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do you smoke? what brand? how long have you smoked? have you ever quit? how long did it last? do you want to now? smoking: turn on or off?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i just gave up you bastard!!!

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i have gone through three packs of camels in the last two or three days. my nerves are shot to shit lately.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

btw i filed this under "cuisine"

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i would step over my own grandmother for one right now. but i musn't. i musn't

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

also i've been smoking on and off since i was 12 (!) which makes it 13 years now (!!). i have quit, but never for very long. (no longer than six months for sure.) i have no desire to quit right now. it's neither a turn on or off for me.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I light up when I feel like it and can afford it. Smoking is fantastic as long as it doesn't inconvenience me (no way am I going to freeze outside in the snow just to smoke). Like any other vice, it's great in moderation.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm cutting down lately. I'm trying to be good and make a pack last 3 days or more. Some days I dont smoke at all, others I'll have half a pack of an evening. Dunno why. I only took it up 3 years ago which is really f'in stupid. I'd like to stop again - for one thing, it is tied too strongly to drinking, and this is Bad. Plus, it smells and so does my flat.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i smoke about a pack of camel lights a day. poverty has kept me from keeping this up lately, sadly. or not sadly, i guess!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the wawa (local convenience store chain) is selling camels for buy one get one free. along with the jalapeno cheese filled soft pretzle, this means that they are in fact slowly trying to murder me.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i really enjoyed smoking, but (a) i can't justify doing it after the age of 30, which is fast approaching and (b) it was doing terrible things to my voice, which i'm not putting up with.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Had just picked it up again after three years away. Quit again after about six months. It can be fun but the way it aggrevates my asthma is not fun. Also it makes you smell. I hate talking to smokers.

I liked to smoke American Spirits and then Camels

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I smoke Camel Filters. I gave it up for a couple months when I hit three packs a day (!!) and now I smoke about 3/4 of a pack daily. I like Jess have been on and off since I was 12 so ten years for me.

I love smoking. I take pleasure in every single cigarette I smoke. It's not a burden for me at all. If it became so I would try and quit again. As it is it's something I enjoy and in Louisiana it's a very cheap vice (~ $20 a carton for Camels).

This guy in one of my classes last year claimed his dad invented American Spirits. He did have a large collection of vintage AmSpirit t-shirts and was from New Mexico. He smelled kinda funny though. Plus he didn't look anything like the silhouette on the pack.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thetobaccoshop.com/images/4799510010a.JPG

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I quit smoking regularly about a year-and-a-half ago. I had been at a little under two packs a day for two years. Stopped altogether for a year, for the last six months I've bummed one or two a month.

Camel Lights and Camel Turkish Golds were my cigarette of choice, occasionally Lucky Strikes (for the package), and the new Marlboros that look like Camels aren't bad.

I'm tempted to take it back up for the flavored Camels.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Currently Pocket Edition 30gram rolling tobacco, I can make one last just over a week. Never tried quitting. Probably will eventually, Jim's 30 thing has occurred to me too, but since I look pretty stupid anyway that might not be enough to stop me.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Rolling your own looks like too much work.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"buy one get one free"??! if they ever tried that here the city would be in ruins

― jones (actual), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"@llen C@rrs E@SYwAY stop smoking" is brilliant. Its a book I read 2 weeks ago and havent looked enviously at smokers since. BOyf did it too- he was packadayman and apart from a brief aggravation with some scissors and throwing some of his shirts out the window of our 2nd story appartment all went well. Oh yeah then the all blacks lost the rugby and he clambered onto the ledge... BUT HE DIDNT have a cigarette!!!

― mintybreath, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i smoke half a pack a day, brand varies depending on the country. when in Canada, i smoke duMaurier Light King Size. in the U.S., either Camel Lights, Marlboro Lights or those Marlboro No.27s. in Singapore, either Dunhills, Benson & Hedges, or Pall Mall Lights.

can you tell that i'm trying to destroy brand loyalty in the hope that it'll be easier to quit?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

my mom smokes a lot
my brother smokes even more
I have never smoked

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

My partner smokes way more than I do. I'm trying to cut down with view to giving up - he doesn't seem to want to even think about stopping. I am in ph33r that if I stop, I'm going to start thinking he stinks or the smoke annoys me. Not sure what to do about that if it happens. Make him smoke out on the balcony or just suck it up, I guess.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't get the whole "smokers stink" thing - to me, the stinkiest smokers are the sort of people who would smell anyway. fresh smoke on an otherwise clean person is a smell i really like.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah cause you used to smoke and have pleasant associations with that smell.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

people who smoke a lot tend to have stinky, stale cig. breath. (unless they are hyper aware of this and munching on gum when not smoking.)

also if you don't smoke and get into a car where someone smokes, or walk into a smokers apt. . GAG!! it smells so foul.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm. i can see where you're coming from.. certainly stale smoke is awful and i can't imagine not chewing gum or having a mint after a ciggy.. and i'd never smoke in my own house

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey! Smoking's bad for you! It destroys your next reincarnation

― Labia, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

To me, smokers stink most after they've smoked in the rain. Something about humidified smoke makes it quite rank. I smoke about a pack per two days and I'm still cutting down, hope to quit by new years.

