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Poll
Question: Are you a smoker?
Option 1: Yes, daily smoker.
Option 2: Yes, occasional/social smoker.
Option 3: No, I quit.
Option 4: No, never been a smoker.
Title: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Nero on July 09, 2007, 06:56:02 AM
Hello guys and dolls, and welcome to Nero's Pointless Poll of the Day!

How many smokers do we have in the house?
As for me - 'No, never been a smoker.'

Are you a smoker?

Thank you for participating in this survery.



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Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: rhonda13000 on July 09, 2007, 07:03:56 AM
No, I had quit in 1991, but it's funny that you should ask this, Nero.

The idea of resuming has been entertained of late; I found it calming.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Kimberly on July 09, 2007, 07:19:09 AM
No, never.

I despise such.

I would rather be a drunk than a smoker.

*shudders*
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Manyfaces on July 09, 2007, 07:25:13 AM
No.  Ugh, ugh, ugh.  Wouldn't date a smoker either.  Smoking is an unconscionable act, IMO, from health, environmental, aesthetic and financial points of view, and I don't see how an intelligent person can even consider it.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: rhonda13000 on July 09, 2007, 07:45:36 AM
Quote from: Rob on July 09, 2007, 07:25:13 AM
No.  Ugh, ugh, ugh.  Wouldn't date a smoker either.  Smoking is an unconscionable act, IMO, from health, environmental, aesthetic and financial points of view, and I don't see how an intelligent person can even consider it.

She easily can, if she is dealing with extreme stress in her life, medication appears to be only minimally effective and that when she did smoke, it had a very calming effect for her.

Still, I do not recommend it, nor will I ever.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Steph on July 09, 2007, 07:53:16 AM
Quote from: Rob on July 09, 2007, 07:25:13 AM
No.  Ugh, ugh, ugh.  Wouldn't date a smoker either.  Smoking is an unconscionable act, IMO, from health, environmental, aesthetic and financial points of view, and I don't see how an intelligent person can even consider it.

I guess I'm just not that intelligent...

I started to smoke when I joined the army in 1973.  We all smoked and looking back it was a way of relaxing for a few moments when on all those ops I did in the service of my country.  Back then smoking was cool, everyone did it and there wasn't much information out there on the dangers.   However, on Feb 14th, 1992 I quit cold turkey and haven't smoked since, I guess I'm edumucated now.

Steph
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: rhonda13000 on July 09, 2007, 08:01:46 AM
Quote from: Steph on July 09, 2007, 07:53:16 AM
Quote from: Rob on July 09, 2007, 07:25:13 AM
No.  Ugh, ugh, ugh.  Wouldn't date a smoker either.  Smoking is an unconscionable act, IMO, from health, environmental, aesthetic and financial points of view, and I don't see how an intelligent person can even consider it.

I guess I'm just not that intelligent...

I started to smoke when I joined the army in 1973.  We all smoked and looking back it was a way of relaxing for a few moments when on all those ops I did in the service of my country.  Back then smoking was cool, everyone did it and there wasn't much information out there on the dangers.   However, on Feb 14th, 1992 I quit cold turkey and haven't smoked since, I guess I'm edumucated now.

Steph




[remembering]

I was on active duty when I started. I had a strongly perfectionist nature back then and the 'organizational stupidity' [and I think that you know exactly what I am referring to, Steph] drove me crazy.

It was a stress reliever, but I had gotten up to 3.5 packs/day before I quit.

"If there is an inefficient way by which to do something, the air farce will find it and implement it!!!!"  >:(
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Manyfaces on July 09, 2007, 08:08:38 AM
No offense meant to anyone with the comment about intelligence; I know you are all extremely intelligent people.  I just feel very strongly about smoking.  I understand that people who have smoked or do smoke can find it agonizingly difficult to give up and do often feel a longing to start again in times of stress.  I've been around people who are struggling with this, and seen how hard it is, and I admire anyone who's made the effort and succeeded.  But for anyone who hasn't ever smoked, I consider it a no-brainer:  Don't start. 
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: rhonda13000 on July 09, 2007, 08:12:55 AM
Quote from: Rob on July 09, 2007, 08:08:38 AM
No offense meant to anyone with the comment about intelligence; I know you are all extremely intelligent people.  I just feel very strongly about smoking.  I understand that people who have smoked or do smoke can find it agonizingly difficult to give up--I've been around people who are struggling with this, and seen how hard it is--and do often feel a longing to start again in times of stress.  But for anyone who hasn't smoked, I consider it a no-brainer:  Don't start. 

You're cool.  :)

I did not perceive yours as intentionally demeaning, but adamant. I understood.

I quite concur with you and while I have never had a problem with chemical dependency, smoking proved to be very difficult to stop.

You're right: do not start.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Manyfaces on July 09, 2007, 08:29:00 AM
/\   :)
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: RebeccaFog on July 09, 2007, 08:06:00 PM
No Sir. I issin a smoker ceptin' when I does my thing wit th' ladies (which only happens in my mind).

    I smoked for 1 year about 100 years ago. Back then, tobacco was cheaper than chewing gum and chewing gum was cheaper that nonchewing gum. Thems wuz thu daze. I remember that gasoline was so cheap that people would fill up 5 gallons drums and drink it down instead of wasting their cash on soft drinks. Pop. Tonic. Soda.
    Then one day a man shows up and says "I don't like seein' a chicken in every pot. I would prefer to see a pot for every chicken." After that prices all went up on everything except cow manure which made it's way full time into the political arena and the Truth was never to be seen again.

I hope I didn't get off topic on you.

Love

Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Nero on July 09, 2007, 08:43:31 PM
Quote from: RebeccaFog on July 09, 2007, 08:06:00 PM
Thems wuz thu daze.
'...and you knew who you were thennn, goils were goils and men were mennn. We could use a man like Herbert Hoover againnn. Didn't need no welfare states. Everybody pulled his weight. Gee, our old La Salle ran great. Those were the dayyyyys!'
Come on sing it with me. :laugh:
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Thundra on July 09, 2007, 08:51:38 PM
QuoteI would rather be a drunk than a smoker.

Goddess, don't ever say s*** like that out loud. You are asking for trouble.
Smoking is a disguting habit, dirty and smelly, but being a drunk is a disease
darlin'.   You wouldn't want to wish a fate like that on an enemy let alone your sweet young self.  If you fall off that edge, you just might not make it back.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: rhonda13000 on July 09, 2007, 08:55:25 PM
Quote from: Thundra on July 09, 2007, 08:51:38 PM
QuoteI would rather be a drunk than a smoker.

