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What do you hate about smoking/smokers? (Smokers this isn't the thread for you!)

jenneses

jenneses

Confuzzled
I'm trying to quit smoking and it isn't the easiest thing I've ever done. But it is significantly helped by the fact I have bronchitis and couldn't smoke anyway (unless I feel like coughing for 5-10 minutes after each puff). So I figured I'd ask you guys to bash smokers (and warn smokers who are sensitive to stay away). Tell me the most annoying/disgusting thing you can think of about smoking.

Be honest and mean (this is my thread and I'm asking for it). I plan on using this thread when I feel the urge to smoke. Since I respect all of you, your opinions will matter; hopefully enough to reduce the urge. I'm not looking for advice (I've had more than enough at this point.)

I've always found smoking disgusting and was often embarrassed by the fact that I was a smoker. I'm hoping this thread will remind me of why if I should forget.
 
jenneses said:
You are NO help! Geez, if I was drowning would you just point and laugh?:cool:
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Probably..... I laughed when my mate set his self on fire and was running around for help....
My only regret was not getting my phone out quick enough to make a youtube vid.... LOL
It's proved that smokers are less likely to suffer with dementia , at the same age as other sufferers..... They don't tell you that, do they?
 
snakewispera snr said:
Probably..... I laughed when my mate set his self on fire and was running around for help....
My only regret was not getting my phone out quick enough to make a youtube vid.... LOL
It's proved that smokers are less likely to suffer with dementia , at the same age as other sufferers..... They don't tell you that, do they?
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Really, no help. I totally believe your story! Though, I did laugh when my friend set her hair on fire lighting up a device used for smoking something other than tobacco. Hairspray and lighters... Bad, but funny! I took pics of her hair afterwards though. She confiscated my camera and exposed the film (this was before digital).
 
Gah! You guys will bash all sorts of threads to hell and back, but when I set up a thread for some bashing... Nada! What kind of alternate universe is CS.com? What do I have to do to get some bashing around here? Oh! I know... Obama smokes.
 
Having recently quit - it's amazing to have my lung capacity rebound as quickly as it did....and I KNOW that it won't be "back to 100%" for a LONG while yet. I'm kind of a freak in that I didn't start smoking until the age of 35/36....who decides to start smoking in their mid-thirties? :p

I can't bash other smokers. I used to, but now having been on that side of the fence of addiction - both physical and psychological - I can't sit in judgment of an addict without being hypocritical.

But I will bash those who rationalize their addictions...as I used to. "Oooh, I'm under stress....." Bite me. I used to use that one, and was able to rationalize that anything that didn't correspond with my mindset was "stressful"....sheer BS.

Smokers aren't disgusting. Addicts are. Your addiction just happens to be legal.


Dale
 
I don't know what you need here. I'll try, but you already know the bad things about smoking.
The smell of stale smoke on you , all of the time.
The smell of stale smoke on your things, all of the time.
Either staying away from people so you don't annoy them by smoking or annoying people because you can't go without smoking long enough to be courteous and care about others.
The obvious health risks, with little or no benefits to make it worth the risk. At least if you smoke marijuana you get a buzz (I've heard).
How about adjusting your life and schedule to accommodate smoke breaks during working hours. What if you did a 5 minute exercise every hour instead of inhaling the smoke from burning leaves?
How about feeling like the tobacco companies have you by the shorties? Wouldn't you like to quit being played?
 
I hate how cool it looks when that ghostly plume of smoke leaves your mouth as you exhale. Tarantino is a master at showing this in his films. Smoking never looks cooler than in his movies.

What I hate the most about smokers is how spineless they have been when having their rights trampled upon.
 
You guys really are terrible! Lol.

When I was little, I couldn't walk through the kitchen without holding my breath and, often, shutting my eyes. Even to get a glass of water, it was in and out. QUICK. I couldn't STAND the smoke, and there wasn't even a whole lot... It was only my mom, and occasionally one or two of my parents' friends or, when she visited, my Grandma. It got worse as I got older... Dad had more smoker friends from work coming for dinner, and my older brother picked up the habit when I was 8 or 9. Talk about a nightmare... By the time my brother started, we were in a house where there were NO walls between the kitchen, dining, and family rooms--just an island and some flimsy stair railing. The funny thing is, none of them have been really heavy smokers, except maybe Gram who only visited us on occasion (and vice versa) since we lived a 2 days' drive away. I've since gotten over that sensitivity, but I still gag a bit when I get hit in the face by a wisp of smoke.

Then, there's when my mom, brother, and/or grandmother would smoke in the car. Always seemed like it happened when I was sitting in the back seat, too (maybe because I almost never rode "shotgun" as a kid, because older brother always got that privilege). The worst part was not being able to open the car window, because the smoke would just flap back in (I had a habit of sitting behind the driver), and then bits of ash would fly back at me.

Then there's the SMELL. It took me several years to lose my sense of smell to it, and it was not nice. It still isn't nice, because I can still smell it to an extent. And that's just the "Ultra Lights" most of my family smokes. When one of my smoker cousins comes over, it's HORRIBLE... Like smelling it for the first time... Because both of my smoking cousins (incidentally, the two that visit us most often--which, luckily, isn't a lot) smoke unfiltered.

