What is your favorite brand... Are you a smoker or are you a social smoker or are you a non smoker share your thoughts here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What is your favorite brand... Are you a smoker or are you a social smoker or are you a non smoker share your thoughts here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I haven't smoked for 5 years now, but when i did, i was a social smoker always in the pub with a cigarette in one hand and and a glass of whisky in the other lol.
I was only smoking for about a year but i had to stop cos smoking made me feel sick all the time, as for the brands i just smoked what i could get, i didn't have ID back then so i gave money to other people to get cigarettes for me, and just had whatever they came back with.
I've been smoking since I was 16. Pretty heavily.
Favorite brand is Players, or the illegal smokes you get off the native reserves in bags of 200 for $25 bucks if you know the right people.
I'm against smoking. If someone wants to smoke, fine, but I'd prefer not around me as I'd be second-hand smoking. If any of my friends or people I loved and cared about smoked, I'd try to get them off it as well. See, it's not an urban myth that you can die from Cancer if you smoke. It's happened, and it's happened a lot. Some may be immune to that, but not everyone is that lucky.. you can get it in the later years of your life if you haven't gotten it yet.
I dont smoke and never will if I can help it :) My mum used to smoke and so did my older sister, but they both quit ages ago. My dad still smokes, but he's trying to give up too, so Ive been encouraged not to start for my whole life XD
My dad smokes and the smell of it makes me utterly sick. Not only that, but female smokers look even tackier than male smokers do, and I don't really want to embarrass myself like that... I'd be ashamed to see people I know smoking and would probably pretend not to know them until they chucked that cancerstick away.
Call it childish, but I don't need anymore health difficulties. ;!
The smell and second hand smoking is disgusting, and death via smoking runs down both sides of my family. (Mothers' mum, fathers' brother, fathers' sister is currently dying due to smoking.)
I can't stand smoking. Lots of people at school used to smoke around the back of the PE block at break and lunch, and they'd always stink of it. No matter how much perfume or gum they chewed would stop them from stinking like fags. I don't know what brand they smoked, but it stunck worse than most brands too. My friend has a few a day - maybe one or two. But its still very bad for you, no matter how much you smoke.
My mum and step-dad both smoke. Its... sad that they need to smoke to be relaxed, or in a sociable mood. Yeah, your relaxed and sociable, but is it worth it if you know its going to kill you? Ha, my mum smokes and really shouts at me if I only joke about the idea of me smoking. I don't get it: if its THAT bad, then why do you do it in the first place?
My mums friends mum smokes more than a few packets a day, and... Well. She just looks so tiny, and ill. Smoking has pretty much taken her already - shes been in and out more times than I've had hot dinners in the last few years. She says she doesn't care, which to me is a little selfish - think of all the people you are going to leave and upset. No one wants to die by that kind of choice.
Yes I smoke and I smoke way more then I should. Right now I have cut back to 3/4 of a pack a day. Heck its better then the pack and a half I was smoking a few months ago and the 2 packs a year ago. So yes I want to say "I am a social smoker" but there I do not fit. So in turn to your second question (actually your first) Malboro Red 100s, the ultimant cowboy killer...
Well. I quit smoking at the start of this year and have been tobacco free for 7 months now.
But back when i did i used to chain smoke Marlboros(Yay cowboy killers!). Smooth shorts and Red 100s. usually back to back or a the same time.
(I feel healthier since i quit. :) )
I'm still young, but I will never smoke. Not only is it bad for you, but the smell is just horrible! Thankfully, no one in my family smokes because they're all against it. I don't know how people can put up with that awful smell! When someone around me smokes, I get far away as possible!
Yeah, my mum banned my dad from smoking in the house, which I'm grateful for! He smokes about tweleve a day and he always stinks! Not only that, but his teeth were brown from tar and long-term alcohol use. After he gave up alcohol, he's taken more care of his teeth, but he still needs them bleached if he wants to get rid of the yellow/browny tar crap jammed up them. Yuuuck!
Smoking is banned in a lot of places here, thankfully.
Ahhhh..... a guy after my own heart... or should a say with the same lungs as me? Either way, Yes, I smoke, bout half to 3/4 a pack a day, sometimes less, sometimes more... depends on if I'm drunk or in the process of getting there.... Marlboro 100's baby... that's flavor country... and coincidentally, my arch-nemisis in the FF realms.... damn over grown plants with bad breath...
