Haven't smoked anything in about 15 days. I might smoke up with my sisters on my 20th birthday, but I feel better having known I'm more or less clean and I have more money to spend. Prior to my sittle sabbatical I was smoking between 2-6 grams a week, give or take. Breathing more clearly, finding myself writing again. It's a good thing.

But goddamn I could go for whatever those things MA posted are.

I smoke something like 4 grams a week if only I buy it. Collectively, the weight would be pushing 5-6 grams if other people hand me a spliff. For now I have to put all that on the shelf because of this irritating cough that just won't go away.

After this cough epidemic passes over my circle I might just head to Amsterdam for a weekend. Try me some of that Amnesia Haze. Or even a joint that's worth about fifty quid.

I went on a date with a guy last week. He told me afterwards that I'd earned several points by telling the waiter "We'll sit outside as long as we're not near anyone smoking."

I decided last night to give up smoking. After thinking long and hard about it I've realized that I've been smoking because I could smoke, if you know what I mean? And while I'll be giving up the smokes I'll not be giving up smoke, which means that even though I'm quitting fags I'll still have to dabble in it to roll myself a doobie.

So this is Day 1 of "Operation: Purification."

Haven't even been hankering for a ciggie all day, and after 8-9 years of smoking I thought I might be looking for one. But I think it's more of a test of character than any other reason why I gave up because I repeatedly tell people that if I want to quit I'll quit and that's it. Hopefully this attitude will stick with me coming into the third or fourth week. I managed to nail drinking on the head, why can I not do the same to smoking?

I've got a master plan for every time I'm jonesing for a smoke. Every time I get the urge, I'm going to learn something new on the guitar. Maybe shift my addiction? IS it possible? I hope so. Wish me luck, guiz!

QUITTER

nah, go for it. good luck.

I like unfiltered camel cigarrettes. They taste so much different from the standard nicotene cigs you get from your local convenience store. They're the only thing I'm really willing to smoke (unless I'm drunk).

I like to think that somking is a way of commit suicide. It just takes a long time to kill you...

No.

This, only with more derision.

That's stupid. Suicide is deliberate. Smoking is more comparable to drunk driving up a mountain.

But if someone continues to smoke whilst also being fully aware that it is lethal in the long-term, that's also deliberate.

Amendment: the outcome is desired.

Hey man, if I can drunk drive up a mountain once or several times a day for years and still be fine, well that sounds pretty cool.

So far.

Quitting smoking for me was pretty damn easy, I've had one cigarette since September 2011, and that's debatable, because I have no recollection of the evening where I supposedly lit up at all. =P

My mate said to me on a random bad day he wants to start smoking and then quit to say he has actually achieved something in life.

How fucking depressing is that.

Recently bought a corn cob pipe. Anybody here use one before? I'm looking for tips on keeping it clean, lighting techniques (lighter vs. match), etc. This probably isn't the best place to look, but thought I'd ask anyways.

Imposdobeble

i haven't got a corn cob pipe, but i have a small collection of pipes and know how to keep them clean. you can use a scraping tool like a small knife or go for a specialist tool like this (which is what i use) and clean the pipe bowl with it by simply scraping away excess ash and tobacco, but being careful not to damage the inside of the bowl. next thing to use is pipe cleaners. use them to clean the stem (the stem should come off leaving your pipe in two pieces), feeding the pipe cleaner all the way through and moving it about. then finally clean the stem leading into the pipe bowl using the same method. give it a quick blow to blow out any remaining ash or spit (gross, i know) and you're about done.

when it comes to lighting, i just use a normal disposable gas lighter. this is because if it goes out when i only have half a bowl of tobacco left, i can turn the gas up to maximum and reach into the bowl and reignite it using the flame. it's hard to do this with a petrol zippo lighter or something similar, which is why i use a bog standard disposable one when smoking my pipe. some people say using matches is better to light your pipe because you don't get the taste of petrol from gas lighters, but i have never in my life tasted petrol whilst smoking a pipe, no matter what it's been lit with. i think that's more of a class distinction and general snobbishness than actual valid preference. also, using matches to light your pipe will become tedious when first learning how to pack tobacco (or whatever you're using) into your pipe (which is fucking hard), because i can guarantee it will go out numerous times while smoking. i'm still learning myself. it can't be packed too tightly, but at the same time it can't be too loose and it can't be too damp either. it's an art. i've been taught to light all the tobacco on the surface while puffing shallowly to get rid of excess moisture and let the tobacco expand (pipe tobacco expands and unravels when lit so you need to get rid of this), then let it go out or gently put it out, softly but firmly tamp the tobacco down in the bowl to make it fairly firm in density again (due to the expansion), light it again and smoke away.

in short, get some pipe cleaners and maybe a multi tool, and stick to using lighters unless you really want to use matches. experiment. it's a nice hobby to get into if you're interested, and there's plenty of sites out there with a rich variety of different tasting and smelling tobaccos, as well as plenty of guides on how to use and maintain your pipe.

Marijuana.

Idk if anyone who has me as a friend on Facebook saw my pipe, but I'm so proud of it I feel I should post a picture here =D

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I don't intend to use it but I love walking around with it in my mouth like a sophisticate! XD

nice pipe. does it have a metal bowl? it looks like it does.

Can you put your weed in there?

It does indeed, and I can indeed, not that I intend to, I'm not smoking at all and that includes weed.

This dude is smoking life, man. He's smoking life.

He's on Charlie Sheen.

I've always wanted a pipe even though I have absolutely no plans to smoke either now or when I'm older.
I agree that walking around with a pipe makes you feel so much more sophisticated.

Or douchy. It definitely makes people look one of the two.

I don't think I'd walk around with it in public? I'd look like a bit of a berk.

mohican + pipe = can't pull it off.

Then wear a bowler hat and monocle.

Oh, and a pocket watch. End every sentence with 'I say' and you'll fit in with the British public nicely.

I say, shouldn't that be the start of every sentence?

*Puff puff*

Mmmmmyeeaaars it should, be old boy.

Let's drink some fucking tea, and watch the crumpets, then ride the pram, old boy, I say.


Did I do it right?

FUCKING YANKS

STILL CRYING ABOUT THAT WHOLE 'INDEPENDENCE' THING

Only if you live in Scotland.

People in Glasgow don't talk like that at least. They use 'Cunt' more.

cunts don't know how to use the word cunt.

I did a cunt once.

Milk came out.

I gave up smoking pot for Lent, smoked some after Easter Sunday. I'm getting some intense anxiety while I'm high. I've found a new place to do it, though. I just grab a book and/or my pipe and leap through a window into the abandoned daycare I live beside. Quiet and empty and no need to worry about making a mess. I should go to that place tonight and think. Smoking and then going home, where I will inevitably be descended upon to do a bunch of shit around the house, is not the place I need to be.