Do Cigarette Smokers actually LIKE to smoke?

In My Humble Opinion
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[QUOTE=DianaG]
Do you smoke? Because you’re sure blowing a lot of it, albeit not from the usual orifice.

I love my cigarettes. Of *course * I’m addicted. I’m not in denial. But that doesn’t change the fact that I love them. Loooooooooooove. DianaG + Philip Morris 4EVA!!!1!!!1
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I’m going to second Creaky on congratulating you on an awsome post. High five. :smiley:

That said - as I stated above, I enjoy smoking. It took me a long time to actually pick it up as a habit - I’ve smoked since my early teens, on and off, and I always enjoyed it. I didn’t actually start doing it regularly until I was almost 19. But to this day I enjoy tobacco. I enjoy cigars, which you don’t actually inhale - you just roll the taste around in your mouth. I enjoy certain types of chewing tobacco, because I like the taste of tobacco (although I will almost always rinse my mouth out afterward, because I can smell the tobacco breath, and damn if that isn’t nasty with chewing tobacco). I like cigarettes - Marlboro No. 27’s were my choice, and like I said, now I smoke American Spirit. If there weren’t health hazards I’d smoke well more than a pack a day, and I’d do it everywhere, not just outdoors or in my own apartment or car. I’d do it at work, at the grocery store, in restaurants - damn if I don’t love tobacco.

But like I said, I’ve always been that way, and I only recently (I’m 22) picked it up full-time. I have an addiction, but to me, it’s a pleasant one. I’m sure I’ll think otherwise in a few years when I develop emphysema, but until then - Ohhh, yeah, baby.

~Tasha

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The ultimate tribute to smoking, from Frasier

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[QUOTE=kunilou]
The ultimate tribute to smoking, from Frasier
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I enjoyed smoking quite a bit. Probably not every one. Some I would like up mindlessly because of whatever situation I was in. I have not smoked for 4 years now (or is ot 5?) so I can say I am well over it. If they came up with a cure for all the bad things it does to you I would start again.

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[QUOTE=buns3000]
I think most smokers will tell you that they enjoy smoking. Some probably even genuinely believe it. If you don’t at least maintain the pretence that you enjoy smoking, then there are literally zero reasons to keep doing it.

But it is just that - a pretence. There is nothing to enjoy about smoking. It’s all about satisfying the body’s need for nicotine, not enjoyment, regardless of what you may have convinced yourself. In my experience, only a fairly small minority will admit that they smoke because they are addicted.
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No, I smoke because I think it makes me look “cool”. :rolleyes:

I know I enjoy it - unless you smoke you don’t have any idea what I enjoy about smoking and what I don’t.

DianaG, you rock.

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[QUOTE=Monty]
I just get the feeling that smoking drivers don’t like their habit either. Otherwise, why do they hold the cigarette outside the car?
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  1. so they don’t stink up the car or get a non-smoking spouse up their butt
  2. tipping the ashes

I love smoking. Absolutely love it.

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Count me in as another who loves smoking. It’s fun, I love the whole process. I also know I’m addicted, but that doesn’t mean I enjoy it any less. I know its got a good chance of killing me earlier than my ‘time’ might be normally, but I still like it. Heck, there are times that when I finish a cigarette I feel a little sad that its over.

Do I want to quit? Yes. Do I like smoking? YES!

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I’ve never even touched tobacco, but boy would I ever love to smoke. It’s why I’ve never tried–I know that once I start, I’ll never quit.

I must have been a smoker in a past life.

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[QUOTE=Sattua]
I’ve never even touched tobacco, but boy would I ever love to smoke. It’s why I’ve never tried–I know that once I start, I’ll never quit.

