Do you smoke? (2022)

[Calliers]

22 minutes ago, AroAce Wolf said:

Nope. Never have, never will. 

 

There's nothing appealing to me about smoking cigarettes or weed. The smell is just... awful. Simply smelling cigarette smoke or weed makes me gag. I can't imagine deeply inhaling that stuff. Not to mention the long term negative affects it could have on my health. I'd rather stay far away from that stuff. 

Reason I wanna quit at 40 is after about 6 or so months your lungs rebuild 90% of integrity.... after 3 years or so it is almost as if you never smoked. But if you quit too late this doesn't happen of course because you have already lost all your regenerative abilities.

[Guest]

i'll smoke the odd cigarillo every few months, or if I go camping. if I get together with my cousins who smoke I'll join em for a bit.

I sometimes enjoy just stopping to sit on the balcony and smoke and listen to the world. nice to disconnect.

 

I don't really like weed or have any interest in it, so I avoid it. I have smoked in the past and it was... meh. I didn't get much out of it. I live in a weed legal state though so I know lots of people who do.

[Larkaloke]

Never have, never will. I've always hated the smell of smoking, and I also hate the way weed smells, so I try to steer clear of it. I'd avoid it anyway because of how bad for people it is, but I'm sure hating the way it smells makes it easier.

[blunose2772]

Don't smoke but I almost started while I was in the Navy because smokers got a break evey couple of hours to go smoke. non smokers didn't get a break.

[daveb]

I tried one puff on a regular cigarette when I was in junior high, because of a bit of peer pressure. After that I said nope, not for me. And never had any desire to try to smoke anything since then (not weed, not tobacco, nothing).  

 

When I was in high school my grandfather, a lifelong smoker who eventually quit too late, died horribly from lung cancer. My other grandfather who didn't smoke quite as much and lived into his 90s did end up with emphysema in his later years.

[Calliers]

11 minutes ago, daveb said:

I tried one puff on a regular cigarette when I was in junior high, because of a bit of peer pressure. After that I said nope, not for me. And never had any desire to try to smoke anything since then (not weed, not tobacco, nothing).  

 

When I was in high school my grandfather, a lifelong smoker who eventually quit too late, died horribly from lung cancer. My other grandfather who didn't smoke quite as much and lived into his 90s did end up with emphysema in his later years.

So sorry to hear about your two grandfathers. 🙁

 

They're in a better place now.... you'll meet them again some day hopefully.

[daveb]

1 minute ago, Calliers said:

They're in a better place now.... you'll meet them again some day hopefully.

Well, I'm an atheist and don't believe in an afterlife. I just remember the good times I had with them and what they each meant to me.

[Calliers]

3 minutes ago, daveb said:

Well, I'm an atheist and don't believe in an afterlife. I just remember the good times I had with them and what they each meant to me.

That is good... at least you remember the good times.

[steel_quill]

Never have, never will. Did have a great-grandmother who was a heavy smoker and, despite that, lived to almost 100. Personally, though, the concept just doesn't sound appealing. Inhaling the stuff that sets off kitchen alarms? Nah.

[kelico]

Nope. Never.

[paladude]

never smoked cigarettes personally. I did smoke weed occasionally in my early years of college but I don't even bother with it at all anymore.

[Sarah-Sylvia]

Sometimes I wonder how I'd feel about smoking cigarettes if they didn't have all the crap in it. why would I smoke that stuff xD.
Weed.. I think is ok occasionally, depends how it affects.

[Jelle]

Never smoked a cigarette in my life, and I wouldn't even dare, now when things have already happened relating to my health. 

I would try weed, but I'm not sure how safe it is in my condition.

[Epitaph]

Na. I probably dodged cigs pretty good since smoking related cancers got a bunch of family and I took note of how much of a wreck mum was from smoking along with everybody else. At school weed and booze was popular, but the tobacco of choice for whatever reason was chew, so that helped keep me away as well, other than my lines of thought about imbibing any kind of substance that'd make me remotely happy being too dangerous to attempt.

[Lysandre, the Star-Crossed]

I vaped (without nicotine) in the past, as an attempt to slow down my overeating and my heavy drinking. It did accomplish that, but my lungs didn't appreciate how it felt so I quit. I've gone back and forth over whether I want to try consuming nicotine without using tobacco in an attempt to accomplish the same goal. There seems to be some evidence that indicates nicotine on it's own is not nearly the health risk that smoking or smokeless tobacco is, so I've considered just consuming it in lozenge from for the potential appetite suppressant and other effects.

[Ashmedai]

Been smoking cigarettes for about 17 years now. That's about it.

[Guest]

Nope. Though for most of my childhood, up until the point in which I moved to my grandparents' house, you could have called me a second-hand-smoker. My parents smoked in the house, in the car... For the longest time they didn't even bother to open a window, so yeah...

[everywhere and nowhere]

I tried weed - although, to be honest, I don't care much about it. I don't need drugs to relax, to improve my mood, when I take drugs, I want serious exploration - therefore I only use psychedelics. But by all means I would try smoking DMT if I could get it.

