Part-time smokers........

monet

just wondering is there any boardies out there that smoke but only the odd time like myself,the only time i smoke is when i go out for a pint,if i didn't go out for another two weeks i wouldn't touch a smoke in between !

Shryke

I know a few people who started that way. Not me thankfully.

Quazzie

Not a personal attack on you but I have always thought that people who smoke irregularly are the most idiotics spastics ever. I can understand and addiction that draws you to smoke but smoking occasionally is just retarded

MIN2511

You, me and 20,000 of us...

We are called social smokers!

NewApproach

Me very occasionally, but only cigars.

In for a penny, in for a pound etc

orestes

So long as you buy your own, no problem with me.

Can't fecking stand people who only smoke when they drink but spend every night out bumming smokes off you, bastards the lot of them

monet

orestes wrote: »

So long as you buy your own, no problem with me.

Can't fecking stand people who only smoke when they drink but spend every night out bumming smokes off you, bastards the lot of them

always buy my own i hate those bummers too with a vengance

likely_lass

orestes wrote: »

So long as you buy your own, no problem with me.

Can't fecking stand people who only smoke when they drink but spend every night out bumming smokes off you, bastards the lot of them

im convinced these people cost me at least 10 extra smokes a night, they prey on the fact that im a generous drunk

then i become the scab'ee

Captain Darling

likely_lass wrote: »

then i become the scab'ee

Scab-ette?

4zn76tysfajdxp

I smoke only when I'm drinking becuase it's like velvet. I ****ing love velvet.

orestes wrote: »

So long as you buy your own, no problem with me.

I do this.

orestes wrote: »

Can't fecking stand people who only smoke when they drink but spend every night out bumming smokes off you, bastards the lot of them

I do not do this. That annoys me also.

likely_lass

Captain Darling wrote: »

Scab-ette?

yeah i like that better

MIN2511

orestes wrote: »

So long as you buy your own, no problem with me.

Can't fecking stand people who only smoke when they drink but spend every night out bumming smokes off you, bastards the lot of them

I used to get smokes off people, i never thought much of this until a friend pointed it out...

I never did it on purpose, now i know and i always carry my own smokes(never a lighter though) and i give anyone and everyone who asks

I love cubans! They are a nice treat!

WexCan

Full timer, me. Really don't know how people can only smoke every now and then. Then again, I chain-smoke a lot.

Havermeyer

orestes wrote: »

So long as you buy your own, no problem with me.

Can't fecking stand people who only smoke when they drink but spend every night out bumming smokes off you, bastards the lot of them

I've come across a fair few full time smokers who do the same. Spend all night going from group to group bumming smokes.

The same sort that steal drinks on a night out.

Fecking bums.

On topic though, I don't see what's wrong with social smoking - there are many like you.

Steve

orestes wrote: »

So long as you buy your own, no problem with me.

Can't fecking stand people who only smoke when they drink but spend every night out bumming smokes off you, bastards the lot of them

+1000

fcuking hate smoke bums.

My boss does it all the time, passes by my office on the way out for a smoke and happens to have forgotten his half the time..:mad:
It's got to the point that I normally keep a box with only one or two in it on the desk.

raah!

Q2002 wrote: »

Not a personal attack on you but I have always thought that people who smoke irregularly are the most idiotics spastics ever. I can understand and addiction that draws you to smoke but smoking occasionally is just retarded

This satement seems to me to be a product of that anti-smoking primary school propoganda, it is a fair breach of logic to assume that people only smoke 'to be cool', or because they are addicted.

Like most other drugs, cigarettes have an affect, that's why many people smoke.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Yea I do, I enjoy a smoke but I am not addicted. Never have cravens for them etc etc. It's normally assosiated with drinking. Some nights I won't smoke when I drink though.

q2002, not everyone smokes because they have to, some enjoy it... believe it or not.

FruitLover

I have a few when I'm drinking (buy my own). Not much beats a pint and a smoke. I couldn't stand them without any booze now though (ex full-time smoker).

Q2002 wrote: »

smoking occasionally is just retarded

Why?

