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my mom sent me this a couple days ago. i actually thought it was pretty cool. i smoke about 1.5 - 2+ packs a day, it didnt bother me a bit.

What if there were big ass noisy dogs and a drunk neighbor looking into the hole?

I don't understand cigarettes in the least.

^^^ Seconded.

Not that I'm ripping on smokers, I just don't understand how you can get addicted. I've tried them before and they just bore me. And they make you smell bad.

I could write a book on my love hate relationship with cigarettes. I hate that I smoke. I hate the smell, I hate being short of breath at times, I hate how expensive they are here (they're over $7 in Chicago now), I hate that they're going to kill me, I hate the dirty looks people give me, I hate that if I run out of cigarettes at like 1 in the morning I'll ransack my apartment looking for a lost pack with a couple in it -- but dude, I fucking love smoking.

Honestly, when I saw that picture, I was like "Sweet, there's probably no wind down there. Get a couple of chairs and that'd make a great spot."

Your post is poetry Vincent.

My obsession with smoking makes heroin addiction seem like a shoe fetish.

What makes it so good though? I'd like a solid argument, as I've tried them and seen nothing good from it. No tension release personally.. nothing of the sort. Not dissing those of you who do, as I've had some great friends who smoke, but I just haven't seen any of its supposed benefits.

nice writin vinny. e-ray, there are no benefits unless youre already a smoker, only then is it a tension release. once you are/were a smoker there are times that you will want a cig even 50 years after you have quit. ive quit a couple times in my life, for about a year one time, and i just felt more stressed about not smoking than anything. and fool, id hafta kick his ass then have a cig hehe.

I've never understood how someone gets hooked on them. I always thought people got sick the first couple times they smoked. so why continue? is that a myth?

i think it depends on the person, and probably what kind of cig they try first. i can see if your first is a winston you could get sick, compared to a marlboro light you wouldnt. i had my first when i was 7, dont remember what kind it was. there were 3 of us and one of my friends took one from his dad. none of us got sick at all, but i dont think my other friends inhaled. i didnt have another one for a couple years, but by the time i was 12 i was sneaking out my window to have one before bed every night.

It's all mental, in my opinion.

i believe it's been proved that cigarettes can be chemically addictive as well as psychologically addictive.

http://www.drugabuse.gov/researchreports/nicotine/Nicotine3.html

I have had 3 cigarettes since 6:00 PM Saturday.

I think I am past the phase where I want to kill people.

Quiting smoking is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, thing I have ever done. The sick thing is that it is now about 8 years since I've had one and there is still the rare occasion that I will crave one. Why somebody smokes or what the appeal is will never be understood by one who has never been addicted. As for the picture at the start of this thread...it would not have done a thing for me.

When I was 7, I asked my old man: "So, what's smoking like". He went to the drug store, bought something nasty, and had me puff. I coughed, spat it out, and nearly burned the carpet I was standing on. Since then, I've never ever had the urge to try cigarettes.

I've often wondered if that's how you educate young kids to not smoke, without making it forbidding and rebelliously attractive, or if I was "special" in learning not to put nasty shit in my mouth. The closest I've ever gotten to smoking was kissing a smoker or two, which prompted an addiction to Altoids.

The closest I've ever gotten to smoking was kissing a smoker or two, which prompted an addiction to Altoids.

Did you buy them razors for their scruffy beards too?

I smoke and I think that that concept is cool as shit.
I might have to do that when I get a pimped out basement with a studio.
That'd be the ceiling in the mic booth. Sure it's dark, but it's also underground.




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Did you buy them razors for their scruffy beards too?
Actually, the two smokers I went out with were smokin' in more ways than one, which is why I tolerated their smoking. The Altoids were (mostly) for me.

It wouldn't make me quit.

I'm a retarded fucker though, since I know I get no benefit from smoking and if my mental approach was different I know I could quit with ease.

I guess I'm waiting for my next life or possibly for Agent Smith to shoot me...

I'm pretty sure that a painting isn't going to help anyone quit.

99% of people who smoke know what they are doing to themselves, so I doubt that a painting is going to be some kind of "grand inspiration" that leads them to quitting.

This thread made me light a cig just now, no bullshit.

I would never make light of the addiction. I'm sure it is really hard to quit. I just never had the desire to start. As a smart, glasses wearing kid in school, I was never "cool" and never cared to try and be cool (a reason many, but not all, kids try smoking).

This thread made me light a cig just now, no bullshit.

lol. my mom always says 'hows the smoking going?'. i always point out that now that she put it on my mind, i need one. she hates that yet after all these years cant stand to not ask me.

No joke, I just lit up right now.

does anyone here smoke cigars? i've always wanted to try a quality cigar.

Yes.

Start off with one of these. They're very versatile and smooth


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Quiting smoking is one of the hardest, if not the hardest, thing I have ever done. The sick thing is that it is now I am 8 years old and there is still the rare occasion that I will crave one. Why somebody smokes or what the appeal is will never be understood by one who has never been addicted. As for the picture at the start of this thread...it would not have done a thing for me.

Huh?

lmao.....nice mis-quote. It took me a bit to find it.