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when did you smoke your first cigarette?

your last?

if you're quitting should you make a big deal of your last smoke?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

first = 11 years old, in my dad's kitchen in montreal. after he'd fallen asleep.

last = coming back from lunch just now, nothing special.

3. probably not, but i always do whenever i guit. maybe this is part of why i fail.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Now of course I can only imagine Fritz dancing around a New York street set with Rita Moreno.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

don't make a big deal about it.
quitting smoking and growing a beard are the two best things you can that don't actually involve doing anything.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

First: When I was seventeen and in a school production of "Steel Magnolias" and the girl who played Ousier had to smoke Virginia Slims our director bought for her, and we "practiced" out behind the school parking lot.

Last: About thirty seconds ago.

I don't like to think about quitting.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Smoking is absolutely wonderful. I quit 5 months ago...

― Spinktor au de toilette (El Spinktor), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I quit and then I get bored of being quit, so I smoke for another month and then I quit for three weeks or something. I suck. It's a shame spiral.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

6 years old , ronald reagan had just been shot on television. i snuck outside with one of my mothers benson and hedges and had three or four puffs.

― kephm, Friday, 5 March 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I smoked my first one when I was 19. when I went to school in NYC I smoked a pack a day for that year, then cut back to about 2 cigs a day at the most when I moved upstate. then I moved to L.A. and didn't smoke for about a year, but then picked it up again. I have one a day now most of the time, which means I have a lot of stale smokes by the time I get to the end of a pack.

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

never did, had enough second-hand smoke from mom and brother. didn't even try it once. was convinced it was gross and showed moral weakness

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i wasn't stressing on the regan thing, just being a sneaky kid

― kephm, Friday, 5 March 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

first cigarette was a marlboro menthol light smoked outside of college best friend's brothers apartment in santa clara, ca. i was just amazed I didnt hack like all those people you see on the television.

last cigarette was last night approx 10pm.

apparently gear and I are on similar trajectories. im looking to cut back from my 4-5 a day to the 1-3 a day I was at before I went to trial for work.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 5 March 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I've only smoked one cigarette in my life - when I was 11 I smoked in front of my friends in a misguided attempt to appear cool.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

1st smoke i had at 16 or 17. a friend gave it to me - i had the intentions of starting because a girl i liked smoked.

i quit about 2 1/2 years ago after a little problem with my lungs collapsing whenever they felt like doing so.

never made a deal of my last smoke (since it was a week ago) (it was just one of those "i need to look cool right now - hey give me a cigarette" smokes).

+ was never in the jets

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I was 12 when I started smoking, to stop growing.

I haven't had my last one. I've been up to 2 packs a day this past week, jesus christ.

― Allyzay, Friday, 5 March 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

1st smoke - high school, first time I tried ecstasy. It wasn't even a 100 - it was some super-tiny/super-girly menthol.

Last - a couple of weeks ago, when I had two tests and a critique on the same day. I smoked two on the way back from class and threw the rest of the pack out onto the highway.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

first: must have been about 10, at home sick so the house was all mine. I used to get into all kinds of mischief. Also the first time I drank whiskey and smoked my parent's pot.

last: about four or five years ago at the ruby room in Oakland.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I had my first cigarette just before I turned 18. I'd been smoking for about two years, just not cigarettes, for some arbitrary pseudo-reason -- I smoked cigars and those rock-hard cigarillo-things that used to be everywhere and then weren't. But someone asked me to pick them up a carton of Dunhill Reds, and I did, and I tried one, and bam.

So for a long time, I was "a picky smoker," and then eventually of course I was addicted enough that when I moved from Massachusetts to New Orleans, where the tobacco taxes were lower (which meant domestic brand were substantially cheaper than imports), I switched to Camels, cause they were cheap. And if I had to, I'd smoke GPCs or Sawdust'n'Suches or Uncle Chip's Smokems, or whatever the hell happened to be selling for a buck-and-some.

I've quit three times. The first was before I'd really been smoking much, and had probably never had more than four cigarettes in a day. That lasted about a year, until I decided to buy a pack of cigarettes on a whim.

The second time, I was smoking three packs a day of Dunhill reds or Davidoff Magnums, and I decided to quit in the midst of dropping out of school, breaking up with the woman I'd been living with for three years and whose kids I'd helped raise, and trying to find a new place to live -- the theory was, with that much stress, how was I gonna notice a nic fit? Only I got so edgy and pissed about nothing at all that I threw a spatula through a wall. So I started smoking again.

