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Do You Smoke Cigarettes?
Yes, all the time.
11%
 11%  [ 5 ]
Yes, sometimes.
13%
 13%  [ 6 ]
No.
75%
 75%  [ 34 ]
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Hart
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Like the old Bob Seger song:

I used to smoke 2 packs of cigarettes a day.
It was the hardest thing to throw them away.

("Tryin to live my life....")

ADDED 2 minutes later or so:

Incidentally Brian, I'm with you. When I posted the first time, it was because I had a craving as I was reading. Then I came back....another craving, and now I'm back and another craving. I think I have some 3 year old nicorette around here somewhere.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think there'll be quite the market for vintage tobacco as there is for say. . .vintage cars. . .
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, darn it all... wish there was an easy way to get rid of the habit... but, then what would I do with the time....

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Next Question could be:

Where do you get your caffeine? coffee, tea, Mountain Dew, or No-Doz?...AND before or during mic time?

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PJHawke
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

3 years, 1 month, 21 days since the last cig. Gave it up when I got into whitewater kayaking, ya really need the lung capacity when you're upside down underwater in those rapids...gave up whitewater a year later in favor of touring paddling, but now that I've locked onto VO I have a new excuse dangling over my head to keep me from lapsing.

But Oh, God, I want one so often. *sigh*

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I credit smoking and whiskey for giving me the deeper and "smoky" sound to my voice back in my radio days. I loved it, but I gave it up 20+ years ago. I hated the control it had over me, such as running out of smokes just before bedtime, and having to throw my clothes back on on a cold night just to go buy a stupid pack.

If my doctos ever give me a short time to live, however, I shall take it up again and enjoy every GD puff.

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allensco
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gave up the smoke in Nov 1998. When I indulge in "adult beverages" from time to time, I'll have a smoke, as long as someone around me has some for me to bum.

Like Bruce, when I smoked fulltime, I had the deeper, smokey sound on the radio. Since giving it up, I have lost much of the smokey, gravely sound I had.

I have thought about picking it up again, just to get that sound back...but I just can't make myself do it.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Funny thing for me. When I was working in radio during the day (could smoke in the studio back then!!) and playing in bands at night, I smoked at least a pack a day for ten years.

Then I met the woman I was going to marry. I got an office job where smoking was not allowed and quit the bands. I decided I wanted to live and see my kids grow up and I was able to quit like (snap fingers) that! Haven't smoked since. It's been 15 years!

At first I had cravings, particularly after eating or with a drink. I still relish the smell when I walk past someone smoking. Thus the quote.

For me, two things were essential - 1. environment and 2. something else more important in my life to turn to, and turn away from, cigarettes - a reason to not want to die prematurely.

When I smoked fulltime, I too had the deeper, smokey sound. At a recent class reunion, a friend said to me, "I thought your voice used to be lower..." So, there's a reason to be glad when you get that chest cold, the return of your friend phlegm adding character to your voice.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Let's see... I only smoked from March of 1968 untill April of 1971. But cigarettes were cheap in the Navy... $2.00 per carton. And I was smoking 1 1/2 packs per day. I've been smoke free since 1971. Anyone who really needs to know how I did it, can PM me. Believe it... or not.
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Charlie Channel
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love smoking. But, I quit in 1981. My wife said she wouldn't kiss me if I smoked any more, and she didn't. I found I could get away with smoking no more than 2 a day and pass the breath test -- provided I smoked early in the morning at work. But, then, once I was down to that number, I figured it must be my mind that was giving me problems, not the drug.

I knew I was really addicted when I crumpled a pack and threw them in the trash can. Then, six days passed, the trash can was loaded with refuse and in the morning at 5:30 a.m., the day of trash collection, I found myself digging out the butts. And, then, there were the times when I'd flush them down the toilette, one at a time to teach myself a lesson about wasting money, only to go find a pack of ZigZags and collect butts on the street to roll one up. I guess I was worse than a Crack head. After about 3 years of abstinance, the urge left.

I don't have have any cravings these days. But, I went to Cuba (legally from L.A.) and I had to try some cigars. There's nothing like a Cohiba. And, Havana Club Gran Reserva.

I indulge in a cigar periodically. Something makes me think I sound better after smoking one. But, it could be the tequila talkin'. Laugh
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johnbailey
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I quit back in July, but now I'm addicted to Nicorette and Tic Tacs!

I used to think it helped my voice, especially after those late bar nights in my misspent youth. I've heard that Nat King Cole was a chain-smoker -- he thought it helped his singing voice. He died of lung cancer in his 40s.
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Hart
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep, I went from ciggies to nicorette, and now I'm only addicted to Altoids. My doctor is happier but the dentist is pissed.
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Gregory Best
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:11 am    Post subject: My only comment... Reply with quote

My day job is with a local air pollutuion control agency. Nuf said.
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anthonyVO
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hart wrote:
Yep, I went from ciggies to nicorette, and now I'm only addicted to Altoids. My doctor is happier but the dentist is pissed.


LOL
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Christopher French wrote:
Did you know...Freddie Mercury of Queen smoked two packs a day til the day he died. The man still had those wonderful pipes until the day he died too. Amazing, isn't it?


True. Many of the top vocalists of our time actually smoked on a regular basis.
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