Goddess, don't ever say s*** like that out loud. You are asking for trouble.
Smoking is a disguting habit, dirty and smelly, but being a drunk is a disease
darlin'.   You wouldn't want to wish a fate like that on an enemy let alone your sweet young self.  If you fall off that edge, you just might not make it back.

[Rhonda sits next to Thundra and gives her a big, long hug.....]
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Kat on July 09, 2007, 08:57:57 PM
Never smoked, and I never plan on doing so.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Chandra21 on July 09, 2007, 09:04:29 PM
Yes I am. I smoke Peter Jackson Cigarettes, though here in the states i've been smoking Marlboros.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: BeverlyAnn on July 09, 2007, 09:39:37 PM
I checked that I quit even though it's only been three months.  But that's three months without a cigarette!!!!

Beverly
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Hazumu on July 09, 2007, 09:52:47 PM
The army gave me drugs to quit with in 2000.  They worked.  Ahhh....


Karen
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Yvonne on July 09, 2007, 10:03:48 PM
I've never smoked
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Floritine on July 10, 2007, 08:37:26 AM
I only started smoking just over a year ago while I was in a P/hospital after fracturing my hand and was so scared of what had and was happening but have been thinking about giving it up when i stablise.

Floritine
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: MaraOnline on July 10, 2007, 08:51:08 AM
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Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Jay on July 10, 2007, 02:23:09 PM
I'm a smoker however i don't actually want to quit!
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: RebeccaFog on July 10, 2007, 03:53:03 PM
Quote from: Jaston on July 10, 2007, 02:23:09 PM
I'm a smoker however i don't actually want to quit!

If you're smoking american tobacco, you're buying bombs for our military.   >:(

Now, are you thinking of quitting?  ;D
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Hypatia on July 11, 2007, 05:55:09 AM
I started smoking when I was 12 and quit permanently when I was 13 or 14, never started again. Haven't had a cig in 34 years now.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: ssindysmith on July 11, 2007, 06:35:16 AM
I smoked in my younger days, if I get really, really drunk I might bum a smoke but thats about it.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: MeganRose on July 11, 2007, 07:35:03 AM
To quote a famous dead comedian, "I smoke, if this bothers anyone I recommend you looking around the world in which we live, and shutting your ****** mouth..".

But, yeah. I smoke a lot. Tried to quit a few times, didn't go so well. I depend on it too much, stress relief, routine, god knows what else, and I get so crazy emotional when I don't have my nicotine it's disgusting. I really should have stopped before I started HRT.

Oh well. I know it has to end soon. Dying of cancer is not something I want to aim for.

Megan
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: freedomfromyself on July 11, 2007, 08:16:20 AM
only when i'm in the mood...maybe a couple cigs a month or so. It gives me this lame sense of power as i have complete control over something many can't resist
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: katia on July 12, 2007, 12:32:14 AM
i don't smoke.  i wanna live at least five more years, capiche?
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: rhonda13000 on July 12, 2007, 05:01:32 AM
Quote from: Katia on July 12, 2007, 12:32:14 AM
i don't smoke.  i wanna live at least five more years, capiche?


Oh, you're on drugs, girl.   :angel: :'( :-X :laugh: :o :o ??? ::) :police: ;D :( :D >:D :)
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Thundra on July 12, 2007, 02:39:57 PM
QuoteOh well. I know it has to end soon. Dying of cancer is not something I want to aim for.

If you are taking HRT and smoking, that will be the least of your worries.
You are asking for a coronary episode. Right Tink?

Posted on: July 12, 2007, 02:37:06 PM
QuoteOh well. I know it has to end soon. Dying of cancer is not something I want to aim for.

If you are taking HRT and smoking, that will be the least of your worries.
You are asking for a coronary episode. Right Tink?
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Jonie on July 12, 2007, 04:29:49 PM
Smokers suck
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Gray Seraph on July 12, 2007, 05:32:59 PM
I was a smoker when I was in college, but it was during my self-hating period of life. It didn't help me that my roommates were both smokers. I didn't care if smoking was bad for me, at that time I really just wanted to die anyways.

I quit smoking 2 1/2 years after I started.

~Marciel
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: rhonda13000 on July 12, 2007, 05:38:35 PM
I haven't smoked since 1991, but I still had the craving for it, until as recently as 2 years ago.

That was the only 'substance' which I ever had a real problem with, addiction-wise.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: RebeccaFog on July 12, 2007, 07:58:41 PM
Quote from: Jonie on July 12, 2007, 04:29:49 PM
Smokers suck

and they stink too.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Dennis on July 13, 2007, 08:57:53 AM
Quote from: RebeccaFog on July 12, 2007, 07:58:41 PM
Quote from: Jonie on July 12, 2007, 04:29:49 PM
Smokers suck

and they stink too.

Ah, I can almost feel the empathy in this thread. Nice to see society has progressed to the point where we have empathy for people who commit crimes, but not for people who smoke.

Dennis
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: RebeccaFog on July 13, 2007, 09:06:51 AM
Quote from: Dennis on July 13, 2007, 08:57:53 AM
Quote from: RebeccaFog on July 12, 2007, 07:58:41 PM
Quote from: Jonie on July 12, 2007, 04:29:49 PM
Smokers suck

and they stink too.

Ah, I can almost feel the empathy in this thread. Nice to see society has progressed to the point where we have empathy for people who commit crimes, but not for people who smoke.

Dennis

Hi Dennis,

   I didn't mean to be offensive. I was being literal. Smokers smell like smoke. I wasn't being judgmental, I was just trying to be ironically silly. Brevity of that answer was supposed to be part of the joke.

