OT - do you smoke?

no, never have.

Never cigarettes. An occasional cigar maybe one very four years.

Didn’t ever inhale.

Smoked 2-3 packs of Marlboro a day for about 10 years. 😱😱😱

Stopped cold turkey in my mid 30’s. One if the hardest things I’ve ever done. And one of the best. So far I’ve been lucky. {knock on wood, really really hard}

2 pack a day smoker for 10 years...from 17 to 27 years old.

Finally quit for good in 1983.

Never. Tried cigarettes in my youth a few times. Tried pot once or twice.

never cigs(tried twice, stopped after the first 1/2 puff), rarely pipe or cigar

I smoked 2 packs a day of Marlboros from late teens to early twenties. Would you believe 14 cents a pack in Vietnam plus little packs of 4 cigarettes in each c-ration meal. Back in the world, my last Navy boss was a Naval Academy quarterback - though his bad luck was being in the same class with Roger Staubach so he spent most of his time on the bench. One day he said to me "those things are going to kill you." I admitted he was right and quit then and there at age 23 or 24. Time passed. about 8 years later I was selling emergency medical radio systems and was sitting in a hotel bar with a consultant who was writing specifications for a statewide system I wanted to bid on. He was smoking and I bummed a couple of his cigarettes. I went to the cigarette machine in the lobby, bought a pack, and was back smoking 2 packs a day again the next day as if I'd never quit.

A year later I woke up around dawn one morning, coughing and reaching for a cigarette. I thought that was nuts. I flushed my remaining cigarettes down the toilet and quit cold turkey. I got through it by thinking every time I wanted a cigarette that I would have suffered for nothing for n hours, days, weeks, etc. if I started again. Eventually the tickle in the back of the throat went away, and eventually the smell of cigarette smoke became really annoying.

As for the other stuff I'd smoke occasionally - mostly when we were passing it around at dinner parties, etc. - though I preferred brownies. And if anyone here was in the northeast and remembers the Blizzard of '78, I can tell a story about my friends and landlords downstairs who made really great "snowstorm chicken" with a warning to go easy on the stuffing. But I quit that stuff too back in the 80s when I was working full time and doing a couple of evening grad courses. It just made meaningful concentration needlessly hard.

Yes/No....I chip...last time was...well last time...cant do one with out the other...not good not good but I'm such a tough old bird...years...like 50+ of hard hard core cardio of which I still partake have given me a tremendous heart/lung machine..yes...yes of course of course I roll with your eyes...but again there it is...for a guy closer to 77.than 76..even with all that I swear I kick butt in the ocean and at the gym...what ever the age...fricken fracken freak of nature....funny how the duo of "prove it " and " believe it or not " are the yin/yang..,yea/nay..to be or not to be and all that jazz...Oh jonny...I hardly knew ya...pops...pops...tares of tears...weighing naught but 21grams...tip the scale ye cheater of ought...thieves to the left...thieves to the right...sophie's choice ...lo..lo...turn...turn...be not bereft...its all a gif..

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I just wondered Prat. I was thinking about cancer.

Vince your smoking story reminds me when I was in boot camp doing KP..,I was assigned duties in the deep sink...this is where one washes the humongous pots and pans that require a very deep sink to wash in...the job was known to be the worse of all the duties...the were huge and just kept on coming...to the point that it was an unwritten rule that one would only be assigned it once...yikes I did such a good job on it...the head commissary guy requested me and got me the next day...Im still not sure I either knew or learned the lesson on that one

it's possible I could slip on the ice and bust my skull open tomorrow in Yosemite during the first snowstorm of the year.