• wombat said on Jan 29, 2007....

  Sore subject!  My hubby just quit and is driving me nuts.  I am proud of him, happy for him, glad he will maybe be around longer,  but, I can't quit cold turkey like he did.  Now he is irritated with my smoking up the house, not to mention the short temper from withdrawal to deal with.  I'll quit if I'm ready, like he did.  It really irritates me that there are less and less places to go where you can smoke in public--even some bars here.  What's a good cold beer without a cigarette to enjoy with it, if you are a smoker?  I respect others, but, hey!  Everyone is making me feel like scum!

• shichi said on Jan 29, 2007....

  I am a smoker and have been for almost 45 years.  I enjoy
  smoking.  
  Both my ex-husband and myself are smokers.  My daughter
  abhors smoking and when I am at her house I honor her wishes
  and I do not smoke around her.
  We all make choices in life and smoking is mine.  I must say
  though it drives me nuts when I am in a smoking area, just for
  instant, at a casino and someone who does not smoke sits
  beside me  and then begins waving their hand in my face.  Good
  grief there are no smoking sections and I do not ever ever smoke
  in a no smoking section.
   
   

• dataentryjob87 said on Jan 29, 2007....

  wombat,
  I hate those bars where you can't smoke, It is the dumbiest thing in the world!!!! That is great that your hubby quit! good for him! Good luck to you! It is very hard in that situation, him not smoking, and you smoke......Try to have a spot where you smoke, and he can stay away from it, like at your computer. it might work out. Thanks for your input!
   
  shichi,
  that is great that you dont smoke where people dont like it. I do that at my mother-in laws!  Thank you for your input!

• wombat said on Jan 29, 2007....

  dataentryjob87:  So funny you should say that!  My computer sits facing a corner, and I lean up and blow the smoke over the top of my screen.  I guess it filters around to blow up my silk jammie bottoms, and gives me second hand smoke if I fart. 

• dataentryjob87 said on Jan 29, 2007....

  I smoke at my computer! It's my favorite place to smoke. But you have to make sure that you windex your screen because the smoke will build up. My screen is always dirty. Get a papertowel and wipe that sucker off....you will shock yourself!

• wombat said on Jan 29, 2007....

  My eyesight is too bad from smoking to know if my screen is dirty.  I have windex and paper towels and I know how to use em' (giggle) But will I shock myself, or simply get shocked?     zzzzzzzzsssssstttttttt?

• Lucytorial said on Jan 29, 2007....

  I smoke like an arab wherever I can, love it always have should give up for health reason but fuck it! I love smoking. HB smokes a pipe and he will I dare say always smoke. Only on e of my parents doesn't smoke, sis does, pretty much most of my friends do too.  I also do not smoke where people I am with don't, I will walk away somewhere else.  You can actualy still smoke in bars here - it's an outside area where pretty much EVERYONE sits because pretty much everyone here smokes.  Hmm feel like having one right now....

• wombat said on Jan 29, 2007....

  smoke like an arab......  crackin' me up, Lucy.   (do you also "walk like an egyptian?")

• curmudgeon said on Jan 29, 2007....

  I used to smoke. I quit. Then after the NYC blackout a couple years ago I started again. Then I quit. I just don't feel like it anymore.
   
  Unless, of course I'm watching a movie like Backdraft or Platoon  or The Hunt for Red October where everyone is lighting up.
   
  I have nothing against smokers. I like second hand smoke. And I love cities like Vegas where you can still smoke indoors wherever you want.
   
  Those asswipes who get all finicky around cigarettes are just rediculous. Little do they realize the amount of carbon monoxide they're inhaling when they go out for a nice, healthy jog.

• dataentryjob87 said on Jan 29, 2007....

  I think that other enviromental probelms will kill you first. The gov't probably blames smoking for the campaign money. HAHAHA!!! The gov't will never get rid of us smokers!!!!

  I have noticed that when I watch movies and someone is smoking, i start smoking. I dont know why, but you just have to!!!

