Anyone here still smoking?..

[Brock Samson]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/13/MNGRHOK7RS1.DTL


"  The most sweeping anti-smoking law in the world gets its first public airing tonight in the Peninsula city of Belmont, which aims to curb the harmful effects of second-hand smoke.

Lighting up on a sidewalk in the city of 25,000 residents: verboten. Puffing away in an apartment building: no way. Smoking in the company car: sorry. Even smoking in your own home could be a nuisance if a neighbor complained about the wafting smoke."

  i quit myself in 1997...

[BMOTOXSTAR]

I wish I would have quit in 97'. It is 07' and I am a faithful pack a day Camel Filter smoker. 
I am going to kick the nasty habit sometime soon.
I think that smoking laws smoke a big sausage.

[Charger_Fan]

I never started.
Although I did try it a few times.

[daytonalo]

I hope smokers don't quit , more room for all of us non- stinky type

[Khyron]

Same here, been smoking a long time, about a pack of Camel a day.

I do plan of quitting, I have a doctors appointment to get some of those new pills that are suppost to be great at helping someone quit.

I wanted to quit when I was ready too, I don't need the government to tell me I have to quit.

[bull]

I smoke, but only when I'm on fire.

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

smoking what?

[konigcharger]

smoking what?

yeah... maybe thats why you saw a mod top daytona

[68chrgrwife]

darn, i wish we could have those laws here.  My neighbor smokes outside and her second hand smoke comes into my house even with all my doors and windows closed (darn military housing) and there is nothing I can do about it except smell it!!!!!  So annoying.  I am an ex-smoker...still smoke 1 cig. if I get stressed or if I am drinking and hubby is gone.  He can't stand me smoking.  I have quit a few times for him.  Once we started dating and then again a few years back when I started back up 'cause he was on deployment.  I almost started up again this deployment, but didn't...thnak goodness....I guess church is really rubbing off on me........

[mikepmcs]

  I am an ex-smoker...still smoke 1 cig. if I get stressed or if I am drinking and hubby is gone.   

You are not an ex smoker you are a smoker.


To answer the ? though, yeah, i'm a smoker about a pack every 2 days depending on my drinking

I've been smoking since I was 10 so no hope here nor do I care.  I've halted the process numerous times but never kicked it for good.  My only problem is that they are so expensive.  Mo money mo money mo money.  Maine is getting just as crazy as those other states now.  That is why i'd like to live in the Midwest for just that reason, not so I can fill everyone's lungs with second hand but it just seems they are still a little more human friendly out there.  You are right, you shouldn't have to breathe my dirty air, I do agree with that.  But you gotta expect it in certain places like bars and bowling alleys.
My funniest thing to notice is the non smokers are really closet smokers
Cause why..... you all wanna be cool like us.

Mike

[68chrgrwife]

nope an ex-smoker haven't had a cig in three months...thank you....and I stopped smoking for 4 yrs prior to the latest binge.  Hubby will be back in less than a month, so I won't start back up now and won't smoke while he is here.  Love him way too much to fight over something so dumb...although I was a smoker when we met and he should have thought about that before staying with me, getting me preg. and marrying me..........

[69-DodgeCharger]

I dont smoke, except for when I get drunk, but then its only cigars then. I have never tried a cigarette and dont plan on it either

[69bronzeT5]

Both my parents still smoke. I dont and I sure in hell dont plan on smoking.

[Bandit4142]

I'm a smoker.   I've been smokin' a pack a day for almost 20 years, and it doesn't look like I'm quitting anytime soon.   Colorado is now a "Smoke-Free" state.     

[69-DodgeCharger]

I'm a smoker.   I've been smokin' a pack a day for almost 20 years, and it doesn't look like I'm quitting anytime soon.   Colorado is now a "Smoke-Free" state.     

Minnesota is trying to do that too, im kinda for it kinda against it but i really dont know
both my parents smoke, one does cigarettes the other pipe tobacco
my dad gets pissed when we go into places that allow smoking all except for pipe tobacco
In Ramsey County (Suburbs) theres a smoking ban in every establishment unless there alcohol sales make up 50% of their sales then they can smoke in there, BUT in St. Paul it is a permanent ban

[mikepmcs]

I don't smoke, except for when I get drunk, but then its only cigars then. I have never tried a cigarette and don't plan on it either

Cause cigars ain't smokin right??? Yeah they are even worse........

Whatever,  all the closet smokers are coming out.  I'm with you people, raise your fist in triumph

I like smokin and I like to pour milk in my tobacco for a great breakfast.  Ok I'm not that extreme but I love the fact that people call themselves non smokers when they ...smoke when they drink, etc.....

[71ChallengeHer]

If it wasn't for beer, I wouldn't smoke. So. I'm blaming beer.

[Doc74]

I quit the day before I moved here, January 19th. I figured if I'm going to turn my life upside down I might as well do it all and get it over with.
I smoked my last cig when I left my apartment for the last time, in my car which I drove for the last time.
It's weird how stupid stuff gets to you....

Funny enough I haven't missed smoking for a second, must be because I have other things on my mind, I don't know if I could have done it if my life hadn't changed so drastically but in any case there's no addiction for me to kick.
I do feel a million times better now.

