BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?

Subject: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 May 06 - 11:28 PM

A joke in the "frog" thread got me wondering about this. I think it's pretty bizarre. While sex is great, smoking cigarettes is just downright repulsive...but then, I don't smoke.

Okay...here's my theory. I think that the cigarettes are alive. They're possessed by demonic little spirits in the employ of the tobacco companies, and those spirits RESENT being ignored for the amount of time it takes most people to have sex...like 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Heh! Imagine how upset they get if you take half an hour? Whoa!

Those damn tobacco demons get so jealous over being ignored while the precious seconds tick away that the MOMENT the lovers take a breather and the demons can get a thought in edgeways, so to speak, they start just SCREAMING..."Oh my God, I have just GOT to have a cigarette! Right now!" They plant those thoughts in the people's heads, like seeding clouds. The people, being in a kind of blank afterglow, are highly vulnerable to being programmed and manipulated at that time. They think the demon's thoughts are their own...and...they suddenly have a powerful urge to light up a cigarette.

Disgusting, isn't it?

Anyone else got a better theory?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: frogprince
Date: 12 May 06 - 11:32 PM

I used to smoke after sex, but found that a little lubricant helps...

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 May 06 - 11:34 PM

LOL! I was expecting that. Perhaps you should keep a small fire extinguisher beside the bed, in the car, by the phone booth on the corner...all the likely places.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 May 06 - 12:30 AM

Cause I can?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Peace
Date: 13 May 06 - 12:48 AM

It's the friction, LH.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Metchosin
Date: 13 May 06 - 01:06 AM

If you think great sex only lasts from 3 seconds to 3 minutes you must be sticking it in knotholes Little Hawk. Perhaps thats why you believe people smoke after sex.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 13 May 06 - 02:03 AM

Try using Pyrex instead of Durex.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: alanabit
Date: 13 May 06 - 02:19 AM

Burning passion?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Gurney
Date: 13 May 06 - 04:34 AM

I don't any more, but I do get a little flushed.

(A little WHAT flushed, Gurney?)

I wouldn't recommend a CO2 extinguisher, LH. That would be a real passion-freezer. A dry-powder type is VERY dusty and dehydrative. A water-acid type would rot the bed-clothes. Unless you washed them. A foam type doesn't add to any-ones pleasure, and some of the rest are ozone destroyers.

Naah. Just let 'em smoke. Nil Combustibus Profumo, as Mick Flanders said.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 13 May 06 - 05:04 AM

Now we know why some of the older folk on here are 'burnt out' It was not the hard job of working after all! Best wishes, Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 13 May 06 - 05:45 AM

Because all that heavy breathing introduces oxygen into your bloodstream, and the nicotine level drops, so the craving for baccy returns.
Remember the old tale obout the 3 best things in life.

A drink before, and a cigarette afterwards!

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Cluin
Date: 13 May 06 - 07:27 AM

Blame Hollywood.




Why not?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 13 May 06 - 07:46 AM

Some things just ain't worth getting all heated up over.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST,*daylia*
Date: 13 May 06 - 07:55 AM

I used to smoke after sex, every single time. What a hottie! But now that I'm getting old and wide, I have sex after I smoke. Helps me cut back.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: kendall
Date: 13 May 06 - 09:02 AM

It's no fun, getting older that is,
When I was young I used to think about sex all the time.
Now that I'm getting older, I only think about it when I'm awake.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 May 06 - 09:18 AM

I don't smoke after sex.
Sometimes I steam a bit........
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Cluin
Date: 13 May 06 - 10:09 AM

Don't steam the wrong bit.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Bill D
Date: 13 May 06 - 11:08 AM

it's all connected in some folks heads...

"Cigareets and Whusky, and Wild, Wild Women"

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: gnomad
Date: 13 May 06 - 12:16 PM

Perhaps because it is (I imagine) hard to smoke during sex? For me you could cut off the last two words of the question, I just don't get smoking and never have.

Kendall is right about it being no fun getting older, but it sure beats the alternative.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 May 06 - 12:23 PM

It's not so much that sex is improved with smoking, as that smoking is so improved by sex. After all the activities and releases, smoking is much more pleasurable (as most things would be I guess) than at other times. So if you are a smoker, that's a real good time to enjoy a smoke.

Kind of like hard outdoor work is not improved by a cold beer afterwards per se, but the cold beer is improved by the effects of the work. It just tastes better then and is more appreciated then.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 13 May 06 - 02:52 PM

Dunno, I'm usually asleep.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 May 06 - 02:55 PM

Ahhhh...I understand, Susan. I don't exactly empathize, but I do understand. Good explanation on your part.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 May 06 - 04:16 PM

Me, I prefer stromboli apres. Or Thai. Or Mexican. Or.....