  Thanks for all the input everyone!!!

• dataentryjob87 said on Jan 29, 2007....

  As I am sitting here smoking, I am wondering....... Why do people hate smokers????  I understand those who have had loved ones die, and some people think that it stinks, but what are other reasons......

  Can anyone think of other reasons?

• Lucytorial said on Jan 29, 2007....

  No Wombat, I walk like a gazelle?? he hee haven't you heard that expression before "I'm an arab!", smoke like an arab in a bazzar, drink like an arab just out of the desert?

• wombat said on Jan 29, 2007....

  Yea, you're right, data....I worked with fermaldehyde. (can't spell that word)    Just now getting it out of my system.  If that last comment was a goodnight, then, thanks for  large  fun on an otherwise boring night.  Time for music here.  Headphones on, Wombat out.  (for a few minutes anyway!)

• wombat said on Jan 29, 2007....

  Lucytorial:  no, sorry.  All I heard was the song, "Walk Like an Egyption." when I saw "smoke like an Arab."  (Got nothing personal going.)  I just thought it was funny.  So you walk like a gazelle?  That sounds sexy.  I walk like a hippo lately.  Gheessh!  I miss my gazelle days!

• mommyof2 said on Jan 29, 2007....

  i have smoked since 11 years old my sis told me it was cool have you ever smelled your hair or hands after smoking all day? the stink does get to me yet i still smoke i do wonder what exactly is going in my lungs yet i still smoke i do hope my kids never do as i yet i still smoke ...20 years later.. very addicting yet i still smoke.....

• wombat said on Jan 29, 2007....

  mommyof2:  Just made me remember my first cigarette--at the drive-in with my girlfriends.  Someone gave me one and I tried to light it by sticking it up to a lighter THEY were holding up lit.  I guess, like our dear ex-prez, I didn't inhale.  They laughed at me, of course.  Later I smoked a whole pack of my brother's Camels one night and got sick.  After that, I smoked to fit in, and with one boyfriend, could only have one if I could "flip" it in the air and catch it.  I learned fast, grasshopper....
   
  and yes, I stink.

• ALIENated said on Jan 29, 2007....

  Smokers are pathetic losers out to kill themselves and everyone around them. I know. I used to be one almost 30 years ago. I am not disturbed by it unless I am in a closed in space with it, like a restaurant or on a bus or something. If I can get away from it, no problem. I love how people go outside to smoke ... right around the door. But, at the same time, I feel sorry for them because of their lack of will power. I quit easily. All 450 times.

• Lucytorial said on Jan 29, 2007....

  yer eff yer heid yool git a right laldie frum me yer green eyed moonstar!

   

  (I bet you gave up just so you could come back these 500 years on and try to be so humble? right?)

   

  Any translation of keltic speaking australian women may harm your health, please ensure your arms are inside at all times, you have your seat belt on, your muzzle on and definately do under any circumstances scream . no one can hear you anyway!

   

  This is what happens when I am at work and have to wait until hoe time to have a ciggie

   

• Lioness said on Jan 30, 2007....

  I am not a smoker,and I have no plans to be one ever. My parents were not smokers, although some relatives are.
  
  I think smokers should be more considerate to their fellowmen who do not smoke.
  
  Pasted in an office: "We don't mind if you smoke, but please don't exhale"
  
  
  

• wombat said on Jan 30, 2007....

  I am considerate of non-smokers.  Really!  I feel bad about myself, but there are fewer and fewer people being considerate to me.  I can't afford to lose this battle until I am one of "them."  Says alot about the nature of humans, maybe.

• Lucytorial said on Jan 30, 2007....

  Not really at the end of the day I think we all truly believe that we are the centre of the universe.  Awareness is the key though and I'm with you on feeling bad thing, every now and then especially at work I always make sure that no-one knows I smoke, can't smell it, nothing.

