Smokin` Poll

I don't smoke at all, but I sometimes really like the smell of tobacco in frags.

In the Emperor of Scent book I seem to recall Luca Turin saying that, contrary to what I would have thought, smoking can actually enhance ability to smell certain things. He went through a scientific explanation. I can't remember the details, though.

Yes, no matter what SOTD I have on there is a tobacco note with it. L


I am a 10-15 ( 14,15)er, I only smoke in the out of doors though. I look forward too the day I quit and can translate that money into frags. At Canadian prices, I would be able to afford a 50ml bottle every week at the small perfum shop in my city.

I started smoking in High School to date a girl, the nicotine lasted a lot longer than the Nicholeteen.

done it for ya!

I don't smoke, not anymore - I quit 18 years ago.

I don't smoke, never started, thank god!

I see how much some of my patients struggle to quit, even after a near fatal heart attack. It's a tough addiction to overcome and I admire anyone who can quit.

I too, love tobacco and smoky notes to my fragrances. I love the smell of pipe tobacco, especially the stuff my Grandpa used to smoke ...

I smoked for fifteen or so years (i started when i was 14 or 15) and finally quit four years ago after a number of serious attemps. It was probably one of the most important things i have ever done. No more cough, no more constantly clearing my throat and no more shortness of breath. Not to mention i don't smell like an ashtray anymore. You do not realize how NASTY you used to smell until someone who has just smoked one walks past you!

I stopped smoking five years ago and it was the hardest thing I've ever done.
I'd stop for a couple of days, then start again feeling like a failure. This pattern went on for months until I cut down to one a day and then none. I don't miss cigarettes nor do I like the smell of cigarette smoke or tobacco.
Tobacco notes in fragrance are a total turn off also but there are so many other scents that I have discovered and love now! To each his/her own.

I smoke 6 cigs a day. I only started two years ago and... HA HA HA! I still think I could quit if I wanted to. HA HA HA! I only smoke outside, and I brush my teeth after every cig (very vocal son complains about stench) or chew gum if I'm out.

I don't smoke cigarettes and never have after a try or two back in the 50s when I was a teenager.

I smoke 1-3 of these(or the same size but a different brand):


Punch Double Coronas

Started in '86, quit in '89, quit again in '90. (stayed quit)

When I was last a smoker, a pack of camel lights was $1.25.

I quit last year, after years of mr.tinker complaining we should quit together. He said the money I saved from NOT smoking could go towards perfume. I quit cold-turkey with no withdrawal symptoms even though I smoked for 20 years. I think that the perfume buying kept me from having cravngs

I stay away...

I smoke, and I am a social smoker who only smokes in the bar. I never smoke during office hours.

I don't smoke. Never really have...when I was young & in college I would have one every now & again. Now I wouldn't dream of it. As a result of my fragrance hobby I am so concerned with the way I smell I would not want smoke interfering with my lovely pefumes. But, most importantly(I don't want to be a downer, here)....I lost my older sister this past spring to lung cancer. 47 years old, two kids, life long smoker. She died 3 months following her diagnosis. It's just not worth it.

I quit on my birthday last month. I only smoked a half dozen or so on the heavy days but they were still a crutch. I'm with Dan on the cigars, one of my last vices. Padron 64 series Anniversario Exclusivos - natural wrapper.

I quit smoking in 1999, but you could see me smoking some drag's when I was super-drunk in 2000. Nowadays I get terribly sick when I inhale just one drag of a cigarette. The most honest sign: I've really done it!

I don't smoke, never liked it, i also did try it as a teen. I love the smell of real Tobacco though, and search for it a lot in fragrances. But i can't see myself smoking a cuban cigar or anything like it.
I have had respiratory problems since i was a baby, for wich the Doctor recommended swimming, and when i became a swimmer (started swimming at age 3) , health was to be my main concern, and now still is. Now i breath normally and i am better than ever - i think.
My sister not only doesn't like smoking, she's also allergic to cigarette smoke, so all of that was a big no-no at home back then.
That sounds a bit like an contradiction, but i have known people that are allergic to stuff and they keep on using them, you know what i mean?.

