Do you/Did you smoke cigarettes?

[SamTheRam]

I smoked a pipe when I was a kid. Quit at five.

[LifeisaGarden]

Bubble pipes are awesome.

[Chimera]

I started smoking in high school. Run a track meet, light up as soon as I got in the car. It made no sense. I quit for a few weeks when I was about 19 or 20. A-hole friends gave me the "nobody likes a quitter" speech and kept offering cigarettes until I caved.

I quit again with my first son. It lasted almost a year that time. For whatever reason, when I got to Germany on my first Army assignment, I needed a cigarette when I got off the plane. I smoked for a few months before I quit again.

It only lasted a few months until I volunteered to be the DD when a bunch of us went to the club. Sitting there, bored, not drinking... I started bumming cigarettes.

About a year or two later, I quit again. Except this time I got fat. After I had gained 70 lbs, I started smoking again thinking it would help me lose weight. After I lost the weight, I kept smoking for a few years. 1-2 packs a day.

Until April 2010. I haven't considered it since and somehow I've mastered the art of grossing myself out when I feel the urge. It's weird... I have dreams where I smoke too. I wake up pissed, before I realize it was a dream.

The only way to do it is cold turkey. Every time I tried to wean myself slowly, I started smoking more. Just quit. You don't smoke if you don't light it and inhale.

[Guest]

I started smoking when I was 12 and smoked for 20 years, about 1-1.5 packs a day. I quit about 16 years ago. Worst thing ever did was starting, best thing I ever did was quit.

[Davidson Deac II]

Tried it one time, thought it was nasty. No buzz, so no point to it.

[ladypanther]

Congrats to all you former smokers!

[pstall]

just pot for me. no cigs. haven't gotten stoned in 20 years.