“I don’t answer questions without my attorney present, officer.”
Although, since returning from overseas I’ve been really getting in to edibles (dixieelixirs.com, probably NSFW) . . . A buddy of mine flies air charter between KC and Denver all the time . . . You do the math.
@Pavlov The company I work for makes some amazing edibles. They are only available in Illinois now and you have to be a medical cannabis patient, but they will eventually be in Colorado (I was going to say they’ll be there soon, but with all the regulation everything takes a long time)
Started smoking when I was 12 and smoked for 20 years. I tried to quit a few times, and did quit during my pregnancies, but I enjoyed it too much to quit forever. Husband and I started vaping in 2012 and I haven’t touched a cigarette since.
No. My whole family smoked, I hated it, and the second hand smoke made me cough, so I never had the desire to smoke. Instead I chewed my nails until my mid twenties.
@christinerenee it was horribly difficult to quit. I got addicted to polishing my nails instead, haha
Lately I can go without polish, but if I go long enough, I STILL get the desire to chew my nails. I carry a nail file in my wallet, so if I do chew on them a little bit, I’ll file them smooth again, because then I lose the desire.
@RiotDemon The one thing that kind of works for me is to wear fake fingernails. But I get lazy and stop wearing them and then I go back to my old ways. I think if I could be consistent with it for a few months I could break the habit altogether. I just haven’t done it yet.
I tried wearing acrylics for months. I managed about a week before I chewed them all off watching a horror movie by myself.
When I finally decided to quit, I wore the glue on type nails and changed them every couple of days because I would pick at them.
After a few weeks, my natural nails were long enough that I could put polish on them… So then I polished them almost every single day because I picked or chewed the polish off.
@RiotDemon I actually had a cheerleader in jr. high school get me to quit chewing my nails. (I was DEFINITELY NOT in the cheerleading crowd). She caught me chewing and said, “Do you have ANY IDEA what’s under your nails?” I stopped that day, and anytime I caught myself raising my fingers to my lips, thought about her comment.
Of course we all know what option WASNT in the list. Maybe it is in the list for Colorado, Oregon, or Washington users, and will be for California users once California’s Prop 64 passes.
I grew up with a mom who chain smoked Lucky Strike. Our family doctor told me to get chest X-rays yearly because of my exposure to second hand smoke. I have never smoked and never will. I also don’t get the chest X-rays annually.
My Dad did; I tried one cigarette and it was enough to turn me off them for life. Not against the practice if others want to (as long as I don’t have to pay for their health care), but its not for me. He smoked outside or in the garage for nearly all of our growing years so no real second hand worries.
@duodec my health insurance, that I get through work, charges people extra if they are smokers. I wonder how many people lie so they don’t have to pay. If you get caught, (I don’t know who reports that) you have to pay the back charges for the whole year. I believe it’s an extra $1000 a year or so.
It’s better than making everyone pay extra, cuz insurance is expensive enough.
@dustinasu@lucasoutloud Both of you need to quit, and you can! I smoked a pack a day for 29 years and quit on my 50th birthday 8/27/12. I also like to think that I helped @thumperchick to quit as well.
Never have, never will. Working in healthcare is more than enough to ensure this.
“Hi, I’m here for my lung scan. I’m really having trouble breathing.”
“Okay, a few quick questions. Do you smoke?”
“Yes”
“About how much per day?”
“Two packs.”
“You’re a fucking idiot.”
@lucasoutloud Very few people in my hospital seem to smoke. The entire campus is non-smoking so they have to wander rather far away to light up. As @RiotDemon mentioned, many companies (especially hospitals) are now charging higher insurance premiums if you smoke. Personally, I have a bit of an issue with that. While I get the point of it and think smoking is disgusting, it’s hard to justify punishing someone for doing something that’s perfectly legal. It makes for an interesting argument.
@cinoclav Life insurance is more expensive to people who choose to have dangerous lifesytles. Car insurance is more expensive to people choose to drive fast cars. Health insurance is more expensive for people who choose to be unhealthy. Seems about right.
