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Juul helped me quit 2 packs a day

by homero 8y ago

Aloha 8y ago
How on earth did you have time to smoke two packs a day - I was a pack a day smoker, steady, could set your watch by it - I cant fathom having the time to finish 2 packs a day.
- pluc 8y ago
  I was a half-pack smoker and I feel the same about you smoking a pack a day.
  - Aloha 8y ago
    I'd chain smoke on the way home usually, or whenever driving.
- scruple 8y ago
  Driving for your job is what did it for me. I was normally a pack a day, back when I smoked, but on days where I was driving a work truck all day long? Easy 2 pack day.
gnulinux 8y ago
Sorry if this question is rude or arrogant, but I'm genuinely curious. How does one smoke 2 packs a day? That's 40 cigs a day. If you're active for 15 hours a day, that's a cigarette every 20 minutes. Assuming one cigarette takes 5 minutes to smoke, did you smoke one every 15 minutes? How were you able to work like this? Also didn't this cost you a fortune? That's like $30 a day, $10k a year. I spend less money on food, I'm curious how does one justify this much money on something.
- kaffeemitsahne 8y ago
  Well, guess why they quit.
- danieltillett 8y ago
  In the "good old days" I used to know a woman that would always be smoking. She would light the next cigarette with the last of the old cigarette. I have no idea how many cigarettes she would go through a day, but it must have been more than 4 packs.
- mrtweetyhack 8y ago
  The definition of an addictive drug is that users will pay anything, do anything for it; lie, beg, steal, and kill. TO a sensible person looking at it from the outside, it looks stupid and wasteful. To the drug addict, who do I kill for my next hit. All reasoning goes out the door.
- cronix 8y ago
  Not to speak for GP, but a lot of people who "smoke" that much aren't really smoking it all. They're not like on a typical smoke break where they go outside expressly to consume a cig and go back to work. Some people just have a cig burning almost all of the time, but might actually only take 2 or 3 draws off of it and the rest just sits there burning. They tend to be self employed bc there is no way you could do that at a regular 9-5 job. Anecdotally, I've had 2 experiences with people like that. One was a coder who was self employed and worked out of his house, and another was my auto mechanic before I moved. Both always had a cig burning sitting burning in an ashtray but only picked up and consumed maybe 25% of it while they were working. In some places, cigs might cost $15/pack (your numbers), but I just passed by a Chevron gas station selling for $7 where I live (Portland, OR). The cost depends greatly on the local/state taxes and is not indicative of everywhere. A carton of Marlboros here (the most expensive brand) is around $60 ($6/pack). A quick scan of this table [1] shows rates by state. A cursory look shows a tax range of about 0.37% (Georgia) to 4.5% (DC), but those are only the state taxes and don't take into account other local taxes. I'm just pointing out your example of $30/day (I assume where you live) is quite different from $12/day where I live, and there are even cheaper places than where I live. Portland isn't exactly the boonies. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_...
  - Udik 8y ago
    > Some people just have a cig burning almost all of the time, but might actually only take 2 or 3 draws off of it and the rest just sits there burning. That describes pretty well how I smoke the ecig: all day long, maybe three puffs every few minutes. While the normal cigs (maybe four a day) I inhale greedily at high speed.
  - pessimizer 8y ago
    > Not to speak for GP, but a lot of people who "smoke" that much aren't really smoking it all. They're not like on a typical smoke break where they go outside expressly to consume a cig and go back to work. Some people just have a cig burning almost all of the time, but might actually only take 2 or 3 draws off of it and the rest just sits there burning. This wasn't me at all when I smoked two packs a day. I smoked the entire cigarette, and if I was going to put it down for a while, I put it out. And that was when they were cheap. You just smoke all the time. The first thing I did when I woke up was light a cigarette, before I got out of bed. You choke a couple of cigarettes down during your break, not just one. You smoke through lunch. I was probably 5-7 cigarettes in before I even got to work.
- homero 8y ago
  I chain smoked while on the computer. If I couldn't smoke inside I'd do things on my phone outside. Yeah it cost a fortune.

