How many Skydivers smoke? (legal tobacco products)

[Praetorian 1]

this is an all or nothing either you do or you don't if this is interiesting to someone else they can ask how many quit/started or other questions

Good Judgment comes from experience...a lot of experience comes from bad
judgment.

[ernokaikkonen 0]

I quit six months ago. Again. Thus, at the moment I voted "No".

[Ian84 0]

Had a part time teacher who was a student at the medical school in Grenada. She brought us on a field trip to the anatomy lab when I was 9. It was great......one of the professors/doctors went over to two of the bodies and took out the lungs. One was pink.......the other was grey and nasty like in the anti smoking ads........that put me off for life. Ive never had a drag.

[SkydivingNurse 0]

I have every reason in the world not to smoke; I'm a nurse, my grandpap has severe emphysema, they are expensive as hell, but I haven't been able to quit yet. I'd like about five minutes alone with that tobacco exec who said that nicotine wasn't addictive.

[Blahr 0]

I dont "somke"
Dont smoke either.

[fudd 0]

Not anymore.
I quit because I hated the fact that I had to have one.
Just feels good to be free

There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[bobsled92 0]

I quit a yar ago. I can stand the taste even though I smoked 2 packs a day and loved it.
I don't mind the smell at all.

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[2fat2fly 0]

I smoke, but this early in the morning I'm still coughing too hard to vote....I'll come back later.

I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried

[lemonjelly 0]

Yep, I confess.
I gave up for a month an d found it quite easy using the nicorette 'cigarette' type thing. But I lost it and immediately went into a newsagents and bought 20 fags!!

I do a lot of scuba and it's amazing the number of people at divecentres who smoke
anyway, what's the worst that could possibly happen....

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[vt1977 0]

Nope – I don’t smoke and never have. Why? Because it’s a filthy, disgusting anti-social habit!

Vicki

[cop 0]

Where is #3 ;"Last week I did not smoke, today I'm smoking and tomorrow I smoke pipe... until I quit again..."

But yes, I smoke, started again yesterday (need to buy more snuff)

"You can call me Mike"

[weegegirl 2]

quit 3 yrs ago... best thing i've ever done!

[JRock 0]

Quit 2 1/2 years ago...

[fudd 0]

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Yep, I confess.
I gave up for a month an d found it quite easy using the nicorette 'cigarette' type thing. But I lost it and immediately went into a newsagents and bought 20 fags!!

Use nicotine to cure a nicotine addiction. Thats logical.
Well, probably better than using antidepressant drugs. (Zyban).

All I can say is try again. Practise makes perfect.

There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[Casie 0]

Nope, nada, no.....don't do it (smoking that is) YUCK! Hate the smell of smoke!

Congrats to all of you who have quit

~Porn Kitty
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[EricaH 0]

I quit 3 weeks ago, again... so for now, the vote is "No".
Might have to get back w/ you in the middle of season though (hope not)

There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear.

PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

[winsor 236]

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this is an all or nothing either you do or you don't if this is interiesting to someone else they can ask how many quit/started or other questions

My last cigarette was on 25 May 1990.

Nicotine is a tougher addiction to kick than narcotics (uh, according to something I read somewhere).

Alcohol, barbiturates and some tranq's are the worst addictions to kick in the sense that cold-turkey withdrawal can prove fatal.


Blue skies,

Winsor

[DShiznit 0]

I dipped for 9 yrs, then started smoking to quit dipping. I did that for a few years, then all of the sudden just quit one day (didn't work out to well with asthma) and started dipping again. One day I just realized that I didn't want to anymore and I have been tobacco free since October 21, 2003.

Now I cannot even stand the smell of smoke. Makes me want to puke.

I have gained a few pounds in the process, though.

[lazyfrog 0]

I smoke

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[Slappie 9]

This is a pretty touchy subject with me when it comes to "Smoke Nazis" I'm a smoker. Have been since I was 17. Was a mistake I made along time ago. I've tried to quit before. Was unsuccessful. It's an addiction you non-smokers have no concept of. I feel there are many smokers like myself who really get irked with the nazis when they get on their soapbox preaching how vile and distgusting it is. We all know it's a bad habit. The person smoking is normally not disgusting nor vile or evil. It's an ADDICTION! Smokers (most anyways) don't lite up because we want to kill you or infect your air space with our smoke. It is a need we have. You would rather me smoke sometimes then not. I can be a real bear when I'm in withdrawls from nicotien.

It's a choice we all made. Granted it wasn't a very smart one but we live with it. So please think about it before you crawl up on your box and preach to us about what a nasty habit it is.. We already know..

I will quit one day. so until then don't judge me nor my character by an addiction I have.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[nbblood 0]

I quit, but quitting is easy. I did it thousands of times.
Nathan

Blues,
Nathan

If you wait 'til the last minute, it'll only take a minute.

[kitof1976 0]

I quit somking when I started to skydive about a year ago. I thought that skydiving was so cool that I would want to do it for a long time. So when I imagined myself at 65 with emphysema and strolling around 40 lbs bottle of oxigen I thought It would be kind of bitch to be juming with that bottle ... So I quit and I am damn glad I did. I now have even more money for jump tickets!

"We see the world just the way we are...

[stuffit 0]

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I have every reason in the world not to smoke; I'm a nurse, my grandpap has severe emphysema, they are expensive as hell, but I haven't been able to quit yet. I'd like about five minutes alone with that tobacco exec who said that nicotine wasn't addictive.

Dont mean to sound rude but please dont blame it on anyone else. It is no ones fault but your own.

[GARYC24 3]

Most "non-smokers" are basically ex-smokers.
And anyone telling ex-smokers that they cannot quit is like a alcholic telling a AA member that they cannot quit.
Everyone can quit. All will not quit.
I work with a guy that enjoys smoking, he says he will never quit, and he will be one of those people blowing smoke through a hole in his throat, just like that lady in a TV commercial. Now, with that, not much to say..
But when someone tells me they are addicted and cannot stop, but wish they could,,well I don't buy it.
Just say, you don't want to stop..

[stuffit 0]

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This is a pretty touchy subject with me when it comes to "Smoke Nazis" I'm a smoker. Have been since I was 17. Was a mistake I made along time ago. I've tried to quit before. Was unsuccessful. It's an addiction you non-smokers have no concept of. I feel there are many smokers like myself who really get irked with the nazis when they get on their soapbox preaching how vile and distgusting it is. We all know it's a bad habit. The person smoking is normally not disgusting nor vile or evil. It's an ADDICTION! Smokers (most anyways) don't lite up because we want to kill you or infect your air space with our smoke. It is a need we have. You would rather me smoke sometimes then not. I can be a real bear when I'm in withdrawls from nicotien.

It's a choice we all made. Granted it wasn't a very smart one but we live with it. So please think about it before you crawl up on your box and preach to us about what a nasty habit it is.. We already know..

I will quit one day. so until then don't judge me nor my character by an addiction I have.

I am sorry, but that is bullshit. Just like the previous response, anyone can quit. And yes, it is disgusting and yes it does offend me and many other people when you infect my airspace. Just as you made the concious choice to start, you can make the concious choice to quit.

Please dont write it off as an addiction. Just say that you are a weak willed person and you would like to change that by quitting. I have thought about people that smoke and how hard it must be to quit but think about it this way: What is harder:

1. Smiling at your children when they watch you die in the hospital because you did not want to give it up,or

2. Actually giving it up.

My father smoked for thirty years and then gave it up when I was born because he knew the effects on me and my mother so please dont say that you have been at it so long that you cannot stop.