@cinoclav I don’t think it’s punishment any more than charging teenagers more for auto insurance. With a documented history of higher medical costs, it seems reasonable.
Hell no. Smoking is disgusting. People who smoke smell bad, have yellow teeth, and look like idiots puffing away on their “cig”. The hottest model in the world becomes disgusting with a cigarette in her mouth.
@gdog2009 Not to mention how much I want to pummel the assholes that throw their cigarette butts out their window when driving. Extra kicks in the groin for when your butt bounces off the front of my car.
@medz
Even if there is no litter, the area where the smokers gather gets covered with ash over time, can smell it even on windy Monday mornings when it’s been unused over the weekend.
All the companies I deal with have to power wash the smoking area frequently or it gets unpleasant.
I started to hate that “inhale for half a sec and you’re already completely wasted” feeling that came with super varieties of weed some decades back. And then you had to put up with “super-stoned” in your head for a few days. So none, except accidental light environmental inhales, for a long long time.
@Moose
Didn’t do much source checking. Just somebody goes, “hey, I just got this incredible gourmet stash from <exotic locality or exotic technology or extra full of spirituality or something>. Wanna toke?”
imbibing these agricultural miracles, even in tiny exposures, was always too much.
I didn’t do a chemlab in any of it, but it always looked, smelled, and had the texture of weed.
Have always been an RX sensitive person (aka “a cheap date”, according to one friend). And the tcp hangover affected other hobbies and interests. Used to piss me off that I had to wait until it wore off for the brain go into gear properly or something.
It takes longer to take effect (so you have to be careful not to eat too much – and this is where it’s really better to buy from a reputable company with consistent dosing)
Most edibles taste really terrible (in my opinion). That still might be preferable to smoking or vaping though. But there are starting to be some that do taste pretty good. So if taste is important to you then do some research first.
If you are making your own edibles, make sure you decarboxylate the cannabis first.
@f00l Smoking automatically decarboxylates your weed, so you don’t need to worry about it unless you’re making edibles.
It’s basically just a process of heating it up to activate the THC (it changes from THCA which won’t get you high to THC which will)
If you just cook with it, some of the THCA will change to THC but not all of it. You have to heat it up in a controlled way in a specific temperature range.
@f00l Always been a “cheap date” and had to be really careful with putting anything in my body.
When I ended HepC treatment my body was even more sensitive. A teaspoon of red wine would have me buzzed for hours and a couple tiny leaves of high tech bud got me pretty sick. A couple years later I tried the buds, a couple tiny leaves, and didnt get sick but really stoned.
Feel rather lucky as the stash I have will last me a lifetime and the surprise doctor blood tests never show anything.
@fjp999 thx
Fortunately, I never wound up with Hepatitis <anything>
And although fond of beer, and more than fond of single-malt and wine, and margaritas are a local near-religion, I kinda like the whole “clean and sober” thing. My youth was happily misspent - I have, I hope shown some measure of restraint since then. But variety can be nice.
Talking to friends, we all agree how lucky we were with our choices to live it up young, work real hard then kind of reverse mode and enjoy life without all the “noise”
I’ve always wanted to smoke cigarettes. Never have, because I don’t particularly look forward to being less healthy, buying into another monthly subscription (effectively), and dramatically increasing my chances of cancer. I’m pretty sure I’d be solidly addicted within the first pack, too.
@DrunkCat Yes. Townhouse/coach home development. No charcoal grills, no smokers of any type (electric, charcoal, gas) , no firepits, chimneas, etc. Gas grill or electric grill are ok. Using a smoke box inside a gas grill has been allowed ‘so far’.
I smoke a pipe once or twice a week in the summer and fall. It probably averages out to once a week or less over the course of a year. I tried expensive tobaccos and estate pipes, and wound up realizing I like Captain Black from a Missouri Meerschaum just as much.
Kudos to all you here who have quit! I have asthma, so couldn’t have ever started if I wanted to.
