- Everyone knows that smoking is probably bad for you, but I thought I'd just start this thread seeing who else smokes. Since there's also a drinking thread I figured, why not?
- Here people can talk about anything smoking (within the site rules). What cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco do you like, dislike etc. What accessories do you like. What health problems do you have etc. How did you start. What path did it lead you down. How did you quit and for how long. How do people treat you because of it, etc. All that stuff. What's your story? So I'll start.
- I started smoking at age 10. I'm in my mid 40's now. It was the mid 80's and back then cigarettes and cigars were kept in the aisle's next to the candy in the gas stations and convenience stores where I lived. You could smoke everywhere even in fast food places and the grocery store too! Even some doctor's offices! WTF!
- One day a freind of mine and I went to the gas station to get some drinks and candy after we had been skateboarding all day. There was an old lady in like her 80's working there. On the way out she yelled at us and grabbed my freind by the shoulder. Apparently he had stolen a pack of Winstons and she yelled at him; "If you want those you're gonna have to pay for them!" After hearing this news we were pretty stoked! From that day forward she let us buy anything we wanted (literally). We could buy cigarettes, chew, porno mags, even hard liquor and beer! As long as we paid for it. We would save our lunch money and started going after school to buy stuff. So at 10 and 11 years old I started smoking and drinking. We would go in the forest on our minibikes, light bonfires and party it up. Good times are great while they last. At one point I was even hopping trains to the next county to skate and hook freinds up.
- It was a great thing for awhile but not until years later did I realize it wasn't. I later developed alcohol and developmental problems and didn't stop until I was about 21. I took me years to even realize it. I've had about 12 beers and 12 shots in the the last 20 years. One per occasion. I also got into many other drugs over the years and understand the phrase "What a long strange trip it's been". I've long since stopped all drugs and alcohol over 20 years ago now, and couldn't have done it without music, guitar, and introspection. I had no rock (no person or advocate) to help me. I stopped smoking "weed" about 5 years ago, but to me it's a medicine. I didn't really think it was a medicine until I stopped and fully realized the benifits it had for me. Someday I may use it more responsibly as a medicine and eat it instead. Overall, I've done pretty good and consider myself lucky. I'm not disabled and it could have been worse considering what happened to many others I knew. I probably have small lungs and lost a few IQ points along the way, but what can I do? I've made up for it with hard work and unique experiences, and strangely, I'm greatful for it.
- I stopped smoking cigarettes several times for a short period but to this day still smoke, but not nearly as much as I use to. I've got it down from a pack and a half a day to around 3-5 smokes a day now. I've been at this plateau for a few years now and that is because I still enjoy it and want to do it. I'm not ready to quit. My "addiction" is not physical, it's mental and habitual. It's the feel of the drag expanding my lungs, not nicotine. I've been experimenting with different alternatives and nothing has replaced it yet. I figure it's best to just stop the habit and it's a mental hurdle more than anything at this point. So I will get there eventually, when I really want to.
- One thing that helped me instantly cut my smoking down greatly over the years from about a pack a day to instantly 10-12 smokes a day to now 3-5 was changing to these cigarettes. They are the best smoke there is. I've tried them all and these are by far the best, even compared to the same brand and even the light version of these. These are the best. Chemical free, after about a pack or 2 you start breathing, smelling things (and smelling) and tasting things, and thinking better too. After you smoke a couple packs of these everything else tastes like newspaper. They cost more, but you end up spending less money overall while smoking a better smoke, because you will end up smoking less. They are top North Carolina tobacco with a non-hot-boxable filter and in a maduro cigarette wrap. The do not taste like cigars or cloves or anything. They are a cigarette through and through. Super smooth goodness. They get stronger about half way through and are perfect with (oddly enough) a glass of cold chocolate milk, or after a fat steak dinner or cheeseburger, a cool breeze, after sex, etc. and all that other cliche stuff.
- Eventually I will stop smoking altogether, but until then these are it. They're called Sherman's MCD's. You can get them from most smoke shops. Get the queen size skinny ones, not the king size. They are different and smoke different.
