Doing research on smoking; Please answer my poll!

[CrustyOatmeal]

1. Male
2. 23
3. North America, USA
4. yes
5. cigars
6. no, i only smoke every other week so i do not see it as a problem
7. depends on how often they smoke
8. 20
9. haven't
10. N/A
11. N/A
12. N/A

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

1. Male
2. 17
3. Europe (UK)
4. Yes
5. Ciqarettes, (occasional ciqar)
6. Yes
7. Yes (have already, before I started, kissing a smoker is nowhere near as vile as people make it out to be, but it's still not very pleasant)
8. 16
9. N/A
10. N/A
11. No, they increase the craving.
12. Money, and Health benefits from quitting.

 

[Jadams]

1. Gender - Male
2. Age - 19
3. Continent you currently live in - Europe (England)
4. Do you use nicotine-products? - Ocasinally mainly when out drinking
5. Ciqarettes, pipe, ciqars or snuff? - Cigarettes
6. If you knew you could stop using nicotine-products painlessly without the risk of failing, would you? - Already have done
7. Would you date a smoker? - Yep last girlfriend was a smoker
8. What age did you start smoking? - 14 :/
9. What age did you stop smoking? - 19
10. Did you quit with the help of products like gum or patches? - Nope just willpower
11. Would you say outside products like nicotine-gum help? - I think it's more likely going to depend on personality to how helpful products will be
12. What do you say is the main reason for quitting? - Too expensive

 

[Sebass]

1. Gender
- Male
2. Age
- 22
3. Continent you currently live in
- Europe
4. Do you use nicotine-products?
- Yes
5. Ciqarettes, pipe, ciqars or snuff?
- Cigarettes; very rarely a cigar, shared with friends
6. If you knew you could stop using nicotine-products painlessly without the risk of failing, would you?
- At the moment I wouldn't want to quit
7. Would you date a smoker?
- Yes
8. What age did you start smoking?
- First cigarette at 16 years old, casual smoker at 19 years old, habitual smoker at 21 years old
9. What age did you stop smoking?
- /
10. Did you quit with the help of products like gum or patches?
- /
11. Would you say outside products like nicotine-gum help?
- I don't think they help much, the nicotine-withdrawal isn't the biggest factor of addiction
12. What do you say is the main reason for quitting?
- Health reasons

 

[Mad Artillery]

1. Male
2. 20
3. North America (Canada)
4. No

7. Not in my life. Even if she was the best person in the world. I can't stand next to even someone so much as smelling of it without my lungs protesting. They can become very violent if I enter a room someone was smoking in within the last hour.

 

[GudangGaram]

1. Male
2. 27
3. Europe
4. Yes
5. Cigarettes, kretek (the brands I smoke are very very very bad for you)
6. Don't know
7. I would, and have. It's difficult if you yourself have just recently quit though (see 9)
8. 22
9. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 I stop smoking once a year, and then after a while (between three weeks and four months) I start again. Not out of urges. Bad habit out of boredom and at social events, I suppose. And if I started dating a smoker when I just quit a month (or two) ago. Yeah I'll start again.
10. No. I started jogging. Exercise make the urges less.
11. No
12. Money, smell (clothing, hair), dry skin. (I'm still in better physical shape than most I know, so health would only be an issue if I had some disease in artery, lungs or brain)

As I always say; I have no intention to be a smoker all my life.

EDIT: Dating a non-smoker ATM. Makes me VERY aware of what(the hell) I am doing.

 

[antidonkey]

1. Gender: Male
2. Age: 37
3. Continent you currently live in: North America - USA
4. Do you use nicotine-products? No
5. Ciqarettes, pipe, ciqars or snuff? Former cigarette smoker
6. If you knew you could stop using nicotine-products painlessly without the risk of failing, would you? Yes
7. Would you date a smoker? Yes
8. What age did you start smoking? 18
9. What age did you stop smoking? 36 most recently.
10. Did you quit with the help of products like gum or patches? No - cold turkey
11. Would you say outside products like nicotine-gum help? N/A
12. What do you say is the main reason for quitting? Cost too much

 

[Avalanche91]

1. Male
2. 21
3. Europe
4. Nop
5. Nu uh
6. NA
7. If given sufficient cause.
8. NA
9. NA
10. NA
11. NA
12. Health/Expenses

 

[loc978]

1. Male

2. 31

3. North America

4. Yes... less than once a month, though

5. pipe with flavored tobacco or hookah with dried fruit

6. I don't feel any compulsion to smoke, so... N/A?

7. I generally wouldn't "date" at all... but most of the women I've had sex with were smokers.

8. 25

9. 25, 26, 27, and 30. I pretty much used to smoke for stress relief at work... mostly back when I was in the army and deployed. Nowadays I only do it socially.

10. I've never been addicted. N/A?

11. I've never been addicted. N/A?

12. If you're addicted to nicotine and smoke regularly, you can seriously damage yourself. That would be reason #1.

Addendum: I realize I'm a statistical aberration. Smoking is usually very addictive and "bad, mmkay?". Please try to quit, folks. Also, cigarettes are horrible. They make most other forms of tobacco consumption look about as harmful a kitten to someone who isn't allergic to adorableness.

