Do you smoke cigarettes?

[culloden]

Never have. I grew up with a mother who smoked (She died of lung cancer - nasty way to go), and always disliked the smell. In fact, I've never even dated a smoker because of the smell.

 

[thatgirl2136]

I bought my first pack, cloves, about a month ago and have only had 2 from the pack with friends. It's not really my thing, but one in awhile isn't really that bad.

 

[BiaTcHiNFiRe]

Nope, I don't smoke (cigarettes).

I find it disgusting when women smoke and drink.

 

[BlitzKrieger]

Yep, I'm a smoker (going on 10 years now...), and I hate it. I want to stop, but I know I'm going to need help. I went without a cig for 36 hours once. After having uncontrollable shakes, think Palsy victim, for the last 12 of those hours I couldn't take it anymore. I walked 3 miles to a gas station and bought a pack of Lucky Strikes. I collapsed on the sidewalk in front of that store after the first puff, in ecstasy. I am truly addicted to this shit. Chantrix you say? Prescription medicine?

 

[goodgirlfl]

I never have or never will either.

I never had any interest in trying them.

Even in high school when I had peer pressure to try them I never gave in to it.

 

[DVS]

I've been told I sometimes smoke during sex, but I've never looked.

 

[ZRT]

Chantix gives awesome dreams. Like movies. I'd sleep four hours a night, but what a four hours they were.

The first one is the one that's always stuck with me. I dreamed I was Henry VIII, and 'Catherine' Boleyn wasn't putting out, so I was chasing her around the castle slapping her around and choking her.

Talk about waking up to a raging hard-on.

I'm experimenting with the electrics right now, but given that I work in the field, a pack of cigarettes is just easier to lug around.

 

[ImOnIt]

I'm afraid of catching brontosaurus.

I have a bitch of lungs and throat, to do with burns from inhaling flaming alcohol like a moron at one point in my development. Blow the fucking fire OUT, or bai bai tastebuds hello scar tissue.

 

[cromsgirl]

Chantrix you say? Prescription medicine?

It is Chantix and yes it is a prescription. I don't know how costs vary in different places, but my husband had to pay about $130 a month for it. As that was less than what we spent on smokes we were ok with that. My insurance paid most of mine. From everything I've heard you want to take all three months, which we did. I have a few friends that only did two months and started smoking again. One thing I did was titrate off the same way you titrate on.
We have been smoke free for almost 4 months and I can still go outside and talk to my smoking coworkers and it doesn't bother me or make me want to smoke. I do have one friend that had to quit after 6 weeks because he was having the anger side effects from it, but he stayed non smoking as well.

 

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[sutherngent985]

I never have (nothing legal at any rate and none of that in probably 20 years) except for trying a few in high school. I dated a girl that did, and vowed I never would date a smoker again, and havent.

 

[StrayKat]

Yes, and too much.
People that "dont get it" or find it "dirty habit" and feel need to tell me that 15 times in row annoy the hell out of me.
I am never smoking in places where it can bother someone, I am never persuading anyone that smoking is "ok" so why the hell dont people just respect what I do with myself?

 

[rida]

Maybe one a month or so. Every so often, normally when I've been drinking, I get the urge for a cigarette.

I'm like MisterSir, in that at times, after a couple of drinks and I'm hanging out with smokers, I feel like I having one. My favorites are Camel. But since nobody really smokes them here it lowers the temptation of asking for one.

Another instance when a cigarette feels just right is when I play billiard or pool (once every 5 years ... lol). There is just something about the whole ambiance ...

But that is about it.

Never got hooked. Not even during my heavy drinking (and smoking) days in college. I would do a night smoking 5 to 10 cigarettes and then go without for days and weeks.

 

[Bandit58]

I don't smoke, but Sir does....He is totally addicted both physically and psychologically.

He's cut down a lot from when we first got together nearly 6 years ago - He was smoking over 50 a day then, now down to 10-15. He tried Champix (that's what it's called in Australia) but had too many problems with side effects like nausea and constipation. If He could have kept on with it though He'd be a non smoker now.....

I quit 23 years ago. On my second attempt, cold turkey. I only smoked about 10-12 a day, more when I went out, for about 10 years.

 

[Satin_belle]

I just started smoking about 5 years ago during my divorce. My God, I
used to be such a huge anti. I quite like smoking now, though
everybody will hurl bricks at me.

 

[caela]

Used to be a light smoker (on average a pack would last me about 4-5 days unless something uber-stressful was gong on) but quit about 8 years ago. My habit was light enough that I just went cold turkey and hid out from my friends for about a week until the "evil bitch" part of the withdrawls had passed.

StrayKat, I can't speak for why anyone else would get on you but I know I get on the smokers in my family mostly because I worry about their health. It's their body and they don't smoke where it would be an issue but I work in surgery and have to see every day the effects of long-term smoking/drinking/drugs etc. on the tissues in people's bodies. It makes working on them a LOT harder than on a person of equivalent age/weight/sex etc because of the damage that gets done to the various tissues throughout the body and not just their lungs. From a surgical perspective smokers really are a PITA to work on.

 

[Luna_Wolf72]

Yeah, I smoke...a pack will last me about 2.5 days. I have tried to quit but the patches don't work for me and I couldn't handle chantix. Made me physically ill.

 

[Bi_Kitty]

Never smoked.

I say I will die of lung cancer though.

 

[Netzach]

Please please please be careful with the chantix. It's a Godsend for most people.

It can also make a fairly stable person a ranting raving suicide risk. It's incredible and terrifying when it goes wrong.

Please heed the black box on this med. I'd never say don't try it, but be careful.

 

[Netzach]

M is trying a good hard quit again. He smokes cloves and as they get harder to find, I thank the nanny state. Because he finds the regulars too gross to contemplate.

 

[Naughty_Neko]

Yes, and too much.
People that "dont get it" or find it "dirty habit" and feel need to tell me that 15 times in row annoy the hell out of me.
I am never smoking in places where it can bother someone, I am never persuading anyone that smoking is "ok" so why the hell dont people just respect what I do with myself?

Thank you!

I hate it when people look at me in that superior way and tell me it's "bad for me." I'm aware-- I just don't care.

Having that been said, I've been forced to cut back from a pack a day to about 4-10 cigarettes a day, since I am a poor college student.

 

[Satin_belle]

Thank you!

I hate it when people look at me in that superior way and tell me it's "bad for me." I'm aware-- I just don't care.

Having that been said, I've been forced to cut back from a pack a day to about 4-10 cigarettes a day, since I am a poor college student.

Yeh, I feel like you do totally. It's only in the past year of economic stress
that I've started buying them though. I smoke maybe 10 to 15 a day
now.

 

[Aquila1]

Gave up just on 5 years ago. Smoked three cigarettes the night my dad died earlier this year and spent several hours vomiting profusely out in the garden - I guess I needed the distraction or something. Absolutely loathe them now, although I miss my Cuban New Year's Eve cigar sometimes.

 

[Raindear816]

I was a social smoker in college, but the habit never stuck. Life is hard enough without having to worry about breathing.

 

[ultramarineblue]

I've kinda been wanting to start smoking again lately.