Poll
Question:
Are you a smoker?
Option 1: Yes, I'm a regular smoker
votes: 15
Option 2: Yes, I smoke sporadically
votes: 4
Option 3: Yes, but I'm currently making a serious effort to quit
votes: 1
Option 4: No, but I used to be
votes: 8
Option 5: No, never picked up the habit
votes: 31
I've had cigarettes on maybe half a dozen different occasions throughout the years. If somebody offered me one right now I'd consider it. But luckily never got into it.
One to two cigs a year.
...So no.
Never smoked a filtered cigarette, but have smoked tobacco along with other stuff.
Nope. Never tried.
I'm a regular smoker....in that I have two-three cigars a year.
Quit smoking on Labour Day 2008. :)
It occurs to me that smart people would not be inclined to pick up the dirty habit.
I smoked for around 19 years, probably averaged about half a pack a day over that time, maybe more. I quit just over 3 years ago. The last couple of years I smoked I absolutely hated it and quit for multiple months at least 3 times. The last one finally took. I do occasionally think a smoke sounds good but never anywhere near actually doing it again.
Quote from: Zeus on May 10, 2011, 09:45:54 PM
It occurs to me that smart people would not be inclined to pick up the dirty habit.
What's fun that isn't?
Only a handful in a typical year and so far none in '11, so never formed the habit.
Quote from: garbon on May 10, 2011, 09:54:17 PM
Quote from: Zeus on May 10, 2011, 09:45:54 PM
It occurs to me that smart people would not be inclined to pick up the dirty habit.
What's fun that isn't?
Fair enough.
Like the esteemed Admiral Yi, I smoke Winstons. :smoke:
Started around 15 off and on, started buying packs around 16-17, really got going around 18-19, and it's been a "No Bull" life for me ever since... :sleep:
All you judgemental types can all get caught in wood lathes.
Never touched the cig, nor the marijuana, nor anything you can smoke, except for some cigars when I was younger. Seeing my friends using pot discouraged me from being like them. Seeing my father smoke discouraged me from being like him. Running naked in the street is not for me. Coughing my lungs at 5:00 am every morning is not for me either.
Disgustingly vile habit! :mad:
Cigars, every chance I get, which means only 1 a week if I'm lucky :(
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 10, 2011, 11:41:59 PM
Disgustingly vile habit! :mad:
Agreed. Absolutely appealing! :D
When I'm long distance driving, at the end of pulling a double, or when out drinking I smoke. Otherwise, not so much. I'll go through maybe a pack a week, with days in between cigarettes. I'll smoke a cigar every now and again when at a special event.
Never picked the habit.
Incidentally, a study just found out that apparently gay men are 1.9 times more likely to have cancer than straight men. While HPV-caused cancer of the throat and the anus is a likely contributor, I think smoking is too - for some reason gays are 20 years behind the rest when it comes to smoking. :yucky:
I smoke with guilty pleasure and great shame, and I've switched more or less completely to rolling my own. It's more of a hassle to smoke at times then.
I've quit, started again, quit and lived in withdrawal land several times the past few years. Some day. Some day.
As things are nowadays, the social stigma of smoking is approaching that of leprosy. Apart from the occasional hipster doofus and Cool Kids, the regular smokers are down to the outcasts and rabble.
Never have, never will.
Yeah sure. I have a smoke of some sort every 2-3 hours or so (depends on what it is...about 2 hours between cigarettes, longer after hitting up the hookah).
All attempts to quit have resulted in: failure. Oh well.
To be a smoker you have to buy cigs. That said I used to smoke 1 or 2 every time I got drunk. I stopped drinking, that put a stop to the smoking.
Quote from: Martinus on May 11, 2011, 12:55:52 AM
Incidentally, a study just found out that apparently gay men are 1.9 times more likely to have cancer than straight men. While HPV-caused cancer of the throat and the anus is a likely contributor, I think smoking is too - for some reason gays are 20 years behind the rest when it comes to smoking. :yucky:
Maybe gay men smoke more as a form of weight control? :hmm:
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 10, 2011, 11:41:59 PM
Disgustingly vile habit! :mad:
It's like anime, except that second-hand smoke isn't as annoying as second-hand anime. :cool:
About 12 to 14 smokes a day. Down a tad from the 1 1/2 to 2 packs a day I smoked some years back. Meh. It helps keep me from beating the wife, the kids, the boss & any other random asshole strangers that irk me. And they taste good with coffee. And I have a cup of coffee right here in front of me. And its a beautiful morning out. "Come on, Stanley. We're going outside for a smoke."
