Tobacco(cigarettes) usage in SF

[Buck]

Originally Posted by armymom1228

I am sufficiently disturbed with both of you... I am beginning to worry about you two. Someone owes me a keyboard and a new cup of cofee.

MMmmmmmm, oh yeah, you two are both 'special'. That says it all.

Heres my sign for proof

[Buck]

Originally Posted by ZonieDiver

Buck - my coffee spewed on my laptop! You are one "sick puppy"! Thanks.

LOL, trust me, I am not anymore sick then I was yesterday. Hope that coffee comes out of the keyboard...lol

Buck

[mojaveman]

Originally Posted by Buck

I wonder......

I'm thinking of quiting sex, cold turkey, can you send me the clock for smokers, we'll see how it works.....lol

My clock could look something like this in the future;

Upside:
I have been sex free for 3 Year, 9 Months, 1 Week, 6 Days, 6 hours, 21 minutes and 21 seconds (1853 days). I have saved $232,286.42 by not having to have paid for 3,065 dinners. I have saved 20 years, 1 Month, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 8 hours and 45 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 3/30/2008 12:00 PM

Downside:
- Unfortunately the horror stories were correct, and I am now blind, and unfortunately my prick did fall off like my mother warned me as a child.
- Where I saved money on the dinners, I spent more on blowup dolls, DVD's and vaseline.

Buck

You're perverted Buck,

But that's ok, we should get along just fine.

[98G]

Originally Posted by Gypsy

Change that hot tea to some hot water, add the Jameson's, lemon and clove. You have a Hot Whiskey. Yum.

As a child, had this with water , regular Jameson's and honey. Working in Ireland (Galway), the locals promptly corrected (trained) me. Add a bit of tea -- it is considered medicinal and switch to Jameson's Gold (known for honey/oak like taste). It was the drink for a cold, rainy evening at the pub on the off Guinness night. And after the 4th or 5th, you truly did not notice the cold and spirits were high.

Buck, you are on your own for your clock but I guess you knew that already ;-)

[Gypsy]

Originally Posted by 98G

As a child, had this with water , regular Jameson's and honey. Working in Ireland (Galway), the locals promptly corrected (trained) me. Add a bit of tea -- it is considered medicinal and switch to Jameson's Gold (known for honey/oak like taste).

I stand corrected, and will promptly employ that method soonest.

[FirstClass]

Originally Posted by Ecclesiastes

Hello all,

I've been learning a lot from this forum the past year and now I want to post a new thread because I really can't find this anywhere..

Are there a lot of smokers(cigarettes) in SF, Delta or in any SOF like Navy SEALs? What would you say the percentage is compared to conventional units? I ask this because I quit smoking three months ago and I need a motivation to stay quit. I was hoping that maybe in SOF, operators are more cigar smokers than cigarette smokers. I'm not against cigarette smokers, I just need something to help me overcome this strong temptation in me right now. Any info will be greatly appreciated! And please tell me if I violated any rules. Thank you.

Im not sure if this will help you, but I smoke possibly 1 cigar a month. Its a leisure activity. I have been doing this for three years now and have never been addicted to them. Perhaps if you can give up the addiction and use a cigar or pipe(pipes are great, btw, most of pipe tobacco is very light and most certainly will not create an unwanted habbit unless used in great excess) as more of a "special occasion" sort of thing. However, im not sure how difficult it would be to quit smoking, then revert back to it only trying to smoke once or a few times a month.

All things in moderation my friend, and know thyself.

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by 98G

As a child, had this with water , regular Jameson's and honey. Working in Ireland (Galway), the locals promptly corrected (trained) me. Add a bit of tea -- it is considered medicinal and switch to Jameson's Gold (known for honey/oak like taste). It was the drink for a cold, rainy evening at the pub on the off Guinness night. And after the 4th or 5th, you truly did not notice the cold and spirits were high.

Buck, you are on your own for your clock but I guess you knew that already ;-)

Jameson's Gold,what a lovely,lovely word...................

