I was an Olympic-level smoker and quit (for the fourth) 25 years ago using Chantix. Never thought about smoking again. Until a few years ago. I started having occasional dreams about buying cigarettes or having cigarettes, thinking about smoking, but never quite doing it on the dreams.

I don't miss it or think about it otherwise.

Ah yes, if smoking wasn’t bad for you, I’d probably still be doing it. Quit 15 years ago.

I’m 49 and don’t remember my dad ever smoking, but for years he would have one on his birthday (not sure if he still does). DH would be right back at it if he ever tried to do that.

I hate the smell of cigarettes...until I have a couple of glasses of wine. I quit over 14 years ago, but my husband has a friend who is a social smoker and I will admit, when we go out with him I have one. I regret it the next day, but love it in the moment. I never have a desire to go back though.

Funny story - I have never, and will never smoke.

But my parents have always smoked, my schoolmates smoked, and people were allowed to smoke in the corridors of my university in Europe.

You know what I miss doing, even though I never actually did it? The gesture: the drag on the cigarette, the swoop of the arm, the casual finger flip to drop the ash. And even though I find cigarette smoke stinky and gross, sometimes when someone walks by with a cigarette, I inhale the smoke and sigh with satisfaction.

Weird.

I absolutely hate when I get a rental car or a hotel room that someone has smoked in. I wish smoking would disappear forever but I think vaping is just taking it's place.

I guess this thread is harmless..but would they have one for alcoholics or drug addicts who miss their drug of choice?

I mean cigarettes are addictive and kill more people than narcotics every year. By far...so this thread sort of rubs me the wrong way.

I don’t really miss the cigs. I would never start smoking again because I never wanted to endure the quitting process. It is hard. Every once in awhile, I have a dream and I happen to be smoking in it. When I wake up, I am SO thankful it was a dream.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t miss cigarettes. But I do miss the easy casual connection with others; close friend or otherwise. There was nothing better than coffee and cigarettes or coffee and cocktails late in the night. Even when we had to start going outside to enjoy.

I don’t miss bars that smell like ashtrays/farts. Or having stinky smoky hair and clothes after a night out. I do miss that last cigarette before bed.

God we were stinky.

I came to say that I also miss chatting over drinks and some cigs. That was so fun. I don’t miss how I would feel the next morning.
I’d be so much thinner if I still smoked…sigh.

Anonymous wrote:Full disclosure - I'll never smoke again. I stopped over 25 years ago, and watched many family members die from nicotine related illnesses. That said - every holiday season I kind of miss them. They were part of my adolescence and childhood and early adulthood. I'd love to have a puff with a cocktail every now and then but wouldn't dare. Not worth it - but loved every drag I ever took. Anybody else?

Nope. How weird.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve never smoked but I’m sad I missed the days where it was acceptable and cool and no one fully knew how bad it was for you.

Yes watch any black + white movie from the 40’s/50’s and you will see how glamorous and sophisticated women appeared once they lit a cigarette 🚬….

They even had long, elegant cases to carry them in and it was so sexy how they would just light one up.

Then later when it was confirmed that cigarettes were cancer causing poison sticks > many people were too far addicted to actually stop.

We lost so many people to smoking issues - Walt Disney, Nat King Cole, Lana Turner, etc.
The list goes on…

I don’t miss cigarettes. But I do miss the easy casual connection with others; close friend or otherwise. There was nothing better than coffee and cigarettes or coffee and cocktails late in the night. Even when we had to start going outside to enjoy.

I don’t miss bars that smell like ashtrays/farts. Or having stinky smoky hair and clothes after a night out. I do miss that last cigarette before bed.

God we were stinky.

I’ve never smoked but I’m sad I missed the days where it was acceptable and cool and no one fully knew how bad it was for you.

My loved one said giving up smoking is like having a best friend die and you miss them every day. Put into perspective for me how strong the nicotine pull is.

Full disclosure - I'll never smoke again. I stopped over 25 years ago, and watched many family members die from nicotine related illnesses. That said - every holiday season I kind of miss them. They were part of my adolescence and childhood and early adulthood. I'd love to have a puff with a cocktail every now and then but wouldn't dare. Not worth it - but loved every drag I ever took. Anybody else?