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NikolaiI
07-30-2007, 04:23 PM
Any thoughts on smoking or tobacco?

Anyone here a smoker? Non-smoker? Pipe-smoker? Anyone have a problem with smoking, quitting, or cutting back? Smoke because you enjoy it? Excessively or in moderation?

Cigarettes, cigars or hookah? If cigarettes, do you roll them yourself?

Granny5
07-30-2007, 04:33 PM
Any thoughts on smoking or tobacco?

Anyone here a smoker? Non-smoker? Pipe-smoker? Anyone have a problem with smoking, quitting, or cutting back? Smoke because you enjoy it? Excessively or in moderation?

Cigarettes, cigars or hookah? If cigarettes, do you roll them yourself?

I smoke, hate it, have tried to stop, addicted. Nothing good about it. Don't know what hookah is or stand for. Have rolled a tobacco cigarettes for my grandpa, but no tobacco cigarettes since he died. (ok, I'll admit that I enjoy a cigarette with coffee and after some activities)

papayahed
07-30-2007, 04:46 PM
I don't smoke. I can remember as a child going to my grandma's on holidays and the house being filled with smoke because all my aunts and uncles smoked.

I hate the smell of smoke on my cloths and hair however I do like the taste of cigarettes on the guy I'm kissing - weird.

NikolaiI
07-30-2007, 04:48 PM
I smoke, hate it, have tried to stop, addicted. Nothing good about it. Don't know what hookah is or stand for. Have rolled a tobacco cigarettes for my grandpa, but no tobacco cigarettes since he died. (ok, I'll admit that I enjoy a cigarette with coffee and after some activities)

Ah, a hookah is a way that you smoke flavoured tobacco, using heated coals where you don't actually burn it (I think). I've smoked one about five times or so, I like it. It doesn't burn the way cigarettes do.

Good luck with quitting! :)

PrinceMyshkin
07-30-2007, 04:49 PM
ok, I'll admit that I enjoy a cigarette with coffee and after some activities

A chicken and an egg were lying in bed. The chicken was smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg was frowning and looking a bit pissed off. The egg muttered, to no-one in particular,

"Well, I guess we answered THAT question..."

manolia
07-30-2007, 04:50 PM
I hate the smell of smoke on my cloths and hair however I do like the taste of cigarettes on the guy I'm kissing - weird.

Ick! It's like kissing an ashtray :lol:

Anyway, on topic, i used to smoke regularly, i am on the quitting proccess the last 2-3 years :blush:
I limit my smokes to a cigarette per day (the good days) or 2 the bad days, the ones i am very stressed or sad ;)

Granny5
07-30-2007, 04:53 PM
A chicken and an egg were lying in bed. The chicken was smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg was frowning and looking a bit pissed off. The egg muttered, to no-one in particular,

"Well, I guess we answered THAT question..."

Just too funny! LMAO

NikolaiI
07-30-2007, 04:54 PM
Ick! It's like kissing as ashtray :lol:

Anyway, on topic, i used to smoke regularly, i am on the quitting proccess the last 2-3 years :blush:
I limit my smokes to a cigarette per day (the good days) or 2 the bad days, the ones i am very stressed or sad ;)

Oh, that's great. I smoke a couple cigarettes a week. All of my friends smoke, and can't quit, really. Especially my best friend, who used to smoke a pack a day, but now smokes black-and-milds.

I've smoked off and on, I've never been addicted or had a problem with quitting if I wanted to, but then the most I ever smoked was 5 a day, that was a few years ago, and for less than a month. I only have one friend who smokes one or two a week, he lives in Kansas City. He actually declares it's good for you to smoke once a day, for some reason.

Oh, and I meant it's great that you cut back so much. :) Good luck.

