Im thinking that in general, smoking and vw's dont go hand in hand. Thinking that most are non smokers. None of my closer VW friends dont at least. If you were a smoker but have given up... that would be a non smoker.
Errr talking tobacco here OK.
Stealth ·
I like nothing more than to light up a nice Cuban or Dominican cigar after or during a great VW Show.
vern74 ·
Have been a "non smoker" for 13 months
Ohhhhh how I enjoyed it
But being a part time bar worker I appreciate the new laws to make em smoke outside.
Its all against the smokers now
Starbug ·
the only time i smoke tobacco is 1)when i run out of petrol in the middle of brisbane city, during peak-hour, on the thursday before a 4 day long weekend, 2)when i have a final exam which i havent studied for and im nervous as all hell because i need to pass the subject, 3)when i really really really feel like having a sampoerna (indonesian clove cigarette) or 4) if someone has stupidly spun the weed with tobacco. the first one happened once, the 2nd and 3rd dont happen more than once or twice a year, and the 4th one stopped happening after i got shirty about it...
most of my friends are smokers, i just dont get it. then again, i ride between 10 and 20kms a day so smoking tends to work against that, im sure if they had to ride a bicycle everywhere they wouldnt smoke either.
i also get to see the wonderful effects that smoking has on the lungs and bodily tissues every day at my job (emphysema, cancer, yukky black dead lungs....) no wonder i dont smoke.
[Edited on 7/6/2005 by Starbug]
pyr0 ·
i tend not too, well actually i dont but for some reason when i go out 4 a big night on the town i end up having one with someone :duh
akean1 ·
stinky, i hate smelling like stale smoke after being in a bar :vader.
field ·
My oldies cured me quick smart, i got busted by the old man haven a smoke
and instead of smoking it he made me eat it,but and all!:puke I never touched one again. Guess what's going to happen to my kids when they get busted😉
Grey 57 ·
Yeah I'm guilty of being a regular. Tried to give em up over the past few years but no success so far.
They go way too well with these ===>:beer
CoopGirl ·
Well I haven't had a smoke for 6 days now and I am proud of myself. Do I want one.... Bloody oath but I'm not going to. I might have a couple if I am having a few drinks or go out but I am really trying really hard not to be a regular smoker ever again!
VWCOOL ·
I quit just before Xmas after 20 years of puffing (I began when I was 14 or 15) I really used to enjoy a smoke after knocking off, or at lunch, or at breakfast, or with a coffee, or with a beer, or after an exam, or after working on the car, or fighting with the girlfriend or... Now I can't fukken believe I did that dirty stinken habit and was a drug-addicted dickhead, loser smoker...and for so long!
[Edited on 7/6/2005 by VWCOOL]
CB Hotdog ·
I've been "clean" now for about 6 months. Can't believe I've finally managed to do it (give up). Tried numerous times, but always fell for the "I'll just have one".
Really feel like I'm over the hurdle this time around - and I feel great - let alone having all that $$ in my wallet at the end of the week (hang on - there is never any $$ in my wallet because it's all going on the credit cards!!)
:thumb
amazer ·
I can handle the smoke in the air at a club (because I have to), but not when it is drifting directly from a smoke into my face, thats more than a bit rude I reckon. Not to worry every July 1 it gets tougher for smokers, and July 2007 it will be banned indoors anywhere so... looking good. I had a couple of goes as a youth... never did anything for me. Same deal with marijuana.
A friend stole a few ciggies from her parents and we had them down the side of the house. Then bought a packet after a break up with a girl and chain smoked them. Nuffin.
Tried a bong on a camping weekend with mates. All that did was make me feel like I had shoved my head over the fire and inhaled the smoke.
Drinking on the other hand... well from the first night of sneaking in the side door of Wollongong's Harp Hotel and watching the girls doing their thing to the Kirk Davis one man band thing... hooked. Had to order tequila sunrise because that was the only drink I knew the name of. :thumb
helbus ·
I smoke rubber 🙂
Too many of my family have died from lung cancer or emphysema for me to want to take it up. No one in the last three generations but my grandmother has died from old age or an accident! All from smoking!
I hear giving up is all about motivation. Is that true?
bugeyedbabe ·
i dont drink, dont smoke....
but man the sex....yep....that would definately be my addiction....
baybuscamperkid ·
not for me. last job had fun breaks, all but 3 of us smoked, making alot of stale smoke floating around at lunch and morning tea/smoko
PrettyBlueBug ·
I smoked for 5 years, but never was a heavy smoker. I quit 8 years ago by going cold turkey, and haven't had any since. For me it was just a matter of getting out of the habit of get to work: ciggy, ciggy @ morning tea, ciggy or two at lunch, ciggy @ afternoon tea. It didn't help that everyone where I worked at the time smoked too. WhenI stopped buying smokes and bought chocolate bars instead, Ididn't put on weight or anything but I was spending even more than if I'd kept smoking! LOL 😉
Midlife crisis ·
I quit smoking 25 years ago cold turkey best thing I ever did.
Marc
Warrenm ·
Smoked 80-100 a day until 30th October 1981 and had cardiac arrest.
Stopped but 22 years later had to have bypass and that is something you would not wish on anybody.
swish1 ·
stopped 9weeks ago after 30 odd years worked out what i spent on fags a year and now have extra $3,500 to spend on my toys.BUT IT STILL SMELLS GOOD WHEN SOMEBODY LIGHTS UP.
my daughter gave up at the same time [up the duff again]so we worked on the buddy system.
ruckus ·
Yeah I gave up about 3 1/2 years ago. As Akean knows smoking and martial arts training don't mix.
Mad Manx ·
Dirty habit (no offence guys) that is ruining vw headliners all over the country......
