The smell of smoke.

i grew up with parents who smoked, when i was 10 yes thats right 10 my family moved to a new city where all the friends i met were smoking, i can remember my first cig back in 1988 it was a marlboro red. how bad is that, well i am 31 years old today and still a smoker do i like it, hell no i hate this habit. i want to quit but a non smoker doesnt realize is that it is very hard specially when you have done it for so long. when i started this diet i also got a prescription called chantix that from what everyone tells me works. i told my self when i lose half the weight i will start this pill. when i do smoke i do respect others for example the other day i was on my lunch break sitting on the bench enjoying my cig which helps release some of the stress that i had. this lady comes by and sits next to me i get up and she says to me oh you dont have to move i simply said i am sorry but i do not want to be rude and smoke near you so i walked down where there were no people. everything back in the day allowed smokers even our mall i can remember going to the mall with my mom and all throughout the mall were giant ash trays. some one says how can you compare that to food, well some people are highly addicted to food and as some of us all know how hard it is to quit that well i guess what i am saying is in a way it is the same but with different effects. i respect non smokers. i as a smoker hate when people blow it in my face or smoke when i am trying to eat or dont roll down a window.
all i ask is not to be judged on something
 
:grouphug:You sound like a very polite person who is careful not to offend others. I wish you every success in losing your weight (congrats on how much you've already lost!) and kicking the smoke habit. I have heard good things about Champix!

Cheers
ABBA
 
I have a mixed reaction to this.

It is illegal to now smoke in any clubs, bars, and the public in this city. In a town or maybe it is a small city just South of my city they have past a newer law that you cannot smoke in your own vehicle with a minor under the age of 14. :D Littering, Swearing, Spitting, are all cause for a ticket of approximately $500. or more. No smoke butts here...uhha NOT

I know that yucky smell when you get home, it's like a sweet sickening smokey smell that is left on everything you touch. Same goes for me with smoke from camp fires. Blah

I don't like to smell that smokey heaviness when I'd walk into a club, BUT since I was a second hand smoker of 17 years, whenever someone lights up a smoke and that first puff, drives me to want to be near them. I just can't get enough of that first light up.

Or when passing someone else in the street, and they puff a huge cloud past you or the wind gets it in your face, and they have this expression like...so...? I always cough or make a small gag sound, cuz really I am. I had been breathing fresh polluted air until they came along.

Hey I like a cig with a beer once in a blue moon. Since I don't drink either. So mixed thoughts here.
 
oo Also one could say that it is not the fault of the person whom has an addiction problem, if it weren't for the supplier of cigarettes, there'd be no smokers....although there'd always be illegal trade as there is with anything. So why not just puff on an electric cigarette? I hear you can smoke them in non-smoking public places because there are no harmful toxics in the smoke. I hear they are quite expensive though, but hey to each their own. :gnorsi:
 
Wow! I didn't know electric cigarettes were actually REAL! An interesting idea. I do have sympathy for people struggling with addictions, regardless of what they are. Some are just more public than others, like smoking and gluttony. However, anything that we allow to rule our lives can inevitably lead to much sorrow.

ABBA
 
ABBAgirl said:
Wow! I didn't know electric cigarettes were actually REAL! An interesting idea. I do have sympathy for people struggling with addictions, regardless of what they are. Some are just more public than others, like smoking and gluttony. However, anything that we allow to rule our lives can inevitably lead to much sorrow.

ABBA
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Yeah I saw them the other day online somewhere I did a search and this is what I found about them. It seems to be a good idea. No second hand smoke and no tar and stuff. Maybe it will catch on.
 
Vaporization isn't anything new. Its just being offered as an alternative to the masses now.

Its pending FDA approval, but the FDA has proven time and again they are a political entity and not a public health oriented organization, so we'll see how that goes.

I don't think smoking should be illegal. People should be able to do what they want. I think it is unethical to sell something that is addictive. I don't think people should smoke/chew tobacco cause its just horrible, but I don't feel anyone has the right to tell someone what to do if they aren't hurting anyone else -- so as long as they are by themselves or away from non-smokers or the non-smokers are willingly around smokers, its ok. Just wanted to say that cause it might seem I feel otherwise. I'm very against government involvement in people's lives. Sometimes its necessary, but other times its overly protectice and unnecessary.
 
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