Do you smoke?

Witzend

I used to smoke, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Stopped some years ago after an (unrelated) spell in hospital, when for several days I was too ill even to think of it.

Unlike many, I still like the smell, and if I pass anyone smoking in the street I enjoy a whiff of their fag. I’d never start again, though.

I feel the same Witzend.

No.

Most of my family smoked when I was a child. Later on I did try it to see what it was all about but thought it was a waste of time and money. So I never became a smoker. I had friends who smoked but they couldn't persuade me to take up the habit.

No regrets at all.

At my school when i was 14, we were allowed to smoke in class and the teacher would smoke while giving lessons.

My fathed chain smoked Woodbines at home so I was a passive smoker till 21 and of course pretty well everwhere else was exposed to secondary smoke ( on the train, in shops, etc,) but it has had no discernable effects thus far aged 80.

No. Was an heavy smoker. Full fat Marlboros, from 13-23, 40 a day from 18-23. Met my husband just shy of my 24th birthday. He was a non-smoker and hated the smell so I stopped very quickly.
So worth it!

I used to smoke, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Stopped some years ago after an (unrelated) spell in hospital, when for several days I was too ill even to think of it.

Unlike many, I still like the smell, and if I pass anyone smoking in the street I enjoy a whiff of their fag. I’d never start again, though.

My mother smoked from her teens on, as did most people then so I breathed it in from birth. I am very glad I never started as nicotine is said to be more addictive than heroin.
My sister still smokes despite having heart failure, COPD and other chronic diseases. She has tried really hard but failed to give up. Her daughter nags her constantly but I don’t. I think it’s too late to worry about it now and her lifelong habit gives her comfort.

I am not one up on the virtue stakes. I made a choice. I hated my parents smoking. The smell, the ashtrays.
I honestly don't care what people do, they can smoke, just not near me.

I did qualify my remarks by saying some as I did not intend to imply all or even most non smokers are holier than thou.

Believe me I have suffered the effects of smoking. Even before I was born I was a passive smoker as my mother smoked throughout her pregnancy and I was consequently a very small baby. I grew up in a smoke filled house and had to put up with various smoke filled workplaces, restaurants, cinemas, theatres, buses, trains and even aeroplanes.

I don't expect I enjoy the smell and health hazards any more than you do.

You are one up on me in the virtue stakes in that I tried a cigarette when I was about 14 and you have never smoked.

Magenta I don't think non smokers are holier than thou. As a non smoker who never has, I don't want to risk my heath or have the smell of the filthy habit. In fact I gave sat next to smokers and they stink.
What a smoker does in their own homes is up to them. I would not complain, just don't inflict it on me.

I don't find the holier than thou attitude of some non and ex smokers very helpful.

When I was growing up just about all adults smoked and despite the fact that a link with lung cancer had been discovered in 1950, the tobacco companies managed to flog their deadly wares with very few restrictions. They even managed to cover up the dangers of passive smoking.

It was almost a rite of passage to start smoking at sixteen or even earlier. We were given licorice smoking sets and packets of sweet cigarettes as children and real cigarettes were openly sold to young children. Is it any wonder that so many of us became slaves to the demon tobacco?

Perhaps I should add that I never took up smoking not because I was superior in any way but having tried it I just didn't take to it.

Wardell

And what would the consequences for your children be?? Throw them out, disown them? Great parenting!

If that's aimed at me, did your children not have any boundaries - were they allowed to do anything they wanted without any consequences? If so, great parenting...

I gave up at age 34 after 18 years. I wasn't a heavy smoker and once I stopped I never had another. I can hardly believe that I ever did as I find it utterly repulsive now.

And what would the consequences for your children be?? Throw them out, disown them? Great parenting!

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Well done Madmeg celebrate 🥳

I gave up years ago, cold Turkey before patches and all the help and support available today, hardest thing I have ever done in my life! Dh was a casual smoker and gave up very easily at the same time.nnI used to feel so sorry for the lovely district nurse that used to visit dh, her call before us was to a patient where both he and his wife smoked, and she used to reek of it!!! She was full of profuse apologies and used her lunch break to go home, shower and change her uniform!!! It’s everyone’s right to choose whether to smoke or not, but it’s the effect on others I really object to!

Used to smoke loads of rolls up and gave up 22 years ago. Love smoking and I was very addicted.But I was losing my teeth due to having a gum disease through smoking.

I gave up after smoking for 30 years.

One of the best decisions l ever made.

Toodle a loo.

🚬👎🌻😻

X

Had my last cigarette on 8 August 1989. Was a fifty-a-day girl before that 😯.

And my cancer specialist has just told me my cancer is gone!

Excellent news for you, Madmeg.

I didn't say upstream, but my ex-smoker OH was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2023, very early on, had that segment of his lung removed, followed by a year of treatment and is now disease free.

1990 was my last cigarette

I've never smoked neither did my parents or sister. My aunt chain smoked and eventually died from cancer, her sons dont smoke. Both my AC smoked when in their teens, the eldest stopped when she became pregnant and never restarted , the youngest now vapes. When younger I worked in a lab snd saw the lungs ( in a jar) of someone who had smoked---really awful !

I smoked from age 13 till I was trying for a baby in my 20s. It was really hard to give up and I vowed never to start again. Unfortunately in my mid 40s while going through a difficult time in my life, I started smoking again, at first just a couple a day but it soon escalated to 20 then 30. DH, who had never smoked when he met me, followed me exactly. I never understood that, especially when he admitted he had never really enjoyed them!

Two years ago (almost to the day) I was diagnosed with oral cancer. I stopped immediately with the help of e-cigs, as did DH. We are still using them - and yes, we know the safety is as yet unknown - but my cancer specialist was supportive. We have reduced the nicotine content to 30% of what we started on, with the aim of stopping completely asap.

Within weeks we noticed the smell in our home improving, and our DD (who has a very strong sense of smell) remarked after a few months that it no longer smelt at all. We also noticed that after redecorating a couple of rooms they stayed looking clean and fresh!

How did we afford to smoke? Well we simply didn't do a lot of things that other people did, such as new cars, foreign holidays, classy furniture, clothes, and no cleaner or gardener. Even so, it is a very expensive habit and does you no good at all!

I also find that rather than reaching for the fags as soon as I get up in a morning has now got me finding that it is a good hour later before I realise that I haven't had a puff.

And my cancer specialist has just told me my cancer is gone!

jackuss as you don’t really know them, how do they have your number to txt?

When my late inlaws had smokers living next door to them, you could definitely smell it.