When was the last time you smoked a cigarette?

After smoking for 24 years I quit my pack a day habit in 2009.

5 minutes ago.

Yesterday, I never smoke on weekends as I don't have the same stress

February 20th, 2010

January 2005.

I can't believe I'm winning the battle this long, I had a bitch of a time staying stopped.

2004. I've never been tempted to go back.

1990.

Never once.

Yesterday.

Fuck off, OP

August 2015

Suck my tits

December 31st, 2014.

I smoked Kool’s which are very expensive.

I quit for health and saving money reasons, plus, my boyfriend lovingly nagged me to quit.

Here’s what worked for me after attempting to quit and relapsing- future quit date.

In late September, I resolved to have my last cigarette right before midnight December 31st. In between I smoked and enjoyed it but was also conditioning myself to that date.

Haven’t had a cig since

So R13 go deeper, what kept you off them?

2012 from two packs a day to none.

March 10, 2020. It took a pandemic to make quit.

Fear, r14, in a good way.

The fear on behalf of my health finally outweighed any pleasure my addiction was giving me.

Also, I'll admit, the social pressure and stigma of being that person who is standing outside of a building smoking had an impact on me.

A casino used to be the last public place, where, inside a building, whether it was 105 or 15 below temps outside, you could just light up a cigarette at will, but now, even casinos are smoke-free.

Cigarette smoking was more difficult for me to finally quit than cocaine and alcohol.

Those guys and gals in the white smocks of the labs of Big Tobacco who, back in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s put the chemical recipe of tar, nicotine and tobacco together in just the right amounts to hook me, knew their stuff.

Make up your mind to it, you will gain weight. Besides your lowered metabolism, the physical act of placing the cigarette to your mouth is replaced by putting the chocolate chip cookie(s) to your mouth and whatever else you can glutton out on.

I gained about 15 lbs, but, with effort, lost about 10. I have a permanent extra 5 lbs but, I'll take that over shortness of breath, smelling like an ashtray and the financial costs of cigarettes.

I'm very glad I quit smoking cigs.

But still, to this day, once in a while, I'll miss smoking. And, in those rare moments when I can smell cigarette smoke, it still smells good to me.

about 14 seconds ago...

Five seconds ago

I don't even remember anymore. Many years ago and I still miss it

I quit for good the weekend of July 4th, 2009. For good. My FIRST time quitting was the day Ronald Reagan was first elected President, so first week of November, 1980. Took me TWENTY-NINE YEARS of "quitting" to finally get that shit out of my life...It is unimaginable to me that I could ever consider smoking one again. The smell almost nauseates me. It is SO bad for your body.

September, 1981

October 2020

About 3 weeks ago. I usually join my father in a cigarette or more when I visit him. I only smoke when with him. Hypnosis is excellent for cigarette control. I stared smoking when I was 14 and quit 20 years later; when I quit, I got fat.

Forgot to add, when I was withdrawing, in those first 6 months, some of my dreams were very vivid.

Dreams are made of debris our brains are jettisoning.

I like to think that by finally quitting smoking, my brain was finally able to clean the house.

Got cured of smoking in one hypnosis session. Then went back for a top-up when the urges came back 3 years later. Do not fall for the b/s of going for a course of multiple sessions: one will do, although you may have to top it up years later.

Cigarettes, 1987. Pot, 1976.

R25, the only dreams I ever had about smoking were of 2 kinds: a) I would dream that I had smoked a cigarette and feel so disappointed in myself, and then I'd wake up and be relieved that I hadn't actually done it; b) (the weird one) I would pull up to a convenience store, go in and buy a pack of Winston Lights, go back to my car and unwrap the pack, take out a cigarette, and just as I was about to light it, it would dawn on me, "Wait a minute, I don't even smoke!" and I would toss the cig and the pack out the window onto the ground (littering) and drive away. I had that dream QUITE a few times...

[quote] Winston Lights

Fuck, some people really have no taste even in their fucked up dreams.

Last night. Or, more accurately, this morning about 3 a.m. I never smoke in the daytime. My first cig of the day is after dinner. Then, I puff away until bedtime.

It's funny, I never even think about smoking before dinner. I don't crave a cigarette. I don't miss the nicotine. But, if I can't smoke at night properly (e.g. a tobacco cigarette) because I'm staying in a hotel and have to be content with e-cigs after dinner, I'm fairly miserable in the evening. If there were a way to have the complete trappings of smoking - shaking out the 'rette, lighting it, puffing it, stubbing it out - without the ill effects, I'd do it tomorrow. I'll live with the nicotine withdrawal, but I can't stand the, for want of a better work, gesture withdrawal.

