Tobacco as a treat

[ChaosSix]

Since last month I have bought a pack of vanilla tobacco, rolling papers/Zig zags and OCB/,slim filters, a rolling machine.I seem to smoke only once a week, as a way to give myself , a "treat", and I don't want to get addicted to smoking.
I was wondering will smoking /about 2 cigarettes/ only once a week get me addicted? Sorry, I know the question is stupid.
My other idea of a "tobacco treat" is snuff, which somehow seems like a better option. What should I do?

[johnmrson]

Will it get you hooked? It depends. Tobacco effects different people in different ways. I used to smoke cigarettes but gave them up 5 years ago. I didn't smoke a great deal and giving up was pretty easy. I still treat myself to the occassional cigar. It's not a regular thing but when I feel like one I'll have one. Some months I'll have 4 or 5 and other months I'll have 1 or 2. I certainly don't class myself as hooked.

[Matt555]

Sorry buddy, but no one can answer this. All people are different and get addicted by different amounts. What I can tell you, is most people who end up becoming full on smokers start the very way you just described. I don't think anyone ever plans to become addicted to cigarettes, but it just kinda happens. Here is a cool thing you may not have known; nicotine is more chemically addictive than heroin. That sir, is just a fact........but hey, if you can keep it to 2 cigs a week, good for you!

[urr-lord]

just don't let the health nazzzs see you.or let your insurance company know.you may get hit with a large surcharge.

[wdwrx]

As a life-long smoker, all i can say is that "watch out... it's a slippery slope!"

[goby]

As a life-long smoker, all i can say is that "watch out... it's a slippery slope!"

I'll go further..... DON'T DO IT!!!!

Find a different way to treat yourself. BTW, snuff is addictive, but it is much, much, much healthier than cigarettes. I think I read that if all cigarette smokers started using snuff cancer would be reduced by 75%.

BTW, does it have to be a tobacco treat? Could it be a fine port or Scotch?

[Saltysteele]

by switching to snuff, you're just switching from lung ca to mouth ca. they add ground fiberglass to snuff to scratch the mucosal lining, to allow for better transfer of nicotine to the blood.

if i do any oral tobacco, i do redman loose leaf. still not the best, but.....

2 cigs a week won't addict you. but, then you go to a party and buy a pack of smokes. have some left after the party, so you smoke them until they're gone, because they'll get stale by next weekend. then, hey, it's tuesday, did something good, i'll buy a pack.. a year later, you're up to a pack a day. very slippery slope, and one you don't know you're sliding down, until you're near the bottom of the hill.

[BBrad]

As a life-long smoker, all i can say is that "watch out... it's a slippery slope!"

I'll go further..... DON'T DO IT!!!!

Find a different way to treat yourself. BTW, snuff is addictive, but it is much, much, much healthier than cigarettes. I think I read that if all cigarette smokers started using snuff cancer would be reduced by 75%.

BTW, does it have to be a tobacco treat? Could it be a fine port or Scotch?

I quit smoking (for the sixth time in my adult life) a year and a half ago. I had been smoking that time for eight years - a pack a day, every day. Prior to that startup, I had been off tobacco for five years.

Like anything, once addicted, one has to stay completely off the product to remain clean. I know that even now, if I were to light one up . . . just one . . . that I would be right back to a pack a day within days. Having "a smoke" during a personal crisis is what caused my relapse.

Yes, I still relish the aroma of a fine cigar or pipe. Every day I still have one or two times that I crave a smoke. The toughest thing I do daily is tell myself "NO".

The stuff is so addictive - please stop now while you still can.

As for me, I'm in my early 50s, and am now battling high blood pressure and the beginnings of COPD. I pray that my body can recover enough to allow me to grow old . . .

Please, please don't smoke.