   Strangely, I don't care if people smoke. It is their business. I have to admit, however, that eating in a public place is easier than it was a decade ago and my allergies have actually gotten better. Sometimes at work, I go outside where the smokers are because the smell of their cigarettes brings back memories of the olden times when everybody smoked everywhere.
   Otherwise, though, if smokers have a place to smoke then it's okay.  No judgment from me.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Nero on July 13, 2007, 09:15:25 AM
I've never smoked, but ironically, I'm far more used to being around those who do. The only people I know who don't smoke are my mom (quit decades ago) and stepdad. Where I'm from, people actually found it odd because I didn't light up. I don't know about secondhand smoke and all that, but I'm used to places where an accumulated smoke cloud hangs over the room. :laugh:
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Christo on July 14, 2007, 12:01:26 AM
nah it aint my thing
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: cheryl84 on November 23, 2007, 07:00:35 PM
I am a smoker, but I have substantially cut back.  I am only on a pack a week now.    I really should quit not just for the health issues, but the prices are out of control, and where I am from there is just such a negative social stigma associated with it now.   I just like it too much to give up now.  I will some day hopefully before it is to late.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: suregirl on November 26, 2007, 01:08:55 PM
I am so glad I quit just over a year ago-If I hadnt I think I woulda got really ill
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Ayana on November 26, 2007, 01:51:26 PM
Does a fine cigar once in a blue moon count? If so, then yes. Otherwise, no never. One simple question, two entirely different answers...
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Floritine on January 26, 2008, 10:36:24 AM
I finally quite smoking 3months ago and I feel so much better for it.

Floritine
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: LynnER on January 26, 2008, 04:01:54 PM
Ick... smoking...  I hate the stuff....  evil evil evil evil evil... yet sooooooooo tempting...

It takes way more than will power to stay off... willpower is good for the first day or two... its good in the mornings when you first wake up... after that it requires lack of stress and distraction and just a general sence of wellbeing...

Willpower is something you can use to not blow your brains out on a bad day... but in 99.9999999% of people its not enough to win against such a strong addiction...

Chgarets are WORSE than herion... Im sure of that... and there far worse than cocane and alchahol... I know this from experiance... Every day I fight not to cave, and have to distract myself or be thankful Im too poor to buy any...  My trick to general sucess in quitting... I cant bring myself to ask anyone for a smoke...  nomatter how much I want it I cant ask for one... and sence I cant buy them Im safe...

When I have money Im usualy feeling good enough to not crave them...  its those few times that everything caves in on me I end up breaking and lighting up...  Im not proud of it... but it happens, and the best thing to do is stop again the next day starting from the time you wake up...  Its a day at a time, a morning at a time, a minute at a time... and it never goes away...

How stupid is it that reasonable people end up hooked on something that vial....  I mean really... we just pay some multibillionairs to kill us one pack at a time...  Its stupid but so is all addiction... 

Oh, remember you can never break a habbit... only change it or switch to a new one...

KK, Ive rambled enough.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: fluffy jorgen on January 26, 2008, 04:02:31 PM
never smoked. never will do.
never say never.  ::)
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Audrey on January 26, 2008, 05:27:59 PM
Cigarettes are nasty.  I smoked for about two years and after quitting I can't stand to be around the smoke.  EWWW.

Not to mention that smoking can really screw with your HRT.

Audrey
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Natasha on January 26, 2008, 06:37:32 PM
no i don't smoke.  i don't want to get lung cancer or emphysema.  it's a horrid way to die.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Sheila on January 26, 2008, 10:17:12 PM
Why would anyone smoke? I just don't understand why someone would intentionally smoke or chew. I know everyone can do what they want to do but to try and beat the odds for lung cancer and all the other sicknesses that go around from the act of smoking. Not only does it make you sick it will make others around you sick. I have seen the lungs of a person who was a two pack a day smoker. He was laid out on a table and we got to open him up. He was a cadaver. He died of lung cancer. He lived the last months of his life trying to breathe. How awful. I would rather spend my money on something for transitioning, like SRS. Sorry, I just have this thing about smoking.
Sheila
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Pica Pica on January 26, 2008, 10:23:05 PM
i've smoked a range of things, but something about me just doesn't connect with inhaling smoke...and I don't have the motivation to train myself. I will have my poisons in liquid form thanks.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: AmberM on December 16, 2010, 07:52:58 PM
I don't smoke but I honor the right of smokers to smoke if they so desire.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: ValerieNelson on December 16, 2010, 08:32:38 PM
I used to smoke an occasional cigar, but decided to give that up. Just didn't get any pleasure out of it.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Inphyy on December 17, 2010, 12:42:44 AM
NO. No...AND NO! :)
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Michael Joseph on December 17, 2010, 01:01:27 AM
Pack a day . I was 12 when I started, and hate myself for it.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Yakshini on December 20, 2010, 12:32:21 AM
I don't smoke enough to even consider myself a smoker. I can't stand cigarettes (Unless they are clove cigs. Yummeh) and cigars are okay on the rare occasion. I do appreciate a hookah, though.

I tried smoking a few years ago and just never liked it. My boyfriend at the time bought me a pack, I smoke two or three cigs, then gave the rest of the pack away.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Michael Joseph on December 20, 2010, 01:37:28 AM
Quote from: Yakshini on December 20, 2010, 12:32:21 AM
I don't smoke enough to even consider myself a smoker. I can't stand cigarettes (Unless they are clove cigs. Yummeh) and cigars are okay on the rare occasion. I do appreciate a hookah, though.

I tried smoking a few years ago and just never liked it. My boyfriend at the time bought me a pack, I smoke two or three cigs, then gave the rest of the pack away.

Good dont start! Its stupid and expensive and sooo hard to stop, trust me!
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Victor on December 20, 2010, 03:10:43 AM
Been a smoker since I left my father's home, honestly think I was addicted to nicotine before I even lit up considering there was this constant visible thick smoke haze in my childhood home all the time, so I was breathing the stuff second hand before ever touching a cig myself. Ended up moody and aggressive at the drop of a hat shortly after leaving the home, then I started smoking and that moodiness went away, so honestly I think I was addicted long before I picked it up even though I knew as a child what effects smoking had on the body and even tried to get my parents to stop smoking, now I know why trying to stop was so hard for them.

But in truth I'd rather be a smoker than a drinker, at least cigs won't put me into a violent stupor, then again I also hold a major grudge against hard liquor, and for good reason.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: confusedd on December 22, 2010, 05:06:01 PM
No I'm not
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: rexgsd on December 22, 2010, 05:50:01 PM
I go on and off. I started up again recently because my dysphoria was getting worse again, and it helps with that somehow. Though, either way, I don't see smoking as a bad thing really -shrug-
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: rejennyrated on December 22, 2010, 05:54:23 PM
No I don't smoke, I don't take anything (even prescribed), and I hardly drink. (less than 1 drink a week - probably averages out at perhaps one a fortnight)
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Elijah3291 on December 22, 2010, 06:27:05 PM
look at my ticker...

and god I want one so bad right now, im on the patch
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: MillieB on December 22, 2010, 06:42:28 PM
Still stopped, thankfully! 4 months and counting!

