How many here smoke?

[the facade]

I've always felt smoking cigarettes kinda comes with the field and I mostly get my ideas while musing over a ciggy.
So who here smokes?

[Alexander III]

I smoke only for aesthetic reasons, which also implies I only do when in company.

[Skia]

Me. Since I Were 13... :/

[OrphanPip]

Never touch the stuff, not even tempted.

[DanielBenoit]

Once or twice. Made me cool for about five minutes.

[Olga4real]

Quited more than a year ago and hate the smell of smoke of cigarette .

[breathtest]

on and off. I love the taste.

[Skia]

I Did it cause i was the cool pretty 13 year old girl smoking and it was SHOCKINGLY COOL!!! in high school... now im addicted and cant quit. :/

[breathtest]

yeah its always cool at that age, isn't it. It was the same with me, but i never got addicted.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Never touch the stuff, not even tempted.Likewise. I never have and never will touch it. My mother brought me along to her work now and then when I was a kid. Having seen what smoking had done to the patients there.... Well, let's just say that I never felt any urge to follow in their footsteps.

/Claes

[Alexander III]

Sorry if this is of topic, but heart disease from unhealthy eating is a greater killer than all smoking associated diseases, yet McDonalds is not forced to put a label on its big mac confections saying, eating this is harmful to health...smoking is bad, but so is a lot of other stuff, which have not gotten nearly as bad a rep as smoking -

I mean a lifestyle of no exercise and excessive eating is just as dangerous as smoking

[OrphanPip]

Sorry if this is of topic, but heart disease from unhealthy eating is a greater killer than all smoking associated diseases, yet McDonalds is not forced to put a label on its big mac confections saying, eating this is harmful to health...smoking is bad, but so is a lot of other stuff, which have not gotten nearly as bad a rep as smoking -

I mean a lifestyle of no exercise and excessive eating is just as dangerous as smoking

They probably should have to, and they should probably be prohibited from marketing to children too.

[Delta40]

reformed smoker of 16 years but probably going to die from heart disease...

[Snowqueen]

Never touch the stuff, not even tempted.

Same here, I wonder why people smoke so often. As it's good for nothing!

[Jassy Melson]

I smoked for forty-four years, and then I discovered I had lung cancer, so I quite smoking, and the cancer was caught early enough. I will never smoke again, but it may be too late.

[hillwalker]

Never smoked..... there again, I was never cool (despite what my profile might suggest)!!

[Skia]

My mother brought me along to her work now and then when I was a kid. Having seen what smoking had done to the patients there.... Well, let's just say that I never felt any urge to follow in their footsteps.

/Claes

I wish my mother took me there... for i'm smoking a ciggie now :/

[MarkBastable]

Yeah, a lot of writers seem to smoke. I certainly used to. I associated smoking so strongly with writing that when I quit, I found that I didn't know how to write without a cigarette burning within reach.

I was in my forties and I'd been smoking for twenty years. But I'd decided that my son and daughters would rather have a living father who never wrote a great novel than a dead one who looked at them from book jackets. So - if it turned out I really couldn't write without smoking, then the hell with writing.

I went cold turkey and I didn't write anything much for a year after I quit. Just couldn't get the flow going. Couldn't make the brain fire. The way I see it, quitting cost me a year of writing in the middle of my life. Continuing to smoke would probably have cost me fifteen or twenty years at the end.
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[the facade]

Yeah, a lot of writers seem to smoke. I certainly used to. I associated smoking so strongly with writing that when I quit, I found that I didn't know how to write without a cigarette burning within reach.

I was in my forties and I'd been smoking for twenty years. But I'd decided that my son and daughters would rather have a living father who never wrote a great novel than a dead one who looked at them from book jackets. So - if it turned out I really couldn't write without smoking, then the hell with writing.

I went cold turkey and I didn't write anything much for a year after I quit. Just couldn't get the flow going. Couldn't make the brain fire. The way I see it, quitting cost me a year of writing in the middle of my life. Continuing to smoke would probably have cost me fifteen or twenty years at the end.
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That is extraordinary.

[Skia]

That is extraordinary.

Je conviens

[Captain Pike]

Why don't you make a poll? I don't smoke, I just can't seem to adopt the habit. I tried lighting up after a nice meal (and so forth), it just makes me sick feeling. :sick: When I quit using, smoking seemed superfluous (avid and ample alliteration, A?)

A friend of mine smokes some kind of cigars, and they SMELL SO GOOD! I mean it makes my mouth water a little sometimes. They come in a soft tinfoil pouch, looking almost like bubblegum or some kind of candy. I ask him what kind they are but can never remember his answer.

Good thing they don't have, like olfact-i-cons, that we could just drag into our posts -- wouldn't that be cool? NO!

[Skia]

Captain...

Well, I've tried Cigars, Different shapes, sizes and from diffferent places (I had a cigar phase aged 16)

and I never thought the taste was that good it made my mouth water...