Granny5
07-30-2007, 04:58 PM
Ick! It's like kissing as ashtray :lol:

Anyway, on topic, i used to smoke regularly, i am on the quitting proccess the last 2-3 years :blush:
I limit my smokes to a cigarette per day (the good days) or 2 the bad days, the ones i am very stressed or sad ;)

Stick with it manolia. I quit for 5 years and got mad at hubby and smoked one just to make him mad. It was like I never quit. Except I think I smoke more and it'll be harder to quit this time. I'm going to try Chantix. One of my brothers is taking it and he says it's really working. It does something to the receptors in the brain that nicotine attaches to so if it can find anything in this little old brain it just might work. I'm setting a quit date, depending on work schedule, and I'm going for it.

ampoule
07-30-2007, 04:59 PM
No smokey!!! It bad for you!!! :D

It must be getting more and more difficult with airports, buildings, even entire cities going smoke free.

manolia
07-30-2007, 05:02 PM
He actually declares it's good for you to smoke once a day, for some reason.

Yep i have heard of that theory..smoke is supposed to kill the germs, hence some people believe that one or two cigs a day are actually good..my opinion is that is foolish ;) Smoking creates far too many problems (don't let me start on this one :lol: )



Oh, and I meant it's great that you cut back so much. :) Good luck.

Thanx :)

Granny5
07-30-2007, 05:04 PM
No smokey!!! It bad for you!!! :D

It must be getting more and more difficult with airports, buildings, even entire cities going smoke free.

I think the best things that ever happened to us smokers are the restrictions put on us. In Arkansas, you can't smoke in any resturant. You can in bars but I live in a dry county so that doesn't matter. Also, it's a $500 fine if you smoke in a car with a child under 18 in it. I think that's great. btw I don't smoke in front of my grandchildren, altho I know the older ones know I do they never see me.

Poetess
07-30-2007, 05:12 PM
This is the hookah:
http://www.austin360.com/shared-gen/blogs/austin/globejotting/media/hookah_setup_diagram.gif
And this is how you smoke it:
http://www.metimes.com/images/photos/full/20070608-074014-1237.jpg

well, actually not necessarily on the beach or wearing a hat :P. In Lebanon we call it Argileh, abnd Egyptians call it Sheesha. It is more dangerous than a cig. the bowl full of tobacco/flavoured tobacco is equivalent/equal to 30 cigs.

My siblings made me wonted to hookah when it`s around, but I never smoke it alone. I seldom smoke cig. sometimes a cig. in a whole month, other times 2 to 4 cigs in a week. I`m not addicted at all, I just smoke it for nothing!


papayahed, I just don`t like it on the person im kissing :P. When i`m sure i`ll kiss this person now, I ask them not to smoke in this meet-up.

Granny5
07-30-2007, 05:16 PM
Am I crazy or does that look like a bong??? I may have "seen" someone smoke one before...a hundred years or so ago.

Poetess
07-30-2007, 05:24 PM
So, you`ve never tried it?

Granny5
07-30-2007, 05:26 PM
So, you`ve never tried it?

My daughter and grand daughter reads this forum.

Poetess
07-30-2007, 05:28 PM
Sorry!!??

applepie
07-30-2007, 06:18 PM
I used to smoke, but quit almost two years ago now. For anyone who is trying to quit, just keep working at it. I must have stopped and started twenty times before I made it stick.

Shalot
07-30-2007, 06:19 PM
that hookah does look like a bong. That's probably why Granny doesn't want to say that she hit the bong because her granddaughter and daughter read this forum (he he)

I used to smoke. I quit over a year ago. I used a combination of nicotine gum and cigaretters. Then I dropped down to gum only and now it's nothing at all. I wonder if I could lose weight if I substituted cigarettes for food?

motherhubbard
07-30-2007, 06:46 PM
that hookah does look like a bong. That's probably why Granny doesn't want to say that she hit the bong because her granddaughter and daughter read this forum (he he)


I'm laughing so hard. We'll just stick to the don't ask don't tell plan! and I'll make sure the graddaughter doesn't read about smoking.

I smoked for sixteen years or so. I was never a heavy smoker though. Whenever I would find out I was pregnant I quit without any trouble and manage to stay that way for a while. One of my children had collic for about four years and I would smike two a day, but I needed that time away from the kids so bad. My doctor said that was just fine.

