Do you smoke tobacco?

[His_pita]

I smoked for 23 years and quit completely February 2006 when my Joe came to pick me up and bring me home with him. I have since realized how allergic I am to cigarette smoke.

 

[Marquis]

I've smoked cigars since I was 19 and have smoked cigarettes for the last year or so.

Cigars are an occasional thing which I enjoy, I mostly hate smoking cigarettes and wish to god I had never picked it up. I would never date a smoker.

 

[nh23]

I'm a smoker. I'm a nurse so i'm not stupid. I know what i'm doing to my body. Just haven't been able to quit as of yet.

 

[Netzach]

I've smoked cigars since I was 19 and have smoked cigarettes for the last year or so.

Cigars are an occasional thing which I enjoy, I mostly hate smoking cigarettes and wish to god I had never picked it up. I would never date a smoker.

stop NOWWWWWWWW!!!! It just gets worse, M's got to do classes

 

[A Desert Rose]

Someone told me that there are a lot of smokers in the lifestyle. But I don't know. I don't know many subs that smoke other than desertrose and hopefully she has quit now.

I'm so sure you hope I've quit.

This is really laughable. See me??? I am really, really laughing.

Whether I'm still smoking, drinking too much diet dr. pepper, or inhaling ajax, really isn't of any consequence to you, WriterDom. ;-D

 

[the_pet]

No cigarettes for 2 years, 3 months.... but i will smoke an occasional Havana Honey or similarly dipped.


pet

 

[A Desert Rose]

I'm so sure you hope I've quit.

This is really laughable. See me??? I am really, really laughing.

Whether I'm still smoking, drinking too much diet dr. pepper, or inhaling ajax, really isn't of any consequence to you, WriterDom. ;-D

I'm sorry WriterDom. No, I'm no longer smoking.

But I have been inhaling ajax... been cleaning the shower. LOL

 

[graceanne]

Oddly enough, I don't. I say that because both my parents smoke/d and both my step parents smoke/d when I was growing up. When I was a child I decided I didn't care what my mother told me, as soon as I was old enough I was going to smoke, but I didn't. It was lucky, cause nicotine makes Crohns worse. *shrugs*

K does smoke, but not in the house or around me or the kids. My oldest is very asthmatic, and the other two have allergies.

 

[Quint]

..............

 

[Bandit58]

Master Gil is a smoker, He has recently (in the last year) cut down from over 40 a day to 10 or less a day. I am an ex smoker, quit nearly 21 years ago.

He doesn't smoke inside now, He either goes out on the balcony or into the laundry (it has an expelair fan).

He is so addicted to cigarettes, that it's a big deal to have cut down as much as He has.....I'm proud of Him

 

[Life_Noir]

Yup, I smoke... Quitting is on my "to do list"..In the fairly soon category.

Started with cigars *sigh*.. Periodically smoke a pipe.. Smoke about a pack of ultra lights a day... Which, considering I used to smoke Lucky Filters, and Camel Filters, is pretty good.

Yeah, I know "ultra lights" are mainly an illusion...

I DO have a brand new, never before used, houka...That I keep threatening to use... Since if you HAVE to smoke...It's about the best of a bad set of choices. Plus it looks cool on my coffee table

 

[Blushing Bottom]

Yuck!

 

[neonflux]

I smoked from age 16 - 32, despite my father's early onset emphysema (he was a high flyer bomber in WWII). Sister still smokes. I quit cold turkey on the 3rd try, but it took 3 attempts to be successful. Physical withdrawals were so bad that I had minor visual and aural hallucinations. The person I was living with at the time, who has never smoked, began to develop a smoker's cough. Figured that while I certainly had the right to kill myself, I had no right to kill anyone else in the process. People who knew me then couldn't picture me without a cigarette in my mouth. People who know me now can't imagine me as a smoker. Neon

 

[Evil_Geoff]

Since the options were "Yes" or "No", I had to vote "Yes", but it's a qualified yes.

I do not smoke regularly (and never have).
I do not smoke cigarettes.
I will, on very rare occassions, enjoy a cigar.
I will also, again on very rare occasions, enjoy a bowl in my favorite pipe (I used to smoke the pipe a lot more when I was in my teens and 20's).

It's probably been 6 months since I smoked a stogie and 3 years since I fired up my pipe...

 

[WriterDom]

I smoked a lot until I quit around 20. More than a pack a day. It was the last thing I did at night and the first thing I did in the morning. It's not a "habit" it's a fucking drug. If they took out nicotine no one would smoke. I would have smoked over 328,000 of them by now if I hadn't quit. I'd hate to think what shape my heart and lungs would be in now.

 

[Betticus]

I had smoked from 14 till I got married at 23. Cigarettes are pretty much the devil I say. I quit for the ten years I was married. After the divorce lasted almost a year but when my buddy died in a motorcycle accident I started again. I quit in January but it was on and off. Wasn't till I stopped drinking that the not smoking happened, it's been about three months now, maybe three and a half.

 

[northwoods_sub]

I'm a smoker *hangs head in shame* I have tried to quit 6 times and have always started up again. Sir doesn't smoke but he chews tobacco, which to me is the nastiest thing around. I am planning on quitting again on my birthday as a present to myself. Hoepfully it will stick this time.