I quit smoking about two months ago. But see, saying something like that poses a problem... Saying I've quit implies that I will not smoke in the future. I generally smoke perhaps a pack of cigarettes once a year. I tend to quit for large periods of time until I feel compelled, either by a fit of ill humor or by fancy, to buy a packet and enjoy.
Smoking is something that should be practiced lightly if at all. For people who inhale those noxious fumes day in and day out for as long as a year, are cutting their lives down by pieces.
BUT, I do LOVE a tin of Latakia Turkish Rollcake tobacco with a little hint of Perique stuffed into pipe and smoked. A cigar once every two or three years isn't bad. But the bread and butter of this bad habit of mine is just a pack of Djarum Blacks. Light them in frustrating or trying times and they breeze you right through with a nice spicy taste that doesn't smell like a Men's bathroom.
-Sin
The things you notice without the scent present eh? Kinda understand, we don't smoke in the house anymore, but my grandmother occasionally walks through with one, and it does kinda reek...
I don't touch cigarettes. Not a fan of the smell at all. Plus, with the whole inhaling deal, not so much my thing.
Cigars on the other hand; I'm a big fan of cigars, especially after a fine night of drinking. We usually go cheap and get Phillies or some Black n Mild's. We'll light em up and walk around Central Park South, by the Plaza Hotel, looking like assholes. It's good fun.
One other thing that's just great is hookah/ shisha. It's flavored tobacco smoked through a filtered water pipe. It's delicious, but probably worse for you than cigarettes, tobacco-wise. However, compared to cigs, you're getting only flavor- cured tobacco and no rat poison or arsenic or whatever's in cigs. It's incredibly relaxing and gives you a little headrush, which is pretty nice once in a blue moon.
Unfortunately.
I'm a chain smoker.
I only smoke Kool XL Milds.
I've been smoking for about 3 years now.
And I've tried to quit multiple times.
Never seems to work.
>.>
But I've come to realize that I was only trying to quit because other people wanted me to.
But smoking is something that I wanna do.
It passes the time.
And gives me something to do when I'm bored.
right o my friend...Right o
I smoke not alot but not a little i like lucky strike unfiltered or camel unfiltered that gets my gears going..
Take a break from work.. smoke...
Beat a part in a game or keep on dying what do ya do...smoke...
Drink all night and smoke some herb what do you do after that...smoke...
Its a great way to pass the time like my friend above me says and i don't mind it much.. I like the smell... man i wish i could smoke in resturants... Damn hippy Arcata...CA
MMMM nevada is nice smoking sections...man i would love to blow smoke into some poor saps face while he's eating I would say SUCKKAAAA!!!
I have nothing against smokers but I always hated being around cigarette smoke as a child so I am one of those who don't smoke and always will be. Can someone please tell me how does smoking will benefit me? Ruin my health? Have bad breath? Burn my lungs? Cancer? No thanks! I want to live a long and healthy life. :)
Haha, and a great way to kill yourself slowly!Quote:
Originally Posted by Changrules
EDIT:
V @Changrules: Will you please shut up and get a life, already?
EDIT 2:
V @Jesus Christ: Who the **** cares if you believe me or not? You think I am lying? Fine, I am ok with that, Now beat it.
Atleast i will die doing something i enjoy right??
I'm not shoving fags in your face right???
haha I thought so you chocobo brush
Well, most people are against smoking after all. It's bad for your health and bad for the people who are around you. What about you, JC?
Be nice people... this is supposed to be a conversation / discussion... not flinging insults or names at one another....
I already posted in this thread. Like, the second or third post. So go read it if you want to know.
I just found it funny how people go "Oh, I don't really have a problem with smokers themselves" when that's exactly what they have a problem with. I could care less if they do, but come on, at least ****ing admit it without trying to be all "progressive" and accepting through lying about it.
Ehh. A lot of people I love and care about smoke. I still love them and want to spend time with them, but I do get a little resentful when I come home smelling like smoke and when I have to inhale it. It dries out my eyes, my skin, and it makes my throat tighten up. That, and my uncle is dead because of the habit.
I don't mind if people smoke as much as I mind when smokers are inconsiderate of non-smokers.
Also, Changrules, Demon Hunter... don't start.
