What's your relationship with smoking?

I have never been a smoker but grew up with my mom smoking. I find that when I am stressed out or drinking, I sometimes crave a cigarette. I only caved once because I have a smoking friend and we were out drinking at a bar sitting outside on the patio. It was TERRIBLE. Really haven't craved one since then, lol.

I have never tried smoking, though most of my family and a few of my friends do.

I really dislike being in a place where smoke is hard to avoid. Like when I'm surprised by the ability to smoke in a club, at a chain-smoking family member's house, entering and exiting businesses and so on. I really can't take the smell, the clinging odor, the loss of voice that occurs in some of these environments. It's pretty hard on me. If I can, I try to take air breaks, but I try to avoid going to places where there is smoke. But that is difficult when an inside-smoking family wants you over for Thanksgiving dinner. But they even do it around the little kids. I don't say anything. I imagine some of them would get pretty mad.

I'd like it if people I cared for, and more people didn't smoke. I have seen the harm it can and has caused. But what can I do? It isn't for me to decide. Still, I wish that more people were careful of where they did it and I wish that they would not simply drop what they are done with. I don't spray the various chemicals I use in my hobbies when neighbors are nearby, and I don't leave the cans all over.

I have a reputation as a clean-air princess, but please try to believe me--I do not think I'm better than anyone who smokes.

I wish you all who are trying to quit and those who already have the best.

Smoked from about 12-22 been smoke free for 5 years now!

I've smoked on and off since I was 13. I quit for four years, but started up again last year because of stress. I think about quitting sometimes, but then I light up again.

I grew up in a family of smokers, but never smoked. I did try it but never got into it because of the way it tasted and smelled. I did however date a smoker who I ended up marrying. He smoked for over 10 years and being with me he quit off and on for the past 7 years, but he had a breakdown about going to court for his first daughter and he turned back to cigarettes. However, last year he found the electronic cigarette and has not had a tobacco cigarette for over a year. The e-cig does have different levels of nicotine all the way to none at all. He has met a lot of people who smoked any where from 5 to over 20 years who have switched to the e-cig and it really worked for them. Since this has worked out for my hubs he created a website that just gives information on the e-cig, so if anyone is interested in them they can go to one site to get the scoop on what they are, where to get one, forums about them, reviews on them,etc. Check it out if you like link

My whole entire family smokes, and I always hated it growing up. It was gross always having a smoke filled house and car, so that drove me the other way, I can't stand the stuff!

My family is full of smokers and they are considering electronic cigarettes.

I've tried quitting, but I turn into a mean person. My boyfriends that I smoke, but he would rather see me happy than mad

I don't smoke, neither do my friends and family.

I think cigarettes are also some kind of drug and for things like that I like my body too much

I smoke but I can find myself quitting off and on with no problem. I would always smoke with my boyfriend, mostly because I'm really a social smoker. If we go out to see friends or do anything fun, we smoke, especially when we drink. When I would leave and come back home, I could quit easily and not think twice about it. Now, I've picked up the habit again, and have found that it's helped me make a few friends at school. I guess people can bond over cigarettes.

So I guess I'm a Monday - Friday smoker, hehe.

I smoked a little in HS. With my involvement in sports, smoking would be detrimental to my stamina as well as my health. Anyway, my voice is deep enough.

I've tried, but never really got into it. To be fair, by "tried" I mean I've probably smoked half a pack of cigarettes, total, in my lifetime.

An occasional cigar or pipe is great! I love the way that cherry pipe tobacco smells.

I quit again recently. I think it's been a week and a half now? Something like that...

I've never ever smoked. I've never drank or done anything 'like that' actually. My panic attacks, anxiety, and major fear of death have done good with not putting something that is possible to give me cancer in my body. I think it's absolutely gross and pointless. But with that sad, most of my family smokes like chimneys :\

Never smoked and never will. I find it just plain disgusting.

I got one of those "smokingeverywhere" e-cigarettes. I feel totally ripped off by it. The booklet reads like it was written not in English and the translated directly over into English.

To get my money out of it, I just nommed on the nicotine drenched wad of cotton in the tube.

I wish there was a "Other" section, lol. I only smoke from a Hookah and that's only once in a while. Which is why I chose "Never have, never will. Why set perfectly good tobacco on fire?". Technically it's not setting the shisha* on fire, more like roasting it, lol.



*(aka: the tobacco stuff used in Hookahs. And even then I prefer Teasha over the tobacco shisha. Teasha being made with tea leaves instead of tobacco, so it's a bit smoother to smoke and can be smoked indoors at Hookah Cafes whereas tobacco products cannot, by law, be smoked here indoors in public places)

I smoked for 4 years. I quit as a junior in college when I started running as a hobby, and then decided I wanted to train for a half-marathon... the two aren't very compatible, I found out.

I had to quit due to health problems, but my quitting was pretty successful. I still have an urge to buy a pack and smoke, but I wouldn't.

I smoked briefly during middle school and then gave it up. I grew up in a house full of smokers so it was kind of hard to avoid at least trying it. I guess I came to the conclusion I didn't want to smell like my grandmother.

Best of luck quitting, Mr. Sauce.

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I smoked a lot with my ex boyfriend and quit after we broke up. I didn't feel like killing my lungs anymore.

Good luck with quitting again.

I've been smoking for about 9 years. And while I know I should quit, I just can't seem to. The last time I tried was when I was preg. with my daughter, but my anxiety got so bad I was having an anxiety attack once a week. I think another reason I haven't seriously tried to quit is because most people will tell me they didn't know I smoked until they saw me smoke (or they smelt the smoke on me right after I went out). The nurse who took care of me after I had my daughter actually thought that was a typo on my chart. She said most smokers have wheezing when she listens to their lungs, but she said she could only hear it once she was looking for it. I've also been called a courteous smoker. I won't smoke inside (even if it is a smoking facility). If I'm in a group of non-smokers, I won't smoke (which sometimes gets really difficult). If I'm in a mixed group (smokers and non), I smoke downwind or far enough away from the group to not bother the non smokers. I figure, I don't mind killing my lungs, but I'm sure they like their's the way they are.

This is a good question!

I've never tried, and don't forsee a reason to. I don't think its a big deal, though.