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 

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 

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.