Do you smoke?

[*~SilenT~*]

You don't have to answer this one but i was just wondering who or who don't smoke cigs. here sence people all over the world do.
and also polls are fun.

[shnen]

I do when I drink, and if I am bored, like being stuck in traffic, but I don't have them first thing in the morning, and not at work...

I really don't NEED them... unless stressed or drinking... besides that... the odd time it actually calms my tummy too...

[Radocs]

I used to, but I don't now.

[Valnorran]

On rare occasions I've puffed on a cigar or pipe, but smoking has never interested me. My brother introduced me to chewing tobacco at age 14. I didn't mind doing it, but I figured no girl would want to kiss a mouth that has that crap in it, so I stopped almost as soon as I started. I've done it a couple of times since, just for the hell of it, but I can leave it behind and feel no loss.

[shnen]

I used to chew tobacco... cherry skoal! :mmm:

[Kilia]

Oh lettsee here........

Initially I started smoking when I was 15. I then quit when I was 34 when a pack of cigs only cost .25 cents. Then I started again 3 months ago when I was in a really stressful situation ( whole other ball of wax ) and am still at it.

The funny thing about it is I really don't like the smell of cigarettes or how they taste in my mouth, but for some reason continue to do so.

At the prices nowadays....I find it quite silly, but still have not decided to quit for good.

[Psyche Ague]

I've never wanted to and I've never tried it. I may smoke "something else," but I'm very much against the tobacco industry and against cigarettes themselves. I managed to get my mom to stop smoking. Why would I start???

[Gwion]

Father: Smoker, dead from lung cancer.
Step-father: Smoker, dead from heart attack.
Mother: Ex-smoker, in remission from cancer.

2 years EMT experience driving terminal cancer patients to and from radiation and chemo therapy. They still begged for cigarettes to smoke, even in their most wretched, gollum-like final stages.

Lifetime asthma thanks to 18 years of exposure to parents
second-hand smoke. I think the tobacco Co. CEO's and all the politicians who took their blood money should be tried and executed for genocide. I've started and finished fist fights over cigarette smoke in my face. No, I don't smoke.

[Flaire-FireStar]

Have tried......been probably 3-4 yrs since the last one...... *lesigh*

[Dellit Tandannon]

Originally posted by shnen
I used to chew tobacco... cherry skoal! :mmm:

eww!

i smoke like a pack a day.

[Regulus]

Used to, only for six years. Quit five months ago. Don't think i was addicted, probobly just a habit i had to break.

[Silver_Alhena]

I smoke too, but I'm *trying* to give up.

Thing is, I tend to survive on caffine and nicotine at work, and the smoking area is where all the good gossip gets discussed! :)

[Rubi Waters]

I don't smoke!!!
I lived in a house with smokers :sick: I have always had lots of breathing problems. (coincidence?) I've been trying to get My dad to quit since forever. Mom finally quit a few years ago. ( Dad may finally quit now that his dog is diagnosed with asthma)

but since I'm addicted to caffine I can see people needing cigs in the same way!!

[Twilight Garden]

I smoked from the time I was 18 until I was 24. I haven't smoked in over a year. I was a Clove-only smoker. I'd smoke 3-10 cloves a day (depending on circumstance) but it was usually only about 3-5 a day. I have to admit I LOVE the taste of them, but we're trying to conceive and I don't want to go into pregnancy with any old habits to break.

[Kaylara]

I smoke.

[Flar's Freyja]

I started when I was twelve and smoked for more than thirty years. I answered "I tried it" because you didn't have a choice for "I smoked and quit."

For me, it is a horrible addiction. I have quit many times in the past ten years and haven't been able to stay quit. I've used some of the methods out there and end up not being able to stay away from smoking without them.

I really hate to see young people take up this habit, because if you are an addictive personality you may end up hopelessly addicted, like I am.

I've often wondered why, with all of the technology that we have, they can't come up with a healthy, non-smelly cigarette.

