I could have taken someone to Germany with me this time, and she would have really enjoyed it, but I don’t think she could have done without smoking for the length of the flight, and it would have been even worse on the way back (10 hours )
Has not being able to smoke killed any other fun activities for anyone you know?
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Yes I can. I do it nearly every night. 
I usually have my last smoke of the day around 10:45pm and my first one just before 8am but often not till my first break at 945am.
If I really thought it would be a problem I would get a patch or something. My SO did that for a long flight last year.
I’m a nervous flyer, so it’s hard for me to even do Chicago to Vegas without one. Thankfully the people at Mccarran International allow smoking inside the terminal so I can puff down right after landing, but it’s still hard for me.
I flew to Germany with a guy who’s a pretty heavy smoker and not in the habit of denying himself pleasures, and he magaged. If nothing else, your friend at least sleeps nearly that long without smoking. Is she the sort that even a patch wouldn’t do, gotta be the real thing?
Hey, I can’t go for an hour without a ciggy when conscious. But for trips to Asia… 14 hours or more. (I brought a nicotine inhaler.) It’s doable, even when you’re as insanely addicted as I am.
I haven’t been on a flight since I was 16 (I smoked then but not nearly as much as I do now). I was kinda sick with a head cold like thing so I didn’t evne have one until a few days in to the trip.
My parents know I smoke, but not how much I smoke and they hate it because they are smokers (well seems Mom finally quit, Dad tried and is smoking again) and I DO NOT smoke in front of them. Ever. So last summer going on vacation with them sucked. I brought my best friend along and salivated during the 14 hour drive watching HER smoke. We’d go out at night and have a few when my parents were sleeping but they caught me by the pool with one when they showed up early from being at the marina. My mom got pissed and tried to fake drown me in the pool. But I’m used to having to not do it for periods of time - being around family and stuff and watching all of them smoke. But when I can freely smoke I smoke a lot. It sucks but I deal with it.
This reminded me of Mr. S’s late dad, who would get up in the middle of the night to smoke. He was also a chain smoker, literally lighting his next Camel off the last one.
I don’t think he would have managed a 10-hour flight.
Fortunately I never met the man. He had other . . . issues . . . and I’m given to understand that he was a right bastard.
I’ve never understood chain smokers, I’ve never been more than about a half pack a day smoker and then it’s always lights. I accidentally bought a pack of marlboro reds saturday evening and I can feel the difference.
I’ve very rarely had a cigarette after waking up in the night, but can’t imagine doing it on a regular basis.
Like myskepticsight, I’m able to go for periods of non-smoking without too much damage. I’ll probably have to abstain from smoking for the week of Christmas since I’ll be staying with relatives who would severely disapprove, which sucks.
It’s actually been more than 24 hours since my last cigarette - I’m suffering from a head cold at the moment so I’m deliberately keeping myself away from the cigs until I’m sure I’m better.
When we went to Vegas, we lit up after deplaning and a guy came up and forced us to put them out. Right there. On the carpeting. It was surreal to say the least. Tobacco Gestapo. Shudder!
I heard on the radio awhile back that lights are made so that they don’t cause as much inflammation in your lungs. It wasn’t explained how they do that, but I can tell a difference too.
I was in the hospital for five days awhile back and had no problem not smoking. I’ve quit for long periods several times, so it’s not hard to temporarily quit.
But my mom couldn’t. The only time it caused a problem was if we were going out to eat and there was no seating in the smoking section. We’d have to find another restaurant. Bummer.
Over 2 years since my last cigarette. Drinking isn’t as fun without smoking :(.
Yep, I can do 9 hours.
Actually Thanksgiving week, I did the full week - Sunday to Sunday, because I wanted to see how long I could go without having one (and that included 3.5 days of family time).
I bought some that Sunday because I was bored and smoked for a week. So now I’m seeing how long I can go without again - I started last night around 6:00, so I’m at about 26 hours now.
Missions for me are routinely 9 hours and there’s no smoking on Air Force planes by reg, so yes, I can and regularly do go 9+ hours without one.
I’ve heard some outer-suburban commuters on Sydney’s rail system will leave home half an hour to an hour earlier so they can get off the non-smoking trains to have a puff at an intermediate station or two, then get the following train.
Let me see. I had my last cigarette on a hot date almost 12 years ago to this day. How many hours in 12 years?
Not long before, I wrote a long magazine article about a 1930s orchestra leader who was such a hopeless chain-smoker that he routinely kept 2 or 3 cigarettes going at once while he wrote arrangements.
Oh, I didn’t mean to infer that you can smoke willy nilly in the concourse, but there is a nice big designated smoking area right there at the end. It’s full of slot machines. No, it’s not right there off the plane, but it’s better than coming home and having to wait until we’re walking back to the car before being able to light up. Or getting to O’Hare early and then having a few whiskeys in the bar, and then having to go back past security to have a smoke. I hate that. :mad:
I don’t smoke at the office, so that’s 9 hours, 5 days a week, right there.
And I haven’t wanted to smoke on a plane in years. The air is bad enough in those things already.
On my only longish flight (London-Chicago) I took a small box of menthol snuff. It was a bit ropey taking it through Customs/security (they tested it with some sort of electronic nose) but was good for the nicotine pangs, and I took childish relish in the dodgy looks I got from snorting it on board.
I quit 10 years ago but still well remember the days when you just got on a flight and lit up. Shows how far we’ve come because thinking back on that now just blows me away. You’d be sitting next to a non-smoker, long flight in an enclosed space… and you fire one up. Unbelivable.