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i smoke like a fish. i also quit all the time, sometimes for months at a time. i don't smoke inside my apartment now, forcing myself out onto the fire escape in the hopes that i will freeze myself out of the habit.

Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:56 (twenty years ago) link

I've smoked for 15 or so years. I've quit twice (once in high school for a year and a half or so, once last year for nine months). I'll smoke whatevers handy, but I've been tending towards lights lately. I probably smoke a pack and a half at most these days (a lot less than I was smoking last year at this time) but the most I've ever smoked was up near three packs a day (which I don't recommend doing.) I'm gonna smoke right now (THANKS A LOT FOR REMINDING ME TO, HARVELL YOU FUCKER) and smoking is a turn on when I am smoking and a complete turn off when I am quitting.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:32 (twenty years ago) link

I had a cigarette in the shower once

Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:47 (twenty years ago) link

i tried but it was unsuccessful. in the bath is v enjoyable tho

the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:52 (twenty years ago) link

a pack of marlboro reds a day. tried to quit 2 mths ago, but i didn't succeed.

Chimney (llamasfur), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:54 (twenty years ago) link

I dont understand how one can get thru 3 pax a day with a job. COuld you smoke on the job? Did you take smokos every half an hour?

I chain-smoke of an evening sometimes (I never smoke during the day) and even then I'd never get thru more than 1 1/2 pax. Mind you this is pax of 30.

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 06:37 (twenty years ago) link

So at an old temp job (in Missouri for MONSANTO of all people) I had there was this guy who smoked something like 5 packs a day (and he LOOKED it too). Anyway, this guy had some pretty important job and he was a real whiz about it to, so there was no question about not wanting him to continue working there, but APPARENTLY he could not go like maybe 10 minutes without having a cigarette. He would literally leave 4 or 5 times during the many hour long meetings that he had to have throughout the day. It finally got so silly that the company actually moved his office into the SMOKING lounge and he apparently conference called into every meeting he had to attend.

Anyway, in answer to how I smoked that much: You are in school. You don't sleep much. You take lots of breaks at work (I was very close to a quite exit.) Everyone you know smokes and you chain-smoke all the time. Then laws pass and suddenly you can't smoke ANYWHERE near a building or in a bar or in a club or in most cafes and suddenly everyone cuts way down.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 06:57 (twenty years ago) link

smoking is so gross...i don't know how i avoided taking it up myself, of course i do every other gross thing there is...man the other day i was sleeping in someone's bed who smokes & stuff & the bed stank, really horrible, & was full of tobacco crumbs & ash & like i got up to go to the can & there was a cigarette butt stuck to my ass!

outlawed electrical & thermal waepons (doorag), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:04 (twenty years ago) link

a cigarette ass stuck to my butt

outlawed electrical & thermal weapons (doorag), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:15 (twenty years ago) link

I like the way cigs taste and the smell doesn't usually offend me.

Smokers themselves can be obnoxious. Nonsmokers can be obnoxious too. I smoke sometimes but I'm not obnoxious about it.

ethereal cereal (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:27 (twenty years ago) link

duane i think you should take it up i really do

the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

at least for a day or two anyways

the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 08:19 (twenty years ago) link

On and off for four years up until this June, but even at my most habitual (senior year of college), it was no more than like five cigarettes a day. When I started, I smoked Benson & Hedges Ultra Light 100 Menthols (!), because, uh, that's what my girlfriend smoked. Then I switched to Parliament Lights; they seemed like a solid brand without being as ubiquitous (and thus lame) as Camel or Marlboro. Also, I always had a soft spot for Parliaments, even before I started smoking, since I read they were Christina Ricci's brand of choice. After that, I smoked American Spirit Lights, happy to support the independent tobacco companies until someone told me that Philip Morris owned them, too. Whatever. I gave up because I was having weird heartbeat problems, and I wanted to play it safe (I also gave up caffeine). Ultimately, not that big of a deal -- it was never a huge part of my life. But man, there are definitely times I'd like one. Even if it's just to take a break and go outside with someone. I love smoke-break conversations.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 08:32 (twenty years ago) link

I quit two years ago, but I'm still all in favour of it, and still like it, so I pinch one off friends now and then. I really enjoy those cigarettes, and I am feeling HUGELY stressed right now (house purchase problems) and feel tempted to buy my first pack since 2001.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:37 (twenty years ago) link

I dont understand how one can get thru 3 pax a day with a job. COuld you smoke on the job? Did you take smokos every half an hour?

I smoked a lot when I was a cook at a really gross restaurant. I felt like a big badass stirring the vat of spinach-and-artichoke crud with my arm while smoking a cigarette with my non-dipped hand. Also see: smoking while playing pool and smoking while changing a tire.

adam (adam), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:05 (twenty years ago) link

20 a day weekends/fridays, about 5 otherwise unless i'm out (rare except the kino).

enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

Smoking during sex is great too, although it renders powerless the expression, "There's smoke comin' outta ya now, baby!"

