Smoker?

[Soul]

Hello all! Just thought this would be interesting to see what percentage of us kirupians smoke? :beam:

I don't...

Do the poll! :bad:

- Soul :s:

[redViper]

there should be an option: i want to smoke, but cant afford it.. haha

[Soul]

lol :beam:

- Soul :s:

[Lynx]

I hate smokers!

and don't smoke but I smoked 2-3 cigarettes today, bla bla bla, cigarettes suck :)

[senocular]

what about what it is you smoke? cigs, cigettes, pot, clover... :q:

... though I dont smoke at all ;) *cough cough*

[redViper]

mm. i like cigarssss.. :D

[Kitiara]

Nope, don't smoke and never have. :)

[Soul]

Yay Kit :beam:

- Soul :s:

[Kitiara]

My mother smokes and that was enough to put me off. :)

[lava]

I smoke when I'm drunk... for some reason. It gives a nice buzz... However, I've found that my hangovers are worse if I smoke.

[lava]

but hey, smoking is vegetarian...

[Soul]

*pokes Lava with a large wooden elbow*

- Soul :s:

[lava]

I do bad things... but I'm not a vegetarian, so i'm not ENTIRELY evil...

[Soul]

You're such a bully!! :P

Time for revenge :bad:

lol no one here smokes yet :beam:

- Soul :s:

[lava]

I smoke from time to time... I told you... when I'm drunk.

that's when I have liquid courage..

[SureShot]

never smoked a Cig in my entire life...


Hey Sen - what's "clover" I have never heard of that before.

[RenaissanceGirl]

Originally posted by lavaboy
I smoke when I'm drunk... for some reason. It gives a nice buzz... However, I've found that my hangovers are worse if I smoke.

DITTO! Smoking and drinking just go together! But we differ in that smoking improves my hangovers!

[lava]

yeah, I used to smoke, but quit. But I've gone to a bunch of parties with this one girl lately, and whenever I'm drunk she says "You wanna have a smoke?" and I'm like... yeah, sure..

[Soul]

Ooo a gurl lava? ;)

- Soul :s:

[lava]

she's a lesbian... it sucks.

"pink triangle on her sleeve..."

[Soul]

Ahh you so know how to pick em Lava :P

- Soul :s:

[nobody]

why dont u un-lesbian-ize her raf?
i bet you could do it

[lava]

hey, if I could... it'd be the SWEETEST deal ever.. but no..

[Soul]

Oo she nice? Got a pic?

- Soul :s:

[lostinbeta]

Originally posted by Kitiara
My mother smokes and that was enough to put me off. :)

Same here Kit.... same here.......

Nothing turns you off from cigarettes more than growing up listening to your mom coughing and hacking then lighting up another cigarette..... well I suppose knowing someone that died from cigarettes is worse...... but mines close :P

[lava]

no... I don't know her that well... but why do you want to see? sicko...

[andr.in]

I'm 14 and in a no smoking area!

[reverendflash]

3 weeks after I met my g/f, I went to an Accupuncturist (2 visits), and I haven't had a cigarette in over 2 1/2 years. Haven't even wanted one. I had quit several times before, always had "the urge" . This time, I'm fine with people smoking (most of my "City" friends still smoke), I even have several ashtrays out for them when they come over, I just don't want a cigarette...

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[mdipi]

nope i look down on it, a form of weakness, i donno.

[reverendflash]

mike:

as you get older, your black and white ideals will grey a bit...

careful about looking down on anything, lest ye be the one being looked down upon...

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[[Legoman]]

looks like I'm the only one to admit smoking at all yet.
I smoke when I'm drink and occasionally when I'm not. I do drink regularly though. what can I say, I'm a man of vice..

[reverendflash]

That's obvious...

:beam:

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[RenaissanceGirl]

Hey I admitted smoking... even if it isn't smoking regularly. :D

[[Legoman]]

I was talking about the votes in the poll. but there's another now.

[Alex]

i never done it... and never plan on it. :)

[!*@&]

i dont smoke but i don hate smokers. i just would love if everybody stops smoking or atleast the ppl who are around me.