I started smoking at 16, quit when I was 31, ( didn`t smoke for 12 years), started again in -98, and have been trying to quit again since July, with the help of nicotine plasters. I haven`t had a cig for about three weeks now, and I AM DESPERATE!!!

I smoke about six cigarettes a day, more when I'm bored or anxious. I'm very nervous and unhappy about the health problems, especially since my family has a history of heart disease, so I'm trying to find a quitting strategy that will work. (I'm too high-strung to go cold turkey, I think.)

haha even better than smoking, I like to have an occassional dip here and there. It's a very unaesthetic habit, but preferable to smoking healthwise. I'm light with it though, I'll buy a can (these are little Canadian ones which are 1/2 the size of the American ones and twice as expensive) and it'll last me almost a week usually. Just something for while I'm watching TV in the basement relaxing. It's been an off and on thing for four years or so. I'll go weeks without it from time to time and it doesn't bother me.

Smoking is much worse in my eyes. I never really smoked in the sense of buying my own packs and smoking by myself. However, up until recently I would have one the odd time if I were with someone who smoked or when going out on the weekends etc. etc. I think I've stamped that out though, I haven't had one in three months or so. I just always hated so much waking up after a night out when I smoked 5 or 6 cigarettes and just walking around the house and feeling all out of breath. As someone into fitness I just could never, ever start smoking regularly, I always feel so terribly guilty anytime I have one.

I smoke four to six cigars a year. Since the spring I've smoked about two pipe bowls in two weeks, sometimes two bowls in a week, sometimes a bowl in three weeks. I like doing this.

I like tobacco smells in scents. I think there are a whole variety of different ways it's in fragrances. Some fragrances smell like tobacco leaf, some like tobacco smoke, and some even like tobacco ash. Beauties either way. And there are a huge variety of smells from different tobaccos.
--Chris

I don't smoke, I tried when I was 11 and I had a crush on a boy who smoked. Coughed and hated it and never went any further with it.
I used to be almost militantly turned off by smoking, avoided it like the plague, still feel rather anxious when I am in a smoky area...
BUT some things have changed in that regard for me. I fell in love with a man who has struggled with smoking for a number of years. Through his experiences of quits and starts, quits and starts, I have gained some compassion - the docs I work with in the ED tell me this is one of the hardest habits to kick physiologically speaking... I give great big kudos to anyone who has quit or who is trying to quit.
I have also seen people with end stage emphysema and lung cancer who are on perpetual oxygen and struggling to take every breath. Very sobering sight.

Also, I have a child who is a cancer survivor, and prone to asthma. Another reason that smoke is off limits in our home.

Ironically, while in paris, smoke did not bother me as much as here....perhaps I was just in floaty euphoria!!!! but I wondered if it is also that there are not designated areas as there are here in the states, it is sort of more perfuse...(not good in either case, really.)

Also, I really like the smell of unlit pipe tobacco, I knew someone who used to smoke this and I liked the smell of the pouches. I am very drawn to Tabac Blond and Aimez Moi, for example , scents that have tobacco notes.
Just don't light them!

Just some thoughts.

I second this, Musse...hang in there... I like Tinker's idea of rewarding herself with perfume when she quit...maybe you could devise such a plan for yourself, too?
Hell, I don't smoke, and I want this kind of plan!!!! I better think of something..

Thanks, PM! Today I have bursted out crying four times:
1. Lost a pencil on the floor.
2. Lost a teabag on the floor.
3. Saw a neighbor standing outside smoking.
4. Found an empty box of Marlboros in the garbage bin.

(and I have used words I wouldn`t like to type here 337 times)

Do you still stick to just one cig after dinner?

Thanks a lot to you too, rtamara41!

