you can smoke and play slots at the same time!
― althea and (donna rouge), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
it makes you everyone inside look like some sort of bygone era sychiatric exhibit.
which is what you WILL BE in the future
― lex pretend, Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
it seems like all east asian airports have smoking rooms xp
― dayo, Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
just wanna point out that i knew there was a "p" in "sychiatric"
just sayin
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
i havent had a cigarette in 82 days!!!!
i have also gained like 15lbs :(
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
One of my professors in college once called me out for just having smoked before going ot her office hours. I thought she was going to yell at me but instead he was like mMMMMMMM let me smell you, I miss it so!
I was on a patio last weekend (yay!!) and I was trying my best to keep my cigarette and its smoke from hitting the waitress who walked over to serve us.. she did the same thing! Said "when I can't go for a cigarette, this is the next best thing!" haha.
Smoking in NYC! E, will you buy me a pack of reasonably priced Marlboro's? I pay $8 here for my cigarettes, $12 would make me so sad.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
people need to smoke more j's in public is the real truth here
― surm, Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:53 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was just walking around in the sun in my lunch break and a dude rolled by in his car, blazing away. WAY TO TEASE THE OFFICE WORKERS, jerk. :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol sure I will :)
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
the cheapest brand of cigarettes in china costs $1 a pack :o
― dayo, Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yay!
In Cuba, everyone smokes everywhere. It was so neat (as a smoker) to be back in that zone - ashtrays on the bar counter, hotel lobbies, etc. They had an airport smoking room too. It was disgusting, but we still went in :P
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
o god that sounds so nice
― surm, Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
It was amazing. The hotel we were at did not have walls, it was all open, so there was a constant breeze getting rid of the smoke. Ashtrays in the bathroom!
Hilariously (but not at the time) a group sat down at a group of couches we were on - we had already lit cigars when it was just us - and this last-minute addition bitch sits right across from me and starts glaring and coughing at me! They were French so I started insulting her under the breath to my husband in broken Frenglish, and then he and I ended up in an argument because he's impossibly polite and I can be a real asshole when wronged. So don't give smokers cuteye when you intrude on THEIR smoking bubble, because that ruined my night and I will forever hate that lady!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
NOUS SOMMES DANS CUBA, MADEMOISELLE CHIEN. NOUS FUMIONS LES CIGARS ICI!!! My French is truly atrocious.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
whats even worse than non-smoker pomp is french entitlement. i don't get it.
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
it's like the most clandestine form of European Purity there is.
― kelpolaris, Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
Miami Int'l Airport boasts what it calls a "smoking terrarium," which is an area outside about the size of your terrace with palm trees surrounded on every side by concourse.
I saw a gen-u-wine smoking lounge in Atlanta as recently as 2008.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 March 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
Male and female cig use around the world.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
The areas where ppl smoke the most are not surprising to me because I already sort of knew that. The gender difference sort of is even though I suppose it shouldn't be. I've just never personally thought of smoking as a gendered thing even though I guess it obviously is.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 23 March 2012 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
Marlboro man marketing, ideas of it not being ladylike etc.
i gotta stop this.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 8 November 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
maybe i will finally for this thread's ten year anniversary.
which would give me a year. to get hit by a truck before i had to quit.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 8 November 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
Your president did it. Where's your Michelle?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 November 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
presumably married to a decent non-smoking man.
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 8 November 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
22 years of this shit. good lord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKRqDtzOlQ
― idiot man-child (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 8 November 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone else trying to give up as part of a new year health kick? I've even got one of those snazzy lil' apps that tell you how much money you're saving/what percentage of your taste/smell has returned.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 12:49 (ten years ago) link
I am off cigrettes and caffeine.
