Do you Smoke?

[kbate]

*poll coming*

I'm wondering just how many smoke because this year two of my friends have received their smoking related death sentences. One is already gone and the other is in the hospital on oxygen with little hope of ever leaving the hospital.

Looking around, I see plenty of kids (college age to young teens) smoking and invariably their answers are, 'I have plenty of time to quit', or 'My doctor said I've got no damage.'

My friends were: 58 years old and 40 years old. That's not 'plenty of time' in my opinion.

Anyway: do you smoke: what and why?

 

[chillywilly2]

I quit...now I breathe in sawdust and sanding dust...I figure that will get me.

Damned filters for the air cleaner are 40 bucks a pop

Sorry about your friends

 

[Busybody]

My Mother smoke 2 packs a day, while I was growing up

My Father smoked cigars

I tried ONE puff ONCE and never tried it again



A dozen yrs ago, I need a ride from an event, and a friend, a smoker, gave me a ride, it was impossible to breathe......When I got home, I took off ALL MY CLOTHES and THREW it in the garbage, shoes and all.....took a shower fro an hr


A few months later HE DIED.....as I was shoveling dirt on his grave....I turned and saw his young kids there and said

YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE, LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID!

 

[Busybody]

I quit...now I breathe in sawdust and sanding dust...I figure that will get me.

Damned filters for the air cleaner are 40 bucks a pop

well THAT explains it

 

[chillywilly2]

well THAT explains it

Cripes....you finally get it

 

[lovetoread]

I've never smoked, the only one in my family.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I smoked for 30 years and quit 12 years ago. I like the smell of cigarettes but it has no allure or appeal now.

 

[CaptainKirk]

I'm in the process of quitting, using a patch and E-cigs with 'no nicotine' cartridges.

So far, 'smokeless' for almost two weeks. I'm working on it.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Never, apart from a menthol in a nightclub when I was 18 (trying to look cool) and a few spliffs in recent years.

 

[kbate]

I smoked one puff of one cigarette when I was sixteen, puked on the ground and haven't touched one since. I don't need dire warning labels to convince me to stop a behaviour that makes me puke within seconds of commencing it.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Don't get me started on fag breaks at work. Skiving cunts outside puffing every ten minutes whilst you have to cover for them.

I'm going to demand cheese breaks.

 

[doctor_insanus]

I've never smoked, but I did get one chew from my uncle when I was a kid. That was enough to convince me I'd never have that shit in my mouth again.

 

[dolf]

aside from the experimental fags in my teens, nope.
everyone in my family is/was a smoker. almost all my serious relationships have been with smokers. personally, i just never quite got the appeal.

i worry most about the ex. his uncle died of lung cancer (as did mine) and that still wasn't enough for him to quit. he has three kids to live for. my eldest gets really upset about it.

 

[lovetoread]

Don't get me started on fag breaks at work. Skiving cunts outside puffing every ten minutes whilst you have to cover for them.

I'm going to demand cheese breaks.

I take gum breaks.

 

[Fata Morgana]

I take gum breaks.

That'll do me! The cheese will probably give me heartburn anyway.


Dolf do you remember those vile fag adverts on here a few years back with the fat oozing out of them? Christ those were sickening. If I were a smoker I would like to think those might have made me pack up.

 

[tactful]

Quit the nails a while back and actually bought a car with the savings.

 

[Wings]

Never smoked cigarettes. My dad and my sister do, even after it almost killed my father.

 

[Laurel]

Never smoked cigarettes. My dad and my sister do, even after it almost killed my father.

Uncanny. Are you me, or am I you?

 

[LallyH]

Don't get me started on fag breaks at work. Skiving cunts outside puffing every ten minutes whilst you have to cover for them.

I'm going to demand cheese breaks.

Only one of my staff smokes now - she can only go outside to have a smoke when everyone else is having a scheduled coffee break. Its the only way to keep things fair.

 

[bronzeage]

I smoke cigars, but only as much as I can afford.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Only one of my staff smokes now - she can only go outside to have a smoke when everyone else is having a scheduled coffee break. Its the only way to keep things fair.

At our place staff are supposed to take smoke breaks off their time sheets, I think a lot don't bother or put much less down. One member on my team goes every hour, sometimes more and is out there for ages. They can't smoke outside the building either, they have to walk away from it so that takes even more time.

 

[dolf]

That'll do me! The cheese will probably give me heartburn anyway.


Dolf do you remember those vile fag adverts on here a few years back with the fat oozing out of them? Christ those were sickening. If I were a smoker I would like to think those might have made me pack up.

i've not had a telly for a decade, so i missed out on all that scare-ad joy.

 

[IndieSnob]

I do, and I hate myself for it every damn day.

No, I really mean that I hate myself for it. Tried numerous times.

Cold turkey. Patches. Gum. Hypnotism.

Funny enough that I have a note on my monitor that after the next two packs are smoked that no matter how fucking cranky I get, those are the last. If it means I sleep for 78 hours straight till the nicotine leaves my system, so be it.

Although it's about both money and health, it's also about feeling extremely bad about a promise I made to my Father.

When he had Lou Gehrig's Disease, he of course was having problems swallowing correctly while eating. I'd sit and hear him choke all the time, and it scared the hell out of me to listen to. Hell, I can still hear it.

His neurologist told him to get a PEG tube inserted so that the chances of him choking to death, or having a worse case of aspiration pneumonia would lessen. Dad said he had a death sentence anyway, so he'd rather enjoy eating and die.

I asked him how he felt that I as his caretaker would have to watch him choke to death and have zero ability to save him. The toll it would take. His eyes lit up as big as saucers, knowing he finally had a bargaining wedge to get me to quit smoking. I shook his hand that I'd quit.


June 4th of this year will make 11 years ago that we made the agreement. I think it's time to man up, because I still feel like a real asshole for breaking it.

 

[LallyH]

At our place staff are supposed to take smoke breaks off their time sheets, I think a lot don't bother or put much less down. One member on my team goes every hour, sometimes more and is out there for ages. They can't smoke outside the building either, they have to walk away from it so that takes even more time.

That's really not fair, is it. Problem is that smokers feel they *need* their fix so it should be an unrecorded break....like using the bathroom

 

[Fata Morgana]

i've not had a telly for a decade, so i missed out on all that scare-ad joy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGodr8CM8As