I haven't smoked in over three years and I want one all the time, but when I smell it or if a take a drag off of one I feel sick.

Poetess
07-30-2007, 07:14 PM
My aunt`s husband quit smoking for 4 years now. How?
He filled his buckets with gums and peanuts. Whenever he felt like a cig. he either chewed the gum or ate the peanuts.

papayahed
07-30-2007, 08:08 PM
Ick! It's like kissing an ashtray :lol:




It's a more subtle taste then an ashtray....maybe it's the combination of ciggaretes AND beer...:lol:

manolia
07-31-2007, 06:55 AM
I like hookah! But it doesn't count as smoking, does it?? It is more like fun!

Mark F.
07-31-2007, 07:12 AM
Hookah pipes are way worse for your health than cigs.

I used to smoke a pack a day from the tender age of 15 till 19, then I quit for about three years and started again about eight months ago. I'm down to 2 or 3 a day and I'm in the process of quitting.

Pensive
07-31-2007, 07:20 AM
Anyone here a smoker?
I am not.


Non-smoker?
Yes, from the beginning.


Pipe-smoker?
Nah


Anyone have a problem with smoking...
Yes, I have. Once I was in this restaurant where many people were smoking. And I felt like I wouldn't be able to eat the food.


Smoke because you enjoy it? Excessively or in moderation?
Nope, I just can't see the enjoyment in smoking really.


Hookah pipes are way worse for your health than cigs.
Exactly! My grandfather's father (that would be my great grand-father, right?) used to have Hookah and it is said he used to use it a lot that now all his sons are against smoking, none of them smokes.

Here, there is quite a trend of sheesha in young generation (usually rich kids), I have seen one myself in a restaurant but by the look/sound of it, didn't appeal me at all!!

Mark F.
07-31-2007, 07:41 AM
Sheeshas were quite trendy in France as well but now that smoking is being forbidden in most restaurants that's going to be the end of that. A lot of friend baught sheesha pipes a while back so we used to smoke a lot of them. They're cool cause they're convivial and taste nice.

manolia
07-31-2007, 07:59 AM
Hookah pipes are way worse for your health than cigs.


It is? I have tried it a few times (with cherry flavor :D ). I have a hookah in my house but it is like a decorative piece, i've never used it ;)

Edit

What is a sheesha??

Mark F.
07-31-2007, 01:16 PM
Same thing I think.

Poetess
07-31-2007, 06:52 PM
Manolia, Sheesha is the hooka a.k.a Argila/Argileh.. :)

Granny5
07-31-2007, 06:55 PM
My daughter and grand daughter reads this forum.

ok, now that both are off line....I've tried it, liked it, and would do it all the time if it were legal. My husband is in law enforcement and it really wouldn't look good for me to be busted so I stay far, far away from it.

Poetess
07-31-2007, 06:58 PM
^^ interesting

Granny5
07-31-2007, 07:01 PM
I'm talking about what we in the South use a bong for. I am being truthful about liking the way it feels. He (my husband) would too because he has glacoma and it would help lower the pressure in his eyes.

Shalot
07-31-2007, 07:18 PM
I'm talking about what we in the South use a bong for. I am being truthful about liking the way it feels. He (my husband) would too because he has glacoma and it would help lower the pressure in his eyes.

should it be legalized? sounds like a good idea for a new thread ;)

motherhubbard
07-31-2007, 07:32 PM
ok, now that both are off line....I've tried it, liked it, and would do it all the time if it were legal. My husband is in law enforcement and it really wouldn't look good for me to be busted so I stay far, far away from it.

Shhhhhh, I hope no one tells :D

I'd love it if it were legal.

Granny5
07-31-2007, 07:35 PM
Shhhhhh, I hope no one tells :D

I'd love it if it were legal.

WHAT HAVE I DONE!!! Great minds and all that.

PrinceMyshkin
07-31-2007, 08:49 PM
Shhhhhh, I hope no one tells :D

I'd love it if it were legal.