I must have been a smoker in a past life.
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Oddly enough, that’s the reason my mother gave me for never trying heroin. :open_mouth:

~Tasha

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Another smoker chiming in, I really like to smoke. I’m not going to say I love it, but I really do like it a lot.
I’m married to a non-smoker, and he likes to tell me how much money we could save if I did quit smoking, and while that number looks really good, and oh, the things I could buy!
But then I look down at my white and gold pack of smokes, and I’m not ready to give them up.
I fully well realize that they are not good, in fact, quite toxic.
But I like them. They’re satisfying in a way that I’ve yet to find a match. They’re great after a good meal, even a bad meal can be ended well with a nice smoke. Sex? Smoke. On the pot in the morning, smoke. Coffee? Smoke. Alcohol? Smoke.
No gum, or sucker can fill me up and empty me out in a way that would relax and soothe me.
I’m not in denial, I fully know about my addiction, and could I quit? Sure, but I don’t want to, not now.

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[QUOTE=Gut]
I was a light smoker and really enjoyed the 8 or 10 a day I had. When I was at the pub on a Friday night I’d smoke a pack but that just went right along with all the beer. Yep, I liked my smokes.
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I too was a light smoker, and I always liked it. Essentially I quit because it was banned everywhere, and my wife didn’t like the smell on my clothes. I’m not sure what bearing this has on the anti-tobacco movement, but I think the propaganda needs to address the fact that not every smoker does it because they’re enslaved by the monkey on their back. Though I’m not sure how that could be done.

Then there’s that old motif of smoking after sex. I wonder where that started.

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[QUOTE=Sattua]
I’ve never even touched tobacco, but boy would I ever love to smoke. It’s why I’ve never tried–I know that once I start, I’ll never quit.

I must have been a smoker in a past life.
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You took the words out of my mouth, though I actually did smoke off and on for years.

Having been born in 1958, I saw my elders smoking and was always intrigued by it, but when I was old enough, it was no longer acceptable. On the other hand, my parents, who quit in 1970 (F) and 1978 (M) saw several of their friends die from cigarette induced cancer, so I ought to count my blessings.

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[QUOTE=tashabot]
Oddly enough, that’s the reason my mother gave me for never trying heroin. :open_mouth:

~Tasha
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Oddly enough, that’s why **I’ve ** never tried heroin. :wink:

Y’all make me blush. (I’ll forego the “awshucks” blowjob smiley, though!) Thanks everyone, but I don’t think it’s necessarily healthy that my longest and most mutually satisfying relationship has been with my smokes!

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I really enjoy smoking. I enjoy the feel of the cigarette between my left forefinger and middle finger, I like the feel of the filter against my thumbnail when I tip my ashes.

I like riding around in the car listening to the radio and smoking cigarettes. I like laying on a blanket under the stars and smoking cigarettes. I like listening to songs about smoking cigarettes. I like the way a new pack kind of smells like raisins when I tear the front piece of foil out, grab the 3rd and 4th cigarette from the front row of the pack, flip one upside-down and smoke the other.

I love how a cigarette can fill a lull in conversation. I love taking that moment to inhale, look away and exhale while I’m composing my thoughts.

I like sitting around with friends, sharing a smoke and good conversation. I like eating half of my food at a Mexican food restaurant and then having a cigarette before deciding if I want to eat the rest of it.

I lovelovelove that morning cigarette when I first get into my car. I actually look forward to my daily commute.

I like knowing that regardless of what else is going on, I can go outside with a cigarette and enjoy almost 10 years worth of familiarity.

I love when my best friend and I dye our hair, we know that 2 of her Misty Light 120 cigarettes will equal out to 22 minutes, leaving 3 minutes to run the shower and rinse our color out right on time.

When I was a call center representative on a strict 15 min break schedule, I knew that two Marlboro Lights equalled 14 minutes, leaving one full minute for walking from my desk to the smoking area and back.

I love smoking while I’m singing at the karaoke bar and smoking while I’m listening to other people sing. I like lending my lighter to and striking up conversations with strangers. I like when I’m outside at the airport waiting for my ride and the frazzled young lady next to me says, “I’m so sorry to bother you, but do you happen to have a cigarette?” and I do! So we both smoke and talk about how much we hate turbulence and overhead bins with too much luggage in them.

