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In reply to the discussion: How tragic! Yesterday in the grocery store parking lot, I saw someone with a portable oxygen tank... [View all]NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)35. 🥳🍷🍷🍷 Congratulations to you! That's fantastic! And...
Generally, smokers do not smell the stink of the cigarette. Until they quit.
And, YES!! That was (and is, and remains) one of the biggest motivators for me to stay quit. I never KNEW how offensive smelling I was to others. I'm retro-actively embarrassed and horrified at the thought of it.
Now, I can spot a smoker at 20 paces away from me. (Less now with masks... but pre-covid... once I clocked a smoker in the grocery store, I'd do my best to stay one aisle ahead of them, or turn and circle-back if they caught up with me.)
Two lots over from us, there's a man whose wife won't let him smoke inside, so he smokes outside on his deck... cigarettes, flavored cigarillos, and cigars. UGH! --- Most evenings that it's clear and comfortable outside, I cannot open my own windows because his smoke wafts in and it makes me want to retch. (There's SOMETHING he's smoking that smells like a skunk! No lie. No exaggeration... until I realized it was his smoke, I had often assumed that we had a skunk in the woods that was frightened by something.)
I see people digging DEEP in their pockets, or rummaging in their purse for any extra loose change they may have, just to pay for the cheapest "floor-sweepings" brand of cigarettes that they can afford. It's tragic.
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How tragic! Yesterday in the grocery store parking lot, I saw someone with a portable oxygen tank... [View all]
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
OP
I happen to know that can get hooked from secondhand smoke, so many parents are
demigoddess
Apr 2021
#7
It is a horrendous addiction. I can't tell you how many physicians, nurses, researchers and others--
hlthe2b
Apr 2021
#5
Yup.....I know, was it to late. What I keep thinking, I smoked for 37, I really don't
a kennedy
Apr 2021
#15
You're right on ALL points.......happy I did quit.....just wish it would have been sooner.
a kennedy
Apr 2021
#20
My husband who never smoked, says he could tell when the tobacco companies changed
a kennedy
Apr 2021
#18
As long ago as the 1930s people commonly called cigarettes "coffin nails".
PoindexterOglethorpe
Apr 2021
#28
They called them coffin nails in 1896. People have known for many years that
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#84
I took Wellbutrin......only thing that helped me quit, and was the hardest thing I ever did.
a kennedy
Apr 2021
#19
It helped me not be so jittery......as in like, when am I gonna have my next smoke, when can
a kennedy
Apr 2021
#73
That's how it helped me too. It still does even though I started smoking again.
beaglelover
Apr 2021
#74
Thankfully, smoking in the car is one routine I won't have to break! I only smoke at home.
beaglelover
Apr 2021
#78
I knew a woman who used to smoke while riding her stationary exercise bike. True story. nt
Binkie The Clown
Apr 2021
#21
Nicotine gum, patches and lozenges were my pacifier for about three months while I quit.
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#27
Oxygen is not flammable, but it can cause other materials that burn to ignite more easily and to ...
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#37
Good luck! I quit many times over the years... but I'd always find some excuse to start again.
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#39
I think it was WC Fields who said; "quitting smoking is easy, I've done it a thousand times"
maxrandb
Apr 2021
#67
The Mister and I quit at the same time. Neither one of us would have succeeded...
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#60
When I previously failed, I referred to it as "taking a break" from smoking...
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#76
Hopefully his addiction won't burn his grandkid alive due to the O2 tank fire.
alphafemale
Apr 2021
#71
Years ago when My MIL was in hospice for breast cancer, there were more than a few on
Demsrule86
Apr 2021
#83
When Mom was in the nursing home, the staff would roll some of the residents to a patio area...
NurseJackie
Apr 2021
#85