Those people drive me crazy. It’s gotten to the point where when I go to parties, I always buy an extra pack of cigs, because I know that once people start getting drunk, they’re going to start bumming like crazy. I don’t mind bumming usually, but five people bumming at once puts a substantial dent in my supply.
I used to be a only-smoke-when-drinking type. (Even then, I bought my own cigs, I hasten to add.) Now I smoke somewhere around 2-5 cigs a day - it fluctuates wildly. Sometimes I’ll go a day or so without a cigarette. Then there is the rare occasion where I’ll smoke half a pack (usually involves copious amounts of alcohol).
I’m a guy, and I do this. I used to smoke a pack and a half a day for ten years, quit completely for a year, then went back to smoking occasionally (couple times a month at most, sometimes will go for months at a time with no smokes) at social situations (well, not much anymore, as the bars here don’t allow smoking). Personally, I probably know as many guys as girls who only smoke in certain social situations–it’s not behavior I associate with women, specifically.
Oh, I hate being that person! The last few months of my smoking, when I became a “social smoker”, I’d quite often buy a pack on my way to a party, hand it, unopened, to a smoker friend, and say, “Here. I’m probably going to want to bum one. Or two. Or ten. Keep the rest.”
Kept my smoking rate down until I was ready to quit for good.
You called? Yes, I pretty much limit smoking to when I am drinking. It goes like this: I’m at a place where I’m drinking, which means I have a babysitter for all night so I can be “single girl” instead of “responsible mom that doesn’t smoke” so I let go a little bit. Plus I just love smoking and if I can I will. It’s one thing if I am going to be hovering over my kids, but if I am where I can smoke I will suck on that cancer teat like a newborn baby. I’ve been known to carry a pack of cigarettes around for a month so I’ll have them just in case a party should spring up around me.
My mom smokes all the time (she’s really more committed to getting COPD than I am I guess) and she absolutely hates all the people that “don’t smoke” and smoke up all her cigs. She said she is going to start charging. But then I bummed some from her.
I also get a “smoking hangover” where if I am out drinking and smoking I will wake up the next morning promising never to drink *or * smoke again. And of course, it will last until I do…
Ugh. I don’t smoke but I always hated the combination of a hangover the next morning and all my clothes smelling like cigarettes from whatever party or bar I was at. I never minded it all that much when I was at the bar, but it made me ill the next day.
I’m sure glad NY and NJ have pretty much banned smoking in bars. So now all I have to deal with is hangover.
When I was a smoker (as recent as February,) I would actually smoke less the more I drank. The more I drank, the dizzier/more nauseous I felt. I’ve never met anyone else who experienced this.
Damnit, no, I’m not going to pass it a-fucking-round again! This is how I relax! A beer, a pipe and good music! You people invited yourself over! Shoo! Mine!
It’s hard to be one of the last full time smokers around my social circle, because every house party thrown in the city of Chicago, I promise you this, is just a trap to attract smokers so that in the course of an evening they can be stripped of upwards of $25 worth of cigarettes. This is why when I’m headed to a party that I know consists of casual smokers I’ll buy a pack of Luckies or Camel straights or even Kool straights if I can find 'em. I don’t mind them and they can’t stand them.
Heh, anything menthol works best for me–I’m pretty much the only guy in my circle who can stand them so I have my pack of Camel Turkish Jades that I bought a few years ago that I pretend to smoke occasionally.