I still love the smell of a cigarette though, but stale smoke smell is revolting! :o
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Raven on December 22, 2010, 06:42:50 PM
I've tried to quit as some of you might know >> And I started smoking again due to stress. I am a whole calmer when I have my cigarettes, I know their not good for you but still I gotta have my cigs. Been smoking off and on since 16 or 17 then after I turned 18 it's rare for for me to try to quit. The only time I actually quit was when I was pregnant >> drove me and everyone else around me nuts til the withdrawls subsided. It was bad enough that I was an illtempered preggo lolz.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Alexmakenoise on December 22, 2010, 06:53:34 PM
I used to smoke from time to time, on and off.  But I could never fully commit to it.  So I gave it up for good.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Miniar on December 23, 2010, 07:27:14 AM
I am a social smoker.
And I'm a "former smoker's envy".

See, I don't crave tobacco on a day to day basis.
I get a hankering from time to time, often situational, where I sit and I find myself thinking that what this moment needs, to dot the i, is a gentle cigar, or sweet pipe tobacco.

When I was 15 years old I went to a local shop and I bought a pack of winstons.
This was against peer pressure at the time, and I was fully aware of the "risk of death".
I did not really care much for my own health, or body, and I just wanted one.

Now, I'm aware that this is not the norm, but the first one I lit up... I didn't cough, I didn't feel nauseated, I didn't get any of those traditional "ewww" reactions. It just felt comfortable, like "hey! that's what I've been missing!"

I smoked almost a pack a day for a couple years, and then I got pregnant, so I stopped.
No withdrawal, no nothing, just stopped.

Since the daughter got a year old, I've had a smoke "now and then".
I roll my own from sweet dublin, or I stuff it in my pipe.
And it's just.. a cozy thing to me.

I 'specially like a little tobacco with a nice wine and if I have that in the right company, the nice wine is usually followed by a few more drinks, and by that time I've lit up a couple more times, and so, I can be "a smoker" for a night, and feel no withdrawal or itch for more 'till whenever I get to it next time, which can be weeks later, even months.

I don't smoke amongst non-smokers.
I don't smoke 'round my daughter.
I don't smoke indoors at all.
I bin my "leftovers" appropriately.
etc..

Being a smoker doesn't make me inconsiderate and the amount I smoke makes me less of a polluter than a person who likes to light candles.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: ativan on December 26, 2010, 09:51:15 PM
I'm on my tenth since this morning. It should be only 3 maybe 4 by now. But my freaking stress levels and depression are almost to the point of....ahh, who cares....never mind.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Double_Rainbow on January 01, 2011, 05:09:22 PM
Yeah I smoke, a lot!  Too much indeed...but I'm willing to take Chantix, Welbutrin, whatever to help me quit if its going to affect my HRT.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Jillieann Rose on January 01, 2011, 05:29:20 PM
No, I don't smoke and never did.
I watched my grandfather, that I loved, who had only a quarter of a working lung, kill himself by smoking, when I was young. :(
Oh Sheila, I so agree.  I watch my grandfather fighting for each and every breath. 
Jillieann
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Jennifer on January 01, 2011, 06:02:36 PM
Non-smoker here. These percentages match up with all the national and global figures I have researched.
Smokers: 20%-U.S.
               24%-Western Europe
               26%-China
In the U.S. smoking accounts for 75% of all medical costs. Yikes! 90% of lung cancer deaths! Wow. Not to mention heart disease, other cancers and emphysema.
(These figures vary slightly depending on the source.)

Jennifer
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Amazon D on January 01, 2011, 06:29:12 PM
i guess i should answer this question to try and help others. I smoked from 13 to 15 then realized i was killing myself especially during my formative yrs so i quit and didn't smoke until i was 35 then smoked for about a yr then quit again as i hated how i felt so i stayed off until i was around 51 then i smoked those roll your own american spirits for about a yr and thought they were not bad but i soon hated them then while volunteering in iowa for the Obama campaign God told me if i quit Obama would win and if i stayed quit he would do good things.. well so far so good and i pray i never start and i can't be around smokers so i have had to tell potential mates sorry i hate smogs and so i stayed single many times along the way.
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Post by: pretty pauline on January 01, 2011, 06:32:50 PM
No never smoked, don't like smelling like an old ash tray.......
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Post by: nickikim on January 02, 2011, 11:36:28 PM
 Smokin right now . Used to grind in three packs a  day  kingsize non filter Export A gold standard or Players thats 75 a day.  Cut back to about ten a day never was one to avoid it if it might kill me. I almost did myself in on that gum though . 
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Double_Rainbow on January 03, 2011, 09:10:20 AM
Well the good news is, 'No, Never Been A Smoker' is double 'Yes, daily smoker.'  Good!  We actually have people not dumb enough to start this horrible habit!

Bad news is, I'm still smoking even though my Uncle just died of lung cancer.... :'(
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Shadowlyc on January 03, 2011, 07:29:35 PM
I tried it for a while a year ago and found that not only did I hate it but I hated when people around me did it (breathing problems,  ::) wasn't i smart?). So I quit and haven't touched/thought of touching the stuff again. I value my health way more now.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Kitpup on January 06, 2011, 11:45:06 PM
I smoke a pipe every day, more when I'm stressed. I found with my neurological problems the simple act of trying to keep a pipe lit keeps me calm and able to focus. Plus the pipe looks freaking classy. I tried cigarettes but I can taste all of the extra crap and just prefer a nice aromatic tobacco.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Miniar on January 07, 2011, 10:49:47 AM
pipe beats almost all other types of tobacco almost all the time
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: nickikim on January 09, 2011, 05:35:27 PM
 I ve often wondered if smoking substitutes for the breath control of meditation ,in our modern soceity . This thought may be from spending way too much time with Southwest Cove hippies , for whom "pipe" could mean feats of engineering that ,if focused differently could solve all the ills of mankind.  WWDSD  what would Dr Suess do ?
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: MillieB on January 09, 2011, 06:24:38 PM
I'm dragging out giving up something rotten. I haven't had a cig in more than 4 months but only finished on the patches yesterday, and I am still having the occasional gum  :embarrassed:
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Domitia on January 09, 2011, 06:35:07 PM
Despite the extreme popularity of smoking in my area and among the high-school I was in, I have never smoked and don't plan to.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Elijah3291 on January 09, 2011, 08:06:06 PM
except for 4 cigarettes, I haven't smoked in 23 days, minus smoking hookah with my boyfriend.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Amazon D on January 12, 2011, 06:40:25 AM
Quote from: MillieB on January 09, 2011, 06:24:38 PM
I'm dragging out giving up something rotten. I haven't had a cig in more than 4 months but only finished on the patches yesterday, and I am still having the occasional gum  :embarrassed:

WOW THAT IS SO GREAT  these are your formative years and your body needs all the help it can get..
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Shang on January 12, 2011, 09:18:03 AM
I've never smoked and never will.  The smell is what gets me so I won't be dating a smoker either.  Plus smokers seem to produce more saliva, which makes kissing them disgusting (I've kissed a smoker and the worst thing ever because of the smell/taste/the saliva);  this is all my opinion though.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Miniar on January 12, 2011, 11:02:39 AM
My dentist counted my cotton thingies once and was amazed to need 20 for something he usually needed only 2 for.. this was Before I started smoking so it seems smoking's reduced the saliva if anything.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: toxicblue on January 14, 2011, 08:54:58 PM
I don't smoke, I really don't want to risk anything.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Jacquelyn on January 15, 2011, 03:38:29 AM
Smoking has always been a huge turnoff for me. There are better ways for me to spend my money, and quicker ways to off myself than risking cancer.  :-\
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Kitpup on January 15, 2011, 04:43:33 AM
it always bugs me how much tobacco is played up as a carcinogen and general health risk. A lot of the studies attribute correlation to causation, flub numbers or just lie. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5472 (http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5472) (one of many articles I've come across).
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Lord of the Dance on January 15, 2011, 05:01:51 AM
Just want to wish the very best of luck to everybody here who's trying to quit. :]

Personally, I've never smoked, although I have once caught myself almost wishing I did, if only so I had some sort of outlet for stress. Fortunately, I've replaced that necessity with a very big punching bag, which I like to think works much better than smoking ever would :-D
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: AnnaL on January 19, 2011, 07:38:35 PM
no, never been
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Heath on January 25, 2011, 02:53:10 AM
I smoke daily, but I have no intention of quitting.  At least not any time soon.  I may when it starts to pose a health risk....or by the time I'm 35.  Whichever happens first.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: SarahM777 on January 25, 2011, 05:44:56 AM
I wish i never started. But i did grow during the time when smoking was so common there was very few places you could go where smoking was not allowed. Even working in an small office where there was 5 of us and one was a non smoker and 2 were very heavy smokers by the end of the day the whole entire office was filled with smoke and you could see a blueish haze in the place. I remember going to some of the trade shows with my father for an 8 hour day. Go in the morning and the air in the room was clear but by the end of the day the smoke was so thick you could not see across the room it was like looking through a fog.
I know this is my own opinion but do the the nature of smoking i really think that some people actually became addicted before they ever smoked a single cigarette themselves. I mean if you are breathing it in all day anyways how hard would it be for some to cross the line?
Even though i am a smoker i think the laws that they passed to keep it out of public places was a very good thing. Just because i smoke does not give me the right to put you in a position to breathe in something you neither want or need.
But i do know it's time to give it up. I do know that the lungs can repair themselves quite a bit over time.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Nikolai_S on January 28, 2011, 12:47:33 AM
I'm stunned by how many smokers there are here. Never smoked, never will, and the smell actually makes me nauseous. Also, a recent study suggested the damage done to your body starts within minutes of smoking, not months or years. I don't know how people can continue to deny the long term effects.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Elijah3291 on January 29, 2011, 07:34:00 PM
I quit smoking somewhere around December 18th, I do still smoke shisha from my hookah, but no more cigarettes
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: blackswan on January 29, 2011, 07:41:57 PM
No, I've never smoked & I can't stand it when people smoke in front of me either.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: twistedpixie on January 31, 2011, 03:36:30 PM
I don't smoke and never have.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Ryno on February 03, 2011, 10:09:41 PM
I started smoking when I was 15. Quit a few times, always started again. Unfortunately I usually started again after a break-up with someone who made me quit. :/

I recently stopped again. I just stopped having cravings, out of no where. It's the same way I quit the last time.

I'm working hard to keep it this way. My mom passed away from lung cancer last Christmas Eve. 8 month downhill struggle, had to watch her suffer through all kinds of horrid treatments that make me question which causes more suffering; dying sooner of untreated cancer or suffering longer through torturous procedures and chemicals. I loved my mom, we were really close. She quit smoking three or four years before she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

My advice: QUIT now, while you're young. The longer you wait the harder it gets and even if you do, you can still become diagnosed with cancer.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Alex37 on February 11, 2011, 12:45:58 AM
I smoked for a few years, but I quit about a year ago.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Emmanuelle on February 11, 2011, 01:45:09 AM
I always enjoyed smoking (I do come from an era when smoking was cool and not really considered as a bad thing).

I quit last year and now I really enjoy being a non-smoker. I couldn't imagine starting again.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: SurlyCat on February 17, 2011, 08:59:52 AM
Quote from: Heath on January 25, 2011, 02:53:10 AM
I smoke daily, but I have no intention of quitting.  At least not any time soon.

This - I've smoked for 6 years.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: fleshpull on March 31, 2011, 12:19:18 AM
45 days clean, using chantix
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Linus on March 31, 2011, 09:56:52 AM
I'm a cigar/pipe smoker and do it occasionally. I've gone weeks without doing it and then might have a week where it's daily. Just depends on schedule. Oddly enough, I never smoked prior to my 36th birthday. I had decided that I wanted to stop being "safe" and not try things (e.g., tatttoos, etc.) and try it at least once to see whether I liked it or not). The only thing I won't try is hard drugs (e.g., meth, cocaine, etc.). I still dislike cigarette smoke/smell but a good cigar is always good for me. :)
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: JessicaH on March 31, 2011, 12:35:37 PM
I quit on February 18th after a week on Chantix and the motivation and support of Melissa42013!   :icon_love:
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: ShippoFox on April 03, 2011, 12:30:43 AM
No. I have never tried it & I have no desire to do so.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Zemexx on April 07, 2011, 05:27:05 PM
Never been a smoker and never will be.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: some ftm guy on April 07, 2011, 07:25:24 PM
so glad i never wanted to start that crap  :) my lungs have been through enough already!
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Post by: gtfonnbrayy on April 12, 2011, 07:49:51 PM
nopes =]
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Lynne on June 25, 2011, 07:01:26 AM
My parents were quite  heavy smokers, that made me hate smoking from a very early age. I never tried it, never wanted to try it, I refused to try it on several occasions and I will never ever smoke. I have enough problems indirectly caused by my parents' smoking habits already. Now it seems they managed to quit, but the damage is done.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Hikari on June 25, 2011, 08:24:18 AM
I smoked a few cigarettes in middle school, It was terrible, I hacked and coughed and didn't even get me a high or anything so I never smoked after that.