[Saphra]

Yes, I have been smoking since I was 13 and am now 21. I smoke about a pack a day and can't seem to get through work without it. Funny thing is, I see patients all day long, with emphazima and cancer from it, and still I smoke. Been trying to quit tho, and have actually gotten down to about half a pack a day when I take my medicine, so hopefully, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[Emaleth]

I don't smoke, in fact I'm allergic to cigarette smoke:smoke: :sick: . I have tried, though when I was 15, but I think that in my life I smoked no more than 10 cigarettes.

Blessed Be

[Witchy Cowgirl]

Nope, I don't smoke.
I did try it maybe 4 times - I never really liked it.
My dad used to - until he had his heart attack - then quit.
My hubby smokes and I wish he'd quit.

[Pan]

I put "no", even though I tried a puff at about 6 years old. I don't smoke, hubby doesn't smoke.. though my parents do.

Hence why I smell like cigarette smoke right now.. and I stink. :p

Sister's new boyfriend smokes.. though he goes outside when in my home. :) Yay!

[sweetbabe]

tried it when i was about 11, smked for about a year maybe and then decided it wasnt worth the money or my life :D

[Flar's Freyja]

Originally posted by Saphra
Yes, I have been smoking since I was 13 and am now 21. I smoke about a pack a day and can't seem to get through work without it. Funny thing is, I see patients all day long, with emphazima and cancer from it, and still I smoke. Been trying to quit tho, and have actually gotten down to about half a pack a day when I take my medicine, so hopefully, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

It is very odd that most respiratory therapists are smokers. When I mentioned to Flar that I thought about going back to school to become an RT, he said I shouldn't because I'd have to start smoking again :rolleyes:

My mother also died from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. She was a three pack a day smoker for 30 or 40 years. While I don't believe that the smoking caused the disease (she had a bad cough even when she was in her early 20's) I know that it didn't help. Given my family history of this and other heart diseases, I know that I'm probably predisposed to one of these illnesses.

[Gwion]

I’m not easily flabbergasted, but that does it for me everytime. I would take a patient to this one radiology clinic to get zapped, and the nurse who targeted the machine on him would be outside the office smoking. This patient was one of those blue ribbon winners who had the stoma hole, and if given half a chance would find a cigarette and smoke through the hole. My partner and I walked into his room for one such trip, to find that he had the oxygen mask off to one side on such a high flow that the curtains were blowing, and he was smoking. We must have looked like the two stooges climbing over each other to get out the door. We tell a nurse, and she just says “Again?!”. The same thing was happening at the terminal hospice where the patient…lived. This was where the cancer patients were at the stage where they are incontinent and are being turned regularly by nurses and YET. There they were, their nurses, on their break, smoking their little hearts out in front of the entrance. Nice gauntlet for visiting relatives to have to pass through, if not a little macabre. I mean, these are the women that administer the pain killers to the worst patients.

[earthcat]

I smoke. And I'd pretty much like to copy what Freyja said.....

Hubby and I have tried to quit 5 or 6 times since getting married in 1996....
The last time we tried accupuncture; don't waste your money.
I actually did manage to quit for 3 years once, and I kick myself everyday for starting again. The best way to quit smoking is to NEVER START!!!

And I too, know a lot of nurses and med techs who smoke. It's a strange thing....

[Cajime]

I don't smoke and I've never even tried it. I just don't want to get addicted to something that's going to kill me.

[Cinnamon Girl]

I did for about ten years, up until three weeks ago, when I decided to stop. So far it hasn't been that hard, even with my husband still smoking (though not as much). Guess I'm lucky that way and I just hope it stays like that!

[Thistle]

No, I don't smoke, and I've never had any desire to. My dad was a life long smoker, and died of a heart attack at 47. My brother is a life long smoker, and had a quadruple bypass. Hubby was diagnosed with operable lung cancer 6 years ago, and had part of one lung removed. There's nothing like seeing someone you love delirious, in intensive care, and draining bags of bloody goo from the chest! He is very lucky to be considered cured. He quit smoking with Wellbutrin, but staying quit is a daily struggle. (It's his favorite stress reducer.)

