Finding smoking a really sad thing to do?

[ClaudiaAndHerFringe]

Unreasonable or not? I don't get it, and I feel sorry for people outside getting a fix in the rain, it just looks a bit sad really.

That’s a personal choice surely?

Largely because they’re young and foolish and don’t think it’ll ever happen to them I suppose?

I love smoking! Luckily I’ve never got addicted, so I can just have one as and when I really fancy one - which is not often, as theyre so unhealthy.

I was also a very cool smoker and I drank espresso in tiny cups. I ate one meal a day before that was a thing. I was thin and gorgeous and not a care in the world.

Stopped when I was 22 as worried about wrinkles and yellow teeth I was quite vain. I think I might take it up with when I’m older, along with gin and generally bring a disreputable sort and a bad influence. Not till dc are though uni and my life insurance policy has run out. I sort of suspect smoking would invalidate it?

I will too if I can afford it 😆

25 years ago I gave up smoking every now and then I still get cravings, summer evenings sat at the patio table happy freaking days 🤣🤣

Loving the menthol love. I learned to drive with a bloke who chain smoked menthols and was covered in tattoos. Taught me how to do burn outs, in a proper driving school car. I’d not let my DD leave the house in a car with a bloke like that now :D

The 90s were much better than now.

I don’t smoke but I wish I did. Theres nothing quite like day drinking in the south of France with the love of your life and a little ciggie!

I'm hoping it will kill me before I lose my marbles, as everyone in my family - on both sides - seems to succumb to dementia in their late 70s. That is not how I want to die.

I grew up with a father who used to light his next fag with the previous one😂 It never bothered me at the time. I guess in those days he could smoke wherever and whenever he pleased. He cut his consumption down considerably as he got older. Similarly he reduced his six sugars in his tea to two but still stuck to his daily whisky. Strangely I have never even tried a cigarette. My DH has replaced smoking with vaping. He gets so grumpy/moody when he doesn’t get his ‘fix’ at his usual times. It’s made holidays and events we attended really miserable for me because it just wasn’t possible for him to smoke or vape at that particular time or place. I try to be understanding as it’s an addiction to nicotine but like most addictions it can become the most important thing in your life. I find that sad.

I also miss smoking. Did it onand off, mainly when out but would have a couple a day while at work. Stopped when I realised I was feeling like I needed one. But I loved it, as a PP said, it's the ceremony too. Flipping back the lid, sliding one out, that sound as you lit it. But as I tell my dc - who are horrified when they see someone smoking as its so rare now - you are inhaling hit smoke filled with horrible chemicals, it will kill you. Still miss it though.

Your point being? I love to smoke it makes me very happy! 😊

No offence but I suspect that you aren’t an Olympian in cool-detection. When non-cool people say something isn’t cool, it not only makes the person doing it cooler, it also makes even the word ‘cool’ less cool.

Being a in mosh pit in a gritty club fending off the blokes with a well-placed cigarette, don’t tell me I wasn’t cool. Now I’m a middle aged mum, I don’t think I’d look cool now. But I know I did then. I’ve got pictures!

I used to smoke more regularly when I was younger, about a packet a week. I would've smoked more, but I was very tight with my money because I was saving for a house. Then I fell surprise pregnant in 2003 with my first and had to stop. That was very lucky for me, as it would have started to affect my health if I had continued all those years.

I started smoking again, occasionally, after my dad died a few years ago, it really helped actually. The trick is to only do it very occasionally, once a month or less. I'm quite good at setting myself rules and sticking to them.

Oh fgs nobody is saying that they still physically miss it - it's the memories, the associated camaraderie as a pp said, a time in our past when we we were young and slim and thought we looked cool. We know it stinks, it's dreadful for our health, and it kills people. That's why most of us on this thread gave up years or more likely decades ago. 🤷‍♀️

Are you expecting a medal?

It's a disgusting, filthy habit. I only ever see a certain, "Type" smoking, and I definitely question their level of intelligence. It's anti-social, makes you stink, makes your belongings smell rank, affects other people, burns through money and after a while, kills you. What's not to love? 🙄

The worst thing is little children coming into school reeking of it because their parents smoke. It's in their clothes, on their hair, I can smell it when I take books home to mark. I shouldn't have to tolerate that stink when I'm trying to work, and the children shouldn't have to live in it.

Those saying it's an addiction, woe is me, etc. Just... Don't start it, then?

I know only one person that smokes. He’s a colleague and is always apologising for it.

When I was at uni, we ALL smoked. I didn’t even start until I went at 18. It’s amazing how things have changed in 30 years. You’re really an object of pity nowadays if you smoke, and a pariah who has to scuttle off and do it away from everyone, then come back with rancid breath.

She can have a medal from me. Alcohol is just as shit as smoking.

Given that just under 12% of the adult population in Britain smokes I'm surprised at the number of smokers on this thread.

None of my friends smoke, and only two family members do.

I haven’t smoked since 1994 but frankly this level of sanctimonious Girl Guideishness might push me to take it up again.

Don’t drink then.

I genuinely thought much more people smoke than that.

I'm not sanctimonious about it. I loathe the smell. My mum died of COPD from a lifetime of heavy smoking. It was a horrible, slow decline. My dad died of heart disease exacerbated by smoking. I just hate it.

Even something gave me an amazing hit, I'd not risk cancer for it