I guess, I am an odd statistic, all of my family smokes, and most of my friends do, but not me.
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Post by: dmx on June 25, 2011, 08:29:17 PM
Weed only. Cigs do nothing for me.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Amazon D on June 26, 2011, 04:59:13 PM
I quit on the eve of 2007 for the iowa election dec 29th and stayed off ever since for the obama campaign. God told me if i quit Obama would win and if i stayed quit he would do great things which he has done.. No sense starting now and my new adopted daughter sarahellis quit 3 yrs ago too when she decided to transition which makes me very very happy..
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Post by: Taka on June 26, 2011, 05:05:24 PM
never really been a smoker. smoked a lot for a few weeks when i was 13, but soon lost interest. maybe i'll have a cig once every other year. never made me feel unwell or cough or anything, but it doesn't make me feel good either so there's no much point in smoking for me. couldn't even get addicted if i tried
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: AmySmiles on June 27, 2011, 09:56:00 AM
The only thing I've ever smoked has been a hookah on 3 occasions, each several months apart.  I cough too much though so I don't plan on doing it anymore.  So, effectively, I've never been a smoker.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Sapphica on June 29, 2011, 06:42:24 AM
Yes, but I need to quit.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Anna222 on July 15, 2011, 11:14:28 PM
No
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Silas on July 15, 2011, 11:58:39 PM
Never have. I've considered it, but not for long.
I've seen drugs destroy too many family members. One grandma of mine is in the hospital with lung cancer, my aunts have it (still smoke, but they try and balance it out with good diet and exercise), another grandma has a lung infection and still smokes (the house stinks like hell), and my dad's been to jail too much for drugs. My stepdad's a pill popper, and seeing him high and later depressed and high just destroyed me. It's funny for a while, but the funniness wears off.

It'll stunt my growth, I'm still in high school. I've seen way too many kids pick up drug habits (13-year-old alcoholic and smoker? not fun). I don't want to die soon.

I've considered weed for when I'm much older, although probably not smoking it. Might not at all.

I don't mind when other people do. I'm opposed to it, but it's their life.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: RomanAlexander on July 16, 2011, 12:52:55 AM
No, never.

I think it's a disgusting habit, and aside from it just being really gross I have asthmallergies, so no thanks :p
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: N.Chaos on August 02, 2011, 03:38:15 AM
I smoke. Way too much. I've been trying to cut down for months now, and just keep failing. Anytime I get stressed out or pissed I end up chain smoking like crazy.

We're buying electronic cigarettes soon, though. Hopefully that'll help.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Natkat on August 02, 2011, 02:22:22 PM
well im not a smoker and never been
(exempt in my avatar LOL)

I dont have a problem with people smoking exept the fact people who doing it to be "cool" or "in the group"
that so lame, I can't take it.

Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Elijah3291 on August 02, 2011, 10:22:26 PM
Quote from: N.Chaos on August 02, 2011, 03:38:15 AM
I smoke. Way too much. I've been trying to cut down for months now, and just keep failing. Anytime I get stressed out or pissed I end up chain smoking like crazy.

We're buying electronic cigarettes soon, though. Hopefully that'll help.

same, exactly the same.  Tried ecigs and I thought they sucked and I had a creepy feeling that they gave me the runs, but that may have just been a coincidence
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: N.Chaos on August 03, 2011, 02:03:58 AM
Quote from: Elijah on August 02, 2011, 10:22:26 PM
same, exactly the same.  Tried ecigs and I thought they sucked and I had a creepy feeling that they gave me the runs, but that may have just been a coincidence

Smoking too much in general does that to me. I used a friend's vaporizer a few times in college and liked it, she had the awesome flavored stuff though. Chocolate-flavored-nicotine-vapor? Hell yes.
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Post by: Raige on August 03, 2011, 03:15:55 AM
Quit when I lost my ability to sing.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: jordonna10 on August 03, 2011, 05:57:49 AM
I been smoking for 2 years.-___-
This is what I get for thinking I was cool in high school.
I use to be so active...Now I reward myself with a cigarette for everything I do.

Not my fault my parents have addictive traits. Mom: Gambling/cigarettes Dad:sex addict/alcoholic
Im just meant to fail in life.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Francis Ann Burgett on August 03, 2011, 07:24:00 AM
Never touched them early in life, real clean, then got stupid, it kinda seemed sexy, how stupid I was, now smoke a pack a day, light ones but so stupid.

What is best prescription???
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Jennifer on August 03, 2011, 07:47:06 PM
Quote from: Francis Ann Burgett on August 03, 2011, 07:24:00 AM
Never touched them early in life, real clean, then got stupid, it kinda seemed sexy, how stupid I was, now smoke a pack a day, light ones but so stupid.

What is best prescription???
Stop being stupid.

Jennifer
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Post by: tekla on August 05, 2011, 07:41:18 AM
Every time I see someone smoking I smile knowing they are paying taxes so I don't have to.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: jordonna10 on August 05, 2011, 09:21:47 AM
I only noticed how stupid I was after sitting at the smoking section of ihop. Im telling you everyone around me were old looking!!! The had the worst  teeth/skin and talk like Roz from monsters inc.     


saddly thats not enough to get me to quit
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Post by: Francis Ann Burgett on August 09, 2011, 03:53:28 AM
I was told today that i had to stop in order to receive new HRT from new physician. So guess I've got to find a way to break the stupid habit?????  How???
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Francis Ann Burgett on August 09, 2011, 03:55:25 AM
Quote from: Jennifer on August 03, 2011, 07:47:06 PM
Stop being stupid.

Jennifer

so easy to say, stuff is so hard to stop. Coffee, morning almost impossible not to have one cigarette.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Cindy on August 09, 2011, 04:04:44 AM
I never gave up, I just decided ~25 years ago to postpone the next one. The first week was a struggle, after that no problems.

Francis, I hear that nicotine patches can be useful, no doubt they have been mentioned before.

I'm not sure how people can afford to smoke!

Cindy
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Francis Ann Burgett on August 09, 2011, 04:30:56 AM
It's not easy to stop for me, like after coffee, or after lunch, certain times are the hardest.

5 us $'s a pack here.

No doubt stupid habit, never smoked early in life, always hated smokers, not sure why I started.