Dancing Queen, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:07 (twenty years ago) link

thee only thing smellier than a smoker's car (w/r/.t whoever mentioined this upthread) is a dog-owners car.

I don't smoke, but occasionally am tempted to buy a lump ov h4sh, and stick it up my bum*


*(I'm not really)

Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:12 (twenty years ago) link

I've never smoked regularly ever, but once that 2nd or 3rd beverage settles in me belly, Nick sheds the secret identity to become Captain BumASmoke. If you bum me an American Spirit I'll be your best friend for life.

I'm a little (okay, A LOT) ashamed of this, but earlier this summer I attempted to start smoking cigs semi-regularly because I wanted to raspy-ize my singing voice. I think it may have worked...only now, if I want to hold a note out for more than like 5 measures, I'm fucked.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

Day 29 of no-smoke new world.

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

Good going Mr Mann - keep with it.

Hey ho. Right now I'm all over rollups of the Drum Light variety, with rolled rizla card filters, of which I smoke 5 a day normally, though this shoots through the stratosphere on nights out and weekends. I walk the path of the tramp for various corpor-ideological reasons, among them the fact that the smoke lasts longer (so theoretically I smoke less), they’re less convenient to smoke (so theoretically I smoke less), and they rip a hole in my throat of I over indulge (so theoretically I smoke less). I got well into menthol filters a month or so back but realised that they made smoking too easy so I junked them again. I do mix it up with straights every now and then, and go for Gauloises Blondes Reds first, or Lucky Lights and at a push Silk Sluts but I only do straights for like a week before reverting back to the finger-stainers. I want to give up badly but I seem to only be able to manage two months and then my brain starts pulling all sorts of dirty tricks on me, convincing me that I’ve beaten the habit; "so have a cigarette to celebrate" it whispers like a fucko. The best bit is that I always listen.

Alex K (Alex K), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

i smoke about 1/2 to 2/3 of a pack a day. if i'm drunk, i'm capable of smoking a pack and a half in a night. i smoke camel lights, but my all-time favorite is chesterfield lights which are unavailalbe in nyc. i've smoked for about 10 years, and i stopped once for six weeks. it was going really well, then my friend died and that was the end of it.

lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

also i've been smoking on and off since i was 12 (!) which makes it 13 years now (!!). i have quit, but never for very long. (no longer than six months for sure.)

haha jess stop being me already.

Allyzay, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

haha i just woke up and put one in before i even found my underpants. this is not good.

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

I still pine for one with my morning coffee

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

I poop too much.

Labia, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

1 pack a day, unless drinking then 2-3. Parliament lights.

Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link

haha i just woke up and put one in before i even found my underpants. this is not good.

put one in....

Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

nicotine by suppository

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

i think they forget "stupidity" on those warning labels

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link

haha i just woke up and put one in before i even found my underpants. this is not good.

Yeah I do that too.

And yeah, I think they are right about the mouth thing, my mouth has been hurting lately.

Allyzay, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

I smoke about 1/2 a pack a day of Kentucky's Best. It's a brand put out by a farmer's coop that's just north of where I live. No chemicals, good smoke, supports local farmers and not tobacco conglomerates, and only $1.79 a pack!

I tried to quit for the first time a couple of months ago, because my then-girlfriend was quitting. It was an act of solidarity that ultimately lead to us breaking up. The tipping point was the severe crankiness.

I like smoking, but imagine I'll stop when I move away from Kentucky into an area where it's not socially mandatory.

Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

I used to smoke about 20 a day & more at the w/e's. I quit about 4 or 5 years ago though which i am so grateful for now. I do miss it still though occassionally. J used to smoke which never used to bother me, but he has been given up for 11 months now.

Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

packs in the US are only 20, right? in Canada, they're 25. That's right. TwentyFIVE!
Hardcore.

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

a pack? do you mean carton?

Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

20 cigs to a pack, I mean

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

i had my first smoke after Reagan was shot. the whole family was crowded around the television. i snuck out back and fired up one of my monms Benson and hedges. i love to smoke. i quit sometimes for a few months or so. i do not smoke in bed or around other people. whick means i basically smoke in trees and in my house
if you want to get to know me, it helps if you are a smoker (this has been told to me before, but i think its a big lie)

kephm, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

I used to have a reputation for getting people who had quit smoking to start up again, because I enjoyed it so much and I looked so fucking cool.

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

I remember when I was living at home (about 16) & there was a big argument in my house & i went in the garden and had a sneaky ciggie.

Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

i remember when I had a lit cigarette in my mouth and I inhaled, and then I felt really good.

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

Stop it now!

Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

third link should have read

Category: Shopping > Health > Substance Abuse > Smoking Cessation

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

I saw an infomercial selling a software to quit smoking. It was quite ingenious, somesort of a schedule to gradually increase the time between each cigarettes til one quits. Anyone know the name of this thing? Smoking kills too much! A software like this have to be available under a GNU General Public License

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

could you please fuck off to one of those threads you just linked. k, thnx.

fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:55 (twenty years ago) link

I said what had to say: smoking is a turn off. thank you and good bye.

