# Are you or have you ever been a smoker? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342 "2012-11-28T03:32:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/61 "2012-11-29T16:55:50Z")
Have never smoked anything in my life. Not even once. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/62 "2012-11-29T17:12:10Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > By the way, for those that are “social smokers”, please tell me you supply your own cigarettes or are prepared to offer me money when you want to “bum” one of mine. I always paid a dollar per cigarette so I didn’t feel like such a dick for bumming them. People inevitably protested for a minute but then they accepted it. ---
**Author:** ![KermitTheFrig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@KermitTheFrig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KermitTheFrig)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/63 "2012-11-29T17:39:59Z")
Quitter, around nine to ten years ago. Before that I smoked for around 20 years, close to two packs a day at times. I quit drinking twenty-four years ago and wanted to quit cigarettes at the same time, but was told that I shouldn’t try to do both at the same time. It took another fourteen or so years before I was motivated enough to finally quit smoking. I did not start either drinking or smoking until I was in my twenties. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/64 "2012-11-29T18:23:21Z")
I started smoking in high school. I was up to a pack a day in college. By the time I graduated college, I’d cut back to social smoking only and the occasional bum. Since I graduated, I’ve really only bummed one her and there, maybe a total of a pack a year. The last one I had made me feel really horrible, so I think I’m done for good. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/65 "2012-11-29T19:46:49Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I’m thinking I’ll take it up again if I get to be an old man, like sometime after 80, because by then, fuck it, long-term health consequences be damned. If I’m still spry I’ll be smoking, drinking, main-lining crack, freebasing paint thinner, I won’t give a fuck. Amen, brother. My number is 70, however; living past 80 is just being selfish, and mostly pointless. 🆒 For the poll, I voted #1, although I’m probably about 1.5. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/66 "2012-11-29T20:02:29Z")
March 15, 2007 - getting within shouting distance of 6 years quit! From about 1.5 packs a day at my peak. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/67 "2012-11-29T21:47:23Z")
Never smoked even one drag. I grew up in a family of smokers and was so deeply repulsed by the stuff I still can’t even bring myself to touch a cigarette. ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/68 "2012-11-29T22:26:20Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > I smoked regularly, quite heavily at times, for about a dozen years or so. I consider myself a quitter, but I admit to very rare bouts of “social smoking” (once or twice a year, usually around the holidays when all of my old friends who still smoke are around). > > Quitting was a multi-stage process for me; I went “cold turkey” for about 6 months, then I did just under a year of “The Bum,” followed by strictly “social smoking,” which, as noted above, still occurs on rare occasions but I think I’m finished. The last time I had the opportunity to smoke (about a month ago), I accepted the offered cigarette but after just one drag I found that I really didn’t want it and put it out. I think I’m done. Quitting was like this for me too. Now I cant smoke if I try, cos I am not used to the taste any more. Last time I tried to smoke I was drinking with a friend and she wanted me to share a cigarette with her so she that she wasnt the only one smoking. It was horrible. Up until then, I didnt mind the smell, and sometimes the smell would make me want a cig even though I hadnt smoked in years. Now the smell just reminds me of that evil taste. ---
**Author:** ![rhubarbarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@rhubarbarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rhubarbarin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/69 "2012-11-30T04:11:45Z")
I chose ‘I’m a quitter’. I consider myself a former light/social smoker. I smoked for about 2 1/2 years total of my life - for a few months when I was 16-17, and then again from when I was 19-20. I’d go through maybe a pack or two a week. I quit for good (no cheating!) because it’s bad for you, and quitting was very easy for me. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/70 "2012-11-30T05:42:13Z")
Thanks for making me feel like a failure by labeling me a ‘quitter’. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BurglesHams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@BurglesHams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurglesHams)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/71 "2012-11-30T05:51:40Z")
Began smoking socially after graduating from high school during a phase where drinking / partying was the main focus of my life. Continued to smoke at parties, clubs, and particularly while consuming other substances. Still love me a smoke now and then, but with less partying and less interaction with other smokers, it’s very rare now. Anyone else wish cigarettes weren’t so damn unhealthy so they could enjoy guilt-free?? ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/72 "2012-11-30T06:00:11Z")
I quit December of 1993 after smoking since 1976. Sometimes I smoked almost a pack a day, other days I’d smoke one or none. Do I miss it? Sometimes. It is not the nicotine that I miss. It is the act of smoking. My boyfriend smokes. It doesn’t bother me, but I worry about his lungs and heart. I have come close in the last year to buying a pack of cigs, I’m not sure why. I definitely can’t afford to buy cigs, and my lungs are healthy after all of these years without them. If I did start again, I wouldn’t tell anyone, not even my guy. I know I would regret it. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/73 "2012-11-30T06:24:57Z")
Every member of my family has smoked at one time or another, some heavily, most lightly. My Mum was the worst, smoking all her life until she was 50, by which time I had already left home. Amongst my various groups of friends over the years, at least one or two of them smoke irregularly. I have never smoked at all, ever. So if I get lung cancer I will be seriously pissed off. ---
**Author:** ![NadineBeyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NadineBeyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NadineBeyer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/74 "2012-11-30T09:49:39Z")
Never smoked, it’s just not my thing. We’re fucked up enough with all this pollution and chemically engineered food. Getting cancer these days is like catching a cold. ---
**Author:** ![andrewbub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@andrewbub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewbub)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2012, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342/75 "2012-11-30T10:08:50Z")
i voted 13, but i quit smoking and switched to swedish snus. you don’t have any oral tobacco options in your poll [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-or-have-you-ever-been-a-smoker/642342.md?page=3)