SMOKERSTRUT
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All things smoking related (tabacco/weed). How much you smoke, your brand, did you quit (if so how), stories, do you smoke a pipe, do you chew, anything smoking related goes just be honest.I'm an "on again, off again" smoker, lately I've been smoking a pack on the weekend and that's it for the week. Not really brand loyal as long as it's "light" regular size (can't get down with Kingsize/100's) I'd like to quit all together but I do enjoy it when partying/relaxing on the weekend. My father's side of the family are super heavy smokers, my aunt passed away years ago due to smoking related cancer.I took a trip to Maui a few months ago and they just passed a "no public smoking" law, so basically you can't smoke anywhere (large fine). I think it's a good thing, I found myself smoking way less when I was there, kind of wish the laws here were that harsh, it would help people quit imo.
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I have a zero tolerance policy with myself. I told myself I can never have even a drag off a cigarette again, ever. And because of that I know that I am a non-smoker for good.
When I did smoke, it was always Camel lights.
I started smoking in college. My high school years were spent w/ me as an anti-tobacco jock.
Mary Jane and I have a sporadic relationship. My head days are over. MJ is so last century.
...and in the Commonwealth you can pretty much smoke in most places.
I admire your will power sir.
So what was the hardest part for you quitting? Did you howk up that nasty lung butter (ewww)? Does food taste better now? I've heard that if you quit it takes 5-6 years for your lungs to return to normal, great news for those considering quitting, it's never to late. My uncle quit after about 30+ years of smoking.
I started out a Dunhill fanatic (the green menthols were my shit), then went on to American Spirit light blues. Shortly before quiting, I was on Am Spirit Light Yellows, which is pretty much like puffing air.
SG
but call anything with the number 20 in it "twamp"
first lick of ice cream, sip of limonaide, bite of cinnamon toast crunch, etc. is green hit.
To be honest, it really wasn't too difficult. I'd gotten the news from two different doctors that my blood pressure was a little higher than it should be. My work and living situations were pretty stressful at the time, but I couldn't easily do anything about either at the time. So quitting smoking was an obvious necessity. Having that health concern as a reason for quitting made a huge difference. Also, I quit cold turkey while I had a nasty cold. I already felt like shit, so the withdrawal symptoms were less noticeable.
That's a trick I recommend to all when quitting anything. Do it when you're sick and already miserable.
Yes I can co cosign this,, but really I know it sounds corny but you really have to want to quit. Otherwise you will find some reason to start back up.
I used to work at the Phillip Morris plant in Richmond. They have these huge dust collectors that suck up tobacco dust in the air (and any other particles). The dust is sent to a collection room and hauled off. The dust is turned into paste, paste is dried in sheets and then cut up to form filler tobacco for use in cheap cigarettes (everything but the Marlboros).
So if you're going to smoke, I highly suggest avoiding the cheap brands.
at the Phillip Morris plant, almost everybody smokes (they even have vending machines full of cigarettes where you can swipe your badge to get free packs).
At the corporate headquarters (other side of town) almost NOBODY smokes.
haha! yeah, that's what they taste like.
yulp...
Oh I smoked for a good 5-6 years.
Finally I had an epiphany when complaining about having bronchitis for the second time in 2 months... I could hardly breathe, felt like total shit, cigarettes tasted like shit, and yet I was still lighting up. It just occured to me: "what the fuck are you doing? you need to quit this dumb shit." And that was that.
About 2 years later I had 1 cigarette. Relapsed for a good year. So right... definitely has to be a cold turkey thing with me. Haven't had a cigarette this millenium.
I remember first time I bought a pipe I couldn't stop staring at it in amazement at what it could do. Second and the end all for me was a bubbler...man with cold water you never felt it hit you until you coughed out a lung. I loved smoking weed for a while and tried to figure out as much as I could about it even making my own double chamber bong with cold and hot water to clean and cool the smoke before it hit lung.
Then after a while it would just get me tired as fuck in like 30-45 minutes so I gave it up. Every now and then I'll bring out good ole Bubbly for a session but it ain't as fun anymore.