But would it be as much fun if it were?

kathycf
08-01-2007, 12:01 AM
I smoked in my late teens and early twenties to keep my "girlish" figure (or so I thought). While nicotine is a fairly effective appetite suppresant the health risks of it are much MUCH too high to recommend it as such (I did a research paper on smoking a few years ago).

Not to mention that cigarettes are just nasty. Not meaning offense to smokers but I hate that stench. :sick:

Madhuri
08-01-2007, 02:35 AM
I don't smoke, and I don't plan to either. I also don't like the smell of the cigarette. There's no one in my family that smokes, or has ever used a hookah, so at home it's a pretty clean environment. But, I have seen here some hookah bars, where people just lounge (sp?) around and smoke, some think it's cool, and this seems like a new trend catching up. I don't know whats cool about it, I don't feel good when I am in such a smoke filled environment.

manolia
08-01-2007, 03:43 AM
Manolia, Sheesha is the hooka a.k.a Argila/Argileh.. :)

Oh thanx..Argileh! This is how we call it here too ;) .

satyrane
08-02-2007, 04:15 PM
I thought of giving up but then the UK government banned smoking in all public houses whilst allowing a caveat in the legislation which allowed for smoking to be continued in palaces. Ergo the politicians can smoke in the various bars in the Palace of Westminster, and the Queen can light up if she's gasping, but the great unwashed cannot. As such I decided to continue (it's also a pleasing misanthropy valve).

Shalot
08-04-2007, 12:24 AM
I don't smoke, and I don't plan to either. I also don't like the smell of the cigarette. There's no one in my family that smokes, or has ever used a hookah, so at home it's a pretty clean environment. But, I have seen here some hookah bars, where people just lounge (sp?) around and smoke, some think it's cool, and this seems like a new trend catching up. I don't know whats cool about it, I don't feel good when I am in such a smoke filled environment.

there's nothing really cool about it. I smoked once, and I am not even sure why I started doing it. But I can understand how people want to continue doing it once they have started because it is very addicitve.

Smoking is slow suicide and I don't really have a problem with that since life sucks and them you die so why not speed it up so you don't have to spend more time on this **** hole called earth, but since we have to hang out for a while (for whatever reason - I guess to learn something maybe) the time spent here would be more pleasant without the filth of cigarettes. So maybe they could create a new cancer stick that emitted a more pleasant odor. It will still kill you but it smells like roses (or maybe everglades if that's what you prefer) so that makes it more tolerable.

I'm terrible aren't I?

NickAdams
08-12-2007, 09:35 PM
I picked up smoking earlier this year for a character study. I wanted to find an addiction and record the quitting process. I thought cigarettes were less dangerous than alcohol. I was going to quit in July, but I'm still with it. I coughed up some wicked coffee colored goo yesterday.

I smoke prerolled packs, but roll my own in emergencies: when I run out of the pack!

I hide it from my family, this should be on post secret, because I don't want my siblings picking it up.

I promise to quit this year.:bawling:

Bakiryu
08-12-2007, 09:44 PM
I hate smoking, most members of my family smoke and in my country i could buy tobacco without anyone checking my age (I'm a minor). Smoking is disgusting and cigarettes, tobacco and other things you smoke (mostly illegal) are really, really, bad tasting. I wouldn't try it again.

hedbanger
08-13-2007, 12:13 AM
Smoking. IS BAD. :F

Shalot
08-13-2007, 07:49 AM
I picked up smoking earlier this year for a character study. I wanted to find an addiction and record the quitting process. I thought cigarettes were less dangerous than alcohol. I was going to quit in July, but I'm still with it. I coughed up some wicked coffee colored goo yesterday.

I smoke prerolled packs, but roll my own in emergencies: when I run out of the pack!

I hide it from my family, this should be on post secret, because I don't want my siblings picking it up.

I promise to quit this year.:bawling:


good luck!! that's an awful lot to go through just for a character study.

There is a drug out (i can't remember the name, but one of my family members is using it right now) and it makes cigarettes taste terrible so that you won't want to smoke. In addition, it causes you to dislike drinks that have caffeine like coffee and tea, and alchohol.
It's expensive though. If I can find the name of the drug I will post it in case anyone is interested.