Good for you, MoonOwl! My mom smoked for 40 years, quit when she was sick with brohchitis, and never went back to it. So it can be done!

Earthcat, don't give up! Try again. Keep quitting until you can stay quit!

[Mythrel]

yep, I'm a smoker...I'd like to quit, but I have to admit that I like to smoke...

[Silver_Alhena]

looks like my flatmate's going to help me to quit. We just found out today that my addiction to the internet far outweighs my addiction to cigarettes, and since he controls the internet usage I'm completely at his mercy.... :shaker:

[Flar's Freyja]

Originally posted by Mythrel
yep, I'm a smoker...I'd like to quit, but I have to admit that I like to smoke...

I've found that THAT is the hardest part! Even when I got to where I couldn't stand the way smoking made my house, my car and my hair smell, the distaste for all of that didn't outweigh my love of smoking. Twenty years ago I quit some other destructive practices and that was a piece of cake compared to quitting cigarettes!

[Gwion]

I think that it speaks volumes about the sinister nature of this particular drug, that even people of superior insight, intelligence, courage and wisdom are helpless in its clutches.

[Armitage]

Used to, quit about a year ago. Very glad I did given that I'm in better shape, and can spend the money I would have on smokes, on a much better addiction: books. :D

[WynterWynd]

I did, I didn't for three years, and now I do again!!:( I have managed to quit 'other' things in my life much easier and never go back to them!!

Oh yeah, only outside and not around my kids!!!! There's enough pollutants in the air without me polluting them, and I hate the way a house smells when someone smokes in it!!:rolleyes: Doesn't make sence, does it??



but now, unfortunatly, with all this talk of smoking......I'm going top go have a cig!!:smoke:

[Siarlas]

I smoke. Though a pack of 25 used to last me about 2-3 days. I honestly don't know how anyone could go through a whole pack in one day. Started when I was about 14... for a few days. My then boyfriend who I met just days after starting said he didn't like it so I stopped. Then started again when we broke up a year and a half later. I think back then a pack would last me about a week. Mostly because you couldn't smoke in class :T .
Even when I was training to be a nurse and one of our favorite patients died from emphysema, it still didn't stop me completely. I think I 'paused' for a few days.
When I found out I was pregnant four years ago, I stopped. I wasn't going to risk the life of my unborn daughter because of my habit. I managed to stay off them till after I stopped breastfeeding her a year later.
I'm still on them at the moment... though I tell people that I'm in the process of quitting. My new hunny doesn't like me smoking and I don't find it hard at all to not smoke around him. But then again, I've always been pretty good around non-smokers. And I detest anyone smoking in any sort of eating area. Cigarette smoke and food just do not go. I don't smoke around my closest friend here, nor my mom (especially seeing as her husband recently passed away from lung cancer that had spread to his bones), and most definately do not smoke in my house. For one thing... now who said it before me? I can't be bothered looking... I can't stand the smell of a house that people have been smoking in. Even if I'm visiting a smoker's house, I will go outside to smoke. Oh.. yeah.. and also because of my little girl. I won't even let her come outside with me when I go for a smoke.

Anyways... I've waffled on long enough....


Originally posted by VroomBroom
but now, unfortunatly, with all this talk of smoking......I'm going top go have a cig!!:smoke:

I'm going for one too.... see... the best way to cut down on smoking is to not think about it.... and this topic doesn't help!

edit - forgot... I'm now buying packs of 20 in four milligram smokes and they last me almost a week now.

[Autumn Wolf]

I quit March 18, 2002!!! (After 31 years smoking at least 2 packs a day) I was on Wellbutrin, and I think that did it.

[Gwion]

What differences have you noticed in your life?

