Smoking

[vivalaultra 0]

The one time I did get drink, it was on a fifth of Southern Comfort, if that helps the case.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Retch. I can't even smell that shit.

[CBright7831 0]

I never started smoking. I just eat lollipops when I need phallic symbols protruding from my mouth.

 

CBright, what drove you to start? I'm guessing you're in your late teens, early twenties, so it's not like you picked it up in high school like most smokers

What drove me to start was this stupid bitch of a friend that stressed me out to the point where chewing 2 packs of gum couldn't help me so I started smoking. It took me months to recover from losing her as a friend and now I'm happy she isn't anymore. I turn 21 in a few weeks which is the legal drinking age. Maybe that will help me cutback.

[Henry Spencer 0]

I turn 21 in a few weeks which is the legal drinking age. Maybe that will help me cutback.

 

Ha.

[Carnival 0]

Or boredom. Find something else to occupy free time or periods of driving.

 

that's kinda funny...my wife sometimes takes drives just so she CAN smoke. (she won't smoke around the kids)

I didn't know wifey smoked! We can cruise around and smoke sometime.

[The Niggardly King 0]

Well my mom was able to quit by getting pregnant

 

Your mom just wasn't committed... my mom smoked throughout her pregnancy, and has a Cal Ripken like streak.

[Matt Young 0]

I turn 21 in a few weeks which is the legal drinking age. Maybe that will help me cutback.

 

Ha.

 

Seconded.

 

And to what KOAB said, my mom is the same.

[Black Lushus 0]

Or boredom. Find something else to occupy free time or periods of driving.

 

that's kinda funny...my wife sometimes takes drives just so she CAN smoke. (she won't smoke around the kids)

I didn't know wifey smoked! We can cruise around and smoke sometime.

 

she's no nicotine fiend like you, she smokes maybe 3 or 4 a day.

[Prime Time Andrew Doyle 0]

Started halfway through Year 12, not really sure why I picked it up, but now it is a big ol crutch for me. After finishing high school and completing my course I needed the 10-15 odd ciggies I had before, after and sometimes during class. I basically had a rough smoking scheduled to go along with my class scheduled. On Mondays I would have 1 as I walked from the station, 1-3 waiting for class to start and meeting up with my mates. Normally 1 or 2 would rock up late so I would go out and have a ciggie with them when they got there, 1 at about 50 minutes in, 1-3 during the break, 1 at the end of class, 1 on the way back to the station and then 1-3 depending how long I had to wait until the train came.

 

Personally if I was gonna quit, I wouldn't go cold turkey, I would go the cut down way. Start of by smoking half of what you normally would for a week, then when your body is used to that, go to the next lowest milligram (I.E From 16 to 12 to 8 to 6 to 4 to 2 to 1) untill you are smoking ones and the ntry and cut down your consumption in half untill your smoking 1 or 2 a day. Also maybe move onto bigger decks. If you cut down your consumption, yet have a bigger deck, sub consciously you would think you would be smoking less as you were buying less decks, like if you went through a deck of 30's every 2 days and you started buying decks of 50's and kept smoking at the same rate, even though you would be smoking the same amount, you would only be buying a deck every 3-4 days.

[Matt Young 0]

They call packs of cigarettes decks down there? Neat.

[theintensifier 0]

I turn 21 in a few weeks which is the legal drinking age. Maybe that will help me cutback.

 

Ha.

If anything, it'll make it far worse. Or, you'll gain a new addiction.

 

And, you seriously started smoking because of a friend that stressed you out?

[Carnival 0]

Or boredom. Find something else to occupy free time or periods of driving.

 

that's kinda funny...my wife sometimes takes drives just so she CAN smoke. (she won't smoke around the kids)

I didn't know wifey smoked! We can cruise around and smoke sometime.

 

she's no nicotine fiend like you, she smokes maybe 3 or 4 a day.

we can change that, get you smoking too and it'll be a great time.

[Guest Richard McBeef]

I don't understand how stress-->smoking, with so many healthier and more cost-effective alternatives out there. "My friend is a bitch, so I'm going start smoking cigarettes! It's the only way to cope!" Something doesn't connect, I guess. Do bear in mind that I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, so maybe I'm underestimating the stress-relieving effects of nicotine, but like I said, with the government taxing the shit out of these things that give you lung cancer, how do you not obtain a better avenue? One of my best friends has been a bitch to me as well, which has caused a lot of unwanted stress in my life, but I'm not smoking.

