Smoker of Cigarettes or Non Smoker ?

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After many years of smoking, I have been smoke-free for 10 months. As a previous post said, ever since I started using an e-cigarette, I haven't had a single craving for tobacco, and I have never looked back.

Only alcohol can numb my senses enough to make smoking work for me. Otherwise, cigarette smoke can be instant overload. Sort of like the olfactory equivalent of running into a brick wall.

Given that the entire rest of my family except my nephew smokes, I think I somehow got lucky in that regard. I hope you can successfully quit, Chloe33.

I smoke menthol cigs, about 10 a day. I have done since 16 and am at the point, yet again, of wanting to quit.

I've tried to stop before and have managed to go without smoking for weeks & months with no physical cravings after the first couple of days, but the mental addiction is severe. And I've found there is no way I can have just one - after smoking one cig I'm as addicted as ever.

I've heard a lot of good things about the e-cigs so it might be worth a try for me. I like the sound of the flavoured juices you can get for them as well.

I have never smoked cigarretes and I never want to.

Never smoked and never wanted to, not even curious, the smell is enough to put me off never mind what it'll do to my lungs. It's one of those peer pressure things I just don't get.

When people smoke around me it makes my eyes water. This was worse when I was a taxi driver. The back seat customers lit up even though I told them there was no smoking. When they did my eyes would instantly get red and I'd have to stop driving the rest of the shift.

I don't smoke or use tobacco products, but I'm sure I get enough secondhand smoke to make up for the fact...

I smoke cigars and pipes every once in while.

I do not smoke

I smoke rather off and on, sometimes I will go a month hardly smoking any cigarettes...then sometimes its hard to get through a week without them. So the amount I smoke varies, also if I drink I end up smoking more which doesn't end up sitting so well.

I don't smoke at all.

I'll be the dissident here and say that not only am I a tobacco user, but I like being a tobacco user. I started very young, at 13, when I was taken off of Ritalin. When this happened, I lost all ability to concentrate. Nobody could stand to be around me, and I was failing at everything.

It has now been proven that nicotine has some very interesting properties. For me it helps with depression, concentration, and stabilizing my moods. A little research indicates nicotine has shown efficacy in treating profound autism and SIB's.

As far as tobacco being an "addiction", I don't find it that hard to quit, though I do miss it some when I'd done so. The fact is that I can't function without nicotine or something like it, and I have a very responsible job, as well as other obligations.

I would add that while I do smoke one cigarette every day--when I wake up--I normally use nasal snuff. Though it is politically incorrect to say, the scientists have been able to find little harmful in tobacco products unless they are smoked. Swedish snus is only the most prominent example.

To my detractors I would cite Mencken's quote: A puritan is one who is paralyzed with the fear that somebody somewhere might be enjoying themselves. I will do what is best for me regardless of whether anti-tobacco zealots approve or not.