A funny but stupid story about me.

Feral Feline said:
Glad you caught it (the fire) in time;
my Mom is 84 and still smoking on the front porch — which is hell in winter.
Anyway, I worry about showing up to her house only to find a smouldering heap of ashes.

Grandfather died from emphysema, Dad died from lung-cancer and related, Father-in-law died from lung-cancer... the list is long.

To any of you smokers who choose to quit, I wish you the utmost success.
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Yeah, it's a wake up call. Being a little guy in the 70's everyone in my family did it. But they all stopped by the age I'm at now. So, if I make it a success this time I think my odds are a lot better. Anyway, I promised the kid so I have to be serious about it.
 
bean said:
Yeah, it's a wake up call. Being a little guy in the 70's everyone in my family did it. But they all stopped by the age I'm at now. So, if I make it a success this time I think my odds are a lot better. Anyway, I promised the kid so I have to be serious about it.
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Yup. I don't want my kid to have memories of me smoking so I've gone to extreme lengths to smoke in places where he can't see me or after he's gone to bed. It's getting harder now he turns 5 in a few weeks so I think it's time.

The hardest bit is going to be jamming with my mates when they all out for a smoke.
 
Seems like there should be more comments about your awesome dogs! My dog would have slept through the whole thing. :ROFLMAO:

On the smoking tip, switch to a vape or snus. You can quit that, if you want, but the harm reduction in the meantime is something to take advantage of.
 
Thanks for sharing bean.

I smoked for about 10 years. Picked it up in college and kept it for a while. Tried to quit off and on but even after college I was living with smokers (and even dated one), so it was always around. Then I had a bad cold with a really sore throat and couldn't bare smoking for a couple of weeks, and after those weeks passed I was able to kick it. I've been smoke free for 24 years now.

I would also occasionally chew (because we could in the lecture hall). Nasty stuff. To this day I still have recurring dreams where I cannot get the chew out of my mouth.
 
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My bad habit started when i was 16 and stopped about 2 and half years ago. Im 31 now. Ended up quitting cold turkey and never had the urge again. If im going to be honest the medical legalization of marijuana is what made me stop. So kind of kicked one habit for another :D

IDK if that makes me dumb or just a human being but kudos to everyone that is able to stop!
 
Bio77 said:
Seems like there should be more comments about your awesome dogs! My dog would have slept through the whole thing. :ROFLMAO:

On the smoking tip, switch to a vape or snus. You can quit that, if you want, but the harm reduction in the meantime is something to take advantage of.
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Yeah even the mostly deaf one was on point that day. She probably smelled the smoke outside.

Tried the vape a few years ago. I think it's better for me to go all in, but maybe keep that as an option if I feel like I might slip. I quit for most of last Fall, but then January brought some high stress with some home repairs. That did me in.
 
My mom smoked 2 packs of PallMalls a day. As a kid, I always complained about how much they stank, so when I was in jr. high and my buds were starting to smoke, I realized I couldn’t do that—it would be admitting defeat to my mom… so, I started smoking a pipe. Then, a few months into that, I realized that an eigth grader smoking a briar pipe was really silly looking, so I stopped.

My father in law successfully stopped smoking many many times. Usually for a few years at a stretch, but then, he’d fall back into the pattern. It’s something that I think takes constant vigilance, if you really want it.

My take from your story is to always trust your spidey sense. And give those dogs some treats!
 
RetiredUnit1 said:
My mom smoked about 6 a day and died at 87 of old age. I like to smoke cannabis myself and uh...

what was I saying???

:unsure: :sneaky:
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I live in the South so of course it is very illegal here. Didn't stop me in my college days one bit but when I broke up with my college gf (who was waay into it) I kinda didn't care about it anymore.

The missus and I will probably relocate way up north in 2-3 years so maybe I will correct that error then, haha. I could pretty easily replace my taste for nicotine and alcohol with one low impact alternative if it were legal. I'm not knocking a completely sober lifestyle (legal and illegal) at all. It's just never been for me.
 
bean said:
if you are a regular user you might be surprised to learn that stopping can be pretty easy.
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Agree. Always did it with help of a lot plain water. 3day is enough for 'bit cleansing'
Then, first cigar after that, the flavour is really meh, but 2nd 3rd became real joy. Hahaha

My grandmother(91yo this year) still smoke. And she still gardening and cyclist, almost everyday. Her secret? Dont change the cigar, do routine activity, and bath with plain/cold water. Dont bath with hot water, everyday. And, don't try vape/electric smoke. My 37yo cousin(never smoke before), after just 1year vape-ing, got health problem. The doctor curious too, why that happen in my smoker family. Because the other never got serious health problem. We do routine check 6month.