Have you tried the Black n Mild Creams? I swear to god, like smoking a pint of half and half. Which is nicer than it sounds. And hookahs are great. The only time I've ever been to a hookah bar though (there's one right by my school), we got this strawberry stuff, and for some reason it messed me up pretty bad. I felt pretty shitty for the rest of the night and basically passed out in my bed when I got home. I enjoyed it while it was happening though.
But back to cigarettes. I don't smoke. I enjoy the occasional cigar, though. I also have a corn cob pipe that I bought at a Pharmacy a while back. I bought it then so I could chew on it and say classy things like "Indubitably". Then a couple of friends and I decided to have a pipe night, where we just sit around and be super classy. Maybe poker. Maybe Spongebob. It depends on where the wind takes us. Aw yeahz.
I hear this saying time and time again, and the more I think about it, the more I realize how true it is: "Smoking is the worst decision that a person can make in life. There are just so many sever "side-effects" that come from this one mistake. The worst would have to be death. Smoking a cigarette drains your life away. It keeps doing that as you keep smoking until you are lying down in your coffin, dead from a decision that you chose to make.
Smoking slowly robs you of your ability to breathe; it makes your lungs "tainted." Soon after, you will have lung cancer, and they will have to cut a hole in your throat for you to breathe through. Even after this, some people continue to smoke though the hole in their throat which I think is just plain stupid! Like a other types of cancers or even deadly diseases, it will lead to an early death. What's different from lung cancer than some other types of cancer is that the other types of cancers are unpredictable; you don't know when they'll strike. However, lung cancer is one that you can cause simply by smoking. It's like a lottery ticket; more types than not, you'll lose, and if you're lucky, you'll win. In lung cancer, it'll be more times than not, you'll get lung cancer, and if you're lucky, you won't. See what I mean?
Not only is it bad for the people who smoke, it's also bad for those around them. Second-hand smoking is just as bad. I can't stand the disgusting smell of a cigarette when it gets lit. Sometimes, I want to throw up, but I didn't. Haven't you noticed why people advise smokers to go outside when they smoke and not do it inside the house? How smokers can even stand that bitter, horrible smell that's about half a centimeter away from them in every direction, I don't know.
Smokers smoke; that's why they are called "smokers," right? But the question here is "why?" Why did they suddenly start smoking? Was it because it seemed interesting, and they just wanted to try it once? Then did they get addicted to it and smoke endlessly? Or perhaps it was because they were bored? Maybe they had nothing better to do with their life and just decided to kill some time by smoking. Most of the time, it's because of peer pressure. Kids or teens actually encourage their fiends to smoke, and they do because they want to seem "cool." Well, here's what I say to each of those three, especially the last.
My whole life, I have never ever seemed interested in smoking from the moment that I first experienced how bad the smoke smelled. When I get bored, do I think of smoking? Of course not; I'm not an idiot! If I get bored, I just go play something, find something to eat and relax, talk to my friends or family, or just get tired and take a little nap. I wouldn't just smoke because I wanted to kill time! Now, if my friends ever decided that it was "cool" to smoke and told me that if I wanted to hang around with them and be their friends, I would have to smoke, do you know what I would do? I would grab the cigarette box, and I would throw it straight at their faces, and then yell out, "Go get a life, you stupid idiots because I sure as hell am not stupid enough to kill myself!!" And after saying that, I would turn around, walk away, and find some friends who doesn't tell me to smoke. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind if my friends smoke, but I do mind if they tell me to smoke is I wanted to stay friends with them. If they did smoke, I would try every which way to get them to quit.
I'm only thirteen years-old, and I don't smoke. I don't intend to either; it's an absolutely disgusting habit! People who smoke know, for a fact, that these things will happen to them sooner or later; they are inevitable. They try to quit, but most of the time, they fail. Those people are the "decent" ones. The "indecent" ones are the ones who think, "Oh, I'm going to die anyway! What's the point of not enjoying it while I still can?" At least the "decent" ones try to quit. At least they value life a little more and try to live a better life by giving up smoking!
If you are reading this right now, and you are a smoker, please listen to what I'm about to say. Please try to be one of the "decent" people, and try to quit smoking! I know that you know how bad it is for you. Though it's really hard to quit something so addictive, at least make an attempt to. When you do, you'll thank me! I know that's it's possible because I have several family members who have succeeded in giving up smoking! By doing so, they now have a better, healthier life. Trust me, it's for the best! Don't give up, and don't become one of those "indecent" people who waste their life! I know that you can do it; I'm rooting for you!
