Are There Any Smokers Here?

[Tapeworm]

I'd smoke a cigar every night if they weren't so retarded expensive. Great finish to a good meal. I don't think you can even get a single box duty free in Aus anymore. It's probably more like one stick.

[SOMEPARTS]

I'd smoke a cigar every night if they weren't so retarded expensive. Great finish to a good meal. I don't think you can even get a single box duty free in Aus anymore. It's probably more like one stick.

The answer to this is a tobacco pipe.

[Tapeworm]

The answer to this is a tobacco pipe.

Wouldn't be much cheaper in Aus. 50 grams of not so special pipe tobacco is over $100. Would guess good stuff would be double that so it'd be a $20-$40 puff. I can do lots of other things with that kind of money.

[keanu]

Smoking is like jerking off. Once you start quitting is a bitch!

[keanu]

What is it about smoking that you enjoy?

I smoked for 11 years starting at 18. From day one I smoked 3 packs every day.

You were taking about 10 minutes between cigarettes? Hard to imagine.

[dan18]

Only pole smokers on getbig.

And you teach the class 

[harmankardon1]

I'd smoke a cigar every night if they weren't so retarded expensive. Great finish to a good meal. I don't think you can even get a single box duty free in Aus anymore. It's probably more like one stick.

You can't gets shit in Aus duty free...

I was getting my cigars sent online in unmarked packages but the fucking lowlife cxnts at customs are onto me and seized my last two shipments.... Fuck I hate those dogs.

[falco]

Pole?

[sarcafago]

For the record, I'm a non-smoker.  But a little while back, a friend of mine suggested I try it, and I did.

I must say, I do enjoy a cigarette.  Prior to this, I had smoked a cigar, maybe once every three years.

That being said, I'm not currently addicted to nicotine.  But I find myself in the presence of my friends who smoke, wishing to smoke one.  I've resolved this by not hanging out with my friends who smoke very much, if at all really, and intend to go the rest of the year without seeing them much, just to ensure I don't become a smoker.

I have heard it said before that quitting smoking is harder than quitting heroin.  Insofar as this is true, it's only true because cigarettes are cheap and in abundance - cigarettes are ubiquitous, essentially.

I have also concluded that there is no way I can just smoke one.  I realized I couldn't have a pack of cigarettes in my presence, or I would smoke them all, over time.

So my solution was to avoid my friends who smoke, as said above, and to not buy packs of cigarettes.

For perspective, I bought five packs of cigarettes in 2019.  Not a huge number by any means, but it always gnaws at me that I will eventually become a full blown smoker, if I treat this with a lax attitude.

After wes' bout with lung cancer [hopefully, his condition has improved, but I'm not sure], I was more committed than ever to not smoking, and I realized that I could probably forgive myself for 10 cigarettes a month.  Anything beyond that, and it makes me worry I'm doing irreversible damage to my lungs/body.

I find that smoking is not easy to moderate given how many of my friends smoke, and how ubiquitous cigarettes are, as I mentioned.

Everything is fine now, except for the fact that I do sort of miss hanging out with my friends who smoke...

I don't even know why I'm writing this...it's like I want there to be some way where I can have a couple of cigarettes twice a week, but I know that isn't realistic, since the risk of becoming a heavier smoker is always a possibility.

Basically, I'm just hoping to hear bad experiences from smokers, to get me to stop smoking completely.

While I do know that some things that are bad for us can be good in a certain context, I just don't look at cigarettes as being this way.  It all seems bad to me.

If anyone on here can tell me that even one cigarette is going to result in me getting lung cancer by 50, I would be grateful to hear it. 

I'm thinking...two cigarettes tonight, then I lock myself in my bedroom for the next 30 days.  As I said, I don't smoke much anyway, so it's not like I'll be suffering withdrawals or major cravings or anything.  I went 18 days in December between cigarettes, and it wasn't a major issue.  I just...like having a cigarette.

My dad smoked for 25 years, and he said it took six months before cravings absolutely disappeared, and he has never had a cigarette since then.  That was over 21 years ago now.  I think he made it a point to quit on his 40th birthday.

If I absolutely need to hide in my house for six months to lose the memory of smoking, I'll do that.

I don't know exactly what I smoke...I do have it all written down in a logbook I have - it may be three cigarettes every third day, or five every fifth day...maybe averaging a pack a month, but definitely under two packs a month.  Under two cigarettes a day, on average, to be sure.  And admittedly, I've been "indulging" since the new year.  I think once I realized that I wasn't a heavily addicted smoker, I decided to just forgive myself for it.

I'm basically just looking for stories from any Getbiggers to scare me straight here.

[IroNat]

You sound like an addict.

[JuicedKangaroo]

LOL...wtf is wrong with being a bender?  In the age of #MeToo, I'm seriously contemplating Straight Conversion Therapy!

OUTED 

[Primemuscle]

You were taking about 10 minutes between cigarettes? Hard to imagine.

It is very hard to imagine. Back in the early 60's people smoked everywhere they wanted, including while at work, in restaurants, on public transit, in hospitals, in movie theaters.....everywhere. It only take a couple of minutes to smoke a cigarette. The more you puff on it the faster it burns. I smoked unfiltered Camels and Sherman's when I could afford them. Sherman's were about twice as much as other cigarettes but the also lasted much longer. In those days most cigarettes contained additives which made them burn regardless if you were taking a puff or not. Sherman's did not contain this additive and they would burn out when set in an ashtray.

[Tapeworm]

You can't gets shit in Aus duty free...

I was getting my cigars sent online in unmarked packages but the fucking lowlife cxnts at customs are onto me and seized my last two shipments.... Fuck I hate those dogs.

Fucking ouch. Yeah, I'm sure they got destroyed... one stick at a time.

Haven't been on a plane in years. I got a box last time but heard they reduced the allowance. Sux. That's the only way I was willing to afford them. The makers' price alone is usually cheeky enough without the tax.

Still have half a dozen or so montes hanging around which I should rehydrate. A few years ago when I was near subiaco in perth I called in at Devlin's for a Ramon Allones. The cue ball Lex Luther dude who runs it never had very kind prices but it was so completely over the top that I concluded all cigars, even run of the mill dominicans, are a rich man's luxury anymore, and I'm not a rich man.

[harmankardon1]

Fucking ouch. Yeah, I'm sure they got destroyed... one stick at a time.

Haven't been on a plane in years. I got a box last time but heard they reduced the allowance. Sux. That's the only way I was willing to afford them. The makers' price alone is usually cheeky enough without the tax.

Still have half a dozen or so montes hanging around which I should rehydrate. A few years ago when I was near subiaco in perth I called in at Devlin's for a Ramon Allones. The cue ball Lex Luther dude who runs it never had very kind prices but it was so completely over the top that I concluded all cigars, even run of the mill dominicans, are a rich man's luxury anymore, and I'm not a rich man.

I was getting them from cigar.biz I think.... Very affordable and decent enough quality cigars, was smoking through the Gurkha range and getting 20 nice sized cigars from them for like 150$ aus. Then customs started seizing them.

Was strange as the first few got through and then all of a sudden they had me, I might try changing addresses but it riles me so much when they seize them... They send you a letter and offer for you to pay the tax on them and they will send them through to you, it was like $500 tax for the 150$ package, dogs...

[harmankardon1]

I know schizophrenics chain smoke matt. There was a study that found very high rates of cancers in Schizophrenics, the researchers were wondering why, it turned out it was the very high smoking rates, they find it relaxes them, they put away packs a day.


given you are a bit of a mentally different person might also make you more susceptible to chain smoking and serious addiction.