How about drinking occasionally, is that also retarded?
Is it only cool if you're an alcoholic?

Genghiz Cohen

I have yet to meet a 'social smoker' who wasn't fully addicted a year or so later.

Muppets.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

I have yet to meet a 'social smoker' who wasn't fully addicted a year or so later.

Muppets.

I've been doing it for 2-3 years and I'm not fully addicted. What's it to you when we smoke anyhow?

Holsten

I'd have one the odd time.

Most fun to be had is in the smoking areas.

Quazzie

Holsten wrote: »

I'd have one the odd time.

Most fun to be had is in the smoking areas.

Yea I find cancer is always fun!

4zn76tysfajdxp

Q2002 wrote: »

Yea I find cancer is always fun!

He said "smoking area," not "cancer ward in a hospital."

opr

Mr Fun wrote: »

Yea I find cancer is always fun!

I bet you get invited to lots of parties

Opr

girloperfection

Yeah used to only smoke on a saturday night when i was about 16 or 17, me and my friends thought it was the cool thing to do!

Dudess

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

I have yet to meet a 'social smoker' who wasn't fully addicted a year or so later.

Muppets.

I've been doing it for years and years. In fact, the older I get, the less I smoke. Tomorrow I'll buy 20 fags and smoke just some of them when I go out... then I won't touch them again til I go out next. If that's New Year's Eve, so be it. I cannot smoke sober any more.

Ruu_Old

Off to the smoking forum with your cancer sticks please.

h8red

Mack Putrid Reggae wrote: »

I smoke only when I'm drinking becuase it's like velvet. I ****ing love velvet.

Ah yes. Sweet velvetous cancer...it's the best type. Haha. Fcukin beautiful!!


I gave em up. Haha

Agent Smith

As a smoker, i know its bad for me.

i have no problem with social smokers,

Just one's that sponge off people continously

4zn76tysfajdxp

h8red wrote: »

Ah yes. Sweet velvetous cancer...it's the best type. Haha. Fcukin beautiful!!

I'm guessing you're not a doctor. Look, you're not literally inhaling canc-ah forget it.

h8red wrote: »

I gave em up. Haha

Haha yourself sir, you're really missing out on those flavour sticks.

Quazzie

Mack Putrid Reggae wrote: »

I'm guessing you're not a doctor. Look, you're not literally inhaling canc-ah forget it.



Haha yourself sir, you're really missing out on those flavour sticks.

OK Dr Mack Putrid Reggae are you denying the links between smoking and cancer?

4zn76tysfajdxp

Q2002 wrote: »

OK Dr Frada are you denying the links between smoking and cancer?

Nope.

Tchaikovsky

I usually only smoke when I'm drunk but I've been considering doing it more often to p1ss off Micheal Martin and his do-gooder brethren.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

I usually only smoke when I'm drunk but I've been considering doing it more often to p1ss off Micheal Martin and his do-gooder brethren.

Dude, he hasn't been Minister for Health for well over four years now.

Overheal

I've probably smoked just a bit over half a pack of cigarettes in the last 12 months. And 2 cigars. Those were nice. I can see why a chain smoker might become a chain smoker, but I cant get over the awful smell and the awful taste: you have to get me quite full of tasty alcoholic beverages before I find one appealing.

Creamy Goodness

i've smoked 2 cigars and about 3 cigarettes in my life.

one cigar at my brother's wedding.
one at the end of semester 1 of final year (surprised i made it that far).

3 cigarettes were in london when someone - who shall remain nameless - didn't have money for smokes and i drunkingly obliged to buy a pack

SAVE_ME.222

I am also 1 of these , I actually have 2 left in a 10-box of marlboro reds. Anyone know when they did away with 10-boxes here? I have smoked 8 cigarettes between then and now anyway, hope the lung cancer doesn't kill me.

MIN2511

Unfortunately smoking causes cancer, but at the end of the day we would all die either by smoking, eating or just pure luck!





BTW, i am sick of all the non smokers acting like people who smoke are aliens. We all have vices in life: alcohol, cigarettes, drugs(including cannabis), food etc

Terry

Mack Putrid Reggae wrote: »

I've been doing it for 2-3 years and I'm not fully addicted. What's it to you when we smoke anyhow?

