Do you Smoke?

[mark197205]

Never, when I was a kid both my parents did though they gave up by the time I became a teenager, have never had the desire to even try one.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I do, and I hate myself for it every damn day.

No, I really mean that I hate myself for it. Tried numerous times.

Cold turkey. Patches. Gum. Hypnotism.

Funny enough that I have a note on my monitor that after the next two packs are smoked that no matter how fucking cranky I get, those are the last. If it means I sleep for 78 hours straight till the nicotine leaves my system, so be it.

Although it's about both money and health, it's also about feeling extremely bad about a promise I made to my Father.

When he had Lou Gehrig's Disease, he of course was having problems swallowing correctly while eating. I'd sit and hear him choke all the time, and it scared the hell out of me to listen to. Hell, I can still hear it.

His neurologist told him to get a PEG tube inserted so that the chances of him choking to death, or having a worse case of aspiration pneumonia would lessen. Dad said he had a death sentence anyway, so he'd rather enjoy eating and die.

I asked him how he felt that I as his caretaker would have to watch him choke to death and have zero ability to save him. The toll it would take. His eyes lit up as big as saucers, knowing he finally had a bargaining wedge to get me to quit smoking. I shook his hand that I'd quit.


June 4th of this year will make 11 years ago that we made the agreement. I think it's time to man up, because I still feel like a real asshole for breaking it.

Don't beat yourself up too much there mate. We all have our vices. If it's not fags it will be summat else for sure. No ones perfect....apart from that cunt kbate.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Quit cigg's after the army and picked up a bong.

Weed...0 medically recorded deaths....no hang over/whiskey dick.

Ciggs approx 1/2 a million people a year dead, erectile dysfunction, smell like shit...

Pretty clear choice for me...

 

[dolf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGodr8CM8As

eeew!

 

[girlsmiley]

Funny. I remember my first cigarette. 16 going on 30. My cousin and I walked right down the back. Right, right down the back. When I was satisfied we were far enough away from the house I had a puff, choked and nearly passed out. By then it was dark. The only thing we could see was a street light way, WAY over in the distance. So we walked that way. And that street light was nowhere near the house. It took us five hours to get home. Fucken dickheads.

 

[Tryharder62]

Luckily I never got hooked. I did try a couple in college when I thought it might help me lose weight. Dumb. Watched my dad die of lung cancer. He had even quit later in life but many many years of unfiltered cigs.

I can appreciate the difficulty of getting off them though. Watching people I love give very serious effort to stopping smoking. The addiction is powerful. My eyes were opened when I worked at a VA hospital back in the day when smoking was allowed in hospitals watching a patient smoke through their trach tube in their throat.

 

[julybaby04]

My Dad, mom, and grandmother (she lived with us after she lost granddad)...all smoked. I grew up around it and never knew what it smelled like until the first time I came home after going to college. What a horrible smell.

I hated being around them while they did it and never had any desire to try it myself.

 

[SeaDaddy1]

I smoked for several years when I was younger. I still don't know why I smoked.

Never smoked cigarettes. My dad and my sister do, even after it almost killed my father.

One time I went to a funeral to pay my respects to a friend's sister. His sister and father both died from lung cancer. As he's explaining to several of us how many times he told them to stop smoking, he lights up a cigarette.

All us looked at each other like, "Do you see what I'm seeing?"

 

[C2W]

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started smoking tobacco in 1970
quit smoking tobacco in 1979

started smoking H & opium 1969
quit smoking heroin & opium 1981

started smoking marihuana1970
quit smoking marihuana 1987.


started smoking marihuana again 2005
quit ???? (when ever the pain stops)

 

[Wok]

*poll coming*

I'm wondering just how many smoke because this year two of my friends have received their smoking related death sentences. One is already gone and the other is in the hospital on oxygen with little hope of ever leaving the hospital.

Looking around, I see plenty of kids (college age to young teens) smoking and invariably their answers are, 'I have plenty of time to quit', or 'My doctor said I've got no damage.'

My friends were: 58 years old and 40 years old. That's not 'plenty of time' in my opinion.

Anyway: do you smoke: what and why?

I used to smoke two packs a day for about 15 years. I quit several years ago, and glad I did. The habit is very expensive.

