Smoking Poll

Both of my parents smoked,I started in my teens when a pack cost .35
It took me a couple days to finish a pack.I quit 'cold turkey' when a pack cost $ 1
I smoked Winston's
 

I roll a few...maybe three or four a day
After a meal, or during that fist cup

I got other stuff that'll kill me
 

My only foray into smoking was during my college years. We used to sit out on the steps of the dorm and hold lit cigarettes in our hands. For some reason, we felt that made us look "sophisticated" and sometimes the guys would stop and bum a cigarette. I never inhaled (yeah, yeah, I know you've heard THAT one before....), just pulled the smoke into my mouth.

My late husband was a pretty heavy smoker during the early days of our marriage but when I started developing emphysema from chronic bronchitis (Oh, Detroit winters did that to you), he stopped smoking. He had tried and tried to stop before but it took something else besides his own health to do it. The pulmonologist said that if I lived with a smoker, it was the same as being a smoker myself. So he quit. Bless him.

Between him stopping smoking and moving to Florida, that was end of my chronic bronchitis, thank goodness.
 
911 said:
I have read several posts stating that they had a very difficult time quitting. The reason is because nicotine is a super addictive drug, probably more addicting than Heroin. Nicotine releases dopamine, which gives the smoker an enjoyable feeling.

I smoked while in Vietnam. I was offered a cigarette, accepted it and enjoyed it. When I got home, I smoked for maybe 2 years and quit. I have known 2 acquaintances that got lung cancer; 1 of which survived.

I think that I saw a sign in a convenience store just yesterday that read “Marlboro—-$7.90 pack.”
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It seems as if most people in the military smoked during those days, and at $2 a cartoon for "sea store cigarettes" it was certainly a lot cheaper than these days. I tried a cigarette once as a teen, but didn't like it. A couple of years later, I became enamored with the idea/image of smoking a pipe. I could never keep it lit, and all the fussing around was a bit much. That didn't last very long either.

I once worked for an X-enlisted officer who smoked a pipe. If you asked him a question, you had to wait until he finished banging that pipe around, cleaning out the bowl, refilling it, and getting it lit again. The process always gave him enough time to come up with some kind of an answer.
 
I first tried smoking when I was about 13 or 14. Got sicker than a dog. Didn't try it again til college when I played around with it for a while.

Then, thank goodness, I met this cool guy who didn't like the smell on me so I just stopped. Luckily, smoking hadn't become a habit yet.

One of the best decisions I ever made.

Still with the cool guy.
 
Yup... I still smoke, and have tried many times to quit... Quit once for a year and half when I broke my leg in 5 spots, and spent time in and out of the hospital... Started again... and would love to quit again...
 
Pecos said:
It seems as if most people in the military smoked during those days, and at $2 a cartoon for "sea store cigarettes" it was certainly a lot cheaper than these days. I tried a cigarette once as a teen, but didn't like it. A couple of years later, I became enamored with the idea/image of smoking a pipe. I could never keep it lit, and all the fussing around was a bit much. That didn't last very long either.

I once worked for an X-enlisted officer who smoked a pipe. If you asked him a question, you had to wait until he finished banging that pipe around, cleaning out the bowl, refilling it, and getting it lit again. The process always gave him enough time to come up with some kind of an answer.
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When I was a kid in high school, I worked on a farm in the summers. The older guys were horsing around 1 day and passed around a pouch of chewing tobacco. It came to me and they all egged me on, so I fell for it and took a chew. It tasted really bad. I ended up like every other kid that chewed it for the first time; throwing my guts up and choking on the stems. I was praying to God and everything. I was really sick. Never again.
 
I'm a smoker and have smoked off/on for almost 40 years. Both parents were smokers although daddy quit years ago. I would like to quit - and I have quit several times but started back. Even watching my mother deal with COPD doesn't give me enough motivation to quit. I try to keep it down as much as possible though.
 
Both of my parents smoked.

My old man died at age 45. My mother at 53.

I don't smoke.

I'm 72.
 
At 42 I snapped on a Sunday vowing to smoke my last cigarette Monday on the way to work and ended it in the parking lot @600 AM keeping the pack in my shirt pocket for 7 days. Never smoked again 30 years ago.
 
Have never smoked cigarettes. Have smoked a pipe for many years and shall continue to do so. I only smoke three or four bowls a week these days usually when reading or enjoying some single malt. My old Briar pipes are dear friends which have given me hours of relaxation and tranquility.
 
My Mom had smoked for years. Sometime in the early 50s, at breakfast one morning she coughed slightly, looked at her cigarette and said "I don't think these things are good for you" and never smoked again. l never smoked and never wanted to but I've lost several best friends to lung cancer . All were smokers.
 
I woke up one morning in 1961 and my lung had collapsed. The pain was extremely intense. Then and there I quit smoking for good.
 
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