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clifclav · 02-24-2004, 09:59 PM

Pretty interesting stuff so far. I was a pack a day from 18 - 23. One day I am driving in the car and I hear someone on the radio describe what emphasyma(sp?) feels like.

Take a full breath and hold it for a couple of seconds.

With that first breath still in your lungs try to take just a normal second breath.

That second breath is what every breath with emphasyma feels like.

I crumpled up my almost full pack of Camels and threw them out the window never to smoke again. I really should try and find out who came up with that example and send them some flowers or something.

floydthebarber · 02-24-2004, 10:29 PM

never have, never would.

02-25-2004, 05:55 AM

I smoke, but a lot less than i used to. I'm at ~10-15 cigarrettes a day. I've thought about giving it up for years, but aww hell. Maybe when i'm 25

CinnamonGirl · 02-25-2004, 06:23 AM

Started smoking my first year of college...maybe a pack a week then. Now it's more like a pack a day. I quit last year for two weeks, but then made the mistake of going out to a bar with friends that smoked--drinking is a major trigger for me.

I don't want to smoke for the rest of my life, but I don't feel any desire to quit right now (despite knowing what's it's doing to me...) The plan is to quit for good once we start trying to have kids.

troit · 02-25-2004, 07:05 AM

Yeah call me an idiot -- never smoked until this past year. Nothing like picking up the habit at 32. Just a reflection of the stress at the time and being surrounded by people who smoke.

aurigus · 02-25-2004, 07:28 AM

Never smoked but I like hanging outside with the people who do. My grandmother dieing of lung cancer was enough to steer me away.

Ripsaw · 02-25-2004, 07:40 AM

Used to. Quit.
In college I was in an apartment with seven other guys. They all smoked. I was then hooked on cloves and Dunhills for about two years.

I've only recently come to the conclusion that every cig makes you die a little bit faster.

wannabenakid247 · 02-25-2004, 11:15 AM

Don't smoke that much if you don't count spliffs lol. Mind you thats what I thought the poll was about at first

ladyadmin · 02-25-2004, 11:38 AM

First, I'd like to extend a congratulations to all who have quit smoking and to all who never picked up the habit.

Been smoke free myself for roughly 14 years. Only smoked 1-2 years.

PredeconInferno · 02-25-2004, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MrFlux
Never smoked in my life - can't stand the smell.

This is why I don't and never will smoke.

I'm sure the fact that I was a competative swimmer helps... but meh.

Also, my mother smoked for a long time... quit for 10 years... came back to it... and quit just this past x-mas (2003)

punx1325 · 02-25-2004, 01:03 PM

I would smoke whenever I got drunk, I finally wised up and quit. The smell is just so bad and it really is addicting. Not to mention it is horrible for you. I know better and lost several relatives to smoking. Occasionally I still want a smoke, but I have and will remain strong.

sipsake · 02-25-2004, 01:13 PM

I smoked from about 18-38 with a two year break in there. Never a heavy smoker. If I started getting up to a pack/day I'd back off a bit. A pack would usually last me about 2 days.

Two weeks ago tomorrow I smoked my last cigarette. Thirteen days, 5 hours and 40 minutes since I quit cold turkey.

It'd been days since I'd had a craving until I started reading this thread.

Bastards.

bookerV · 02-25-2004, 01:16 PM

I've smoked about a half a pack in my entire life. I bought 1 pack in grade 9 and gave 3/4 of it away.

I dont see the point of smoking. It didnt do anything for me physically besides make me smell bad. You dont get drunk or high. Just seems like a colossal waste of money to me. Its throwing your money at an increased chance of heart & lung disease.

i just dont get it...

WarWagon · 02-25-2004, 01:20 PM

Used to smoke regularly, quit, now only smoke when my stress levels are absurdly high. Thats just about Monday-Friday.

sixate · 02-25-2004, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MrFlux
Never smoked in my life - can't stand the smell.

