Have You Ever Been a Regular Smoker of Tobacco?

[exchemist]

Only one of the people I regularly hang out with is a smoker, and they would avoid smoking until I got up to go for a short walk or to the restroom. They were quite respectful and understood that I really couldn't handle being around the smoke and didn't want to inhale it.

On the other hand, a former friend (from whom I distanced myself for other reasons) insisted on staying in the smoking areas whenever we hung out even when I said I actually had difficulty breathing. Needless to say, we stopped hanging out, and I didn't look back.

When I was young I had "selection rules" for girls I might want to go out with (by analogy with the selection rules in spectroscopy I had learnt about at uni). One was no vegetarians (this was the 80s, when being veggie was a real pain), one was no smokers (because they didn't taste nice) and one was nobody you work with (for obvious reasons). I bent the no smokers rule a bit with the nurse in Dubai, but she was giving up.

 

[Erebus]

Have you ever been a regular smoker of tobacco?

Yep and I still am. I also have no interest in quitting as a long life doesn't hold much appeal to me.

I do give people the courtesy of not smoking indoors or blowing smoke into their faces though.

 

[Jedster]

Tobacco will keep you "regular" for sure.

It works for me.

 

[Revoltingest]

There's something about @Revoltingest?

That's not me.

 

[SomeRandom]

My vice is alcohol.
Never smoked one in my life
Though as I worked for a supermarket conglomerate on the checkouts, I did sell many

 

[Stonetree]

30 years of smoking, 35 since I quit.......math is just a concept.....still only 39 yrs old.....When I smoked I never knew it irritated nonsmokers. I was often told, "you should stop smoking" but I thought I'm different, it won't affect me......I have had multiple cancer surgeries and now someone smoking takes my breath away.....Smoking around nonsmokers is just plain ignorant. Also, I was a very competitive amateur athlete until I was in my mid-fifties...Multiple back surgeries finally ended my athletic ego trip....In my sixties, I had to start paying the fiddler...The reason to mention the athletics is to show it did not affect my breathing significantly until I was almost 60 yrs. old

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Yes, I've smoked since I was 19. Quit and switched to vaping and now I go back and forth between the two. I go periods without smoking, though.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Yes, I've smoked since I was 19. Quit and switched to vaping and now I go back and forth between the two. I go periods without smoking, though.

Do you find that vaping satisfies cravings like cigarettes, or is it different?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Do you find that vaping satisfies cravings like cigarettes, or is it different?

Vaping is better. You can choose whatever strength of nicotine you want and have whatever flavor you like. Tobacco smoke is disgusting, honestly, and it stains your fingers. But I enjoy the ritual of smoking.

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Debater Slayer]

Vaping is better. You can choose whatever strength of nicotine you want and have whatever flavor you like. Tobacco smoke is disgusting, honestly, and it stains your fingers. But I enjoy the ritual of smoking.

I've never been a regular smoker, but every few months or so, sometimes I'd go for an occasional fruit-flavored shisha and enjoy my own company while at it. I can certainly understand how some things are unhealthy but still tempting or relieving at times.

I wish you good health regardless of which one you do. Vaping is indeed less harmful than cigarettes, at least.

 

[InChrist]

Have you ever been a regular smoker of tobacco?

I haven't. I also can't handle being near cigarette smoke or the smell of it, so I suppose that has made it even easier not to want to smoke.

The poll is anonymous.

Never

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I've never been a regular smoker, but every few months or so, sometimes I'd go for an occasional fruit-flavored shisha and enjoy my own company while at it. I can certainly understand how some things are unhealthy but still tempting or relieving at times.

I wish you good health regardless of which one you do. Vaping is indeed less harmful than cigarettes, at least.

It's nice in moderation. I smoke less than five a day, honestly. There's other things I much more prefer.

 

[Viker]

I smoked for over 35 years (from mid teens). I quit after turning 50. I would like to live healthy another 30 to 35 years.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I don't mind it at all.

After I quit, shortly after the smell became beyond repulsive and can't believe I was able to tolerate it, and my last cigarette-- which was some time after my last as a regular smoker--it was almost as bad as the first. Which made me feel even worse about myself that I kept at it despite the extreme disgusting nastiness that is the first.

 

[Sand Dancer]

Have you ever been a regular smoker of tobacco?

I haven't. I also can't handle being near cigarette smoke or the smell of it, so I suppose that has made it even easier not to want to smoke.

The poll is anonymous.

My parents were both smokers, but neither I nor my brothers ever smoked cigarettes. I tried it once and found it quite nasty. As much as I was around it, I don't remember the house, my clothes or hair smelling like smoke. Anymore it just makes me gag if I smell it on someone or in the air.

 

[Twilight Hue]

After I quit, shortly after the smell became beyond repulsive and can't believe I was able to tolerate it, and my last cigarette-- which was some time after my last as a regular smoker--it was almost as bad as the first. Which made me feel even worse about myself that I kept at it despite the extreme disgusting nastiness that is the first.

I think the main negative thing I personally got was eating food around cigarette smoke. While the smell didn't bother me, eating in a smokey room did after I quit because it interfered with the taste of my meal and made it less palatable than in a smokeless environment.

 

[Heyo]

I think the main negative thing I personally got was eating food around cigarette smoke. While the smell didn't bother me, eating in a smokey room did after I quit because it interfered with the taste of my meal and made it less palatable than in a smokeless environment.

I'm a heavy smoker and I don't like smoke with my meal. Where food is served, smoking should be prohibited.

 

[Aupmanyav]

65 years and going. But I am totally against it. I have smoked a Merc during my life apart from its deletarious side effects on heart, lung and probably cancer (though I have no serious issues right now). Good that my children do not smoke (it is not in fashion as it was in my time).

 

[Sedim Haba]

Have you ever been a regular smoker of tobacco?

I haven't. I also can't handle being near cigarette smoke or the smell of it, so I suppose that has made it even easier not to want to smoke.

The poll is anonymous.

Do you include second-hand smoke? With both parents and live-in grandparents all smoking it was like
I was born into it, started in my teens as was usual back then. Grandpa called em 'coffin-nails'.
Quit 25 years ago. Thought I would take up a pipe or cigars after a few years off but never did.