i've got a fair few mates who smoke and a number who are in the process of quittin. I personally have only recently started smokin a bit.

How many of you cats smoke and what are the opinions on it
Chur

Exceedingly rarely. Less than 5 a year. In fact, last year was 2 and a few puffs, and 1 cigar. This year has been one pull from our sous-chef's.

I hate it

Haha, the expert has arrived, I smoke.........and too much at that! I smoke about 10 a day, so not ridiculously bad, not a pack a day.

It is a horrible filthy habit, costs me way to fucking much, but shit it's good.

I too, am in the process of deciding wether or not to quit :P

Smoking is bad for you. So is drinking Pepsi (my vice) but at least with Pepsi (as far as I know, maybe those chemicals are dangerous for all I know) you can reverse the effects by exercise.

Smoking will leave you seriously messed up in 30 years time, as well as cost you as much as a house over that same period.

Why do it, when there are so many better things you could be doing with your time and money?

It's inevitible that you will quit smoking sometime, best to do it now while your larynx is still intact.

They're killing you, you know. You gonna die...

Seeing as so many people want to quit, I figured the easiest way to quit is to never start, so I never did. Bit of a no brainer really.

To me though, the main reason to stop smoking wouldn't be my health or the money, but rather that I would see it as a form of slavery to the smoking companies, with chemical addiction in place of shackles.

No gods, no addictions, no morals = no shackles; that's my motto.

Yeah but at least smoking is cool.

I gave up a year ago. It was easy, I've only had a few puffs since, but I miss it when I'm drunk.

Beg to differ- drinking Pepsi IS cool. Speshly at Shads.
I smoked for ciggies, like, 3 weeks. Oh and Charlie caught me smoking the rest of the ciggie she gave to Suz to hold while she went to the loo, but it was going out so that doesnt count, ciggies are yuck.

I've always hated smoking but for no particular reason I started just before I moved house. Mind you, I smoke maybe 3 days out of a week, maximum of three cigarettes a day - but I can still feel myself latching onto it.

i quit a year ago this march. it was good as :) i have had 1 ciggy in that year and i didnt like it. i cant stand the smell ne more, the taste is still there tho, and my body still accpets nicotine hastily.

i smoke waay too much weed.

:ph43r: That's even worse!

Dont smoke, never had. Really cant stand ciggies or any smokes. Cigars only (on very special occassions)

I smoke cigarettes very rarely. As per the Cocaine Club, I smoke cigars quite frequently.

Cigarettes are ew, and a big turn off.

I've never intentionally smoked a cigarette; however, at least once while I've been extremely drunk, I've had a puff after being told it's weed. I really should have noticed the different colour filter, but it seems I was a bit too far gone for that.

I smoke weed rarely; only really at Noel's flat, although that's actually probably at least once every 10 days for the last couple of months.

I like weed, but prefer spotting it as I cough my lungs out anyway, but not as badly with spots.

I've never bought weed, I bought hash oil once off a notorious member of the university community though.

Im a smoker.

Yeah, but if you can compensate in other areas then it doesn't matter, does it :naughty:

What, like breathmints?

Ugh, sorry but kissing an ashtray isn't my idea of sexy.

^^ nah, it tastes all sweet and ewy.
Not that Im ever gonna kiss anyone again, because from now on Im only kissing the people I like, and they dont like me back, so its all good.
Who's feeling cynical and shitty tonight?
I smoke weed. It is worse for you by about 20 times but I dont smoke it frequently enough for my patheticly fragile body to die from it, unfortunately one might say.

while I don't smoke its never really bothered me.

hell I wouldn't have been able to enojy myself in Europe if it bothered me.

i smoke weed every so often, more not than often atm.

smoked a bit when i was a teenager, not touched one since i was 16 though

I smoked all the time when I was younger, we'd hotbox cars every weekend, then go eat when we got teh muchies. Last time I smoked weed, which will be my last, I had 4 tokes and a glass of Champagne and I was on the bathroom floor for an hour throwing up and completley unable to move. AND it was the night before New Years so my New Years sucked coz I was sooooo fucked from the night before. And thus I will never smoke weed again.

So Synopsis, what if there is a girl that you really really like, I mean really like, and she smokes, and ya want to kiss her, what would ya do? Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to get what you want, then 4 1/2 years down the track you can start threatening her with breaking up if she doesn't quit, coz you don't want "the mother of your children(sic) to be sick all the time". WTF? I know.

If you wait that long she could get lunch cancer and die, and then you' d be back to square one. Best to start right away.

Just pretend to start doing heroin, and say "I'll give this up if you give up nicotine". Then 'give up' heroin and make it look easy.

Realistically though, I think the idea is to make it a fair exchange: they give up their vice, and in exchange you give up one of yours. The difficulty is for people like me who are perfect already.

:hilarious:

I bet she'd ask you to "stop downloading movies and take her out once in a while you selfish bastard."

and to "stop telling people that your mother is dead"

The fact that the worst thing you can find about me is 'downloading movies' shows how awesome I am. My stinginess is only with myself, not with others... you've all eaten enough of my food to know that.

I'm sure you have plenty of annoying foibles and habits you can give up.

I would probably have to combine several things to balance out smoking.

I've been through many "phases" of smoking cigarettes. I dub myself a non-smoker usually, as I hardly ever socially smoke anymore, though sometimes I will get cravings when I'm drinking.

Weed is a completely different story for me. I smoke a lot of it, especially in the holidays. Not every day, but maybe every second day. Or I'll smoke weed for say 4 days in a row, and then wont touch the stuff for a couple of days. I don't think it's a problem as such for me, and I could stop if I wanted to, but I don't want to because I like it. I have a pipe, but as of late I hate smoking out of it because it's so fucking savage on my throat. I've been doing buckies a lot lately but they're not really down in my books either apart from the fact that it only takes one good one to get me fucked. I prefer a nice fat joint or a really smooth glass bong. I usually buy 50s, but only if I have to - otherwise I scab off my guy friends. They're all chronics. I blame them for corrupting me.

Considered getting a vaporizer? If you're going to do weed, may as well do it in a reasonably healthy way.

is there something you're not telling us oob?

I'm Bob Marleys zombie.

What? spots are the harshest way to smoke buds.

I smoked from when I was 13 until I was 20. I quit by accident by trying to proove to someone that reading a book wouldn't make you quit smoking. Looks like that person was right and 2 and a half years later I still haven't had one cigarette.

It's not that hard to quit but it takes a lot of will power. I went from smoking about 20 a day to none :)

^^ Oh shit thats fucking awesome dude!

go Kev! :)
Buckies are my fave way to get me weed hit, but, having said that, Ive only actually tried it a few different ways.
I could go for some now, actually. Its been an emotionally taxing day.

And I worked 2 and a half hours, but spread out over an 8 hour time period :frustrated:

Hmm actually someone else has said spots are harsher as well, and he's my drummer so he should know. I dunno, I just don't really like smoking it as a cigarette. And you can have it all at once spotting it. I've only tried a couple of different ways as well...

Vaporizers are less efficient I think, some of it gets wasted (I think that's what my drummer said, I've only done it that way once).