Each morning with my coffee I smoke one hand-rolled cigarette rolled with high quality pipe tobacco (a Burley blend, NOT an aromatic.) I smoke it more as you would a cigar, puffing lightly and only occasionally inhaling a bit of smoke directly into the lungs for a brief kick, not drawing deeply on it and sucking down all the smoke like cigarette smokers typically do.
Never at any other time in the day do I feel the desire to smoke tobacco. Although every now and then, I’ll smoke a spliff.
I hate being in smoke-filled places and smelling a lot of tobacco smoke. For me it’s a vice to be had in small doses. Never in my life have I smoked serially.
Also, for that matter, I only drink ONE cup of coffee a day, in the morning. I do not have any desire to drink any more coffee than that, at any point in the day other then right after I wake up. People who drink coffee throughout the day, I don’t know how the hell they do it.
I smoked regularly for a solid 15 years, at least, going all the way back to high school. I quit completely for about 6 months, then went back to smoking for one week, then I cut down to just one a night on the porch after my wife has gone to bed. Been doing the 1-a-day thing for probably about 7-8 years now.
I could stop having that single smoke at any time, and I’m not religious about it; I don’t absolutely have to have it, I can skip a night or 10, but it’s just part of my nightly ritual.
Never done it myself but I know people who have/do. Like DCnDC usually as part of a sort of ritual and most after basically quitting. One exception is a childhood friend I still see – he started as a single cigarette as we were waiting for the school bus and never went beyond that; now basically 50 years later he’s still a one-tube-a-day smoker.
No, but I limit myself to 1 cigar a week. As for one a day I try and limit myself to no more than one soda a day, ordering iced tea as often as possible to keep to that limit. I have a very strict limit of no more than one drink of anything alcoholic a week and I stick to that pretty religiously.
That’s somewhat like me. I “quit” about 15 years ago, when I was up to two packs a day. Since then, I’ve gone several years without smoking, but most years I will have maybe a dozen cigarettes the entire year, though some years I have none. The last time I smoked was about seven months ago at a party. If I’m with a group of smokers, I’m happy to light up socially. But there really aren’t all that many smokers these days, so it’s fairly rare.