What's your relationship with smoking?

I hate cigarette smoke... but I LOVE watching people smoke. It can be really sexy. I don't know why.

I love smoking. But I only will smoke Swisher Sweets and black n Milds. I recently decided I like Al Capones as well. I doubt I will quit anytime soon. To much stress in the life to quit. Sometimes I just smoke one after another. Thoug hI gotta admit I get tired after swimming in the pool for 5 seconds now. lol. I do run out of breath pretty fast. Probably not good for my allergies. But oh well what can ya do.

We all have to have bad habits

I quit after smoking socially for a few months. I would smoke when I drank. I went away for the summer and became a total wild child. When I went back home I had to quit cold turkey and I was fine. Though now and then when sitting at a bar I lust for a smoke, but have yet to partake since that summer about two years ago.

I have asthma and enough other health problems, so it never seemed like a good idea to me to ask for more.

EWWWW smoking is gross and damages the health of the people around you more than your own! I'll never smoke! I rarely drink either because its an epic waste of cash in my opinion.

I do believe that one can be "sort of" a smoker, I am. Many years ago I picked up a nice Dunhill pipe and will have a bowl or two maybe every month or so. I'll have a cigar about the same frequency, as well I'll have a cigarette a couple times a year with friends. I do understand that tobacco is addictive but I'm not addicted to it... just lucky from that perspective I guess.

I've never smoked, but my mom used to. She quit after contracting pneumonia and would try to smoke while sick and figured it was as good a time as any to kick the habit. I have no real compunctions with anyone who smokes and only cough if it actually physically aggravates me instead of shaming people.

I've never smoked, and don't plan to ever start. My man smokes, but not like a chimney.

My wife and I are in our early 40s and have never even tried 1 cigarette.

Congratulations on quitting! You can do it!

I'm one of the lucky ones who quit first try. I didn't smoke very much or very often, so when I decided it was time to quit, I had one last cigarette, and that was the end.

I answered that I tried it but don't like it. Really though, what I like is flavoured tobacco. I smoke it very infrequently, but do enjoy clove cigarettes and sheesha on occasion.

Not a big fan of smoking, and never tried it.

tried to quit but .....

smoked from time i was 14 til i was 18 quit and have not started again glad they so expensive!

When I drink, and after sex sometimes.

I was always repulsed by my mom's cigarette smoke and vowed then never to smoke. But a few years ago, I started hanging out at a local philosophy club and spent enough nights with a dozen pipe-smoking dudes in a vent-less room to get over that repulsion. I very nearly tried smoking a pipe a few times, but was always afraid I'd make a fool of myself. Now certain pipe smoke scents are a turn-on for me, and I can stand to be near anyone smoking a pipe or cigarettes.

My dad used to smoke like a chimney, starting when he and my mom split up. It pissed me off - not only was he damaging his own lungs, but potentially mine, my brother's, and my cat's, as well, and when he smoked I took a lot longer to recover from even the smallest illness. Plus, I smelled like smoke, and I really hated that because people always assumed that I was the smoker. He quit cold turkey quite a while ago (during a time he was mad at me, so that he could use "the silent treatment" to avoid letting his nicotine-starved nerves blow up on me when we talked), and I don't think I've ever been prouder of him.

Now really, I don't much care whether most people smoke or not, but it really annoys me to be in the room with a smoker. I can tolerate it if we're holding a conversation, but from the moment the cig's lit to the moment it's put out all I can think is, "Just knock it off."

I used to smoke, not often. I decided I didn't want to because of health issues.

I quit after a few years of smoking and haven't looked back
I don't reek any more

I've been a 2 pack/day smoker for 13 years. I just quit cold turkey 2 months ago. Still going strong.

I don't smoke and never will. I can not stand the smell of them.