Hate to admit it but early in life dressed as a girl, into gay bars, dressed real nice, lipstick, painted nails sitting at bar & it seemed sexy to smoke a cagarette, sucking on it I guess, while waiting on men to come hit on me. Hate to admit that but I remember doing it, specially at New Orleans, bourbon street bars. I was young & stupid.

Maybe I can be smarter now since I'm a a lot older.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Cindy on August 09, 2011, 04:51:12 AM
Quote from: Francis Ann Burgett on August 09, 2011, 04:30:56 AM
It's not easy to stop for me, like after coffee, or after lunch, certain times are the hardest.

5 us $'s a pack here.

No doubt stupid habit, never smoked early in life, always hated smokers, not sure why I started.

Hate to admit it but early in life dressed as a girl, into gay bars, dressed real nice, lipstick, painted nails sitting at bar & it seemed sexy to smoke a cagarette, sucking on it I guess, while waiting on men to come hit on me. Hate to admit that but I remember doing it, specially at New Orleans, bourbon street bars. I was young & stupid.

Maybe I can be smarter now since I'm a a lot older.


When I took it up at when I was about 13 it was to be macho,  I had my first erection smoking a cigarette. Didn't have a clue what was happening to me :laugh: :laugh:. Walking down the street and thinking, my penis has done something odd, I was a naive child ::)


I think cigs are around $12-15 in Oz, I don't buy them so I'm not sure.

Most venues in Oz including bars and restaurants are smoke free, which helps. Smoking in public is slowly coming in as well.

I don't think there are any easy ways to give up. Just keep trying and don't look upon not succeeding as lack of success.

I also had a partner who smoked so giving up was futile until she did as well.

Have you tried hypnotherapy? just to give you a kick in?

I also was an after coffee, so I took up tea, with alcohol, I changed my drinking habits. I changed my habits, and I never told anyone I was giving up. I still haven't but it has been 28yrs since the last one.

Be strong Sis,

You can do it. And then you get the fun stuff

Cindy (pm any time)
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: apple pie on August 09, 2011, 05:55:01 AM
In my neighbourhood on one of the streets, on one side smoking isn't allowed in the restaurants whereas on the other side it's allowed, because the two sides are controlled by different councils ::)
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Lily on August 09, 2011, 11:59:44 AM
I tried a cigarette once, years ago, and it was horrible. I'm never doing that again.  :icon_blah:

I don't mind when people smoke around me though, the smell isn't all that unpleasant.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: JessicaH on August 09, 2011, 04:06:50 PM
Chantix. I have never had an easier time quitting and I quit last February. After taking it for a few days, the cigarettes start tasting wierd then nasty. You quit getting that endorphin high that would normally get from getting the nicotine fix so it just starts to seem worthless to smoke.

Directions say to take it for 3 months but I only took it for one and did fine. It's expensive but still cheaper per day than smoking! Now, some people have issues with it and they wierd out some or get too depressed but MOST don't!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Jennifer on August 09, 2011, 04:46:49 PM
Quote from: Francis Ann Burgett on August 09, 2011, 03:53:28 AM
I was told today that i had to stop in order to receive new HRT from new physician. So guess I've got to find a way to break the stupid habit?????  How???
First you must decide which one you want more, HRT and all the wonderful things that come with it, or cigarettes and all the not so wonderful things that come with them. Then make a plan and stick to it. After a month or two the habit will be gone and you will be free at last! It's not easy. But nothing worth doing is easy. You can do it sis, I have faith in you. :)

Jennifer 
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Francis Ann Burgett on August 09, 2011, 06:05:49 PM
I'll stroll into local doc tomorrow & get a script for this Chantix.

Thanks, girl friends
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Lily on August 09, 2011, 08:49:42 PM
I have heard that caffeine can also hinder the effects of hrt, I don't know if it's true but I've stopped all use just in case.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Dani0621 on August 09, 2011, 09:27:42 PM
Picked up smoking in the military.  I'm trying to quit now in preparation for HRT.  It's been a few months, but I've quit for a few months before.   I'm actually in a rare platoon right now, one without a single smoker.  Most of the guys do dip constantly though, so I'm usually chewing gum or fiddling with toothpicks to avoid picking that up (though I still indulge on patrols from time to time).  Tried e-cigs an nicorette...e-cigs only temporarily replaced the real thing, but the nicorette helped a bit more. 

Going to be hard to stay clean while overseas, especially since it helps to socialize with locals, but we'll see how it goes.  I actually enjoyed it though.  The taste was good and it was a good way to take a 5-10 minute break from the day or to meet and chat with new people. 

I don't care much about the health risks or how some people may find it unattractive.  There are bigger things to worry about in the world.  But if I'm not planning to stay in the military and am going to start HRT, I need to adjust accordingly.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Francis Ann Burgett on August 10, 2011, 04:38:56 PM
Just swallowed first Chantix pill. It will be a good day when I do not need those natsy things, Just got addicted long ago, had no reason much to stop, did not think ultra light cigs' would really hurt me, my rational.

But it it's time for some changes, past time.

Francis
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: JungianZoe on August 10, 2011, 05:59:16 PM
Thankfully, I never smoked.  But from 4 to 13, I grew up around 4 packs of secondhand smoke a day.  Because of that, I have underdeveloped lungs and am actually allergic to cigarette smoke.  I also can't run and can't do physical activity for very long or my lungs get all inflamed and I'll get sick.

But at least I never smoked!
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: JungianZoe on August 10, 2011, 06:11:53 PM
Quote from: Francis Ann Burgett on August 10, 2011, 06:09:48 PM
Zoe, what are you doing it that picture????