[Autumn Wolf]

Well, I still have trouble walking upstairs, and doing heavy work, but I don't start coughing the minute I lay down! I also have quite a bit more money! I still want a cigarette, desperately at times, but I can control the urges. I used candy canes to help me quit. Breathing air through the candy cane (sounds weird, I know) made my lungs feel like they were getting something besides that nasty old plain air!! My children are proud of me, and that's a great feeling! Other than that, I can't think of any major changes.

[Gwion]

>Breathing air through the candy cane (sounds weird, I know) made my lungs feel like they were getting something besides that nasty old plain air!!<

I think you may have unknowingly hit upon something here. I do a Pranayama breathing exercise where I curl my tongue into a tight circle and breathe through that, hold for a beat, then exhale through the nose. (Looks very silly) This exercise is very cleansing, good exercise for the lungs and diaphragm, and enriches the blood with extra oxygen. It is very calming as you focus on your breathing. Use the candy cane like that, I imagine, would be very similiar. Magic finds a way.

> My children are proud of me, and that's a great feeling!<

That is something beyond all value, and it says much about your priorities. You should be proud of yourself as well.

[st0rm]

dont smoke cigs...

[materra]

Warning... a rant coming on....

Look, quit... immediately, no I am not kidding. I smoked a bit over 20 years folks. I smoked about 3 packs a day when I quit. I was chimney and smelled like an ashtray okay?

Why quit? Because this morning I spent close to 3 hours in a pulminary assessment as I can not breath worth beans. I have a pulminary problems that is literal killing me. We spent at least 1 hour just trying to figure out how in the heck they are going to increase my lung capacity... I am at only 36 %...not good okay.

It also is linking up with my heart failure and basicly makes my life a heck of alot shorter than I had planned on. So quit, do everything you can to stop this self inflicted damage. I like all of you and don't want you to face this garbage.

I quit when I went to a hypnotist. It worked.... but I still dream about smoking and wake up scared to death I started again. I am soooooo addicted I would only need one to start again... no kidding. The Nicotin links with the same site as heroin. I also wake up at night thinking I am being smothered, a bad deal all the way around.

So quit.

[Amber Ravenstar]

No, I don't smoke. My mother did, two packs a day; it took 3 heart attacks in one week's time last year to get her to stop. This AFTER my dad died of cancer!

I realize that people have the right to decide whether or not to smoke. But no one has the right to subject others to secondhand smoke. When I lived at home, whenever my mom lit up, I would leave the room. My friends who smoke don't do so in my car or house; not because I disallow it, but out of respect for me and the fact that I don't like to smell like an ashtray.

I do wonder, though, how any rational, intelligent person could smoke. The health risks are so well known and documented, so ignorance of the facts is not the issue. I understand it's an addiction, but jeez, why keep on with an addiction that is gonna kill you one day?

[flar7]

because it is a powerful addiction, and death seems less scary than
the moments of withdrawal. The Death thing is a chance, you may
die from smoking, you may not. The nicotine withdrawal if you are
experiencing it is real and immediate. Some people have an easier
time quiting than others. My grandmother just woke up one day
and quit. My grandfather smoked even after they took him off the
ventilator the first time. He would have smoked at the end except
he was on a ventilator again. My father has the same problem, I
would love for him to quit, but dont think he will be able to. He has
tried many times. It is just like alcohol, it effects different people
differently. Some can quit drinking, some find it horribly difficult.

[CloakofStars9]

doesnt smoke...




















cigarettes that is ;)



but everyone i know does

[Jeleia]

Both Chris and I smoke. And are trying to quit. Personally I'm one of those people that doesn't have a problem with quitting, as long as I can get away from it for a while. Chris on the other hand has been smoking for much longer than I have, and has a harder time quitting.

[SisterJanet3]

I'm really glad I saw this post. I just quit smoking cigarettes on Thanksgiving. I've been wanting to quit, I know the dangers (work in the medical field), and this is just something I've really been wanting. So, finally, on Thursday, I just decided it was time.