EDIT - Ahh! Stupid thing won't indent!
Right, boy. That post has to be one of the most patronising ****ing things I've ever read.
Now, here's something a lot of people, and the British government, seem to fail to notice: people who smoke have brains. I know what I am doing to myself every time I light up a cigarette. I know it makes me stink, I know it's slowly turning my lungs black. I know that it is causing my skin to age far faster than it should be doing, I know it's thinning my hair. I know that it's a drain on my purse, and it's making my teeth yellow.
But I still do it. Amber Leaf rolling tobacco, or Marlboro Red if I'm celebrating something.
Would you like to know why I do it?
It is because I want to. I don't need any more validation than that. I started smoking when I was 16, and I don't regret it. It relaxes me. Did you know that in the 50's doctors prescribed tobacco for stress? It really does help. My family life was spiralling out of control, I hated my school life, so I sought out the eternal combination of cigarettes and alcohol. It was that, or ****ing ketamine or something. I think I made a pretty okay choice, all things considered. These days I'm a full-time student who works 22 hours a week in an airport; smoking is both a social activity (most of my friends enjoy a rollie) and also something to take the edge off when I'm working, or doing an essay. I like it, because it makes me feel good.
Now, one thing I never do is smoke around children. I can go for a day without a smoke if I'm babysitting, and I always stub out or move away if I'm having a cigarette and there's a child or a mother with a pram nearby. Kids shouldn't be around smoke.
I know when I'm going to quit - it's going to be when I no longer want to smoke. I've heard stories from people who quit, and they say that for every smoker there comes a tipping point when desire comes second to need. I am watchful for that moment. I know it's not far off; recently I've been wandering more and more what life would be like if I could enjoy reading a book outside without having to smoke. It's a creeping thought.
But not wanting to give up right now does not make me 'indecent' in any way at all. You're 13, and maybe a little too young to properly understand the reasons why a person might start smoking beyond peer pressure. I personally have never met a person who started smoking, and lasted as a smoker, because of peer pressure. Or maybe that's because I don't hang around with people who would let themselves be forced into that kind of decision.
Smoking is a choice, a decision. It's a heavy one too. But it is completely my right to make that choice, and it is my right to smoke if I so choose. I really do like the taste of it.
This does not mean I advise others to smoke. I don't. ****'s sake, it's not easy to cut down, or to quit. Smoking is entirely a personal choice.
I am fed up of people telling me what to do. It's my body. I know perfectly well what I'm doing to it. I'm 19, and I can choose to do this. I will one day quit, because old women with rollups hanging from their mouths just don't look cool, and when wrinkles become a proper worry I don't want to speed up their progress. I have more important things to be concentrating on just now (like the essay I am pointedly not writing just now) than quitting.
So, I'm off to have a fag. I've opened the window and lit the oil burner so that the house won't reek of it. There are no children present. I'm hurting nobody except myself, and nobody has the right to tell me not to do that.
Besides which, something you are too young to understand is the after-cigarette. Now that will be hard to quit.
Ah, the smoke is so atmospheric! But unhealthy! What awful decisions we must face.
I'm a non-smoker. My family all smoke and several of my friends smoke. A few of my friends smoke something other than cigarettes. I see it as lifestyle choice. Personal preference. Some people do it, some people don't, like pretty much everything else. Nobody is better or worse, except for the irritating people who try to make everyone follow their way. That's normally former smokers and the odd non-smoker.
I have a predisposition to heart disease, considering that most of my dead relatives died from it, so by smoking, I would be increasing my chances of dying of heart disease as well. I'm not very suicidal, so I stay away from the stuff.
I've been smoking for almost 2 years now? I am more of a social smoker but I do smoke at my house alone every now and then, maybe 2 at the most. I smoke Camel Filters since they are the best! I have taken break multiple times, since I get broke sometimes I can't buy any. It's no big deal, I don't crave them at all.
Although my parents were big smokers most of my life i have never been addicted to smoking, i have tried it but didn't see the need in it although the odd cigar back in the days didn't hurt lol.
