So I know that 99.9% of you on this forum won't recognize my name at all seeing as how I only had a few posts before a sudden absence lasting months. To be brief, I picked up pipe smoking after about a year away from the hobby, due to circumstances out of my control, work, life, school ETC. I got really excited about it, fully intended to be an active member of the forums and even wanted to start my own YouTube channel. Well, as things usually go, life got in the way again, and I was either too busy or too tired to go smoke a pipe. And that's where the whole cigarette thing came into play.
I started smoking around three years ago, when I was still a minor, on and off. At most, I'd probably have the odd cigarette or flavored cigarillo with my friends, maybe four or five times a month, and sometimes when I was just by myself. Well lately, and I'm gonna say the last year or so, smoking cigarettes has wormed its way into my life, in a not so very convenient way. I've been working a few industrial jobs, first in a pipe yard, and then I started to apprentice as an industrial electrician. Very stressful, long hours, physical jobs that don't get me wrong payed well, but just left me feeling empty inside, in the sense that I knew what I was doing was not something I wanted to do for the rest of my life. A majority of the people I worked with smoked cigarettes, and I just started to smoke more and more. The stress, long days all accumulated into making me a daily smoker of cigarettes, and up until now I had been smoking at least a half a pack a day. Not something I'd ever think myself doing personally.
Well now I'm glad to report I'm cigarette free for two days. I know that's not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it's a big deal to me. I hated feeling miserable, and so I quit apprenticing, and am going to go back to school in the fall of 2014 to strive towards a university education (nothing against the trades however, tis' a very good life and work for many honorable folk, just not for me). I set up a smoking room/man cave in the parents garage (gracious enough on their part since I still live with them). My girlfriend is very supportive, and I hope to start reaching for my pipe on a daily basis and quit dreaming of cigarettes.
Not very brief now that I've finished haha, but I felt I needed to reintroduce myself to the forum, and give all you good folk a little looksee into my life.
Stay puffin!
pipenscotch
I started smoking around three years ago, when I was still a minor, on and off. At most, I'd probably have the odd cigarette or flavored cigarillo with my friends, maybe four or five times a month, and sometimes when I was just by myself. Well lately, and I'm gonna say the last year or so, smoking cigarettes has wormed its way into my life, in a not so very convenient way. I've been working a few industrial jobs, first in a pipe yard, and then I started to apprentice as an industrial electrician. Very stressful, long hours, physical jobs that don't get me wrong payed well, but just left me feeling empty inside, in the sense that I knew what I was doing was not something I wanted to do for the rest of my life. A majority of the people I worked with smoked cigarettes, and I just started to smoke more and more. The stress, long days all accumulated into making me a daily smoker of cigarettes, and up until now I had been smoking at least a half a pack a day. Not something I'd ever think myself doing personally.
Well now I'm glad to report I'm cigarette free for two days. I know that's not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it's a big deal to me. I hated feeling miserable, and so I quit apprenticing, and am going to go back to school in the fall of 2014 to strive towards a university education (nothing against the trades however, tis' a very good life and work for many honorable folk, just not for me). I set up a smoking room/man cave in the parents garage (gracious enough on their part since I still live with them). My girlfriend is very supportive, and I hope to start reaching for my pipe on a daily basis and quit dreaming of cigarettes.
Not very brief now that I've finished haha, but I felt I needed to reintroduce myself to the forum, and give all you good folk a little looksee into my life.
Stay puffin!
pipenscotch
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