[SureShot]

Rev - it worked that well? I ahve been trying to get my mom to quit and she has tried really hard but she just can't kick it. I think I might look into that though, what's the process?

[mariofan]

i cant believe all these non smokers! i smoke about 30 a day (more if im designing) - but i keep trying to quit, just dont have the will power. Im going to try super hard as soon as we have had the baby (the due date is tommorow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

now everybody is going to look down on me cos i smoke..

:m:

[pinx]

i smoke when i go partying. and i always get cigarettes from other people.

[pinx]

looking down on somebody just because they smoke is a very limited point of view. so are they supposed to look down on you because you don't smoke? i don't think so.

[lava]

I look up to you mariofan! Someday, I hope to become half the mariofan you are...

[mariofan]

lol lava!
you still wanting to do that footer??

:m:

[senocular]

when I said clover I meant clove ;)

clove is a spice that can be smoked and is I believe supposed to be a relaxer, though I think for the most part, clove cigarettes also contain tobacco. But its a smokers 'alternative'. To be honest I dont know too much about it - I just had a few friends who smoked them.

[reverendflash]

Originally posted by SureShot
Rev - it worked that well? I ahve been trying to get my mom to quit and she has tried really hard but she just can't kick it. I think I might look into that though, what's the process?

I was going to an accupuncturist for my knee, and I happened to mention that I wanted to stop smoking. On the first visit he needled my right ear in about 15 places, and put little magnets with points (like little bb that have been sharpened) covered in sticky tape type stuff, and placed them on my left ear in the same places as he needled on the right. When I got the urge to smoke, I was instructed to "manipulate" the bb's. The next week I went back, he did the other side. I have not had the urge to smoke since. Absolutely amazing. Now don't get me wrong, I wanted to quit. I sent a friend down to see him, she went through 1 treatment, and lit a cig on the way out of his office...

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[lava]

I have to try acupunture. It sounds like total crap, but it looks like it works.

[mdipi]

My mom went to it for heartburn and it greatly reduced it!

[reverendflash]

I think most of it is in your mind, but what the hell, it seems to have aleviated quite a bit of the pain in my knee, and I don't smoke cigs any more... I'm not disgusted by them, I just don't want one...

But I don't think there is a lot of science involved (I don't really care, since a lot of my pain is gone). Adrenaline is an amazing chemical on it's own...

I really do think you have to almost "have faith" for it to work. An extremely open mind is required.

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[lava]

You know what, my comments are premature. I know nothing about acupunture, plus there are now respectable doctors practicing it...
I really don't hope it's a placebo effect though, cause I'm a skeptic about everything. I'm not even sure YOU exist Rev... although you pass the touring test... so far..

[reverendflash]

I believe more in accupuncture than I do in Chiropractism...

Now that is just a bunch of quacks taking your money IMO...

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[thoriphes]

Originally posted by lavaboy
my comments are premature.

i wonder...

[!*@&]

Originally posted by mariofan
i cant believe all these non smokers! i smoke about 30 a day (more if im designing) - but i keep trying to quit, just dont have the will power. Im going to try super hard as soon as we have had the baby (the due date is tommorow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

now everybody is going to look down on me cos i smoke..

:m:

oh good luck on both quiting and on your new kid

[lava]

...
anyways... yeah, chiropractice is as close as witch doctors as modern doctors get...

[RenaissanceGirl]

Pirate wore earrings because they believe it improved their vision. Everyone thought they were nuts.

Later on, acupuncturists discovered a correlation between the earlobes and vision.

Arrrh!

I read this in "2001 Fascinating Facts."

[reverendflash]

plus with chiro, once you get started, you are addicted... You have to continue to go for the rest of your life...

With accupuncture (my doc does a minor back adjustment with each visit... in other words, he cracks my back), there is a prescripted treatment, number of visits, a dietary prescription, excercise is recommended, and progress is charted.

Then again, keep in mind that I live right next to the largest concentration of Chinese people outside of mainland China...

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[SureShot]

I guess you really just have to want it pretty bad.

Thanks for the info though Rev - I am going to let her know, mabye she can get it covered through her health plan at work...

