Do you smoke?

[anna_66]

Originally posted by Jadapit
Yes, My husband and I both do. We tried quitting a couple of weeks ago but we blew it so we are going to try not smoking again on Saturday. I hate being a smoker!! It's such a nast unhealthy habit. Wish me luck with it. I really want to make it this time.

I definately wish you luck! It's a hard and nasty habit to break. You've just got to decide you REALLY want quit to or it will never work.
My Mark was having some problems due to smoking (of course he never though it was actually the smoking that was causing his problems) but now that he's quit he feels so much better and so much healthier (not to say that he doesn't still want a cigarette now).

Again, GOOD LUCK Jadapit...I know you both can do it!!

[Felicia's Mom]

I never have smoked.

[Jadapit]

Thank you so much Anna! My Mark has a terrible cough and I know it's from smoking. I'm sure we will both feel so much better when we kick the habit!

[PJ's Mom]

Originally posted by Jadapit
I'm sure we will both feel so much better when we kick the habit!

It seems you're in good company on the quit smoking bandwagon:

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa - A South African zoo wants a chimpanzee to quit smoking cold turkey.

Keepers say Charlie the chimpanzee picked up the habit from visitors at the Bloemfontein Zoo who sometimes toss him cigarettes.

"It looks funny to see a chimp smoking," a zoo spokesman said, but Charlie's trick could cost him his health.

The zoo is asking people to stop tossing cigarettes and contributing to the chimp's habit.

A zoo official says Charlie "acts like a naughty schoolboy" and hides his cigarettes when workers are around.

[Jadapit]

Is right!! That's pretty amazing. I'll have to share that with my husband. Lets hope the chimp can give it up also.

[buckner]

I've never smoked and I never will. I think it's a gross and disgusting habit and I'm confident when I say I will never pick up on that habit. My dad smokes, not as much as he used to, and he tries not to around me.. he knows how sick it makes me. I have asthma that flares up, but what's worse is cigarette smoke triggers my optic migraines. So yeh, never have and never will.

[RedHedd]

Haven't had a cig since 11/9/1987. Before that I had smoked for 18 years. Initially I quit because my docs told me I was showing early signs of emphysema. That scared me into quitting and I've stayed quit. DO NOT START! It is NOT fun or easy to quit, although staying quit is easy for me now.

[davidpizzica]

Put me in the "used to smoke, but quit" catagory! I smoked fron 1962 to January 31, 1982. I did it the toughest way possible, cold turkey. My lungs have been smoke-free for 23 years!

[RobiLee]

Well, I started to put "no", but then I realized that the real answer is "no, but I use too". I quit back in 96'.

[jennifert9]

Congrats to those of you who have smoked and quit! It's incredibly difficult from what I understand. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin! And props to those of you who have never smoked and say you never will! That's great!
Unfortunately, I do smoke and have since I was ~19. I started in college and of course, now it's a habit. To be completely honest, I enjoy smoking. I look forward to having a cigarette after work or if I'm having a glass of wine or a beer. Both my parents smoked when I was younger. My father still smokes. My mother quit cold turkey and this was back in the days when you could smoke in the office. All her co-workers were supposed to quit the same day and when she got to work, they were all smoking!!! She was so mad that she quit anyway to spite them!!! What a woman!! Incredible willpower! (She was diagnosed with cancer a year to the day later and she jokes that she got the cancer from stress, she says when she quit smoking, her stress levels went through the roof!! She's fine now by the way, a year of chemo but she's officially cured now!)
Audrey, in NY and California you can't smoke in any buildings. In NJ where I am now, you still can smoke in most restaurants and bars but many places have glass partitions separating smoking and non-smoking sections. I'm old school though, even if I didn't smoke, others can still smoke in my house. I feel it's a respect thing, they are my guests and if they smoke, I want them to feel welcome, so smoke away....I can Febreze later

[PJ's Mom]

Originally posted by jennifert9
To be completely honest, I enjoy smoking. I look forward to having a cigarette after work or if I'm having a glass of wine or a beer.

I did too. It was fun and not something I ever thought I could live without.

I still miss it sometimes...like when we were in Vegas and it seems that everyone in the casinos was smoking. Aww man!

[Buddy Blaze Lover]

Never have, never will.

[Luvin Labs]

P U...

never ever have

never ever will

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Originally posted by slleipnir
Where I live it is "Smoke Free" in that if you go out to any public place, you have to smoke in the designated smoking room which is closed off from the rest of the place. I love it, cause if you go out to eat you don't have to worry about smelling smoke etc.
Anywhere have this?

Here you can't smoke in any public place at all (except at clubs and bars).

[carole]

For me quitting was easy, because I planned to have my child, and that was far more important to me than anything else, but really I think the simple fact is I Never really enjoyed smoking, it was just a bad habit and an addiction, I quit cold turkey as well, and I have never regretted giving up,or had any desire to return to it,the worst part of me is watching my son smoke, he is also an asthmatic ,it worries me sick., he started due to his peers smoking like a lot of us, myself included, because neither of us smoke here.,my husband did when I met him and gave up almost straight away after we were married, he came from a family of smokers.

It is extremely difficult for some to give up and I wish you well and success in doing so.

P.S NZ has just implemented new laws, no smoking in any of our bars, clubs, pubs or restaurants anymore, most work places have been smokefree for sometime, but now it is smokefree everywhere.