Same here. It's a completely disgusting habit.

grumpyolddude · 02-25-2004, 02:27 PM

13+ years non-smoker. Hell, yeah, I'm proud!

moonstrucksoul · 02-25-2004, 02:33 PM

been smoking for about 11 yrs. been trying to quit for about 10 years.

scrappmittens · 02-25-2004, 02:35 PM

Been smoking since I was 15....cannot quit, tried many a times..

glasscutter43 · 02-25-2004, 05:34 PM

Two years today since I have smoked tobacco.
Two minutes since I have smoked weed.

analog · 02-25-2004, 11:47 PM

I love the taste and smell of a clove cigarette every once in a while, and when i'm drinking. I'll have one in a whole night by itself, or maybe TWO *gasp* if i'm drinking. Not alwasy though, just sometimes.

Of course, then there's the matter of my smoking marijuana... which if i could, would be a few times a week. Not enough to get plowed, just to take the edge off (it kills my anxiety attacks like nothign else, its existence is lifesaving for me).

SecretMethod70 · 02-26-2004, 12:17 AM

Don't smoke, never have smoked, and will never date anyone that smokes.

billege · 02-26-2004, 02:39 AM

I smoke 7-10/day. Every once in a great while I'll smoke a pack in a day, then I can't touch one for the next two days. They do stink, that's the thing that really makes me want to quit.

txd · 02-26-2004, 03:04 AM

I have never even tried smoking, the closest I have come was holding a cigarette for someone while they tied their shoe.

Arachnid · 02-26-2004, 04:58 AM

started smoking at 15 quit at 34 ( 3 years ago )

took brain surgery to do it ...but......

Cheers

majik_6 · 02-26-2004, 05:17 AM

I've been smoking for a over a year now.

I smoke around a pack a day. For anyone that said they couldn't see how someone could smoke that much in a day, it's easier than it seems. I used to think the same thing, but I don't sleep much, I'm only in class for a few hours a day...it adds up.

Eventually, I'll go back to just my cigars (a couple a week), but for right now, I enjoy my cigarettes. I'd love to be cut back a little bit, but it's rough. I can easily go days or even a week without one, but if I don't have a REASON not to smoke, then I'm smoking.

I honestly enjoy it...the taste, the smell (sometimes), the little nicotine buzz first thing in the morning. Plus, as strange as it sounds, there's a certain comradery among smokers (especially in the middle of the winter, standing in the snow just to smoke a damn cigarette).

Fly · 02-26-2004, 05:22 AM

yup..........20 year smoker here.......disgusting habit but the fucker has me by the balls.

now pot...........that's a whole other ballgame.

H12 · 02-26-2004, 09:48 AM

Never smoked, never will. I'm curious to know what it's like, but if it's anything like being around smoke, then it's DEFINATELY not for me.

shalafi · 02-26-2004, 12:40 PM

I never got into cigarettes. I tried them a few times in school and didnt see what the big deal was. Ive been smoking stogies off and on (depending on my finances) since I was 18 and i love em. Maybe its just my body chemistry or something but ive never gotten addicted to them. If i dont have the money i can go months without one and its no big deal. Hell ive got a full humidor right now and i sometimes dont smoke one for a week or 2.

BlueBongo · 02-26-2004, 12:52 PM

I smoke an occasional clove..... never smoked cigs but smoked other things when I was in HS.

taliendo · 02-26-2004, 09:03 PM

I'm going to have to agree with majik_6 and say that I like smoking. I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day and have been pretty regularly since I was 15. I've quit a few times here and there, mostly to show myself that I still could, but right now I have absolutely no desire to stop.

If I want to kill myself then the world should piss off.

*sits back and lights another cigarette

floydthebarber · 02-27-2004, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by sixate
Same here. It's a completely disgusting habit.

I use the word addiction rather than habit.

riptide4070 · 02-27-2004, 03:19 PM

I'm a smoker. I've tried to quit several times over the years. It's my worst vice.

degrawj · 02-28-2004, 04:32 PM

i smoke about a pack a week. i'll do that for a couple months, then i'll quite for a couple months, then i'll start again. sometimes having a cigarette relaxes me, which is why i smoke. i don't plan on smoking for much longer though.

rbox · 02-28-2004, 10:32 PM

Tried smoking when I was younger.. never really got the joy from it so never got addicted or anything.. don't care for smokers now really either

_the_wombat · 02-28-2004, 10:44 PM

Never smoked, never will.

Both my parent's smoked heavily and had serious health problems.
Grandparents too, 2 dead 2 on the way.