Being my ADHD self? :laugh:
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Joelene9 on August 10, 2011, 09:40:53 PM
  Being dyslexic, I've done more bizarre things than Zoë above^. 
  I never smoked.  Smoking was common in the Navy in the 70's and earlier.  We had a "Smoking Lamp" rule to accommodate this.  If we were onloading or in some cases, offloading fuels or other dangerous items to or from a ship, the announcement over the 1MC would say " The smoking lamp is out throughout the ship while refueling, XXXX" (the oilers' name).  No smoking during flight ops, General Quarters and other events that smoking would present a danger.  The ordinance crew had to remove all smoking items from their person during bomb loading or they will face Captain's Mast.  Those thick nylon protection caps for those bombs, with "V" cuts on the rim, made for nifty ashtrays though. 
  I was exposed to the second hand smoke in my shop aboard ship, but not as bad as home.  The shop had adequate ventilation, at home the smoke actually stratified!  I can see it with the sunrays streaming through the windows.  My mom was a 2 pack a day smoker and sometimes she had her friends or the aunts over for coffee and that added to it. 
  Because I didn't smoke, I was never accepted by the "in crowd" in high school.  To this day with most of that old "in crowd" have quit, I still not accepted by them because I wasn't part of that "in crowd".  40 years later!  Smokers had their own politics and policies associated with it.   
  Joelene
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: JPurcell on August 11, 2011, 08:01:30 PM
I'm a daily smoker, but I only smoke about a quarter pack a day. I started because my brother and sister did, rather than to be in the "in" crowd in HS. I hope to quit soon though
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Futura on September 10, 2011, 09:53:30 AM
I hate a cigarettes. Rolling tobacco tastes much better...
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: RachaelAnn22 on September 10, 2011, 03:56:28 PM
I don't smoke.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: mimpi on September 10, 2011, 04:27:20 PM
Yeah, I'm a smoker unfortunately, smoke menthols and/or clove cigarettes which are the worst health wise.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Felix on September 29, 2011, 04:26:16 AM
I started when I was 14, and I've been trying to quit since I was 18. I'm 30, and I don't smoke every day, but I'm not quit yet. I quit for two years once. It's not a behavior I approve of, but it can be difficult to shake off.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Hadrian on September 29, 2011, 09:35:26 PM
Nope, never been a smoker. Stole my mom's once to see why she insisted on making cigarette butt castles (she's a serious chain smoker), and hated it, never have understood what hooks people.

It's an ugly habit, and it's not allowed in my house. bleh. :P I don't care if it's -18 degrees outside, I still make my friends go outside, and they respect me for that, and I respect them more for following the rules in my house. :)

I'd rather not date anyone that smokes. FYI, you smell -- ALL THE TIME, PERIOD. And people who say differently, are liars.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Hadrian on September 29, 2011, 09:40:14 PM
Quote from: Zoë Natasha on August 10, 2011, 05:59:16 PM
Thankfully, I never smoked.  But from 4 to 13, I grew up around 4 packs of secondhand smoke a day.  Because of that, I have underdeveloped lungs and am actually allergic to cigarette smoke.  I also can't run and can't do physical activity for very long or my lungs get all inflamed and I'll get sick.

But at least I never smoked!

This is a huge reason why I dislike cigarettes so much. Like I said previously, my mom is a chain smoker. I have absolutely no tolerance for cigarette smoke. I literally feel like I'm suffocating and end up with a migraine. If you've ever had an occurrence when your air has been cut off and you are unable to breathe and panic sets in; that is similar to what happens when people smoke around me.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Felix on September 29, 2011, 09:52:39 PM
I don't smoke inside, never have. My mom did, and it was horrible. Plus I have a kid myself, and I don't like her to see me do it much.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Alyssa91 on October 01, 2011, 01:29:24 PM
I smoke, but only with my friends.

I don't necessarily enjoy it, it isn't something I would do on my own. I've tried smoking on my own before, but every time I have a whole cigarette it just ends up hurting my throat... haha.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Crypt on October 05, 2011, 05:35:51 AM
I smoke but I'm working on quitting or at least quitting smoking tobacco
Used to smoke 1-2 packs a day but I've dropped back to maybe a cigarette or two a day now instead
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: chimera on December 10, 2011, 03:27:24 PM
Not a smoker never been...
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Andris on December 13, 2011, 08:50:55 PM
When I gotta study in the end of term, when exams are coming up... I cannot say no when I see a pack of cigarettes.
One or two sticks for a day - enough. Socially, when I join a party (but that's a so rare occassion, really) I may smoke a lot. I prefer waterpipe (narghile) because of taste and it's more like a ceremony than some quicky damaging. (If I smoke cigrettes, I do it day by day... if I smoke via narghile, it happens max. only two or three times in a month. Or only once in a month I do it.)
Since I can make/roll own cigarettes, I smoke lesser.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: stldrmgrl on December 13, 2011, 09:06:13 PM
No, I am not a smoker.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Akashiya Moka on December 15, 2011, 09:37:53 AM
~Nope. My brother tried to get me smoke a flavored cigar once... So I did, for like five secs, just to get him to stop bothering me. I still don't understand the appeal; it's not pleasant at all, it's gross! I do find the smoke from cigarettes much more irritating to my eyes and nose though.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Tossu-sama on December 27, 2011, 04:30:54 PM
I'm a daily smoker. I have a wide variety of addiction to smoking, I need nicotine, it's a habit, stress-reliever, a way to reward myself etc. I get even worse when I'm drinking, I turn into a chain smoker if I'm having booze.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Mahsa Tezani on December 27, 2011, 05:15:36 PM
No. I prefer to eat.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Keaira on December 27, 2011, 05:41:19 PM
I only smoke when I'm on fire! :P
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: King Malachite on January 09, 2012, 07:25:33 AM
I have only second hand smoked from me mom and dad.  Otherwise I haven't smoked which is odd since im about 2 years past legal age.  I wonder how it feels.  I want to try it at least once.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: stldrmgrl on January 10, 2012, 05:57:16 PM
Are you a smoker?

No, never been a smoker.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Joeyboo~ :3 on January 10, 2012, 06:06:14 PM
Quit cigs long time ago.
Stopped smoking weed since Halloween.

No longer a smoker :P
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: dmx on January 12, 2012, 12:06:53 AM
... Smoke what? hahah.

No. I don't smoke cigarettes because they do nothing for me; I feel no positive effect from them. Plus it's a drain on the finances.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Stefan on January 24, 2012, 09:54:34 AM
I've never smoked a cigarette and I don't plan on doing so.  :angel:
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: BraydenKid on January 25, 2012, 07:25:49 AM
No
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: AbraCadabra on January 25, 2012, 08:15:50 AM
No, no more since 2 1/2 years
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: InMyWrittenHeart on January 25, 2012, 08:53:42 AM
I was never a smoker.
The only thing I'm addicted to is Candy :D
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: veritatemfurto on February 11, 2012, 07:11:24 AM
NON smoker, but probably got enough second hand for cancer though :( uncle's a chainsmoker and it goes right through the walls *bleh*!

grew up on grandmother's smoking, was able to start and stop at will with no addiction whatsoever.
Title: Re: Are you a smoker?
Post by: Gretchen on February 16, 2012, 10:25:45 PM
6 mo. nicotine free.
1 1/2 yr. alcohol free