[RelandR]

I smoke like a train .. wish I didn't, glad to hear so many don't-

Accupuncture has worked very well for us for a number of things though I've never thought to ask about the smoking treatment from them...havta give that a go...

My wife was majorly sceptical about accupuncture and deathly afraid of needles but when her chronic back pain got soooo bad she was ready to go buy bullets - I got her to an old chinese man downtown ... she never felt better in years after only one trip there, a few more trips and was totally pain free...
she had no faith whatsoever and it worked for her

...pretty much my story a few years earlier, I believe now :beam:

It was explained to me once that our nerves can kink/twist blocking and/or diverting the flow of energy pulses to the brain which cause a short circuiting effect of sorts wherein we experience sensations of pain and that precise placement of the needles would cause our bodies to (microscopically) *nudge* them back into proper alignment in a reflexual manner.

...sounded good, esp. when he explained it...:!:

[nobody]

does the whole acupuncture thing hurt?

[reverendflash]

Similar to my knee, and why I decided to give him a try. I am still amazed how I can have friends over, they can smoke all they want, all I need is a fan going to move the air around...

BTW RR... if you want my guy's #, look up Joseph Chang on Lafayette St. (right above Real Guitars) in the phone book. That's him... great guy, reasonable prices too...

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[reverendflash]

28:

not really. You feel it, but it doesn't hurt, so to speak. It isn't painful, you don't walk away sore at all, actually revived with a bit of a rush...

It's very hard to explain, but pain is not even close (I don't like needles at all).

There is heat lamps to keep you warm, he talks to you, explaining what he is doing, asking questions... It's kinda relaxing and refreshing at the same time...

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[nobody]

hrmm... i dont mind needles.. but idk.. it sounds kinda scary.. and im not old and feeble yet, so i dont need to worry about it for a while

[RelandR]

Thx Rev - sounds like a good one o those =)

[RelandR]

XXLavaBoi8::
dem teeeeny lil needles are not near as scary as your identity crisis ;) [j/k]

[nobody]

lol were likin in the name.. and we dont have an identity crisis..
do you like needles?
no
good me either.
See, we don't have a problem

[RelandR]

:whistle: good...you guys had me goin' there fer a minute !

[nobody]

were sorry

[RelandR]

You boys shouldn't scare me like that ... I am fold and eeble :bad:
...but as long as you're both reeeealy sorrrry... guess it'll be ok :sure:

[nobody]

were really really REALLY sorry

[RelandR]

:love: ... oKay...

[nobody]

:love:+infinamillion

[Daveman]

I smoke too much.

Always said if i could do it all over again, only thing i wouldn't do is smoke (said in my best yul brinner s/P?? voice)

cough cough splurt, ahem.....................

Dave

[RelandR]

lavaT8::
:smirk: Awwwwwwww ***warmNfuzziness*** in bountitudes =)

**************************

My sentiments exactly DaveMan

[upuaut]

I smoke.. too much.. but then again, one a day is too much.

I'm at about a pack a day, but I only smoke half a cig and then put it out... so I suppose it's more like a half a pack a day.. or a third if you consider than the most harmful part to smoke is the last inch of the cig.

can't afford it? I know it's bad.. I shouldn't turn people on to cheaper ways of killing themselves.. but recently I came across a good deal and it's worth it to every smoker out there to listen up. Find a smoke shop in your area, go in and ask them to see a good cig rolling machine and the supplies. You wont be disapointed. I'm now paying 5 cents a cig. (yes they have filters. The toobs come preassembled with a filter attached. The machine just pushing the tobacco into the toob) The deal is that loose tobaco is not taxed by the state, and the toobs are not taxed at all being a paper product. The majority of the cost of tax on cigs is state tax.
Personaly I like the fresh cigs better. It takes a few minutes to roll up a pack, but you can do it while watching tv or listening to music. The fresh cigs are so much nicer than the prepackaged ones.. you'll never go back.
Anyway.. total cost for the machine, a carton of toobs and a carton of tobacco is less than a carton of prepackaged cigs.. so the first purchace you're actually saving money. From then on it's about 5 cents a cig. I've saved about 700 dollars in the last couple months of doing this.