First off, let me just apologize in advance because whenever I have a long, arrogant post, at least one person gets offended by it. So, in advance, I apologize if anyone found my last post or this post offensive in any or every way.
People who want to smoke are just... well... not very... smart. I mean, you are given this wonderful life, and just for some cigarettes that grant you joy, you would cut you life in smaller pieces. "Life's too precious to waste," but I feel that people who chose to smoke just because they want to already wasted a lot of it. Smoking reduces moments from your life, and it speeds up the time till you death. For someone to throw away their life is just a horrible, horrible mistake.
If a person just smokes rarely, that's way better than someone that's addicted to smoking. If, say, my Grandpa smokes a cigar every few months, that wouldn't hurt, but people who smoke every single day are killing themselves literally! When someone smokes almost or more than a pack a day, then you know that they have a problem. It may be hard to stop, but those people know, for a fact before and while they smoke, that it would destroy them.
Yet you say that you want to smoke just because. You should always think three times again about what you really want to do. The choices you make gravely affect your life. Just because you want to smoke doesn't mean you should smoke! I know that you know about all smoking does to you before you started, right? Yet you still intend on smoking. That is a terrible error.
Some of you might say that this is a bad analogy, but it really isn't. If a person gets depressed, you know that they'll think about suicide sometime. They want to kill themselves, isn't that right? But do they in the end? They might, we don't know that, but they do think about whether or not they should commit suicide. Because after the person goes through depression, they will think back about how they wanted to die, and they will regret ever thinking that. The same thing applies for smokers. I don't know if smokers ever regret smoking or not since I am not a smoker, but I do know that after they quit, they will realize how stupid they were to smoke in the first place.
Another thing you can compare this to is a person in jail. Weird, I know, but it fits. Think about it this way: a person gets really mad at someone, and that person is thinking about burning the house of whoever it is that they are mad at. Sure, they'll feel a lot better after they do it, and they might even do it again, but you know that when they get caught and end up in jail, they'll regret it. They'll regret letting their mind take over and not thinking it straight.
If a smoker is lying in his or her deathbed due to lung cancer which they caused by choosing to smoke, so you think that they'll think, "I can't believe how stupid I was! Why did I ever smoke? I knew that this would happen to me, but I didn't think about it straight. Now I'm going to die early because of a single mistake!" or do you think that they'll think, "So what? I smoked, big deal! I chose to do what I felt like, and if this is what I get, fine! I don't care; I going to die anyway, right?" I would think that most people would think or the former one.
But here's something that I want to make clear: I don't hate smokers! You might think I do after what I said, but don't get me wrong! I have family and friends who smoke, but that doesn't mean I hate them; I still love them. I don't hate the person; I hate the smoking. If my friend smokes, I wouldn't mind, but I wish that he would quit. However, if he tells me that I have to smoke to stay friends, then I would ditch him. But I would advise him to quit and help him quit. So, we got that cleared? I hate smoking, not smokers!
That's all I have to say now. I just think that smoking is a disgusting habit and a horrible decision to make, and I will never smoke. I know why you people chose to smoke in the first place, but you know that it's bad for you, don't you? Before yo get lung cancer, I would strongly advise you to stop smoking. In all honesty, I'm not trying to be rude; I'm only speaking the truth. I know that this isn't the first time that you've heard this. Once again, I apologize if anyone finds this offensive or patronizing, and once again, I am against smoking!
Thank you! -Fayt
Practically everything causes cancer. Why give a damn if one more thing is increasing your chances?
Personally I don't smoke as I figure just the effects of drinking would be better than the effects of both drinking and smoking especially as I'm not exactly a casual drinker. That and I like having money for alcohol and a load of other stuff, though these days money isn't too big a concern due to my long hours at a decent hourly rate.
And though I tried smoking tobacco, it didn't do shit for me. I don't like things with negative effects that don't seem to do anything for me, so it seems kind of pointless. But that's just me. Maybe it does do something for some people and either way I couldn't give a damn. If a smoker is smoking around me, who cares? A ton of things can give a guy cancer, and being alive past 70 looks like it would suck as far as I'm concerned. Maybe I'll think differently after another milestone.
I don't smoke, I'm asthmatic and it's not what I do. End of story really.
