<p>Is this safe?</p>
<p>Relatively. I have about 2 a year but essentially quit smoking many years ago.</p>
<p>just out of curiosity, why?</p>
<p>and safe, well, safer than two a month…</p>
<p>Barrons, you must not have been truly hooked, if you can still smoke one occassionally. The truly hooked know that they can’t even have just one after they’ve managed to quit, otherwise it starts all over again. My H is hopelessly hooked, I’m afraid. Smokes two packs a day:eek:! Has tried to quit numerous times, to no avail. He has been smoking outside, rain or shine, sleet or blizzard since I was pregnant with my oldest and the smell made me up-chuck.</p>
<p>So, the real qustion is, “Can you have one cigarette a month?” </p>
<p>Can you?</p>
<p>one cigarette has 4000 chemicals including arsenic, acetone, carbon monoxide, tar, cyanide, formaldehyde, radioactive polonium, cadmium (battery fluid), ammonia, napthalene (mothballs), and toluene (an industrial cleaner) (i work on a research study on alcohol and tobacco).
if thats what you want to put in your body, by all means, be my guest.</p>
<p>Why not smoke a cigar instead if you are going to do it just once a month? They do have more nicotine, less “4000 chemicals including arsenic, acetone, carbon monoxide, tar, cyanide, formaldehyde, radioactive polonium, cadmium (battery fluid), ammonia, napthalene (mothballs), and toluene (an industrial cleaner)”…</p>
<p>Why, maybe it’s just my way of thumbing my nose at all the “nanny society” folks. I probably smoked semi-regularly for most of college and quit shortly after starting work when they banned it in the office. Right now I can’t remember the last one–last year some time when I was max-stressed at work.
I have tried cigars-can’t stand them.</p>
<p>barrons, would you have quit if it wasn’t banned? or do you think if oyu had been allowed to smoke at work you would still smoked?</p>
<p>I would have quit anyway. I just phased out of them. My Gf did not smoke so the smell bothered her. Just seemed like a good time to get off of them while my lungs could still recover.</p>
<p>this is like asking if you can have unprotected sex or shoot heroine once a month, though not nearly as extreme.</p>
<p>smoking is addicting! though you may start out just once a month, you will definitely sneak a puff more and more than just that one time a month.</p>
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<p>you can. i smoke a cigarette or two once a month and have been doing it for two years. but don’t buy yourself a pack of cigarettes–you may be tempted to have more than one. buy a couple cigarettes from a friend instead to limit yourself.
as for people saying this is like having unprotected sex or shooting heroin: um, cigarettes are most certainly terrible for your health, but definitely preferable to doing either of those things. try your hardest NOT to smoke more often than once a month. addiction is a bad thing but from personal experience, it CAN be avoided if you don’t go buying packs and keeping them handy.
i applaud you for not smoking heavily. worst thing you could possible do to yourself. except for shooting heroin and having unprotected sex.</p>
<p>If you don’t already smoke, don’t start. If you smoke, quit. Smoking is hard on your body, annoys most people around you, costs a lot of money, is very inconvenient (can’t smoke in the office, restaurants, etc.), and makes you look like a slacker (people at work who stand around outside multiple times per day doing nothing while they suck down their smoke). Just think about what you’re really inhaling into your lungs for whatever benefit you think you’re going to get out of it. Although young people are usually living more for the moment and not thinking of mortality, the damage is done regardless. </p>
<p>Okay, this was a bit off-topic of the one cigarette per month but be real, a lot of people won’t stick at one cig per month even if they had that intention going in. The best way to not smoke is to never start. I know many smokers who wish they’d never started smoking. You find very few people in their 30s or older who are glad they started smoking. A colleague of mine, my age, was a heavy smoker for over 30 years. He just died of lung cancer.</p>
<p>I see that you’re one of our college-age collegues here on CC. I will tell you this; while some older people smoke for a lot of complicated reasons, a teen or 20-something smoking - at all - is kind of a Darwinian neon sign for “loser”. Instead of smoking, you might consider tatooing “I am stupid” on your forehead. Probably would have much the same impact on others you meet.</p>
<p>Once a month? Why stop there?</p>
<p>Ask yourself WHY you want to smoke. Do you enjoy it? If so, then I would honestly ask myself whether I could stick to just one smoke per month. If you’ve never done it before, don’t bother starting. If you are doing it because others are doing it, then you have issues and you really shouldn’t smoke.
But smoking is your choice.</p>
<p>i still don’t get the attraction of wanting to smoke, smell bad, yellow teeth and have fewer options for dating, having to stand out in the cold, have people think “does the person have so little care for themselves that they are smoking”, and all for what?</p>
<p>and no one looks cool smoking, not even in the movies,its a crutch for not doing more with a character and if you ain’t cool enough without the little piece of toxicity, well you aint suddenly gonna get cool</p>
<p>Good god smoke if you want to. I don’t smoke (except cigars or cigarillos maybe twice a month), but I don’t give a **** if people around me are. No one has proved ETS to be nearly as toxic as it is claimed to be. If you smoke, yes you will increase your risk of lung cancer, and you will smell. But if you do it in moderation like me, you will not. I am much more fit and less smelly than the do gooder liberals on this thread, for example.</p>
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That is debatable. I think Michael Madsen looks pretty cool when he lights up.</p>
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But I am sure you are addicted to telling people how to run their own lives.</p>
<p>yeah seriously…smoke if you WANT to do it. don’t do it because it’s cool, or because you want to rebel, or because your friends are doing it. if you enjoy smoking then go right ahead. but be very careful.</p>
<p>Why would you want to do this? Cigarettes stink and taste nasty.</p>