Juul helped me quit 2 packs a day

by homero 8y ago

Juul helped me quit 2 packs a day

How on earth did you have time to smoke two packs a day - I was a pack a day smoker, steady, could set your watch by it - I cant fathom having the time to finish 2 packs a day.

pluc 8y ago
I was a half-pack smoker and I feel the same about you smoking a pack a day.
- Aloha 8y ago
  I'd chain smoke on the way home usually, or whenever driving.
scruple 8y ago
Driving for your job is what did it for me. I was normally a pack a day, back when I smoked, but on days where I was driving a work truck all day long? Easy 2 pack day.

gnulinux 8y ago

Sorry if this question is rude or arrogant, but I'm genuinely curious. How does one smoke 2 packs a day? That's 40 cigs a day. If you're active for 15 hours a day, that's a cigarette every 20 minutes. Assuming one cigarette takes 5 minutes to smoke, did you smoke one every 15 minutes? How were you able to work like this? Also didn't this cost you a fortune? That's like $30 a day, $10k a year. I spend less money on food, I'm curious how does one justify this much money on something.

kaffeemitsahne 8y ago
Well, guess why they quit.
danieltillett 8y ago
In the "good old days" I used to know a woman that would always be smoking. She would light the next cigarette with the last of the old cigarette. I have no idea how many cigarettes she would go through a day, but it must have been more than 4 packs.
mrtweetyhack 8y ago
The definition of an addictive drug is that users will pay anything, do anything for it; lie, beg, steal, and kill. TO a sensible person looking at it from the outside, it looks stupid and wasteful. To the drug addict, who do I kill for my next hit. All reasoning goes out the door.
cronix 8y ago
Not to speak for GP, but a lot of people who "smoke" that much aren't really smoking it all. They're not like on a typical smoke break where they go outside expressly to consume a cig and go back to work. Some people just have a cig burning almost all of the time, but might actually only take 2 or 3 draws off of it and the rest just sits there burning. They tend to be self employed bc there is no way you could do that at a regular 9-5 job. Anecdotally, I've had 2 experiences with people like that. One was a coder who was self employed and worked out of his house, and another was my auto mechanic before I moved. Both always had a cig burning sitting burning in an ashtray but only picked up and consumed maybe 25% of it while they were working. In some places, cigs might cost $15/pack (your numbers), but I just passed by a Chevron gas station selling for $7 where I live (Portland, OR). The cost depends greatly on the local/state taxes and is not indicative of everywhere. A carton of Marlboros here (the most expensive brand) is around $60 ($6/pack). A quick scan of this table [1] shows rates by state. A cursory look shows a tax range of about 0.37% (Georgia) to 4.5% (DC), but those are only the state taxes and don't take into account other local taxes. I'm just pointing out your example of $30/day (I assume where you live) is quite different from $12/day where I live, and there are even cheaper places than where I live. Portland isn't exactly the boonies. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_...
- Udik 8y ago
  > Some people just have a cig burning almost all of the time, but might actually only take 2 or 3 draws off of it and the rest just sits there burning. That describes pretty well how I smoke the ecig: all day long, maybe three puffs every few minutes. While the normal cigs (maybe four a day) I inhale greedily at high speed.
- pessimizer 8y ago
  > Not to speak for GP, but a lot of people who "smoke" that much aren't really smoking it all. They're not like on a typical smoke break where they go outside expressly to consume a cig and go back to work. Some people just have a cig burning almost all of the time, but might actually only take 2 or 3 draws off of it and the rest just sits there burning. This wasn't me at all when I smoked two packs a day. I smoked the entire cigarette, and if I was going to put it down for a while, I put it out. And that was when they were cheap. You just smoke all the time. The first thing I did when I woke up was light a cigarette, before I got out of bed. You choke a couple of cigarettes down during your break, not just one. You smoke through lunch. I was probably 5-7 cigarettes in before I even got to work.
homero 8y ago
I chain smoked while on the computer. If I couldn't smoke inside I'd do things on my phone outside. Yeah it cost a fortune.