Smoking

[sat8997]

Jamie you need an option in your poll that says 'I did, but I quit...repeatedly.'

 

I started smoking when I was 14 and I quit about three months ago.

 

(<------ points left - do the math yourself)

 

This is the eighth or nineth time I've quit over the years. I will admit to cheating a few times, but the three or four I might smoke in a week is much better than the pack a day I was smoking. I just take it one day at a time so I guess we'll see how long I make it this time.

 

Sharon

[Benji]

Jamie you need an option in your poll that says 'I did, but I quit...repeatedly.'

 

I started smoking when I was 14 and I quit about three months ago.

 

(<------ points left - do the math yourself)

 

This is the eighth or nineth time I've quit over the years. I will admit to cheating a few times, but the three or four I might smoke in a week is much better than the pack a day I was smoking. I just take it one day at a time so I guess we'll see how long I make it this time.

 

Sharon

 

 

............You might even want to add in that 'option' "what's the longest you quit for"

[AFriendlyFace]

I don't smoke.

 

About once maybe every 6 or 7 months I'll have one or two when I'm really drunk just for kicks, but I've done that maybe 5 or 6 times in my entire life so you're looking at about 10-12 cigarettes EVER. The last time was about 2 maybe 3 months ago and I really don't see myself wanting to do it again for at least another 3 or 4 months, perhaps never.

 

I always feel like crud the next day. Like I can feel something icky in my lungs, and it doesn't go away for awhile. So unlike 99% of the other things I do I actually regret it on the rare occasions that I do it. I'm big about not doing things I know I'll regret. My philosophy has always been, "get over it, or don't do it". So most everything else I do, even if it isn't really a 'good idea', I have no regrets about. I don't see not regretting the way smoking makes me feel, and I really don't enjoy it except as a really random drunken (come to think of it I've never done it sober) whim, so I certainly don't see myself ever becoming a smoker.

 

 

The real reason I'm making this thread is not only just as a poll for a bit of interesting discussion, but so that I have a concrete reminder of accountability.

That's a very wise strategy

 

I just had my birthday a month ago.

 

Somewhere in April last year I took up the habit because I was in a very shitty situation with the boyfriend. When I was at a gas station paying for the gas, I noticed the cigarettes and told them to give me a pack.

I'm kinda disappointed now, because that means I already "knew" you when you started. I always find it more disappointing when people take up smoking after I've met them than if I just meet them already as smokers.

 

Also, man, if I were your boyfriend you'd have had to quit by now or I'd have gone crazy from the guilt. I would find it almost unbearable if I were responsible for someone I love taking up such a habit.

 

Take care all and have a great day

Kevin

[Jack Frost]

The attempt to put me on a guilt trip won't work because I'll use your smoking experience against you. 10-12 ciggies or 40 packs in your life, I'll find a way to use that against you to shut you up. Be warned. Same for my boyfriend. He did that when he was a teenager. f**K...even last month he told me he needed a cigarette. I so didn't see that coming and I managed to resist not taking out a pack out of my bag for him. He still doesn't know and it's bad enough for one of us to do it. If I have him doing that...damn, when I will be ready to quit, it'd be much harder to do so when I see him smoking. hehe

 

Plus, you wouldn't survive as my boyfriend to begin with. I'm so difficult to handle and I'm quite amazed my current and only one still managed to handle me well after five years of all of the shit he put up with.

[Tarin]

My mom smokes cigarettes.

My dad smokes cigars very rarely (but still sometimes).

 

I will never.

It doesn't make sense to me. It is ugly, dirty, suicidal and expensive.

 

Congrats to all of you who have quit. It is a hard and long road. You are very strong.

[NaperVic]

I've lost almost forty pounds, and my primary reason for doing it was my health. Mental health, primarily, lol, but physical health was a big motive as well. I can't justify smoking when I'm working to lose weight and build muscle in order to make myself healthy.

 

Congrats on losing the weight Jamie! Although I can't imagine where you lost 40 from. Your older picks don't show you carrying that much extra.

 

Good luck on quiting smoking . Just like with you losing weight and getting healthier, your will power is going to get you through this. It's all you

 

Take Care®,

 

Vic

[BeaStKid]

I used to smoke, quite regularly...But I quit a long time back as well...Haven't touched a sig for more than 2.5 years...

 

BeaStKid

[moonwolf]

I used to smoke, quite regularly...But I quit a long time back as well...Haven't touched a sig for more than 2.5 years...

