smoking

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. :(

lol sure I will :)

the cheapest brand of cigarettes in china costs $1 a pack :o

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

o god that sounds so nice

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!

NOUS SOMMES DANS CUBA, MADEMOISELLE CHIEN. NOUS FUMIONS LES CIGARS ICI!!! My French is truly atrocious.

whats even worse than non-smoker pomp is french entitlement. i don't get it.

it's like the most clandestine form of European Purity there is.

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.

Male and female cig use around the world.

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.

Marlboro man marketing, ideas of it not being ladylike etc.

i gotta stop this.

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.

Your president did it. Where's your Michelle?

presumably married to a decent non-smoking man.

22 years of this shit. good lord.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKRqDtzOlQ

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.

I am off cigrettes and caffeine.

The universe is a miserable place without a continuous mild buzz :'(

it's even worse when you're literally sucking smoke into your lungs on a daily basis

smoking is fucking intense when you think about, just physically what is going on is.. insane

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'?

"hi, just going outside to pour some hot wax into my ears, back in a sec"

tackle it head on. no apologies, no turning back

"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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

shout out those nights in a wetherspoons beer garden when you and your buddies are smoking two rollies per pint

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

watching people going out for a cigarette when its 10 degrees outside is pretty sad

oh man smokes in the cold are like bonus smokes you have no idea

but what about your precious fingers

they feel great along with the rest of my body

getting in the smoke in the cold with a glass of red wine in your belly is the best.

it's not quite as good as having normal shits

smoking while shitting is pretty sweet

might get into smoking this year. maybe just weed, no tobacco

keep us updated

Even hangovers get better when you stop smoking. I used to have these deathly hangovers as a smoker that now are much more bearable. I could never moderate myself to even 10-20 a day so I had to stop, not smoked for 6 months now and tbh it's hard to read about the pleasures of smoking on this thread right now cos it is still tempting. Just need to remember I mostly only enjoyed the first one of the day and the rest just contributed to me feeling shitty most of the time and how fucking hard it was to get through that first 6 weeks of stopping.