Help! I don't want to get addicted.

Scuzi said:
Try telling that to all these armchair experts. We're addicted apparently, oh no!
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Oddly enough I think Im addicted to collecting them than smoking them, but then I am collecting ones for long term aging.
 
Bear said:
I agree I smoke cigars probably one or maybe two a week. Some weeks I just dont feel like it so dont bother. I smoke cigars because I like the flavours. Smoking cigars is nothing like smoking cigarettes.
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No. Drinking is nothing like smoking cigarettes, eating is nothing like smoking cigarettes.

Smoking cigars is very much like smoking cigarettes, both in name and nature.
Scuzi said:
Try telling that to all these armchair experts. We're addicted apparently, oh no!
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Your life, do as you please. I just don't understand the mentality of coming on an internet forum and bragging about it like it's cool. Not only that but trying to tell people it's not unhealthy, addictive, etc.

I gave you a link saying the complete opposite and could give you a thousand more. These are from medical experts, etc with reasearch to back them up.

Oh no! You actually smoke cigars, you are an expert!
 
Chong Warrior said:
No. Drinking is nothing like smoking cigarettes, eating is nothing like smoking cigarettes.

Smoking cigars is very much like smoking cigarettes, both in name and nature.

Your life, do as you please. I just don't understand the mentality of coming on an internet forum and bragging about it like it's cool. Not only that but trying to tell people it's not unhealthy, addictive, etc.

I gave you a link saying the complete opposite and could give you a thousand more. These are from medical experts, etc with reasearch to back them up.

Oh no! You actually smoke cigars, you are an expert!
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There has been an increase in cigar smoking since 1993 particularly in the 18 to 44 age group. If you do not inhale the tobacco smoke it will not get to the lungs in the same quantities as cigarette smokers so the incident of lung cancer is less. You are still three times more likely to get lung cancer than a non-smoker. Cigar smokers who previously smoked cigarettes are more likely to inhale and have an 11 times greater risk than non smokers. Cigar smokers have an increase risk of death from cancers of the lip, tongue, throat, oesophagus, mouth, larynx, and also cancers of the pancreas and bladder.

So whilst cigar smoking is less dangerous, it is still harmful.
 
Tommy B said:
There has been an increase in cigar smoking since 1993 particularly in the 18 to 44 age group. If you do not inhale the tobacco smoke it will not get to the lungs in the same quantities as cigarette smokers so the incident of lung cancer is less. You are still three times more likely to get lung cancer than a non-smoker. Cigar smokers who previously smoked cigarettes are more likely to inhale and have an 11 times greater risk than non smokers. Cigar smokers have an increase risk of death from cancers of the lip, tongue, throat, oesophagus, mouth, larynx, and also cancers of the pancreas and bladder.

So whilst cigar smoking is less dangerous, it is still harmful.
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I inhaled cigar smoke by accident once and my lungs nearly exploded. Put me off cigars for life.
 
I hate it when people are so anti-smoking they feel the need to get at you for it. I'm pretty shocked that someone told you to stop smoking when you were outside, scuzi! I hope you told them more places to go than back indoors! :p
 
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Smoking is Cool :cool: only messing -

I've been a smoker for about 9 years now, and to be honest its one of the few things in life I actually really do enjoy.... I have stopped smoking in the past for different periods of time and different reasons but I missed not smoking and picked it back up again.

The last time a so-called quit was last year - went for three months without one; as the bird I was seeing didn't like me smoking; but when I went on holiday with the lads and saw how cheap fags where and other people kept offering them to me - I had to smoke; I would have been rude not to.

I dont mind the smoking ban, its better as the clubs and pubs I tend to go have gardens and I offended find its better out side talking and being sociable rather than shouting over the music in some poor persons ear; and the amount of non smokers outside since its better than being inside or with their smoking partners/friends out number the smokers - Need to wait till winter to feel the full affect of the ban thou....

The smoking ban was binned in spain after holiday makers was complaining that they dont like being forced to sit inside in the hot weather while all the smokers was out side enjoying sunshine... LOL

I would not recommend smoking to anyone as there not as cool as me...
 
fozzy said:
oh and you smell :)
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And that has nothing to do with the smoking :p

Seriously though, that doesn't sound like it's good, sounds like you will/are getting into it....but then I wouldn't know at all, never smoked, and don't plan on ever doing it.

InvG
 
furnace said:
I hate it when people are so anti-smoking they feel the need to get at you for it. I'm pretty shocked that someone told you to stop smoking when you were outside, scuzi! I hope you told them more places to go than back indoors! :p
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The thing with smoking, especially cigars, is it affects everyone. They smell so strong and bad (apart from to other cigar smokers?) that it gives me a headache, makes me feel sick and lightheaded. Then the ignorant side of it and lack of respect for other people's health, etc.

People can't really complain about most habits as it doesn't affect them, this can't be said about smoking and people have every right to say something.

Though if stood outside as in the example you said, then I think that's a bit much. If he has ;) to smoke and he's stood outside then what more can he do? If you don't like it then move away or go inside. To complain in this instance is just getting on your high horse and being an idiot, in which case the smoker has every right to tell them to get stuffed imho :)
 
Chong Warrior said:
No. Drinking is nothing like smoking cigarettes, eating is nothing like smoking cigarettes.

Smoking cigars is very much like smoking cigarettes, both in name and nature.
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Yes you are right in the very literal sense but in reality they are different. People that smoke pipes or decent cigars do so in a completely different manner to cigarette smokers. Pipe and cigars smokers tend to do so in a more considered fashion, ie it takes considerable time to do so, so they are doing it when they have enough free time to do so. You wont find many cigar or pipe smokers dashing out at break time for a quick smoke when at work as its not feasible.
 
Look, it all depends on how you like your cancer.

If you like it in your lungs then you smoke fags.
If you prefer it in your mouth then cigars.
 
you say you don't want to get addicted, well you are already addicted.

the very fact that you want to by more is a clear sign of addiction.


you now have cravings.


you stupid sod
 
Chong Warrior said:
Still splitting hairs though isn't it? They aren't identical but to say they're nothing alike is just nonesense mate.
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No it isnt IMO. At its very basic level then yes its all smoking but in reality the nature of the cigarette smoker is very different.

Smoking high quality cigars is akin to having an appreciation of drinking fine wine. Different cigars offer different flavour profiles and complexity. Long term aging under optimum conditions also adds to the flavour profiles. Cigars is as much a collecting thing as smoking, pretty much like people that appreciate wine, both require a good palate to appreciate fully.

Smoking cigarettes is like neither of these. What you are saying is that a person that appreciates fine wine is like a person that drink 12 pints down the pub on a weekend, both are drinking alcohol. This is obviously nonsense, yet at its most basic they are both drinking alcohol.

I would agree that smoking in any form cannot be good for you.
 
Chong Warrior said:
The thing with smoking, especially cigars, is it affects everyone. They smell so strong and bad (apart from to other cigar smokers?) that it gives me a headache, makes me feel sick and lightheaded. Then the ignorant side of it and lack of respect for other people's health, etc.
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Thats odd because when I smoked my fist cigar in Cuba the missus said she really liked the smell as do I, I love the floral scent of a decent cigar. I agree cheap ones smell awful.

I very rarely smoke outside of my loft or the deck in my back garden as I usually have a smoke after work on a Friday to see out the working week as I wind down. The only time I have smoked in public in this country is when I went fishing with my mate.
 
Dogoid said:
you say you don't want to get addicted, well you are already addicted.

the very fact that you want to by more is a clear sign of addiction.


you now have cravings.


you stupid sod
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If I want to go out and buy more pizza is that a clear sign of addition? If I have a sudden craving for some deep, tribal house music am I addicted to it?

What if I really feel like a cup of tea?

There's a difference between enjoying something and being addicted to it. Clearly someone doesn't understand that.
 
Johnny Girth said:
If I want to go out and buy more pizza is that a clear sign of addition? If I have a sudden craving for some deep, tribal house music am I addicted to it?

What if I really feel like a cup of tea?

There's a difference between enjoying something and being addicted to it. Clearly someone doesn't understand that.
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oh your wrong.

the above mentioned things like pizza, house music etc are stuff people actually want to do, rather than having to do because of a unwanted urge, like craving for nicotine.


There's a difference between enjoying something and being addicted to it
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an answer to your own question i think.
 
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Yes you will become addicted to it... then you will Enjoy it - because your addicted and you need it and convince yourself you enjoy it !
 
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