smokers and former smokers (serious smokers) of CFC.

[scherbchen]

How does this thread not exist already?

This thread is for all former and current heavy smokers of nikotine in all its forms. cigarettes, cigars, waterpipes (this can not be the right word... the turks use elaborate pipes to watercool their tobacco smoke. "Wasserpfeiffen" in German), pipes, even patches.

Are you or were you a heavy smoker of the toasted goodness? If you are a tabaccoo virgin or merely bummed one off of a friend for a year every time you had your pints you do not qualify (although your votes of "It does not really bother me if somebody lights up next to me" are welcome). If you did quit: how did you do it? why did you do it? If you did not quit: why didn't you? would you like to?

Fair's fair and I'll start.

started smoking in my early twenties even though I was kinda proud to have escpaped peer pressure all the way through high school and beyond . of course a woman turned me. would like to quit only in order to save money. money not being an issue I would like to quit come 40 for health reasons.

 

[warpus]

I have only smoked 5 cigarettes in my life. (and all 5 times it was a hot girl convincing me to smoke 1 while I was drunk) Never got into it, cause.. what.. I'm supposed to smoke to look cool? And this stuff doesn't even get you high?

In short, I saw past all the BS early on.

 

[Kozmos]

Meh I usually smoke one pack and that's on the weekends. I use it as a relaxant. Though apparently I'm not normal, according to everyone else I should be hooked like the rest and smoking all week.

 

[holy king]

startet at 15 and currently i smoke blue drum tobacco without filters. plenty. yeah, i'm gonna die...

 

[Bill3000]

I don't see how anyone can be so monstrously stupid as to start smoking in this day and age.

 

[CaptainF]

Never smoke the brown stuff...whether it be brown tobacco or brown weed.

 

[Ecofarm]

I don't see how anyone can be so monstrously stupid as to start smoking in this day and age.

I was on guard duty (~1992) in the middle of the night, again. We had another week in the field and we were out of dry uniforms (we'd been in the bush for three weeks already). It was freezing temp. I was tired and cold. I tried one and it helped. Later, I tried one when I was drinking at a bar (a few times). Later again, I bought my own pack.

Now I need to quit, the morning hacking is too much.

ps. I'm not vegan for health reasons, at least not primarily (although losing my extra 60 lbs, 10 years ago, was nice - and they are never coming back).

 

[Kozmos]

It builds character Anyway cherry flavoured tobacco also works wonders for relaxing.

 

[holy king]

mhm, i prefer apple flavour slightly though...

 

[Harbringer]

We didnt have beer in the army we had cigarettes, but I quit shortly after I got out, I tried smoking once in hi school before that to help "study out guns" when we were shooting, of course it didn't help at all we were just a bunch of dumb teenagers trying to act like hard asses and show of how much macgyver we had in our blood, thinking outside the box and all that macho ism survival bull that adolescents get tuned into. Ive smoked a few since I quit for no real reason but random cravings but not enough to be a habit or anything serious.

 

[kaos429]

One pack (25's) lasts me two days...that's good enough for me.

I have quit 3 times, each longer than the last. The last time I quit was New Year's 2004, and that lasted into May, when I broke down, drunk as hell, after a hockey game. My team won, so I deserved it. Ahh the memories of the Red Mile that year...but I digress.

Anyone else have the urge to light up while reading this?

 

[Sofista]

Started at 20 with cigarritos, moved to national cigars, interspersed with the occasional pipe, usually some English mix (Dunhill 965 being the favorite).

 

[CaptainF]

Anyone else have the urge to light up while reading this?

I think I will act on said urges.

 

[philippe]

i smoke a pack in two days or less and i roll ciggarettes too with this tobacco:

 

[CaptainF]

That's one thing I wish I knew how to do as a smoker, roll a nice tight ciggarette. I'm getting better but they still aren't that good.

 

[illram]

I smoked around pack a day, sometimes more sometimes less, for about 6 years.

My grandma had been trying to get me to quit for a long time. Around 2002, she eventually got sick with lung cancer (not from smoking, strangely) and I finally was able to quit about a month or two before before she died. I got a bad throat infection one week, didn't smoke a cig for about 4 days straight for the first time in forever, and decided that was my best chance to stop. So I stopped cold turkey. I chewed a crapload of nicotine gum and smoked a lot of joints rolled with THC-less weed trim to get over the psychological hump of wanting to constantly go through the act of smoking, which is almost as bad as the addiction to the nicotine itself.

I still smoke the occasional cigar but never will smoke another cigarette, ever. Can't do it.

 

[Neomega]

smoked on and off for 10 years. Quit about 3 years ago.

Cold turkey. My advice is always this:

There will be mornings you wake up, feeling like crap, your mouth dry and nasty, your body kind of sickly feeling, where a cigarette does not sound all that great, but required. Those are the mornings you can say, "how about I skip my morning cigarette?" Then you can count the 8 hours of sleep as 8 hours without smoking.

The other thing is you must, in your mind, admit, you can NEVER smoke a SINGLE cigarette again, EVER. If you cannot bear that thought, you are not ready to quit.



And I don't mind smokers at all, or kissing girls that smoke, but I still get urges.

 

[philippe]

i know what ya mean, I qsuit smoking for almost an year and i got in an relationship with a girl who smokes, and so i got hooked again.

 

[REDY]

I smoke less than 10 cigarettes per day, one time in week water pipe, sometimes cigar (I still can smoke cigars).

I tried give up, ussually until another pub. I want seriously try on my 23th birthday (2 November).

 

[emzie]

A pack (25) will last me 2 weeks. So I guess I'm not a serious smoker.