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Ok folks, who are our smokers and who are our non smokers?

@ Robert - Sounds like a motivating way to think of it. Just goes to prove my suspicion that at least half the work is done by the right mindset when it comes to quitting the smokes.

Regardless of whether it's easy I'm just grateful I won't have to bother with it.

And about the monetary cost of smoking: I'm a student, one of those poor poor people. I have no occupation to speak of beside my studies so I live off of the state support I get and what little extra I make. And I make do. Some of my peers who work their butts off and do proportionately worse in their studies complain they never have any money when they smoke a pack of cigs a day. I'm sorry did I just hear you, who makes twice as much/month as I do complain to *me* about not having any money? Nahhh I must be imagining things.

I know it's not entirely fair, it's all about priorities. People wonder how I can afford to buy all those books, well for one I don't smoke so there's the first let's say 2 books a week when comparing with less consumptive smokers. And second: I don't blow around 50 $ every weekend out on the town...

But still, if there's something I can't stand it's when smoking peers of mine start complaining about not being able to afford the things I have that they don't, 'cause that's just... frustrating.

No offense to anyone - it just seemed a relevant thread to post this little rant in.
 
I am a non-smoker. I hate the smell of cigarette smoke, especially the smell that lingers on people afterwards and then turns into this foul, stale kind of smell. Disgusting. I find it extremely rude when people hang around the door of a shop and smoke, forcing you to walk through their expelled cloud of cancer. :mad:

Smoking was recently banned in all pubs, clubs and eateries here, and I must say that I'm glad. If people choose to kill themselves then the least they can do is do it somewhere were they arn't going to kill other people too. I would like them to ban smoking all together, but then the government wouldn't make a mint off of the cigarette tax :rolleyes:
 
RobertFKennedy said:
on the positive side? thats not very nice.

I've given up, what more do you want?

In fact, never mind. If it felt good for you to try to present yourself as superior on this issue then I'm glad for you. :)
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You're right, that didn't sound very nice, and I sincerely apologize. I certainly have been rubbing people the wrong way lately.

I don't feel superior -- but I do feel sad. I can't feel superior, because I used to smoke cigarettes too, and I do feel sad because my daughter still smokes and I worry about her health. As you (and Jemima Aslana) learned by my post, cigarettes have not been kind to my family. My daughter-in-law works with cancer patients and she says that even those of us who've quit are at a greater risk for lung cancer. (I just hate to see so many young people starting!)

I'm glad you've quit, and I can't wait until the rest of the world manages to do it too. I think cigarettes stink. :( In every sense of the word.

Having said all that -- I do have to acknowledge the fact that it's a matter of freedom of choice, and that cigarettes are still a legal drug in this country.
 
Hmm, I tried smoking in about 4th grade. I did it for awhile just because I felt so gloriously rebellious and grown up. Never smoked since though. Now that I work on a pulmonary ICU step down unit, I get eneough reasons for me not to smoke.

It just takes seeing one person smoking through a tracheostomy to turn you off of THAt habit. Icky.. Congrats on quitting for you! I made my hubby quit when we married.
 
I use to smoke...and was quite a heavy smoker. I would smoke a carton a week sometimes in less than a week. But me and hubby quit together about 6-7 years ago. Just decided when the prices went up that we were going to use that as a excuse to quit and so when our cigarettes were all gone we were done. Cold turkey is hard but we did it :D And couldnt be happier. I didn't realize how bad we stunk...lol The smell of smoke on people makes me sick to my stomach now but sometimes the smell of smoke stilll makes me want one...but no way, not after this long! I also lost someone to Lung Cancer. My grandfather died of lung, brain and liver cancer. He put a strong fight! He smoked many years and quit in there 50's I believe! It just wasnt soon enough.
 
I'm a life-long non smoker. Both parents smoked, as did all the aunts and uncles and I just hated it. Most of the aunts, uncles, and my mom died of smoking related illnesses. The only way I'd start smoking is if someone set me on fire, and I hope that doesn't happen ;) I know it's such a terrible addiction to overcome, and Lord knows I have enough addictions of my own already..( think junk food here, people). I greatly admire everyone who manages to break any addiction, but specially such a toughie as nicotine.
 
I have never been a smoker. While i did smoke a little bit now and again when i was younger i never smoked regularly. After a while i stopped completely and i cant say i miss it. However i'm strongly opposed to the current over-the-top anti-smoker policy currently spreading around the world.
 
I know of a girl who started smoking with this reason: When I kiss him it tastes so bad because he smokes but if I start smoking too I won't be able to taste it.

Now how's that for brilliance?
 
but if I start smoking too I won't be able to taste it.
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ugh. :rolleyes:

Okay, I had the worst night ever last night, and I smoked my first cigarette in 5 months, 18 days... :( and that first cig led to a 2nd...3rd... ugh.
 
Jemima Aslana said:
I know of a girl who started smoking with this reason: When I kiss him it tastes so bad because he smokes but if I start smoking too I won't be able to taste it.

Now how's that for brilliance?
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I'm pounding my head on my desk and sobbing.
 
Libra6Poe said:
ugh. :rolleyes:

Okay, I had the worst night ever last night, and I smoked my first cigarette in 5 months, 18 days... :( and that first cig led to a 2nd...3rd... ugh.
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My daughter is in her mid-thirties and she has a smoker's cough. I don't say anything -- I have learned better.

She has to know she has a smoker's cough.

:(
 
Rabid Non-smoker. I've never touched a cigarette in my life. My disdain for smoking, its culture, its business, its environmental impact and the audacity of it's participants knows no bounds. Quit or die. Quickly.
 
I never was a smoker, I just hate the smell of cigarettes.
Right now I'm afraid that my 13 year old sister might start smoking. Most of her friends do and she is so easy to be influenced! I'm really concerned about all the children that age, who are already addicted to nicotine. It seems to be getting worse every year.
 
Geenh said:
Thirteen days and counting... wasn't easy for me.
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Good work, Geenh. Every day will be easier than the last, and one of these days you won't be able to recall why you smoked in the first place. Also, you will begin to smell it on others (a mile away), which will help you to remember why you quit.

;)
 
started when I was 16. (22 years ago? holy s***! :eek: )

Quit once for over a year.

definitely a mental decision.

Not motivated to quit at the moment.

??

call it retardation.
 
leckert said:
Not motivated to quit at the moment.

??

call it retardation.
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Volunteer at a cancer clinic. IF you don't have motivation after that ask yourself why you want to live like they now have to. And why you want to die like many in the clinic will likely soon do.
 
I wish non smokers would be a little more tolerant and leave smokers alone a little bit. People in my work used to try to browbeat me daily into quitting and they loved to be smug and sanctimonius about it. Often people who do this arent REALLY interested in a person stopping smoking, they just enjoy lording it over someone and feeling superior. They also seem to actually ENJOY trying to lay a guilt trip on people.

I eventually told them that by acting like this they were only hardening my resolve to CONTINUE smoking as I wouldnt want to appear as though I had given in to the browbeating.

In the end I made the decision by myself, in my own time and it just came really out of the blue.
 
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