Share and enjoy the pleasures of smoking cigarettes

Five days into it, and finishing my first pack. Had a nice breakthrough last night. After dinner I went out on my deck, perfect crisp autumn night, stars everywhere here in colorado. Had a nice smoke, beginning to get the knack of a good inhale after drawing in the smoke. Felt great! Did not understand the pleasing sensation smokers have always talked about until last night. First few days having trouble to really inhale the smoke, but last night could feel it course through my lungs and body. Kind of like hitting a good wave when body surfing and riding it all the way to shore. Ready to find the sensation again!

Had my 50th birthday last month. I like the February 22nd entry from inhibitedsmoke. Most of my life I’ve run 50+ miles per week, but have long been curious about cigarettes and what is the appeal. Have gradually been trying Marlboro reds, and enjoying them. Takes the edge of some mild bouts of depression I occasionally suffer, calming, soothing, and I now understand some of the appeal. In just a few weeks I’ve gone from being one of the vehement anti-smoking crowd to a new supporter of the habit and anybody who enjoys it.

recent news article about lily enjoying her cigarettes at the risk of a fine!

more at http://www.celebrityhealthfitness.com/?p=547

not sure if anyone else has come across this, but i started work in an office about 10 months ago and they have just bought a new office that used to be a bar that had these amazing extraction units for smoking zones. well, i made a suggestion that since nearly all of us smoke in the office that we use the extraction units and continue to work and smoke instead of taking cigarette breaks. the management thought it was a great idea and we are now allowed to smoking at our desks!

the extraction units are amazing, you can see the smoke disappear up into the vents almost instantly. The non smokers, 2 out of 15 of us, said that they were really surprised at how good the system worked and can smell no smoke in their workspace whatsoever.

So an interesting thing came up in conversation the other day, about how the flavour and taste of your smoke can be altered by taking in other complimentary tastes at the same time.
I’ve some experience of this with occasionally sucking a mint or chewing gum whilst having a smoke. Other folk have mentioned that a cigarette goes well with coffee.
So I was wondering what (if any) other people’s experiences with this phenomena are, are certain brands better with a coffee for example.
Another interesting thing I came across was the idea that if you chill or freeze your cigarettes and smoke them whilst chilled you can get a smoother taste – I haven’t tried this out yet so it could be rubbish but I think I may give it a go.

i’ve just been trying some new cigarettes – dunhill’s essence super slims:

i’ve tried both gold and red. gold are lighter and red are a really nice full flavoured cigarette. i really like the taste of both, more so the reds in the morning and golds when i’m out and with friends. i really love how they are super slim and the filters are so different looking than any other cigarette. i think the word essence says heaps about them; dunhill have really captured a great smoke, very sensual and calming at the same time. the pack is such a great size which fits into any pocket.

Suzy Dean talks about why she enjoys smoking and won’t be quitting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8210551.stm

When I was in high school, I was fascinated by smokers. They looked like they were really enjoying their cigarettes. I longed to be one of them. I was secretly attracted to women who smoked. I wanted to try it but I was afraid of what people would say. Sometimes I would smoke in secret but I really longed to join in with other smokers and smoke in public. I just couldn’t make that leap. So instead I became an outspoken anti smoker. This had two purposes. The first was to deny my true feelings and the second was that it pretty much insured that I would never smoke because I was afraid to look like a hypocrite. I have also always been into fitness and was afraid to face my family and friends as a smoker. So I never really began smoking although I would have one in secret from time to time. I would have been mortified if anyone knew. However, I always wished that I had the courage to act on my urge to become an unrepentant out in the open smoker.
In my early 20’s, I started dating a woman who was a smoker. She was beautiful. Everyone liked her. People would sometimes comment however that they couldn’t believe that I was dating a smoker because I was so anti-smoking. But because she was so nice and quite attractive people understood my ability to “overlook” her smoking. Surreptitiously I enjoyed that she was a smoker. Eventually we married and have been together for over 20 years.
I confessed to my girlfriend (who eventually became my wife) about my desire to smoke but only at home in front of her. She tried to discourage me. She didn’t want to be blamed for getting me started. But knowing how enjoyable smoking could be, she gave me her support. Once I got started, she was into the idea of me being a smoker. After a while, smoking became a habit that I practiced only at home or when I was out of town and nobody I knew would see me. This went on for 2 decades. We never had children so smoking in front of kids was not a problem. However, I was never able to fully enjoy smoking because my fear of being seen in public by someone I know was unbearable. I envied people who had the courage to smoke in front for their friends and family. My wife and I would go out and she would be smoking. I did smoke in public from time to time but on occasion I was almost caught. So although I enjoyed smoking, my anxiety over being found out pretty much kept me smoking at home only. Eventually I quit altogether. The pleasure of smoking no longer outweighed the anxiety over being caught caused me. That was about 5 years ago. Shortly after, my wife quit also. So now we were both nonsmokers.
About a year ago, my wife started again. I didn’t complain or nag. I figured she would quit again. She hasn’t. About 2 months ago, I started smoking again. I smoked for a few days and then stopped. I was starting to enjoy it but I didn’t want to go through anxiety of having to hide it from my friends and family again. About a week ago, all I could think about was smoking a cigarette. The urge was so strong that I stopped at a drug store in my neighborhood bought a pack, and smoked one right in front of the store. It was very enjoyable. I went home and told my wife that I was smoking again. She rolled her eyes and said “that’s nice”. She figured that I would smoke the pack and that would be it. It had been years since I had smoked and I was really enjoying this pack of cigarettes. Finally I decided, I said to myself “I don’t care about my family and friends, I am going to smoke in front of everyone.” “I LIKE SMOKING AND I AM GOING TO SMOKE!”
The next day I went to my mom and sister’s house. I brought a pack of cigarettes with me. I told them “I want you to know I am smoking.” “I have been smoking on and off for years and am tired of keeping it a secret.” “I just started again and don’t want to have to sneak.” I was nervous. I felt like I was seventeen years old again but I didn’t loose my nerve. When I was young, I used to criticize my mom and sister for smoking. I expected them to call me a hypocrite and tease me for all of the crap I gave them over the past. When I finished speaking, I took out a cigarette and lit up right in front of them. I didn’t care what they thought or said. A weight was lifted off of my shoulders. That cigarette was one of the best I have ever had. They were both very surprised. They had no idea that I had ever smoked. We talked about it for a while and I smoked another cigarette. I gave them the whole back story. They were kind of shocked but I felt very comfortable smoking in front of them and talking about it. I was back over there today. I no longer have any anxiety. I smoked in front of them again. They have no problem with it. Smokers understand the lure of smoking. They said that it will take time to get used to me smoking but they understand why I want to. It was the best thing I have ever done. I wish I had come out long ago. My wife feels a little guilty about me smoking again but she is glad that I am out in the open. Today I bought a carton of cigarettes. I will enjoy them finally the way I have always wanted to. I have no regrets.