Cursive · 02-29-2004, 10:48 AM

Ive tried smoking cigs before, they didn't do anything for me, now i just smoke pot which does alot for me.

RSVR · 02-29-2004, 12:27 PM

I'm 1 year off them after 14 years of 20/30 per day.

Never felt better than I do now

Kaos · 02-29-2004, 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by irseg

I always hear about people going through a pack or more a day, and that's incredible to me. There's more cigs in a pack than waking hours in a day unless you're an insomniac. If you work in a public building you have to step outside, and taking a break every hour or more is frowned upon in most work environments. Which means between work and bed time smoke must be pouring out of your friggin' ears!

I feel the same way...I've smoked for about 11-12 years and I have never smoked more than half a pack a day under normal circumstances (I will have a few more if I'm out drinking)

For as long as I have smoked, I think I would feel ill if I tried to smoke 1-2 packs a day.

I quit once for 4 months. One day I just didn't buy another pack. But for some stupid reason I started again.

Captain Canada · 02-29-2004, 01:44 PM

I used to smoke only when I was drinking. Then....I started smoking all the time, thank you so much girlfriend. Haha.

runawayfetus · 02-29-2004, 03:03 PM

a cig now and then.. im never gonna smoke too much.. ill do evvery drug in existence before i get super addicted to cigz

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02-24-2004, 09:59 PM	#41 (permalink)
clifclav absolute relativist Location: D.C.	Pretty interesting stuff so far. I was a pack a day from 18 - 23. One day I am driving in the car and I hear someone on the radio describe what emphasyma(sp?) feels like. Take a full breath and hold it for a couple of seconds. With that first breath still in your lungs try to take just a normal second breath. That second breath is what every breath with emphasyma feels like. I crumpled up my almost full pack of Camels and threw them out the window never to smoke again. I really should try and find out who came up with that example and send them some flowers or something. __________________ Neither rain , nor cold, nor dark of night shall.......ahh whatever, just get me a beer!

02-24-2004, 10:29 PM	#42 (permalink)
floydthebarber Insane Location: ?	never have, never would. __________________ wish you were here

02-25-2004, 06:23 AM	#44 (permalink)
CinnamonGirl She's Actual Size Location: Central Republic of Where-in-the-Hell	Started smoking my first year of college...maybe a pack a week then. Now it's more like a pack a day. I quit last year for two weeks, but then made the mistake of going out to a bar with friends that smoked--drinking is a major trigger for me. I don't want to smoke for the rest of my life, but I don't feel any desire to quit right now (despite knowing what's it's doing to me...) The plan is to quit for good once we start trying to have kids. __________________ "...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world." "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

02-25-2004, 07:05 AM	#45 (permalink)
troit Transfer Agent Location: NYC	Yeah call me an idiot -- never smoked until this past year. Nothing like picking up the habit at 32. Just a reflection of the stress at the time and being surrounded by people who smoke. __________________ I've yet to dephile myself...

02-25-2004, 05:55 AM	#43 (permalink)
smithja0423 Guest	I smoke, but a lot less than i used to. I'm at ~10-15 cigarrettes a day. I've thought about giving it up for years, but aww hell. Maybe when i'm 25

02-25-2004, 07:28 AM	#46 (permalink)
aurigus Insane	Never smoked but I like hanging outside with the people who do. My grandmother dieing of lung cancer was enough to steer me away.

02-25-2004, 07:40 AM	#47 (permalink)
Ripsaw Chef in Training	Used to. Quit. In college I was in an apartment with seven other guys. They all smoked. I was then hooked on cloves and Dunhills for about two years. I've only recently come to the conclusion that every cig makes you die a little bit faster. __________________ "We are supposed to be masters of space, but we cant even line up our shoes?" One life, one chance, one opportunity.

02-25-2004, 11:15 AM	#48 (permalink)
wannabenakid247 Registered User Location: Wales, UK	Don't smoke that much if you don't count spliffs lol. Mind you thats what I thought the poll was about at first

02-25-2004, 11:38 AM	#49 (permalink)
ladyadmin Insane	First, I'd like to extend a congratulations to all who have quit smoking and to all who never picked up the habit. Been smoke free myself for roughly 14 years. Only smoked 1-2 years. __________________ The Programmers' Cheer Shift to the left, shift to the right! Pop up, push down, byte, byte, byte!

