# What's your "cigarette" after sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459 "2004-10-15T21:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/21 "2004-10-16T05:07:25Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Anybody care to help me find out? :eek: Well, hello there. How \*you \* doin’? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/22 "2004-10-16T05:28:34Z")
A dash outside for a cigarette(I always smoke outside), back in the house to brush my teeth, and back to bed for the extended cuddle. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/23 "2004-10-16T06:07:26Z")
Diet Coke :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/24 "2004-10-17T02:23:48Z")
Sex. Cuddling. More sex. Cuddling. More sex. Cuddling Sleep. Half-awake. More sex. Back to sleep. And that’s only the first half-hour. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/25 "2004-10-17T02:58:12Z")
This sounds so clinical, but having an overly sensitive urinary tract means I have to immediately pee after sex. If I don’t, in 6-8 hours I’ll regret it. It’s gotten to the point where it’s almost Pavlovian: Orgasm, up out of the bed and to the bathroom to pee. But then, it’s back to bed for some cuddling and a bottle of water, because I’ll need ammo for the bathroom if we have sex again. FB ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/26 "2004-10-17T03:05:59Z")
> [@phouka](#): > > A pee and a glass of water. It’s almost like getting some sperm means my body needs a fluid change. Oh, and cuddling, too. I dig cuddling. I had a girlfriend and a friend-with-benefits like this. I thought they were holding it in the whole time and quite admired their bladder control, until I asked the girlfriend one time why she always went to the bathroom immediately after sex. The other friend-with-benefits I’ve had always went into the bathroom after sex to clean up, so she may have gone to pee as well, I don’t know. I also love cuddling after sex, or sitting around naked and just talking or, better yet, just being. I don’t really smoke cigarettes these days–dropped them for shisha. Shisha takes a lot of preparation to smoke–I’d rather just cuddle–and I haven’t had a sexual partner since I bought my hookah (about a week or two ago) except for my girlfriend at the time, who didn’t smoke anything. I smoke too much shisha anyway. My favorite way to go about the whole sex thing is to have sex, go to sleep together, wake up and have sex again. Great way to end and start a day 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Fuji\_Kitakyusho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji_Kitakyusho)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/27 "2004-10-17T03:58:15Z")
After sex? Get up, have breakfast, and go to work. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/28 "2004-10-17T07:29:34Z")
Well that drive back to the High School I picked her up from, I find fairly relaxing. Then again I am get’n to be thirtyfive. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/29 "2004-10-17T08:24:02Z")
Even though I smoke, I’ve never craved cigarettes after sex, and rarely ever have them unless I’m with a girl who smokes and she offers me one. My “cigarette after sex” has always been water. When I was 16 I had a “person with benefits” (we weren’t even friends, lol), and she would always have a glass of water waiting for me when I crawled in her window. ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/30 "2004-10-17T12:42:47Z")
kung fu wifey and I spoon. I’ve noticed I automatically turn over onto my right side, curling up like a little bug. Then I wheedle her into giving me a back rub. She complains, but she does it anyway. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/31 "2004-10-17T13:45:36Z")
Sleep. Oh, and don’t touch me! ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/32 "2004-10-17T19:57:21Z")
Water or juice or tea. Sex makes me really thirsty. ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/33 "2004-10-17T21:14:53Z")
Pee, drink water, stare at one point for 15 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459/34 "2004-10-18T05:47:14Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > What’s your “cigarette” after sex? “Damp”? > [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > For example as soon as we’ve finished my girlfriend desperately needs a cup of tea. I, on the other hand, am happy just to stay and hug. Who do you hug, exactly? You know, since she’s off putting the kettle on… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-cigarette-after-sex/269459.md?page=1)