• fucked_up_girl said on Jan 30, 2007....

  my very first cigarette experience (believe it or not) was when i was seven. yes, a first grader. haha. during that time, my father still smoked, and when i asked him how it feels to smoke, he made me take one puff. and the next puff i had happened 13 years later. it was my college roommate who "taught" me how to smoke. then i smoked nonstop. to keep me awake and everything. it made me high. i tried to stop. i am not the type who can't go on a day without smoking. i can go for months without smoking. but once the urge gets me, ill smoke nonstop. i don't know if im classified as an occasional smoker or what... but i love smoking. i mean, yes im a medical student and i know all the complicatios and diseases you can get if you smoke but what the hell... we're all gonna die eventually. LOL.

• shichi said on Jan 30, 2007....

  Years ago  we would go and visit my sister-in-law and her husband, who were not smokers.  His parents smoked so they "allowed" smoking in their house.  They invited us for a weekend visit but neglected to say anything about their new now smoking ban.  Instead when we arrived there was a big sign at the back door.  THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING.  To me it seemed they had a very smug look on their face when we were greeted.

  We invited them for the weekend and I in turn had a big sign at my back door that stated  THANK YOU FOR NOT BREATHING WHILE I SMOKE.

  I thought it was quite humorous and made a point seeing as how I did respect their wishes when I was in their house, but drew the line when they expected me not to smoke in my own house because they were visiting.

• mommyof2 said on Jan 30, 2007....

  hey fucked up girl i was the same age when my sis thought it would be funny to get me high oh everything went so slow.....

• pit said on Jan 30, 2007....

  a person who doesn`t smoke will not know how we get idea by smoking.i`m a smoker too.. every time i need some idea, i will smoke..
  i think it`s o.k, rather than we take drug..
  long live the smokest..!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• dataentryjob87 said on Jan 30, 2007....

  Great stories everyone!!! It's just so exciting that smokers can all feel special in this blog! It's about us!!

  I will tell you about the first time mom caught me!

  It was my 12th birthday, and us girls had the party fun; opening presents, and eating cake...blah blah blah

  We got to hang out in the shed which had an attic space. We were hanging out, and my cousin Jen smoked. She told me to light a smoke, and show everyone how to smoke. I took the cigg and light it and inhaled. (too much) I coughed, and everyone laughed. We had put the butts in a pepsi can. When we got up the next morning, we thought that we got rid of the can in the weeds.....But you know what....we got rid of the wrong can. My mom went up in the attic space to clean up, and found the can. OMG! She called all of us in the house, and questioned us. Jen took the blame, but my mom knew that I did smoke. It sucked. She claimed she would break my finger off if she every caught me again. When I was about 16 she just let me do it. She figured out I was going to do it, with or without her permission.

  Go ahead laugh at me!! I do!

  Thanks again for all the great stories!

• peedee said on Jan 30, 2007....

  Hi ! dej87, I feel pleased in subscribing to you on this blog. I am a chain smoker. I have had a mild stroke after my visit to America but the cause of that was not smoking but the unfortunate incidents. According to the Indian mythology the Gods also used tobacco. My wife died 20 years back but of all the best companions it is the cigarette.    Hats of to you and the smokers of the world.

   Regards pd

• QueenBitch#1 said on Jan 30, 2007....

  Great article.  I myself am a smoker and i wish i could quit but i dont see that happening anytime soon.  I think it's ridiculuos that smoking is being banned in so many places.  I mean we smokers have rights just like nonsmokers!!!!

   

  PS i hate closet smokers!!!!!

• dataentryjob87 said on Jan 30, 2007....

  I am with you on the smokers rights!!! Non-smokers get so many privileges, what about the smokers....noooooo... we are "bad" people. F*** that! We are a miniority that deserves respect! Their choice is not to smoke...so what if we decide too! I won't quit! I don't need to conform to the gov't ways...they can kiss it!

• MissMimi said on Jan 30, 2007....

  I am a non-smoker, but I did smoke for a while in college. My son smokes. My best friend smokes. But smoking isn't allowed in my home, because I can no longer tolerate the smoke, and because I breathe with the assistance of oxygen, so open flames are a big no-no.