Fuck it I'll tell the story of my first time smoking. I was at my friends house and did not know the feeling of being high until I started seeing things in half-speed and I knew it was there. Well I had a lot of things do do like 8 hours later and I was trippin. My friend kept moving his head all of a sudden like he just got punched and I kept telling him what the fucks wrong with your head, he kept telling me nothing but he was completely trippin me out. At this point my other friend calls me and starts making me trip out by telling me some stories of some junkies that got messed up on weed for life...I know this is a lie now but try telling me that then...somehow I started thinking I was never gonna come down and I started saying "man this is like those commercials, 'You were gonna take your sister to the beach, but you got high...'" After I think about it I start crying all scared like a dumbass and eventually I start coming down after about 3 hours and still would get relapses of the high the reaminder of the day plus at night until the next morning. That dank had me tooo lifted.
Best way I coulda told the story.
The yellow packet. I roll my own and I'm really fucking good at it.
Indoor smoking's being banned here in Melbourne in June or July.
It's a good thing. But it'll be strange not being able to sit with a mate, a jug of beer and a pouch of tobacco and waste an afternoon.
I smoke pot when I have it or when I'm out with mates. There's a drought here in Melbourne at the moment though. By drought I mean for pot, not water.
Normally just joints, mixed with tobacco about 50-50.
After returning from New Zealand, I introduced my mates to "Spots" (or hot knives). They are fucking brilliant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spots
They're best for when you're on some sort of other drug and starting to come down.
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Yeah, uh, does somebody please want to explain this one to me??!
Seems like everywhere I go outside the US, the only way people smoke their weed is by rolling it with tobacco.
WHY???
Ewwww.
I HATE cigarettes. Shits are just plain nasty.
Seriously, WHY would you want to go and waste good weed by mixing it with tobacco like that??
I do not understand it.
Plaese to help explain....
I can only speak for my group of friends, but smoking pot is a pretty social thing, we'll have, I dunno, maybe 10 mixed joints passed around in a night. Instead of smoking straight and being fucked straight away, it's more of a social thing.
But yeah, I get your point, it doesn't make much sense. Most of us are smokers though, so it doesn't worry anyone with the tobacco thing.
It could be that most of our group are uni students, so being thrifty with pot is a must....
Same here!! I smoked Marlboro or Camel.
Agree with everything said, you have to want to do it, 0 tolerance policy, quit it when sick, etc.
I smoke a lot of weed to compensate, but not really more than I used to. Maybe more frequently. I have a little cig-shaped one hitter that I pack with me and usually keeps me cool and craving-free, and it's not like I walk around completely wasted... just a nice buzz. I started eating a lot and food tastes better soooo.... I put on 20-30 pounds in a few months. Beer also goes straight to my gut now, whereas when I was smoking I could process it a bit more easily. Joined a gym a few weeks ago so now I'm back on track.
Just like twoply my doctor told me I had high blood pressure. I was leaving the stability of a well-paying job and opening my own business, moving in with my girlfriend, and my life was nothing but stress... so something had to give. Almost a year out I still get cravings though, you just have to keep focused.
Off to the gym...
Its been about 5 years for me and I still get cravings sometimes. I doubt they will ever completely go away.
The trick is to toast the tobacco before you roll it. That way, it??s nice and doesn??t taste much of tobacco at all.
I??m a smoker, and ever since I moved to the UK I??m on the Golden Virginia rolling tobaco, with filters. I love it. I would smoke yellow American Spirits, but I can??t seem to find them anywhere here. I get a load of packs whenever I visit the Mainland. Definitely my favourite brand of straight cigarettes.
I??m from Norway, and since we??re not members of the EU, a lot of brands refuse to print the warning labels in Norwegian, and therefore they won??t get imported, which sort of limits the selection. I used to smoke Petter??e??s Mild a lot, but after being on the Virginia golden for a while I think they just don??t taste that good anymore.
When I lived in China i smoked a lot of Chunghwas. They??re the most expensive brand over there and are considered "Exclusive". A friend of mine sent me a pack as a gift, and only then did I notice those fuckers have 15mg of tar in them! Made me think a little more about smoking a pack of them in a single night.
-J