Morning Simon et all



Tobacco Road springs to mind, but I don't know who performed it!



Deevs

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Good Morning Simon & Drive Team and Felow Blogpopsters





CIGARETTES AND ALCOHOL - OASIS



SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES - BRYAN FERRY

Morning Simon, team and fellow blogsters,



Please, please would you consider:



The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies, it does have the line..'no cigarettes etc



Mcw x

Morning all



I'm Giving up, giving in - like Deevs, I don't know who performed this; I've even Googled it, to no avail!



Tortie x

What about a new challenge in your 40s? I'm loving my blog and the challenge of what to write about, and also reading how many hits it's getting and where they are coming from. Fascinating stuff.



If you feel the urge to write, then write. That's what I say!



And as for Mr Geldof, I've downloaded his new album but am yet to transfer it to poddypod to listen to it. But it's on the list!



Is anybody home ....!?!?



Deevs

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Great choice Deevs - it was Nashville Teens in 1964!

Tortie - wasn't it a disco smash in the 70s!?



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#1 It was the Nashville Teens, Deevs.

TOBACCO ROAD - Nashville Teans



GIVING UP GIVING IN - 3 DEGREES

#6 I was referring to post #1 - obviously

:^)

SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES - Bryan Ferry

The excellent -





NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP - RICK ASTLEY

Tortie, you are not thinking of KC and The Sunshine Band- Give It Up, are you?

Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



How about:



GOODY TWO SHOES by Adam and the Ants ("don't drink, don't smoke...)



LAST CIGARETTE by Bon Jovi



GIVE IT UP by KC and the Sunshine Band



And for the midweek mosh, you could do worse than SMOKE ON THE WATER by Deep Purple.



Must dash...



Deebee X

PATCHES - Clarence Carter

'give it up' KC and The Sunshine Band

'got to give it up' Marvin Gaye

Have You Got A Light Boy? by The Singing Postman...

Morning all! We have cold & wet here.



Was about to add my tuppence worth to the #1 debate. You beat me to it ladies.



Only choon that springs to mind is Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol as already suggested by Katymac at #2. Will try to do better.



Hope all well in blogpoppetland.



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'I don't blame you at all' Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild Wild Women by Jim Croce

GIVING IT UP - Incognito



HARD HABIT TO BREAK - Chicago

'cigarettes and coffee' Otis Redding

Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie



Brimful Of Asher - Cornershop



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Morning Simon, team, NYM and nicotine-free bloggers,



Stop! In the name of love - The Supremes

Cigarettes and Coffee by Otis Redding



Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray by Patsy Cline



Smokin by SuperFurry Animals



Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple

LADY WILLPOWER - Gary Puckett & Union Gap

'rock n roll suicide' Dave Bowie "Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth"

#21 Yes Madchickster has suggested a folk tune, who would have thought it?

America - Simon & Garfunkel ("We smoked the last one an hour ago")

#13 Don't think so, mcw - I can hear it in my head, but can't remember who performed it!



*wanders off to find the thinking cap*

Addicted to Drugs - Kaiser Chiefs?



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Addicted to love - Robert Palmer

Wow, the blog is moving quickly today ;-)



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'light me up' Tom Baxter

GIVE IT UP - TALK TALK

OGDEN'S NUT GONE FLAKE - Small Faces

Stop - Sam Brown



The air that I breathe - The Hollies

SMOKE AND MIRRORS - PALOMA FAITH

NO SELF CONTROL - Peter Gabriel





An Excellent Song!

Cold Turkey - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band

'I wish' Stevie Wonder "smokin' cigarettes after school, writting something nasty on the wall"

#18

- just reading back



madchickster - lol

Now where's that hat...

HARRY RAG by THE KINKS

Constant Craving - KD Lang



Apologoes for briefness but another deadline looms and I shouldn't really be here ;-). Back for chat later x

'addicted' Amy Winehouse

Billie - remember this?!



KISSING WITH CONFIDENCE - WILL POWERS



.. and it actually got played!

:^D

'your kiss is sweet' Syreeta

#43 My Granddad sang that to me ..always remember the line..Molly Windley, she smokes like a chimley, but she's my little nicotine gal!



Bow head for hat!



;-)

#47 Changed my mind, the hat is all yours for reminding us all of that 'song' ! ;-)

#47 Katy - I DO!

Good Morning Each!



"Smokin' In The Boys Room" by Brownsville Station. Ain't heard it for years.

Been Smoking Too Long by Nick Drake

#53 Been listening to Drive time too long!

*strutting my funky stuff to*







FRESH - KOOL & THE GANG

A FRAGRANT, SMOKE-FREE HAT FOR MADCHICKSTER

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I can't quit you baby - Little Milton





Must go now, for a sneaky one behind the bike sheds.