I love that I never feel out of place if I’m outside waiting for something or someone. I like trying to blow smoke rings and I like writing or reading or playing guitar with a cigarette loosely pressed between my lips.

On the downside, I don’t like the way houses smell after being smoked in (We only smoke outside) and I don’t like worrying so much about things like lung cancer and blood clots and tax hikes and anti-smoking legislation and smarmy jerks who are convinced that non-smokers are immortal. I don’t like that running hurts my lungs, and I’ll stop half way up a mountain to sit and have a cigarette until I can breathe normally. I don’t like that my parents are disappointed in my decision to smoke and I don’t like knowing that my son may very well take up smoking someday and have to worry about the effects and the taxes as well.

Am I addicted? Maybe. I’ve quit for a couple of months here and there with almost no headaches or twitching, but I’m certainly addicted to the way they make me feel.

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That? Was beautiful. malkavia, I shall light a cigarette in your honor tonight.

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Nearly every EX-cig smoker I know admits now it was for the drug rush. Sure, they enjoy it- but really only for the drug hit. Thus, I agree with Usram and
jjimm said. However, some EX-smokers have also said they enjoyed the way cig smoking gave them something to do. There also used to be a heavy social element in smoking, which still exists to a much lesser extent.

OTOH, some pipe and cigar smokers smoke so rarely that they aren’t nicotine addicts, so they can and do honestly say they enjoy it mostly for the taste.

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I used to enjoy smoking, for about the first fifteen years.

I actually quit when I realized I didn’t enjoy it anymore. It didn’t last. I tried so hard for a year not to smoke, but it was on my mind constantly. I finally broke down after a row with a boyfriend.

Now I have smoked twenty-two years…now twice as much as befroe I quit and only enjoy making the insane craving go away. I hate the smell, I hate the taste, I hate the morning cough, I hate the addiction. I hate the scrabbling for change when I don’t have the cash. I hate running out when it’s late at night because I WILL get those smokes somehow, even if it means a long walk to the gas station at one in the morning. I hate that I have to get dressed and go outside at night, in the early morning, after dinner, and the worst, after sex because I won’t smoke inside the apartment anymore.

I hate that I couldn’t finish this post without grabbing for my pack.

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[QUOTE=DrDeth]
Nearly every EX-cig smoker I know admits now it was for the drug rush. Sure, they enjoy it- but really only for the drug hit. Thus, I agree with Usram and
jjimm said. However, some EX-smokers have also said they enjoyed the way cig smoking gave them something to do. There also used to be a heavy social element in smoking, which still exists to a much lesser extent.

OTOH, some pipe and cigar smokers smoke so rarely that they aren’t nicotine addicts, so they can and do honestly say they enjoy it mostly for the taste.
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Well, there you go. Obviously, people who enjoy smoking don’t quit.

Or else they don’t want to talk about how much they enjoyed it lest they run out and buy a pack of sweet, sweet cigarettes and smoke every one down to the filter.

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[QUOTE=kunilou]
The ultimate tribute to smoking, from Frasier
…Then… watching it flow out of me in a lovely sinuous cloud, no two ever quite the same! …
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Just wanted to chime again - but that is one of the parts I love the most. Its the whole Zen of smoking - each cloud is perfect in its own perfect way.

malkavia, I want to second DianaG - worthy in her own right.

And as others of noted to, I find cigarettes as the perfect accompaniment to alcohol and coffee. When Starbucks first started expanding, I got boycotted them because they did not allow smoking (and still dont unless outside), because coffee without a cigarette is just unnatural. I like destroying my lungs along with my kidneys - no favoritism!

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[QUOTE=Alan Smithee]
Well, there you go. Obviously, people who enjoy smoking don’t quit.

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Sure we do. We’re the ones who quit because we had to, not because we watned to.

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Love the smoking, hate the phlegm.