I smoked a pack and a half a day for 17 years. I started when I was 13, and I just turned 30. The only times between then that I didn't smoke was when I was pregnant, but that was mainly cuz I actually got sick if I smoked (how I figured out I was pregnant the second time around), and why I picked it back up after, I will never know.

This time, I just really really wanted to stop. I went from the pack and a half a day I usually smoke, to smoking one cigarette about an hour before I go to bed. This is the only way I will actually sleep. Somehow, knowing I'll get that one cigarette makes it much easier to not smoke throughout the day. I have no help (no patches, and unfortunately, no Wellbutrin - which is my next step if necessary), and somehow, I've gotten through the last 6 days with just 1 cigarette (before bed). By the end of the week, I want to try to eliminate the night cig.

This thread really helped me right now. I'm very sorry that so many people here have been affected by cigarettes so much. I will take this with me. Thank you for sharing your stories.



Sorry for the long post - big issue for me right now.

[Jeleia]

Sister Janet, I think there is a support thread in the Healthy Pagan for those who are wanting to quit, you might want to check it out.

[SisterJanet3]

Thank you for letting me know. I think I WILL check it out. I'm really enjoying my freedom from cigarettes (which is not quite what I expected).

AND, I've already saved over $40! I wonder when I'll stop counting how much money I've saved. Heehee.

Thanks again for the info. I could use all the help I can get.

[MoonDust]

not anymore. I quit in January

[13thChylde]

I smoke if I'm having drinks, and that's maybe 10 cigs once a month.

[Arienadean]

I tried smoking around 5. My parents both smoked as did several relatives and my parents didn't know I snuck some. I tried it off and on up til 17 then quit because it was causing me health issues. But I was lucky when I quit because I'm one of those that could do it cold turkey.

[~ Monk ~]

I was a two-pack-a-day smoker until May 1993. With my grandmother having died shortly before that and then experiencing a brush with my own mortality, the reality of death sunk in quickly and I decided to quit cold turkey. Besides the occasional cigar, I haven't smoked tobacco since.

[Pesha]

I have seen too many loved ones die from use of cigaretts. Yes I did smoke a long time ago but quit when I saw it help kill my late husband. nuff said.

BB
D'S...also known as...

[Armitage]

I did for a bit, managed to quit about a year and a half ago. Somehow did it even during Finals...Still unsure how I managed it, but I haven't wanted one in a while. :stomp:

[teyl]

My mother died a horrible death from cancer at age 39. I was 10 and after watching my mother die so young, I decided I would like to be alive when my children grow up. I don't smoke. There is nothing worse knowing that someone I loved so much was taken away from me by something that could have been prevented.

[VelvetBlade]

There's enough pollutants in the air without me polluting them, and I hate the way a house smells when someone smokes in it!!:rolleyes: Doesn't make sence, does it??




Sure it does,..I'm the only smoker I know who hates the taste of cigarettes. I have to eat 2 tic tacs after I smoke and spray perfume 'cause I can't stand the smell. And I won't smoke in the house because it's stinks....go figure !!


~AW

[Autumn]

I don't and never tried because I knew I would have to quit, hated the idea...

[fairyofthefountain]

Father: Smoker, dead from lung cancer.
Step-father: Smoker, dead from heart attack.
Mother: Ex-smoker, in remission from cancer.

2 years EMT experience driving terminal cancer patients to and from radiation and chemo therapy. They still begged for cigarettes to smoke, even in their most wretched, gollum-like final stages.

Lifetime asthma thanks to 18 years of exposure to parents
second-hand smoke. I think the tobacco Co. CEO's and all the politicians who took their blood money should be tried and executed for genocide. I've started and finished fist fights over cigarette smoke in my face. No, I don't smoke.

I relate to that my father died of lung cancer 3 years ago
I can say that he quit smoking toward the end had no desire for it:(
my mother had a stroke last year,she is doing much better,
I on the other hand am having trouble quiting but that is what I am setting out to do :) I can only hope that the damage will heal so I can live longer

[LadyOak]

To Quote AngelWitch; Sure it does,..I'm the only smoker I know who hates the taste of cigarettes. I have to eat 2 tic tacs after I smoke and spray perfume 'cause I can't stand the smell. And I won't smoke in the house because it's stinks....go figure !!

