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Poll HN: Do you smoke Cigarettes?

13 pointskeltecp1122 comments

Do you smoke Cigarettes? Just curious.

For those that do, please don't throw your butts on the ground or out the car window. It's extremely irresponsible -- yet I see it happening all the time.

Please provide ashtrays and convenient places to dispose of them. We'll use them when they are available.

In treatment to quit smoking. I've been a smoker for 15 years and recently I've decided to quit this bad habit. So my psychiatrist prescribed me Bupropion.

The treatment is working: 4 days without smoking. It feels great.

Instructive that the particular distinction "Cigarettes" was made. It would be amusing to see this poll done either without the distinction.

I've been a cigarette smoker for 14 years, but in the last 6 months i've switched to pipes. It's a whole new approach to nicotene delivery. Much more enjoyable, and healthier in some ways imho. To other smokers, you should really try it. Cigarettes is to smoking as hearing the same loop of music over and over again while pipe smoking is like having all of the itunes store available for you to listen. A side benefit is that as it's an active process, contrary to just lighting up a cig and letting it burn on it's own, you keep your attention focused on it, you relax, and your subconcious is free to engage in all sorts of thoughts.

(Although you can achieve similar results by taking a bike ride for example)

To those who have quit smoking well done and keep it up.

Nope. I've had enough second-hand while I was a child thank you very much...

Never have, don't see a reason why. From the outside all I see is death, sickness, and billions of dollars in profit for huge corporations, and I have never tried nicotine so I don't know how it feels.

No. I'm curious about trying them, and might have a smoke some time in the future to see what nicotine feels like, but I have an aversion to things that are physically addictive.

Put the curiosity aside, please. I smoke, and I've tried to quit numerous times. I feel like crap several times a month, and I know it's directly related to my smoking.

No, they are junk. About 50% of the contents of cigarette is filler and tobacco is of incredibly low quality. I roll my own cigarettes with tobacco produced without additives. See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarettes and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkTMx-1G0RQ

Yes, not proud of it though...

Yes, proud of it. Helps give me a legal high, great when working on problems or making decisions, very effective social lubricant.

My girlfriend hated it, so I quit. Only a smoker for 5 months or so... so it wasn't entirely too hard.

I have to admit I miss it... It's definitely a social lubricant. It helps when working too, to take a break for a smoke. It's also nice to have a cig after a good meal.

So, I guess I'm glad that I quit but I can certainly relate. And there's nothing I hate more than the whiney people that complain to smokers that they're ruining the earth. Sometimes people are far too quick to judge a person based on whether or not they have a smoking habit.

The data geek in me would have been interested in seeing:

No - never did

No - I stopped

That could be simulated by both a No and a Yes upvote, if there's some way to know how many people voted, total.

if you submit these polls after smoking, you should immedeately stop smoking, and start working for your start-up.

This post encouraged me to stop

thank you!

Never have, never will!

Could never understand why smart people choose to take it up.

soooooooooooooo glad i quit!

An old girlfriend, when we broke up, told me the one thing she will be grateful to me for is I got her to quit smoking. She breathed better, smelled things better and food tasted better.

Nope, secondhand as a kid was enough to make me swear it off.

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