What's your relationship with smoking?

Contributor: Onanist Onanist
I smoked for twenty years and quit (Cold Turkey) 16 years ago in 1994 (No Regrets)
09/15/2010
Contributor: HevansS HevansS
I quit for the last time one month ago. I'll never pick up that habit again.
09/15/2010
Contributor: El-Jaro El-Jaro
Japan has raised the taxes on smokes. Funny thing, they're STILL cheaper than US smokes.

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09/30/2010
Contributor: Viktor Vysheslav Malkin Viktor Vysheslav Malkin
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Originally posted by El-Jaro
I just quit smoking about a week ago. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done this and what their input is.
Tried it, don't know why though, I didn't look that much cooler afterward.
10/01/2010
Contributor: namelesschaos namelesschaos
I have never smoked and never will. my father is slowly dying of lung cancer in the room next to me, lung cancer that developed other 20 years after he quit. So I have a pretty strong anti-smoking motivation to say the least.
10/01/2010
Contributor: lamira lamira
I used to smoke - not for too long, just a year. I decided to quit, because I realized one day how difficult it was for me to go jogging with my friends. At such a young age, to have that problem, I could not imagine how it would be later on in life if I continued to smoke.
10/14/2010
Contributor: Raggedy Andie Raggedy Andie
I tried it at 8 and started full time by 12. I am truly an addict and I have the worst time quitting! I turn into mega-bitch and people will actually buy me cigs to shut me the hell up.
I have tried the patch but it gives me a rash and wicked nightmares. I have also tried the newer inhaler thingies, which I like and can see myself using as a quitting aid in the near future. Sometimes however, I actually really enjoy smoking so it will be hard..again.
11/19/2010
Contributor: Naughty Student Naughty Student
I used to smoke a bit in highschool but I didn't want to get addicted to it so I didn't smoke a lot.

I do smoke every now and then when I get really hammered. The buzz it gives is just really awesome. But it is very rare that it occurs. I have few friends who smoke. Sometimes I will smoke weed but it is just so rare. Like once a year or less.
11/20/2010
Contributor: Emma (Girl With Fire) Emma (Girl With Fire)
I smoked for 4 years or so, I found it really easy to quit for 2 reasons. 1, while I was quitting I would light a cigarette, smoke just a couple drags of it, then I would crush it in my ashtray completely obliterating it grinding it into the disgusting ash. Second... If I was really craving after that I would just smoke pot. Now I have a cigarette on rare occasions, probably once every couple of months, maybe less. I find that I notice the toll they take on my body immediately. Makes it easy not to start back up.

Maybe some of that will help? Good luck quitting.
11/21/2010
Contributor: PussyGalore PussyGalore
Good luck!!!
11/22/2010
Contributor: MasterBlaster MasterBlaster
Just call me Joe Camel...
11/22/2010
Contributor: Lindz86 Lindz86
I had more than one answer to the poll...I should quit because I cough every morning but I don't smoke like a chimney per say...
I have also quit numerous times throughout the past few years.
I find quitting is the easy part...all it takes is a night of drinking, REALLY smoking like a chimney, then smelling a lit cigarette while severely hungover...talk about Pavlovian Classical Conditioning..nothing makes you want to throw up faster, and you'll remember it every time you smell cigarette smoke when sick...
That being said..eventually the world is gonna piss you off, and well, that's when I light up again...
11/23/2010
Contributor: CanMan CanMan
I'm a for-lifer. I doubt I'll ever quit.
11/25/2010
Contributor: Josh aka FootMan Josh aka FootMan
Started smoking at 15, thought I was sweet. I wouldn't admit it at the time, but it's the truth.

Then I starting hacking, getting sick a lot, wasting money on cancer sticks that made me smell like ass and taste worse if I had to guess.

Cigs are bad for you.. I'm 22 and I quit, and I don't want anything to do with them, I'd rather smoke my V-8's exhaust pipe than one more of those butts.

Quitting isn't hard either, I really did love my cigs, and I smoked a fair amount of them.. I cut down to one a day, I just made myself, and I realized I didn't need them after a week or so. Cigs are just a crutch, if you can swallow your pride and admit that, you'll add some more enjoyable years to your life.
12/23/2010
Contributor: Not here Not here
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Originally posted by Josh aka FootMan
Started smoking at 15, thought I was sweet. I wouldn't admit it at the time, but it's the truth.

Then I starting hacking, getting sick a lot, wasting money on cancer sticks that made me smell like ass and taste worse if I had to guess. ... more
So true! I was SO proud of you when you quit

I've only ever smoked a couple of cigarettes during social situations. It's never been something I enjoyed. Plus the smell gives me a headache!
12/23/2010
Contributor: rdytogo rdytogo
One word. Yuck!
12/23/2010
Contributor: Beaners Beaners
Nope. Never never never. My Dad smokes cigars and I can't stand the smell.
12/24/2010
Contributor: C4ss C4ss
I don't smoke and don't think I ever will. I really can't stand the smell.
12/24/2010
Contributor: Illusional Illusional
I tried to smoke when I was in HS to impress my friends but it sucked. Never again.
12/24/2010
Contributor: Lummox Lummox
I've quit 2 years ago, after 16 years of smoking. I'd better never try it...
12/24/2010
Contributor: Shumway Shumway
Quote:
Originally posted by El-Jaro
I just quit smoking about a week ago. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done this and what their input is.
I'm a chimney.. quitting with the wife at New Years that should be fun.. hopefully this doesn't end in divorce
12/24/2010
Contributor: RosesThorns RosesThorns
I have been smoking again off and on... I am trying to quit again.
12/27/2010
Contributor: Persephone's Addiction Persephone's Addiction
Where is the "I love smoking" option?
I quit when I found out I was pregnant, and never touched a cigarette while I was breastfeeding either - but I love smoking, always have. I get interesting imported tobaccos and I smoke because I love it, not because I need a fix. I enjoy the experience. I'm not one of those "Oh, I hate it that I smoke" kinda smokers. I'm unapologetic about it!
12/27/2010
Contributor: *HisMrs* *HisMrs*
Good Luck! I will be quiting right after the New Year.
12/27/2010
Contributor: dv8 dv8
I find smoking tobacco insane. Pot, on the other hand, ....
12/27/2010
Contributor: UnknownGirl UnknownGirl
I finally quit after about 10 years.
12/27/2010
Contributor: Bunnycups Bunnycups
Even though I only smoke if I'm drunk (which is not often) I still consider myself to have quit smoking.
12/27/2010
Contributor: darthkitt3n darthkitt3n
I have never smoked before and do not plan on ever doing it, especially since my boyfriend has asthma.
12/28/2010
Contributor: kinky girlfriend kinky girlfriend
Quote:
Originally posted by El-Jaro
I just quit smoking about a week ago. I'm just wondering if anyone else has done this and what their input is.
I HATE smoking 3 people live here that smoke I have to admit they sound like retards hacking their guts out and I've even heard complaints about I couldn't sleep last night I kept coughing or I need to quit I had trouble breathing....it's fucking retarded,smoking. Actually smoker's coughs are one of the noises that irritate me the most right up there with a dryer going ANNOYING. It's like isn't the hacking your fucking brains out so annoying you can't stand it?

Oh ya I can't understand how all of them don't make much money and smoking gets expensive why would they do it?! I hate hearing them complain I have no money bla bla. SO RETARDED
01/21/2011
Contributor: Morganna Morganna
I smoked for 4 years and quit this past year (my first try, too).
01/21/2011