Do you smoke?

Do you smoke?

  • Never, except for maybe the occasional try

    Votes: 287 50.8%

  • Seldom or never

    Votes: 83 14.7%

  • Occasionally or socially

    Votes: 69 12.2%

  • Regularly, no intention of quitting

    Votes: 54 9.6%

  • Regularly, tried to quit or relapsed

    Votes: 27 4.8%

  • Regularly, sure would like to quit

    Votes: 45 8.0%
  • Total voters
    565
I used to work where a lot of people smoked. All or the computers and optical equipment were covered with a yellow film. Because I was the "new" guy, it was my job to clean the equipment. I can remember throwing away a few telephones that were just too nasty to keep. And this was in a hospital!
 
I've tried to quit, (between work and school) when life was mellow and relaxing, I didn't have a problem. When I started dealing with pressure and stress next thing i know I'm smoking again. It's been challenging.
 
I smoked for four years, but then I quit. Suddendly, with no anticipation. Just a "happy moment", like an epiphany. Anyway, now it has been several years and I never been tempted to go back. I somtimes smoke a fine cigar, or a good weed. But as for cigarettes....never.
 
Cigarettes- Never, don't see the appeal.
Cigar- Very occasionally, only if I might buy a good one.
Cannabis- Socially. If it's there, and it's people I trust not to have something laced on it, then it's all good fun.

pachuco said:
Living in the Oregon gives me better things to smoke.........like salmon! What did you think I was going to say?? 😉
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We do have some spectacular Salmon!
 
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I have seen probability charts of lung cancer risk plotted against the variable: how many years ago you stopped smoking.

It does make a difference if you ever smoked before or not and when you quit smoking.
 
I smoked in my 20s and then gave up cold turkey when I hit about age 31. Never missed them. Then when I was about 45 I had a big relationship bust up and started again. Also started drinking, staying up late and going out chasing wild women. Well for a couple of years. Then I found someone, settled down again and went cold turkey again. On all of the above by the way. Never missed any of them and still don't.
 
I was the only one in my family that did not smoke, period. I never saw the attraction to tobacco. My brother smoked through through his undergraduate degree and his MBA and quit when he met his wife (she quit smoking too that same weekend).

My parents smoked since their teens both quitting in 2002 cold turkey on a trip to New Zealand. Unfortunately it was too late for my dad, he passed on two years ago at 67 from an agressive small cell lung cancer that mastasized in his liver, it is two months of my life I don't want to re-live.

I have no idea what the health implications inhaling second hand smoke from toddler to my early twenties especially on those long road trips.
 
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I don't. Sure I have in the past, but haven't touch a cigarette or otherwise in the past 7 years.

Never did like cigarettes though. In highschool I had a strict rule against smoking in my car. I just hated the smell and it messed with my allergies, too. If I was gonna give someone a ride, I said, "No smoking before or after I give you a ride. Because you stink more than you know after you smoke. And if I drive you someplace, I may have to drive you back afterwards, so no smoking wherever we are going." They hated it, but screw them. My car, my rules. LOL Kill yourself on your own time.
 
Ash said:
I've never smoked, and as far as I am aware at my current age and disposition, I never will.

My father used to smoke. My mother still does, several stress-related relapses I guess. Many friends smoke. A few ex-girlfriends smoke also.

I don't mind the smell of a cigar from across the room, something not too bad. Cigarettes will never smell nice. Nor will the taste of a kiss from somebody who smokes them.
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"Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray."

That's really all I ever needed to know.


- Barrett
 
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