 

[h_i_s]

Do you smoke tobacco?

short answer: No, thank god.

long answer: 7 months ago... collapsed a lung.. Drs said "Too skinny and while the smoking didn't cause it, it also didn't help any... Quit. Now.".

So......

End of November of '06 ... I was forced to quit. It was very difficult to stick with it. I'm almost entirely out of the woods. I still have cravings.. especially when life pisses me off aka during stressful situations (I use to reach for the cigarettes... and have had to find alternative methods for coping.... such as FACING whatever issues arise.. and dealing with them headon).
The ability to recall the pain I went through during the hospital stay, surgery, recovery.... and the shortness of breath I still experience (and the fucking HORRIBLE smell I now notice with those who DO smoke)..... keep me from slipping and lighting up again. I smell better and look better and (bonus) I no longer feel bad about the outrageous co$ts.

 

[h_i_s]

I had smoked from 14 till I got married at 23. Cigarettes are pretty much the devil I say. I quit for the ten years I was married. After the divorce lasted almost a year but when my buddy died in a motorcycle accident I started again. I quit in January but it was on and off. Wasn't till I stopped drinking that the not smoking happened, it's been about three months now, maybe three and a half.

Great job. Stick with it and you'll DO IT. many people quit... start up again... uit ... start again...... etc ect
I did the same years ago.
What made it work for me this time (your mileage may vary... yeah .. i know..).. I stopped allowing myself excuses to start up again (IE: any type of stressful or depressing stuff.. family pissing me off... feeling depressed about "whatever"...).
Regardless... congrats to you Bett'. I know it aint easy.......

 

[h_i_s]

Forgot to mention:

The patch helped me. -- Some say "Too expensive".. i say "DUH! Not as expensive as a pack of cigarettes a day (Here in MA a pack is about or just above $5 now)

Non-smoking (quit smoking) forum communities were helpful as sources to help me 'stay quitted'.... great tips and tools were found on those, and they HELPED me.

After the patch.. low doses of nicotene GUM (store brand did me good.. and was more affordable) helped (carried those with me everywhere.. especially useful during those times that I ALWAYS needed a cigarette for IE: after a meal.. after a car ride.. coming out of the mall.. or any other no-smoking allowed situation/setting.

 

[Esclava]

Former smoker here. A music director pushed my button to quit. So, I send congrats to those who have quit and/or are in the process of it because - IT'S NOT EASY!!!

You know, even knowing that nicotine is the real addiction - it was easier to leave the nicotine alone than it was to kick the "oral" habit. I had to find something else to do with my mouth ...

Esclava

 

[neonflux]

I had smoked from 14 till I got married at 23. Cigarettes are pretty much the devil I say. I quit for the ten years I was married. After the divorce lasted almost a year but when my buddy died in a motorcycle accident I started again. I quit in January but it was on and off. Wasn't till I stopped drinking that the not smoking happened, it's been about three months now, maybe three and a half.

Congratulations! (Having been there and done that, I know how hard it is! Neon

 

[neonflux]

short answer: No, thank god.

long answer: 7 months ago... collapsed a lung.. Drs said "Too skinny and while the smoking didn't cause it, it also didn't help any... Quit. Now.".

So......

End of November of '06 ... I was forced to quit. It was very difficult to stick with it. I'm almost entirely out of the woods. I still have cravings.. especially when life pisses me off aka during stressful situations (I use to reach for the cigarettes... and have had to find alternative methods for coping.... such as FACING whatever issues arise.. and dealing with them headon).
The ability to recall the pain I went through during the hospital stay, surgery, recovery.... and the shortness of breath I still experience (and the fucking HORRIBLE smell I now notice with those who DO smoke)..... keep me from slipping and lighting up again. I smell better and look better and (bonus) I no longer feel bad about the outrageous co$ts.

Congratulations, Sinn0cent1! I am sure that you've already experienced this - the cravings decrease with time. The first year, of course, was the hardest. I haven't had any cravings for at least 10 years now (quit about 20 years ago). The last to go - I would sometimes wake up in a panic because I'd just dreamt I'd smoked a cigarette, LOL. Neon

 

[h_i_s]

Congratulations, Sinn0cent1! I am sure that you've already experienced this - the cravings decrease with time. The first year, of course, was the hardest. I haven't had any cravings for at least 10 years now (quit about 20 years ago). The last to go - I would sometimes wake up in a panic because I'd just dreamt I'd smoked a cigarette, LOL. Neon

Thanks for the Congrats Neonflux. Hearing people say it has been helpful over the past months.
I smoked for 25 years and before I quit, had cut back to just barely under a pack a day. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would be a nonsmoker come next summer, I'd have laughed my ass off at them while reaching for my smokes and a lighter.......
The cravings are easier to push aside.. and far less frequent. I can't wait to be able to say they are gone entirely.
And..... I HAVE HAD those nightmares of dreams that I'd just smoked a cigarette. Wake up shaking and feeling horrible each time....... love for those to be gone entirely too....
Can't wait to be where you are so I can say, "Haven't had a craving in 10 years......."... just to say, "Haven't had a cigarette in 10 years...", will be good enough though. I'll get there... nothing standing between me and the ability of being able to say so other than the passing of time.

 

[catalina_francisco]

Slightly off topic....this is totally crazy. Apparently according to the latest news, he was asked by the club staff to speak to the people after staff were unsuccessful in getting them to stop smoking. The world is going nuts I'm sure.

Catalina