Are You Still Puffing?

[Stryder50]

Screw cigarettes. They are floor sweepings with chemicals. If you are going to smoke, smoke a fine pipe with a good english tobacco or good imported cigars.

I quit cigs about 27 years ago, encouraged by a two week bad case of pneumonia like flu. Afterward switched to a pipe, which I try not to inhale - though the nicotine gets absorbed through glands in the mouth. I prefer Dr. Grabow pipes for their filters, and go for a vanilla cavendish tobacco (Smoker's Pride brand) - it's a chunky cut that smokes cool and slow, and tastes the same when lit as it smells in the pouch. I often get compliments on how nice it smells - sort of like pumpkin or apple pie baking in the oven.

I've noticed that while cig smoking may be down, vaping has gained quite a following. I've a son-in-law who's made a bit of a fortune with his chain of vape shops in the Spokane~Idaho area.

 

[toobfreak]

I prefer Dr. Grabow pipes for their filters, and go for a vanilla cavendish tobacco (Smoker's Pride brand)

Smokers Pride is about the lowest quality pipe tobacco you can buy! Some day you should try a tin of maybe Mac Baren's Virginia, or McClellands, or Sutliff. And those filters rob you of much of the flavor, really pointless unless you inhale!

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[hjmick]

The war on smokers seems to be working. Less people in the US are lighting up cigarettes. Some that smoke menthols are SOL because of the ban on them.
Those menthol smokers are finding ways to get them, but at a high price. Knowing someone in another State who will ship them to you is one of the ways, but at $110.00 per carton + shipping. Ouch. Especially if you smoke a pack a day.

My brand was Camel filters. When the price hit $8.00 a pack I said that would help me quit. It didn't. Get on a smoking cessation program. I did and I quit. Took me a year wearing a Nic patch. 21mg for 6 months and a 14mg for 6 more months, which I got for free for being in the program. I also get an annual chest CT scan to check for lung cancer, which is also FOC.

"Here’s some good news: Cigarette smoking hit record lows in the US, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey. An estimated 11.1 percent of American adults were regular cigarette users in 2022—a drop from the 14.4 percent reported in 2019"

Why Americans are smoking cigarettes less than ever

Cigarette smoking hit an all-time low in the US in 2022, though e-cigarette vaping remains increasingly popular among teens.

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517 days ago I decided to see how long I could go without a smoke. I'm still going...

I never declared I was quitting, for the first 365 days I marked each one of on a calendar, and I stopped going into the mini-mart when I got gas. I was more than prepared for it no to take... No gum, no patches, no adverse side effects since I stopped. I feel for the folks that suffer through the process, but for me hit has been too easy...

 

[okfine]

517 days ago I decided to see how long I could go without a smoke. I'm still going...

I never declared I was quitting, for the first 365 days I marked each one of on a calendar, and I stopped going into the mini-mart when I got gas. I was more than prepared for it no to take... No gum, no patches, no adverse side effects since I stopped. I feel for the folks that suffer through the process, but for me hit has been too easy...

It's more about how you train your mind not to light up. I quit twice in the past cold turkey. My workplace/image pretty much factored in to make me to quit. Was tired of trying to be discreet.

 

[Likkmee]

I only smoke crack and free base. I do smoke a few Cohibas since I live in a free country and can buy things from Cuba. Kidding on the crack free base BS. I smoke weed maybe 1-2-3 times a year. Likely at a party BBQ or something is someone offers a hit. It's kinda pleasant

 

[Meathead]

Two years ago I had my 1st chest CT scan and 12 benign nodules were found on my right lung. None on my left lung.

A friend died from lung cancer. Never smoked.

Actually, on Monday I had a lobectomy removing a stage 1 malignant tumor from my inferior left lobe. I am at home now with a shortness of breath from losing 20% of lung power, but this should improve with time.
Although there are no signs of metasisis, this will have to be followed up for years.
I smoked like an idiot for over 50 years and now I am vaping, which according to the doctor is the best option since I unable to quit.

As Mark Twain said, "Quitting smoking is easy, I have done it many times."

