Are you a smoker?

[Kodos]

Public poll to come.

For the sake of simplicity, our definition of smoking includes both tobacco products and vaping. If you tried a few cigarettes at some point, but were never a regular smoker, you should choose the "never smoked" option.

[JonInMiddleGA]

2 packs a day, give or take a half pack depending on sleeping.

Which is way down from the 4'ish I smoked/burned when I first arrived at the FOFC.

[thesloppy]

I pretty consistently smoked a pack a day for like 15 years, and quit like 10 years ago. I don't miss anything about cigarettes themselves, but as an anxious doofus I do occasionally miss the excuse to step out of any situation and go be alone for 10 minutes.


...still smoking that weed everyday tho, if that applies.

[MacroGuru]

Never smoked cigarettes, but I like a good cigar every once in a while, with my bourbon...

[Kodos]

I think marijuana users smoke for a different reason than vapers and smokers. But, I could be wrong.

[RomaGoth]

Originally Posted by MacroGuru

Never smoked cigarettes, but I like a good cigar every once in a while, with my bourbon...

+1

[RomaGoth]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

2 packs a day, give or take a half pack depending on sleeping.

Which is way down from the 4'ish I smoked/burned when I first arrived at the FOFC.

My lungs hurt just reading this.

[MrBug708]

Just spoke to my 5th graders about this today. Nobody had any parents who smoked and we worked out reasons why people would start smoking and thankfully none of them were able to l come up with any positive reason to start smoking cigarettes. We established no relevant reason to start with only terrible consequences to. It makes me realize there might be hope for the future afterall.

[Solecismic]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

It makes me realize there might be hope for the future afterall.

I don't know. Young people are feeling the burn in different and perhaps even more self-destructive ways these days.

[spleen1015]

I used to be a pack a day smoker. Quit 1/17/2007.

[molson]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Which is way down from the 4'ish I smoked/burned when I first arrived at the FOFC.

In New York in 2015, that would cost $19,710 a year if you bought by the pack.

[lungs]

Been going on a pack per week. Now that bowling is done, I maybe have one after dinner but that's pretty much it for the day.

[CrimsonFox]

Let's ask Brooke Shields what she thinks...

[PilotMan]

I started smoking when I was partying, and it didn't take long before I realized that I wanted to light up when I wasn't partying. I stopped that shit cold. I'll have one every few years when I'm partying, but otherwise I hate the taste it leaves in my mouth the next day.

I'm still campaigning for weed for pilots, cause that makes sense right?

[sovereignstar v2]

Started when I was 13 or 14 and hanging around the bad crowd. Then it was a smoke or two a day since we mainly got them from stealing at 7 eleven or Walmart. At my peak I'd maybe smoke a pack on a day there was a big party, but mostly a pack would last a few days. I quit cold ten years ago when I was 24.

[Izulde]

I used to not be an every day one, and would go months without. Last spring I started up again. Up to between half and full pack a day, which is far more than I ever have.

[Groundhog]

Growing up in a house where everyone smoked, I'm a bit surprised I never even considered trying a single one. I think the reason was probably a 50/50 split between how sporty and active I was growing up, and how pragmatic I tend to be.

[CU Tiger]

Never smoked. I dipped snuff and chewed loose leaf for 10+ years.

Quit cold turkey when I watched my then 3 year old son walking around the house spitting in a cup to "be like dad"...

I literally got sick to my stomach at that site. In the 12 years since I've probably chewed/dipped 15 times. Never in front of him.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Groundhog

Growing up in a house where everyone smoked ...

I'll note here that I was basically around no one, growing up I mean, that smoked. My grandfather was browbeaten into quitting before I arrived even.

Never touched one, nor even considered one at all, until I was 19.

First office job, 2 men (counting me) and 29 women. 27 of them smoked.
Much of our business was conducted in the smoking areas frankly.

I started smoking within 4 months.

[BYU 14]

Smoked between 15 and 31, even the years on the front end when I was an 'athlete' and in incredible shape. It's Weird, but smoking never affected my physically or dinged my cardio until I hit 30 then it was like overnight. Didn't take long to quit after that.

