Since most of us have quit smoking, what brands did you smoke back in the day?

Question

Virginia Slims
Eve (they had flowers on them)
Marboral light
Something in a white box that was menthol! I forgot!! Isn't that great?

I smoked from 18 - 41 quit for seven years and started again at 49 - 51. Now I am done forever!

Answer 1

oh goldwing you crack me up !!
can't name every cigarette brand i've ever smoked, but i can tell you that as the price went up i looked for cheaper and cheaper brands
i too have quit 100 times and have always had some excuse for going back to them
after my first heart attack 4 years ago, the doctor told me i had to quit. i did - for 2 weeks
after the second heart attack 15 months ago the doctor told me i had to quit. i did - the whole 3 days i was in icu plus 4 days at home
this last heart attack, the doctor again told me i had to quit. i did - for the 2 days i was in the hospital - had one lit before i was out of the parking lot
i have to die from something, so i figure i might as well go happy
cigarette tax here in Illinois is going up AGAIN jan.1 so that may persuade me - will put them to over $4 /pack
but then i always said i would quit if they ever got to $1 /pack so who knows !!

Answer 2

hi, I quit smoking 7 years ago. I think it is not a great deal but a effective planning coupled with will force which helped me to get rid of this dangerous habit. In 1999 I used to smoke at least 48 cigarettes a day, but one day I really felt very disgusted about this. So I took a piece of paper and made a plan, 7 am to 11 pm --All total consumed 48 cigarettes. so per hour I smoked 3 cigarettes. Then I did the next day's planning. Every hour 2 cigarettes, and not 3. Then the next day--3 cigarettes every 2 hours. In that way I wrote down almost a month's plan and effectively reducing smoking day by day. Then from the next day, I started to follow the plan religiously and I did not feel any great problem to gradually and routine wise reducing smoking. And truly after the month I did not feel the urge to smoke again. I am sure if you follow this plan, you will also be able to quit smoking. Best of luck.

Answer 3

Good for you! I am proud of you. I started smoking at 12 and smoked until I was 48 and had a blood clot in my heart. After the surgery I didn't smoke for three years. Then my Dad moved in and a couple of months later my younger brother moved and they both smoked. I ended up smoking again and it is sooo hard to quit. I used to smoke Marlboro Red 100's, now I smoke Marlboro Light 100's. I am trying to quit though. Sooner than later.

Answer 4

I quit in August of 2003 after a fifty year habit which had gotten me up three+ packs a day. The last brand I smoke was a generic menthol light cigarette which I bought at the military commissary. I started out with Pall Mall and Viceroy, then went on to Salem, before settling on my last brand.

Answer 5

I quit two years ago. I smoked Marlboro back in the day, Virginia Slims menthol, and finally Capri' Ultra Light Menthol.
I loved those slender little Capri's as I have small hands and it
was great for me. Sometimes, when I got down to the end of the cig I would get funny looks...as if maybe it WASN'T a cig I was smoking. I still miss them at times but thank goodness don't crave them anymore.

Answer 6

Viceroy, Winston, Marlboro, Old Gold, Camels, Lucky Strikes, Pall Malls, Dorals, Salem Menthols, rolled my own with Drum, still huffing away with Marlboro Ultra Light 100's--I will die from it but when I quit in the past it was a toss of between lungs or obesity, neiither is fun so I just went back to smoking--ugly but hey we smokers have paved half the roads in the US. Now they want us to foot health care.

Answer 7

Started at 15...smoked OP's [other people's] until I began smoking my parents' brand...Kent

Then in college began smoking Salem, then switched to Benson and Hedges Menthol, then Benson and Hedges Menthol Lights.

Last month I switched to Va. Slim Menthol Lights [unfortunately still smoking]

Answer 8

Lord, I started out on Newport cigarettes, kept getting sick to my stomach about 3AM at the bridge table...someone suggested it was the menthol, so I switched to Winstons...no more stomach problems. Then I went to Benson Hedges...after a year, started with migraines, back to Winstons...about 1 year, and migrains again..went to Kents...that one lasted for about 5 years, then headaches again...switched to Vantage...no more headaches. Tried Barclays, sore throat! Back to Vantage. About 12 years ago, I became a master of quitting smoking...I have more experience in quitting smoking that all of you put together. The patches work wonders...for about 7 months, I didn't smoke, but I put on 35 pounds...the doctor told me I was within 15 pounds of being in as bad a condition as smoking! And I hated being fat...so back to smoking. Lost the weight (it didn't come off as easily as it went on, that I will tell you). And since that time, I have quit, oh...50 times! I really can quit very well... for about 3 weeks..then something happens to give me an excuse (any excuse in a storm works) and "oh, just one cigarette cannot hurt me......" well, we all know the story. I am batting in at 66, cigarette in hand, puffing away while writting this (very glamorous, you will have to admit, so adult...I feel like a grown up when I smoke!) and so very sexy (don't you just love the smell of stale smoke on clothing and is there anything better than smoker's breath?) I am so very proud of myself and my will power! Very few thing in life have made me feel a failure..but quitting smoking is right up there at the top...I feel like an idiot right now..so thanks a lot, Granny! And to top that off, I now feel totally excluded from the group, since "most of us have quit smoking." Next time you ask a question, take your shotgun off the wall and fire two warning shots into my head first! :-)

Answer 9

Kent
Pall Mall
Luckies
Marlboro
Then started rolling my own with American spirit for years and years
now I smoke a pipe
Amphora is the only widely sold tobacco I actually like much
but we have shops around here that get good tobacco and I buy their private blends
matter of fact I got a bowl going now

Answer 10

in this order:
salems
salem lights
merit mentols
merit menthol lights
basic menthol lights
basic menthol ultra lights
and then the patch,and then clean for a few years...
I started smoking again after we invaded afghanistan...
quit again,in 2004.
I STILL want a cigarette.
but since I know I cannot smoke A cigarette without wanting to smoking ALL the cigarettes,I gues I will not smoke one.

hey GW---it was easier for me to give up booze than cigs!in fact I have heard more than one HEROIN addict say that quitting smoking was tougher than giving up drugs.It really is the mother of all addictions,lol