  
  

  I am not, nor have I ever been a militant anti-smoker.  Anybody that hasn't been living in a cave for the last 40 or 50 years knows that it's bad for you.  My son will quit when he's ready.  (His girlfriend doesn't smoke and doesn't like it so maybe he'll quit sooner rather than later.)

• silverwhisper said on Jan 30, 2007....

  i'm a smoker. i hate that i am but i try not to worry too much about it. i am acutely aware that i am paying for the privilege of slowly poisoning myself when i buy a pack. and you know what? i don't care.
  
  i am scrupulous about not disturbing non-smokers in the area w/ my cigarette smoke unless they demonstrate the dramatic lack of sense to choose to stand next to me when i already am smoking, then become upset about it. they should have seen i was smoking and if they didn't like it, they should have alighted elsewhere.
  
  ed

• dataentryjob87 said on Jan 30, 2007....

  I try to smoke away from non-smokers, and then they come towards me, and bitch about the smoke...HELLO! I am smoking....don't you see the cigg, or the smoke?

  I hate when non-smokers put themselves in the smokey area and then bitch. Sorry it's not my fault!

  I respect non-smokers, but i don't feel so much from them.......

• silverwhisper said on Jan 30, 2007....

  bingo! don't paint yourself the victim when it was your choice, you idiot! i detest it when people do that!
  
  ed

• dailyachesandpains said on Jan 30, 2007....

  I am a smoker.  I have to go to extremes to get one in.  I will not smoke around my Daughter.  I haven't had one yet, today and it's 4:30.  I am craving one.  I just don't feel like changing clothes and taking my robe on and off.  I have quit too many times.

  Neither of my Parent's smoke.  My Dad smoked when he was in the service, but quit before I was born.  My Aunt on my Mother's side smokes...one out of 14 of them smokes, but she hides it and my Mother denies that she smokes even though we bagged her several times.  One of my Sister's smokes, the other one quit cold turkey about 3 years ago. 

  In MA, you can't smoke anywhere inside.  NH, you can in some places, bars, yes.  The advantage of living on the border, people don't go out in Boston as much in the winter time, lol!

  Daily

• Zayda said on Jan 30, 2007....

  i'm now a non-smoker; i smoked off and on in college, but mostly when i was out drinking and not during other parts of the day. both of my parents smoked for years.
  
  i don't have a problem with a few smokers smoking around me; i only have problems with many people smoking in the same place because  it makes my eyes burn horribly after awhile.  but that is my issue to deal with not theirs. 
  
  my friends who smoke would never smoke in my house, even if/when i put out an ashtray for them.  they still all go outside.  i never ask them to.
  

• dataentryjob87 said on Jan 30, 2007....

  Zayda,

  That's nice that your friends respect you like that. They are real friends. Most smokers do have respect for other people, exspecially non-smokers. It is hard to be a smoker. That's good that you don't smoke.

  Everyone,

  Does everyone remeber when Peter Jennings died?

  He had quit smoking like 15-20 years ago. And then he died of smoking related cancer.......Do you know what that said to me? It said that if you quit smoking you are at more of a risk to die from it. When your body gets addicted to something, and then one day you decide that you aren't going to give it to your body, your body will do wierd things. Think about the people that have drug withdrawls, and the wierd shit that it does to them. I think that if you quit smoking your body will kill you for not getting the nicotine, no matter if it takes a month or 20 years...... What do you guys think?

• wombat said on Jan 30, 2007....

  dataentryjob87:  A good point I hadn't thought about, which worries me since, as I said, my hubby recently quit.  I didn't know that about Peter Jennings (that he'd quit smoking years ago) but I did know a lady who quit and saved her "cigarette money" to buy a diamond ring.  She died of cancer within two years. 

• polarheart said on Jan 30, 2007....

  Smoking is a choice.  I do not smoke and have not EVER smoked a cigarette in my entire life. . .done lots of "second-hand" non optional smoking though.
   
