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Title: Smokers?? Post by Mack on May 9th, 2003, 5:25pm While I'm goin thru this sh!t, here's a question/poll. How many ch'ers here are/were smokers? I've seen some info saying most ch'ers smoke and or drink and just wanted to know. I'm planning on quitting(again) here in a couple of weeks and wanted to find out other peoples experiences. Thanx, Mack |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by jonny on May 9th, 2003, 5:28pm 4 packs a day 15 beers a day For over 20 years 28 years chronic Anyone want to fuck with me? ;D ...................................jonny |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Spanner on May 9th, 2003, 5:30pm Mack I've been a non-clusterhead smoker and im now a smoking clusterhead, can't say I've noticed a difference. I can't drink in or out of cycle. :-/ Quote:
Wes |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by cbolony on May 9th, 2003, 5:32pm smoke 2- 3 packs aday Love to drink but need imitrex injection to stop the CH in about hour it's a trigger for me |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by stevek on May 9th, 2003, 5:57pm I have never smoked but then I don’t remember much any more. I believe my memory is gone from all of the drinking. At least I think I drink a lot, but I don’t remember much that happen longer than an hour ago. I’m going to try some tequila to see if the taste is familiar. Take care stevek |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by brain_cramps on May 9th, 2003, 6:12pm Mack: I've smoked at least a pack a day for 25 years. I don't drink more than pop anymore. (Old Pop sure drinks a lot though!!! ;D) grant 8) |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by brain_cramps on May 9th, 2003, 6:21pm on 05/09/03 at 17:28:42, jonny wrote:
on 05/09/03 at 17:30:09, Spanner wrote:
Sounds like you might have a new friend, jonny ;D (sorry, Wes :D) |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by gills on May 9th, 2003, 6:28pm Smoke 30 cigs day Drink carton of beer plus 5 bottles wine a week. I agree. Seems like there is a connection between alcohol abuse in teenage years and CH. Gills |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Kenzie60 on May 9th, 2003, 6:49pm Smoke pack and a half a day. Do not drink alcohol. Roseannne :D |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by stevegeebe on May 9th, 2003, 7:04pm Stopped drinking = Less smoking. Was at 2 packs. Now 30 cigs a day. Steve |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by oringkid on May 9th, 2003, 7:09pm Smoke 2 to 3 packs a day Drink 2 to 3 drinks or beers a day (but not every day) BUT I got CH when I was only 11 or 12...did not smoke or drink then. So the correlation seems to be that CH either causes an addictive personality or people with addictive personalities seem to get CH but Smoking and Drinking do not cause CH. That's my story and I'm stickin to it! Sherry |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Opus on May 9th, 2003, 8:04pm 1 pack a day, and I no longer drink. Opus :P |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by don on May 9th, 2003, 8:35pm 2 packs a day. Quote:
Depends. Got land? |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by forgetfulnot on May 9th, 2003, 9:34pm Quote:
:o ::) ;D Lee |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Drk^Angel on May 9th, 2003, 11:15pm Mmmmmmmm... Beer and cigs... It doesn't get much better than that... PFDAN................................ Drk^Angel |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Frank on May 10th, 2003, 12:27am Smoke 2 packs per day. Drink 1 six pack per day (Monday thru Friday), and 2 six packs Saturday and Sunday. No Jonny, I do not want to fuck you. |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by brain_cramps on May 10th, 2003, 1:30am on 05/09/03 at 19:09:54, oringkid wrote:
I've thought about that for years, :o...???...???...???... ....8) grant 8) |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by cootie on May 10th, 2003, 1:44am Um Lee......hello......what's that quote got to do with smokeing or shouldn't I ask ? Quote fer a quote Pam |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by suzy617 on May 10th, 2003, 8:16am One pack of cigs a day. Drink one or two days only on the weekend. Today is the weekend so off I go..... ;) suzy |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Sean_C on May 10th, 2003, 3:59pm Mack, 2 Packs a day. Quit for 1 year, still clustered. Started smoking 2 packs a day again and still clustering, if the clusters don't kill me the cancer probably will:) Been sober 14 years. I had the Irish social disease. Seano' |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by wally on May 10th, 2003, 5:29pm i smoke a pack a day and usually 2-3 beers a day....during last years