A good night's sleep. :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 13 May 06 - 05:43 PM

I used to smoke after sex but once I got to twenty a day I was exhausted!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 13 May 06 - 07:23 PM

Before sex it'd be too early. I usuall smoke after seven.
Ah...sorry...

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 13 May 06 - 08:34 PM

Little Hawk,

I think that nicotine is a drug and it's one way for someone who is threatened by intimate contact to distance themselves from the other person. They can shut off feelings this way.

Frank Hamilton

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 06 - 06:46 AM

CHEAP CONDOMS

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST,*daylia*
Date: 14 May 06 - 07:42 AM

Using smoke to distance oneself works only if one partner doesn't smoke, Frank. Or if the non-smoker doesn't like it - a situation I've yet to encounter. From what I remember of my wild and woolly youth, the (few) non-smokers who got to know me (biblically) assured me they didn't mind; in fact, one even said he liked it (?!?)

Although I do light up sometimes just to shoo away annoying holier-than-thou types and gain myself some peace (works like a charm!), it never occurred to me to do that with a lover. If I needed to keep my distance or wanted to keep my feelings to myself, well, why bother taking such intimate risks in the first place? Least that's the way I run my life -- maybe men are different.

Hmmm -- not maybe. 'No doubt' is more like it.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST,Pressie
Date: 14 May 06 - 07:53 AM

I always keep my distance as I screw u all!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST,12StringStan
Date: 14 May 06 - 08:26 AM

My ex always used to. Her standing jokes were that one, it helped to get the taste out of her mouth, and two, she enjoyed the experience of being able to hold something long and straight in her hands. Never bothered me in the slightest. Why would it, and I asleep!

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: kendall
Date: 14 May 06 - 09:07 AM

Guest dalia, "Holier than thou"?
I lost my voice to cancer and my opposition to smoking is hardly a holier than thou attitude. Smoking is stupid, expensive and too often fatal. I resent being forced to inhale another persons foul air.

I went to a party last night; there were about 20 people there, and three of them smoked. Did they have the manners to all smoke in the same room? Hell NO! They were too damn lazy for that, so they just did what they wanted to do regardless of people who are concerned about their health. If it had been my house the smokers would have been banished to another room where they could continue to pollute each other.

Holier than thou...horse shit! It's self preservation.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST,*daylia*
Date: 14 May 06 - 10:02 AM

I agree kendall. IT is self-preservation. I can't think of too many things more intolerable than second-hand smoke,and yes -- even for a smoker. At least, this smoker! (who always smokes outdoors and as far away from the crowded stench of those horrible public smoking areas as I can possibly get).

My son, who is a light smoker, just moved into a bachelor apt in a nearby city. He was so pressed for time -- only a week to find a place and move before he started him new job -- and found he hadn't check the place out carefully enough. He was SO disappointed to find that the other tenants smoke in the house. He tells me he's been tempted to start smoking inside himself so that the stink won;t bother him so much, but so far he's refused to give in. And he's looking for another place asap because of it.

I'm so sorry to hear about your voice, kendall. My voice is sometimes gravelly from my own light smoking (less than 10 a day usually), but hey - some people find that sexy. Not that what other people may or may not find sexy matters much at all ...

When I am in 'my own space' (ie my own car, my own back yard, out for a walk by myself etc) and I decide to light up in the presence of obnoxious, arrogant holier-than-thou people who take it upon themselves to "correct" my behavior and my choices, well, lighting up is an act of self-preservation too. IE - don't like it?   Then please, do us both a favour and take a hike! It's a big, big world out there, and there's more than enough sweet fresh air to go around for the next billion years - if we eventually manage to curb the burning of fossil fuels, that is.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST,*daylia*
Date: 14 May 06 - 10:37 AM

...those spirits RESENT being ignored for the amount of time it takes most people to have sex...like 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Heh! Imagine how upset they get if you take half an hour? Whoa!

30 sec to 3 minutes? Whoa indeed! Which planet are u from again?

And you say you've never smoked, LH? Hmmm ... well, it could be that smokers have more time. Or persistence, or stamina. Or something! (stupidity, maybe?)

;-D

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: JennyO
Date: 14 May 06 - 10:52 AM

Not sure if I do, really. I've never looked.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 May 06 - 01:06 PM

Is there no one on this forum with enough sense of wit to understand that the "30 seconds to 3 minutes" remark about sex was a joke? A deliberate satire?

Why do you think I put the word "Heh!" immediately after it?

Maybe the smoking kills brain cells off too...?

Frank - Interesting thought you have there about the emotional distancing. It think it's possible that in some cases (certainly not all) that could be a factor.