You know I don't care about other people smoking though. As Govinda said it's people's choice and just cause someone smokes doesn't mean they're idiots. No I prefer people not to smoke in front of me but I lived in a house with my mom for 17 years who did it everyday day in and day out, so I can tolerate it. No I wouldn't want to ever live with a smoker but when people worry about lighting up in their own house or car I could care less since I'm used to it, and not totally my choice. I'm a big boy and can handle 5 minutes of a smoke near someone.
Again I don't smoke but I'm not like those psycho Truth people who are worse than smokers. Someone needs to tie them up and blow smoke right in their faces, cause since 4 I remember knowing it's bad. So deal with it and realize saying ITZ BAD isn't gonna do squat.
Okay, Fayt, maybe I should have clarified. Your post didn't offend me, it just annoyed me.
Now. I understand that smoking is a stupid habit, and that it is bad. But you're forgetting my age, and a very important part of my post.
I am 19, and I have been smoking for 3 and a half years. I am determined that I will stop before I am 26, because when I reach that age I'll have been smoking for ten years in a row, and that's just horrible. If I stop before I've been at it for 10 years, which is such a long time, my body may be able to curb back some of the negative effects before my body gets too old to recover from them.
I was on the phone to my mother the other night, and we ended up talking about smoking. Turns out she's been smoking for 32 years. That's thirty-two. That's three decades! Her mother, my grandmother, died of emphysema when she was 63; I made it clear that I don't want that end for my mother, and that I want her to stop. She's too old for it now, and she has to realise that. Well, she doesn't have to. I'd just really, really like her to. She's tried a few times before, but she's never really wanted it, so now myself, my brother, and her partner are trying to get her to want to quit.
I don't think that smoking is a life-long right. When I'm older, I might want a family; I could never, ever, ever light up while pregnant, so assuming that I do have a child one day smoking is already a passing thing. The risks of heart problems, blood problems, skin problems will all increase exponentially as I leave behind my youth and settle into adulthood. I know this, and I'll stop before it happens. Hell, I'm 20 in June, and that scares me enough; I don't want to make ageing any scarier for myself. I dread being all saggy. Ew.
But for now, I'm 19, so smoking (while a bad choice) isn't immediately killing me. Moreover, I have decided in myself that smoking is to be a thing I can only indulge in while I'm still young.
Telling a smoker that they should stop smoking is nigh-on impossible to do without pissing them off, because whichever way you choose to do it they'll get pissed off, and at the base of it you're always telling them what to do. British smokers, like me, are particularly defensive because of how our government works. Alcohol is destroying this country; and yet the government rails against tobacco (tax revenue from which more or less keeps the NHS afloat (we're charged 75% tax on all tobacco products)) like it really is the root of all evil. There are adverts on the TV, billboards, pages in magazines, that make smokers out to be these abhorrent junkies who spend their time finding children to blow smoke into the faces of. And yet, they never really make an effort to tell people not to drink. When was the last time someone said, 'Oh, sorry, I wouldn't normally fight with the guy but I'd had one too many cigs, know what I mean?' or the last time someone rammed their car into a family because they had too much nicotine in their system?
I appreciate what you were trying to do, Fayt, but at the end of the day you're a kid. I don't mean you any offence by that. Every kid, except ones who think its cool because their older siblings do it, hates smoking. I did, because I got told how crap it was in class all the time. I'm not saying you'll end up smoking, because you don't seem that way. But maybe with time you'll come to understand why, when life doesn't turn out quite how you'd planned, just wanting to do something is more than enough.
I Don't smoke, and never will what's the point of it?
It's estimated that each cigerette shorten's someones life by 14minutes.
Plus the smell when some one has been smoking is just horrible, it makes me physically sick.
Well, in my 19 years of existence, I have only smoked a cigarette once, when I was 8 years old. I hated it and I have never done it since then. I also don't smoke because a few of my relatives were long time smokers and ended up getting cancer and dying from it. I have a few friends who smoke and who's parents smoke too, and I hang out with them every now and then, so I can put up with my friends smoking, I just don't want to be around them inhaling the air when they are doing it, and I don't let them smoke in my car and stink it up when we go places.
Im a non smoker never tried it never will don't see the point of paying like $20 to kill myself.....Slowly!
