Have you quit smoking? If so, how have your views towards smokers changed?
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Yes! I did smoke as a twenty something male, but mostly I think I smoked because it was so habit forming and addictive. I gave up the hardest way i.e. cold turkey after having a cold I couldnt get rid of and the smoking ontop made things MUCH worse. Hence I frightend myself into quitting.
OK! after I gave up, my views did change and I nolonger saw smoking as a good thing, I always felt I was hurting or doing damage to my body and I became even more convinced of how harmful smoking can be once I quit using tabacco.
**If I was a parent and I found my children or one of them had started smoking I think I would be very upset and probably disappointed too. Feel let down?
**The problem is, when your a young person (and we all have been at one point in the past of course!) you dont know whats for you and whats not for you? as a young person its natural to be curious and try different things i.e. some good things and some not so good things (wont bore you with a long list, I'm sure you know what I mean here). Trying and experimentation is completely natural for us in our teens and twenties, its how we discover who we are and what we like/dislike,etc.
Experimentation is an important part of growing and maturing, the problem though is that drugs like tabacco are very addictive and so the real problem is the habit or addiction on the one hand and the health damage from smoking on the other.
**On the positive side of things, its entirely possible that your son or daughter might try smoking, booze or soft drugs & its just a phase or stage and that they grow out of given time. You know what I mean "done that" been there got the T shirt,etc & they move on & stop using these things, nolonger have a need.
**No! I wouldnt like it or allow them to smoke in front of me, it would be a way in which I could show or express my upset or disaproval of them doing that. Its a tough experience to have to deal with, my heart goes out to you.
Hope that helps?
regards IR
Smokers can do what they please.
I quit smoking 9 years ago and I don't mind people smoking around me. My 2 older sons smoke. I'd prefer that they didn't but it is their choice. I've had the talk with them about how bad it is but no one has the right to tell another person they can/cannot smoke.
of coz not...but would they listen...I didn't
i am a smoker and i recon that if i stopped smoking i would be a pain to be around other peoples smoke.
I think Its more the smell of staill smoke that it leaves
All good questions- You should read the book Easy way to quit smoking, this is an excellant resource to deter kids from smoking, quit and change attitudes towards smokers... it is by Allen Carr
Really changed my thinking Ashton Cuther read this book and talked about it on the VIEW that he needed to quit before the moive The guardian with kevin coster about the coastgaurd.
I have smoked for 15 years and quit after reading it!
I've just given up smoking following a heart attack (the single biggest thing you can do to help prevent another attack) after about 40 years of enjoyment, so I understand the 'pull' of smoking. Because of this I would not presume to instruct anyone else to give up. Unless you come from a different planet, you will be well aware of the risks involved, but at the end of the day, it's an individual's life.
I have tried and tried and still can't quit,however my mate quit a few years ago and he is now so patronising about my smoking.He won't come to my house or out for a drink with me because the smell of fags ruins his night.He goes on and on about it and you would think he had never been a smoker.They say an ex smoker is more likely to come over all holier than though and i would'nt mind but he had a 30 a day habit for over 20 years.What a cheek.
six months ago and after 25 years i have quit smoking, but i still love it, i envy any person i see smoking, and i think about it all day.
But when i first started smoking there was no worldwide awareness of how dangerous smoking is, no one knew that it is a killer; that was our excuse, teenagers nowadays have no excuse, we all now know it is a killer, so what is their excuse for smoking? other than utter stupidity.
I quit recently 3 weeks ago cause i'm pregnant,The smell now when i kiss my boyfriend who is still a smoker,is not very nice,but i do not say anything.
I am recently in the process of quitting again for the tenth time or so in the past few years, I had been smoking since I was 14 and I am now 34 years old, I know for me it has been very difficult to quit, most of my friends smoke ciggarettes and I often wonder why should I quit when all of the people that I care about are smoking ciggarettes and slowly but surely killing themselves off? well quite simply because I value my life and I know that we are all going to die eventually but I just don't want to be the cause of my own death by being stupid, my views of other smokers haven't changed any and I don't have any children of my own but if I did I would find a way to talk to them and do my best to get through to them that it is unhealthy for them to smoke ciggarettes and then I would keep trying to get them to see and understand just how stupid it is for them to smoke, that and I would also promise them that they will never see a dime from me as long as I know they are smoking ciggarettes either
I have quit smoking recently.
My views towards smoking haven't changed. If I found my teenager smoking, providing they were of legal age I wouldn't punish them. I'd advise them against it but wouldn't stop them. To do otherwise would be hypocritical.
They'd have to pay for their habit themselves though, no use running to daddy looking for money for fags, the bank would be closed.
no way! kick their butt, ground them, take whatever you can away from them..then take them to a Museum of Science and show them a lung that has been destroyed by cigarettes..Seeing is believing If they don't get the picture by then..you got a bigger problem on your hands than you realize..Good Luck to you..