[tan top]

smoking what?

yeah... maybe thats why you saw a mod top daytona

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[hemihead]

First of all quitting for someone else never works , you have to want to quit for you. Second,worrying about second hand smoke is a joke.If you figure the ratio of smoke and parts per million of air it doesn't make sense. You anti smoking Nazis should be more worried about the other, more deadly things in the air.And I hear alot of people saying that they don't smoke cigarettes but that they smoke pipes or they go to cigar bars and that's ok???I have been a smoker a long time.I don't drink or chew.I think those are bad habits but I don't force my beliefs down anyone's throat.What ever happened to Life,Liberty,and the Pursuit of Happiness?

[BMOTOXSTAR]

darn, i wish we could have those laws here.  My neighbor smokes outside and her second hand smoke comes into my house even with all my doors and windows closed (darn military housing) and there is nothing I can do about it except smell it!!!!!  So annoying.  I am an ex-smoker...still smoke 1 cig. if I get stressed or if I am drinking and hubby is gone.  He can't stand me smoking.  I have quit a few times for him.  Once we started dating and then again a few years back when I started back up 'cause he was on deployment.  I almost started up again this deployment, but didn't...thnak goodness....I guess church is really rubbing off on me........

It seems that you only smoke when "Hubby" is gone. That is lame. My wife is a non-smoker & she knew I was a smoker when we got married. If she does not like my habits she go back to where she came from, 1 life, know what I mean?
I can't believe that you get mad that your neighbor smokes. It is thinking like that, causing these extreme smoking laws. What is next?
That is really uptight to be mad at a neighbor that smokes outside. How could the smoke get into your house with your windows and doors closed? Even in an apartment? I think that you are Jones'in for a smoke and it bothers you that if you smoke your "Hubby" might find out.

[old man]

Yeah I still smoke around a pack a day. I was smoking over two packs a day and have cut down. When I used to drive anywhere from 6 to 10 hours aday I started. All those hours on the road you either eat or snack or smoke. I got up to 310 and had to do something. I know smoking was not the best thing but I had to shed the weight. Now I'm my way down to 230 and with new job the stress is much less so I have a better chance when I do decide to quit. Yes I'm tired of all the Nazi anti smoking crowd. I don't smoke around other people who might object to it. My wife and I smoke outside and do not smoke in our house or other peoples homes. What I do in my car is not anyone's business.   

[6pkrunner]

Was at a pack a day. Quit in 1999 - no regrets. To be around someone while they are having one is pure bliss. To be near someone after[/b] having one is pure stench. I cannot believe I smelt like that for the 35 years or so I smoked.

[Skued]

I totally agree with the statement: "that you have to quit for yourself not anyone else".  I chewed Copenhagen for 17 years with few cigarettes thrown in for good measure.  When I met my wife she smoked. After we were married and she got pregnant with our first child she quit.  I tied half-a$$ed...didn't work.  I tried medication, the gum, and weaning myself nothing worked. Couple years later I spit out my last chew and went cold turkey.  Haven't looked back, that was fours ago.  It can be done, you just have to want to.  As for the smoking Nazi's...blow smoke in there faces.  The role of the government is to protect us from foreign threats not ourselves. That responsibility belongs us. I'm glad to see a few of those insane smoking law suite being over turned now.

Steve

[68chrgrwife]

darn, i wish we could have those laws here.  My neighbor smokes outside and her second hand smoke comes into my house even with all my doors and windows closed (darn military housing) and there is nothing I can do about it except smell it!!!!!  So annoying.  I am an ex-smoker...still smoke 1 cig. if I get stressed or if I am drinking and hubby is gone.  He can't stand me smoking.  I have quit a few times for him.  Once we started dating and then again a few years back when I started back up 'cause he was on deployment.  I almost started up again this deployment, but didn't...thnak goodness....I guess church is really rubbing off on me........

It seems that you only smoke when "Hubby" is gone. That is lame. My wife is a non-smoker & she knew I was a smoker when we got married. If she does not like my habits she go back to where she came from, 1 life, know what I mean?
I can't believe that you get mad that your neighbor smokes. It is thinking like that, causing these extreme smoking laws. What is next?
That is really uptight to be mad at a neighbor that smokes outside. How could the smoke get into your house with your windows and doors closed? Even in an apartment? I think that you are Jones'in for a smoke and it bothers you that if you smoke your "Hubby" might find out.

even if hubby did find out (if I was smokin)' it would only be him saying 'comon' cut that crap out, not afraid of that.  I live in cheaply made military housing where there is little to no insulation around windows and doors (sorry).  I don't complain and I ain't "jonesin" for a smoke..two of my daughters and I all have asthma...the last thing I need is to have some trigger that I cut out of my life...to have a better life...coming into my home and risking my kids getting sick or worse...end up in the hospital....if the neighbors (whose house is attached to mine; don't forget) want to smake take it away from the houses.  I never compalin to them or to our management...I know they have every right to smoke on their property (actually I was told that I could complain and file a complaint about the smoke and they would have to change their location to smoke, but what's the use....Military housing is just not up to proper standings to keep the smoke and other crap out.)  Sorry to argue with you guys...never meant for that to happen, but ou also don't have to pick on a woman whose husband is gone at war (alone with three small kids) and almost getting killed a few times recently and might need something to take that edge off...most of you will never be in my shoes...give me a break.  (and NO I did not know what i was getting into before we got married..we are high school sweethearts and were married with one kids before he joined the Navy.)