You. Are. Interesting. :)

[Alexander III]

I never liked cigars, but I have a pipe of mine which I quite like, the aroma is lovely, why did pipes die out, someone should bring em back.

[MarkBastable]

That is extraordinary.

Blimey - is it? It wasn't intended to be. So - not in the least aggressively - why?

[Tallefred]

I smoked for two and a half years, than finally managed to quit. I still smoke hookah occasionally, but I'm done with cigarettes for good.

Since I quit smoking, the price of a pack of cigarettes has gone up by two dollars. I'm glad I got out while I could.

[the facade]

Blimey - is it? It wasn't intended to be. So - not in the least aggressively - why?

Let's be honest, for some people on this forum, writing trumps family. It is commendable that you were willing to give that up.

[PrimordialBeast]

Smoked for two years, only because nicotine is the ultimate chill pill. Next month will be a year smoke free, and I have noticed this last year has been one of the most irritable I've ever been... but's it's not so bad

[Taliesin]

If I am very drunk, then sometimes yes.
Not while I am sober, though.

[dafydd manton]

Smoked for 30 years, then went cold turkey and gave it up - having spent the equivalent of £48000 in the process. Now, I don't cough, I don't get short of breath, I have more money and food tastes a whole lot better. Oh, and my insurance premiums have reduced.....

[Aragorn Elessar]

I never liked cigars, but I have a pipe of mine which I quite like, the aroma is lovely, why did pipes die out, someone should bring em back.

I agree; cigars and cigarettes don't look very cool. Pipes are the way to go! Although...I don't smoke...

[breathtest]

If I am very drunk, then sometimes yes.
Not while I am sober, though.

there's something about being drunk that makes me seek out cigarettes. the aftertaste in the morning is terrible though.

[Propter W.]

I have never smoked a cigarette. I do smoke weed :yikes:

[Clio08]

Yeah, I smoke incessantly....

[Skia]

Smoking is amazing for getting rid of stress (Which i'm induring almost every day!!)

[dafydd manton]

Actually, that's a myth, Skia. At the School of Aviation Medicine, they conducted tests that showed blood pressure going almost through the roof when you first light up, and then the capacity of the brain actually diminishing. There were also correlations with ability to absorb oxygen at hgih levels, but I wouldn't let that worry you unduly! Just don't fly at 50,000 feet, that's all!

[OrphanPip]

Nicotine reduces anxiety but it actually raises stress in physiological terms. In particular it reduces the anxiety caused by nicotine addiction. ;)

Caffeine has the same anxiety reducing effect, studies actually suggest the pick me up effect of morning coffee is actually just caused by alleviating the symptoms of caffeine withdrawal since we're almost all addicted to the stuff these days.

[hillwalker]

Stress makes you write better poetry (ahem!.

[dafydd manton]

There speaks a man who must be stressed out of his mind, in that case!

[dfloyd]

I am of the age when many of my friends have died from lung cancer as a direct result of smoking. Most of these deaths were pretty horrilble, with one resulting in an internal hemmorage after lung surgery. The patient died, drowning in his own blood. Fortunately, I live in a state that has banned all smoking in public places.

[Jerrybaldy]

I love to smoke. I love it all the more that I cannot tell anyone the pleasure it gives. To a non smoker compare to an orgasm, try to explain the pleasure there and you are in smokers territory when held against a wall by non smokers asking what the hell you get out of it.

[Skia]

actually, that's a myth, Skia. At the School of Aviation Medicine, they conducted tests that showed blood pressure going almost through the roof when you first light up, and then the capacity of the brain actually diminishing.

Well Dafydd! I didn't know that! Must be in my mind because I feel so chilled out when I spark up.

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I also love to smoke too, Jerry, Though I am not proud to admit it. Smoking is a horrid habit. I get paranoid about the state of my teeth (maybe because of the stereotype of British people having horrid teeth or not) and I am worrid about the wrinkles on my face in 30 years or so. Yet still this isn't enough to convince me to quit because I enjoy it...

and I have no idea why...

[RTL]

Successfully avoided the phase of smoking. Have enough problems as it is.


Sorry if this is of topic, but heart disease from unhealthy eating is a greater killer than all smoking associated diseases, yet McDonalds is not forced to put a label on its big mac confections saying, eating this is harmful to health...smoking is bad, but so is a lot of other stuff, which have not gotten nearly as bad a rep as smoking -

I mean a lifestyle of no exercise and excessive eating is just as dangerous as smoking

Avoiding both would be ideal.

[Skia]

:lol: Made me giggle RLT.

[Revolte]

Well Dafydd! I didn't know that! Must be in my mind because I feel so chilled out when I spark up.

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I also love to smoke too, Jerry, Though I am not proud to admit it. Smoking is a horrid habit. I get paranoid about the state of my teeth (maybe because of the stereotype of British people having horrid teeth or not) and I am worrid about the wrinkles on my face in 30 years or so. Yet still this isn't enough to convince me to quit because I enjoy it...

and I have no idea why...