The click of a lighter, and the abundance of lighters in a house, have both become horrible, disgusting things to me, too... It always seems like, if there's a dozen lighters in the kitchen, at least one person in the house is a smoker. And that click... It's just become a horrible event that preceeds a disgusting one... The click of the lighter and the sizzle of the flame, to me, signal the oncoming of a white-smoke stench that I know will just FILL the dining room and still manage to stink up the living room and kitchen.

I could probably think of more, worse things, but there's no smokers in the room ATM to jog my memory... Lol.

GOOD LUCK!! I know, second hand, how hard quitting can be.. My grandma still has urges, and it's been 9 or 10 months since she quit (by the way--apparently, it takes 8 months to get your sense of smell back, and LONGER for the smell to leave your car!). My older brother quit last year for his asthmatic wife, only to get addicted to those nicotine breath mints, and now he's trying to "wean" himself off some more by switching to spitless tobacco. My mom has tried and failed to quit countless times... Bleh. Really, good luck. =)
 
If you stop smoking now you will turn to eating for a substitue. So then you can be an over weight non smoker and enjoy the benefits of fine food.

:poke:

*now where did I put my lighter...*
 
I've quick smoking twice of coure while pregnant and started back when my dughter was 14 months old the first time and when my son was 5 months old the second

What I liked about quiting- smelling better all around, saving money, and knowing it was best for my growing babies.

What I hated- getting fat, wanting to smoke, getting fat, and lastly getting fat. I may die younger, but I'll be thin at least and happy not craving something thats right there. Its terrible advice and terribly vain, but true:D
 
I've actually quit a few times but smoking is a real hard one to kick. I stayed smoke free the longest through hypnotism, about a year and a half, and to this day I can't smoke a menthol, (what I was smoking at the time), without getting extremely ill.
 
I hate it when I have to walk down the parking ramp stairs after you and breathe your disgusting smoke into my lungs. I really hate how people have to walk through a cloud of smoke to get into any building. How do you think lung transplant people feel about that? I hate smokers' creepy artificial larynx voices after they have their larynx removed due to cancer. I especially hate having to provide a pen and paper to people with no tongues. Come on, it has to happen to someone, why _wouldn't_ it be you? And I hate how I don't have any comforting words when a patient starts crying, telling me that all she wants it so attend her daughter's wedding next spring, and she knows she is going to die of cancer before then. BTW, I used to smoke. If I can quit, so can you.
 
Nanci said:
I hate it when I have to walk down the parking ramp stairs after you and breathe your disgusting smoke into my lungs. I really hate how people have to walk through a cloud of smoke to get into any building.
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Me too. Smoking outside the doors of a hospital? In your robe? With an IV rack on wheels? Seen it often.

Nanci said:
BTW, I used to smoke. If I can quit, so can you.
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Me too, "quit" is "quit", "quitting" is "still smoking". The fastest way to get it out of your system is to stop putting it in.
 
danielle said:
I've quick smoking twice of coure while pregnant and started back when my dughter was 14 months old the first time and when my son was 5 months old the second
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I quit while pregnant too and started back when each one was around 1-2 yrs old. So I know how you feel.

What I liked about quiting- smelling better all around, saving money, and knowing it was best for my growing babies.

What I hated- getting fat, wanting to smoke, getting fat, and lastly getting fat. I may die younger, but I'll be thin at least and happy not craving something thats right there. Its terrible advice and terribly vain, but true:D
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AMEN! I have to rep you for that one. LOL

I do have to say that at this time I only smoke about a 1/2 a pack a day. For my kids sake, no one is allowed to smoke in my house or car. There are the very rare occasions, perhaps a cookout, that we will play cards and allow people to smoke. But that is done in the kitchen, windows open and a fan to suck as much out of the house as we can. I may enjoy my smoking, but my dad was a smoker and I didn't like the second hand smoke smell, so I wont have/do it with my children present. My husband smokes at least a pack a day and we have had the debate over and over again about smoking while pregnant and having smoke in the house around the kids. He gets so mad that I make him go out on the porch. LOL Needless to say, I always win. ;)

My step kids mother smokes heavily with their kids in her car, house or any where. For a while she lived in an old trailer where upwards of 10 adults would be smoking at the same time. No windows open and 8-10 kids present. Those kids were always sick and missing school numerous days due to ear infections, sinus infections and bronchitis. That is until they moved in with me and their dad. Since they have been here niether child has missed more than 4 days of school for the past 4 yrs. Last year they both recieved perfect attendance. Their mom get's to pick them up on Fridays now and bring them back Sunday. When I get them home they ask me if they can take a shower and if I can re-wash the clothes their mom washed already. They come in coplaining of headaches and not feeling well almost every time. The oldest one tells me that their mom smoke in the car with the windows up most the time or just a small crack in it. Sad.
 
We're outdoor smokers as well and in my state all hospital grounds are smoke free by law as well as restaurants and bars, or any other indoor place. I don't smoke at the park with my kids or really anywhere other than my back yard,lol and actually find it rude smokers think its okay to light up anywhere. I figure maybe one day I will want to quit, but theres no point in trying if its not something your ready for.
 
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