My 2nd house is near tobacco, tea and coffee field, i still smoke everyday because don't have partner. Dont laugh, smoke help me to turn off the junior. When have partner, if she ask for stop/break smoke, easy task to do. The problem with smoker family. Wall in special room for smoking turn to dark yellow. Your body and clothes, smell bad. That why, the house in my area, designed to have bathroom in front of house. You clean, you can enter house.

Fun fact, almost all smoker here, easy stop/break when got plan to have child. Until the child turn 7yo. They smoke again or forever stop.
 
Great thread!

I'm one of the lucky ones with cigs. I can smoke (Newport 100s!) when I'm in a stressful situation and I don't have access to weed but I can put them down otherwise. I do smoke enough weed (concentrates) everyday/all day to kill a small elephant, but that just keeps me from killing ppl. Wife is "California Sober" now. With alcohol, she's like Nic Cage in "Leaving Las Vegas"...not a pretty scene. With weed she's an upright citizen. Differn't strokes eh?

As far as dreams, the best insight I've ever gotten was a film called "Waking Life" by Richard Linklater.

This is the guy that got me smoking in 6th grade circa 1986, I assure you...I'm NOT the cool looking one!
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This is a great thread. I find myself lucky I never got addicted to nicotine. I smoked on and off in high school and college. I smoked my last cigarette maybe 12 years ago and at the time I was smoking socially and very rarely. I guess my brain never “got it”. I also don’t get headaches if I give up caffeine so there’s gotta be something different to the chemistry in my brain.

I also hated smoke in pubs, even when I did smoke. I thought it was so gross back in the 90s already and I’m glad most countries no longer do that (I’m looking at you Japan).

As many others I do use weed. Although at this point it’s mostly edibles for me. I occasionally smoke a joint or a pipe if we go visit my wife’s stepmom in Florida who has been smoking weed her whole life.

The aphantasia thing is fascinating. I had no idea and now I wonder if I have it (probably not)! Have you guys read the book “how to change your mind”? I’m in the process of reading it since I’ve been interested in psychedelics recently. I also suffer from focal dystonia and I wonder if some of these compounds could help with that.
 
bean said:
I live in the South so of course it is very illegal here. Didn't stop me in my college days one bit but when I broke up with my college gf (who was waay into it) I kinda didn't care about it anymore.

The missus and I will probably relocate way up north in 2-3 years so maybe I will correct that error then, haha. I could pretty easily replace my taste for nicotine and alcohol with one low impact alternative if it were legal. I'm not knocking a completely sober lifestyle (legal and illegal) at all. It's just never been for me.
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Forget the weed, why the hell would you want to live up north???
 
I would prefer if my mother switched to skunky combustibles, would be better than the stench of tobacco on her.

Of course, she says it does nothing for her. One of her friends is into the greenery, even grows her own and when my mom's with her friend, mom gets very chatty. Doesn't affect her at all, though...

A few joints a day as opposed to several cigarettes — I'd be all for that.


So Bean, come on up to Canada, relocate here and enjoy the combustibles and craft beer — 'twould make for a wonderful hub-buzz of pedal-building.

EDIT: Don't forget we have good health-care
 
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Bio77 said:
On the smoking tip, switch to a vape or snus. You can quit that, if you want, but the harm reduction in the meantime is something to take advantage of.
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It sounds like you may be somewhat familiar with these products and I’m so happy someone mentioned a harm-reduction approach. Quitting is incredibly difficult for many. Nicotine isn’t really the problem, the most common delivery methods are.

I spent the last decade manufacturing e-liquid in the nicotine vape space before reluctantly closing my business last year. I hated to do it, but US regs made it so that I had no legal pathway to continue. For anyone reading this that still uses combustible tobacco, it’s worthwhile to look into the things @Bio77 mentioned.
 
I was never a smoker, however I chewed id say a little over a can a day on average from the time I was sixteen until I March of this year (43) so 27 years Jesus that makes me feel old.

Anyways I had thought about quitting periodically for probably the last 15 years. Always just thought it would be too hard, basically
Convinced myself to not try. I told myself I’d try one day probably 6 months before I did my second time and I didn’t make it through my 45 minute commute home.

Back in March I woke up one day had about half a can left thiught to myself I’ll have to stop at the store today and pick up a log (5 cans). Got to work this was a Friday. And just decided I didn’t feel like going to spend the 30$ on chew and the rest of the issues with it. So I looked at what I had left made sure I had enough for the drive home and one after dinner (one thing about chew is you can leave the same one in for thag 45 minute drive. That after dinner chew was my last one, been 4 months. Was easier than I thought it would be, though I still get weird things where I literally find myself reaching for a non existent can of chew in certain situations. But for the most part I don’t even think about it. I do think doing it on a weekend was the right move though. I also didn’t drink that whole week because I knew that would make it tougher.

Guess my point is it was a lot easier than I thought it would be.
 
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