Welcome to Clutchcity Diner, smoking or non?

I was a social smoker in college... I smoked every weekend at bars, clubs, and parties...

However, I picked up the habit during my entire sophomore year in college...

After graduating I quit and I found it to be really easy... I was never really addicted to cigs, and I still don't know why I smoked socially... seems pointless now that I look back on that period in my life! oh well.

 

I haven't smoked a cigarette in almost 16 years....but that's because I'm almost 16.

So in other words, no I haven't ever smoked. I don't plan on it either.

 

Not a smoker, and never will be one. Can't stand the smell of the smoke at all...it's simply nasty, not to mention unhealthy.

My parents have smoked for years - and when I moved off to college, I noticed a difference (like night and day, literally) between the smell and taste of things. Second hand smoke is just as bad as smoking yourself. In any case...they keep saying they are going to quit, but don't.

The sooner you do it, the better off you'll be - and the easier it will be to do.

 

Both my parents were heavy smokers so, statisically, I should be one also. Luckily, I could never stand the taste and smell of cigarettes so I avoided that mess.

I do, however, enjoy cigars on a very infrequent basis. (No Clinton/Lewinsky jokes please...)

 

Non smoking for me please.

I would steal my moms smokes during highschool but quit when I had to start paying for them myself. That makes me smoke free since 1987.

 

uh, first available.

 

Havent smoked my whole life dont plan on starting either

 

i'm 17 and i've never smoked.

 

non

 

Um, does Skoal count? I do have the occasional cigarrette, esp. if I have a drink. My wife smokes, so the cigs are available. However, when I'm at work, I do like the feeling of just a pinch between the cheek and gum.

 

I have smoked for 2 years now, but I have never been at more then 10 a day and I usually am about 4 or 5 a day. I have tried to quit 3 or 4 times unsuccessfully. I think I could quit if it didnt go so well with beer. I could not smoke for a week, but the first time I had a beer, its over.

 

Why do smokes have to tase to good with beer. I am good about smoking until I get a beer in my hands. Its all downhill form there.

 

I'm smoking a ciggy as I write this.

Horrid habit... I've only picked it up recently... and I plan to give it up, this Tuesday.

All the way to Labor Day!!! (puff)

 

on the other hand, has anyone tried chewing tobacco?

i'll admit, one day in my sophomore year in college i went to check the mail... and a free package of it had arrived... being the stupid 19 year olds that we were, my roommate and I were curious... yeah, we knew we were falling right into the marketing ploy of the company that sent it to us, but we didn't care...

needless to say we took a hunking piece of it, put it between our back teeth and gums, and after 10 seconds quickly ran to the balcony and spit it up along with some remnants from an earlier meal!

 

I smoked for 10 years, and quit mostly cause my wife nagged me. I'd wanted to before, but she gave me the kick in the pants to do it. That was about 10 years ago. It was hard. I remember I threw my cigs in the trash one night in a fit of righteous indignation and self satisfaction. About three am, I was digging through the coffee grinds for one of the butts out of the ashtray. As I put that in my mouth, and looked for a lighter, I though, "You know, this really is pretty sick." It took about two weeks physically, and about 3 months to drop the associated behavior habits and lifestyle patterns. Still, loved the smoke, the calm, the pause for reflection in a busy day, the easy hand-to-mouth satisfaction. Too bad it's nasty, it was otherwise pretty nice.

 

I used to smoke cigars until that Freud ******* ruined it for everyone.

 

"Et pour tuer le temps, en attendant la mort,
Je fume au nez des dieux de fines cigarettes."

And to kill time while awaiting death,
I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.


-- Jules Laforgue, "La cigarette" (1880) French translation: De la cigarette... (Paris: Seghers, 1995).

(http://63.147.65.175/books/chcigarette0311.htm)

"The cigarette is the only manufactured product found in almost every corner of the world, and it is recognized—if not used—by virtually every human being on the planet. Certainly no other product is as ubiquitous. Cereal? Razor blades? Chewing gum? Not even Coca-Cola has the global reach of the cigarette. "It's a wonderful product," says Gary Black, a longtime Wall Street tobacco analyst and a former smoker. "If you give someone a cigarette in the most backwards country in the world, they will know what to do with it."

"Cigarettes are very bad for you, it is true," notes Cornell professor and author Richard Klein. "But it's only a half truth if it isn't accompanied by the proposition that by being bad, cigarettes are also very good."

 

I can't stand the smoke...give me the table farthest away please,...and make sure my tea gets filled cuz I'm a drinker!

 

Smoking is gross. Give it up as soon as possible!!!