it's a dumb habit. i've quite several times... once for over a year... somehow i always end up picking it up again. what kills me is i only ever started smoking cigs cause i had to stop smoking weed for clean piss and i missed the feeling of smoking ****. i'm thinking i'm about to stop for good too cause really you only have so many years of abuse before you have to start doing some calculations on how you're going to die.

btw newports suck... i hate that menthol ****.

I stopped for 2 years starting in '98, and 6 months in '09, and picked it up again when I started drinking both times. The two year term was extremely productive for me, since I didn't do anything but workout, and exercise. Got kinda ripped, and all that crap, which has served as a good foundation for the rest of the time in between then and now. I'm getting on in age, and my lungs hurt, so this was a chance to turn a negative situation into a positive one (from being sick and basically bed-ridden).

My VERY first was when I was in 5th grade, when a pack cost $0.50, and I was able to buy them on my own (claiming they were for my Mom) at a local gas station, and they were Newports. I never could get used to smoking tree bark after that.

:finger:

Stopped 14 years ago and never looked back.

P.S. It's not good to say quit. Puts too much pressure on ya IMO.

Very true.

I quit.

How I'll feel in tears years or so, I can't say, but I love cigarettes. I've got asthma, which isn't at all helped, but it's an issue I'm willing to put up with for my precious smokes. I love that feeling of needing a smoke, and having one. You get that itch, and you know that all you have to do to scratch is to reach in your pocket and pull one out. I wouldn't get that craving if I didn't smoke, but I also wouldn't appreciate happiness if it wasn't for sadness.

Besides, as far as I'm concerned, living as long as I possibly can shouldn't be my primary concern. Enjoying the time I do have should. So, I'll gladly trade a few years to do something that makes me happy. In fact I kind of like the self-destructive nature of smoking. So many people are running themselves ragged, just to be "healthy". Literally running themselves ragged, eating inferior "reduced fat" foods, plastic surgery, worrying about saturated fats and real sugar and red meat and gluten and god knows what else, all to squeeze just a few more years out of an existence that they're making less desirable because of it. But not me. I'm actively shortening my life. Every cig I light up is like a middle finger to societal common sense, and this pleases me.

^too true. Non smokers will never get to experience that level of joy you get when you're fiending for a cigarette and you finally have one.

i dunno, for me cigs are probably the least fulfilling drug i've ever ****ed with. that's not to say i don't love a good smoke but pretty much every other drug out there is better. even caffeine. though caffeine is one of the main things that makes me want to smoke since caffeine + nicotine is a lovely combo. i can only imagine how great it is when you through cocaine in the mix but since i have such an addictive personality i'm not brave/dumb enough to do that.

and yea it's not about living forever but my dad died around 50 or so from not taking care of himself and i'm really not trying to go out like that.

I don't know, man. I get pretty stoked when I'm cruisin' for a boozin'.

Well I certainly. wasn't. roight.

Booze can **** your life up in far more ways than cigs. All I have to worry about is my health.