The Quit Smoking Thread

[Kingspoint]

My husband gave it up when I caught him lying about an ATM transaction in which he pulled cash to go buy the cigarettes while I was at work, but told me that he had bought a comic book and had put down a deposit on the book. A quick call to the comic book store, on speaker mode, with my husband standing there red-faced, cleared it up

It's so hard for one spouse to quit while the other still smokes. My dad had a heck of a time quitting with my Mom still smoking. He pulled it off (you have to stay quit with the Spouse still lighting up every day), but it would have been a heck of a lot better if she had joined him. She eventually quit about 5 years later. Both of them quit around their respective retirement ages. It paid off a lot for both of them, but eventually he was down to 60% lung capacity and a pace-maker, but that wouldn't have been just from the cigarettes. A Steel Mill worker, he was exposed to quite a bit of other toxins.

[BernieCarbo]

It's hard to believe that not long ago you could still smoke on planes (I know for certain as late as the early 90's). And in Ohio, they didn't ban public smoking until 2006, and Kentucky still hasn't.

[OldFashionedRed]

It's hard to believe that not long ago you could still smoke on planes (I know for certain as late as the early 90's). And in Ohio, they didn't ban public smoking until 2006, and Kentucky still hasn't.

Let's keep it that way. I know smoking, and its second hand effects are dangerous. While I don't smoke and my husband said he would only ever pick it up again if something happened to me (to help him destress from the loneliness), I believe in letting people do what they want as long as people who don't want to do it can reasonably avoid it.

[RFS62]

The diagnosis of my Aunt's early death to lung cancer was 2nd-hand smoke. Her husband was of the 3+ packs a day Farmer that smoked, though most of that smoking takes place outdoors. I don't believe the diagnosis. I think it's more likely that she got the lung cancer from pesticides. Just makes more sense to me.

We'd (the kids, of course) wash our walls every Spring, and they walls would change color from yellow back to white. Parents both smoked a lot. Always a cloud of smoke in the house. When I was 4, my Sister was 7 and my Brother was 10, my Mom had us all come to the dinner table and take a puff of a cigarette knowing we'd cough our heads off as a deterent to not starting. It was just always so disgusting, I could never start. Couldn't stand the smell or the taste.

[Kingspoint]

I believe in letting people do what they want as long as people who don't want to do it can reasonably avoid it.

Unless the smoker is 100+ feet away, it can't be reasonably avoided.

People who smoke in public....I want to walk up and fart in their face.

The most disgusting smokers are those who smoke on public outdoor trails. Shouldn't be doing it for the fire hazards alone, but then you come up the trail five minute behind them and the stench is extremely disgusting. You go hiking to get away from the dregs of public behavior only to be disgusted by their nasty habits outdoors in the woods. And, did they pick up and dispose of the cigarette butt in a trash can? No. They littered it on the ground like they always do.

[BenchRider]

My husband gave it up when I caught him lying about an ATM transaction in which he pulled cash to go buy the cigarettes while I was at work, but told me that he had bought a comic book and had put down a deposit on the book. A quick call to the comic book store, on speaker mode, with my husband standing there red-faced, cleared it up

Thanks for sharing this. I laughed.

[BernieCarbo]

Unless the smoker is 100+ feet away, it can't be reasonably avoided.

People who smoke in public....I want to walk up and fart in their face.

The most disgusting smokers are those who smoke on public outdoor trails. Shouldn't be doing it for the fire hazards alone, but then you come up the trail five minute behind them and the stench is extremely disgusting. You go hiking to get away from the dregs of public behavior only to be disgusted by their nasty habits outdoors in the woods. And, did they pick up and dispose of the cigarette butt in a trash can? No. They littered it on the ground like they always do.

Yeah, I would say the next step should be that you can smoke in your home, but nowhere else. And employers can in some cases state that they will only hire non-smokers, but it is hard to enforce. I would personally never hire a smoker.

The thing about smokers is they think no one notices. I went to a local salon for a haircut for years, and one day I showed up and they had a new stylist. I got her, and her clothes smelled so bad of smoke that I had to hold my breath. It's a tough spot, because I don't f*** with people who cut my hair or touch my food. I just don't go back, and I never did.

[OldFashionedRed]

I hope that I don't offend anyone here, but some of the most useless and lazy workers I've ever been around were smokers. Outside constantly to smoke. Whenever it was close to breaktime, they were outside 10 minutes early.

[Kingspoint]

Yeah, I would say the next step should be that you can smoke in your home, but nowhere else. And employers can in some cases state that they will only hire non-smokers, but it is hard to enforce. I would personally never hire a smoker.

The thing about smokers is they think no one notices. I went to a local salon for a haircut for years, and one day I showed up and they had a new stylist. I got her, and her clothes smelled so bad of smoke that I had to hold my breath. It's a tough spot, because I don't f*** with people who cut my hair or touch my food. I just don't go back, and I never did.

I was going to support a new barber yesterday, but then I saw him smoking and thought of the nasty haircuts I've had to endure from a hairstylist that smoked. I'm going somewhere else.

[Roy Tucker]

I hope that I don't offend anyone here, but some of the most useless and lazy workers I've ever been around were smokers. Outside constantly to smoke. Whenever it was close to breaktime, they were outside 10 minutes early.

Where I just retired from had an outside smoking deck. I didn’t smoke, but I’d go outside with the smokers because that seemed to be where decisions were getting made. We’d almost always just talk about work and the discussions were more freeform and productive. I could never figure out how to replicate them without the smoking component. They were productive.

This was 2009 to sometime in the late 2000-teens. Management banned smoking anywhere on company property (including in your car in the parking lot). People would go get in their cars, drive around and smoke, and then come back. This began to be frowned upon by management and those doing it were “counselled”.