Smoking

[wolflady]

Originally posted by catnapper
I am so repulsed by smoking! I am also allergic to the second hand smoke it creates. One whiff and I have an instant headache and my lungs start collecting mucus... so incredibly gross. I can't remember the last club or bar I went to... we choose our restaurants carefully so that I don't have to sit in the smoke.

I know I'm going to get bashed over the head for this but... here I go plunging in with both feet:
Since I have to deal with their addiction, shouldn't they be responsible for my asthma inhalers? Pay for the day's work I missed because my lungs were so full that I was hanging over the toilet throwing up mucus? Can I mucus on them since they smoke on me? I know I'm sounding very sarcastic and I mean to. Why do we non-smokers have to deal with their addiction? We should all take cue from California and ban smoking!!! woohooo!

Ok, I'll get back to normal now. I honestly don't know what would possess someone to start! Its expensive. Everyone knows the risk, and most people have a family member die of smoking related diseases. Every smoker I know wishes they could quit. All of them have tried one plan or another and failed because their addiction was that strong. I will not condemn a person for an addiction - they cannot help what their body craves. What I can condemn is that they took that first puff however long ago... there's enough information out there that should have penetrated their brains to be significant enough to have stopped them and made them say "no thanks." I know it did me - long before my allergies.

Whew, steping off my high-horse now. Please understand that I am far from perfect. I have my own weakenesses - though mine never waft over to a stranger's nose and into their bodies.

LOL LOL **hugs** This is exactly the same way I feel! Actually, I have become so spoiled since I have moved to california, because I can actually go places and breath! (restaurants, clubs, pubs, bowling alleys!! etc.). Why is it that bad habits seem to be praised by making us folks who want to breath suffer? When I lived in Indiana, it was hard for me to go anywhere, because I react the same way to smoke that you do.
Plus, people get smoking breaks at work for 15 minutes several times a day. What about us (relatively speaking) healthy people? I don't get praised with several 15 minute breaks throughout my workday because of it!
Actually, I started going to coffee shops, because if smokers can get all this free time because of their bad habit, why can't I? LOL
Smokers who throw their damn cigarette butt out the window and cause roadside fires really make me mad too. I've never had a desire to smoke, because there's nothing appealing about it. I've always wondered how people were initally attracted to sticking a stinky flaming hot thing in their mouth to begin with! LOL LOL
I do have some very dear friends who smoke, so I do know how hard it is to quit. One of my friends from college used to smoke like a chimney every day. After we graduated, I ended up going on a business trip to where he was living and I met up with him and he had quite smoking cold turkey! I was so proud of him! I know it's not easy to do, so kudos to everyone who has been able to quit! I was surprised at how good my friend looked after he quit smoking. Good luck to those of you who are looking to quit! I've heard that the patch thingy seems to help.
**hugs**
Karen

[davidpizzica]

I haven't had a cigarette in 22 years! (23 years come next January 31st.) I started smoking at 14 because of peer pressure. I quit smoking January 31st 1982. It was VERY tough to quit. I did it mainly because I got tired of smelling of smoke, also because the price went to .65 cents a pack! Big money n 1982. I would wheeze walking up hills, and I'd have to sneak my smoking. I tried a puff of one about six weeks after I quit(cold turkey) and I thought I was going to die! I will NEVER go back to smoking Never!!!!

[wolflady]

Originally posted by Samantha Puppy
I took one puff of a cigarette once, and spent the entire night trying to get the taste out of my mouth. I hated it, hated the smell, hated the taste. Blech. I hate smoking and I hate being around those who do (if they do it around me).

I almost broke off my engagement with my fiance once because he wouldn't quit (he was only a social smoker, but still) until I threw an absolute fit (and the ring in his face) and hypervenilated (and then passed out from hypervenilating) so that was what finally made him stop --- and me continue with the wedding plans. Overdramatic? Yes. But he doesn't smoke anymore and that is what is important. I could never be with a smoker, even a social one.

LOL LOL I'm sorry, but this made me chuckle. What a good way to get someone to quit smoking! LOL

[cookieluver7]

Heck no! And I am never planning on it! I hate smoke! It smells really bad and it makes you really unhealthy! (puck!) Some advice for y'all thinkin 'bout smoking: Stop. Think. Don't.