THE ONE PUFF FILES

[Giulia]

Just One Puff? Never! (Thanks HWC for pointing this one out.)

The One Puff Files

[George Martin]

I quit for 7 months- I decided I could try a Black and Mild (cigar) without harm- wrong. Now I am back to quit again.

[Giulia]

Have been away, just saw your post, George. Been over a week since you've posted anything. Did you you put 'em back down or you still suckin' on the filthy things? Hope the former.

[Giulia]

Without permission I'm reprinting some words here. Oct. 7, 2009. Every time I see words like this I'm going to add them to this discussion. Maybe, just maybe it will stop someone else from making the same mistake. Hope so.

I have quit before and lasted almost 2 years, then I thought I could have only one and got hooked all over again!

I dont know what happened. I just thought that one would be rewarding. Took me right back to where i started.

[Giulia]

Here are our very own One Puff Files from the Ex site. I've tried to condense them down.

Read and heed.


May 9, 2008. Once upon a time I had a 20 day quit....then fell into the missing smoking trap. So, I had one and here we are how many years later and still smoking.

June 4, 2008. I quite for 6 years, met a man, and he smoked. After a year, I did finally bum "just one". That was 8 years ago. I married and divorced the man, but still have the smokes!

June 7, 2008. The first time I quit was like 6 years ago after about ten years of smoking. It lasted like 6 months...until one day, while driving home from somewhere, I stopped at the old gas station I had bought cigarettes at every day for the past few years and bought a pack. This time, I made it another 6 months, when I slipped up from the stress during exam week. I only had one cigarette that week, but then ....

June 18, 2008. 8 years ago i had quit for two years...After drinking a few, I asked her for a smoke and my husband then asked for one too (he was 2 yrs quit too) and then we became smokers again! I know know that I HAVE to stay away from that ONE cigarrette!!!

June 30, 2008. I had quit for almost 8 years and I ended up slipping, It was a gradual thing, "oh I'll just have one today with this drink", then it turned into 2 and pretty soon I was a full blown smoker

July 5, 2008. Like a little kid,I snuck a cig of my husband and hid in the backyard and only made it through a couple of hits before i felt sick and dizzy.But later that day I did it again,then I just gave in and began smoking AGAIN.

July 27, 2008. I didnt smoke for 5 years until my soon to be husand started talking with me about smoking. It started off as a joke...let's see what it is like to have one cigarette with eachother.. . Right back into the habit.


Aug. 30, 2008. I had quit for 8 years.... I read an article somewhere that said if you were a non-smoker, and had to have a long flight over many times zones, if you smoked just one cigarette when you landed it would help you adjust to the time zone change.... I remember being in the duty free shop in Hamburg on my way to Moscow and remembering that article from 4 years passed----and when I landed I lit up, the just one, and was on my way to becoming a full blown smoker again in a few days.

Sept. 1, 2008. I bummed one from a co-worker and smoked it.... Ten minutes later I asked for a second. Within half an hour of that first puff, I was buying a pack for myself.

Oct. 7, 2008. ....the last quit which was my longest...3 weeks and I did the same mind stuff, saying what would it hurt to just have one and so I bummed one. Then a day or two later, I told myself I would buy a pack and smoke two of them and throw the pack away. Well, then later when I started smoking the whole packs, I told myself that I had quit this time and I could do it again later. That was back in '91

Oct. 19, 2008. I had quit for about 2 weeks short of a year. I gave in; telling myself it was to avoid losing my mind. I have spent the past 10 months trying to quit again.

Oct. 19, 2008. I had quit for about 7 years. Now here I am, on DAY 7

Nov. 8, 2008. Did fine all day yesterday UNTIL driving home from work. That little voice said.. just buy a pack, smoke 1 and throw the rest out. It's just one. Well, I smoked 3 last night and 2 more this morning.