A really nice plan, I must say!

well, either that, or chocolate,
or sex toys...
or regular massage therapy...
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or pets? I have a rabbit that calms me down...(no, not the toy, the REAL animal...) He is very wise, affectionate and patient. Do you have cats? Your avatar would lead one to believe so...

Pets?
Two dogs, two cats, two rats plus a rabbit from hell (I`m afraid of the darn animal)
Sex toys?
No, I don`t dare to use them, cuz I`ve heard that they are more satisfying than "the real thing".
Chocolate?
I eat tons of chocolate every day...

WAIT! I`ve got it, now I know!

Save money for a luxurious weekend in Paris (Caron, Guerlain, Goutal..)

And lipsticks, I forgot lipsticks!!

LOL!

Bet that was originally on YOUR wishlist
(Hope the chocolate is of superior quality, both for painting and hrm, hrm licking)

I smoke a lot. A lot, a lot, a lot. I'd say 25+ a day. I'd smoke vodka if I could. I never tried to stop. Maybe I want to stop one day, but honestly, and this probably sounds very weird to you, I don't plan to get very old. It's ok. That's life. As it is now, stopping would be too hard. I just live with it. It's ok.

Thank you. Let's have tea some day. Or something.

Yeah, but we're all fearless in the face of death it's not coming up anytime soon.

haha I'm not trying to be a DARE advocate, just saying that it's only an illogical justification to put off something difficult.

I've known so many guys who got all big into drugs and stuff who boasted about how they planned to live life to the fullest and die young. The ones I still see once in a while whine so much about how stupid they were but don't know how to live any other way now.

just my two cents. Obviously drugs and smoking are different in levels of severity and the timeframe towards regret with smoking is longer, but essentially the feelings run the same path.

No no no that's not what I meant. I rhink maybe 60, 65 is a feasable age to go. I'm not going to have children, I'm not going to marry. I'm being quite realistic. I'm far to old to die young and make a beautiful corpse. It's not about that at all.

Oh you're older then? Sorry for assuming then. It's different if you've been at it for a long, long time. That's rare though, you run into very, very few longtime smokers who don't sincerely regret it.

It just always gets me the guys my age in their early twenties who do all sorts of harmful stuff show no regard whatsoever for their future wellbeing and put on this ultra hard image of being fearless about the consequences. They're actually naiive enough to think that when they're in their late 40's dying of lung cancer and going to miss seeing their kids graduate from high school they'll still just shrug their shoulders and say, "that's just how she goes!".

Ooh boyo, I get what you mean. And yes, I will try to stop one day, or at least cut down. *cough, cough* There's all sorts of things to avoid if you want to pretend to be healthy. I like to avoid trans-fatty acids and eat a lot of salmon. And I do take really good care of my skin. Life is fun!

So....do *you* use sunscreen? And are you sure it's broadspectrum and photostable? Don't stare yourself blind on the SPF, it's the PPD that matters.

Sheesh, I better go catch forty winks or I'll make a complete fool of myself. Again.

That is a sex toy rumor started by insecure men IMO. Nothing can replace the real thing, baby...

I am right there with you with the luxurious weekend in Paris!!!! But right now, I have to run off to work....buh bye! Have a great day.

Well yeah, pretty much everything we're exposed to negatively effects our health. Smoking is one of the most major ones though which can be avoided though.

Do you take Vitamin C tablets? If you smoke heavily you should take a lot, 2 or 3 grams per day. Cigarettes destroy a lot of it and it's arguably one of the most vital essential nutrients for the body.

I just buy the cheap sunscreen usually, seems to do the trick I don't get burned. The sun is one of the kinds of things which effects your health that's harder to avoid though! I don't spend hundreds of hours a year in the tanning bed like lots of people I know.

I quit for a few months a while ago. Tomorrow I stop again.

Something that is pertinent to Bnoters, smoking really affects the way you can smell frags on yourself or others.