Third time was last November, with a couple months of tapering off to lead up to it and then a few pieces of nicotine gum. I've got two cigarettes sitting right next to the computer, and they've been there the whole time, just so that if I feel compelled to smoke, I won't buy a pack and feel like I gotta finish it.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

first = 11, last = 12

― D Aziz (esquire1983), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

15/16-22 -6 weeks and 2 weeks and a few days, here and there.

I don't really consider myself a smoker, though, except, I suppose, when I am surrounded by nonsmokers.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I confused "not a smoker" with "nonsmoker."

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

it's just as well no-one said "cocksmoker."

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"cot a smoker?"

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

No, smote a cock.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I have not even been drinking!

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Your defensiveness amuses me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Can it, Ned!

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

WAH

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I spent all morning dealing with rude customers and scraping ancient grease off a bakery floor, and I hammered my thumb with a great big hammer and don't think I wasn't glancing over my shoulder at the whiskey leftover from holiday fruitcake season, but I resisted and I am damn proud! I think I will have a cigarette.
WAH! yourself!

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I think ned's cock has just been smoked.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I do not deny RJG's wisdom.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I will never eat kielbasa again.

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

first: when I was 16, outside the mall

last: about 2 weeks after that (barring a drag or two here and there whilst drunk and holding other people's stogies)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I will never eat kielbasa again.

YOU SAY THAT NOW

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Once you go kielbasa you'll never go back?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, I guess my first ever cigarette was in a graveyard, when I was nine.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, I was actually just rethinking that...

x-post

― kirsten (kirsten), Friday, 5 March 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Was it good for you, RJG?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Abt 13 or so, at a school disco. Also copped my first feel of tit the same evening.

2. I'm starting to think I'll never manage to quit smoking

3. When I've half-heartedly tried and failed to give up cigs in the past I've never made a big deal of it, but I think next time I wld, just to see

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

dan?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

first = 18, my boyfriend smoked, so I thought why not?

My last, well, I'm not dead yet so I can't rule anything out, but officially, I quit after Mardi Gras '99.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I've been off smokes for about 3 weeks now and I don't feel any healthier or anything, I just feel like I have one less fun thing to do in life.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 May 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I never did.

But I reckon, if I survive to 65, I'll start then. I'll have earned it mate.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 May 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

it's only been 3 weeks. give it time. it's not that stopping smoking makes you healthy, it's that continuing to smoke makes you unhealthy.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 7 May 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

First at 16, walking to Basildon college. No special reason just wanted to try it out. I remember I bought 10 Silk Cut because that's what John Constantine smoked.

Last was around Memorial Day 1999, age 27. From a high of 15-20 Marlboros a day was down to 4-5 Marlboro Lights a day and just stopped then. Finished the pack and never bought another.

― rw, Friday, 7 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

First cigarette- at a party in high school. Flirting with French girl.

Last Cigarette- a few hours ago.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

First Cigarette - 18 years old, high school senior farewell party
Last Cigarette - This Wednsday before eating

― Cacaman Flores, Friday, 7 May 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Fritz you seriously haven't noticed the increased lung capacity, or more smells & better tastes in food? As I say, I love to smoke (I presently almost never do on doctor's orders: vocal stuff), but when I'm not smoking I feel better, food tastes better, breathe easier, cough less, etc

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

First - about 7 years old, my dad asked me to hold his cigarette while he went into a shop
Last - i'm smoking one right now

― don (don), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, well this is it precisely, john. usually when i quit (i have many times)i feel all the usual clean-mouthed tasty-food pink-lunged and youthful even after a few days... this time i'm feeling just as crusty and 'orrible as usual. maybe i've done permanent damage.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

First @ 15, my little sister got me started! she was 13.

I quit just a few weeks ago because I was recently diagnosed with asthma. The two don't mix. Believe me I tried.

I hate not being able to smoke.

― Aaron A., Friday, 7 May 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a bad asthmatic who smoked for years, then gave up in December 2001. Everyone assured me that I'd feel fitter and healthier and would be able to taste food more. It never happened. I restarted last December, and haven't noticed any of these things deteriorating either.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 May 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Since I quit, I haven't noticed new tastes or smells, but I grew up with smoking parents and grandparents, so I might be permanently screwed there.

I don't miss morning smoker mouth, though. Yech.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

That is cured by a cigarette, I find. I doubt I'll seriously try again to give up unless I find myself in a situation where I might get less kissing because of it. I mean, I'm getting none now, but there could be circumstances where I might get some if I gave up the cigs - that's kind of why I did it last time.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I started when I was about 18 and living in South Carolina with a boyfriend who smoked. We were out walking one night and he said here, want one? I thought, why not?

