The smoking thread

[Woeler]

I have no problem with it at all. I only smoke at parties, not in everyday life. It just helps me relax and have a good time. I know it is bad but I smoke like 30 cigarettes a year so xD

[SophieCub]

I don't support anyone who smokes but I don't judge the people either. I will drink alcohol when I'm ALOT older but not smoke. My mum used to smoke, she was on and off it for years. I used to smell the smell everyday and I hated it, made me feel sick. She started when she was about my age, I didn't ever want to end up like her. Luckly she has stopped but shes addicted to the gum that helps you stop smoking and now thats gave her gum disease. I do think it can destroy your life. There are people in my class in school who smoke and I'm always the one who has to sit next to them, and they stink. Seriously people, if you smoke, please try and smell nice. xD So.. no I don't smoke.

[FlipMode]

It's funny because I agree that it makes people stink oddly enough I Hate crossing paths with someone who is smoking when I'm not. And I don't really know why I still do smoke tbh Az; I think that besides the addiction it's like a forced habit at this point. Like I am a genuinely pretty active person, I go on bike rides, play sports and such and I dislike wasting time so when I get breaks at college or work I will go out and light up, so that in my mind I'm actually doing something. So it is a combination of nicotone addiction, downright boredom and stress relief I guess.
Not that my life is stressful but it's a nice way to chill out after doing a nice amount of work.

I would like to quit though; it's quite expensive. I think it's about £6.80 a pack now! Buy a pack at least once a week or two so around £10 a week. Doesn't seem like much but it's £30 a month or so, and Jesus that's like £360 a year for the privelage of lowering my lifespan. Especially when I'm trying to save for university ATM; tell you what I will try again to quit after I finish my current pack; I don't really know how to though, I mean if I'm going to do it; only way is to go cold turkey and that is what is difficult about it, well we shall see.

[Shadowfax]

Im 23 and i've never smoked, nor even thought about putting a cigarette in my mouth. I dunno why, but i've always hated the idea and I would hate to waste so much money each week paying for boxes of cigarettes.

I don't have a problem with people who do smoke though. It's their choice at the end of the day. The only time it annoys me is when people will start smoking all around me and I have to move because I can't stand the smell D: A few of my mates smoke, but I never smell cigarettes on them, unless they've gone outside for a cigarette and come back into my flat, but that lingers for five mins, then it's gone.

I think i can safely say i'll never smoke xD

[HellmotherEva]

I don't support smoking, I really hate this smell of cigarette-smoke, but my dad smokes too and he stinks after that... When I was young I was all the time afraid that he will die one day, but now... I don't care anymore. My dad is adult and if he would really WANT to stop smoking he would DO it.

[RayCat]

Well, I don't think I'm ever going to smoke, since I'm already asthmatic I don't have anything against people that smoke, but if someone were to light up right in front of me then I'd have to move away- not to be rude of course, I just don't want to have another coughing fit :c I'm surprised at how expensive cigarettes have become now, personally I think its the government tip-toeing into trying to stop people smoking all together.
And ooooh I didn't know Flip-Flop smoked lol x3 which really doesn't bother me btw (M'DEAR), as long as you don't light up like 10 cigs when we eventually see one another xD

[Lauren]

One sentence:

I will never smoke EVER in my life because I am against it.

[cleargreenwater]

I smoked...for a little over 10 years, and was up to about a pack, pack and a half a day when I quit.

In the end what moved me to was, I was at a good friend's very very dear uncle's funeral (who died from diabetes, not from anything smoking related or didactic like that,) and knew she used to smoke but noticed there she wasn't. I asked her about it, and she said she quit because her uncle never liked that she smoked and when he went into the hospital that it just seemed disrespectful all of a sudden. And I looked at my own grandfather at the wake and kinda understood. So a few months later when my dog died...I have a thing I do that whenever someone meaningful to me dies I commit to making one lasting lifestyle change in their memory. It isn't always something big like smoking, for my grandmother I just got in the habit of always turning the lights off behind me, lol, but for my very beloved dog only something big would do and I had the right mentality to seriously tackle quitting.

It wasn't easy. It took one year of Wellbutrin, tons of nicotine replacement gum (chewing which in turn permanently screwed up my jaw,) stacks of nicotine lozenges when I couldn't chew the gum, and quite literally POUNDS UPON POUNDS of in-shell peanuts to keep my hands and mouth busy, but it's been permanent for about 5 years now. I'll always consider myself an ex-smoker versus a non-smoker though because I don't want to ever forget how hard it was to quit.


I actually don't have an issue with smoking being banned in public places, especially indoors. It's proven fact that second hand smoke is dangerous and its a matter of public health and safety to restrict people's exposures to it.

To me though, I draw a distinction (and a line in the sand) when disapproving of smoking becomes disapproval of a given smoker's lifestyle. I have never wanted to start smoking again more than when an aunt visited my mother (who does still smoke,) and felt the liberty to repeatedly say "that's disgusting" during the visit whenever my mother stepped into the kitchen under the stove vent for a cigarrette, and when she wasn't, to constantly drop "it smells in here". To that, my feeling is the same as it is towards people who don't like dogs (of which she was also one): the homeowner has done their best to accomodate (putting the dog away, smoking under a vent in another room,) a guest, but you also have an obligation, particularly as a vistor, to not condemn, judge, or disparage another's life choices.


So in the end my feelings towards smoking is exactly this---There is no reason it should not be curbed in public spaces, but also don't tell or demand anyone to quit unless you're appreciative and respectful of the challenge doing so would pose and are prepared to support the person through it.

[MrTitans]

I do not smoke and I do not judge people who do it also when I am near people who do it gives me a migrane so I will never smoke. I may drink alcohol at parties but nothing to severe like 1 drink but it does hurt your health

[UncoordinatedPisces]

I've never tried, but I want to try at least one lol. I have friends who smoke at school and apart from the fact I can't go by them when they're smoking otherwise I'll stink, I have no problem with it. Apart from the fact they are killing themselves when they do. My nan quit smoking after she had her heart attack, after 60 years of doing it. Is addiction really that addictive (if you know what I mean)? Because if my nan can quit after 60 years, can't other people?