Well, you now know another...me.

[VelvetBlade]

Well, you now know another...me.

lol...sad aren't we?


~AW

[LadyOak]

:) :geez: Yeah....

[Lanna]

*sheepishly raises hand* I reallly want to quit but i've been smoking since i was 14 and i feel like smoking IS part of my life a big part and its this that scares me about quitting, im going to try very soon, everytime i buy a packet i question it, so im one step closer i guess, i just need to kick myself up the butt and take a hold of the situation! :rolleyes:

[LadyOak]

You hit the nail on the head when you said it's a big part of your life. It is. I have tried and failed quite a few times. Simply because it is a major life change, hard and I simply don't want to quit bad enough yet.

[Lanna]

yeah thats it, right now i don't want to quit bad enough, so i wont! But i know when i do attempt to quit, i will not be one of those people that says they've quit and ends up smoking everyone elses cigarettes! LOL

[Fairywolf]

Yep smoke Have since I was *hold breath smiles sheepishly 10* I am 25 now so I have been smoking for the best part of my life. The funny thing is that I was born with asthma but since I started smoking I haven't had an attack. I have had use my inhaler but thats cause I couldn't breath real good not cause I couldn't breath at all. :smoke:

[fairyofthefountain]

I have asthma too and when I started smoking I stopped having attacks too. But I am not getting younger it may catch up to me

[SimplyStrange]

You didn't have an "occasionally" option.

I do have the occasional smoke. I have one or two in social situations, and not because of peer pressure, or because it's the 'thing' to do... simply because since I am unable to buy them legally, that is usually how I get ahold of them. I smoke a few when I'm writing (creative writing: stories, poems, and sometimes journal writing). I don't know why, exactly. Just a thing I do.

I am able to quit whenever I want. I never actually crave them, and I have no problem not having them for long periods of time (it's been about a month since my last one, and it poses no problem for me).

Plus, I am a stage actor. Even if I occasionally smoke, whenever I do shows, I am smoke free and alcohol free for the duration of the production. That includes from the time rehearsal begins to the time the show closes. It just puts too much gunk in your throat. You notice these things, especially if you're doing a musical. :) Onstage, you need all the crisp sound and energy you can get. It's just better to be substance free.

[DianaStormDancer]

Gods! unfortunately yes!!!! Way too many and for intirely too long now! I did quit ....made it too 48 days without a blasted puff..then my hubby took me away on a romantic weekend, and saddly he never got around to quitting so i caved and smoked the enotire weekend and came back home a regular chimmney again! :bastard: I didn't realise how infernally difficult quitting is....but considering its a 24 years old addiction I don't beat myself up about it as much anymore, and i do intend to suceed at kicking the habit....I just have to convince my husband to work with me at the same time...she says as she puffs away on her morning cigs here............... :needcoffe

[Apocalypse Bunny]

Yep, I smoke. :(

I have tried quitting so many times. Ugh.

[Psyche Ague]

I smoked clove cigarettes for a little while (at the most ever was 4 a day and never two days in a row). I'd only do it if I'd had a bad day or needed an excuse to take a break when writing a paper (or several papers).

I've definitely stopped all kinds of smoking for now.

[Twig]

you can have my cigarettes when and only when you

A. Legalize marajuana

or

B. Pry them out of my DEAD COLD HAND.

:needcoffe might as well try to take my coffee!

Oh yea. Tried the patch. Damn thing wouldn't stay lit!!!

Peace,
Twig
:smoke:

[LadyOak]

I think I'll go light up....

[Xentor]

The only time I smoke will be half an hour after my burial ceremony.

[AmbivalentMirage]

Never have, never will. I'm allergic to cigarette smoke.

