Legal Bill

1981. Stopped drinking, smoking and went on a diet all at the same time. Started drinking again a week later. Went of the diet a week after that. Getting back the first two felt so good, I didn't miss smoking so much...unless I was having a beer...after cheeseburgers, or pizzas...while in a bar where everyone else was smoking.

But now I think the smell is awful.

tomcatt

I've never smoked anything, never did drugs. My parents tell me as a toddler I would eat the butts from ashtrays under my crib but I deny any and all references to that.

Personally I have a real problem being around cigarette smoke, as I have an allergic reaction to it. Running the gauntlet of smokers clustered around the building entrance is a challenge for me. I have no problem with people smoking, just the fact that it impacts me and people just don't seem to care.

Golden Eagle

1969 Just after I met my wife. She did not smoke so I decided it would be more pleasent for her if I wasn't smoking.

Jay

$$Hungry

Quit cold turkey in 1990 after smoking 1-2 packs a day for 10 years. Coming back from a golf tournament (smoked like a chimney the whole trip) and found myself rolling the window down and throwing my lighter and Marlboros out the window. To this day I don't know what triggered it! Haven't smoked a cig since but enjoy a cigar a couple times a month over a bourbon while spending quality time with my father-in-law.

I, like most reformed smokers, don't have patience w/ smokers. I'm not rude but I don't hesitate getting away from it or giving someone a constructive hard time for smoking. Especially young people.

Here's a thought for a new thread: How do vintage people feel about trends in body piercing and tatoos? Personally I don't understand it!

MOTU

Smoked for three months in grade 9, 1971. It was the cool thing to do then, as I'm sure it is now.

I got $5 a week allowance, and a pack of cigarettes was .85c, the math just didn't work for me.

We won't talk about that little time in my life. Thank god that didn't last too long either.

ralper

[QUOTE]Originally posted by $$Hungry
Here's a thought for a new thread: How do vintage people feel about trends in body piercing and tatoos?

Zippy

1985 after 12 years

Whaler

Mid March 2001. . . . I was lying on a guerney in an emergency room having a heart attack. My wife enters the room, looks me straight in the eye, and informs me that if she ever sees me smoking again that I will be singing soprano.

35 pak years

S2KRAY

Off and on in the Navy, then quit. (1966)

cdelena

August 1989.

After 20+ years of very heavy smoking and at least 50 failed tries to stop.