NickAdams
08-13-2007, 01:08 PM
good luck!! that's an awful lot to go through just for a character study.

There is a drug out (i can't remember the name, but one of my family members is using it right now) and it makes cigarettes taste terrible so that you won't want to smoke. In addition, it causes you to dislike drinks that have caffeine like coffee and tea, and alchohol.
It's expensive though. If I can find the name of the drug I will post it in case anyone is interested.

I settled on cigarettes. If you only knew what else I considered.;) I'm dedicated to method writing.

Aversion therapy. I've only heard about it in reference to alcohol.
I just read A Clockwork Orange, so interesting you mentioned it.

Divine Comedy
08-30-2007, 11:35 AM
I have tried smoking once but was not quite interested. But my friend smokes on and off. Whenever he quits he always finds some reason to get back to it withing 10 days from the day he called it off.I have known many people who smoke especially my dad who smokes but is scared to tell it off as my mom would freak out if she knew. But hookah is something I wish to try my hands on.... There is an Indian cigarette which is available especially in south India its called a beedi.... Any one here has ever tried that out ? Its quite famous among men in the South India especially Kerala... In kerala its quite famously called as Malabar Beedi.... Try one if you get chance to ever lay your hands on them. It would be a different experience ;)

Bakiryu
09-16-2007, 12:19 AM
What's so interesting about smoking? i wonder.

SleepyWitch
09-16-2007, 05:12 AM
I picked up smoking earlier this year for a character study. I wanted to find an addiction and record the quitting process. I thought cigarettes were less dangerous than alcohol. I was going to quit in July, but I'm still with it. I coughed up some wicked coffee colored goo yesterday.


bah, Nick, what did you do that for? you could have interviewed a smoker with less risk to your own health!
i smoke, but I don't really like it... I've quit a couple of times, but I always start again sooner or later.
hey, did you know that the first drag of a cigarette is enough for your brain to feel a kick? when you're addicted to smoking, you are tense and grumpy if you don't get your smoke. but actually the very first drag is enough to make you relax. theoretically, you could throw away each fag after the first drag!

dramasnot6
09-16-2007, 05:28 AM
Back in D.C. there was a Lebanese restaurant I used to go to and they had the most beautiful decorative hookahs on little shelves around the booths.
I am opposed to smoking primarily for environmental reasons, and would therefore never smoke.

EeMmAaN
09-16-2007, 05:40 AM
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I don't smoke and but don't hate smokers and smoking -- But i wonder why people smoke excesssive -- When rhey are distrubed or stressed ??

IS IT REALLY HELPS DURING STRESS OR WHAT ??

~~


Back in D.C. there was a Lebanese restaurant I used to go to and they had the most beautiful decorative hookahs on little shelves around the booths.
I am opposed to smoking primarily for environmental reasons, and would therefore never smoke.


~~

Gr8 Approach !!

~~

SleepyWitch
09-16-2007, 05:45 AM
~~

I don't smoke and but don't hate smokers and smoking -- But i wonder why people smoke excesssive -- When rhey are distrubed or stressed ??

IS IT REALLY HELPS DURING STRESS OR WHAT ??

~~

nah, actually it makes the stress worse, but when you're addicted you believe it makes it better

EeMmAaN
09-16-2007, 05:48 AM
nah, actually it makes the stress worse, but when you're addicted you believe it makes it better

~~

Exactly , That's what i was trying to explain my friend but still he is not ready to leave it --

Hay people -- Tell me tips, how i can convince him to leave smoking ??

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SleepyWitch
09-16-2007, 06:00 AM
~~

Exactly , That's what i was trying to explain my friend but still he is not ready to leave it --

Hay people -- Tell me tips, how i can convince him to leave smoking ??