It's simple. If you grow up taking cigarettes for granted, and think of smoking as something cool and desirable, then you will probably see nothing wrong with smoking as a personal choice, after sex or at other times. If you grow up as I did, in a non-smoking household, you will NOT take it for granted, you will view it as a very unpleasant act, and an act that is, frankly, totally irrational as well as totally bad for people's health...and you will avoid it if at all possible.

The "holier-than-thou" syndrome is just as obvious among the more militant (or defensive) smokers as it is among the more militant non-smokers. They both like having it their way, and they both resent the other point of view on the matter. That is typical human behaviour all the way around.

I knew a very militant smoker in Orillia for the last 20 years, an older lady, who wore a "Thank You For Not Smoking" button everywhere she went, as a sarcastic "Fuck you!" comment to the world in general, because she smoked ostentatiously and constantly wherever she went. She was damn proud of it too, and made sure that everyone knew it. She was fighting a personal crusade against people who are against other people smoking in public places. I call that being "holier-than-thou" with a vengeance. Well, she's still alive, but not looking too healthy these days...and she still smokes, but she can't smoke in any restaurant in Orillia anymore. She has given up wearing the button, and can no longer have the satisfaction of flaunting her habit loftily and contemptuously in front of the "holier-than-thou" people at the next table over.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 May 06 - 01:49 PM

Oh...... So you assumed I really believe you go around putting your dick in knotholes, Little Hawk? hmmmm.....LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 May 06 - 01:55 PM

No, Mectchosin, not you... ;-)

The thing about knotholes is, there might be a squirrel lurking in there...and that could be BAD! They can be quite aggressive.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 May 06 - 02:00 PM

Ah.....so you have contemplated it then? Wise decsion....LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 May 06 - 02:48 PM

THAT wood truly smoke!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 May 06 - 02:50 PM

I find with most trees that their bark is worse than their bite...

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: kendall
Date: 14 May 06 - 04:36 PM

daylia, I have no beef with smokers who have some regard for non smokers by doing it elsewhere. What you do in your car is no ones business but your own.

I can't tell you how it grieves me to have to walk through a gang of teens all smoking, but it is not my place to confront them, and it would only make them hump up and justify their stupidity.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 May 06 - 04:49 PM

I feel exactly the same way, Kendall. I remember the days when a non-smoker had to just put up with the fact that practically everyone around him was smoking...in cars, on buses, on airplanes, in restaurants, wherever you went...and had no choice but to breathe their second-hand smoke. It made riding in vehicles simply awful, specially on airplanes. I thank God it's not like that anymore in North America.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST,*daylia*
Date: 14 May 06 - 05:15 PM

Wow LH, she must have quite the boring little life! Is there a shortage of good entertainment in Orillia? ;-] In any case, rest assured that even as a smoker, I don't bother people unless they bother me first - a relatively rare course of events.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: frogprince
Date: 14 May 06 - 05:17 PM

Sometimes I yield to the temptation to rag someone about his or her smoking. Generally, it's somewhat selfish on my part; I find myself doing it with someone I like, because I would hate it if they were the next cancer victim I know. Usually I would probably do better to hold my tongue; but, sometimes...

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 May 06 - 05:30 PM

You ask her if her life is boring, Daylia. I can introduce you to her sometime. She's got an ego the size of Prince Edward Island (in my opinion), and I'm sure she thinks her life is anything BUT boring. Her daughter is a superb singer, by the way, a great piano player, and a very nice person...played professionally in Europe for many years, is now back in Orillia and working a day job. She got tired of the music circuit eventually. She was sort of doing what I would term pop music...very good pop music. She also smokes, I believe, but not so heavily as her mother does.

It's the really young people I feel sad for when I see them smoking, because I know they have their whole lives ahead of them and they're making a choice they will almost surely regret sometime later. The older ones...I just shrug. They made their choices a long time ago, like the rest of us older folks.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 May 06 - 06:39 PM

Gave up smoking. Took up sex.

I'm much happier and healthier now.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST,*daylia*
Date: 14 May 06 - 09:46 PM

WEll, I make choices every moment of my life, LH. I like it that way -- who knows what tomorrow may bring? Besides, if I didn't I may as well be dead, I figure.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 06 - 09:48 PM

'Why do (some) people smoke after sex?'

Why do you ask?

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 May 06 - 09:50 PM

I smoke a pack a day. Sex takes a few hours. I smoke after sex to appease the nicotine craving. Finish the smoke and then do it again.

Subject: RE: BS: Why do (some) people smoke after sex?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 May 06 - 10:12 PM

I ask for 2 reasons:

1. I want to know.
2. It provides an opportunity to kick off a discussion.