<goes outside for a smoke>
:ccr
I've done the occasional bit of snus and have done the....Dutch stuff...on occasion but no, never got into fags.
Smoked a bit as a wannabe rebellious teen, but as soon as I felt the urge to buy a pack, I just didn't. I do occasionally get so drunk I forget I don't smoke, but that hasn't happened since my 40th birthday.
I don't think I've smoked more than maybe two packs or so in my life. Not noteworthy really. But then you are still allowed to smoke in bars here, so I get my fair share of second hand smoke.
Quote from: Zeus on May 10, 2011, 09:45:54 PM
It occurs to me that smart people would not be inclined to pick up the dirty habit.
Unfortunately not. I'd bet a quarter of my medical school class smokes and the other three quarters are alcoholics.
Quote from: Zeus on May 10, 2011, 09:45:54 PM
It occurs to me that smart people would not be inclined to pick up the dirty habit.
You are confusing smart with wise. :D
Quote from: Malthus on May 11, 2011, 08:27:34 AM
Quote from: Zeus on May 10, 2011, 09:45:54 PM
It occurs to me that smart people would not be inclined to pick up the dirty habit.
You are confusing smart with wise. :D
That's why they are two different score. Int and Wis.
Quote from: Razgovory on May 11, 2011, 08:28:37 AM
Quote from: Malthus on May 11, 2011, 08:27:34 AM
Quote from: Zeus on May 10, 2011, 09:45:54 PM
It occurs to me that smart people would not be inclined to pick up the dirty habit.
You are confusing smart with wise. :D
That's why they are two different score. Int and Wis.
See, a smart person wouldn't have learned the difference from D&D, and a wise person wouldn't admit it if they did.
;)
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on May 11, 2011, 12:51:17 AM
When I'm long distance driving, at the end of pulling a double, or when out drinking I smoke. Otherwise, not so much. I'll go through maybe a pack a week, with days in between cigarettes. I'll smoke a cigar every now and again when at a special event.
In the car?
Never picked up the habit.
One to two packs per week, never with my family, never while on holiday, never in the weekend;
otoh, if I go to a live concert, I'm able to smoke a pack in four hours.
Should I qualify as a regular, albeit low, smoker, or as an occasional one?
L.
Quote from: Pedrito on May 11, 2011, 09:59:42 AM
One to two packs per week, never with my family, never while on holiday, never in the weekend;
otoh, if I go to a live concert, I'm able to smoke a pack in four hours.
Should I qualify as a regular, albeit low, smoker, or as an occasional one?
L.
I think one to two packs per week makes you a regular smoker. :(
When a friend has a child, and wants to do the traditional thing of smoking cigars with his friends, I'm in. Otherwise, I've never smoked.
Started in high school, continued through college and when my wife & I found out we were going to have our first kid, we both quit.....which lasted like 10 years until we had both been laid off from work and we started again. Then we finally quit for good again about 4 years ago now. Still miss it sometimes, but whenever I see the price of a pack ($10 here), I'm glad I quit :D
Quote from: garbon on May 11, 2011, 08:37:22 AM
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on May 11, 2011, 12:51:17 AM
When I'm long distance driving, at the end of pulling a double, or when out drinking I smoke. Otherwise, not so much. I'll go through maybe a pack a week, with days in between cigarettes. I'll smoke a cigar every now and again when at a special event.
In the car?
Yeah. Window down to avoid the massive reek of cigarette smoke.
Quote from: Benedict Arnold on May 12, 2011, 02:22:54 PM
Yeah. Window down to avoid the massive reek of cigarette smoke.
:lol:
Nope. Never been an active smoker. The idea never appealed to me.
Unfortunately, given the fact that everyone else in my family smokes/d, I can't say I've never been a passive smoker though... :(
I'm smoking right now.
Every one brings me closer to the sweet release of death! Also, smooth and refreshing.
Quote from: Tyr on May 11, 2011, 07:05:37 AM
I've done the occasional bit of snus and have done the....Dutch stuff...on occasion but no, never got into fags.
The sentence sounds so filthy! :lol: