Smokers

I like the odd Hamlet when out on a night out at the local pubs and clubs.

I don't do getting wasted at night clubs.
 
I occasionally smoke when I've been drinking. I've done that two or three times quite recently, but before a couple of months ago it'd been over a year since I'd had a cigarette. I don't really like it, I think ill of smokers, and I don't think I've ever done it sober.

I did one time buy a big box of 50 King Edwards. Those must have murdered my lungs.
 
I started casually smoking when I was about 15/16 (I dont know of any kids that age that could afford to smoke regularly). I quit nearly 2 years ago and havent had any cravings to smoke again.

When I look back at the action heroes from the films I watched as a kid, it's no wonder that I associated smoking with being cool. They didnt show Arnie coughing his guts up after outrunning the Predator.
 
Si_Gregory said:
When I look back at the action heroes from the films I watched as a kid, it's no wonder that I associated smoking with being cool. They didnt show Arnie coughing his guts up after outrunning the Predator.
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It's actually quite jarring how much smoking they do in Ghostbusters. I hadn't seen it for some time, and watched it last year - was a bit surprised.
 
cheesyboy said:
It's actually quite jarring how much smoking they do in Ghostbusters. I hadn't seen it for some time, and watched it last year - was a bit surprised.
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I remember reading a book once where one of the characters jobs was removing all traces of smoking from old films.

Can't for the life of me remember what book it was though...
 
Never been a smoker but if I reach 70 I will be buying myself a splendid pipe. I will then be able to choose between using my glasses and my pipe when I wish to point at something.
 
Having held the hand of my dad as he died from lung cancer it amazes me that any adults take up smoking. Yes you may live to 70 (he didn't - he made it to 60 and died just after he retired) but the chances of a very unpleasant death are quite high. It is not a nice way to go.
 
Started smoking at 14, gave up at 21.

Just decided I didn't want to do it anymore and stopped.

I would randomly smoke when out for a drink for a couple of years after. But don't smoke anything at all anymore.
 
Probably started smoking fully at 17 , started at weekends then at work . I still do now but through the week its between 7 - 15 a day . Depending if I'm with a smoker or not. Weekends do 20 if I'm on **** .
 
stopper said:
That's where you are wrong.
It takes more courage to willingly pump that crap into your body, than it does to refuse it.
I smoked for 15 years so I'm speaking from experience.
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Sorry, only weak minded people succumb to smoking, strong minded people just say no from the start.
 
For years I watched my dad smoke, and when I went to school - most of my friends start. For those years I hated the idea with a passion, and questioned why anyone would want to do such a thing...

... until I found myself constantly, deeply upset and fighting extremely anxious turns due to my work and home life - at which point I thought "anything that kills me quicker" and gave it a go one day. Since then I have found no better way to temporarily switch off my anxious tick for half hour, even though its gross and smelly. Granted I usually smoke one a day, with gaps of days in between sometimes - but there are days when I will knock out a 20 deck when its bad. I keep it in check by only ordering high quality cigs online, Sobranie usually - that way if i go to hard, I have to go cold turkey for 3 days until i can get hold of more - by which time the cravings pass.

And yeah, I know its bloomin' stupid, i'm 24 and my sister is a doctor - so I know what I am lining up for....
 
I used to enjoy cigarettes in my early 20s when clubbing, but I'd be so drunk I would wake up the next day and forget to be addicted :)

Never ever smoked one without being on the drink and been well over 10 years since I had one.
 
I started at 13/14 and at 25 I switched to vaping and have been dialling back on that slowly.

Giving up was one of the of the best decisions I every made, and starting smoking was one of the worst!
 
Started when i was 23, god know why now, other than being constantly out drinking all the time.
Gave up ~6 years ago but recently started back up around Christmas.
Cant say i enjoy it but the lack of appetite it brings is great, lost 3 stone over the time period.

Found giving up originally pretty easy in all honesty and could probably do the same again, i went 6 years without a single inclination to spark up but something happened at Christmas that just made me start again.
I'll stop again in the coming months (famous last words!)
 
maccapacca said:
As net contributors to the NHS coffers, I thank all smokers for my next colonoscopy, I'll be thinking of you.
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Despite all the whiners about the cost of smokers on the NHS... it'd probably surprise you to find out just how many NHS staff members smoke like chimneys - Almost every single nurse I worked with across several NHS trusts was a heavy smoker!!
 
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