― Dancing Queen, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah by stinky I meant mainly in clothes and hair and the stale smell in the house, of which I'm already very much aware. I also find it odd that even though I'm a smoker, I never smoke in the daytime, so the idea of Nick getting up and having a puff in the loungeroom first thing revolts me. Thats kinda strange.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

not smoking at home was the best thing for cutting down. in my previous flat i smoked inside and the only times i didnt' have a fag was when i was in the shower or asleep

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldn't smoke in my old apartment, so I didn't do it that much. Now I live with a smoker, and I feel like I have been smoking so much more. I smoke Camels, Lucky Strikes, sometimes Winston Lights, and sometimes, when I have a little extra money and am in a silly mood, Gauloises. We use lots of Febreeze. I should quit soon, maybe.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i smoke like a fish. i also quit all the time, sometimes for months at a time. i don't smoke inside my apartment now, forcing myself out onto the fire escape in the hopes that i will freeze myself out of the habit.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.margaritate.com/images/2000_04/fish%20smoking%20a%20cigarette.jpg

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I've smoked for 15 or so years. I've quit twice (once in high school for a year and a half or so, once last year for nine months). I'll smoke whatevers handy, but I've been tending towards lights lately. I probably smoke a pack and a half at most these days (a lot less than I was smoking last year at this time) but the most I've ever smoked was up near three packs a day (which I don't recommend doing.) I'm gonna smoke right now (THANKS A LOT FOR REMINDING ME TO, HARVELL YOU FUCKER) and smoking is a turn on when I am smoking and a complete turn off when I am quitting.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a cigarette in the shower once

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i tried but it was unsuccessful. in the bath is v enjoyable tho

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

a pack of marlboro reds a day. tried to quit 2 mths ago, but i didn't succeed.

― Chimney (llamasfur), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I dont understand how one can get thru 3 pax a day with a job. COuld you smoke on the job? Did you take smokos every half an hour?

I chain-smoke of an evening sometimes (I never smoke during the day) and even then I'd never get thru more than 1 1/2 pax. Mind you this is pax of 30.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

So at an old temp job (in Missouri for MONSANTO of all people) I had there was this guy who smoked something like 5 packs a day (and he LOOKED it too). Anyway, this guy had some pretty important job and he was a real whiz about it to, so there was no question about not wanting him to continue working there, but APPARENTLY he could not go like maybe 10 minutes without having a cigarette. He would literally leave 4 or 5 times during the many hour long meetings that he had to have throughout the day. It finally got so silly that the company actually moved his office into the SMOKING lounge and he apparently conference called into every meeting he had to attend.

Anyway, in answer to how I smoked that much: You are in school. You don't sleep much. You take lots of breaks at work (I was very close to a quite exit.) Everyone you know smokes and you chain-smoke all the time. Then laws pass and suddenly you can't smoke ANYWHERE near a building or in a bar or in a club or in most cafes and suddenly everyone cuts way down.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

smoking is so gross...i don't know how i avoided taking it up myself, of course i do every other gross thing there is...man the other day i was sleeping in someone's bed who smokes & stuff & the bed stank, really horrible, & was full of tobacco crumbs & ash & like i got up to go to the can & there was a cigarette butt stuck to my ass!

― outlawed electrical & thermal waepons (doorag), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

a cigarette ass stuck to my butt

― outlawed electrical & thermal weapons (doorag), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the way cigs taste and the smell doesn't usually offend me.

Smokers themselves can be obnoxious. Nonsmokers can be obnoxious too. I smoke sometimes but I'm not obnoxious about it.