[upuaut]

oh.. and someone asked about "clover" cigs. By me they're called "clove" cigs. Very bad for you, but tasty. They are made with ground clove mixed in with the tobacco.

[upuaut]

Thomas Jefferson once said.. "A life without tobacco is not worth living at all."

granted they didn't know back then all the health problems associated.. but I always thought it was an interesting quote.

[RelandR]

An ironically cool twist to that info would be that if one did Not *pre-roll* more than one or three of em at a time.... Perhaps the extra thought and effort put into getting the next smoke may trim the habbit down to a real low roar and ultimately into dropping the habbit alltogether (???)

[vts31]

haha

[upuaut]

RelandR. I do have a friend who has recently quit using that method. You do need just as much will power to go that way as any other though. I, personaly roll them one at a time while I'm at home. Not only are they more fresh, but exactly for that reason... I know when I want a cig, it'll take me a minute rather than having it instantaniously. Often I'll just end up not smoking for a while.

[[Legoman]]

I've never used a machine, I prefer to hand roll 'em. I like the taste of a rolly much better than a pack of cigs, and far cheaper too. I don't use filters as much as I should though.

plus it's therapeutic to roll.

[Starpromo]

i dont hate smokers... i just hate smoke...

[Starpromo]

although pot does have a more apealling sweeter smell :player:

[Guig0]

I smoke occasionally!


and i hate smoker haters :bad:

[lava]

Originally posted by RelandR

It was explained to me once that our nerves can kink/twist blocking and/or diverting the flow of energy pulses to the brain which cause a short circuiting effect of sorts wherein we experience sensations of pain and that precise placement of the needles would cause our bodies to (microscopically) *nudge* them back into proper alignment in a reflexual manner.


Dude, there's no way that's possible... "microscopically" But have you ever heard of myotherapy? That works wonders for me. I used to run cross country in HS, and I would usually be very sore the day after. With myotherapy, you press into a certain spot in your muscles, and it releases the lactic acid in there... It's awesome. I've done it on other people too.. and they feel completely num afterwards.. completely relaxed, etc.

I think acupunture might work in the same manner.

[GARRETTDESIGN]

I went w/ the last, but best choice. Although, I do smoke black and milds when I'm intoxicated. cig. smoke is the most disgusting smell. (no offense)

[lava]

ah.. I miss black and milds... although I used to use their wrapper for something else.. haha.

[T-O]

I smoke joints dose that count?

[GARRETTDESIGN]

Originally posted by lavaboy
ah.. I miss black and milds... although I used to use their wrapper for something else.. haha.


lol, your not alone there. Though now I just roll my own blunts. Blacks are too much hassle.

[pinx]

Originally posted by T-O
I smoke joints dose that count?

well 420 and easter fall on the same day this year....

[vts31]

420 woo wooo. i smoke pot but only at social gatherings, never bymyself. i dont even own any weed. haha

[reverendflash]

Oh, you are one of those...

in a circle, Edwin is #2, #5, #7...

j/k

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[pinx]

same here. only at parties. i think it would be depressing to smoke pot alone. wouldn't have anyone to laugh at.

[lava]

oh man, I was high once, and I was microwaving a burrito.. it was the longest 2 minutes of my life!

[B-Dawg]

I HATE SMOKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vts31]

Originally posted by lavaboy
oh man, I was high once, and I was microwaving a burrito.. it was the longest 2 minutes of my life!
hhahha new thread time!

[pinx]

i got high with a friend of mine and we kept looking at this simpsons poster with the whole town of springfield and just laughing at it. and we tried to race each other at finding certain characters, all while laughing hysterically.

[GARRETTDESIGN]

hahhah. The OLNY thing I hate about herbs is short term memory loss. I hate that. escpecially when I'm high, I hate when I forget what I was just talking about. And the harder I think about what it was......the further it slips away. Where to, I do not know:(

[lava]

YES! I've done that too!!!

[GARRETTDESIGN]

hahaha. I love when I get something REALLY good to eat. Its the best food EVER. Each time too. lol

[vts31]

post in the new thread