What do you NOT miss about smoking?

[PaigeTurner]

For those who’ve made the switch, what do you not miss about smoking analogs?

Here’s my list:

Going outside in any weather to smoke

Keeping car windows cracked in freezing weather, rain, etc. to ventilate the smoke

Making sure I have enough packs of smokes on me for whatever the days activities

Going to particular restaurants not because the food is better, but because they have a smoking section

Interrupting any and every activity to take smoke breaks (shopping, dining, movies, amusement parks, etc.)

Wondering constantly if I reek of smoke because I could never smell it on myself when I was a smoker

Wheezing when I took a deep breath

Longing to rush through events just so I could go smoke afterwards (graduations, kids birthday parties, visits with anti-smoking relatives, etc.)

The emotional guilt of smoking and wondering if it would influence my young children to pick up the habit when they got older (although I still feel a bit guilty e-smoking and I’m not sure how to explain it to them)

Having to stop whatever I was doing and walk or drive to the nearest convenience store because I was down to my last smoke or two

Having terrible smokers throat in the morning after a long night out puffing away

Ashtrays!

Constantly searching for that blasted missing lighter...

...and you?

[sixstring]

All of the above!!!

You pretty much summed it all up, there's really nothing I can add.

Great post...

[Mommyshann]

All of the above and I also don't miss my 8 year old daughter reminding me at least 5 times a day that smoking is bad for me and will kill me. I think she's probably the happiest person in the world that I've quit!

[e-pipeman]

I always felt that my pipe would kill me, even though I loved it. I now realise that it's just a lump of wood (oh,all right, briar...). I don't miss it at all - but would scream if anyone tried to part me from my Intellicig!

[Soot]

Thanks for posting that list Paige. I'm still in the early stages of having quit and was on the point of feeling sorry for myself - you know - those thoughts of "this is tough ..." etc etc. Your list has snapped me out of it .

I'd add:

Being able to stay in the pub and not having to disappear every 30 minutes for a fix only to return to hear the end of a conversation that you've missed. Ditto for after-dinner conversations.
No passive smoking guilt caused to my other-half, the children and my granddaughter,.
Not having to scrub the car windshield to clear the tar off (a particular nuisance now the nights are coming in and the temperature dropping).
According to my other-half - I've stopped snoring at night! I have to take her word for it .
Not feeling I'm hooked on a habit that would have me one day sitting across from my doctor while she told me "I've afraid I've some bad news ...". Not that any of us are going to escape this experience but the amount I was smoking had me thinking I wasn't too many days away from it.
Not being able to smell things but pretending I could!
Smelly hands stinking of stale tobacco.

OK - that's enough. This has been very therapeutic .

[jigtg]

I always felt that my pipe would kill me, even though I loved it. I now realise that it's just a lump of wood (oh,all right, briar...). I don't miss it at all - but would scream if anyone tried to part me from my Intellicig!

Well.. I wouldn't see it all that black and white unless you have reason to think so. I mean, if you smoke 1-2 pipe bowls per day it is not going to have that drastic influence on your health.

[jpc815]

I think that all sums it up very acurately for me too. The ability to BREATH better is the greatest thing and the absence of the constant cough.

[MoonRequiem]

I'll add one. My non-smoking wife kissing me...smiling, and going back in for a nice long kiss because...I DON'T TASTE LIKE AN ASHTRAY!

[Grenage]

Not being able to smoke indoors; hell, I wouldn't smoke in my own house.

[e-pipeman]

Well.. I wouldn't see it all that black and white unless you have reason to think so. I mean, if you smoke 1-2 pipe bowls per day it is not going to have that drastic influence on your health.

But if you smoke small amounts over the course of a day...not good. It all adds up. My practice was to light a bowlful, have a few deep puffs and let it go out. 10-15 mins later - the same thing (same bowl) and so on 'til you are smoking the dottle. As you progress through the bowl the amount of tar increases. Tar is one of the big nasties - ever looked at a used pipe cleaner?