[SimplyStrange]

Oh yea. Tried the patch. Damn thing wouldn't stay lit!!!


Lol! :lol: That's a clever use, Twig!

[ChandaM]

Yeah, I lite up. Wish I had never started. I can't believe nicotine is legal and pot is not. I am addicted to the cigs, but don't ever recall physically shaking because I needed to smoke some weed...? Bummer.

[WynterWynd]

Trying to quit again right now:shaker:

[Arylon]

Never have, never will. I'm allergic to cigarette smoke.

Me too...It makes me feel simply awful! But I love the smell of clove cigarettes. Must be the GOTH in me... :lol:

[Cev'aq]

I smoke, but I despise all the ash (and resulting dust), not to mention, smokers' film on screens and windows. I've heard about a new kind of cigarette (Eclipse) that's much cleaner, and I can't wait to try them.

[libragrrl]

No, I don't smoke. Yucky.

[Vuthiel]

I'm a smoker from a long line of smokers. I started smoking when I was 12... quit when I was 15, started again when I was 16. I'm now 18 and still smoke. It's odd because I hate everything about smoking. I hate how expensive it is, I hate how dirty it is, I hate how inconvenient it is, and I hate the way it tastes (I always have to be drinking something or *gag* spit when I smoke). But I don't want to quit. I know I should quit.... but I don't want to. I hate smoking... but I love it at the same time. It's strange how something that's so bad for me can make me feel so good. :geez:

[Traknavar]

I started smokin cigs in high school and quit about 2 yrs ago, smoked for about 4yrs total, finally realized how much of a waste of cash it was and quit :)

[Rae ShadowWolf]

I smoked everyday for almost 2 years until I had to move back in with my parents (long story). I quit cold turkey.

I still want to smoke, as I've been highly stressed as of late, but I don't as my fiance has a strong hatred for it. Though I do smoke when I am among friends, so I answered "yes".

[Xentor]

One good reason to stop smoking: have your doctor tell you that your smoking will kill your child.

That's why my parents stopped.

[SimplyStrange]

I smoke, but I despise all the ash (and resulting dust), not to mention, smokers' film on screens and windows. I've heard about a new kind of cigarette (Eclipse) that's much cleaner, and I can't wait to try them.

They are fairly inexpensive, too. My friend bought some because they were cheap, and he wanted to try them out. They are kind of difficult to light and they're a bit difficult to inhale at first, but I imagine you get used to them. They didn't really feel like you are smoking anything.

They don't have any ash, either. It's odd. May be what you're looking for? :)

www.eclipse.rjrt.com/

[Cev'aq]

Yes, I've seen the site. :) I agree that it seems odd, but I think it'd be a good change. I'm just waiting for another payday. :lol:

[Aidron]

I smoke and probably far too much, though smoking any would be too much in my mind.

I plan to give it up when I am ready and not a moment before, regardless of laws, my health, etc. When I am ready, I will quit and never look back. Not to say that it won't be difficult, however.

[Sparrow]

Yes. Unfortunatley. I've tried "cold turkey" and i just turn into mega-b*tch and flip out. Uggh. I'm going to buy some patches with my tax return this Jan. Hopefully that will do the trick!

[Open Again]

I had stopped for a long time and now i am again and it driving me NUTS. I hate being a slave to it and i am, i know i am.... AGAHAHGHGHG :geez:

[Crystal_Raye]

I don't smoke, I never have smoke, and I never will smoke not even a candy cigarette.

[kerrence]

I've smoked since I was 18 and have kicked the habit several times...the longest period was 9 months (no, not due to pregnancy). I'm now smoking Swisher Sweat Cherry cigars (I must comment that they are NOT sweet), but for me they are better than smoking cigs...plus a lot cheaper! It's strange because I do smoke "other stuff" yet I can go for weeks, months without that, but if it's more that 6 hours w/out a cig/cigar, watch out! I've heard that quitting cigs is as bad as quitting herione! I've been thinking about trying that "Smoke Away" natural supplement, that is "guaranteed", so if anyone reading this have tried it, with or without success, I would love to hear about your experience. Always trying to quit, I am! My husband has been successfully off cigs for 6 years now. Cold turkey!

