Do you smoke?

Never smoked . Just the smell of other peoples smoke makes me feel muzzy and sitting next to a smoker is as bad as sitting with someone with bad BO.

Neither I nor my brother have ever smoked despite both our parents being smokers. My dad smoked a pipe.
When he was teaching me to drive the stress of me driving his precious car caused him to puff away at several times his normal rate causing my eyes to stream. The lessons were finally abandoned because of this.
My mother died of COPD.

I smoked my first cigarette while still at school and eventually kicked the habit about 20 years ago. I loved cigarettes but I love being a non-smoker even more. Nowadays the thought of sticking a cigarette into my mouth, lighting up and inhaling makes me want to heave.

They ask for variety of reasons some of which are related to getting paid as an incentive to offering smoking cessation sessions to help people quit. I used to do coding for GPs along with nursing and it is coded in patient's records.

I’ve never smoked. It always just seemed crazy to me. Smelly and ugly. In the 1960s many of my friends smoked, but they all gave up eventually.

My grandfather, who lived with us when I was a teenager, smoked a pipe. So did my brother for a long time, but none of my family ever smoked cigarettes - except my younger son, now in his mid-forties, who smoked from age 14 to 25. He’s very anti-smoking now!

Does anybody smoke a pipe now? I never hear it mentioned.

Gave up when I got pregnant at 25 ....32 years ago ....never wanted a cigarette since...partner doesn't smoke

I smoked when I was younger, although not during my 2 pregnancies. I stopped altogether, 35 years ago. I'm now 63.

I started smoking at 14, usually about 20 a day, after I married and DH did numerous tours of NI and went to the Falklands my habit went up to 40 - 50 a day. I gave up completely when his forces career ended.

Sorry for the typos it is getting late

Georgesgran
I am in the north east as well and can remember the brewery and Wills factory. I had a neighbour who worked there and she said the staff could take as many cigarettes as they liked when in the factory, but where not allowed to take any home in case they tried to sell them!
I was a 20 a day smoker from age 18 to 72.Ashamed to say I continued during both of my pregnancies but cut down to one after a meal I was a nurse and can remember in my student days the male patients got a bottle of brown ale after their Sunday dinner.Smoking was allowed on the wards every patient was given a ash trait was a nightmare as some of the older ones had a habit of falling asleep with a lit cigarette in one hand so we had to constantly check on them, and remove their matches and lighters at night for the fire risk.
Now I am doing penance for my long smoking habit, in the form of COPDI have had a lot of scary moments and rely on inhalers now to keep me alive.
Both my parents were heavy smokers my father died of COPD before he was my agent kept on smoking until the bitter end, he would even turn off his oxygen to have a smoke.His mother, whom we did not see very much due to distance seemed to always have a cigarette dangling from her mouth.She died in her sixties from a smoking related illness.

For our parents’ generation cigarettes were anxiety-relieving (during the war) and appetite-suppressing (during rationing).
I don’t think their harmful effects were fully known until the ‘60s.
But the frightful coughing was a powerful deterrent to their children.

No I have never smoked and barely drunk either. I've never been one to do things because other people did. My Mum was a very occasional smoker, probably one a month when watching a film. My Dad always had a cigarette in his mouth although it was usually not lit. I hate the smell of smokers, always have done. Mainly I never smoked because I was heavily into sport and always wanted to win and anything that gave me a chance of doing so was worth it. Neither of my Sons have ever smoked either for pretty much the same reasons, sport came first.

I’ve never smoked although I own up to the odd glass of wine. In my first year at college we had two outings. The first to the Newcastle and Scottish brewery in Newcastle to see the brewing process. At the end of the visit we were all given a bottle of Newcastle Brown ale, also known as Mad Mans Broth to take home. The second visit was to the Wills cigarette factory just outside Newcastle (now art deco apartments) and at the end of the visit we were each given 20 Embassy tipped cigarettes as a souvenir.

I have chronic lung disease, but never smoked in my life. I remember when I first became ill at twenty, I was in hospital and a doctor refused to believe I had never smoked.
However, I was a victim of passive smoking, at home, at my in-laws and in the school staffroom, where just about everyone smoked. You could hardly see at lunchtime for the thick smoke. I used to have to go and sit in my room, as some days I could hardly breathe.
I was told I was making a fuss about nothing. Thank goodness, that wouldn't happen nowadays.

I was in A&E last week, with breathing problems. One of the first questions I was asked was I a smoker or had I ever smoked.

I used to smoke from about 14 - 22. I never really liked it but I did it because all my friends did. Gave it up on my first pregnancy and then went back on it after the birth. Gave it up again on my second pregnancy and never went back. So 42 years without smoking and I detest it now, can't believe I ever did it. It's disgusting!

OK, I'll own up to this one. 20-30 a day. Yes, I know but so hard to quit... I did stop for both my pregnancies so perhaps I will do it again some time soon.

I smoked for 50 years and I loved it. If they were not harmful and were cheap I would start again tomorrow. I gave up quite a few years ago now but I still miss it nearly every day.

I've never had a cigarette. When people were smoking at school it never occurred to me to have one. I don't know why. It was nothing to do with health or smell. My husband smoked 40 a day for many years but gave up when they went up in Thatcher's budget one year. He found it very hard.
I am guilty of drinking too much wine on occasion though.

Even my daughter crying because children on the school bus mocked her because she 'smelled of smoke' didn't make me give up. It's a terrible addiction, and I do still vape. I remember on holiday being desperate for a 'puff' on my vape before we got back on the train, and a member of the party said I should just drink the fluid! I used to smoke one of the strongest brands, Marlboro.

no and I don't have a massive tv either

I did from about 18 to about 30. I was quite a heavy smoker, as so many of our crowd was at the time, and took quite a while to finally make up my mind to quit. I have never even thought of starting again because I know how awful it is for health, and how hard it is to stop again.

I never wanted to smoke. Friends at school used to ask me to try, but I always declined.
Both my parents smoked, and I was often sent to buy cigarettes for my mother. My Dad gave up when her was in his 40's, but my mother continued until well in to her 50's. She developed COPD in her later years, and blamed it on smoking.

Shinamae, well done ?.

Not so sad, so far. My phone’s auto-correct is annoyingly random.

I smoked from age 14 until I was 58. Stopped for both pregnancies, for three years after my second child was born, for five years in my thirties. So sad, it’s been 8 years this time. I doubt I’ll smoke again, but recognise that I’m an addict, so can’t be too dogmatic about that.