I've recently quit after smoking for 25 years but am determined to not become a "Born again" non-smoker and preach to people who do because that would make me a hypocrite, as until there's a total ban it's there right to do so if they wish. As for if I have any kids and they smoked, no I would not let them smoke in front of me, or at least untill they were old enough to legally smoke and not in my house, I'd try to explain the dangers to their health and as a last resort take them to the ward that I was in when I had my near fatal Asthma attack, with all the people on Oxygen to show them where if they continue to smoke they could one day end up, drastic yes but it helped me to decide to quit.
I have smoked and warned my kids about the health hazards of smoking, but it's their life to do as they will with it. Sure they can smoke in front of me, I accept them as they are.
I am 40 yrs old and have never tried smoking. My mama taught me better than that. I dont care if others smoke just not around me. I dont drink a beer and spit it all over them so i dont want them blowing smoke all over me.
My kids feel the same way as I do about smoking. They hate being around it too.
My son asked me to stop smoking when he was 9. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to manage it right then but I kept trying on & off for several years. 2 weeks before he was 16, I finally managed to do it, only to find that he was now smoking. Now he has 2 children and has stopped several times only to start again. I hope he has finally achieved it.
I have now stopped for 16 years and have not even taken a single drag in all that time because I know that, if I did, I would be hooked again.
I still fancy one every now & again, especially after Sunday lunch, but I will never ever smoke again. Having said that I sometimes enjoy sitting next to someone who is smoking and I enjoy inhaling their second hand smoke, but not always. Other times I cannot tolerate the smell and feel that it is a disgusting habit, which it is!
My advice, to anyone who has never tried smoking, is DON'T you may not become addicted, but if you do, it's a terrible curse.
I've ended up with diabetes and heart disease which resulted in a heart attack followed by triple heart bypass surgery.
Tobacco manufacturers have an awful lot to answer for.
I quit smoking when I was 69. I am now 74 but have had 3 srokes and now have a very bad chest because of this filthy habit. If only I had listened to my parents when they told me how bad this was for me.....
I smoked 2-1/2 packs perday for years til I laid them down and walked away.Now I can't stand the smell of them.It's not allowed in my house,or car.If my kids started smoking,they would have to do it far from me.
I started smoking at 14 and my mum was cool about it, but my dad never found out!
I recently quit the minute i found out i was expecting twins, and havent looked back, but i must say if i wasnt pregnant then i'd still be smoking.
If my children when they are older, smoke then its up to them, but i would never buy them cigarettes or let them smoke infront of me.
I used to smoke as a teen and after a few years I did it in front of my mom. In retrospect I understand how much that probably killed her to see, and I wish I could take it back.
I haven't smoked since I was 20 (7 years ago) and my boyfriend does still. We are having a baby in march and he has promised to quit before then. The idea of him smoking a cigarette and then holding our newborn makes me sick!
My kids will never see us smoke, and hopefully we'll never see them smoke. I hope that by the time they are teens it will be incredibly unpopular so they don't get sucked into it the way their parents did as teens.
Now that I don't smoke it really bothers me to be around it. I don't feel irritated or annoyed - just physically ill and disgusted by it. It's not because I have a negative attitude towards smokers - just a serious, uncontrollable aversion towards the actual smoke.
My mother used to smoke and I used to hate getting dressed up to go out anywhere when I still lived at home. She couldn't understand why it bothered me to go out smelling of smoke. Infact I don't think she really thought it did make you smell anyway.
She gave up smoking 6 years ago and the first time she went out socially where a lot of people smoked (which was quite a while after the nicotene was out of her system) it made her heave! I said to her that much as I didn't want to laugh about it, it did give me a sense of satisfaction that she finally understood that to a non smoker the smell of ciggies is like making a smoker stand next to a bonfire and breath that in and getting that stench it all over their clothes with no escape .
Hi,
Great post! Quitting smoking was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, and I thought I wasn't addicted!
Here's what I tried before finding success: hypnosis, those fake cigaretts, the nicotine patch, and group therapy.none worked.
I finally tried this HERBAL patch I bought 6 months ago on the net. They claim a 97% success rate. Well, it worked! They had a sweet deal which was a free 10 day trial for only $3.95 including shipping (it's regularly $53 for 10 days)!!
I don't know if they still have that deal, but it's worth a try.
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Good Luck
well i am 15 and i smoke but i would defo not want me kids to smoke expecially not in front of me.
FYI i am tryin to quit
hi, i smoked before falling pregnant with my son and then quit after several years of smoking. i didnt become this reformed smoker no, if you choose to smoke let that be your business. As for my son smoking of course i will be disappointed, no parent wants their sons/daughters health to be put at risk but im certainly not going to be a hypocrite, i would just hope he see sense like my husband and i and gives up when he realises he smells and has no money lol. good question thanks xx
i had to quit as i'm pregnant.. i'm 11weeks and i don''t care for fags anymore.. which is weird as i loved my fags and always needed one trust me.. but my views on smokers haven't changed. because it is hard and it is a nasty habit to have but i just don't like the smell of them now eh.
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