I'll confess, I am a less than secret smoker.
"And shocked to find gambling going on."
Posted on 08/09/2005 8:37:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
My father suffered a massive heart attack six years ago when he was 57 while helping me move to Florida. He lost 2/3 of his heart function when all was said and done.
My father was thin, active, and we thought healthy.
After my husband arrived home to watch our children, I went to see my father in the Intensive Care Unit of the closest hospital. He looked very scared and there were tears in both our eyes.
I said to him, "Daddy...are you still smoking?" His reply to me was the same da#% thing he's been saying for decades..."Nah...I quit years ago."
I placed Daddy's pajamas and a few other things he'd requested over by his bedside without saying a word. My thoughts were enough this time..."Tell that to the pack of cigarettes in your suitcase, Daddy."
It just breaks my heart.
Hang tough my friend! I'm watching my father slowly die from Emphesema and it isn't fun. Good luck to you!!
I'll confess, I am a less than secret smoker.
"And shocked to find gambling going on."
Rush Limbaugh, is that you?
And, yes I watched my father die from disease that was caused by his smoking.
And there you have it. The attitude. :-)
I pointed out that if it were as dangerous as the "experts" say then no one from the "babyboom" would still be alive. in the 1950's with 75 percent of the population smoking and pregnant women smoking packs a day, the babyboomer generation should have been born retarded and died in their twenties and even the ones that escaped the afore mentioned landmines shouldn't have had the health or intelligence to actually go to college, invent computers, all modern technology, etc...
Great post. I smoked only when we went out when our kids were little. Smoking with a glass of wine is like cake with icing. I told them the same thing you did.
Man, I wish you well. Cold turkey must be the worst of the worst....
There's a lot of nonsmokers that will have to feel pretty silly someday laying there in a hospital bed... dying of nothing.
"concealing her habit with the aid of breath mints and air freshener."
You can't conceal it with candies, especially if one smokes, 10 or more cigs/day.
Anyone out there who watches or lets his/her children watch the "dummy box?"
Sure, we are all going to die but why take part in an activity such as smoking that will only increase the odds that you will die sooner?
please don't then. I promise not to pester you about it.
You stink. I hope you rot in.... :)
KMA indeed. Friggin smoking nazi's. I tend to think of the smoking areas as leper colonies.
But I'm trying to quit. Trying the patches. Not having much noticable luck, but I'm working on it.
I've never really hid that I smoke. Like you, they don't like it, they can just KMA.
I do try to hide it from my kids though. Least I did when they were still with us. Didn't want them to grow up to be ostracised as well. They're grown now though so I don't have that worry.
Yeah, I think some of the people in this article need to grow up though. 40-50 yrs old and still hiding it for no reason at all is sorta silly. I just didn't want my kids to be constantly thinking about it with smoke in the air all the time, ashtrays etc. So I usually went to the basement or attic. I had a reason to hide it it at least.
But, as smoking goes, so goes the other sin vices. Drinking is next on the list, for all the same reasons. Too many accidents. Too many public hospital bills. Too many alcoholics. Too much money that can be plundered by trial lawyers.
Then prolly coffee. Carcinogen ya know.
The smoking gestapo got away with it, it'll encourage other gestapos to sprout up and do away with other peoples pleasures next time.
Godspeed
quit smoking after 30 years, 2-3 packs a day. Made it for 28 days.
started, stopped, started again and stopped, I am on day 15.
I will make it this time. But it is hard!!!! the patch helps ALOT.
good luck to those quitting, keep quitting again if you slide.
To those who keep smoking I say you have the RIGHT to make that decision and I will defend it till I die!
that 2nd hand smoke is BS!
Yeah, food's a whole new thing.
Lots and lots of food, ha!
Gained 40 pounds when I quit smoking. Have taken it off several times.
Been there. Quit after 22 years after I could not carry my three-year-old daughter up the stairs at the Santa Monica Palisades. They are quite a hike, yes, but I was only 39.
I must say, this 57-year-old me could beat the crap out of even the 30-year-old me. MUCH better shape, much more wind, and a lot less hair to catch in the wind.
Try to MOVE.
Go for a walk.
Best advice I got: Failing is not FAILURE. If you slide back, quit again. Keep quitting till you...quit.
If I gotta go, I'd rather go slim and smokey instead of chubby and miserable. :)
Just teasing you.
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