― ethereal cereal (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

duane i think you should take it up i really do

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

at least for a day or two anyways

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

On and off for four years up until this June, but even at my most habitual (senior year of college), it was no more than like five cigarettes a day. When I started, I smoked Benson & Hedges Ultra Light 100 Menthols (!), because, uh, that's what my girlfriend smoked. Then I switched to Parliament Lights; they seemed like a solid brand without being as ubiquitous (and thus lame) as Camel or Marlboro. Also, I always had a soft spot for Parliaments, even before I started smoking, since I read they were Christina Ricci's brand of choice. After that, I smoked American Spirit Lights, happy to support the independent tobacco companies until someone told me that Philip Morris owned them, too. Whatever. I gave up because I was having weird heartbeat problems, and I wanted to play it safe (I also gave up caffeine). Ultimately, not that big of a deal -- it was never a huge part of my life. But man, there are definitely times I'd like one. Even if it's just to take a break and go outside with someone. I love smoke-break conversations.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I quit two years ago, but I'm still all in favour of it, and still like it, so I pinch one off friends now and then. I really enjoy those cigarettes, and I am feeling HUGELY stressed right now (house purchase problems) and feel tempted to buy my first pack since 2001.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I dont understand how one can get thru 3 pax a day with a job. COuld you smoke on the job? Did you take smokos every half an hour?

I smoked a lot when I was a cook at a really gross restaurant. I felt like a big badass stirring the vat of spinach-and-artichoke crud with my arm while smoking a cigarette with my non-dipped hand. Also see: smoking while playing pool and smoking while changing a tire.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

20 a day weekends/fridays, about 5 otherwise unless i'm out (rare except the kino).

― enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Smoking during sex is great too, although it renders powerless the expression, "There's smoke comin' outta ya now, baby!"

― Dancing Queen, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

thee only thing smellier than a smoker's car (w/r/.t whoever mentioined this upthread) is a dog-owners car.

I don't smoke, but occasionally am tempted to buy a lump ov h4sh, and stick it up my bum*

*(I'm not really)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

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Man, you’re so mellow today.

― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:03 (one year ago)

https://www.heraldnews.com/gcdn/authoring/2019/10/16/NHER/ghows-WL-9508d9f3-0512-1143-e053-0100007fa4eb-dc31b9ff.jpeg

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:03 (one year ago)

Man, you’re so mellow today.

Trying

― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:04 (one year ago)

vaping or smoking are just different delivery systems for the same addiction and earlier this summer I was doing both. And I will post about it wherever I choose it is relevant to. I'm not getting thread policed by the resident asinine kids-in-bars-dad-bore.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:28 (one year ago)

Look at the title of the thread

― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:32 (one year ago)

yes I did

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:33 (one year ago)

lol
Does it say “vaping?”

― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:34 (one year ago)

Are you going to post about the Grateful Dead in the Little Feat thread too?

― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:35 (one year ago)

calzinars

― liberace_smoking_weed.jpeg (m bison), Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:37 (one year ago)

I don't really care about the distinction between how you suck in nicotine, it's like the difference between a heroin addict who shoots it or smokes it off tinfoil for me. There are distinctions, but the common theme is addiction. Stop being such a fucking wilful troglodyte. Are you saying you can't post about addiction on a smoking thread?

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:42 (one year ago)

you tedious bore

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:43 (one year ago)

I’m trying to sympathize with you cal, mainly because our tags share three letters, but this is not a thread about addiction or nicotine. It’s about setting tobacco or another substance on fire

― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:45 (one year ago)

you don't have the power to define the parameters the parameters of this thread, fortunately. suck it in

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:52 (one year ago)

lol ok!

― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2024 21:53 (one year ago)

just to further outrage your sense of thread fidelity: Nicotine pouches seem a better solution than the chewing gum. You just place them under your top lip and the membranes in your gums absorb the nicotine. They've been invaluable to me on days when the patch falls off my arm and I start experiencing the anxious irritability and concentration collapse that withdrawal brings.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 24 August 2024 22:01 (one year ago)

I was chastised in the “bar rescue” thread for thinking it was a a thread about rescuing drowning people at the bar but instead it was about some UK tv show?

― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2024 22:07 (one year ago)

xpost woah that's the vape version of Skoal Bandits

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 August 2024 22:15 (one year ago)

It’s like rebranded snus isn’t it?

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 24 August 2024 22:16 (one year ago)

no, they don't contain any tobacco derivatives at all just nicotine. For me it's just a short term solution, will be using them a couple of months max

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 24 August 2024 22:20 (one year ago)

Whatever you do, don’t let dogs get hold of them!

― guillotine vogue (suzy), Saturday, 24 August 2024 22:25 (one year ago)

yeah, that would be deadly.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 24 August 2024 22:29 (one year ago)

Tf @ the two cals going at it about nicotine 😱

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 24 August 2024 23:26 (one year ago)

I'm just posting about stopping smoking/vaping on a smoking thread. Apologies for being so contentious, actually no!

