Cigarettes
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Topic: Cigarettes
Posted By: pero
Subject: Cigarettes
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 05:43
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I desperate want to quit smoking. I had a period of 6 years, and I started again.
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 05:49
i smoke like a chimney... what did you do and quit for so long? and what made you start it again? ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
pero wrote:Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 06:00
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Can't vote. Mine would be... "Smokes very little, mainly socially or while drinking in Pub. Could give up, doesn't really want to at the moment." ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 06:09
I quit 10 times a day 
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Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 06:09
I've never had a cigarette in my mouth in my life. And I never felt any desire to smoke. Actually, I hate it!  It killed my grandfather...  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 06:10
 good lad!------------- Prog Archives Tour Van
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Posted By: Hatters
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 06:13
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I don't smoke and anyone who does is IMHO thick.
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 06:14
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I quit when I sleep (hehehe) I'm a smoker since I had 17 y.o. and I still don't think in quit... Maybe in the next years but right now I try to don't fight battles that I will loose... In fact I smoke 30-40 cigarettes per day... I know I'm killing myself so don't say nothing!!!! ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 06:18
Intelligence has nothing to do with it. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 06:36
nor has stupidity..  ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: ProgFan
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 07:12
I agree with that
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 07:16
Why is this in "Prog Polls" anyway? Perhaps the thread starter thought it read " Smog Polls"? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 09:41
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I smoke. I will be quitting yet again at new year. Like any addiction; drugs, gambling or whatever, smokers are not stupid, but they have a weakness IMO. I rue the day I ever started, and hate seeing teenagers - or kids! - smoking. Thankfully in the UK, smoking is becoming more of a chavs habit, and smokers are ever more being pushed into dingy siderooms, or our into the cold to indulge in their filthy habit, where it wont affect others. In July next year we wont be able to smoke in our pubs. Good!
Whats this poll doing here..?  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 09:49
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^^ You'll be pleased to know that when I was 14, I tried a cigarette on the back of the school bus, and it didn't agree with me at all... I coughed my lungs up, had tears rolling down my eyes and all my mates laughed at me...
...all my mates who went on to smoke into 6th form and beyond....  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 10:19
The greatest invention the devil ever devised. How can something so pleasing and relaxing be so damned horrible for your health. I stopped over a year and a half ago and I still have moments when I would love to have one. Hellish temptations, those cancer sticks.  ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 12:57
Cigarettes are evil. 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 13:03
Cigarettes are great!
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Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 13:06
| I haven't smoke cigarettes and I don't plan to. Apparently both my grandfathers did it and my parents hate it so I will go along with them for no on cigarettes. But smoking other things... |
Posted By: martinn
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 13:07
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 13:09
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Started and finished smoking when I was 11 (no, that wasn't a typo). ------------- sig |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 13:12
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Used to smoke 2 packs a day, but I quit a year ago, and been clean ever since. Never again. I hope I didn't do too much damage to my lungs. Cough, cough, arghh............................ ------------- 
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Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 14:15
| I never smoked |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 16:09
I save money and life by avoiding smoking  Sincerely, I really don't understand the need to smoke.------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 16:37
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 16:49
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Never have.
And hopefully never will. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 18:14
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Never had and not planning to.
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Posted By: enteredwinter
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 18:38
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Never smoked aside from trying a few of them in high school. Regarding the debate about smoking & intelligence, some interesting statistics (don't ask how I know this, I memorize Almanacs in my spare time, no joke, I'm a huge nerd): About 33% of people who never graduated high school consider themselves smokers, while only about 12% of people who graduated 4-year college are smokers (at least here in the U.S., but I'm willing to bet the stats are similar elsewhere). Now, I know, it's debatable whether education level has anything to do with intelligence, but one thing's interesting: education level is correlated with salary, so the people who can least afford (money-wise) to smoke are the ones that do most often. If you smoke, please stop. Prog-listeners are valuable human beings to have on this planet, it'd be a shame to lose you early. |
Posted By: Daysbetween
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:03
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I quit 16 years ago. Best thing I ever did for my health and I spend the savings on CD's.
