a substitute and a lot of it never gives you the same thing. Disgusting habit, kudos to Slash for giving it up.

[fletch]

Dj: Don't stop trying to quit. It's is a dirty nasty habit. You just gotta find what works for you. Nicorette gum really helped me curb the addiction, whereas other people claim that the gum tastes like licking an ashtray. Find your cure. it's there. trust me.

I started smoking when I was about 13yo...to try to look and act "cool". Boy, was I naïve, stupid actually. I smoked throughout High School, but then I quit when I went to college. Why? Because almost no one smoked. Actually at my college, it seemed that only a handful of girls smoked and they usually only did it at parties when they were drinking. I don't remember any guys smoking, so I quickly stopped. Fast forward to graduation. I started to work with at-risk youth, and it was no surprise that almost all of them smoked. Again, trying to be "cool" and bond with my charges, I started up the habit again. Hindsight is 20/20, and I'm sure I could have found a better way to role model and bond with them. And, actually, all these years later, I have. I quit smoking in 1997, and to date, about 10 of my former charges have looked me up on facebook and I've gotten together with them- 2 of them even go to the M3 festival with my son and me. They still smoke, but this time around I rag on them for their continued addiction and apologize to them for trying to make it look cool all those years ago.

Best of luck to you, Dj, in your effort to quit. You can do it, and you will.

[Bob]

while I am generally not one for giving big Pharma any play, I do know someone who had a terrible time quitting smoking, and what finally helped him quit was Chantix. CNN just did an article on the top five most addictive substances, and Nicotine came in at #3, behind only Heroin and cocaine; so you are certainly not alone.