My son had a friend who started smoking when he turned 18. I told him to pick any five smokers he knew that had been smoking for over 5 years and ask them this “are you glad that you started smoking?” and take that into consideration before buying another pack.
“I don’t answer questions without my attorney present, officer.”
Although, since returning from overseas I’ve been really getting in to edibles (dixieelixirs.com, probably NSFW) . . . A buddy of mine flies air charter between KC and Denver all the time . . . You do the math.
@Pavlov The company I work for makes some amazing edibles. They are only available in Illinois now and you have to be a medical cannabis patient, but they will eventually be in Colorado (I was going to say they’ll be there soon, but with all the regulation everything takes a long time)
http://www.mindysedibles.com/
A pipe, about once per season and I’m good.
I’ve tried everything at least once. Except vaping.
Started smoking when I was 12 and smoked for 20 years. I tried to quit a few times, and did quit during my pregnancies, but I enjoyed it too much to quit forever. Husband and I started vaping in 2012 and I haven’t touched a cigarette since.
No. My whole family smoked, I hated it, and the second hand smoke made me cough, so I never had the desire to smoke. Instead I chewed my nails until my mid twenties.
Just a different addiction.
@RiotDemon Are you me? I could have written everything you said except that I still bite my nails and I’m quite a bit older than my mid twenties.
@christinerenee it was horribly difficult to quit. I got addicted to polishing my nails instead, haha
Lately I can go without polish, but if I go long enough, I STILL get the desire to chew my nails. I carry a nail file in my wallet, so if I do chew on them a little bit, I’ll file them smooth again, because then I lose the desire.
@RiotDemon The one thing that kind of works for me is to wear fake fingernails. But I get lazy and stop wearing them and then I go back to my old ways. I think if I could be consistent with it for a few months I could break the habit altogether. I just haven’t done it yet.
@christinerenee haha, you do remind me of myself.
I tried wearing acrylics for months. I managed about a week before I chewed them all off watching a horror movie by myself.
When I finally decided to quit, I wore the glue on type nails and changed them every couple of days because I would pick at them.
After a few weeks, my natural nails were long enough that I could put polish on them… So then I polished them almost every single day because I picked or chewed the polish off.
Now I own around 400 nail polishes.
/giphy nail polish addict
I mean after I took the acrylics off, my real nails survived a week.
I would of edited my text, but I liked that giphy too much.
@RiotDemon That’s awesome! I’m feeling inspired to try again!
@christinerenee don’t give up. It can be done!
@RiotDemon I actually had a cheerleader in jr. high school get me to quit chewing my nails. (I was DEFINITELY NOT in the cheerleading crowd). She caught me chewing and said, “Do you have ANY IDEA what’s under your nails?” I stopped that day, and anytime I caught myself raising my fingers to my lips, thought about her comment.
Thus began my lifelong germaphobe existence…
@PrincessSuzuki I think my immune system is stronger because of all the gross things that I’ve chewed on over the years, lol
@RiotDemon I believe that too
I’m not a smoker, but I do work for a medical cannabis cultivator.
I do occasionally vape. But I didn’t start until after I got this job.
Quit 12/31/1998 Had a wake up call that a couple of stents helped take care of.
Quit smoking cold turkey in November 1996. Probably part of why I’m still here almost 20 years later.
Smoking is gross.
Vaping is weird. When I was a kid huffing on an inhaler wasn’t cool and everyone picked on me for it. I don’t know what made it cool.
Of course we all know what option WASNT in the list. Maybe it is in the list for Colorado, Oregon, or Washington users, and will be for California users once California’s Prop 64 passes.
@chasenalier I’m pretty sure that falls in the fat doobie blunt category.
/giphy fat doobie blunt
Smoke da sheeba all day 420 Blaze It Nation
I grew up with a mom who chain smoked Lucky Strike. Our family doctor told me to get chest X-rays yearly because of my exposure to second hand smoke. I have never smoked and never will. I also don’t get the chest X-rays annually.
I’ve tried quitting about twice now. Oh well, lung cancer here I come.