The universe is a miserable place without a continuous mild buzz :'(
― Piggy (omksavant), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 12:55 (ten years ago) link
it's even worse when you're literally sucking smoke into your lungs on a daily basis
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
smoking is fucking intense when you think about, just physically what is going on is.. insane
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link
also trying not to drink for a while at least (both decisions are, sadly, financially motivated)...dreading the moment I have to meet friends in the pub and I've really got to test my will power. Do I just become a hermit for a bit? Or is it more important to tackle it head on and make the whole thing seem more 'real'?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:06 (ten years ago) link
"hi, just going outside to pour some hot wax into my ears, back in a sec"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:06 (ten years ago) link
tackle it head on. no apologies, no turning back
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link
"both decisions are, sadly, financially motivated"
that's a perfectly legit reason but you're not going to win if that's the only one. the other reason you should think about is that smoking makes you feel like shit
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
i mean yes there is a brief moment when the nicotine is going into your body but it's over after a minute or two. it barely lasts longer than a fucking popper.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:19 (ten years ago) link
i admire your "real talk" approach here Tracer but think there's room to accept that for some of us smoking is a v. real pleasure even as we acknowledge it's potential lethalness. if you want to deny the pleasure thing fine but you can't convince everybody by going that route.
― Emilia Fabbo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:25 (ten years ago) link
dammit there was a time when i thought poppers was a ton of fun too
NV is right; I find smoking incredibly pleasurable. I enjoy the procedure of rolling them, the literal temporal escape they offer me from work/life. I only took it up a few years back when I lived in a house of smokers. I started by smoking weed daily with those housemates, then having the occasional post-dinner cigarette, then had a moment when I was walking home from uni one day and had a physical compulsion to smoke. That was when I knew I was a smoker.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
Would agree that the physical effects of smoking are not very nice, often get 2/3 through a fag and just feel kinda rotten. Problem is that this in no way measures up to the intensity of the cravings if I don't have a smoke. Been trying to quit with an e-lite but they're so so rubbish
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
Last March I told myself, "As soon as I get my next cold, I'm dropping one cigarette," and, of course, two days later the sniffles began. The effect was galvanic: I'm down to one a day, usually at night after wine, which means I can longer smoke unless I've got any kind of buzz but the catch is I only feel like smoking the one.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:55 (ten years ago) link
i smoke 2 or 3 roll-ups at most on any given work day, sometimes none. i am drinking perhaps once a month and when i drink i will smoke all night, but that's it.
― Emilia Fabbo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
nv i applaud yr ability to take or leave them; i didn't ever smoke a tremendous amount but i could never go without unless i was around my parents, in which case i found it surprisingly easy
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
i think what made it easy-ish was stopping smoking in my own home once kids came along, that gradually breaks the chain-smoking routine that i had in my early 20s. i get the occasional real craving but mostly now i like the excuse of stepping away from my desk for five minutes and like Windsor said the ritual of rolling one up is part of that pleasure for sure
― Emilia Fabbo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
i think of it as an adult pastime tho, never ever been comfortable doing it anywhere within sight of my own kids or anybody else's really
― Emilia Fabbo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link
shout out those nights in a wetherspoons beer garden when you and your buddies are smoking two rollies per pint
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
i didn't ever smoke a tremendous amount but i could never go without unless i was around my parents, in which case i found it surprisingly easy
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, January 8, 2014 8:14 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ditto. in the spirit of FULL DISCLOSURE, I actually smoked more in the last 2 years of medical school than I had in the maybe 8 or so years of very casual smoking prior (which started with a one or two at parties, then cadging them more frequently from a smoker i lived with, then buying them out of guilt (which would last weeks), then laying off for a while, then STRESS-->daily evening smokes). going without when visiting parents was never an ish for me, either.
context is so important, though, right? when i moved out here for residency, i no longer had a backyard, nor did i have any friends that smoked. i spent a couple weeks having a nightly smoke, singular, out by my car, but i felt really conspicuous doing that since this is a small town and all my neighbors know my job title (and did before i ever moved in, which was....weird). there were a few desperate times where I went on a drive simply to have a smoke, and that's when I was like "this is moronic. this is a terrible thing that I'm doing that, in this setting/context/stage of my life, has no redeeming qualities at all." being forced to taper down made quitting-quitting easier. i've been without since august 1st. well, except for a visit from a friend in October, and we caroused and i probably had nearly 10 over the course of three days, and i felt oh god did i feel it afterwards.
anyway, good luck quitters. ppl that still smoke: i understand the pleasures, believe, but....well, you know the deal
― gbx, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
watching people going out for a cigarette when its 10 degrees outside is pretty sad
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
oh man smokes in the cold are like bonus smokes you have no idea
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
but what about your precious fingers
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
they feel great along with the rest of my body
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 15:39 (ten years ago) link