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When I was a smoker (two weeks ago) I was like Dennis Leary with it..."YEAH I'M SMOKIN' KISS MY A**"

I went cold turkey two weeks ago just to see if I could. It is possible but I still want a cigarette. I can tell you that in another two weeks if I STILL want to smoke, I will because I will be damned if I am going to spend the rest of my life feeling like this.

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.

*laugh*

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

I went cold turkey two weeks ago just to see if I could. It is possible but I still want a cigarette. I can tell you that in another two weeks if I STILL want to smoke, I will because I will be damned if I am going to spend the rest of my life feeling like this.

I went to a hypnotist on June 29 - and haven't lit up since. I even downloaded some obnoxious stop-smoking software that calculates to the second how many cigs I haven't smoked since my stop date. But I have too much respect for Freepers to use it here.

The interesting thing with the hypnosis is that you can set the terms and conditions. For instance, I didn't want to feel like I was struggling or suffering - I just wanted to feel like I did the day before I bought my first pack 30 years ago (yikes). I did not want to avoid people who smoke, since some of them are people I love or who are my friends. I just didn't want to be bothered by the smoke. I didn't want to gain weight, either.

Hey - it worked! I don't crave them. I don't think about them. Anyone can light up in front of me, and it's not a problem - if you're in my home, I'll get an ashtray for you. It's great!

I will admit that I can smell cigarette smoke a lot more readily now that I'm a non-smoker. Someone on the first floor of my apartment building smokes - and tries to cover it up with incense. Used to be I could only smell the incense, but now I smell the smoke, too. Doesn't bother me, though - it's just a curious phenomenon.

The weirdest thing, so far, is that I think one of my cats was hooked on nicotine. She spent the first two weeks just moping around the place looking really pitiful and sniffing around the coffee table for where the ashtray used to be. If she was hooked on smoking because of me, then I feel really bad about it, since she never had a choice in the matter (although the other cat seems to be a non-smoker).

Maven