Smoking stories? fave brands? why do you enjoy smoking?

[veryshy79]

i love smoking started at 11 a school and am so glad i did i smoke alot ive nealey always got a cig in my mouth im a male 27 looking for female for friendship poss romance who also enjoys smoking

[redz]

I'm a gay Marlboro man and my first cigarette at age 13 felt like the missing bit of me, I loved it so much. Unfortunately my parents are hardline antismokers and I had conflicts until I saw the prosmoking light. I now hate antismoking propaganda because of the way it held me back from the benefits of cigarettes.

I believe that smokers are born with smoke genes and should start smoking in childhood. I'm very happy that I smoke and my only regret is the wasted years. Looking for friendship with other born again prosmokers so get in touch.

[conor86]

I started smoking when I was 13. I had wanted to smoke as soon as I started secondary school, but was too shy to ask. Then eventually I asked a boy in my year for a cigarette and smoked in the woods and have pretty much never looked back since. I now smoke 30-40 a day and love evrything about it especially the first of the day in bed.

[djsmoke]

cityslicker81 wrote: Would anyone like to add their opinions in smoking, why they started, what brands? how often etc...?

I smoke 40 Benson and Hedges Gold per day rising to 60-and even 80 (very rarely!) if I'm out in bars and clubs or with other likeminded smokers. I started as a teenager, under no peer pressure, and haven't looked back. I love the first fag of the day, and each and every one that follows!!

Happy smoking all!

Well, lets see¦my opinion on smoking. First, I think smoking is a great thing for many people, myself included. Yeah, yeah¦it isnt the healthiest thing in the world, but living in tobacco country really makes one realize how important smoking can be. After all, tobacco in particular helps to support the economy in my area to the extent that we would not be where we are without tobacco. Take away all those taxes, jobs and such¦and you lose a lot. I wish more of the anti-smoking establishment would realize this.

As to why I started¦well, initially for me it was around 12-13 with experimentation if I recall correctly. But, after a while of curiosity, I really wanted to give it a try. Maybe my one attempt at childhood rebellion against my parents. Well, my mom didnt smoke and was very opposed to it. Only a couple of close family friends did, but the vast majority did not. But my fathers side of the family was different. While my paternal grandmother and my father did not smoke, it seemed like everyone else did. My grandfather did, two of the three daughters (my aunts) did, both of my fathers brothers did (my uncles, now only one of them does), each ones respective spouses did¦and as the kids grew up, so did a lot of them. So one day while playing around, I ran across one of my grandfathers Benson and Hedges. I decided that I had to give it a try.
So, that I did and I kept them hidden during which time I probably only briefly smoked probably 3-5 cigarettes. But then one day, my mom came home and was ticked off. As it would turn out, my sister had been snooping, found the cigs, and told my mom. I got in trouble for experimenting¦but my sister didnt hear at all about snooping. My mom made me watch as they were flushed down the toilet saying that it hurts me didnt it. Truth is, it was only experimentation at that time, so no. And telling her no¦well that didnt help my case any, even though it was the truth.
Fast forward a few years¦as my punishment deterred me then from smoking. I was a week away from turning 20. My life was going nowhere. I was depressed and I had made a promise not to take any action that could be detrimental to my health (aka, not to attempt suicide – not that I was in any REAL danger of that¦but friends paniced). Well, I was depressed as could be, I had given my word so any thoughts there were out of the question, and I was praying for the day that death would come. And then it hit me. I can hasten death by smoking.

So I experimented at my house with a little of everything. Marlboro, Camel (even the unfiltered were experimented with), Vantage, Basic, Doral, Salem, Benson and Hedges, Virginia Slims (and yes I know I am a guy)¦basically I was just trying to see what fit me. After some experimentation, I basically settled on Marlboro Lights. Any lingering odor would be easy enough to blame on coworkers or what not since it was the most popular smoke of them all. So one week before I turned 20, I decided on the Marlboro Lights.

A few years down the road, I went out with a girl locally and she offered me to try Camel Lights. That is what I have been smoking ever since. On occasion I may get a Marlboro Light if they are out of Camels¦but generally I stick with those.

The one thing I have never really managed to shake is the whole living up to the image that others expect of me (and that being a non). But progress is being made. People know, but so far, few have seen me actually smoke.

Right now, I probably smoke more than I should as I am right around 2 packs per day¦but a lot depends on what the day is like. Besides¦as a friend once said to me (that can be adapted to this)¦
If you enjoy smoking (and I do), then why hide it(limit yourself)?
If you feel the need to hide it/limit yourself, why smoke? (because it is enjoyable).

