Smoking

[SinaJolene]

Do you smoke or not? And what about the rest of your family?
We're an all smokers family...

Worra has a point. Food addicts do get more sympathy on here, and people who can't stop smoking are drug addicts - the only difference between being hooked on nicotine & hooked on crack / heroin whatever is that nicotine is legal. Nicotine addicts need sympathy & help.

I think so too Empress. I think it is because someone overeating/not eating doesn't physically impact on those immediately around them, whereas lighting up a fag clearly does.

Yes I agree. Why would anyone huddle in the cold & rain to get their fix and give their hard-earned cash to a bunch of corporate drug pushers like British American Tobacco unless they couldn't help it, though?

I started smoking aged 14 - used to buy a single Woodbine from the corner shop.

Gave up for 10 years in my 30's/40s until I met a man who smoked like a chimney and started again.

Finally forced to give up 2 years ago aged late 60s when I was in hospital on traction for 8 weeks. I haven't smoked since, very occasionally I want one, even more occasionally when sitting at my desk my hand goes out in automatic reflex to pick up the now missing pack of cigarettes and then I REALLY want one. When I left hospital I bought a pack as emergency rations which is still unopened.

There is no way I will start smoking again even though I miss it.

I dont my dm and df did.Smoked in the house,awful.My dp did but doesnt anymore.He gave up about 4 years ago.He only smoked when socialising anyway,

All his brothers and sisters smoke.His dm doesnt but his df did.But gave up when kids where small.

Puffing away like an old dragon in the garden as I type

Only smoker left in the family is mother. She's in her 70s and is on at least 50 per day- she reeks. She's miffed that the vascular consultant won't do anything about the loss of feeling in her leg unless/until she gives up. Her feet are fine she says. Well that's ok then...

One sister gave up when her teen son said as a response to 'what do you want for your birthday?' That was about 15 years ago.

I freely admit that as I don't have any addictions, I find it hard to understand.

You cant compere food addiction to cigarette smoking.You need food to live,you didnt have to start smoking.
Anyway most people my age 43 are vaping.

I remember being in secondary school and most people smoked.But now i maybe see 1 or 2 out of a whole group smoking.So i has really declined.

You cant compere food addiction to cigarette smoking.You need food to live,you didnt have to start smoking.

Yes you can.

Many people started smoking when they were young and stupid enough to believe they wouldn't get addicted. Many others started smoking because their parents, aunts, uncles, school teachers and friends were smoking, so they assumed 'It can't be that bad'.

No they didn't have to start smoking, just as food addicts don't have to start eating junk and too much of it.

Addictions are often very closely linked with emotions, so yes you really can compare most addictions actually.

One is no more 'worthy' than the next.

30 a day for 15-20 years. Now a non smoker using an e cig

Oops and no, nobody except my cousin smokes

Everyone knows smoking is bad for you but i think most people think 'that won't happen to me' until they experience the effects first hand, either to themselves or close family. Have you seen first hand the effects of smoking? My grandfather nearly lost his leg because of it, and I literally watched my MIL die a painful death thanks to COPD. It is a very harmful habit with no benefits.

It's just awful Last, same as watching a loved one die due to any addiction really.

Very frustrating knowing you can't force them to overcome it.

My parents both smoke but db and I are both very anti. Pil both smoke but again dh and dbil don't and are very anti. I really don't get why anyone under the age of 40 would smoke - expensive, stinky and kills you. None of my friends or immediate colleagues smoke either.

Never smoked & nor has dh. A few ciggies in my 20s on nights out when pissed, but I soon grew out of that! My late mum smoked for 20 years - she died of lung cancer. I never want to go through that horrific illness myself or see any other loved one die from the consequences of smoking.

3 out of my 4 grandparents did (but I'm 50 so not unusual for their generation) I did the usual fag behind the bike sheds as a teenager but really didn't see the appeal- it stinks and it didn't take me long to work out that voluntarily handing over extra tax to the govt and lining the pockets of cigarette companies isn't the brightest idea!

Seems bizarre now to think of cinemas, planes, trains where people used to be puffing away, also people would light up at lectures at uni!

It really has declined so much now, it's the opposite and it seems odd when people light up- particularly dare I say it - among professional people

I used to lots when living abroad (and was 20 years younger). Rarely now, but really crave one when having (too much) wine. It's smelly and expensive! I can't get het up about others smoking, we have some really close friends who smoke, in fact they're dur round here for a curry night at 7pm and I've already stuck an ashtray on the patio table for them, in fact I know that by 10pm I'm likely to have had a drag (after DD is in bed). The shame.

I come from a non smoking family. DH doesn't smoke.

I smoke. I love smoking so much.

Puffing away like an old dragon in the garden as I type

No-one in my immediate family smokes. All those who did died of lung cancer. I shit you not.

Worra we will just have to agree to disagree.

I do. Dh doesn't. My my does, has done for 50 years. I cant cope without it.

I smoke, as does mother and brother.

I bought a vape thinking I could just use that but I like smoking to be honest. I would t be saying that when I die at 50

What is a povvo?