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.
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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.
No, never.
I despise such.
I would rather be a drunk than a smoker.
*shudders*
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.
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.
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
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!!!!" >:(
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.
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.
/\ :)
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
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:
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.
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.....]
Never smoked, and I never plan on doing so.
Yes I am. I smoke Peter Jackson Cigarettes, though here in the states i've been smoking Marlboros.
I checked that I quit even though it's only been three months. But that's three months without a cigarette!!!!
Beverly
The army gave me drugs to quit with in 2000. They worked. Ahhh....
Karen
I've never smoked
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
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As you can see, I just recently stopped. I am already feeling better as I can BREATHE!
I'm a smoker however i don't actually want to quit!
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
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.
I smoked in my younger days, if I get really, really drunk I might bum a smoke but thats about it.
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
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
i don't smoke. i wanna live at least five more years, capiche?
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 :)
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?
Smokers suck
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
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.
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
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.
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:
nah it aint my thing
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.
I am so glad I quit just over a year ago-If I hadnt I think I woulda got really ill
Does a fine cigar once in a blue moon count? If so, then yes. Otherwise, no never. One simple question, two entirely different answers...
I finally quite smoking 3months ago and I feel so much better for it.
Floritine
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.
never smoked. never will do.
never say never. ::)
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
no i don't smoke. i don't want to get lung cancer or emphysema. it's a horrid way to die.
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
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.
I don't smoke but I honor the right of smokers to smoke if they so desire.
I used to smoke an occasional cigar, but decided to give that up. Just didn't get any pleasure out of it.
NO. No...AND NO! :)
Pack a day . I was 12 when I started, and hate myself for it.
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.
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!
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.
No I'm not
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-
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)
look at my ticker...
and god I want one so bad right now, im on the patch
Still stopped, thankfully! 4 months and counting!
I still love the smell of a cigarette though, but stale smoke smell is revolting! :o
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
No never smoked, don't like smelling like an old ash tray.......
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 .
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.... :'(
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.
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.
pipe beats almost all other types of tobacco almost all the time
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 ?
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:
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.
except for 4 cigarettes, I haven't smoked in 23 days, minus smoking hookah with my boyfriend.
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..
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.
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.
I don't smoke, I really don't want to risk anything.
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. :-\
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).
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
no, never been
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.
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.
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.
I quit smoking somewhere around December 18th, I do still smoke shisha from my hookah, but no more cigarettes
No, I've never smoked & I can't stand it when people smoke in front of me either.
I don't smoke and never have.
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.
I smoked for a few years, but I quit about a year ago.
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.
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.
45 days clean, using chantix
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. :)
I quit on February 18th after a week on Chantix and the motivation and support of Melissa42013! :icon_love:
No. I have never tried it & I have no desire to do so.
Never been a smoker and never will be.
so glad i never wanted to start that crap :) my lungs have been through enough already!
nopes =]
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.
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.
Weed only. Cigs do nothing for me.
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..
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
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.
Yes, but I need to quit.
No
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.
No, never.
I think it's a disgusting habit, and aside from it just being really gross I have asthmallergies, so no thanks :p
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.
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.
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
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.
Quit when I lost my ability to sing.
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.
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???
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
Every time I see someone smoking I smile knowing they are paying taxes so I don't have to.
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
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???
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.
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
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.
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)
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 ::)
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.
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!!!!!!!
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
I'll stroll into local doc tomorrow & get a script for this Chantix.
Thanks, girl friends
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.
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.
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
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!
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:
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
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
I hate a cigarettes. Rolling tobacco tastes much better...
I don't smoke.
Yeah, I'm a smoker unfortunately, smoke menthols and/or clove cigarettes which are the worst health wise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Not a smoker never been...
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.
No, I am not a smoker.
~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.
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.
No. I prefer to eat.
I only smoke when I'm on fire! :P
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.
Are you a smoker?
No, never been a smoker.
Quit cigs long time ago.
Stopped smoking weed since Halloween.
No longer a smoker :P
... 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.
I've never smoked a cigarette and I don't plan on doing so. :angel:
No
No, no more since 2 1/2 years
I was never a smoker.
The only thing I'm addicted to is Candy :D
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.
6 mo. nicotine free.
1 1/2 yr. alcohol free