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 24 August 2024 23:32 (one year ago)

Business as usual

― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2024 23:33 (one year ago)

Every time I see calzone post I burst out laughing

― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2024 23:34 (one year ago)

wow keep it up, one of you will definitely win

― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 24 August 2024 23:39 (one year ago)

I’m a little disappointed that the lurker community didn’t back me but hey

― calstars, Saturday, 24 August 2024 23:57 (one year ago)

damn you guys need a cigarette.

― scott seward, Sunday, 25 August 2024 00:07 (one year ago)

Pretty hyped to turn 60 or so, give up on life completely and take up smoking again (unless packs are $30 each by then).

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, August 24, 2024 2:02 PM bookmarkflaglink

I started at 17. When I quit around 34, I told myself I'd allow myself to consider it again when I was 51...

... which is coming up!

― pplains, Sunday, 25 August 2024 00:10 (one year ago)

always remember that black tar you cough out of your lungs after the first few days of stopping (because your lung tissue is slowly becoming functional again). I have been through this a few times now so haven't forgot it. But still I think this is my 4th time stopping!

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 25 August 2024 00:22 (one year ago)

I'll just quit again when I'm 68.

― pplains, Sunday, 25 August 2024 00:24 (one year ago)

Respect

― calstars, Sunday, 25 August 2024 00:24 (one year ago)

Cicada cycles

― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 25 August 2024 00:40 (one year ago)

Bartender gave me a parliament light and I’m in chill heaven lol

― calstars, Saturday, 7 September 2024 03:48 (one year ago)

“I have to just stop”

― calstars, Saturday, 7 September 2024 03:59 (one year ago)

Personally I feel I have been fortunate to avoid addiction to nicotine. I enjoy it once in a while but it’s never on mind like weed and beer are

― calstars, Saturday, 7 September 2024 04:01 (one year ago)

*on my mind

― calstars, Saturday, 7 September 2024 04:10 (one year ago)

Smoked P Funks for 6 or 7 years before switching to American Spirit Yellows - when I smoked a Parliament after a couple of years of Spirits it was rough. Marlboro Reds tasted better.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 7 September 2024 04:17 (one year ago)

Make my funk the p funk

― calstars, Saturday, 7 September 2024 04:22 (one year ago)

two months pass...

me when my psychiatrist asks me if i’m ready to quit smoking pic.twitter.com/iUVDbuLbix
— harm reduction hedonista🃏 (@suboxoneshawty) November 17, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 November 2024 00:14 (ten months ago)

seven months pass...

Smoking is a thing again lol

― calstars, Saturday, 5 July 2025 23:48 (three months ago)

https://i.imgur.com/TTJR6kD.jpeg

― Lady Sovereign (Citizen) (milo z), Saturday, 5 July 2025 23:53 (three months ago)

Do they still make chesterfields

― calstars, Saturday, 5 July 2025 23:56 (three months ago)

man the craft in those print ads. sumptuous.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 6 July 2025 20:46 (three months ago)

three months pass...

i was just thinking about the old dudes i used to know who would smoke basically hands free. just leave the cigarettes in their mouth, not the whole time, but for a lot longer than anyone else would be comfortable with. one was my friends dad who had a GTO that he would drag race in Commerce, GA - known for having the biggest outlet mall in the area. the other was my uncle who lived in Henderson, NY on a farm and would always call me over to the grill so i could watch him pour beer on the chicken he was cooking. here's to some real ones

― Heez, Sunday, 12 October 2025 09:59 (three days ago)

Do they still make chesterfields

They stopped making the classic non-filtered ones back in 2018, which I remember people noticed because it basically left only Pall Mall and Camel as non-filtered options in the US market. Not sure whether the brand continues in a filtered variety.

― Josefa, Sunday, 12 October 2025 12:29 (three days ago)

xp yeah i mean i've seen dudes hang sheetrock while smoking. how the smoke doesn't get into and burn their noses i'll never know, or maybe after a while you just stop being irritated by it

― budo jeru, Sunday, 12 October 2025 15:07 (three days ago)

I used to smoke without using my hands all the time when I worked as a landscaper, and also in my party years while deejaying.

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Sunday, 12 October 2025 15:19 (three days ago)

dudes i used to know who would smoke basically hands free.

Unfortunately I do find this very hot and once dated someone for 10 years that I was initially attracted to because they did this.

My predilection may have been party formed by seeing Rhett Miller (the hottest man in the world ever imo) let the guitar smoke the cigarette during shows. I die. I saw him a few years ago in a weird covid-era one-off show and I died all over again. Hottest. Man.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 12 October 2025 18:08 (three days ago)

* partly
* He did not smoke during the 2020-21 show, just to be clear. Still so hot though.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Sunday, 12 October 2025 18:09 (three days ago)

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