Paceline smokers, come out of the closet!
 

Who's a smoker around here? How long? How much?


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HA! Not me but I was wondering this very same thing a few days ago.

does weed count ?

Does brisket count?

Obviously a LOT more cyclists smoke weed than tobacco.

It's the cage drivers I'm worried about though, for cyclist's safety.

ditto

When I was 18-19 years old I smoked for about one year. This was circa 1988-89 or so. I used to ride a track bike back then and I'd go out for a nice long ride come home and light up a cig. One day I thought to myself *** am I doing? I ended up quitting. It was not too hard after only one year but I felt the addiction. After two weeks cold turkey I lit up a cig and I guess now I know what it's like to shoot heroin because it felt like nothing ever in my life. I still very clearly remember that day. BUt that was it. After that in college maybe once in a great while i'd bum a smoke but I never got into it again.

I do like a cigar maybe once a year though. And till this day when someone walks by smoking I like the smell of it.

Smoking *anything is bad for you, why not just eat it if you must?

The odd cigar has been taken, not as often these days as the smoking Police will get you even if you think about sparking up.

Double

Well, you have an ally in Joe Jackson:

https://www.spiked-online.com/2010/0.../#.UoKxf2TwKe6

Personally, I think nicotine is foul. But, given that this is a bike forum, it took some guts to post this, so kudos on that front.

>>The odd cigar has been taken, not as often these days as the smoking Police will get you even if you think about sparking up.


Don't get me on that one, our daughter is massively allergic to smoke, totally disabling migraines. Enjoy your sparking up in your house.

It's okay to smoke the competition!

I was hoping this was another cooking thread

Aaah well.

I don't like smoking anything. Not even weed. I'm slow enough as it is and don't want to impact lung function

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I should have probably come clean from the start: I smoke a few per day, although I haven't done it on the bike yet.

i'll smoke a handful of good cigars/year.

there's nothing better than a crisp fall evening, sitting around the fire pit with a good glass of scotch and a nice easy smoking cigar to really relax the night away.

brisket and bong rips, this could be the best PL thread ever :banana:

Just the usual, you know, meth.

Back in 2002 I did an organized 100k ride and hammered the entire way with another rider I didn't know. At the finish, we were recovering and this guy reaches for a pack of cigarettes and said he needed a smoke. I nearly fell over!

I only smoke when I'm on fire

smoking tobacco is a vile habit.

just sayin'...

Same here. I buy fairly expensive ones so I can’t afford to make it a habit. Maybe one every week or so. Fuente Hemingway Maduro is my go to.

Followed by chewing it as a close second (in terms of grossness).

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When I was a teenager, I was walking around waiting for my race to start and there was John Howard off sitting by himself at a picnic table smoking. I think he told me he only smoked a few a day. IIRC, Bobby Phillips beat him that day.

Second hand smoke gives me an asthma attack these days, I used to smoke the occasional cigar

I smoked from age 18-28. Started when I was in the Navy in 1956. Almost everybody smoked then. The non-smoking section was outside in the rain..:)
Of course real men smoked the straight cigarettes. No filters.

I decided one day to quit. Never smoked since nor do I have any desire to smoke anything.

People still smoke? I was thinking about this the other day and was a bit suprised when I thought about my last three jobs, with departments of thirty to a hundred people, and I don't think a single person smoked. I could be wrong. Some of them might have gone home and chain smoked a pack. But at work, nuthin'.

As an athlete, even a slow one I don't know why anyone would smoke. I know, weed is the greatest thing since the wheel apparently, but I just don't get it. It smells like s#%t and it's still smoke in your lungs. I get the medicinal properties, just not the smoking part.

Reverse order IMHO (and I never did either).

I think I smoked from 18 till I was 27 or 28 and have not smoked for 7 years. Terrible habit, now I can't even smell it and it makes me sick. My wife also smoked and she has quit for a few years now. Most of my friends have as well. I feel like, compared to a say 10 years ago, a lot less people smoke so that is a good thing.

Only "benefit" of chewing is that others don't have to inhale or otherwise ingest your waste products. But yes, it's also a gross habit.

Years ago.

I was rather good at it.

So gross.

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I think we're likely to get a huge wave of new smokers. The juuling trends among teens are through the roof -- hard to see how this does not convert to next generation smokers. Really depressing.

Maybe I'm just a cranky old guy who doesn't hang in the right hip circles, but I have yet to even see someone vaping in person.

Yes; Yes; You must not get out much..
;) :beer:

Smoked for far to long (45 yrs quit in 2012)with major health problems. I was hooked as I had a major stress job, ADHD etc. I ended up with a major Heart Attack 2001 lost half of the left ventrical, Bladder Cancer 2017 & lost bladder in 2018. I almost died in January with a bowel obstruction lost 50cm of small intestine & colon. It was related to adhesions caused by the Bladder surgery. I was finally able to ride the other day, with my friends Urostomy Bag & Defibrillator the first time since November. I enjoy being on a Bicycle & I will continue to ride until I can't. When I look back now knowing what I know now I wouldn't have started. But alas it is too late now as the Horse is out of the Barn.

My roommate from college smoked. He is an excellent cross and mtb racer in the masters st louis scene.


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Thanks for sharing, Shoeman.

Ditto.