cycle i stopped smoking for 2 days and all it did was changed the time during the day the i got my daily ch, intensity was not as bad as well peace wally |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Wendy the Brit on May 10th, 2003, 6:20pm 2 packs a day, been smoking since I was 14. Drink as well, other vices not printable. W the B who loves a good suck on a fag butt! (sorry you have to be British to be allowed to say that) |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by kim on May 10th, 2003, 6:27pm Give us a such off that fag willya? Uhoh.......... ;D |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by kim on May 10th, 2003, 6:29pm Oops I meant SUCK ;D BTW - hows ya face ;D Errrrrrrrrr. Ahem. 1 (+1.2 pk with tequila) .............next day head hurtie and cough more......... :D |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by els on May 10th, 2003, 9:55pm Never smoked. drink occasionally, get really drunk about 3 times a year. God, do I sound like a goody-two-shoes or what? els |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Marianne on May 10th, 2003, 10:13pm Aw Man, I just knew this was coming! Yes, I friggin smoke and I love to smoke. I'd friggin smoke it my sleep if I could! Well, okay jsut a tad on the drama but I've been wondering if smoking had something to do with these bastards. Vasoconstriction and all. Alcohol- a glass or 3 of champange on N.Y.E. is all. Er, how to ask this one? Please, don't anybody lose their minds and feel the need to get all preachy. My ch's came on a year or so after I'd first tried extacy pills. I was doing 1-3 pills a month for about 6 months then and rarely have one these days. I have however, noticed that after a night out taking extacy a ch is always waiting in the wings for me when I arrive home. These things just don't like anyone to have a goodtime! Anyone else have the same or similar? Marianne |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Aussie on May 11th, 2003, 2:49am 20 cigs a day, don't drink as much as I would like to but a little more than I should. After nearly 20 years of episodic CH's, whether I do or don't smoke doesn't make an ounce of difference. |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Laurie on May 11th, 2003, 4:58am Never smoked, never drank,...but might consider starting if I thought it would stop a CH ;) Laurie |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Ted on May 11th, 2003, 8:37am on 05/10/03 at 22:13:32, Marianne wrote:
Ecstasy causes Serotonin depletion, which could be why you get an attack after doing Ex. I doubt it's what caused you to start getting them in the first place though, especially since it was a year or two after (and if the depletion was the cause a lot more people would have clusters). As for the initial question? I neither smoke nor drink... unless I'm awake. |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by JDH on May 11th, 2003, 9:24am 1 1/2 packs a day 6 - 12 beers a week when pf Jim |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by BobG on May 12th, 2003, 3:27pm Here's another string on the subject of smoking Click on the blue. Scroll down to get answers to the first message. http://www.clusterheadaches.com/wwwboard/messages/99193.html 7-5-01 string about smoking and addictive personalities |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by echo on May 12th, 2003, 4:13pm Nearly two packs a day for 30 years. Several drinks a day for 30 years. Spent 5 years shitfaced, and tend to get somewhat faced at least 2 nights a week. Life is such a wonderful fucking ride! |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by chris on May 14th, 2003, 8:03am Neurologist quoted that 85% of cluster headache suffers are smokers but quitting doesn't seem to help usually. If there is a connection I guess damage is already done. Also I I never could drink alchohol until I started taking lithium daily, now I at least have a somewhat social life. |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by shipo on May 14th, 2003, 8:48am 6 pack of beer a night and a few reds to follow up...smoke rollies so not sure how many a week but i got one in my mouth and one burning in the ashtray ;D As we all know if your in a cycle alcohol is out...smoking doesn't make a shit of difference either way. Blessed be PFDAN Paul |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Big_Dan on May 14th, 2003, 10:53am 1.5 packs a day - Camel Menthol Lights 30 Mich Lights / wk. 10 Crown & Cokes / wk.... out of cycle drinking only... I've noticed that the harder that alcohol consumed during cycle, the longer and more frequent, and more painful the attack is during that particular night.... I downed a fith of Jim Beam and thought I was gunna have to kill myself that night... -Big Dan |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by vaughan on May 14th, 2003, 4:31pm Ive smoked 40 a day for the past 20 years and the last policeman asked me why I was drinking and driving.I told him I was too pissed to walk!!! ;D Vaughan |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by BobG on May 14th, 2003, 4:44pm too pissed to walk...........LOL Haven't heard that for a long time. When I was in the Army I enjoyed getting pissed with the soldiers from down under. |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by jonny on May 14th, 2003, 4:45pm on 05/14/03 at 16:44:46, BobG wrote:
Hmmmmmm!!!.....LOL ...........................jonny ;D |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Dave_W on May 14th, 2003, 8:59pm Pack a day. No alcohol for past 11 years (did a liter a day for many years before that). I remember the alc bringing 'em on! Old Decrepit Dave |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Roxy on May 15th, 2003, 12:29am on 05/11/03 at 08:37:46, Ted wrote:
Wait a minute.....I think you might live with me. I'm not sure, but I bet I recognize you after this next bottle of wine...... ;D And I'm sure I will if you give me a smoke.....please? ;) |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by brain_cramps on May 15th, 2003, 1:00am on 05/14/03 at 16:31:57, vaughan wrote:
Just remember: If you're going to drink and drive... Avoid all bumps. You don't want to spill any!!! grant 8) |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Brian_Y on May 15th, 2003, 7:31am I drink and I smoke. Here are some of my favs: 1. Icehouse Beer 2. Chocolate martinis 3. Regular martinis with a *whisper* of vermouth. Two Olives, preferably dirty. 4. Absinthe. When I am not in the midst of a cycle, bien sur. Otherwise, tally ho!!!! |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by CJohnson on May 15th, 2003, 10:10am I am a smoker, and have subsequently given this matter a good deal of thought. I want to preface my remarks by saying that I love to smoke. I really enjoy smoking cigarettes. I do not want to believe that smoking affects CH, but I am beginning to think that it does, based on the following: 1. When I am in cycle, the more I smoke, the more "headachey" I feel. 2. Too many times to ignore, I have felt one come on right after having a smoke. Now for a crackpot theory based on what I think I know. 1. There is some mechanism causing abnormal dilation of blood vessels, resulting in attacks of acute, debilitating pain - CH. 2. Blood vessels in the body dilate and constrict to some degree all the time as a normal function of human biology. 3. There is some mechanism (gene - gene function?) "telling" blood vessels to dilate, and a mechanism "telling" them to contract. 4. This mechanism may function like a limit switch, in that, dilation mode is turned on, the blood vessel dilates and once it reaches a certain degree of dilation, a limit switch-like mechanism shuts off dilation. The limit switch-like mechanism is set to shut off dilation at a value that is less than the amount which starts to cause pain. If this is how it works, then there are 2 (or more) possible malfunctions. 4a. With CH, the shut off point is altered so that the blood vessels are "instructed" to dilate furthur than the point which begins to cause pain. 4b. The limit switch-like mechanism fails, and blood vessels are allowed to dilate beyond the point at which dilation is normally shut off. Some time later, either the mechanism starts functioning again, or some other mechanism shuts off dilation. Based on the above, if smoking triggers blood vessel constriction, than, at some point, dilation must be activated. This triggers the process which results, ultimately, in CH. -Curtis |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Big_Dan on May 15th, 2003, 12:53pm Um... yeah... what he said... ::) -Big Dan |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by Drk^Angel on May 15th, 2003, 1:19pm I want some of what he's smokin'... PFDAN............................. Drk^Angel |
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Title: Re: Smokers?? Post by CJohnson on May 15th, 2003, 1:43pm Think of it like a furnace whose thermostat is set at 70 degrees. The thermostat reads the air temperature, and when it gets below 70 degrees, the furnace is activated and starts to blow heated air through the ducts and into the rooms. Once the air in the area surrounding the thermostat reaches 70 degrees, the thermostat "tells" the furnace to shut off. If the temperature in the room is more than 70 degrees and the furnace is still running, then 2 (or more) of the following occured. 1. Somebody set the thermostat to more than 70. 2. The limit-switch mechanism which tells the furnace to shut off when the temperature is 70 or more degrees has failed and is not working. -Curtis |
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