02-25-2004, 01:03 PM	#51 (permalink)
punx1325 Junkie Location: San Diego	I would smoke whenever I got drunk, I finally wised up and quit. The smell is just so bad and it really is addicting. Not to mention it is horrible for you. I know better and lost several relatives to smoking. Occasionally I still want a smoke, but I have and will remain strong. __________________ If something seems too good to be true, then it probably is....

02-25-2004, 01:13 PM	#52 (permalink)
sipsake Psycho Location: Memphis	I smoked from about 18-38 with a two year break in there. Never a heavy smoker. If I started getting up to a pack/day I'd back off a bit. A pack would usually last me about 2 days. Two weeks ago tomorrow I smoked my last cigarette. Thirteen days, 5 hours and 40 minutes since I quit cold turkey. It'd been days since I'd had a craving until I started reading this thread. Bastards. __________________ When life hands you a lemon, say "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?" Henry Rollins Last edited by sipsake; 02-25-2004 at 01:16 PM..

02-25-2004, 01:16 PM	#53 (permalink)
bookerV Addict Location: Ontario, Canada	I've smoked about a half a pack in my entire life. I bought 1 pack in grade 9 and gave 3/4 of it away. I dont see the point of smoking. It didnt do anything for me physically besides make me smell bad. You dont get drunk or high. Just seems like a colossal waste of money to me. Its throwing your money at an increased chance of heart & lung disease. i just dont get it... __________________ "That's why you're the judge and I'm the law-talking guy." Lionel Hutz

02-25-2004, 01:20 PM	#54 (permalink)
WarWagon Loser	Used to smoke regularly, quit, now only smoke when my stress levels are absurdly high. Thats just about Monday-Friday.

02-25-2004, 02:27 PM	#56 (permalink)
grumpyolddude Deliberately unfocused Location: Amazon.com and CDBaby	13+ years non-smoker. Hell, yeah, I'm proud! __________________ "Regret can be a harder pill to swallow than failure .With failure you at least know you gave it a chance..." David Howard

02-25-2004, 02:33 PM	#57 (permalink)
moonstrucksoul hovering in the distance Location: the land of milk and honey	been smoking for about 11 yrs. been trying to quit for about 10 years. __________________ no signature required Last edited by moonstrucksoul; 02-25-2004 at 02:35 PM..

02-25-2004, 02:35 PM	#58 (permalink)
scrappmittens Upright Location: Upstate NY	Been smoking since I was 15....cannot quit, tried many a times..

02-25-2004, 05:34 PM	#59 (permalink)
glasscutter43 Insane Location: Vancouver Island BC	Two years today since I have smoked tobacco. Two minutes since I have smoked weed. __________________ Book 'em Danno

02-25-2004, 11:47 PM	#60 (permalink)
analog Banned	I love the taste and smell of a clove cigarette every once in a while, and when i'm drinking. I'll have one in a whole night by itself, or maybe TWO gasp if i'm drinking. Not alwasy though, just sometimes. Of course, then there's the matter of my smoking marijuana... which if i could, would be a few times a week. Not enough to get plowed, just to take the edge off (it kills my anxiety attacks like nothign else, its existence is lifesaving for me).

02-26-2004, 12:17 AM	#61 (permalink)
SecretMethod70 Human Administrator Location: Chicago	Don't smoke, never have smoked, and will never date anyone that smokes. __________________ Le temps détruit tout "Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

02-26-2004, 02:39 AM	#62 (permalink)
billege Watcher Location: Ohio	I smoke 7-10/day. Every once in a great while I'll smoke a pack in a day, then I can't touch one for the next two days. They do stink, that's the thing that really makes me want to quit. __________________ I can sum up the clash of religion in one sentence: "My Invisible Friend is better than your Invisible Friend."

02-26-2004, 03:04 AM	#63 (permalink)
txd Addict	I have never even tried smoking, the closest I have come was holding a cigarette for someone while they tied their shoe.