I already got bags under my eyes lol. I smoke like a chimney I really do and I find it hard to do much of anything if I don't have cigarettes, it makes me depressed as hell, even when I'm over the addiction. I'm a class a addict I guess but, I don't care, I could be addicted to worse! lol. Even though I'm worse then a :auto:.

[Skia]

I already got bags under my eyes lol. I smoke like a chimney I really do and I find it hard to do much of anything if I don't have cigarettes, it makes me depressed as hell, even when I'm over the addiction. I'm a class a addict I guess but, I don't care, I could be addicted to worse! lol. Even though I'm worse then a :auto:.

I know tell me about it, Only 18 so maybe got time to quit :)

[Nathan Kelevra]

Unfortunately, I have yet to smoke a single cigarette. However, I'm willing to learn.
I'm all about self-destructive tendencies.

[Silas Thorne]

I only smoke because someone has set fire to my clothing.

[Revolte]

I know tell me about it, Only 18 so maybe got time to quit :)

According to sin city, once a smoker always a smoker. But then again a dead with his head about chopped off said it, not sure if he can be taken seriously. My pop quit smoking well into his 30's.

[Skia]

My sister smoked for 10 years and quit in her late 20's :) I don't think i ever will tbh..

[Triter]

Guilty

[jasminekhder]

While I was and still am a non-smoker, I've tried it once.

I tried the hooka/nargila because I loved the aroma of whatever tobacco flavor that came from it; it absolutely captivates you.

[Cunninglinguist]

Fun Fact: Jeanne Calment, the oldest person to have ever lived, smoked all her life (from the age of 21) and only decided to quit smoking when she was about 117, I believe.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Fun Fact: Jeanne Calment, the oldest person to have ever lived, smoked all her life (from the age of 21) and only decided to quit smoking when she was about 117, I believe.Definitely interesting, and it illustrates that you can get away with smoking, but the odds are not exactly in your favour if you do. This example sounds more like a statistical anomaly.

/Claes

[DarkRaven]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what has this got to do with writing?

Anyway: I used to smoke when I was thirteen or fourteen, but then my older sister caught me and threatened to tell my parents, so I quit. I guess I was never properly addicted? Anyway, it made my already bad asthma worse, so I'm glad I did, and hope I never get addicted again. That said the smell of my friends smoking outside bars and clubs in town, just seems to appetising at times. =/

[xtianfriborg13]

Cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.

[cacian]

I don't smoke. I could smoke if I went out again easily. After few drinks and chats I easily pick up a cigarette.
I only smoke when I go out basically.
When at home or working I do not. I have not smoked now over a year or so.

[miyako73]

I smoke like a chimney. Good ideas come to me as the smoke of my cig goes up.

[manuscript]

at one time earlier in my 20s i smoked 2 packets of cigarettes a day. i could suck one back in a matter of moments without feeling a thing. that seems like a dream now, i dont know how i did it. or why - i had the kind of asthma as a child that ended me up in emergency unable to breathe. i quit by slowly and consistently cutting down and learning to say no. these days a cigarette messes my lungs up for a month. i have regular nightmares that i give in and smoke one. remember, ideas come from thinking, not from inhaling the fumes of burning tobacco.

[Buh4Bee]

I don't smoke any more, but man, do I enjoy a good cigarette from time to time.

[Shevek]

Nicotine reduces anxiety but it actually raises stress in physiological terms. In particular it reduces the anxiety caused by nicotine addiction. ;)

Caffeine has the same anxiety reducing effect, studies actually suggest the pick me up effect of morning coffee is actually just caused by alleviating the symptoms of caffeine withdrawal since we're almost all addicted to the stuff these days.

I used to be addicted to caffeine (via energy drinks), and it was certainly a stress-reliever while I was addicted, but now it just gets me jittery and anxious. It's a similar case with smoking - I don't think I was ever actually addicted, but I don't remember it ever calming me down.

Caffeine used to be wonderful for a while. It did more than relieve stress for me, it actually made me happier and more sociable during the day. It really is a powerful drug, and makes me somewhat concerned about its access (I say "somewhat" only because I enjoyed it so much in my teens).

[JuniperWoolf]

I don't smoke but I like it when men do, especially if they're wearing fingerless gloves at the time. I'm all about aesthetics.

[jajdude]

I smoke. Try to keep it down.

[E.A Rumfield]

According to sin city, once a smoker always a smoker. But then again a dead with his head about chopped off said it, not sure if he can be taken seriously. My pop quit smoking well into his 30's.

Yea but I think when you've smoked for so long then quit a cigarette is always on your mind especially if you were a pack or two pack a day smoker.

[cafolini]

Quiting smoking is the easiest. I have done it many times. ~ Mark Twain

[Mason Pringle]

I did in my first couple years in college, but never frequently. A few cigarettes a year is okay and pleasurable, but the risk of dependence is so high. I lost interest in it before I could get addicted

[xtianfriborg13]

I don't.