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

I quit cold turkey just over a year ago. I kicked my 16 year, pack a day habit and recently I took up running.

[Hippywitch]

Reading this has made me realise that Ive smoked for over half my life!
Ohmi gawds that is awful! :geez:

I've tried to quit several times and never quite managed it (even when pregnant...bad me). I've tried going down to lighter tar, cutting down on when and where I smoke, patches, gum, hypnosis (which never works on me anyway)... Besides giving up always makes me sick! :sick:

Boo! Hiss! nasty smelly yukky things (she says as she lights up again)

Going to check out Healthy help thread now. :rolleyes:

[DanuMoonrunner]

I've smoked for 30 years! That's a long time! I really hate it, but trying to quit is not much of an option when you're as addicted as I am. Plus all the methods on the market are more expensive than the habit! Hubby quit for 13 years and said he dreamed of having one every night. By the way, I too was born with asthma and if I have an attack and have forgotten my inhaler, I light up and it calms me down and I can breathe again. Go figure! I work 4 1/2 hours with out a smoke break and it doesn't bother me until about 10 minutes before break time, then it's get outta my way! As soon as I'm off work, I catch myself making up for lost time. Nasty, filthy habit. Where's my lighter?

[LdyAlisa]

yes I smoke ugh

[JeweledNight]

My parents smoked until I was 10 years old. I remember very little about them smoking, and to this day I can’t imagine them smoking. I mostly remember hearing Dad tell Mom that they were almost out of cigarettes and I remember the quitting episodes quite well. They both used the patch when they first came out and were prescription only.

I was never really interested in smoking, especially after my parents quit. After they quit, it got to where the smell of smoke would make my tongue swell up and I would feel absolutely horrible. I just couldn’t handle it, so actually spending my money on those things myself was out of the question.

Almost all of my boyfriends were smokers, but I still had no interest in joining them, and I made it well known that I wished they didn’t smoke, but that I wouldn’t try to force them to quit – I just requested that they not smoke in my car or house and try to be courteous of my bad reaction to second hand smoke when they would smoke.

Then I started college at age 19 and that’s when I decided to let my curiosity go a little. I smoked for only about 1 1/2 months. I never felt good from the nicotine, and I never got sick from any addiction. The only thing they did to me was they made walking around campus more difficult. I started breathing harder and heavier, and my legs started to feel like jelly just from a short walk. I hated feeling that old and out of shape. That was the only obvious side effect from them, and that was with me only smoking maybe two each weekday. I never smoked on the weekends and would only smoke either outside on campus or while driving with the windows all the way down. I eventually realized that I was wasting my money on something that wasn’t doing anything but making me feel exhausted all the time, so I just stopped buying them. Never had any sort of withdrawal, thank goodness.

[StormyRavenNightWind]

yes still smoke.......just turned 34....had a heart attack at 33(feb 03) so now trying to quit......used to smoke 2-3 packs a day now working on my ten a day......I am working towards Samhain that I will be done. wish me luck...
Blessings
Witchyone

[SilentStarWolf]

I haven't tried smoking and probably won't (yes yes I say that now and I KNOW that things can change) :)

[nomadicdragon]

You don't have to answer this one but i was just wondering who or who don't smoke cigs. here sence people all over the world do.
and also polls are fun.

I tend to smoke in social situations.. or whenever i can find someone to mooch off of.. ;) i'm so cheap.. lol

[serenarian]

I've tried it a couple of times, usually after I've been out drinking. But I'm not a huge fan.

[Koehnae]

I've never smoked. I grew up in a family of smokers. I've seen so much of my family pass away at young ages... including my own dad. He died of a combination of larynx and esophagial cancer at 53. After seeing all he went through before he died, many people in my family quit smoking. Unfortunately, as there memories faded, so did their willpower.