  I dont mind smokers as long as their habit does not cause discomfort to me or my child.
   
  Polar
   

• wombat said on Jan 30, 2007....

  Don't mean to hog the screen, but as an afterthought:
   
  During a job interview,  one of the questions on the form was,  "Do you, or have you ever taken drugs?"   I checked no (hrumph). She asked me later, "Do you smoke?"  I said, "Yes."   She replied, "Then you take drugs."    I told her I drank beer, also, if she really wanted to know.  I got the job.

• mom said on Jan 30, 2007....

  I quit about 11 years ago.  My husband still smokes, it doesn't bother me.  Most non smokers do not like the smell, it is pretty bad.  I think if we all just respect each other then there should be no problem.  My husband smokes in the car but he rolls the window down until he is done.  I think that the laws that have been passed for smokers are rediculous.  I have known some obnoxious smokers and polite smokers.  The obnoxious ones are the ones that don't care if it bothers anyone.  The polite ones will usually ask if anyone minds if they smoke.  Something tells me that the obnoxious ones are obnoxious anyway.

• dataentryjob87 said on Jan 30, 2007....

  wombat,

  If ciggs are a drug, are they regulated by the FDA????? I dont think so, but i will look for the answer. And as far as I am concerned pot is a drug, coke is a drug, pills are drugs, not ciggs. That is fucking rediculous! And as for Peter Jennings I think that you can look his story up. He was a new caster for channel 9(9wysr.com) or (abcnews.)New York news.

  I tell everyone that story when they tell me I should quit. I might die from smoking, but I WILL NOT die from smoking, and quiting.... I am not a quitter!!!

• susalia said on Feb 02, 2007....

  yeah i was smoking from the age of 12 too and i just recently quit right before the new year because i got a very bad asthma attack my asthma pump couldnt even stop so that night i grab my box of smokes and tore the box with the smokes in it and aint smoke nothing since and dont feel the need too accept of course when my husband piss me off

• Lucytorial said on Feb 02, 2007....

  well done susalia, I don't have great will power for this particular quest.  I love smoking yet I have tried to give up, cold turkey, patches ( what a load of bullshit ) you know what i did, I had a patch on and had a cigerette! so what happened I od'd on nocotine.
   
  The funny thing is guys that when hubby was going through his treatment the doc said to him whatever youre doing keep doing it because you're not going to die from these cigerettes the cancer will get you first! WTF in other words it doesn't matter mate you look like youre gonna cark it so puff away and enjoy yourself. I still find that comment utterly abhorent.
   

• dailyachesandpains said on Feb 03, 2007....

  Anyone ever try the gum to quit?  That is some nasty shit.  It says on the directions not to eat or drink a half hour before or after eating the gum...they weren't kidding.  I PUKED every single time and it was always 45 minutes after!  It did make me quit once, I couldn't stand to puke and I didn't want to smoke, lol!
  
  The only time I quit cold turkey was when I found out I was preggers!  The day I found out I threw the pack away.  I didn't have one again until we found out she had a heart condition.  The first thing I did was go to the store, bought a pack and a lighter and lit up...It was the best butt I had ever had at the worst time.
  
  Daily
  

• IceLady said on Feb 05, 2007....

  I just hope that I can give up this time, I don't like how it makes me feel, makes me smell etc.

• PansyXWar said on Feb 05, 2007....

  I am 16 and I smoke i have been smokeing snce i was 11 years old..and you are right i CANT bye ciggs but my friends can so it dosnt make a diffrence

• dataentryjob87 said on Feb 08, 2007....

  PansyXWar,

  Thank you for that input! I said the same things, and did the same thing when I was your age.

• STEELMAN said on Feb 12, 2007....

  I AM A SMOKER, I LIKE IT. THE LAW SUCKS, BUT THE NOSMOKERS VOTE NO SMOKING. MOST OF THOSE THAT VOTED FOR ITJUST QUIT A FEW DAYS AGO. SOME OF THEM ARE SMOKING AGAIN. STEELMAN.

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