~~

I suppose you can't convince him. to stop smoking he really needs to want it himself. it's psychological. most (probably all) smokers know about the health hazards, but when you have a cigarette you don't think of the long term consequences because it doesn't kill you right away.

stephofthenight
09-16-2007, 03:43 PM
yep, weed and tabacoo...
i cant stand the smell of someone else smoking thou, like my mom, she smokes inside and it drives me nuts, but since she doesnt know, i go outside and it doesnt bother me as much. i love the smell of cherry cigars. and my b.f. smokes them and its that wild and sexy taste when u kiss him. so yeah. and im not a quitter! lol. so yeah. and well i seldomly roll my own, i normaly just have a friend buy them for me. the othdr you kinda have to roll your own

Bakiryu
09-16-2007, 03:47 PM
Once I tried smoking, I ended up in the hospital. Cigarette smoke gives me really bad coughs, the kind that hurt your throat so you spit up blood. I can't stand smoking, I think it's just stupid to do that to yourself.

stephofthenight
09-16-2007, 05:53 PM
yeah, i gues. ive been doing it since i was 9 thou.

Bakiryu
09-16-2007, 06:02 PM
I think it's weird when you're kissing a person and they taste like an ashtray I wouldn't want my boy/girl/friend to be like that. ew.

LadyWentworth
09-16-2007, 06:05 PM
I tried it a couple of times a few years ago, but no matter what I couldn't get the point to it. Meaning, it just didn't do anything for me.

I really can't afford to do anything like that anyway. I both sing and dance, and I don't want to do anything that might affect my health in a way that would prevent me from doing those 2 things.

Mortis Anarchy
09-16-2007, 09:36 PM
I think it's weird when you're kissing a person and they taste like an ashtray I wouldn't want my boy/girl/friend to be like that. ew.

It really does taste like that! My second boyfriend smoked...eww...it didn't last long.

I tried once when I was younger when I was visiting family in Mexico. All of my cousins/aunts smoke so when I went out I gave it a shot. NASTY! That was that. I think that belongs in the stupid things done thread. My dad occasionally smokes a Stogie(SP?)...Cigar...but I freaked out one day because my mom was smoking a ciggie when a friend was over and I thought they were going to develop cancer and die.:(

Bakiryu
09-16-2007, 10:08 PM
I thought they were going to develop cancer and die.:(

Yeah, mostly everybody on my family smokes, it scares me too.

On the other hand, I've a cough since august of 2006 and it won't go away! I can't even sing anymore :sick:

kiz_paws
09-17-2007, 12:29 AM
I used to smoke, but have quit the day to day habit. It was very difficult to quit, as I smoked for more than 10 years, but I don't crave them anymore (thank goodness).

BUT: Every looooong once in a while, I have a cigarette. It makes no sense, but yeah, at a wedding this summer, I had a couple with some drinks. And I had a couple this past weekend, sitting on the rocks up north with my best friend and talking for hours. It didn't make me feel like buying a package, and I felt all dried up in the mouth, so I won't be doing that for a long time. Maybe never.

Maybe.

But I hate cigarettes and what they do to a person, having said all that.

jlb4tlb
09-17-2007, 12:52 AM
At one time I smoked over three packs of cigarettes a day. Twelve years ago I gave them up for A new years resolution. Quit cold turkey. If I could do it anybody can.

Jeff

Demian
09-17-2007, 03:43 AM
I started smoking when I turned 21 and discovered bars and clubs. Smoking was the only way to become acclimated to the air in there-it would turn my eyes red and make it impossible to breathe. Now I don't get out much and it's illegal to smoke in bars and clubs anyway. If I had been born a decade later I may have escaped the smoking trap and merely learned to abuse my brain and liver instead. =-)

Madhuri
09-17-2007, 04:04 AM
Once I tried smoking, I ended up in the hospital. Cigarette smoke gives me really bad coughs, the kind that hurt your throat so you spit up blood. I can't stand smoking, I think it's just stupid to do that to yourself.

If a person experiences cough for prolonged duration say a month or more, they should get themselves checked for tuberculosis. You should get that done, just to be on the safe side, as it's been for longer duration in your case. I don't mean to scare you though, but it won't harm to consult a doc and have an opinion.

BibliophileTRJ
09-18-2007, 09:49 AM
**** KIDS, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME****

I'm an unrepentant smoker. I smoke anything and everything depending on my mood. Cigarettes, pipes, cigars...they all have their own particular uses.