 

BeaStKid

 

For some reason you and smoking even in the past doesn't seem to fit... Glad to know you stopped

 

Jason aka Moonwolf

[PatrickOBrien]

I started smoking when I was 19. I worked with a guy who was a chain smoker, and I'd go on smoke breaks with him. Then I watched my best friend's mom die of lung cancer. I couldn't do it anymore after that. I haven't had a cigarette in over two years now. :]

 

^_~

[Tiger]

I started smoking when I was 19. I worked with a guy who was a chain smoker, and I'd go on smoke breaks with him. Then I watched my best friend's mom die of lung cancer. I couldn't do it anymore after that. I haven't had a cigarette in over two years now. :]

 

^_~

I'm glad you were able to give up the habit. I was stubborn. It took me 10 years. That is a lot of cigarettes. I don't even want to know how many cigs I have smoked. It's literally thousands.

[Razor]

...........................okay, let's try that again.....

[BeaStKid]

For some reason you and smoking even in the past doesn't seem to fit... Glad to know you stopped

 

Jason aka Moonwolf

As a matter of fact, I was quite into smoking and a few other things as well... I was fortunate enough to get my head outta them in time.

 

 

BeaStKid

[PatrickOBrien]

...........................okay, let's try that again.....

 

Okay, try this!

 

Associate smoking a cigarette with the grossest thing you can think of, and EVERY time you get the urge, it'll pop into your head. Something really nasty that you don't want to think about. Something like Paris Hilton's soggy and disease-a-liscious panties.

 

^_~

[Tiger]

Okay, try this!

 

Associate smoking a cigarette with the grossest thing you can think of, and EVERY time you get the urge, it'll pop into your head. Something really nasty that you don't want to think about. Something like Paris Hilton's soggy and disease-a-liscious panties.

 

^_~

Omg, that's disgusting. Seriously, I can't stand Paris Hilton, so associated cigs with her is enough to make them extremely unappealing.

[Benji]

As a matter of fact, I was quite into smoking and a few other things as well... I was fortunate enough to get my head outta them in time.

 

 

BeaStKid

 

 

...........You smoked!!!!

[Jack Frost]

Four and half weeks and I'll be savouring my favorite US brand...

 

Ah mint-flavored Newport...

 

I should get a car this fall so I can drive 40 miles to the border to get a carton of Newport to live on per month.

[FrenchCanadian]

Four and half weeks and I'll be savouring my favorite US brand...

 

Ah mint-flavored Newport...

 

I should get a car this fall so I can drive 40 miles to the border to get a carton of Newport to live on per month.

[scoopny]

Four and half weeks and I'll be savouring my favorite US brand...

 

Ah mint-flavored Newport...

 

I should get a car this fall so I can drive 40 miles to the border to get a carton of Newport to live on per month.

[FrenchCanadian]

Are cigarettes that much cheaper in Canada? Because I know in New York they're thinking of raising the cigarette taxes again. Unless I guess you are going to some Native American reservation in New York state, which doesn't pay state taxes I guess. But that seems a lot of work for cigarettes, .

 

On the contrary, they are more expensive,,, (tho I guess that was a lapsus) there's a good tax on it here in quebec. They're always raising taxes for cigarettes and alcohol

Edited April 8, 2008 by FrenchCanadian

[Krista]

I've never smoked. I think I'm slightly allergic to the smoke anyway. I know I am affected when I go to parties and the rooms are filled with smoke long after I left.

[Myr]

I'm allergic to cigarette smoke. It gives me a nasty migraine fairly quickly. This, in turn, gives me some homicidal urges. (You don't want to be around when I have those)

 

Needless to say, I spend very little time around people that smoke. Even the smoke-smell that clings to clothes will trigger it on me. (just slower than actually being around the smoking)

 

Congratulations on quitting! My grandfather died at age 51 largely because of his smoking.

[FrenchCanadian]

I've never smoked. I think I'm slightly allergic to the smoke anyway. I know I am affected when I go to parties and the rooms are filled with smoke long after I left.

 

Me it's simple, when I'm in a place where people smoke, after a while my eyes will get itchy. Without saying that I get more headache when I'm in smoking places, I'll say that they come more easily. Finally, the most annoying is that after all my clothes smells like smoke

[moonwolf]

Price to smoke a pack of 25 the popular brand 8.50$ minimum it can go around 10$ even 11$ in Quebec

 

As for the cheaper brands it goes from 6.40$ to 7$

 

that's just one more reason as for why I'll be quitting on July 1 (for those of you that are thinking why not quit now??, the answer is simple my bro will not stop smoking so for now it's best if i wait till then, that way I can accomplish this feat)

 

Jason aka Moonwolf

[S.L. Lewis]

I want a ciggy now....

I have discovered that ciggerate smoke will now aggitate my allergies now though. It sucks and it makes it hard to hang out with out with others.

[scoopny]

On the contrary, they are more expensive,,, (tho I guess that was a lapsus) there's a good tax on it here in quebec. They're always raising taxes for cigarettes and alcohol

 

 

Yeah oops I meant more expensive not cheaper. Yeah I had no idea they were that pricey. Yeah they keep raising the taxes in New York as well, I think they want to raise it in New York to at least $8.50 or $9 a pack.