 

[Woodznutz]

I quit cigs about 27 years ago, encouraged by a two week bad case of pneumonia like flu. Afterward switched to a pipe, which I try not to inhale - though the nicotine gets absorbed through glands in the mouth. I prefer Dr. Grabow pipes for their filters, and go for a vanilla cavendish tobacco (Smoker's Pride brand) - it's a chunky cut that smokes cool and slow, and tastes the same when lit as it smells in the pouch. I often get compliments on how nice it smells - sort of like pumpkin or apple pie baking in the oven.

I've always liked the smell of pipe smoke, someone else's of course.

 

[Woodznutz]

Screw cigarettes. They are floor sweepings with chemicals. If you are going to smoke, smoke a fine pipe with a good english tobacco or good imported cigars.

A fellow visited a tobacco factory and asked if he could see how cigarettes were made. He was escorted to a back room where a worker was mixing tobacco scraps with horseshit, then putting the mix into the cigarette machine. "What's the ratio", he asked the worker. "Half tobacco and half horseshit" the worker replied. "Wow", the man responded, "I'm impressed. I thought they were all horseshit".

 

[braalian]

Smoke cigars instead. You don’t inhale.

1-3 cigars a day is proven to be virtually harmless

 

[skye]

I started smoking in shool when I was 12 or 13.....lol.....and smoked all my life.... as did all my friends,I loved it.

I stop smoking years ago...now I vape now and then, but without nicotine, just flavors, vanilla and such.

In my heart I know I would start smoking in a heartbeat! but nah.....no more smoking real cigarettes for me, horrible for your health.

 

[DudleySmith]

When I was a kid I would give soldiers who lived in the neighborhood $5-$6 to buy me cartons at the base PX; I would resell them to teenagers and triple my money selling cheaper than the stores did. I was up to raking in $30-$40 clear a week after a couple of months when my Dad asked me where all that cash for the new bike and go kart was coming from, and he put a halt to it. lol great while it lasted, much better than a paper route.

 

[DudleySmith]

I started smoking in shool when I was 12 or 13.....lol.....and smoked all my life.... as did all my friends,I loved it.

I stop smoking years ago...now I vape now and then, but without nicotine, just flavors, vanilla and such.

In my heart I know I would start smoking in a heartbeat! but nah.....no more smoking real cigarettes for me, horrible for your health.

Vaping helped me quit, then I easily quit vaping as well a couple of months later. I like the flavor and smells of some vapes, but I don't trust the makers of the liquids as far as what they put in the stuff. Some of the Chinese made crap was made with antifreeze.

 

[skye]

Vaping helped me quit, then I easily quit vaping as well a couple of months later.

Yes, I think that's happening to me too!

 

[braalian]

Be careful thinking vaping is a safe alternative to cigarettes…

 

[strollingbones]

reds.....a pack a day....till i got bladder cancer..it was the first thing my urologist said...quit smoking oddly he has no problem with me smoking pot..well the tried to send me to a fancy cessation of smoking bullshit..i told him try that again and i would go off the mtn...both of us know i wont..

 

[Natural Citizen]

Quit 3 pack a day habit many years ago.

Dang, Leo. Good thing you quit.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Smoking makes you look aged before your time.

 

[gipper]

Smoking makes you look aged before your time.

It sure does. A close female friend from high school who was stunning, still smokes in her mid sixties and she looks like shit now.

Look what happened to Kate Moss.

 

[Natural Citizen]

It sure does. A close female friend from high school who was stunning, still smokes in her mid sixties and she looks like shit now.

Look what happened to Kate Moss.
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I had to look up who Kate Moss was. lol. I don't really follow the Hollywood types and all of that stuff. It's one of those things where I recognize the name from reading other people say it but never know who the people are that they're actually talking about.

But yeah. Big difference after I looked on the www to see what she looked lke before.

 

[odanny]

Quit smoking around 20 years ago. Just replaced one addiction with another: Running. I started doing it regularly, trackiing my time, distance, routes, etc., and whaddya know? Zero withdrawal, and zero urge to ever smoke again.

I had tried, and failed, more than a few times previously, always caving in, but once I started running, I never wanted another cigarrette.