# Anyone else smoke ONE cigarette a day? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 26, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-smoke-one-cigarette-a-day/807528 "2018-01-26T16:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-smoke-one-cigarette-a-day/807528/1 "2018-01-26T16:12:45Z")
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 don’t drink alcohol at all. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-smoke-one-cigarette-a-day/807528/2 "2018-01-26T16:19:35Z")
Yes. 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. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-smoke-one-cigarette-a-day/807528/3 "2018-01-26T16:23:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-smoke-one-cigarette-a-day/807528/4 "2018-01-26T16:34:23Z")
I smoke the equivalent of one cigarette a day for one week each year. We visit St Martin each year, and my European friends on the island smoke their cannabis blended with tobacco. Being social, I join them. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-smoke-one-cigarette-a-day/807528/5 "2018-01-26T17:04:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-smoke-one-cigarette-a-day/807528/6 "2018-01-26T17:08:13Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I smoke the equivalent of one cigarette a day for one week each year. > > We visit St Martin each year, and my European friends on the island smoke their cannabis blended with tobacco. Being social, I join them. 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.