#18 etc



The Singing Postamn - Hev you a loight boy



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtS61PESUWY





Is this supposed to be a Norfolk accent?!

Any excuse to request:



RUN [LIGHT UP LIGHT UP] - SNOW PATROL

CONSTANT CRAVING - kd Lang



And a TAKE THAT Song - WAH!



HOLD UP A LIGHT FOR ME !



That's me done.



Have Nicetimes



Love



BP

'we shall over come' Pete Seeger

Does anyone here still smoke?



I used to enjoy an occasional menthol cigaroony or two.

But that particular avenue of pleasure was closed to me when I had my brain haemorrhage.

I'm very pleased I kicked the habit - but now and again - I really miss having a relaxing puff.

#45 Sorry Mo - I missed that.

I've been stopped 8 years...hate the smell of it with a passion now

Morning all!



Apologoes for my total absence yesterday. Busy at work and in between bouts of work, I was on the phone to estate agents putting 2 houses on the market. Surely it should be easier than it is?



If this is anyone's theme it is mine but I think with 62 posts already, I am too late.



kd Lang did a fab album called "Drag" which was all about smoking. It was given to me by one of my bestest friends, together with an ashtray that coughs and another ashtray that has "Jesus hates it when you smoke" written on it. Any of the tracks on that album fit the theme but my fave is:



DON'T SMOKE IN BED - kd Lang



Will be back later



A-G

#62 Yep.

Blimey, late to the party again, I see.



Must get my priorites right...blog first, work second, hehehe!



Had a quick scan through. Will go away and have a think.



Laters



Ali

'A Slow Drag With Josephine' by Elvis Costello



'It Aint The Cough That Carries You Off' by Billy Cotton And His Band



'Locomotive Breath' by Jethro Tull



'Everybody Loves A Filter' by Fatboy Slim



'Roll Up And Shine' by Stereophonics



'Have A Cigar' by Pink Floyd



'Suff Rock' by Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias



'My Iron Lung' by Radiohead



'Stop' by Sam Brown



'Stop' by Duffy



And, on bedhalf of the tobacco industry...



'Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough' by Micheal Jackson

Oh and...Morning All

#63 I don't mind sharing Billie x

Suff Rock? Please use this 'n' wisely. As I seem to have let it down.

Morning all!



Very quick poop in and out for me today - vital point in the Project!



LIVING NEXT DOOR TO ALICE - SMOKIE



Cheers!



Kev

Second and last one for me today



YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE - DEBBIE BOONE (OR ANY OTHER VERSION)

Good morning Everyone and, of course, Simon, The Team and The Nice Young Man,



Just pooping in before I've caught up with blog happenings to suggest:-



Tobacco Road - The Nasville Teens.



I hope everyone is faring well today - bit damp and misgogs here in 'The Shire' (to quote PSL) :) My spirits are well and truly buoyant today - running club last night clocked up 8 miles in just over an hour! woo blimmin' hoo!



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Morning comrades... late to the line this morning, so I think the best songs are already up and running, but if John's Stop In The Name of Love isn't played then I am a ducthman. But in the spirit, I'm going to offer...



YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE - Leann Rimes



ANYWAY ANYHOW ANYWHERE - The Who



DON'T STOP = Fleetwood Mac



I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER - The Beatles



MATCHBOX - Carl Perkins



not got long online today, so well done everyone for menshes yestereve, and have a good morning....bye

Very tenuous link to cigarettes but a lovely choon - "Good Year for the Roses" - Elvis Costello



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Has any one asked for this very requested tune?



It seems to fit most themes lately





STOP STOP STOP - HOLLIES



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Morning All,



'Don't Give Up' Peter Gabriel



(A bit wrong way round but a cracking song)



Hope everybody has a good day

Katy, Do you miss smoking most when you're in a social environment? I know my ex-mother-in-law, when she gave up the weed, she missed having a cig when we'd been out for a meal. I tried smoking when I was about 19 but gave up after a few months - I was rubbish at it and looked anything but 'cool'. My Dad used to smoke quite heavily and when he ran out of cigs, I was sent to the corner shop to get more - don't know what he'd think of the rules these days where you have to be over 16 to buy them.



Rightio, the grindstone is calling.



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Katy, my method of packing up the fags (80 a day habit) was less dramatic than yours. Whilst holidaying in a self catering farmhouse in Devon with about 15 friends and rellys, some 12 years ago now, I started getting pain in my left arm. We all know what this is a portent of, and quite frankly it scared the (expletive deleted) out of me. On returning home, the left arm still troubling me, I went to the local chemist and invested in the strongest patches I could. Someone advised me to keep the last ciggy in the packet, so that when (if) successful, I could say that I had actually given up, and wasn't just a smoker without any cigarettes. To be honest, I didn't take that advice, as being a newsagent, it wasn't likely that I would ever be without thousands of the blimmin' things.

