Questions for smokers

[diabloxj]

If I had my way, there would be a ban on smoking in ALL public places. I get so tired of walking into a restaurant and turning around leaving because I don't want my kids to have to smell like smoke or coat thier lungs just because they wanted to eat dinner.

move to mass you can't smoke in ANY public place. started about 4 months ago. makes it nice to go to the bar now and you can see arcoss the bar!

 

[blackdogxj]

started smokin at 12 quit at 16, started chewin at 13 and i still am

 

[NCSUcherokee]

I had a breif period where some would consider me a "smoker" when i was in high school, probably no more than a year. At my high school job, there were about 15 or 16 people that worked there (all between the ages of 16 and 21). Everyone except me and one other person smoked about a pack a day.

Welcome to Winston-Salem, NC :hang:

 

[Darky]

move to mass you can't smoke in ANY public place. started about 4 months ago. makes it nice to go to the bar now and you can see arcoss the bar!

Same in CA, I think AZ has a very similar law as well. I think there might still be smoking areas permitted and possibly in bars, but all restaurants and other public places have it off-limits IIRC.

 

[red91]

Glenn bum me a unfiltered Marlboro Red. ONE should be good for another 3 yrs.

 

[Darky]

Well, at least I have an impact on someone...

Have another. I'm gonna go buy stock in phillip morris

 

[red91]

Well, at least I have an impact on someone...

no you dont. Make-believe friends don't count.

I'm gonna go buy stock in phillip morris

on your pay soldier ? ahhh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ....that one's a keeper.

 

[crookedletterd]

its just like Abercrombie & Fitch in a way. there ads show models in there 20 somethings, yet teenagers account for most of the sales because they want to emulate those in the ads. the tobacco co's do the same thing. thats why they've never lost a lawsuit that tries to prove they target kids. kids just want to emulate the decade of people ahead of them.

Marketing at its finest.

 

[planefixer]

Started at 16, still smoke,popping Zyban to help me quit.It's a nasty habit that I dont even enjoy anymore.Hopefully soon to be non-smoker.

 

[Led]

14 till 34 or so just quit in october, still want one just as bad as the day I quit!

 

[1989laredoxj]

started when I was 13 did it on occasion, now that i've been 18 for 3 days I have gone through 2 packs, I think I would have smoked more when I was younger if they were easier to get, once my parents quit it was more difficult to hide the smell.
For the people who have quit what do you reccomend, I know 5 years of smoking doesnt seem like much but any tense moment I can't not be smoking,

 

[T.Hopp]

I have never smoked and never will. My mother was a life long smoker. Interesting though, my dad never smoked. My mother killed herself with cigarettes. I will never forget the day I watched my father cry at my mothers side as she turned blue, struggling to take her last breaths. I thanked her years earlier for threatening me with bodily injury if she ever caught me with cigarretes. On a brighter side, I am looking forward to picking my father up in the morning to drive out to Western Maryland to go snow tubing with family. Gonna be a great time!

 

[Matthew Currie]

Started about 14, quit about 40 (in 1988), haven't touched tobacco since.

My advice to quitters is basically forget tapering off and all that crap. I tried all sorts of things, and the only thing that worked was to quit cold and stick to it. It also helps to change other things at the same time. Start exercising, break patterns. The really hard part I found was in situations that have always been associated with lighting up, and tend to trigger it - stopping to think about a mechanical problem, talking on the phone, the first cup of coffee in the morning, etc. There's no easy answer. It's difficult. I knew it was stupid, expensive, ugly and dangerous, but I still enjoyed smoking. But at some point you have to decide who is boss: you or the habit.

One of the things that helped me, aside from marrying a non-smoker, was to get serious about bicycling. You just can't get up those steep Vermont hills with lungs full of smoke.

 

[Gil BullyKatz]

Started at 15...quit at 19... started again at 23...still going

 

[BrettM]

I smoked some cigarettes in high-school, at about 16 but never got addicted. I haven't touched a cig since that year. Now it's only cigars, pipes and hookah for me

 

[Fred]

I never smoked in HS, I was a cross country runner. Some of you Chicago types might be familiar with York Community HS cross country. Then one summer I was working through a few pounds of smoking material and started messing with tobacky when I was 23. 27 years later I was at 2.5 packs a day heading toward infinity and was tired of being an addict. It's been 3 years and I'm sitting here drinking a beer and chewing on a straw. I still want a cig so bad I try not to think about it. I didn't start smoking because of advertising or peer pressure, it was just another drug.

Fred

 

[mack]

started at 13 and just quit this year at 29.

 

[Bent]

I sterted full time when I was 18. Off and on since about 13, but that was just on occasion. Think it is about time to kick it. Most of them are crappy, but the ones that are good are damn good.

Yeah, pretty much what he said. That and it helped cover the smell from smoking.

This post has been interupted by the fifth amendment.

 

[JBFried67]

Started at 13 and still smoking at 38. I've tried several methods to help me quit, but I was not really ready at the time. Maybe someday!

 

[BigDadys94xj]

I accually didnt start until I was 22 still going at 32 need to quit so Im around to watch my kids go up! The way Im looking at it my Dad was a 3 pack a day smoker for 30 years and he quit cold turkey 3years ago I only smoke a pack a day so if he can do it so can I.
Plus in NY you cant smoke in public places anymore and its damn cold here in the winter and I hate going outside to smoke.