[jwhite]

I can tell you from personal experience that cigarette smoking is highly addictive. I wouldn't wish anyone to start. But in my experience pipe and cigar smoking isn't nearly as much. I have no trouble leaving my pipes or cigars at home when I go on errands or to work. I NEVER left the house without cigarettes. They had to be close at hand at all times. Also my smokers cough went away within a couple of days after leaving cigs behind. Now I'm not going to pretend that Pipes are healthy, but neither is Prime Rib, or a good scotch. For me it is a quality of life issue. If you want to enjoy an occasional tobacco treat go that rout. There are quality cigars and pipe tobaccos that are vanilla BTW.

[Argonaut]

Just be like Bill Clinton and don't inhale, if you avoid taking it into your lungs I doubt you would get enough nicotine to become addictive, especially if it's only once or twice a week. As they say, use at your own risk.

[Aaron W.]

I started out like that 24 years ago and got up to 2-3 packs a day by the time I quit 2 years ago. Stick with a pipe or cigar and don't inhale those if you do its pretty rough. There is a post somewhere here about a guy quiting read that if you can find it.

[ratcheer]

As a life-long smoker, all i can say is that "watch out... it's a slippery slope!"

I had to work 12-hours per day 6 1/2 days per week during a labor disruption (strike) in 1983. I had been stopped smoking since 1973. But, everyone around me was smoking and it was getting to me. So, I decided to smoke again for just as long as the strike lasted.

The strike was over less than two weeks after I started smoking, again. But, I was hooked, again, and it took me about six months to completely kick it.

Tim

[bythbook]

why risk it?

don't do it.


just don't.


on the other hand, you're a big boy and you are your own man.... Who am I to be so directive?

[Jatte]

Once a week will probably turn into once every 6 days, then one every 5 days,

you'll hit a point where one a day will be the norm, then you'll slowly work to 3 a day, so a pack a week,

that will double, then double again, 4 packs a week is almost half a pack a day, and you will be very unahppy with yourself


If i was you, i'd do snuff, or snus :) check out my signature, we can show you the right way :)

btw, i 'm a 1-20 cigarette a day smoker, depending on the day and what i'm up to sometimes i barely smoke, sometimes i smoke almost a pack

slippery slipper slope :)

send me a pm if you want to know about snus :)

[Will P.C.]

People,and the news medias say its addictive for a reason. It changes the brain

[ChaosSix]

I am not going to buy anymore tobacco anyways. I was thinking of rolling cigarettes for friends because the prices of normal cigarettes have risen. I'm going to keep the snuff though , it seems to clear my nose and sinuses in a way that medicaments with camphor or menthol can't. I am having a different treat on different days . I smoke on Thursdays , and am now considering to just buy some chocolatey flavored cigars for future tobacco treats . My treat on most evenings is a nice drink . Today , I didn't smoke but enjoyed some Ballantines

[ouch]

I wouldn't call crappy cigarette tobacco a "treat". If you want to treat yourself, get a proper cigar or some fine pipe tobacco.

[Not A Nice Person]

Inhaling smoke is bad in general, but most of the addictiveness of cigarettes comes from their engineered nicotine levels and chemical additives. Roll your own blends generally lack those.

Cigars aren't addictive, for the most part, but they do become a bit of a passion.

I might smoke anywhere from 5 cigars in a day, to 1-2 in a week, depending on what's going on in my life, but I've never, ever, had a "niccy fit" or shaky hands wanting one. Not like cigarettes at all.

NANP™

[TimmyBoston]

I don't understand why anyone would want to start smoking cigarettes as a treat. It's a terrible, terrible, terrible decision.

[kprincehouse]

Former smoker here. I quit recently after about ten years of smoking. I sincerely wish I had never started.

I've only known one person who was able to smoke only occasionally (and he pulled this off only with great difficulty, and only by never buying cigarettes himself but rather smoking only when hanging out with us smokers). I've known many more who got hooked and found it incredibly difficult to quit.

You'll do what you want to do, but if I could go back in time and make the decision over again, I would stay far, far away from ever having even one. I know you'll make your own decisions, but for what it's worth--in my opinion, throwing your new rolling machine in the trash and not looking back would be by far the best move you can make at this point.