[justsoyouknow 0]

I myself quit cold turkey

hoff switched to hot turkey.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

That was terrible, Jon.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I don't understand how stress-->smoking, with so many healthier and more cost-effective alternatives out there. "My friend is a bitch, so I'm going start smoking cigarettes! It's the only way to cope!" Something doesn't connect, I guess. Do bear in mind that I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, so maybe I'm underestimating the stress-relieving effects of nicotine, but like I said, with the government taxing the shit out of these things that give you lung cancer, how do you not obtain a better avenue? One of my best friends has been a bitch to me as well, which has caused a lot of unwanted stress in my life, but I'm not smoking.

 

I agree. It's not like buying a pack of gum that only costs a quarter or something. This is $5 that is consistently spent on something commonly known to not really be good for you.

 

Also, smoking/nicotine isn't what relieves the stress, it's the deep breathing associated with it. People don't take time out enough everyday to do that and/or stretch, so they believe smoking is what's actually helping them.

 

Hell, when I lived in the valley (in L.A.) and was doing deep breathing, it practically WAS just like smoking. Inhaling just as many carcinogens. There was actually a study published sometime ago that just by breathing the air in some parts of the L.A. basin, you have a chance of contracting some sort of respiratory complication (emphysema, lung cancer, etc.). Smoking only compounds that risk there.

[justsoyouknow 0]

That was terrible, Jon.

 

 

It wasn't that bad. Smoking makes you cool and popular. Keep it up only if you like your friends.

[Prime Time Andrew Doyle 0]

I don't understand how stress-->smoking, with so many healthier and more cost-effective alternatives out there. "My friend is a bitch, so I'm going start smoking cigarettes! It's the only way to cope!" Something doesn't connect, I guess. Do bear in mind that I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, so maybe I'm underestimating the stress-relieving effects of nicotine, but like I said, with the government taxing the shit out of these things that give you lung cancer, how do you not obtain a better avenue? One of my best friends has been a bitch to me as well, which has caused a lot of unwanted stress in my life, but I'm not smoking.

 

It's not so much of a "Oh man i'm so stressed i need a ciggie" it is more of a "Fuck it, I'll have a break with a ciggie and go clear my thoughts". It is not logical but for some people it just works for us.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Well, it DOES give you an excuse. I've certainly seen smokers get a lot more breaks at work than non-smokers.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Fucking Ft. Wayne is enacting a public smoking ban starting June 1st. Guess I'm moving.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

There are places that still let you smoke in public buildings?

[vivalaultra 0]

In Houston and most surrounding areas, you can only smoke in buildings that serve alcohol. In Baytown, Tx, about 45 minutes down the road, where my sister works as a reporter for the newspaper, they had a whole citizens' brigade up in arms about smoking in public places. The city council didn't wanna write up a bill to be voted on because nobody had enough money to bribe them to do so, so a group of doctors got together to draft a bill. It was voted on and passed, and then, it turned out that the way that the bill was worded, it made it illegal to smoke in any public building (besides mental institutions) and it also made it law that all public buildings must have 'No Smoking' signs on each entrance and exit. The only thing, is that they didn't differentiate between office buildings and taxi cabs, delivery vans, etc. Now, in Baytown, anybody that uses their vehicle in the course of their job-plumbers, maintenance men, whatever else-can't smoke in their vehicles, and they have to put 'No Smoking' signs on each of their car doors. I think they're trying to revise that part of the bill, though.

[Black Lushus 0]

bars/clubs here have eliminated smoking ONLY IF they don't have Keno. IF they have Keno, it's okay to smoke there. HOWEVER, even if they have Keno, if food is served there, smoking IS banned.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Here, the figure is something like you can't smoke inside any bar where more than 25% of sales is food-related. Most bars, in other words, are safe to smoke in.

[Art Sandusky 0]

We're having a total ban on smoking in businesses unless 51% or more of their sales are tobacco.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

Even restaurants with separate closed off smoking sections have to be smoke-free starting this summer.

[Art Sandusky 0]

My deadline is July, when it goes into effect. I'll probably quit 'round that time.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

I'm going to see how many places I can get kicked out of.

[Art Sandusky 0]

At least around here, this law has lead to me finding out that freakin' 75% of women can't stand it. And this is where tobacco is cheap and plentiful!

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

More proof that women are worthless.