My Dad did; I tried one cigarette and it was enough to turn me off them for life. Not against the practice if others want to (as long as I don’t have to pay for their health care), but its not for me. He smoked outside or in the garage for nearly all of our growing years so no real second hand worries.
@duodec my health insurance, that I get through work, charges people extra if they are smokers. I wonder how many people lie so they don’t have to pay. If you get caught, (I don’t know who reports that) you have to pay the back charges for the whole year. I believe it’s an extra $1000 a year or so.
It’s better than making everyone pay extra, cuz insurance is expensive enough.
I really need to quit
@dustinasu @lucasoutloud Both of you need to quit, and you can! I smoked a pack a day for 29 years and quit on my 50th birthday 8/27/12. I also like to think that I helped @thumperchick to quit as well.
@jsimsace talking through some of those rough days with you definitely helped! I haven’t had a smoke - not even a drag! Since 11/2/12.
Fact: smokers smell
A simple “NO” isn’t on the list of answers?
Never have, never will. Working in healthcare is more than enough to ensure this.
“Hi, I’m here for my lung scan. I’m really having trouble breathing.”
“Okay, a few quick questions. Do you smoke?”
“Yes”
“About how much per day?”
“Two packs.”
“You’re a fucking idiot.”
@cinoclav I find it interesting that you say that because I’ve known so many nurses that smoke. I almost thought they all did.
@lucasoutloud Very few people in my hospital seem to smoke. The entire campus is non-smoking so they have to wander rather far away to light up. As @RiotDemon mentioned, many companies (especially hospitals) are now charging higher insurance premiums if you smoke. Personally, I have a bit of an issue with that. While I get the point of it and think smoking is disgusting, it’s hard to justify punishing someone for doing something that’s perfectly legal. It makes for an interesting argument.
@cinoclav Life insurance is more expensive to people who choose to have dangerous lifesytles. Car insurance is more expensive to people choose to drive fast cars. Health insurance is more expensive for people who choose to be unhealthy. Seems about right.
@cinoclav @medz particularly since our “health insurance” is an omnibus affair that covers costs of routine maintenance…
fucking scam good mainly for obfuscating and hiding prices of services, you ask me.
@cinoclav I don’t think it’s punishment any more than charging teenagers more for auto insurance. With a documented history of higher medical costs, it seems reasonable.
Hell no. Smoking is disgusting. People who smoke smell bad, have yellow teeth, and look like idiots puffing away on their “cig”. The hottest model in the world becomes disgusting with a cigarette in her mouth.
@gdog2009 most of them litter too. It’s like smoking takes precedent over everything else.
@gdog2009 Not to mention how much I want to pummel the assholes that throw their cigarette butts out their window when driving. Extra kicks in the groin for when your butt bounces off the front of my car.
@medz
Even if there is no litter, the area where the smokers gather gets covered with ash over time, can smell it even on windy Monday mornings when it’s been unused over the weekend.
All the companies I deal with have to power wash the smoking area frequently or it gets unpleasant.
The whole things just saddens me.
Has magic brownies back in the day …
Someone clue me in on the edibles experience.
I started to hate that “inhale for half a sec and you’re already completely wasted” feeling that came with super varieties of weed some decades back. And then you had to put up with “super-stoned” in your head for a few days. So none, except accidental light environmental inhales, for a long long time.
@f00l Are you sure that wasn’t like, PCP or something?
@Moose
Didn’t do much source checking. Just somebody goes, “hey, I just got this incredible gourmet stash from <exotic locality or exotic technology or extra full of spirituality or something>. Wanna toke?”
imbibing these agricultural miracles, even in tiny exposures, was always too much.
I didn’t do a chemlab in any of it, but it always looked, smelled, and had the texture of weed.
Have always been an RX sensitive person (aka “a cheap date”, according to one friend). And the tcp hangover affected other hobbies and interests. Used to piss me off that I had to wait until it wore off for the brain go into gear properly or something.