Never been tempted altho a few of my mates smoke both types (wacky and regular).... guess its upto the individual.
DOUBLECAB ·
Hallelujah Brothers (& Sisters).... lets have a prayer meeting , hold hands and confess our sins.
:puke:puke:puke:puke:puke:puke
BenettonVW ·
I am one of society's modern-day lepars(sp.?)..
Only 2-3 a day usually though. Just cause I like it, before you ask why bother?
speedster356 ·
Was one, lost someone to it, stopped cold turkey. 8 yrs now.:thumb
Special Air Service ·
I have been known to puff on a cigar on a special occasion just for laughs, but the next morning aftertaste always makes me swear "never again".
Oh yeah and my wife smokes, but only after I've _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Cheers
SAS
zac_smits ·
don't smoke.
am asthamtic and like to keep myself fit anyway.
i've tried a few "herbal" ones though lol
phatrat ·
bugeyedbabe wrote:i dont drink, dont smoke....
but man the sex....yep....that would definately be my addiction....
mmm...sex
koolkarmakombi ·
aaaaaaah herbs
helbus ·
What Fleur and I don't spend on smokes we spend on going world travelling. We are off to Cuba in a couple of months. Mexico on the way.
Boozer ·
tried it ONCE! reasons I don't smoke:
1. had mild asthma as a young kid and just the memory of it coming back or having something similar puts me off.
2. Seen what it has done to both my Grandfathers. One in his late 60's has many health problems and so on, if he quit he would feel better to do exercise and get healthier while saving a shitload of dough. The other is in his late 80's and up untill about 5 years ago was a healthy and as fit as anybody, very active. He quit something like forty-fifty years earlier cold turkey and it has come back to get him in the form of almost total blindness, due to the breakdown/damage to the eyes caused by smoking. Killed his lifestyle completely, I feel so sorry for him.
3. Seen what it's already done to some of my mates.
4. I can't afford it. I'm broke as is. I look at it this way, if I was smoking- I wouldn't have a kombi. I wouldn't of had enough money to buy it.
5. I don't see the point.
Oasis ·
I only smoke when I don't use enough KY:thumb
BLUE_62 ·
Not a fan, hate the smell but then again i am boring,.
Dont drink, smoke, dont go out clubbin.
None of the shit gives me enjoyment,
Hell, i dont even let people eat in my car letalone smoke in it.
Sandy ·
I only smoke after sex, I'm a pack a day man. (Black Adder)🙂
Che Castro ·
Never smoked on any kind of regular basis before and dont intend to. It's a gross habit. Wonder why so few of us smoke regularly?
BiX ·
why is it, when i worked in a super market over 40% of the workers smoked, yet working in an engineering firm, only 3 of the 120 ppl in my office smoke?
have other people found similar differences between different workplaces and occupations?
Mad Manx ·
I've noticed that too Bix, I used to work in a chemist- most of the chics there smoked even tho they are handing out medication to people dying of lung cancer etc........ now I work at a sugar mill in the open air and hardly anyone smokes:o
For a lot of people I think its more for show initally than from an addiction?
Purple Martin ·
Smoking is stupid.
amazer ·
Che Castro wrote:Wonder why so few of us smoke regularly?
I dunno, but this survey definitely confirms my suspicions. When you go to the next show, have a look around and see how many smokers there are. Not many. Thinking about club VW meetings, I can only think of 2 people who are smokers in clubvw.(not that I know a vast number of the members)
mscabrio ·
Never have smoked and never will. I have seen too many people with chronic respiratory disease to turn me right off !
Starbug ·
you would be scared how many people in the medical profession smoke.
doctors, nurses, students... its weird!
im surrounded by the effects that smoking has on the body every day, specimens come in from people with all sorts of nasty cancers and maladies, many of them from smoking.
and you know what? at least HALF the people that work there smoke.
vern74 ·
We have 450 employees and only 50 would be smokers
Its interesting to see the age groups that smoke
21 year olds are our biggest bunch at the moment
Older ones seem to have given up
Younger ones don't seem to be taking it up which is good to see
helbus ·
Young 13-18 y/o girls seem to be chronic smokers
Bizarre ·
Yep - smoking is big in nurses. Especially psychiatric nurses. Stress i assume.
i work in construction - it is still big on the sites. In my office i would say like 5%
Funny - they complain about fibro, pvc and fibreglass :alien
[Edited on 8-6-2005 by Bizarre]
lulu94 ·
well i had smoked on and off from 13 to 18 then became a regular smoker
i gave up when i met my other half ryan because he hated it, this was 18 months ago and i missed it every single day, 2 weeks ago i had a really bad week and i gave in and bought a pack, finished that and things had settles down so i didnt buy another one.
but i tell you this if i wasnt with ryan i would smoke in a heart beat, i went cold turkey 18 months ago, found it was easy enough, but i still wish i was a smoker,
yes people say that smoking kills you blah blah blah, i work in a nursing home and i used to look after a lady in her 100's who was smoking till she was 100 and she only stopped because she forgot about them (dementia), she would be 103 now and still kicking.
i think that smoking may increase the risk of illness but it isnt a sure fire thing.
Well that is my 2 cents, i dont want people to have a go at me now about what i have said as it is just the way i feel and you may feel differently and thats fine by me.
Danielle
eirecooled ·
wheeze .........why are ya asking....cough.........smoke a pack a day i do........
splutter........never done me no harm....flem....cough.........side effects...........
suck back wheeze.........what bloody side effects.......cough..flem..splutter.
gave up when it got to a dollar a packet(tightwad) never looked back😀
barls ·
i only smoke ricers off the line. use to do others as well but im not driving the 2L at the moment so its what i can do what i can with the 1600tp