I have no kids, no career that means everything to me, no great oeuvre I'm desperate to complete before the Grim Reaper collects me. I live for the small daily pleasures, which are indeed very pleasant. Smoking is one of them. I don't understand people who make themselves miserable (be it diet or smoking or whatever) to squeeze a few extra years out of a life they don't fully enjoy because they're constantly denying themselves.

^Started with Camel non-filters, then Winstons, then Winston Lights. The bod just couldn't take it any more...

Good for you, r28. Those are good dreams.

I don't dream much anymore, or, if I do, I don't retain them even enough to remember them.

^^"for want of a better WORD ..."

Pall Mall, no filters, were my RSM's favourite. We all thought he was gay.

1996, I smoked a couple when I found out my technician had committed suicide the night before. Haven't touched them since.

March 31, 2020. Pandemic made me quit as well. It was a choice between smoking and paying rent. Not entirely sure I chose correctly, particularly when shortly thereafter all of the stimulus and bonus unemployment became available.

R36 when I was a student, paying rent came last so I smoked.

About 10 minutes ago, I usually get through three packs a day.

I don't stay in non-smoking hotels or go to bars now.

I think it was right around New Year’s 1999(?), the year that Ca made smoking in bars illegal. I went our bar-hopping to commemorate it, even though I’m a non smoker. I’m not even sure I lit up, but I remember holding the cig, & my smoker friends commented on how natural I looked.

I smoked one pack that I’d found (sealed) at the amusement park where I worked in 1991. They were Virginia Slims & my friend used to call them Vagina Slimes. I “smoked” a few while driving in my car (the only place I could sneak them) & thought smoking was so easy & cool—but I realized I was only holding the smoke in my mouth & blowing it out. When I actually inhaled it was another story, I thought I would choke to death.

In total I guess I’ve smoked 75% of a pack & pretend-smoked the other quarter.

2002.

40 years ago. It took me over two years to quit completely but I did it.

I had my last one on 10/10/2010. Quiting was the hardest thing I ever did. It sadly remains my largest accomplishment.

June 2004. The physical craving went away a long time ago, but my brain thinks about having a cig every. single. day.

Never really smoked. Friends taught me. Did it maybe five times. Menthol.

I'm amazed how people keep track of when they quit smoking. I had a half pack a day habit for about 15 years or so, but I don't know when it was I quit. It was a long time ago. I had one hypnosis session and the last cigarette was right before I went to that appointment.

Right now. Still run 8 minute miles.

Labor Day 2019, after 38 years of intermittent smoking (some years a pack a day, some years only on weekends when I drank). My first was at age 11. I don't miss it at all. The smell of a cigarette now makes me physically ill. My first pack (which was always split with friends) was .85 cents. My last was $7.25.

2018. I officially quit in 2011--after a pack-a-day habit for 20 YEARS. But when I go out, I'll occasionally have one or two or three.

Early August 2011

About an hour ago. I asked my Husband to go get me a pack, before be went to bed. He got me 2 beers too. It was a great night until we had an argument.

2008 or 2009 for me, I'd have to check the calendar, and no idea of an exact day other than winter/early spring.

After many years I had quit a few times then fell back into the habit on holidays. My doctor prescribed Chantix/vareniclina with instruction on dosing and duration of treatment, all the possible side effects, and the suicide hotline, etc. It was brilliant. Two days in and I was starting maybe one cigarette and extinguishing it. Within 4 or 5 days the urge was completely gone, if not the occasional feeling that I would normally have a cigarette in s certain situation. I carried on with the course of treatment but have never been tempted sense and can be around smokers and not be bothered by it.

March 13th, 2015

Still smoking, toots!

10 April 2010. Smoked for 35 years. Quit once from 1988 to 1994 , then thought what am I doing, I *LIKE* to smoke and started up again. On 10 April 2010, I suddenly decided that my fond relationship with cigs had come to an end, tossed out what was left in the pack. And that was it. Cold turkey. No pills, no patch, no nothing. Never had a cig again. Of course, like many of you, if I knew I was going to die next week, I'd immediately run out and buy a couple of packs of cigs and go out happy!!

Never, and I'm old. My parents both smoked and they were insistent that their kids not develop the habit. There were PSAs against smoking on TV and my elementary school had posters of horribly sick people who regretted smoking. We were once shown a film featuring cancer survivors. One said he could never again take a shower or go swimming because he had had a tracheotomy.