@f00l Here’s what I know about edibles:
It takes longer to take effect (so you have to be careful not to eat too much – and this is where it’s really better to buy from a reputable company with consistent dosing)
Most edibles taste really terrible (in my opinion). That still might be preferable to smoking or vaping though. But there are starting to be some that do taste pretty good. So if taste is important to you then do some research first.
If you are making your own edibles, make sure you decarboxylate the cannabis first.
@christinerenee
"decarboxylate the cannabis"
What what?
I used to like the old $5 lids of Mexican Extra-Harsh from way back when. Burned your lungs out, but lotsa fun.
@f00l Smoking automatically decarboxylates your weed, so you don’t need to worry about it unless you’re making edibles.
It’s basically just a process of heating it up to activate the THC (it changes from THCA which won’t get you high to THC which will)
If you just cook with it, some of the THCA will change to THC but not all of it. You have to heat it up in a controlled way in a specific temperature range.
https://www.whaxy.com/learn/how-to-decarboxylate-cannabis
@f00l Always been a “cheap date” and had to be really careful with putting anything in my body.
When I ended HepC treatment my body was even more sensitive. A teaspoon of red wine would have me buzzed for hours and a couple tiny leaves of high tech bud got me pretty sick. A couple years later I tried the buds, a couple tiny leaves, and didnt get sick but really stoned.
Feel rather lucky as the stash I have will last me a lifetime and the surprise doctor blood tests never show anything.
/giphy It Is All Good
@fjp999
thx
Fortunately, I never wound up with Hepatitis <anything>
And although fond of beer, and more than fond of single-malt and wine, and margaritas are a local near-religion, I kinda like the whole “clean and sober” thing. My youth was happily misspent - I have, I hope shown some measure of restraint since then. But variety can be nice.
/giphy cheap date
@f00l Of Course
Talking to friends, we all agree how lucky we were with our choices to live it up young, work real hard then kind of reverse mode and enjoy life without all the “noise”
/giphy cheap but nobody’s fool
I’ve always wanted to smoke cigarettes. Never have, because I don’t particularly look forward to being less healthy, buying into another monthly subscription (effectively), and dramatically increasing my chances of cancer. I’m pretty sure I’d be solidly addicted within the first pack, too.
Smoking? No - I’m more into baking or slow cooking.
@rockblossom Wish I could. Evil HOA won’t allow it.
@duodec wtf Are you for real?
@duodec I think “evil HOA” is redundant.
@DrunkCat Yes. Townhouse/coach home development. No charcoal grills, no smokers of any type (electric, charcoal, gas) , no firepits, chimneas, etc. Gas grill or electric grill are ok. Using a smoke box inside a gas grill has been allowed ‘so far’.
@duodec Put the BBQ in the tailgate of a pickup and light that bitch up on the public right of way. Fuck 'em.
@duodec
Home Owners Association
/giphy HOA dictator
@duodec I’d have to move. I can’t survive without my lump charcoal,chimney starter, flavored wood chips for smoking meats, and my fire pit.
/image cigarette litter
Why do smokers hang the cig out the car window and blow smoke out the car? You’d think they want to hotbox it up and enjoy the free 2nd-hand smoke.
/giphy really cool smoker
I smoke a pipe once or twice a week in the summer and fall. It probably averages out to once a week or less over the course of a year. I tried expensive tobaccos and estate pipes, and wound up realizing I like Captain Black from a Missouri Meerschaum just as much.
Last cigarette, 5/4/03, 13 years ago. Started in '63 and was up to three packs a day.
@pooflady
I enjoy the occasional toke when the option presents itself, though I’ve given up on smoking tobacco for good.
Won’t lie, though. I miss these fuckers like crazy.
So tasty. So deadly.
Kudos to all you here who have quit! I have asthma, so couldn’t have ever started if I wanted to.
My son had a friend who started smoking when he turned 18. I told him to pick any five smokers he knew that had been smoking for over 5 years and ask them this “are you glad that you started smoking?” and take that into consideration before buying another pack.
Best backyard smoker (esp for those with HOAs):
/giphy Smaug cumberbatch