Found this information:

Exercise

Perhaps the best thing that you can do is to exercise regularly. Since smoking is something that is concentrated on the lungs, that is the place that you need to exercise the most. Doctors recommend that by doing aerobic exercises at least twice a week is one of the best things that we can do for ourselves. Its also been concluded that subjects that did 3 ten minute aerobic exercise sessions a day had the same benefit as those who just did one 30 minute session. So, it’s not hard to add a little here, and a little there. Consider taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or walking to a place that isn’t too far and you’d normally drive. Take a walk at lunch, breakfast or after dinner. Sex too is a form of exercise, and who couldn’t stand to add a couple extra sessions a week? (of course, that is if it is something that you regularly do).

I think that a good rule of thumb is to aerobically excursive the number of minutes weekly that you spend smoking in two or three days. The goal is to raise your heart to 80% of its maximum, and keep it there for at least a few minutes. The number of minutes that you do this is cumulative, so it doesn’t matter if you do it for three or thirty minutes.

Keeping active will keep you ahead of the destructive curve that smoking throws at you. As smoking tears down tissue, you’ll be building it up again in exercise. Also, smoking tends to speed up the metabolism, so with additional exercise, you may even loose weight!

Starting Late

If you’re someone who has been smoking for a while and doesn’t exercise, its never too late. You get too winded you say? Nonsense! Just start off slow, adding a few extra minutes (or seconds) to something that you normally wouldn’t do. After a while, it’ll feel fine to you and you can add more. Just remember, raise your heart rate a bit and keep it there for a few minutes, that’s the goal.

Started Smoking Later

If you’re someone who started smoking later in life, it’s important that maintain whatever lifestyle you had before, and add to it aerobic exercise. Remember the rule of thumb: add as many minutes of aerobic exercise weekly as you’d spend smoking in two or three days. If each cigarette lasts five minutes and you’d smoke a pack in two days, then 100 minutes (which sounds like a lot) of aerobic exercise a week should keep you at or above the aerobic level of where you were when you started smoking. That’s only fourteen extra minutes a day. A couple of walks is all it would take, or a half-hour every other day.

Younger Smoker

If you’re someone who is young and smokes, it’s important to stay active, and become more active as a smoker. It really doesn’t take much to stay fit. I stop by my gym almost everyday and put in about 30-45 minutes of aerobic exercise. I heard someone say that you can develop a habit by doing the action every day for 30 days. After that, it’s a habit. You’ve made smoking your habit, and now its time to make exercise your habit. I know many other women who walk out of the health club and light up. Just because you smoke, doesn’t mean that you don’t exercise.

well i started when i was 13 and i was at crawfish festival witch is like a fair down here in biloxi mississippi and i was smoking but once we got to the car this girl named tiffany said i wasnt inhaling i was like ya i am and she was right i wasnt i had been just sucking in my mouth and blowing it out so i did inhale for the first time and coughed a little and she made me give her my cigarettes i was like F**K!!! and then the next mourning i was at my cousin blakelees and stole a cigarette and went to the bathroom and was inhaling and smoked the full thing and omg!! it felt not good i was spinning light headed and didnt like it at all felt sick so i did this for a couple of days just smokign one and then moved to 2 a day and wasnt feeling light headed as much and then i smoekd the whole next school year and then the summer after that i was an expert it ahd been about 4 months and i was enjoying it me and my friend was sitting in his room for 5 or 6 days at a time not leaving smoking and having a blast i was using coke cans as ashtrays and it was awesome and then i found my favorite brand CAMEL FROST© and started smoking them and it was incredible and now im 15 it has been 2 years since i frist inhaled and i have had account on here ebfore called ars0n1st but were suspended so please tell me ur exeprience with smoking and for all the girls here is wha ti look like