I don't understand why younger people are unafraid of the consequences of smoking.

About 10 years ago. I used to quit for a while, and then would think about my friends who could “socially” smoke and only have a couple at a party or something. I’d try that, and soon enough I’d be back at my pack a day habit. I *almost* smoked one about a month ago with some friends, but I didn’t. I don’t miss the mess and the smell, but FUCK, sometimes I really want a Marlboro Light.

Never

September, 1964.

After the Surgeon General announced, smoking was bad for you.

35 minutes ago, but my new crazy pills are making tobacco unfulfilling.

Normal people taper off and quit. I smoke more often and get frustrated. Hope to get past this hurdle and see where it leads.

40 yearvs of smoking….. talk about loyalty

[quote]I don't understand why younger people are unafraid of the consequences of smoking.

Maybe because they are not perfect like you?

I would NEVER date anyone who smokes

August 1988...

One of the most stupid ass habits I ever picked up...

Started as a sophomore in high school...quit ten years later

I quit twice, first time was March 1991 after smoking 12 years . Stayed up again in July 2006 when I had very stressful job and crazy boss. Quit again June 2019, hopefully for the last time. You’d have to be a very special kind of stupid to have to quit smoking twice, let alone 3 times, not to mention starting in the first place.

July 4th weekend 2019. Had one at a bar and it made me really nauseated. Before that, sometime in 2017. I was a 20 year smoker.

I'll probably never touch one again. Every time I've quit (and I've quit numerous times, but this is the longest) that first cigarette I try after relapsing is so awful. I don't know what possesses me to keep it up.

I grew up in a household where everyone smoked and God I hated it. I stunk of cigarettes so much that kids in grade school would ask if I smoked because they could smell it on me. I took one puff off a cigarette once in my 20's when someone insisted that "how can I know I don't like it if I never tried it" and that one puff left such a horrible taste in my mouth that took forever to get rid of it left me completely dumbfounded how anyone starts in the first place.

1997

1917

I smoked literally one cigarette when I was 13, and I was like "is that all there is"? This was long before I knew who Peggy Lee was.

May 2010

2014-15, but then switched to vaping for 7 years.

R56 Oh my GODDD, the smell. I knew it was bad but had NO IDEA how bad it was until after I quit. It was kinda shocking. If I could apologize to all of those people who sat next to me in college.

A more pertinent question on the datalounge-

When was the last time you sucked a cock?

Well serendipity exactly one month ago today!

Six years, ten months, 12 days, 8 hours and 59 minutes ago.

I have an app.

Tbh the minute there's a cancer vaccine, I'm gonna go back.

^k, maybe not.

May 2010.

The Feds and my state hiked tobacco taxes extra hard and that was it.

These days you have to be rich to smoke cigarettes!

I'm old but I remember when a pack of cigs in a cigarette machine was about 40¢.

April 7, 1937

1983. One morning I was going to work by subway and I recall I found myself out of breath walking up several flights of stairs, which I never had before. As someone who was used to cycling and long distance running I always had excellent lung capacity and I blamed it on the cigarettes and quit cold turkey that same day. I went to the office and I took two unopened packs of cigarettes I had in my desk drawer and threw them into the trash. A coworker who sat behind me saw my act in horror and offered to to take them. As it turned out I was coming down with a cold which was the real cause of of shortness of breath. But I still never smoked again. Best snap decision of my life. Many years later three friends and one cousin had died from lung cancer, so who knows if I could have been among them.

[quote] I don't understand why younger people are unafraid of the consequences of smoking.

IME, young people just don't think they'll get addicted.

Never have. I wouldn't want to do more than try it once, but since the first time apparently you just cough and gag, it's no thanks for me. I've always been scared of cigarettes -- because I think I would like them a lot. If I had been around during the time when smoking was seen as fine to do, I might have smoked like a chimney.

When I was 25, I quit smoking for a year (had bronchitis and had intended to quit only until I got better). Pot smoking led me back to tobacco.

Right before my 30th birthday, I quit again. Since then, I took one puff of a cigarette (at a party).

Cigarettes are too expensive, now. If I were a young person who smoked, I'd quit for financial reasons more than for health reasons.

About the time my mom died of Lung Cancer.

I smoked dope in high school, and wasn't impressed. It just made me act uncool, when I wanted to be cool.

I've never smoked tobacco in my life, and now that I'm sixty, I'm fine with that.

