Never smoked a cigarette. Couldn't stand the smell or the old farts who used to babysit that smoked them. I've smoked many other things, and I'm currently in love with pipe tobacco. Even in all of that, I only smoke about once a month or less. I'm really too much of a fitness nut, I guess.
Smoked cigars for 30+ years now; it's in my blood. Love it, nothing like it. I got into cigs shortly after moving here and smoked for a few years. Never a heavy smoker, around 2-5 sticks a day, max -1 pack if I was out carousing. I quit a few years ago after my 9th sinus surgery; doctor thought it was a bad idea after that. Quit just like that, no withdrawals. Being scared helps. American Spirit yellows. Still crave them something awful once in a blue moon.
Splenda, my brother; aspartame metabolyzes into charming substances like formaldehyde once it is in your body.
never smoked a cigarrette. i have my parents to thank. growing up, i could hardly sit down in my house without staring at a dirty ashtray. it has always just been a grossout to me. nowadays, on the rare occassions when i do go out to bars, no matter how late i come home i have to take a shower immediately, cause i can't stand the smell of stale smoke on me.
LOL! Yah, that is what I keep thinking. She's very supportive about the whole thing. She knows it will be tough. She's a "social smoker". Has like 2 a day, more when she drinks. She's told me 100 times she'll quit when I do, "we can be miserable together". I don't know about her misery though, she's quit about 10 times in 4 years. She can pretty much quit whenever she wants....LOL!
non smoker... but i am from a family of smokers, lost my grandmother to lung cancer and my mom and dad still smoke away (granted my dad has quit cigarretes and taken up cigars, but still smokes). All my friends in Mexico City are smokers. Im surrounded by them...
Never smoked one, just the second hand smoke from people like the Madre-in-law and many coworkers is nasty enough. I got my wife (then g/f) to quit as well, which I am very proud of, and even prouder of her that she did it.
Smoked for about 20 years and stopped when my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. She had stopped smoking for about 5 years.
No, no kids. I just don't really have the urge to smoke when Im at home. I still have one now and then though, just because I can.
And that's why I couldn't be happier about the smoking bans here and other places - despite the fact that I'm an avid cigar smoker and the ban here was so severe that it shut down my favorite cigar rooms. I'll live with the "deprivation" as long as it means that I can go have a beer without coming back smelling like an ashtray, or eat my dinner without my steak starting to taste like a ****ing Marlboro at some point during the meal. That's about how I was, but more like 5 a day; close to a pack at clubs. It's easier to quit when you don't "depend" on them...although I had a hell of a time doing without at two crucial times: in the car after work (it was a kind of ritual signaling the end of the servitude) and with coffee. But I never smoked in my home, and that made it somewhat easier; if you can manage that, forcing yourself to go outside to smoke, it's a motivator over time.