As for tobacco - never tried, never will, I absolutely hate it and I'm proud of having never tried it. Cigarette smoke is extremely irritating, both from the olfactory perspective and for my allergy, and the smell of pipes and cigars makes me want to vomit.

[TheSmolFoxWeeb]

Never have never will

 

and considering that I’m 14 that’s probably a good thing

[AroAce Wolf]

15 hours ago, Calliers said:

Reason I wanna quit at 40 is after about 6 or so months your lungs rebuild 90% of integrity.... after 3 years or so it is almost as if you never smoked. But if you quit too late this doesn't happen of course because you have already lost all your regenerative abilities.

That's amazing! I had no idea the lungs were capable of that after smoking. I hope your quitting journey goes smoothly!

[Passer]

I never smoked, apart from smoking joints recreationally when I was 17-22 years old. Only on weekends and at festivals and stuff. I was a real good girl and I only entered a coffeeshop (here in Holland we call the pot selling shops 'coffeeshops' :D) when I was of legal age, mindful of getting carded. Quit it after having a somewhat bad experience, though I had plenty of good ones too. My husband (then boyfriend) rolled them, so we always knew what and how much was in our joints. Which is something you should always know, tbh. 

 

I hate the smell of (secondhand) smoke. I made my parents quit when I was 11 and I had a health class in school (guerilla warfare: refusing to sit with them when they smoked, putting up non smoking stickers all over the house; my nan helped 😉). My husband quit eventually, after we started dating.

[Guest]

I don't smoke but nearly all my exes smoked. One was a vape smoker, two of my exes smoked cigarettes. 

[Libellule]

I mostly smoke cigarettes socially these days, and pretty much only when I drink. Cigarettes are probably my one guilty pleasure because I know how bad they are for me and yet somehow I find them comforting. 

 

I have smoked weed a couple of times, but only socially, never on a regular basis and the last time I did it was like 3 years ago. The only context I could ever see myself smoking weed again in would be with some friends that I 100% trust.

[Guest]

My distant friend he smokes a lot like 12 a day or something like this.

[Calliers]

28 minutes ago, stampoc said:

My distant friend he smokes a lot like 12 a day or something like this.

I know someone who passed away of a heart attack some years ago, he used to smoke 2-3 packs a day. His doctors had told him a few weeks before that if he didn't quit smoking he was going to die, but he didn't listen. He was in his 60s. He once joked with me that if he could smoke more than one smoke at a time he would. And he sucked them back like you wouldn't believe, a smoke would last him a minute barely and it would be gone.

[Ceebs]

So I'm listening to some BBC Radio programming here, a call-in show where they're discussing the proposed changes to laws regarding buying cigarettes in the UK (which I think are stupid and I'm certainly opposed to them). Anyway, the current caller... he's over 70 and he smokes about 50 cigarettes a day. 😐 I mean I'm honestly not even judging him, I just... how???? I felt like I was smoking a lot when I was at 15 or so a day, now something like five in a day feels like a lot to me. What else are you doing with your time besides smoking if you're smoking 50 cigarettes in a 24 hour time period (and not even that, assuming you also sleep)?

[Calliers]

3 hours ago, Lady Telecaster said:

So I'm listening to some BBC Radio programming here, a call-in show where they're discussing the proposed changes to laws regarding buying cigarettes in the UK (which I think are stupid and I'm certainly opposed to them). Anyway, the current caller... he's over 70 and he smokes about 50 cigarettes a day. 😐 I mean I'm honestly not even judging him, I just... how???? I felt like I was smoking a lot when I was at 15 or so a day, now something like five in a day feels like a lot to me. What else are you doing with your time besides smoking if you're smoking 50 cigarettes in a 24 hour time period (and not even that, assuming you also sleep)?

Some people are machines when it comes to smoking....

[vin3g4r]

I replied with "other", my situation is kinda complicated.
My dad is a smoker, I smoked for the first time when I was 17 just out of curiosity, most of my classmates were doing it. I was never a heavy smoker.

Until 21 I used to smoke a couple of them only when drinking with friends, then I randomly stopped a few months before the pandemic.
When I moved abroad I started to smoke again, just because "I could". Since that I kept smoking a little bit, but I recently stopped and I hope it is for good.
Oh, I don't really like regular cigarettes, I prefer the roll-you-own ones.

 

As for weed, I smoked it a few times but it makes me paranoid so I prefer not to.

[AlsoKnownAs]

Never tried it, never wanted to. The rest of my immediate family all did until they gave it up  for medical reasons -- my sister when she  got pregnant, my mother when she developed cancer, and my father when he spent an extended stay in a hospital. I honestly would rather spend my money on books.

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[PaleMoth]

I haven't smoked tobacco for a long time. I started as a social smoker and in the beginning I found it to be beneficial as a way to calm down as I used to get terribly anxious. 

The first few years i was between 5 and  10 a day. After I finished uni, I found myself in a very dark place and started smoking heavily. I developed constant sore throats and a persistent cough. Things changed, I quit with e-cigs and took up walking. I don’t really miss it as I've  come to associate it with feeling horrible. 

I still smoke weed but not very frequently. Once every 2-4 months. I don’t use tobacco in my joints.