I did quit (cold turkey) for two years at one time; but I was the most miserable and grouchy person on the planet for the whole time. Every minute of every day of those two years ALL I WANTED WAS A SMOKE! I ruined relationships, nobody liked me, I didn't like me; so I decided that it was o.k. if I die several years earlier.... I'd die a happy smoker.

The one restriction that I place on my smoking is that I ONLY smoke outdoors. Rain, shine, snow, sleet, hail, heatwave (one notable time even during a hurricane) outside I go. I acknowledge that it's a filthy, smelly, unhealthy, stupid habit; and I cut down from time to time but I enjoy it way too much to consider giving it up completely.


There is also literature that suggests that tobacco smoke has a mild anti-depressant effect and that many of us smokers are just self-medicating. I'm no scientist; but I do know that when life gets rough I reach for my smokes.

Koa
09-19-2007, 09:12 AM
The one restriction that I place on my smoking is that I ONLY smoke outdoors. Rain, shine, snow, sleet, hail, heatwave (one notable time even during a hurricane) outside I go. I acknowledge that it's a filthy, smelly, unhealthy, stupid habit; and I cut down from time to time but I enjoy it way too much to consider giving it up completely.



That is great of you, at least you don't annoy other people. I don't care if people smoke because even if I don't I'm sure I do other things that are bad for health, but smokers should always have the consideration to do it faraway from non-smokers. It's great now that it's forbidden to do it in bars and restaurants and all, it makes going out more enjoyable and I don't have to go to bed smelling horrible or take a shower at 4am or whatever....

I have tried, more than once, but it has never caught my interest. And I can't really inhale without choking so I just look stupid. :D

BibliophileTRJ
09-19-2007, 10:37 AM
I have tried, more than once, but it has never caught my interest. And I can't really inhale without choking so I just look stupid. :D

It just takes a little bit of practice.......;) :lol:

Koa
09-19-2007, 05:48 PM
It just takes a little bit of practice.......;) :lol:

I guess I've never bothered to practice enough :lol: I'll stick to my other addictions, such as chocolate. It doesn't annoy other people and doesn't make my clothes smell of it (unless I drop it on me :D )

Bakiryu
09-20-2007, 12:17 AM
If a person experiences cough for prolonged duration say a month or more, they should get themselves checked for tuberculosis. You should get that done, just to be on the safe side, as it's been for longer duration in your case. I don't mean to scare you though, but it won't harm to consult a doc and have an opinion.

I don't think it's that. it's the cigarette smoke combined with dust allergies and an electric fan. :p

NikolaiI
09-20-2007, 02:29 AM
That's good, Baki, that you have a natural way of preventing you from smoking. For most people that's the harshness and coughing cigarettes have. That's why it's never been addicting to me because 1) it costs money, and it's an action which is easy to avoid doing by either being lazy, or doing other things, and 2) it's an unpleasant thing; as well as the pleasant effects of nicotine, there's also the smoke to get in your lungs, etc...so for these reasons it's never difficult for me to go any amount of time without one. I can substitute coffee for them, or something like that, easily. (And I love coffee, like mochas...) but I don't drink it extremely regularly. Okay, enough about my drinking habits I suppose.

ESHQUIA
10-09-2007, 04:26 PM
How many of you smoke?
i think i do 15-20 cigts a day..

NikolaiI
10-09-2007, 04:31 PM
I smoke 2-4 cigarettes a week. I would stop if I ever had a girlfriend/boyfriend who wished me to.

Never had a problem with addiction, or any desire to smoke more.

The worst way that smoking affects you IMO is by your dental health.

Bakiryu
10-09-2007, 04:37 PM
Tried it a couple of times, didn't like it. Pretty stupid to damage your health like that.

Pensive
10-09-2007, 04:47 PM
Pretty stupid to damage your health like that.

Yes!

Have never tried it, never wanted to try it and hopefully would never try it. (bah I think I am being repetitive)

amalia1985
10-10-2007, 03:47 PM
I fully agree with Pensive.