POLL: Do you smoke?
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Gambling always increased my desire for a smoke. Funny how what I thought I couldn't live without doesn't bother me a bit since I quit. But I agree with that Surgeon General who said that tobacco addiction is equal to heroin addiction. I must have quit a million times before I actually did quit for good. I don't blame anyone who still does smoke, yet there is no one who can fix it but you. Does the word, dilemma, come to mind? 
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I smoke varied amounts, sometimes one pack sometimes more. It depends how long I'm working and the enviroment. It's a bad habit and it will eventually kill you and my friend that has lung cancer will agree. I have seen the studies that inducing alcohol on a regular basis increases the odds of cancer in general but greatly increases when tobacco is added. I don't drink so I guess it's a small trade off at least in my smoke filled mind.
I smoke varied amounts, sometimes one pack sometimes more. It depends how long I'm working and the enviroment. It's a bad habit and it will eventually kill you and my friend that has lung cancer will agree. I have seen the studies that inducing alcohol on a regular basis increases the odds of cancer in general but greatly increases when tobacco is added. I don't drink so I guess it's a small trade off at least in my smoke filled mind.
since i was 15, now 61, quit for five years once.
still jog, ever since the army made me do it when i was 18, hated joging then, love it now. i get pretty winded so i know the smoking slows me down.
when at the tables i do as shad described.
oh yeah, in my life as far as smoking i've seen it go from a smoke ehm if you gott ehm sorta thing just about anywhere, to errhh well now about the only place you can smoke is a casino, errhh well most casino's.:cool2:
still jog, ever since the army made me do it when i was 18, hated joging then, love it now. i get pretty winded so i know the smoking slows me down.
when at the tables i do as shad described.
oh yeah, in my life as far as smoking i've seen it go from a smoke ehm if you gott ehm sorta thing just about anywhere, to errhh well now about the only place you can smoke is a casino, errhh well most casino's.:cool2:
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Quit on 6/30/2008!!
Day I'll never forget! EVER!!! I finally broke the shackles -- I was a prisoner to tobacco!! Couldn't stay indoors more than for 15 minute clips -- then had to run outside - Smoked 2 packs a day for 15 years, 3 when drinking. :whip:
Stopped smoking -- started tasting food again :grin:, went to the gym... ohh.. and most importantly... I was able to take the $$$ saved on cigarettes and build a BJ bankroll!! :cool2:
Day I'll never forget! EVER!!! I finally broke the shackles -- I was a prisoner to tobacco!! Couldn't stay indoors more than for 15 minute clips -- then had to run outside - Smoked 2 packs a day for 15 years, 3 when drinking. :whip:
Stopped smoking -- started tasting food again :grin:, went to the gym... ohh.. and most importantly... I was able to take the $$$ saved on cigarettes and build a BJ bankroll!! :cool2:
Funny you mention that, I had smoked pot as a teen before ever trying tobacco, and the first time I tried a cigarette I inhaled it and held it in, just like a joint. Finished it in a couple of minutes because I was used to rushed, furtive potsmoking behind school buildings.
After spending the rest of the day vomiting, I decided cigarettes were not for me.
After spending the rest of the day vomiting, I decided cigarettes were not for me.
When I was a kid they called them "reefers" and they only existed in NYC schools to the best of my youthful knowledge at the time. But we did have beer, whiskey, and cigarettes. Nothing was cooler for a juvenile delinquent. :whip: I got so sick from my first experience of cigarettes (lucky strike--two of us smoked an entire pack) that I went straight to bed without dinner. But that didn't stop me. I was going to be a man even if it killed me! Real cool, man.
aslan said:
When I was a kid they called them "reefers" and they only existed in NYC schools to the best of my youthful knowledge at the time. But we did have beer, whiskey, and cigarettes. Nothing was cooler for a juvenile delinquent. :whip: I got so sick from my first experience of cigarettes (lucky strike--two of us smoked an entire pack) that I went straight to bed without dinner. But that didn't stop me. I was going to be a man even if it killed me! Real cool, man.
enjoyed his cigar. This time I just had to try and sure enough he handed it to me. I smoked, seemed ok, by the time my mom walked in my dad was laughing, I was green and crying, my mom screamin.... yeah, real nice 'family time'!! ah the memories!