Ah yes. The lesser known partial addiction.

Anyone taking up smoking is a complete ****ing idiot.

Anyone who thinks they won't or can't get addicted is an even bigger fool.

Ask yourself why people still buy them when it's over €8 for a packet.

Fúck it. Go and smoke. More money for the government coffers.



Typed with a cigarette in one hand.

Kinetic^

Q2002 wrote: »

Not a personal attack on you but I have always thought that people who smoke are the most idiotics spastics ever.

fyp!!!

Orange69

Q2002 wrote: »

I have always thought that people who smoke irregularly are the most idiotics spastics ever.

Skwisgaar Skwigelf?

Sam Vimes

Sam Lemon Self-denial wrote: »

Yea I do, I enjoy a smoke but I am not addicted. Never have cravens for them etc etc. It's normally assosiated with drinking. Some nights I won't smoke when I drink though.

q2002, not everyone smokes because they have to, some enjoy it... believe it or not.

You know that small bit of enjoyment will probably cost you your life right?

Wertz

Was a full timer for about 12 years (30+ a day)...packed it in about 6 yrs back and only smoke now when I drink, which I don't do a lot of either, of late.
Smoke a bit of dope most days which is probably just as damaging as regular smoking, but meh...
+1 for the hatred for people who tap you for fags all night...I've had more than a few heated arguments with those vultures. F*ck off and buy your own.

PeakOutput

eh i could of sworn i posted in this thread last night, were my posts deleted?

BTW, i am sick of all the non smokers acting like people who smoke are aliens. We all have vices in life: alcohol, cigarettes, drugs(including cannabis), food etc

most people dont talk regularly about how they have tried to quit the disgusting habit but cant and carry on smoking. thats what is annoying iv smoked and im either genetically geared to not get addicted(the exact opposite is true actually) or its the weakest physical addiction ever. its simple lack of will power that prevents people quit. i do loads of bad **** to myself i just dont bitch about how i cant help it and im a victim which alot of smokers i know do.

you want to give up then dont smoke...ever....just dont do it. if you do then carry on and enjoy it but dont pretend your trying to give up when your not

wylo

At the end of the day, Nicotine is more addictive than Heroin, Coke, Alcohol, and Hash. Your naive to think you wont get addicted sooner or later.
People that say "I smoke but I am not addicted" are lying to themselves. What you dont realise is your still getting your fix even if its only weekly,etc. You mightnt realise your addicted but for people that smoke only at the weekends try and stop for a few months and see does it begin to wreck your head.

Im a smoker for 7 or 8 years, only when im drinking but Ill now freely admit Im addicted even though I dont smoke 6 days a week, and even less if I dont go out.

My point is NOBODY here is invincible to the addiction so don't start using all the excuses to yourself like "ahh I don't have an addictive personality" or "Ive strong will power, I don't have to smoke when drinking I just enjoy them". Your lying to yourselves just like I did for years.
A smoker is a smoker at the end of the day so don't try and justify it by adding in words like "social" or "part time". Its all the same.
Their filthy and pointless and probably more dangerous than any dioxins youll find in pigs but theyre too much of a money spinner for the government to leave them go.

PeakOutput

wylo wrote: »

At the end of the day, Nicotine is more addictive than Heroin,

in equal quantities it is more physically addictive, you dont however get anywhere near as much nicotine in you from smoking as you would form shooting heroin so its not a like comparison

People that say "I smoke but I am not addicted" are lying to themselves. What you dont realise is your still getting your fix even if its only weekly,etc. You mightnt realise your addicted but for people that smoke only at the weekends try and stop for a few months and see does it begin to wreck your head.

after 24 hours of not smoking there is no physical addiction left its all mental which is why it is simply a lack of willpower that prevents people stopping

My point is NOBODY here is invincible to the addiction so don't start using all the excuses to yourself like "ahh I don't have an addictive personality" or "Ive strong will power, I don't have to smoke when drinking I just enjoy them". Your lying to yourselves just like I did for years.
A smoker is a smoker at the end of the day so don't try and justify it by adding in words like "social" or "part time". Its all the same.
Their filthy and pointless and probably more dangerous than any dioxins youll find in pigs but theyre too much of a money spinner for the government to leave them go.

i do have an addictive personality and have smoked up to ten cigarettes at one time and i never ever had a craving......i was never considered a 'smoker' though

of course smoking is addictive just nowhere near as addictive as people make out i dont think

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

wylo wrote: »

At the end of the day, Nicotine is more addictive than Heroin, Coke, Alcohol, and Hash. Your naive to think you wont get addicted sooner or later.

