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Did you ever or do you smoke?

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  • #62
    Green Giant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Green Giant


    Never have, never will. Not for me.


  • #63
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,322 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    wretcheddomain wrote: »
    The damage has already been done. Your chances of cancer are still incredibly high compared to normal people.
    Joyful type aren't you? In any event you're not quite accurate. If someone gives up before 40 years of age their risk is little different to someone who never smoked. If they give up before 30 it's the same as a never smoker, so basically as well as being a tad morose up there on your high horse, you're wrong.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #64
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Off smokes properly over 3 years now and do not miss them.

    Curious about people here saying that they "enjoy" them when you in reality there is nothing really enjoyable about them.

    I feel better, smell better and am fitter.

    Nothing to be gained by smoking and everything to be gained by stopping.


  • #65
    neamhspleachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭neamhspleachi


    35gm pack of American Spirit rolling tobacco per week

    It is habitual & unhealthy in all fairness, but I'll disagree with murpho999 in that I love & enjoy that first roll-up of the day when the sun's coming up, the house is quiet & I have a pot of strong freshly brewed coffee in front of me.


  • #66
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    neamhspleachi wrote: »
    35gm pack of American Spirit rolling tobacco per week

    It is habitual & unhealthy in all fairness, but I'll disagree with murpho999 in that I love & enjoy that first roll-up of the day when the sun's coming up, the house is quiet & I have a pot of strong freshly brewed coffee in front of me.

    Yes, but what do you actually enjoy about it?


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  • #67
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    No. Both my parents do though. And my boyfriend. I have smoked a few times but never got addicted. Now I can't even sit next to someone if they are smoking a fag, they are disgusting. It would be great if my boyfriend quit, the house often stinks even though he only smokes in the kitchen with the door open. But sure what can you do!


  • #68
    MayoSalmon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    Off them 6 months onto e-cigs now...never felt better


  • #69
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    gave up smoking about 6-7 years ago and best thing i ever did. was 20 a day for 25 years before that


  • #70
    Bog Standard User
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Bog Standard User


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Whats with all the smoking threads lately, is there any smoking forum?

    freshpopcorn is really Dr James Reilly :D


  • #71
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    What's a 'used smoker' OP?


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  • #72
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    There's no such thing as "social smokers". Anyone who describes themselves as such is just a smoker who doesn't want to admit that they are addicted to something that is known to cause a number of horrible, fatal diseases.


  • #73
    WinnyThePoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    There's no such thing as "social smokers". Anyone who describes themselves as such is just a smoker who doesn't want to admit that they are addicted to something that is known to cause a number of horrible, fatal diseases.

    Cool story brah


  • #74
    lukesmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Been smoking since I was about 13. I'm 34 now and for the past couple of years have been rolling my own with amber leaf. Have saved money doing this.


  • #75
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,022 ✭✭✭uch


    Where's the "Only after Sex" option in the Poll ?

    Also I'm A Social Smoker

    21/25



  • #76
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    uch wrote: »
    Where's the "Only after Sex" option in the Poll ?

    Also I'm A Social Smoker

    It's the last one there. "Never smoked."


  • #77
    blacklilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,687 ✭✭✭blacklilly


    Nearly off them a year. Had tried to quit in the past but never went longer than 3 months off them. This time felt different right from the start, my mindframe had completely changed.

    Used an e-cig about 4 times throughout the first 2 months then threw it away as well.

    There are only positives to quiting, no positives are to be gained from continuing the habit.


  • #78
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    Smoked from 15ish til 22. Then I bought a box in Slovakia for a euro and couldn't go back to paying a tenner.

    Coming up on two years off now. Never even missed them.


  • #79
    Joya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,365 ✭✭✭Joya


    smoked in my teen years till came to 2 packs a day but then one day came home and said "i'm not smoking from now on", my family just looked at me and laughed till they hit the floor but there you go, i did it
    crises were coming first very often then the time in between would stretch and so on, the most important thing for me was to not allow myself "that one cause i was good", because i knew it would just pull me straight back..
    wasn't easy though but is great to be free from the habit...


  • #80
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    when you smoke, are you supposed to inhale until you feel a sort of bump in your windpipe?

    Found a pack of cigarettes on top of a kitchen cupboard yesterday and smoked three during lunch break. They did nothing for me. Occasionally I would inhale very deeply and feel that 'bump' in my chest. Kinda nice, but then nothing again.

    Is that smoking? Or did I have a stroke?


  • #81
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    It makes you look cool!

    This. Also makes you smell great!


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  • #82
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    conorh91 wrote: »
    when you smoke, are you supposed to inhale until you feel a sort of bump in your windpipe?

    Found a pack of cigarettes on top of a kitchen cupboard yesterday and smoked three during lunch break. They did nothing for me. Occasionally I would inhale very deeply and feel that 'bump' in my chest. Kinda nice, but then nothing again.

    Is that smoking? Or did I have a stroke?

    Yeah you're supposed to inhale, until you get a hit. That's why people cough and splutter a lot when they first experiment with them.


  • #83
    parttime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭parttime


    Congrats to all who managed to get of the filthy yokes. Smoked for 23 years,off them and vaping for six months.
    Haven't felt this good in years.


  • #84
    bmwguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭bmwguy


    Approx 33% currently regularly or socially smoking in the poll. Thats fairly representative of what I thought the figures are in society as a whole (1 in 3)


  • #85
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    I Heart Internet wrote: »
    There's no such thing as "social smokers". Anyone who describes themselves as such is just a smoker who doesn't want to admit that they are addicted to something that is known to cause a number of horrible, fatal diseases.

    Social smokers, by their very dedino, aren't addicted. They only smoke in social settings. If they were addicted, they probably couldn't go without smokes during non-social periods.

    My best friend is a social smoker. She has around 10 smokes per month, and has easily gone without for months at a time.

    It's possible to enjoy it without being addicted, although I'll readily admit that I'm addicted


  • #86
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    I've no problem with people calling themselves social smokers. As long as they buy their own fcuking fags, and don't steal mine.


    I know a lot of people (myself included) who started smoking 'properly' after having only smoked when drinking.


  • #87
    neamhspleachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭neamhspleachi


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Yes, but what do you actually enjoy about it?
    The complimentary tastes of good coffee & good tobacco just do it for me, much like a single malt & a Cohiba cigar.


  • #88
    Joya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,365 ✭✭✭Joya


    brummytom wrote: »
    I've no problem with people calling themselves social smokers. As long as they buy their own fcuking fags, and don't steal mine.


    I know a lot of people (myself included) who started smoking 'properly' after having only smoked when drinking.
    i think stage in which you start buying your own cigarettes would actually qualify you as an addict : ))


  • #89
    minotour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭minotour


    neamhspleachi wrote: »
    The complimentary tastes of good coffee & good tobacco just do it for me, much like a single malt & a Cohiba cigar.

    You've just described the start and end to my perfect day.


  • #90
    neamhspleachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭neamhspleachi


    minotour wrote: »
    You've just described the start and end to my perfect day.
    Snap :D


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  • #91
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    Haven't smoked in over a year.


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