Anyway, difficult though it was, I perevered through that first week with the strong patches, spurred on by the fact that the pain in my left arm did seem to be easing a bit. I thought it must just be my imagination, but I stuck with it, and went back to the chemist to buy a slightly lower strength pack of patches. This was where my business brain kicked in. (Free business lesson coming up). Although, I was a very heavy smoker, I hate to waste money, and upon discovering that the slightly weaker patches were in fact the same price as their stronger counterparts, I decided then and there not to buy the weaker patches, and instead bought the stronger ones again. When I got home, I made use of the scissors from Lueys sewing box, and cut the patches in half, thus giving me a fortnights supply of weaker patches for the price of a weeks.(Lesson over)

I used most of these up, and on the tenth day it occurred to me that the pain in my arm had pretty much gone, and so I discontinued the patches at that point, and have had no need for either cigarette or patch since.

The following year, friends and rellys decided that we had had such a good time at the farmhouse in Devon, that we would go back. It was on that second holiday, when the pain in my left arm returned. Not to worry, though. It turned out that it was caused by the way I was lying in the frankly knackered bed, and within two weeks of returning back home, the pain had once again dissipated, never to return.

'Stop! In The Name Of Love' The Supremes

#80 - PoS - Wow! Well done on giving up - nothing like a health scare to chivvy us into action. 80 a day tho' - blimey o'riley - your wallet must've been feeling the benefit of you giving up too.



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#79 Toots - not necessarily. A few friends 'pop outside' the pub on a regular basis and I never feel the urge to join them. In the old days, I used to treat myself to a ciggie, much like a reward, after completing a task or some suchlike. That's when I miss it. But only once every few weeks.



#80 Paul. What a great story! 80 a day? Oh my. Fair play to you for sticking to the patch method [no pun intended]

:^)





However - this pun IS intended:







CIGGY STARDUST - DAVID BOWIE

'Virginia Plain' Roxy Music

Have we requested ...





PUFF THE MAGIC DRAG ON - PETER PAUL & MARY





yet?



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Morning all



Blimey busy blog today



#85 - we have now Katy.



In view of the increasing regulation of smoking what about



Every breath you take - The Police?



Cheers



A

#83 - I know giving into the temptation isn't an option for you Katy but well done on staying smoke free. I can see that going outside for a cig wouldn't be an attractive proposition either. It'd be enough to make me want to give up.



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#74 faired up here now in my bit of The Shire!

#88 - Hey PSL, Still damp and mizgogs here :( Forecast for sunny intervals later so fingers crossed :)



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Morning All,



Much too late today, most of the ones I would think of have already been suggested.



I'd like to 2nd (3rd, whatever?) SMOKE ON THE WATER.

#80 = Paul - good story, and eighty a day is good going eh? On an average of 8 minutes a fag that's over ten hours a day with a cigarette in your mouth! Well done for getting out.



#83 - KatyMac - boo hiss, 'cos I'd just had that inspiration myself, trying always to think of a Bowie and a Beatles song for the theme! But well done. I think after yesterday I am all punned out for the rest of the spring. But how's about:



MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR - The BEatles

("roll-up, roll-up for the mystery tour!")

Morning, morning, morning.



Smoking?



My GD is 20 in 9 months time.



So, this week, I celebrate 20 years of being tobacco free.



If ever there was a good reason to give up, then that was it.



I would have course have given up a long time before, but the little darling was somewhat a bit of a surprise.



MTF.xx

There are stikl one or two that haven't been suggested though.



CIGARETTE SMOKE - Arctic Monkeys

LET'S QUIT SMOKING - Super Furrty Animals

#92 - Hey MTF - that's good going. When is the GD going to be on tv? I caught a bit of the programme from Leeds last night but didn't hang around as your GD wasn't going to feature.



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rain before 7 fine by 11 so the saying goes :-)

Hi All



I have never smoked. Not ever. I'm not saying this to appear a goody two shoes or anything (I have plenty of other vices!), I've just never fancied it. Mr B has the occasional cigar on special occasions, and I must admit I quite like the smell of it. But my mother-in-law died from lung cancer 4 years ago, probably caused by passive smoking (she worked for years in an office with smokers). And it was horrible to see her suffering.



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Hi Toots, we thought it was going to be next week, but it seems they are going to be in Nottingham.



Its probably going to be the week after that.



I dont necessarily think they are putting them out in the order that they filmed them.



I think some parts of the filming are going to be a bit cringeworthy, as Gok was trying to get them to talk Brizzle like. LOL!



MTF.xx

WHEN I NEED YOU - Leo Sayer?



GOING UNDERGROUND - The Jam

#97 apologoes if that last post sounded a bit judgemental - it wasn't meant to.



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