 

[torchthebitch]

No. She's wet enough for me to steam a little though.

 

[kbate]

No. She's wet enough for me to steam a little though.

*golf clap*
*clap*
*the clap*

 

[Wings]

Uncanny. Are you me, or am I you?

Well if we are one could you do the apartment hunting for us because I'm getting weary.

 

[Lorilei]

I've never smoked. Both of my parents smoked (in the house! The place stank, and I always felt like my clothes reeked of smoke) and my sister smokes. I hate everything about it - the way people look holding a cigarette, the smoke itself, the smell, the way it makes their breath smell, the way it stains their teeth...everything. I really don't know if I could even date a smoker. I have my own vices, to be sure, so it's probably hypocritical, but I really, REALLY hate cigarettes.

 

[kbate]

Well if we are one could you do the apartment hunting for us because I'm getting weary.

I would have told her to do the laundry and to cook dinner, but to each her own.

 

[Wings]

I would have told her to do the laundry and to cook dinner, but to each her own.

I'm Italian, cooking calms me.

And I had kids so that I had someone else do the laundry. Works like a charm these days.

 

[kbate]

When I first began letting houses, one of my first tenants and his wife were both smokers. They rented for 2 years and when they left, in order to get it ready for the next renter, I had to scrub walls, repaint, replace a carpet, replace the receptacles and switches and wall plates and repair a couple of burns on the floors. Now my lease has a smoke free clause and we inspect once a year.

They had also disabled all of the smoke detectors. Apparently cigarettes set them off.

In fact, about half of renters disable the smoke detectors.

 

[CandiCame]

I fucking love cigarettes. Love everything about them. Love the smell, the taste, the time cut off my already shitty life- the lazy man's delicious suicide. Having said that, I tried quitting for about a year, sucked at it hardcore, then my gf threw a MAJOR bitchfit and I've more or less stopped now. I'll have one if my nerves are frazzled all to hell or if I get super, super bored.

But here's the thing- I NEVER got addicted to them. When I wanted to stop, I just did. For months at a time. When I picked it back up, every time it was just because I was depressed and wanted to feel myself die a little inside, and I'm not 14, so I can't take a blade to my arm or anything like one of those adorable little emo kids.

I wish I lived somewhere not the US so I could call ciggs fags.

 

[Tryharder62]

started smoking tobacco in 1970
quit smoking tobacco in 1979

started smoking H & opium 1969
quit smoking heroin & opium 1981

started smoking marihuana1970
quit smoking marihuana 1987.


started smoking marihuana again 2005
quit ???? (when ever the pain stops)

*Hugs*

 

[SeaDaddy1]

When I first began letting houses, one of my first tenants and his wife were both smokers. They rented for 2 years and when they left, in order to get it ready for the next renter, I had to scrub walls, repaint, replace a carpet, replace the receptacles and switches and wall plates and repair a couple of burns on the floors. Now my lease has a smoke free clause and we inspect once a year.

They had also disabled all of the smoke detectors. Apparently cigarettes set them off.

In fact, about half of renters disable the smoke detectors.

I've heard it can be very expensive and time consuming getting rid of smoke odors after smokers move out.

 

[CandiCame]

I've heard it can be very expensive and time consuming getting rid of smoke odors after smokers move out.

I've never smoked tobacco in a house I lived in. Because I am not a douchebag. And also because if you're a geek you know that cigg smoke destroys collectibles, and it's not a leap to assume it destroys other things too.

 

[SeaDaddy1]

I've never smoked tobacco in a house I lived in. Because I am not a douchebag. And also because if you're a geek you know that cigg smoke destroys collectibles, and it's not a leap to assume it destroys other things too.

I did it for several years, but learned early on to go outside after coming back to the same room or car and reeling from the odor. I simply quit from guilt feelings about my health. My 1st wife smoked for many years, and quit several times, but her habit got worse each time she went back to it. I think she's quit again. Our kids would go to their rooms to avoid being around it.

 

[dolf]

people who have kids but still smoke in communal areas of the house, or with kids in the car, need a slap.

 

[Sean]

Yep, since I was about fourteen.

 

[Liar]

Yep, since I was about fourteen.

Started then. Quit at 18 so i could get laid and afford booze.