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link

snap! i will never get the fucking again!!!

kephm, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

five years pass...

Nah, half or 2/3 of a pack/day and then once a week the two pack (and some extras) binge.

papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 13 April 2024 21:06 (two weeks ago) link

Trying a Parliament after smoking American Spirits for 3 years was a bigger taste shock than trying an American Spirit after not smoking for a year. Absolutely rancid, like I imagine smoking a cigarette dipped in embalming fluid would taste.

papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 13 April 2024 21:08 (two weeks ago) link

I quit over Christmas and backslid in Feb. Between my uncle dying of throat cancer last week and visiting my very-infirm father this weekend, I am utterly done with them. (It’s been 36 hours only but that’s great for me.)

banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 13 April 2024 21:16 (two weeks ago) link

4 years clean in june, and over a year now since they took out the lung. doing pretty good!

Clay, Saturday, 13 April 2024 21:28 (two weeks ago) link

That's awesome Clay.

This July will be 12 years for me.

The best thing is my friend who I never thought would quit has for 6 months now and seems happy with the decision.

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Saturday, 13 April 2024 21:58 (two weeks ago) link

I quit when GWB was president, have probably had 6 cigarettes since? but the last time I smoked was a Marlboro Red after a particular intense group therapy session about 10 years ago. These days the smell of nonmenthol cigarette smoke is rather triggering for me, it makes me think how dumb and irresponsible I was as a young adult.

brimstead, Saturday, 13 April 2024 23:15 (two weeks ago) link

I don’t keep them around but I will still have one on occasion. I think of them like cupcakes— I don’t buy myself a cupcake or like gooey muffin treat more than a few times a year, but when I do it is because I want that particular indulgence

butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 13 April 2024 23:38 (two weeks ago) link

26 years for me in August. Which makes me feel quite old!

I currently have an older client for whom I am trying to find senior housing that accepts smokers. They appear to be nonexistent. Anyone still smoking, try to quit before you are 80 something and in need of assisted living.

mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 14 April 2024 00:05 (two weeks ago) link

the problem I've got is I only smoke when I'm drinking so even the doctor is surprised about how much I don't smoke and I assume they double or triple what I tell them like they do with booze. they were like oh really? that's probably not significant and I wasn't lying.

so smoking doesn't actually really cost me any significant amount of money or give me any health problems.

I should quit anyway because it seems like my family has two options - you die in your 50s or your 90s.

on the other hand I am beset by nihilism and often don't care if I die because what's the fucking point anyway so maybe I should just keep smoking, especially because I don't really spend that much money on it and if it does give me cancer, tbh I'd probably be ok with it. there's fuck all point being alive anyway. I've seen my wife go through it. Probably better than getting old and getting dementia or something tbh.

Colonel Poo, Sunday, 14 April 2024 05:19 (two weeks ago) link

the problem I've got is I only smoke when I'm drinking so even the doctor is surprised about how much I don't smoke and I assume they double or triple what I tell them like they do with booze. they were like oh really? that's probably not significant and I wasn't lying.

so smoking doesn't actually really cost me any significant amount of money or give me any health problems.

This is me exactly.

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2024 09:16 (two weeks ago) link

oh i shd stop doing everything i enjoy

Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 April 2024 09:44 (two weeks ago) link

I’m on chantix again

Heez, Sunday, 14 April 2024 11:50 (two weeks ago) link

don't know how people can maintain this kind of iron discipline one-cig-a-day regime. When I'm fiending for nicotine it's impossible to concentrate on anything, my vision goes all fucked up and I become extremely heightened and irritable. I feel like quitting vaping now. I bought some 25mg nicotine patches, but am struggling to get myself in a serious and intentful fucking off nicotine altogether frame of mind.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 14 April 2024 12:02 (two weeks ago) link

Until 2013 I smoked two a day, with the morning cigarette the only one not dependent on booze. I vowed to cut it the moment I got a cold -- which I promptly did a week later.

I smoked two last night because I drank and smoked a bit of pot.

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2024 12:11 (two weeks ago) link

I had a one cigarette a day phase last year, but it doesn't really count because I was additionally vaping.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 14 April 2024 12:18 (two weeks ago) link

the ability to be able to enjoy one glass of wine or maybe a bit more, but a moderate and sensible snifter of booze, one cigarette - then savour the moment until you do it again the next day. I'll never have it.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 14 April 2024 12:29 (two weeks ago) link

do you do this daily?

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 April 2024 12:42 (two weeks ago) link

ugh sorry for being edgy

Colonel Poo, Sunday, 14 April 2024 12:47 (two weeks ago) link

xp

I wish I could, but I tend to finish off a bottle of wine if I open it and vape quite heavily throughout the day. But I have managed to possess the discipline to not drink until after 8 pm. That's a slight improvement.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 14 April 2024 12:47 (two weeks ago) link


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