Succubus

This might be an odd thought, but I was wondering, how many of you writers are also smokers?

It kind of seems a bit of a cliche to me for some reason.

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Kane

I smoke... trying to quit... Been smoking a lot longer than I've been writing.

Succubus

I've quit twice, (for up to a year) and once again I smoke.

Seems to me it helps settle me. Physiologically it's supposed to do the opposite though.

Every time I see a movie with a writer in it, they're always smoking as they pour over their manuscript.

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lisajane

I've never smoked. Parents don't smoke, but my brother does (parents don't know he does).

I imagine I'll smoke in the future though. I'll probably have a pack of cigarettes in the bottom drawer of my desk as a writer.

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gohn67

I dont smoke, bad for lungs, I heard.

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Londongrey

I smoke all the time, I have tried to give up but get so nasty I start again!!

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Rico

I smoke when I'm stressed, so as of late, I'm a pack a day kind of person

PaPa

I smoke a pipe. Marvellous aroma.

Ajax

I used to smoke.

It was difficult to stop. VERY difficult.
I quit a lot of times and started up again.
It was finally my wife that made me stop.
I never told her I smoked when I was dating, and I never smoked around her. I made sure she was never aware of it. When things got serious I had to quit or tell her the truth. It was easier to quit than go through all the inevitable fighting.

Seven years we've been married now, and I haven't touched a cigarette since.

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mammamaia

i smoked from about 14 to 34... stopped almost a decade before i began writing full time... never started again, never will...

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darb

I smoked until I realized how incredibly stupid it makes you look. I know it was bad for me, and I was always going to quit next week. Then I realized that smart people do stupid things all the time, but only an idiot does the same stupid thing repeatedly.

About the only things cigarettes are good for is pointing out a lower IQ, letting high school boys figure out which girls will put out, and keeping people poor.

There's a trick to quitting. No one posted yet is serious about it. Saying "I'm trying to quit", is just setting yourself up for failure. You have to decide that you have already quit. Once you've put down that cigarette you quit. It's not an ongoing process. Either you have or you haven't. To see it otherwise is just leaving the door open for failure.

If you think about it, you quit smoking every time you crush one out, the only question is whether or not you will you start again.

brad

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Rico

well, I stopped smoking for about three or four years because my partner insisted on it. as our relationship, well, deteriorated, I picked the habit back up.

Kane

easier said than done...

Smoking is an ongoing process because even when someone really wants to quit, their body is still addicted to it and reminds them of the fact over and over and over again, thus making quitting a sustained effort of the will for weeks.

darb

No it's not. You've quit or not. It's that simple. Saying "I'm quitting" is basically saying "I haven't commited myself to it yet.". Either you have quit or you have not. There's no middle ground. There's no process. There's the detox your body goes through, but that's because you have quit.

After "trying to quit" many times I came to that realization. Trying just left the door open to stop trying. It kept my mindset that way too. Once a person quits though, the mindset is different. Saying "I'm done with smoking and I'm not doing it again" is a far different mentality than "I'm trying to quit". In the first you've put the smoking in the past, and the second you think of it in the present.

Set your mind, and the rest is much easier. If you never move past the smoking you'll never quit. That's the first hurdle.

brad

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Succubus

Has anyone had the smoking dreams after they quit? They're almost a nightmare in themselves!

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