02-26-2004, 04:58 AM	#64 (permalink)
Arachnid Crazy Location: Melb - Australia	started smoking at 15 quit at 34 ( 3 years ago ) took brain surgery to do it ...but...... Cheers __________________ -------------------- Cheers

02-26-2004, 05:17 AM	#65 (permalink)
majik_6 narcissist Location: looking in a mirror	I've been smoking for a over a year now. I smoke around a pack a day. For anyone that said they couldn't see how someone could smoke that much in a day, it's easier than it seems. I used to think the same thing, but I don't sleep much, I'm only in class for a few hours a day...it adds up. Eventually, I'll go back to just my cigars (a couple a week), but for right now, I enjoy my cigarettes. I'd love to be cut back a little bit, but it's rough. I can easily go days or even a week without one, but if I don't have a REASON not to smoke, then I'm smoking. I honestly enjoy it...the taste, the smell (sometimes), the little nicotine buzz first thing in the morning. Plus, as strange as it sounds, there's a certain comradery among smokers (especially in the middle of the winter, standing in the snow just to smoke a damn cigarette). __________________ it's all about self-indulgence

02-26-2004, 05:22 AM	#66 (permalink)
Fly see the links to my music? Location: Beautiful British Columbia	yup..........20 year smoker here.......disgusting habit but the fucker has me by the balls. now pot...........that's a whole other ballgame. __________________ BASTARD SterlingStudios

02-26-2004, 09:48 AM	#67 (permalink)
H12 I'm not about getting creamed, I'm about winning! Location: K-Town, TN	Never smoked, never will. I'm curious to know what it's like, but if it's anything like being around smoke, then it's DEFINATELY not for me. __________________ "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle

02-26-2004, 12:40 PM	#68 (permalink)
shalafi ARRRRRRRRRR Location: Stuart, Florida	I never got into cigarettes. I tried them a few times in school and didnt see what the big deal was. Ive been smoking stogies off and on (depending on my finances) since I was 18 and i love em. Maybe its just my body chemistry or something but ive never gotten addicted to them. If i dont have the money i can go months without one and its no big deal. Hell ive got a full humidor right now and i sometimes dont smoke one for a week or 2.

02-26-2004, 09:03 PM	#70 (permalink)
taliendo Insane Location: an indelible crawl through the gutters	I'm going to have to agree with majik_6 and say that I like smoking. I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day and have been pretty regularly since I was 15. I've quit a few times here and there, mostly to show myself that I still could, but right now I have absolutely no desire to stop. If I want to kill myself then the world should piss off. *sits back and lights another cigarette __________________ -LIFE IS ABSURD-

02-27-2004, 03:19 PM	#72 (permalink)
riptide4070 Addict Location: Boone, NC	I'm a smoker. I've tried to quit several times over the years. It's my worst vice. __________________ "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was making the world believe he didn't exist" -Kevin Spacey 'The Usual Suspects'

02-28-2004, 04:32 PM	#73 (permalink)
degrawj I'm still waiting... Location: West Linn, OR	i smoke about a pack a week. i'll do that for a couple months, then i'll quite for a couple months, then i'll start again. sometimes having a cigarette relaxes me, which is why i smoke. i don't plan on smoking for much longer though.

02-28-2004, 10:32 PM	#74 (permalink)
rbox Tilted Location: chicago area	Tried smoking when I was younger.. never really got the joy from it so never got addicted or anything.. don't care for smokers now really either __________________ I do what I like and I like what I do.

02-28-2004, 10:44 PM	#75 (permalink)
_the_wombat Tilted	Never smoked, never will. Both my parent's smoked heavily and had serious health problems. Grandparents too, 2 dead 2 on the way.

02-29-2004, 10:48 AM	#76 (permalink)
Cursive Tilted	Ive tried smoking cigs before, they didn't do anything for me, now i just smoke pot which does alot for me. __________________ Never trust anything that bleeds for 6 days and doesn't die

02-29-2004, 12:27 PM	#77 (permalink)
RSVR Upright Location: Hertford UK	I'm 1 year off them after 14 years of 20/30 per day. Never felt better than I do now __________________ RSVR - Welcome to the darkside

02-29-2004, 01:44 PM	#79 (permalink)
Captain Canada Addict Location: University of North Carolina at Greensboro	I used to smoke only when I was drinking. Then....I started smoking all the time, thank you so much girlfriend. Haha. __________________ Conclusion: Flamethrowers and Furries go togerther like Pol Pot and the Cambodian populace.