Big Teddy

[Red Flag 1]

Originally Posted by FirstClass

Im not sure if this will help you, but I smoke possibly 1 cigar a month. Its a leisure activity. I have been doing this for three years now and have never been addicted to them. Perhaps if you can give up the addiction and use a cigar or pipe(pipes are great, btw, most of pipe tobacco is very light and most certainly will not create an unwanted habbit unless used in great excess) as more of a "special occasion" sort of thing. However, im not sure how difficult it would be to quit smoking, then revert back to it only trying to smoke once or a few times a month.

All things in moderation my friend, and know thyself.

Are you suggesting a person can give up the addiction and become a "leisure" user of tobacco?

RF 1

[18C4V]

I pretty much quit smoking exept on deployments and JCETs for ice breakers and such. My two cents is if I gotta breath second hand smoke at a meet and greet, I might as well contribute what I can.

Other than that I don't smoke.

[Utah Bob]

Both my parents smoked. I don't know why I never picked it up. Then when i was assigned to the 10th I started smoking a pipe because i thought it woul make me look:
A. More German, and
B. Older

I was wrong on both counts.
Lost my pipe in the snow coming home drunk from the O club one night. Found it in the Spring but the urge had passed by then. Aged the pipe nicely though.

Both my folks died eventually. My mother in '98 from lung cancer and heart disease and my father in '07 from emphysema.

[FirstClass]

Originally Posted by FirstClass View Post
"Im not sure if this will help you, but I smoke possibly 1 cigar a month. Its a leisure activity. I have been doing this for three years now and have never been addicted to them. Perhaps if you can give up the addiction and use a cigar or pipe(pipes are great, btw, most of pipe tobacco is very light and most certainly will not create an unwanted habbit unless used in great excess) as more of a "special occasion" sort of thing. However, im not sure how difficult it would be to quit smoking, then revert back to it only trying to smoke once or a few times a month."

Originally Posted by Red Flag 1

Are you suggesting a person can give up the addiction and become a "leisure" user of tobacco?

RF 1

Perhaps I was not very eloquent. I have never been addicted to tobacco, therefor I am not sure whether it would be improbable or not for it to become a leisure activity. I do not know the temptations, however, if it is possible, this is a good way to cut the cake and eat it too.

[Richard]

Maybe this will help you...

http://www.theonion.com/content/vide...ads_warn_teens

Richard's $.02

[Buck]

Originally Posted by FirstClass

Perhaps I was not very eloquent. I have never been addicted to tobacco, therefor I am not sure whether it would be improbable or not for it to become a leisure activity. I do not know the temptations, however, if it is possible, this is a good way to cut the cake and eat it too.

For fear of being catagorized a possible Warrant Officer type, this question has multiple possible avenues; hence the memory, and mistake I once made, asking a Warrant Officer on my climbing team, which would be the most appropriate glove to bring on a climbing trip we were planning while I was in Toelz. 2 hours later I had no clue which I would take, all I remember was multiple uses of Wool, so I packed alot of wool crap.

So...

There are probably a few different catagories, with sub catagories of smokers:

"The Die Hard Smoker", or aka DHS. You'll always notice the yellow tint on his finger, with an actual grove worn into the corner of his mouth, where he places his favorite smoke.

"The Social Smoker" One who will never actually want people he doesn't know well to know he is a smoker, if asked, he'll say, well I smoke sometimes, mostly if I am drinking. Bullshit, he's a smoker

"The Closet Smoker".....ok, you get the point

You're either a smoker, IE, you smoke either ever minute, or every 30 days, or you're a non smoker, IE you don't smoke period

I only smoke when I drink, which is allowed...lol

Buck

[tom kelly]

I ouit smoking in Feb. 1960, Quit drinking Alcohol in 1990, in 2007 I qiut drinking any products with caffine, also stopped eating red meat,bread, butter and milk with fat, I now drink skim milk and slim fast. I had both knees replaced in Oct. 2008 & at the time weighed 238 lbs. I now weigh 185 lbs. The point is that if you have the mental discipline you can accomplish almost anything you want!

tom kelly

[Ecclesiastes]

Wow, great posts. Thank you everyone for such information!! It's motivating to hear some of the stories to keep me going! I'm gonna guess that not many people smoke in elite units like SF.. (not that there's anything wrong with smokers )