The more "not in style"...doesn't that make it cool? There are ways to afford it, but hey, sometimes the "authorities" don't like it when you neglect to feed your familymover1 said:Smoking its just not in style anymore. Besides who can affort to do it now adays?
Are we married to the same woman, or are all women the same? j/kmover1 said:I quit and I snuck a few smokes at work for about four months. My wife caught me and basically acused me of cheating on her.
"well if you lied about smoking then what or who else did you lie to me about......"
Che said:I threw out all my cigarettes and switched to hookah and narghile, imagine the neighbours faces when I sit outfront in the afternoon with my 3 foot hookah, apple and/or vanilla tobacco and 6 espressos before work.
Somehow I doubt it would go over well in the field....
Glorified Ape said:I was the only one out of 38 ocdts that smoked on IAP. My fireteam partner was an occasional smoker (primarily in the field), so it wasn't AS bad on exercises.
It's a good way to meet different people on course. I wouldn't have had any real opportunity to interact with recruits if I hadn't smoked. Luckily, one of my Sgts smoked so he was sympathetic to the cause when requests were made to smoke.
I never really realized how much of an affect it has on you until I noticed how bitchy I would get if I didn't get a semi-regular injection of nicotine. I remember coming off the course-end ruck march, doing the fireman's carry, and making a B-line to the nearest butt can for a smoke. Everyone looked at me like I was nuts but I knew.... oh yes I knew... the sweet sweet bliss of smoking after strenuous exercise.
Steve said:Pipe-ups .... ahhahaha!
What has always surprised me though - esp. with the infantry, is the guys who can smoke a pack a day and run like gazelles. HOW do they manage this?? I mean really now, I know it affects people differently but I see people smoking all the time and they are healthy as ox's.
I know the entire "well down the road.." thing but not everyone particularly cares about "down the road" I'm just wondering how these guys do it. I used to smoke and quit because of the health effects it had on running and to be truthful I'm a little envious of these SOB's who can smoke without losing much of their athletic performance.
Let it be known to any soldier here that if you can smoke and stil run 5km in a great time, I hate you.
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