I got nothing Against Smokers i mean i work in a industry that practically keeps the smoking empire alive seriously at least 90% or more of Chefs smoke ( not an actualy figure but from my experience thats what i figure :p)
so yeh
~Dr_Flea~
I have to be the worst smoker in the world. I have been smoking since I was 10 years old, and have been around smoke my entire life. I have tried many times to quite. once I quite for almost 2 years when I was 14, and I quite for almost a year when I was expecting my first son.Again I am faced with quitting. I feel as if I will never get there, but my fiance is impressed with my progress. I used to do a pack a day, and I am down to 6. I plan to go cold turkey after my next appointment this month. Hopefully that will go well. I would try the patches again, but they makes me very very ill.
NO NO NO and NOO! I don't like smoking and i'll never do it! here's a sign of what i mean! So put that out NOW!!!http://images.google.se/imgres?imgur...%3D2%26hl%3Dsv
I started smoking about a year and a half ago, right about the time I turned 21. It was a social thing to do while drinking, then I'd go outside with a beer an hour before we'd close at work and have a smoke, and the calming effect of it was what got me hooked.
I've been fighting with quitting for a couple months now, it's a lot harder than I ever expected it to be. I'm on 2 days right now since my last smoke, and the smell of it lingers in my house, I can smell it better than ever, and every time I see my mom, dad, brother, or sister light one up it's been pretty frustrating.
At the moment I've taken my fat ass on a bike ride the past couple days to get my mind off it and get my lungs hurting. It's helped, though I'm really craving one right now. :\
Eh, I said before I don't smoke, right?
Well I'd had the very occasional cigar with mates (likely under 5 in a full year) in the past and now I realise there's few things better than a cigar, especially if on the night shift. It warms you up, you're allowed to smoke (unlike drinking) and it makes you look like more of a badass when you encounter no good punks which can only work in your favour. And yes, by 'your' I really mean 'me' in whatever form, but if anyone ever gets a similar job, I'm almost sure you might be thinking similar.
My fave little trick is that old one you see in various movies. When someone is getting smart, you stare at them almost blankly, suck as much smoke as you can and then blow it into their face. Very intimidating I've found. :D
Went back to smoking Djarum Blacks...A pack of Pall Mall. And a half pouch of Latakia Shag with a dash of perique. Plus one cigar. That's it for me for at least a year if not three or four.
I really don't like smoking, it just seems that I get worked into it for some reason.
-Sin
You know I have no real problem with smokers. What I hate worse is those got forsaken Truth ads. They're worse than a million smokers breathing in my face. I can't stand when you see commercials and they're protesting on the streets. Smokers know it's wrong, telling them you'll die doesn't make them go OMG RLY?!?! I have nothing else to add I just can't stand those ****ers, they're like 5 year olds who say it's bad to their parents, they're just an annoyance.
I smoke alot and ive been smoking a long time, ive quit multiple times in the passed decade and always end up back on the nicotine wagon. I'm addicted to an extent, and i also smoke alot of weed and heck i even have a Cuban on the shelf above my bed which i will smoke when i go binge drinking next.
For the non smokers: YouTube - WPS-6: Bill Hicks on Smoking
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EDIT: Oh and i smoke John player blue :D
I smoke like a goddamn chimney. Pall Mall 100's are the poison of choice, Drum Halfzware Shag rollies if I'm broke.
It may be stupid, it may give me cancer, but the hell with it. Tobacco is yummy, goddamn it. I enjoy it. Plus, they taste really good after tacos.
You sound a bit like me. I was never addicted to them either and had them very sparingly. A pack would last me several weeks to months. Djarum Blacks are my weakness. I just love the smell and taste of clove. You know, chai tea is heavy in cloves. Good for when you crave that taste but don't want to start wheezing.
It's been almost a year since I smoked any cigs. Last time I did, I had some Newports and my gums swelled up in response. It was not fun. If I do smoke again, I'm sticking to the Djarum Blacks. I'm sure I'll find them somewhere around here.
I think smoking has appealed to me because I have this bizarre oral fixation. When I was a kid, I used to suck my thumb. Then I chewed on pens and pencils. Then I chewed on my mouth. Then I was introduced to pot, but most of the time, I would just let the pipe sit on my lips. I was never a fan of the way cigarettes smelled until I tried Djarum Blacks. Did that for a bit, and now I am back to chewing on my mouth/lips.
Interesting... Before I stopped here I just read an article and watched a video on electronic cigarettes. It was kinda cool. It uses water vapor rather than smoke.