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Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:04
| I smoke when I'm drunk... |
Posted By: Supertwister
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 19:34
Same here.
People that are anti-smoking act as if people who do smoke don't know that it damages your health.
I think a lot of smokers just think of the short term, I mean I enjoy smoking I think it feels great.
Of course when I first tried one it was absolutely horrible.
I could imagine if people didn't smoke the population would rise faster.
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 22:07
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Im in the same boat as prog fan and snow dog. I smoke sometimes a pack a month sometimes less. It started because I liked to smoke after getting drunk or high or a combination of the three ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: MusicForSpeedin
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 22:33
| I just do drugs |
Posted By: Revan
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 23:14
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I never smoked (cigarettes)
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Posted By: Revan
Date Posted: December 19 2006 at 23:18
actually its 20 -------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 00:23
Yeah... now I know, in 20 years I'll be a true decathlon-bound athlete....
...but i'll be like 50 then, f**k, so my dreams of medals are going down....
...with all this, I think I'll buy me a pack of Marlboro Red.
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Posted By: pero
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 02:20
I started again sitting in the pub with my friends. One had white Marlboro and I smoked just one. Second day on my job I boroved another until I didn't buy the package. |
Posted By: Neil
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 02:45
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I smoke now and then. Then feel guilty and stop and then start again, etc. etc.
Smoking is like taking any other drug. Once you've tried it you know its effects and they are normally pleasurable. Even though you may stop the fact that you've once tried it means that you will always be susceptable to a relapse when temptation presents itself. The ban on smoking in public places comes in to place during 2007 in England. Hopefully that will mark my permanent cessation of dragging on the evil weed. I'm currently "clean" but anticipate having the odd smoke after Christmas. ------------- When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 03:53
So do smokers 
During the week, I'm down to 8/9 a day, if we go out, or to the pub etc, it's considerably more (there's something about a beer in one hand & a cigarette in the other... a balanced diet, you might say). Like many, I think I'd like to quit, but as and when I do, I'll not make a big thing of it - if I do, I do, if I don't - well, that's life. +++Koff+++ Hmmm - excuse me for a few minutes
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 04:44
IMO.. I dont think smoking is specifically linked to low intelligence. I'm not sure what the politically correct way of expressing this is, but I'm convinced that these days, there are not many smokers left in the UK, from 'middle class' backgrounds, with a university education. Smokers, as you rightly say, are usually those who cant really afford their habit. Gamblers and drug users are the same in principle. Smoking, like these other addictions, often fills a gap in someones life where there ought to be something more rewarding and meaningful. Every smoker I know, including myself has some kind of self respect/self esteem issue, and yes, not much money. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 11:12
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Really a non-smoker here, though I do smoke at a good party, cigs or cigars ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: MadcapLaughs84
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 11:36
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I smoke and I wanna die soon. ------------- 
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 13:06
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Never smoked and I never plan to- it killed my grandfather too early. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 23:14
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been tryin to quit for a while now. i was doin 5-6 packs a week about 6 months ago and now down to 1-2 a week. hopefully by the new year ill be down to less than 1 a week and eventually quit (or at most be a social smoker until i completely rid the habit) ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 23:28
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Can't say I've smoke a cigarette before, but I would not be opposed to it in certain circumstances.
I wish to be an actor in some aspect of my life, whether for a local theatre, for minor films, or whatever may come, and say what you will about their health detriments, cigarettes are a brilliantly effective prop if the circumstace is right. I don't wish to actively smoke at all, though. Maybe a cigar now or then with friends, but nothing regular. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Bryan
Date Posted: December 20 2006 at 23:38
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My first time smoking a cigarette was actually this past summer with Joren and a friend of his. I'll have a smoke under certain circumstances (generally while drunk), but I'm far from a regular smoker. |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: December 21 2006 at 18:41
Never in my life have I inhaled nicotine through my lungs... though I
have occasionally tried 'snus'. Never used it regularly though, and I
don't plan on using it ever again tbh  ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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