I cannot find the link that says heroin is more addictive than nicotine. It is more addictive than alcohol and marajuana is less addictive than caffine . It'sdifficult to compare a legal drug and an illegal drug. Of course people are going to take legal drugs. However take two people put one on heroin and the other on smoking. I guarantee the heroin user will get more addicted and do more to get his fix, will also be more damaging in the same time period.

People that say "I smoke but I am not addicted" are lying to themselves. What you dont realise is your still getting your fix even if its only weekly,etc. You mightnt realise your addicted but for people that smoke only at the weekends try and stop for a few months and see does it begin to wreck your head.

Wrong, I smoke from time to time but I am not addicted. I do not feel the need to smoke but I WANT to. I don't force it into me when I don't want it. I am not addicted.

Im a smoker for 7 or 8 years, only when im drinking but Ill now freely admit Im addicted even though I dont smoke 6 days a week, and even less if I dont go out.

Just because you lack the willpower doesn't mean I do. You are addicted, I am not. Tough

My point is NOBODY here is invincible to the addiction so don't start using all the excuses to yourself like "ahh I don't have an addictive personality" or "Ive strong will power, I don't have to smoke when drinking I just enjoy them". Your lying to yourselves just like I did for years.
A smoker is a smoker at the end of the day so don't try and justify it by adding in words like "social" or "part time". Its all the same.
Their filthy and pointless and probably more dangerous than any dioxins youll find in pigs but theyre too much of a money spinner for the government to leave them go.

Some truth here, nobody is invincible, there are people who are completely addicted, and always will be.

I would think that it would cost more for the government in health costs than they make on tax on cigarettes. I don't know why they are not outright banned...? Bootlegging I would guess.

wylo

Sam Lemon Self-denial wrote: »

Wrong, I smoke from time to time but I am not addicted. I do not feel the need to smoke but I WANT to. I don't force it into me when I don't want it. I am not addicted.



Just because you lack the willpower doesn't mean I do. You are addicted, I am not. Tough

give it time, as I said alot of people dont realise theyre addicted. You sound like so many people Ive met. Im not saying youll ever end up smoking all day fully, Im just saying you are a smoker and theres no denying it.
Its all a long run thing, you can go for years and years smoking "cause you enjoy them", but eventually you will have troubles stopping. Dont get me wrong anyone can give em up if they really want to but it just wont be quite as easy as you had figured it would be.

wylo

PeakOutput wrote: »

i do have an addictive personality and have smoked up to ten cigarettes at one time and i never ever had a craving......i was never considered a 'smoker' though

For how long have you been smoking, smoking 10 at the one time and that being it is different obviously than smoking on a weekly/monthly basis.

badabinbadaboom

Most people start off as social smokers, thats how I started. Im off them now for a good while.

Social smokers IMO or more brainwashed than full time smokers. Social smokers think they are in control(same as I once was) while proper full time smokers know they are addicted.
If your not addicted then why are you smoking? Because your smoking on nights out etc your only sowing the seeds of a severe mental addiction, when I gave up It was the mental addiction that was hardest to overcome.
And if you think you have good will power and all this bull**** then try stay off them forever completely! They are not enjoyable, they taste like crap and you will feel worse in the morning just becasue you wanted something to do with your hands or whatever other reason you give to cover the fact that you are addicted!!
Some smokers smoke 20 a day some only 3-5 and some smokers smoke once a week.

GLaDOS

I used to socially smoke, stopped after last halloween, havent had one since. Had no cravings or withdrawal symptoms