I quit the first time when I was 25 and pregnant with Spencer - started again when he was about 6 months old and I had to go back to work.

I quot again after Mardi Gras '99 because I smoked a carton and a half in a week (I had been at about 3-4 cigs a day) and got so grossed out that I couldn't stand the taste anymore.

It stinks, it's bad for you, it alienates people - it's everything I love in one small tube... but I don't do it anymore. I miss it. A lot.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I quit for alomst 5 weeks and just started up again. Missed it a lot too, and never noticed any improvement in taste or smell or anything else!
I am pretending that after this pack I will stop again. It is a pain going outside every time to smoke ( away from my son ), the smell on my clothes is awful, the extra money could be better spent elsewhere, I would like to live long enough to see my boy grow, my new man doesn't smoke and hates the smell so there are some great reasons to quit again.

pity the habit is so bluddy enjoyable!

― donna (donna), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I quot again after Mardi Gras '99

I also quit. The quot thing, well, that was just a passing fancy.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I desperately want one of the flavored Camels right now, my day has been shit.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread makes me short of breath and my mouth feel disgusting.

― RIGHTEOUS NONSMOKER (Leee), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Kind of like sex with me - boo-yah!

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

first cigarette, a marijuana cigarette, in 2002.....since then, i've only smoked about 4 or 5 more, spaced very far apart, and I hit a bong once. no other smoking outside of that, and I genuinely hate smoke

― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

First was 1993 I think. Smoked until 2001 March. Had nothing til a week ago. Hate cigarettes. Make me want to die.
I'm the operator with my pocket calculator

― gasriel, Friday, 7 May 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

First was age 15 at a Lemonheads concert. The most I smoked was a pack-and-a-half a week in college. Couldn't tolerate any more. I can't remember the last time I actually bought a pack of cigarettes.
Last one was in March bummed off of ALLYZAY of all people!! (Hurrah my good memory!!) It was after having dinner with Matos and others. (Thank you again, Allyzay.) Yeah, I bum them from time to time. But christ, too many and I feel like death the next morning.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

first when i was 8, it just got passed to me, i tried and choked - just started coughing. i didnt try again til i was 13 when i started smoking pot...throughout high school i spent all the money left over from buying music on weed then decided to cut down when i was 16. i only smoke occassionly or socially now. didnt really start smoking cigarettes until i was 17/18 though, about 10-20 a day.

― half dread, Saturday, 8 May 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

First: 14, at school, natch, in the field with the lads, natch again.
Smoked intermittently from then on til 16, nonchalantly told my parents I had been doing it and even smoked one while talking to dad. Picked it up again on a semi-regular basis at uni, ages 18-21, but mostly bumming cigs off my friends. For some reason, when I bought and smoked my own, I'd feel like shit. Due to impressive self-control, I could go through weeks of smoking and leave it behind for months (usually the summer break and disregarding the odd social smoke). Just pick it up and discard it like that. Meanwhile, my best friend went through every quit method he could think of and remained addicted.
Last: January. Probably for good too.

― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 8 May 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I smoked two last night and my mouth this morning tasted like a cat had taken a shit in it.

If I find that cat, he's in trouble.

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 8 May 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You know what cat shit tastes like? Girl, you NASTY.

― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 8 May 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

No, but I've smelled it enough to know what I imagine cat shit tastes like, and believe me, this was close.

And yes, yes I am.

So?

― luna (luna.c), Saturday, 8 May 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never smoked a cigarette in my life. I find Martin's comments really interesting, insofar as I suffered from asthma as a kid and do so occasionally now and have always regarded this as one of the key reasons why i never took up smoking - I certainly had plenty of peer pressure to do so.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 8 May 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't even try it until I was 17 - a girlfriend persuaded me to try one (in my private study at my all-boys school - I can't begin to count how many expulsions I'd have got had we been caught there. Especially, um, five minutes before the cigarette...). I've never claimed a causative link, but my asthma has never been as bad since then. I think that's probably coincidence - maybe even that it was already better than it had been not long before, so I felt able to try one, I'm not sure. Still, I've had substantial periods without them since, and I've never been able to see any difference at all in my health - except when I try to give up, as the stress and tension make my asthma a little worse, but that doesn't last long.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 May 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

So?

Let me show you the advantages of a contrite life sometime...

― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 8 May 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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