[johnc66 (deleted)]

I first experimented with smoking when I was 10 years old . My older brother used to smoke and he let me have one of his (Marlboro red ). I had already decided that I wanted to be a smoker but ,although they both smoked heavily my parents advised me not to start. When I went to secondary school one or two of my friends started smoking and they offered me one of theirs.I soon started buying my own from the local corner shop , they threatened to tell the school and my parents but I knew they wouldn't because they shouldn't have been selling them to me in the first place. I was smoking regularly soon after I turned 13 years old.
About 3 months later I was seen by one of my form teachers smoking on the way to school one morning and he sent a letter home to my parents.
They weren't too happy about it and I readily admitted it as I had been wondering how to tell them that I had started smoking anyway.Eventually they gave up trying to stop me , they both started in their early teens and knew that there wasn't really anything they could do about it if I was determined to continue which I was. From about 14 years old they began to accept it and allowed me to smoke in the house.I was smoking 20 Peter Stuyvesant 100s red per day by the time I left school at 16. I used to smoke at work and moved to a new office where most people smoked and at the age of 20 I was soon smoking 60 a day. I have sometimes smoked Dunhill International red and occasionally More 120s and Rothmans Royals 120s for a change.I currently smoke Raffles 100s and have been for about two years now and usually smoke 40 a day. I have now been smoking regularly for 28 years and really enjoy it. My favourite cigarette is definitely the first of the day. My favourite part is lighting up and the first couple of deep drags - it's really relaxing - and I also enjoy exhaling through the nose. I have to admit I also enjoy seeing women smoke, the longer the cigarette the more sophisticated it looks.


Johnc66

[missvogue]

.I first try smoking cos of my b/f at the time.. I was 20 year old... I start to experiment with it at 21 and guess I become a real smoker at 23. I have quit a few time, but now I ust a regular smoker

[lovestosmokecig]

`I love everything about smoking ciagrettes: the way it tastes, the aroma, the way I feel when I take a long drag deep into my lungs, blowing the smoke out of my mouth and watching it fill the room. I even like just the sight of a cigarette burning in my hand or mouth. I like what smoking says about me: I make my own decisions and do not live in fear. I like the way the pack looks in my shirt pocket. I like hanging out with other smokers, smokers are a lot more fun than non-smokers.

I started smoking when I was 7, but wanted to since I was 3 or 4. My parents both smoked, but they were furious when they caught me when I was 9. I stood up to them for the first time in my life and told them tha I smoked, I liked it and there was no way I was going to quit. They stopped hassling me about it eventually.

I was smoking 2-3 packs a day by the time I started high school. My favorite sigarette(s) of the day is the 2 or 3 I chainsmoke when I wake up with a craving in the middle of the night. I like just lying in bed, listening to the quiet house and neighborhood and really taking long drags to stop the cravings.

I also love to smoke when I'm driving, I always chainsmoke when I'm behind the wheel. Hate the anti-smoking movement and people taking away my right to smoke when and where I please. Everybody knows secondhand smoke is harmless, so why can't I have a smoke when I want/need one?

Can't get enough, I just plain love everything about smoking cigarettes.

[redz]

You are a man after my own heart.

[quote="lovestosmokecigI started smoking when I was 7, but wanted to since I was 3 or 4. My parents both smoked, but they were furious when they caught me when I was 9. I stood up to them for the first time in my life and told them tha I smoked, I liked it and there was no way I was going to quit. They stopped hassling me about it eventually.
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[christheartist_PREV (deleted)]

`Started smoking cigs and 420 on the same day at 15 and haven't let up for 27 years.
Mom smoked like a chimney 2ppd of salem 100s, smoking was actually encouraged in my house and I had a coach.
I smoke 1 pack plus per day of either reds, mediums or camel filters, and whatever brand of 420 I can find.
A big camel filter or camel wide going into the lungs is to me like a freakin Milky Way bar for the lungs.
Hope to never quit but have ashma and cough like a plague victim.
After the first one its just maintenance for the rest of the day.

IS IT JUST ME OR IS THIS SITE DEAD, A COBWEB SITE.
IS THERE ANY DAILY MAIN FORUM WHERE WE CHECK IN AND HERE WHO'S DOING WHAT?

[hawkthehawk (deleted)]

I Used to be an antismoker. Brainwashed by primary school. My views became mutual. I didn't ever think I'd smoke. Then one day, in corfu on holiday, I just started to find people who smoke really attractive. It was really powerful. It made me need ciggarettes. It was wierd.... As soon as I got home i stole a ciggerette of my sistrer's ex and i didn't really think much of it. I continued to do it. I started to get addicted. now I need ciggarettes soo badly. Too yound to buy them, in a friend group of antismokers.. I'm screwed. My cravings will just stop eventually... but I want to smoke.