 

[DarthSka]

1. (Male)
2. (22)
3. (North America)
4. (No)
5. (N/A)
6. (N/A)
7. (Yes)
8. (N/A)
9. (N/A)
10.(N/A)
11.(N/A)
12.(Health concerns)

 

[Jodah]

1. Gender - Male

2. Age - 24

3. Continent you currently live in - North America (United States)

4. Do you use nicotine-products? - Only when drinking with friends

5. Ciqarettes, pipe, ciqars or snuff? - Cigars or Cigarillos

6. If you knew you could stop using nicotine-products painlessly without the risk of failing, would you? - I can and do. I don't smoke during the winter (smoking is banned indoors in most New York state businesses and it's too damned cold to go outside) and if I don't go out with the guys for an extended period of time, I won't be smoking.

7. Would you date a smoker? - Pack a day smoker? No. Someone who smokes like I do? Sure.

8. What age did you start smoking? - 21

9. What age did you stop smoking? - N/A

10. Did you quit with the help of products like gum or patches? - N/A

11. Would you say outside products like nicotine-gum help? - N/A

12. What do you say is the main reason for quitting? - N/A

 

[viranimus]

1. male
2. 18-35
3. North America
4. used to for 15+ years
5. Ciqarettes, pipe, ciqars or snuff? All
6. Likely no. Its trading one expense for another.
7. I have
8. 10 I think? Heavily by 15
9. 27
10. no
11. no
12. toss up between unjustifable pricing due to over taxing, difficulty breathing, and not wasting money.

 

[Jodah]

snippity

Statistically, 40% of smokers aren't dependent on nicotine. Sure, that's still the minority but there are a lot of people who smoke and aren't addicted. There are even some who have brains that are wired in a way so they can't become addicted, even if they are pack a day smokers.

 

[Deshin]

1. Gender
- Male
2. Age
- 24
3. Continent you currently live in
- Europe
4. Do you use nicotine-products?
- Yes
5. Ciqarettes, pipe, ciqars or snuff?
- Ciggarettes, roughly 1 pack a day
6. If you knew you could stop using nicotine-products painlessly without the risk of failing, would you?
- Yes
7. Would you date a smoker?
- Yes, it was going out with a smoker that started it.
8. What age did you start smoking?
- 19 (and recently again last month at 24)
9. What age did you stop smoking?
- 22 (clean til a month ago)
10. Did you quit with the help of products like gum or patches?
- No, just upped and flat out quit
11. Would you say outside products like nicotine-gum help?
- No, they just replace the cravings with something else
12. What do you say is the main reason for quitting?
- Cost, health, the ever looming thought in the back of my mind that I might be giving myself cancer

 

[Yopaz]

1. Gender male
2. Age 22
3. Continent you currently live in Europe
4. Do you use nicotine-products? No
5. Ciqarettes, pipe, ciqars or snuff? No
6. If you knew you could stop using nicotine-products painlessly without the risk of failing, would you? No
7. Would you date a smoker? Yes
8. What age did you start smoking? N/A
9. What age did you stop smoking? N/A
10. Did you quit with the help of products like gum or patches? N/A
11. Would you say outside products like nicotine-gum help? N/A
12. What do you say is the main reason for quitting? Health

 

[Candidus]

1. Male.
2. 26.
3. EU.
4. No.
5. None.
6. Already did, so yes.
7. Yes.
8. 18.
9. 22.
10. No, just stopped.
11. I don't know, never used a substitute.
12. I quit because of a sense of dread that arrived a few weeks prior and wouldn't budge.

Note: The habit gave me up as much as I gave it up. Within three days I was clear. No cravings, rarely thought about it.

 

[cynik]

1. male
2. 30
3. Europe
4. Yes
5. Snus, very rarely cigarettes
6. No.
7. Rather not.
8. 17
9. 25
10. No.
11. To some degree.
12. Cigarettes are bad for your stamina and endurance.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

-snip-

1. Gender - Male
2. Age - 21
3. Continent you currently live in - New Zealand
4. Do you use nicotine-products? - No
5. Ciqarettes, pipe, ciqars or snuff? - Tried cigs a few times.
6. If you knew you could stop using nicotine-products painlessly without the risk of failing, would you? - Yes
7. Would you date a smoker? - Provided they didnt smell/smoke around me.
8. What age did you start smoking? - Smoked a few times at around 18
9. What age did you stop smoking? - Stopped smoking shortly after.
10. Did you quit with the help of products like gum or patches? - Just stopped because I was too lazy to roll my own.
11. Would you say outside products like nicotine-gum help? - N?A
12. What do you say is the main reason for quitting? - Too lazy to roll my own, and prerolled apparently tasted different. Also I dont have an addictive personality and they didnt really do anything for me.

There you go

 

[rob_simple]

1. Male
2. 24
3. UK
4. Not anymore
5. Ciqarettes, when I did.
6. Yes
7. No
8. 18
9. 24
10. Nope, cold turkey.
11. I've seen them work, so yes.
12. I stopped drinking and decided I may as well quit smoking, too.

 

[TecnoMonkey]

1. Male
2. 16
3. Continent: Europe. Country: Portugal
4. No
5. Don't use any of those.
6. No
7. No, for some reason I find girls who smoke repulsive
8. N/A
9. N/A
10. N/A
11. Yes
12. I think people in general stop smoking because it's unhealthy.