In regards to the smoking in the house, my kids were around me (though I smoked outside) and one set of grandparents who smoked every day, but they always hated it and begged me to quit. When I did they were ecstatic and we made a pact to stay away from cigarettes forward.

Now, two of them smoke and another one vapes and it absolutely kills me. I don't even know that it would make a difference, but I sometimes wish I would have quit before they were born, like I feel it contributed to them starting.

Edit: Also a bit surprised there are not more former smokers here. Seems like well over half the people I knew smoked in the 80's and 90's on a daily basis and a bunch others socially.

[cartman]

My mom and dad were heavy smokers when I was growing up, but I never picked up the habit. They both quit cold turkey in the late 90s.

[cuervo72]

Nope. Only ever tried it a couple of times in my early 20s when I was really, really drunk.

Grew up in a house with a dad who smoked cigars; I weirdly have fond memories of that (or maybe not so weird). Have a grandmother who smoked cigarettes - probably still does - and I couldn't stand the smoke. But that's about it - my mom doesn't smoke, her mom didn't, my aunts don't, my grandfather doesn't.

I can't think of anyone from my wife's family who smokes. My kids think it's just dumb, and I had to stop my son from making disparaging comments within earshot of smokers when he was younger (dude, don't write checks with your 8yo mouth that my 34yo ass can't cash!)

[Drake]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

I'll note here that I was basically around no one, growing up I mean, that smoked. My grandfather was browbeaten into quitting before I arrived even.

Never touched one, nor even considered one at all, until I was 19.

First office job, 2 men (counting me) and 29 women. 27 of them smoked.
Much of our business was conducted in the smoking areas frankly.

I started smoking within 4 months.

Similar to my story. Nobody smoked in my house. My dad was a preacher.

Started smoking after I turned 18, mostly because the guys I hung out with did. Wasn't any peer pressure, just liked the smell of Camels.

I've smoked about a pack a day since then. I can easily draw a line between ever work promotion and every major, high profile job assignment I've ever gotten to smoke breaks with older bosses.

(Funny story: I spent about six months smoking out behind our building on campus -- before we went smoke free -- with an older dude from another department. We swapped enough work gossip that I gathered he headed up a unit, but I assumed he was essentially a dead end middle manager like my boss (I was just a junior programmer back then), though he did have some great stories about the political maneuvering bullshit that goes on in a major American university.

I bumped into him while out at lunch one day with my boss. Chatted a bit, gave him some shit, called him by his first name. My boss freaked out.

Turns out the guy was one of the university VP's. Shocked the hell out of me, but taught me an important lesson: in a smoking hostile environment, there's no rank among smokers. Just solidarity.)

I'll probably quit one of these days. It's getting to be too much of a pain in the ass to find convenient places to smoke at work.

[SirFozzie]

Watched my mom try to quit, fight lung cancer for over a decade. Never have, never will.

[Groundhog]

The smoking laws have gotten so strict over here in Australia that I'll be surprised if the current gen of teenagers ever become smokers in big numbers. You can't smoke any where near most office buildings, and even in bars you can't smoke anywhere near any place where they serve food. When the weather is bad you see a handful of smokers huddled around cover a few mins walk away from the building, but far less than you ever would before - say 5+ years ago.

[Marc Vaughan]

Smoked for years, then gave up when my kids were very little ... started again a few months after my divorce and then gave up around four to five months ago ..

Still kinda miss smoking (I've never been someone who 'hates' smoking - I always enjoyed it, even the smell I'm afraid), but I know its better for me not to do so.

[Alf]

Been a "party smoker". But when I realized that my headaches were stronger when I drank and smoked, I had two options for partying :
1 - stop drinking
2 - stop smoking

I took the easy "stop smoking" way sicne there was no way I would stop drinking ^^

[RomaGoth]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

...and I had to stop my son from making disparaging comments within earshot of smokers when he was younger (dude, don't write checks with your 8yo mouth that my 34yo ass can't cash!)

This. Is. Awesome.

[timmae]

4-5 stogies a weeks for me... Best stress reliever I have found so far.