2005

R60

I don't think I'm perfect. I don't understand why the lessons of a previous generation have been lost.

I smoked from the time I was 18 until Jan 2, 2019. About 45 years. I quit for five years once, another time three years. I rarely smoked more than a pack a day. Fifteen or sixteen in general unless I went out drinking. Then I just stopped. No patches, pills, hypnosis. I was just done. I still get the occasional urge.

I was a smoker from about age 18 to about 40. (BTW quit using Chantix- it works) was cigarette free for about 5 years. Then picked one up maybe once a month or 2. I now treat a cigarette like a good cigar. A little indulgence- then take a shower....

I've never smokekd

Just like every other addiction, it takes more and more to get the same effect. I went from normal to wider cigarettes, then to filterless, and now an unfiltered pipe. It’s a boring hourly ritual.

After coitus with your husbear this morning OP.

Does his breath still smell of me?

After coitus with your husbear this morning OP.

Does his breath still smell of me?

Somewhere between 2014-2015. Smoked for 20+ years and Chantix was the only treatment that helped. Took three months - doctors told me if it didn’t work in 4-5 weeks it would prob not work anymore.

But I kept trying as I really wanted to quit. I regret all my years smoking and wish I could apologize do my deceased brother and father for that awful habit. They were so disappointed when they found out I was a smoker years back.

Never touched a cig again and I can’t stand the smell of it. Grateful I was able to quit.

March, 2001. I had smoked regularly since I was 14, and didn’t want to still be smoking when I turned 40 in the Summer. It was a Monday morning, I woke up and there was only one cigarette left. I smoked it while I had my coffee, deciding then that I was finished.

It was not easy, not pleasant and I wouldn’t do it again, but no way, no how would I ever smoke again.

Um never. Disgusting filthy habit. These days the only ones still smoking are skanks. I'm an elder gay by the way, so dont bother calling me woke or inexperienced. Yes I tired it, stinks just as much today as it did 40 years ago. I never bought into the Boomer gen's idea of it being old school glamorous.

Smoking is festive.

Quit August 1, 1985. Never smoked since.

Quitting smoking is very difficult to do in the short run, but very easy to do in the long run.

I’d smoked on and off for about 20 years. Finally, I realized I smoked for emotional reasons. A therapist told me in 1990 that nicotine is one of 2 substances scientifically proven to inhibit emotional response. Very true.

I remember, as a little kid in the 70's, that both sets of my grandparents smoked, as did all of their friends. In the house. In the car. At work. In restaurants. Then one day it seemed like none of them did. And none that I can remember ever picked it back up.

R80

I realize young people don't think they can get addicted or psychologically dependent. It's calming or energizing* and a weight suppressant. But is Society doing a less good job of educating them about its dangers than in the past?

*A smoker told me that a cigarette gave him whatever he needed in that moment.

R88, but you can't drink when you're on Chantix, so you have to give up both smoking and drinking at the same time. That seems like taking on a lot ... and taking a lot of the fun out of life. Might as well go all the way and join a monastery.

Stopped cold turkey when I got bronchitis after the flu and couldn't breathe. That was 18 years ago. Never went back and was surprised how much more disposable income I had. I was a 2 packa day addict. Now, I have COPD.

God, I loved smoking. Oh those moments when I lit a cigarette and took that first drag - memories, like corners of my mind (sing along). But it ended in October, 2020 (with one relapse).

In September, 2020 I ended a relationship with a guy I had been spending time with for three years. I was miserable, my smoking increased. I was in a Zoom meeting after work one evening and got a good look at myself; age 58 and just awful.

Then I had a thought and lo and behold I found an old CD with a stop smoking hypnosis session. I looked for and found a portable CD player. I needed batteries and headphones. Check and check. The next morning I smoked, maybe more than once? Sat in a chair, got comfortable and played the CD. Did not smoke for the rest of the day. I listened to that CD every day for 6 weeks, Did not smoke.

Visit with family Christmas weekend got me smoking - just because someone else lit up. End of weekend I threw out my pack and started the CD again. Have not smoked since.

End of 2022, I feel great. Started exercising January of this year. I look so much better too. But you know, have those moments...

WHen I did smoke, I remember how that first one every morning, used to send me into paroxysms of coughing and it tasted terrible. But I forced myself to finish it and I was set for the day. 2 Packs every day. I am ASO glad I stopped.

2010. I smoked socially and with the occasional drink at home off and on, since my early 20s. My godmother died of lung cancer and I quit, just like that.