- Here people can talk about anything smoking (within the site rules). What cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco do you like, dislike etc. What accessories do you like. What health problems do you have etc. How did you start. What path did it lead you down. How did you quit and for how long. How do people treat you because of it, etc. All that stuff. What's your story? So I'll start.
- I started smoking at age 10. I'm in my mid 40's now. It was the mid 80's and back then cigarettes and cigars were kept in the aisle's next to the candy in the gas stations and convenience stores where I lived. You could smoke everywhere even in fast food places and the grocery store too! Even some doctor's offices! WTF!
- One day a freind of mine and I went to the gas station to get some drinks and candy after we had been skateboarding all day. There was an old lady in like her 80's working there. On the way out she yelled at us and grabbed my freind by the shoulder. Apparently he had stolen a pack of Winstons and she yelled at him; "If you want those you're gonna have to pay for them!" After hearing this news we were pretty stoked! From that day forward she let us buy anything we wanted (literally). We could buy cigarettes, chew, porno mags, even hard liquor and beer! As long as we paid for it. We would save our lunch money and started going after school to buy stuff. So at 10 and 11 years old I started smoking and drinking. We would go in the forest on our minibikes, light bonfires and party it up. Good times are great while they last. At one point I was even hopping trains to the next county to skate and hook freinds up.
- It was a great thing for awhile but not until years later did I realize it wasn't. I later developed alcohol and developmental problems and didn't stop until I was about 21. I took me years to even realize it. I've had about 12 beers and 12 shots in the the last 20 years. One per occasion. I also got into many other drugs over the years and understand the phrase "What a long strange trip it's been". I've long since stopped all drugs and alcohol over 20 years ago now, and couldn't have done it without music, guitar, and introspection. I had no rock (no person or advocate) to help me. I stopped smoking "weed" about 5 years ago, but to me it's a medicine. I didn't really think it was a medicine until I stopped and fully realized the benifits it had for me. Someday I may use it more responsibly as a medicine and eat it instead. Overall, I've done pretty good and consider myself lucky. I'm not disabled and it could have been worse considering what happened to many others I knew. I probably have small lungs and lost a few IQ points along the way, but what can I do? I've made up for it with hard work and unique experiences, and strangely, I'm greatful for it.
- I stopped smoking cigarettes several times for a short period but to this day still smoke, but not nearly as much as I use to. I've got it down from a pack and a half a day to around 3-5 smokes a day now. I've been at this plateau for a few years now and that is because I still enjoy it and want to do it. I'm not ready to quit. My "addiction" is not physical, it's mental and habitual. It's the feel of the drag expanding my lungs, not nicotine. I've been experimenting with different alternatives and nothing has replaced it yet. I figure it's best to just stop the habit and it's a mental hurdle more than anything at this point. So I will get there eventually, when I really want to.
- One thing that helped me instantly cut my smoking down greatly over the years from about a pack a day to instantly 10-12 smokes a day to now 3-5 was changing to these cigarettes. They are the best smoke there is. I've tried them all and these are by far the best, even compared to the same brand and even the light version of these. These are the best. Chemical free, after about a pack or 2 you start breathing, smelling things (and smelling) and tasting things, and thinking better too. After you smoke a couple packs of these everything else tastes like newspaper. They cost more, but you end up spending less money overall while smoking a better smoke, because you will end up smoking less. They are top North Carolina tobacco with a non-hot-boxable filter and in a maduro cigarette wrap. The do not taste like cigars or cloves or anything. They are a cigarette through and through. Super smooth goodness. They get stronger about half way through and are perfect with (oddly enough) a glass of cold chocolate milk, or after a fat steak dinner or cheeseburger, a cool breeze, after sex, etc. and all that other cliche stuff.
- Eventually I will stop smoking altogether, but until then these are it. They're called Sherman's MCD's. You can get them from most smoke shops. Get the queen size skinny ones, not the king size. They are different and smoke different.
