Poll Do You Smoke?

[nightowl52]

I smoked about a pack a day. After I was injured ( Ptsd) I stayed in the back room & I'm afraid I went up to 3 packs. I lost 2 years after that, smoking like that. I'm down to 2 packs . Some other things are on my mind right now which makes it hard to attempt, come to think of it, there's so much on my mind I can't sort it all out. Yes, I have to quit, some of you may understand that.

 

[monkee]

I quit over 3 years ago

 

[cypher]

I do not smoke, never really got into it. Yeah, I've smoked a few cigarettes, but didnt like it so I didnt do it anymore.

 

[Deleted member 93]

need to draw a line in no smoking and quit smoking

 

[Deleted member 487]

Only time I smoke is when I'm on fire.

 

[rachey]

I do smoke and have been since I was 14.
It seems when I'm in a depression I get so much worse and smoke nearly a pack a day.
Does anybody else have this happen to them?

 

[dedic8edmum]

I do smoke and have been since I was 14.
It seems when I'm in a depression I get so much worse and smoke nearly a pack a day.
Does anybody else have this happen to them?

I started smoking at 15 and for sure find that my aniexty level as well as my depression dictates how much I smoke each day. It can honestly range from 7 a day to a pack and a half!

 

[Grama-Herc]

I smoked for the first 40 years of my life. Then one day in 2003 I decided that I had really had enough.

I went out and got LOTS of my favorite ice cream and spent the weekend in bed watcing old movies and thoroughly enjoying the ice cream. I have been smoke free ever since.

I had heard people talk about going "cold turkey" but since I was unable to go 4 houors without going bonkers, I knew I could never do it. I had tried several times before to quit and 4 hours was my limit without my "fix"!

To this day it still amazes me how easy it was to quit. I keep thinking it is a dream and I'm going to wake up and reach for that first morning cig.

There, I quit. Still amazes me every day I actually quit ! ! !

 

[catjudo]

No way...

1. Watched my paternal grandfather die a slow, miserable emphysema-related death DECADES after he had quit smoking.
2. Watched my maternal grandmother die a slow, miserable emphysema-related death.
3. My father didn't die from emphysema but his huge smoking habit exacerbated his heart disease and played a huge role in why his body was not able to fight off the cancer that killed him.
4. Watched my aunt who never smoked a day in her life die from lung cancer.

My conclusion: not being able to breath and suffocating to death because of it is a scary, painful, miserable way to die. Even though it can happen to non-smokers, I'm not taking any chances!

p.s. I'm not saying this to offend any of you who are smokers it's just that smoking has had a huge impact on my life and the early loss of my loved ones so I feel very strongly about it.

 

[Mick]

I quit while in the hospital after my worst trauma.

 

[Thornyrose]

I started smoking weed with tobacco at age 11, got hooked on the nicotine in the joints by 12, smoked tobacco (and everything else!) increasingly (chimney) until I was 21, when I decided 10 years of smoking tobacco was a lack of personal control (like everything else wasn't? Ha ha!) Went cold turkey on the baccy, (became evil for a week or so), and 5 years later, I have absolutely no desire to smoke.

In a weird way I associated one of the events which gave me PTSD with my smoking (don't ask!) so soon after, I stopped enjoying those cigarettes and it was easy to give up...

...I think I've just explained how PTSD could have saved my life.

Now thats revolutionary.

 

[sirsir]

I never tried smoking. As expensive as it is I'm glad I did not start.