[klown]

i started smoking last april. But be4 then id always wanted to smoke but even though my mum smoked and a lot of my family do, i knew if they found out they would go nuts. I started under tragic circumstances when a close friend of mine ---- herself (she was 1. There was no way i could cope, so i bought a pack of fags (aged 17) and atm are smoking bout 20 a day. Although ive only smoked bout almost a year ive tried tons of brands and dont tend to stick to one brand. My parents dont like me smoking but as im 18 i make my own choices, n their living with that. A few of my friends smoke and we always tend to have more fun than the others, and a few are very anti-smokers. I love the smell of smoke and always reminds me of my first. I love the first cig of the day, and with a smoking room at uni i dont have to walk down 2 flights of stairs and endure the British weather at 9am. Smoking for me is a huge stress relief and with about 70% of the people at my uni smoking, whether it be cigerettes or other things it means i can scrounge a lot of fags, as well as international students selling cheap cartons. I would have broken it up but the enter key on my laptop doesnt work

[kramtime]

`My first cigarette was a Winston 100 at age 16. My girlfriend at the time smoke them like a train. She always told me how good they made her feel and how fun it was to smoke and that I should try. Well, I gave in and lit one up. I never forget the first one and what a buzz it gave me. I was hooked. I now smoke Marlboro Med 100's. I also saw my old girlfriend for the first time in 20 years and guess what, she still smokes Winston 100's. Thats pretty loyal. She was also my first lay.

[espressogrin]

While I've never been a smoker, but smokers have every right to smoke if they want. But, I do struggle with the fact that sometimes others smoking can infringe on non-smokers rights to not have to breath smoke. That's always a challenging interaction. Then the governments get involved, thinking they know what's best for everyone, and mess it all up.

There are smoking bans everywhere, and growing at an alarming rate. In some places in California you can't even smoke in your own back yard!

And, then there's smokers like my sister that have tried to quit and simply can't. She started smoking when she was 14 and smokes 2 packs a day. She just turned 60. She tried everything to quit. But, nothing worked. I think it's because, like you, she just loves smoking.

So, I've spent many hours researching, looking for answers....trying to understand it all and see what alternatives there are available.

Then, I found this amazing new device¦an electronic cigarette. Its the first real alternative to smoking cigarettes Ive ever seen that really makes sense. This unique electronic cigarette delivers nicotine (from vegetables, no less) through a plain water vapor mist that looks, feels, and tastes very much like smoking. But, it has no combustion, no second-hand smoke, no lingering smell, and no known cancer causing agents¦absolutely no harmful effects common to all cigarettes.

And, it can be used in most places where smoking is prohibited including offices, restaurants and other public places. My sisters family loves it. I laugh because she came over to my house about a week after she started using it and said, “My closet really stinks! I said, “Yeah, weve been trying to tell you that for 25 years... ha-ha. Now she can sit next to us and enjoy “smoking without effecting our personal space or health. I first saw these on CNN news and on specials like Good Morning America. They are really cool!

By the way, my sister has been using it now for 4 weeks and hasnt had a cigarette, or the urge for one. Now, thats a miracle.

I youd like to shoot you some info on it, shoot me an e-mail.

[coalboy]

Although my grandpa had smoked (Park Drives) when I was little, it was at secondary school that my smoking ambitions were first aroused, particularly because of all the anti-smoking propaganda that we were presented with. The hard lads used to be in out of the way places at breaktimes having a sly fag and playing cat and mouse with the prefects and teachers who were on the lookout for them. Although I was a good boy, there was always the desire to be a bad one! Denim jackets, doc martens and cropped hair always held more fascination than my neatly ironed clothes, brogues and side parting!

When I was about 15, I used to do rowing in games (being useless at all sports, basically) and, for some reason or other, I and two other lads were sent on a "run". We went under a bridge where a fag (Lambert & Butler) was produced. When it was quite well advanced, I begged a drag (much to their surprise) which connected with something deep within.

After that, I used to look for chances to pick up fag ends at bus stops and occasionally buy a pack of 10 but, for many years, it was a battle between being a secret smoker and a "good boy". Over the years, I've smoked Lambert & Butler Benson & Hedges and Regal King Size but have now settled on Richmond Superkings after begging one from a scally grandma at a bus stop one stressful day. Now, with cropped hair and boots, I smoke about 15-20 Richmond Superkings a day

coalboy

[mara101 (deleted)]

Started at 12. I was highly influnenced by my mother and her friends. Plus I was watching alot of classic movies and loved watching studio-era starlets smoking, especially Elizabeth Taylor. I would at first pretend with unlit cigarettes I stole from my mom, in front of a mirror, imaging myself as a sexy sophisticated woman (like my mom and her friends) or a femme fatale or glamorous socialite (like the classic movie goddesses). Once I started actually smoking, though, I enjoyed something of the opposite, I started liking the "dirty" or "naughty" image it created of myself in my mind. Plus, because I smoked mostly locked away in my room, it became something almost nacisisstic, as I continued to smoke in the mirror. Soon it was mastabatory as well. Now so many years later, I smoke for each of the reasons above, plus the chemical rush and relax that it gives. Its evolved into a social issue, most of my friends smoke, all the girls on my various dorm floors smoked, my sister smokes. After my mom accepted I smoked it became something she and I could do together, while we talked, and bonded.
I smoke Benson&Hedges, and Parliments mostly, these are holdouts from the "glamor" inspired days. To be honest though, my favorites are whatever I can borrow or bum off of someone else.
Smoking was very early applied to how others saw me, I was always the girl with the ever-present cigarette between her fingers. I absorbed that into who I was and it became a fundamental part of who I am.