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My parents didn't smoke. I still do, but haven't given up on quitting. As said above, military boredom and cheap cigs. Practically everybody smoked when I was in the Navy. I travel back and forth across the border often enough I'm still able to buy them very cheap - like $15 a carton at the duty free store. I suppose if I had to pay full price, I would have quit by now. I smoke like 10 a day or less, but there's just those sometimes when I have GOT TO HAVE a cigarette.
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Same reasons people wear pants down to their ankles, smoke, drink, color their hair blue, tat themselves all over, have gold & silver teeth, do drugs, disrespect others, blah blah blah...............................
I picked it up in college and hate to say that by 35 I haven't shaken it entirely, but I'm by no means a heavy smoker - about a pack every 2 weeks. I haven't really tried to quit because I figure at that rate it can't be too bad for you. Any MDs out there care to comment?
I really enjoy it on the rare occasion I do it. It just goes with a drink on the back porch, pulling away from the dock, etc... Never with a crowd, with the wife or around the kids.
Same reasons people wear pants down to their ankles, smoke, drink, color their hair blue, tat themselves all over, have gold & silver teeth, do drugs, disrespect others, blah blah blah...............................
I never had an issue with smoking, but I've dipped/chewed since I was 18. I started because most of my co-workers did it and said it would help pass the long days at work and relieve some stress from the job. I'm 21 now and trying to quit using nicotine lozenges and its going pretty well. I just hope I can stick with it.
And Seacat FL, I won't jack this thread with talk of tattoos. But I will say that you should alter your post to say "Same reason SOME people get tattoos, ignorance or stupidity plus they think its 'cool.'" I've seen very stupid tattoos that are the result of drunken nights or dares or just plain stupidity, but I've also seen many (including my own) very well done tattoos done for good reasons.
A "good reason" for getting a tattoo
Sorry but one day you will regret them. I am amazed at the number of people permanently disfiguring themselves to look cool.
Smoking is a tuff addiction. I had it for more years then I care to remember and am glad it's over. People start for a million different reasons but once it grabs ahold it takes alot to kick it.
My 2 cents is people start because it's easy to live in denile, just like why would people eat crabs that have pcb's in them? Why do people eat fish with mercury? Why do we eat vegies that are genetically modified and covered in chemicals? And my favorite why would anyone ever drink a diet soda??? That's a chemisty experiment in a can...
Sorry but one day you will regret them. I am amazed at the number of people permanently disfiguring themselves to look cool.
As I said, this isn't a thread about tattoos so I'm done with that topic but feel free to start a new thread about it if you'd like to discuss further.
Back to the topic at hand, I do know a few people who picked up smoking because their parents do it. That's a tough one because I feel like my parents played a big role in shaping who I am today. If I had grown up watching them smoke there's a pretty good chance that I would've picked it up myself. I'll never think that smoking is a smart idea, but it's hard to call someone out on it when that's what they grew up around thinking it was acceptable because their parents were doing it.
That said, my generation has grown up with plenty of anti-smoking information and campaigns, whereas my parents generation didn't, so I can't be too sympathetic.
To me the whole smoking thing makes no sense, the constant repetitive action of doing the same thing all day every day seems just stupid. I just don't get it.
I never had an issue with smoking, but I've dipped/chewed since I was 18. I started because most of my co-workers did it and said it would help pass the long days at work and relieve some stress from the job. I'm 21 now and trying to quit using nicotine lozenges and its going pretty well. I just hope I can stick with it.
Stick with it dude - you're only 3 years into the habit - you can do it.
I dipped from when I was 14 to when I was 33. Off and on as to amount, but probably averaged 2-3 cans/wk of Skoal over that whole time. The more recent 10 years it was a can a day. Got into it via two of my friends in middle school that thought it was cool. Then when I ran x-country and track in high-school, all the "elite" guys dipped, so I continued.
Then at 33 (5+ years ago) our 4 year old daughter was diagnosed with a large malignant abdominal tumor. The last dip I had was at a Red Sox game the night before we took her to the Dr. due to fever symptoms. I swore to myself right then that I if she was to turn out OK, I would never touch the stuff again. Quit cold turkey.
Over five years later, still haven't touched it, and never will again. Daughter is doing great and is cured 100% cancer free. Maybe shit happens for a reason. All I know is I feel a lot better not dipping, and saving quite a bit of $$ too.
Good Luck! One day at a time...the urge DOES fade.
Both my parents smoked for over 30 years but they quit in their 50s
and outlived almost all their contemporaries!
I got a good dose just from 2nd hand smoke for 14 years so I guess
you could say I quit at 14!
When I was a teenager in the '70s I never imagined so many folks would still be smoking!
After all the research and everything I guess kids still have to do things to be cool and
" fit in "! How sad!
" We don't smoke and we don't chew and we don't go with girls that do! "
What kills me are the number of health care professionals who smoke.
Yep, me too. I remember when I was running my painting business we painted a house of a very well known Dr. He would come home ever night and smoke and drink beer.
What kills me are the number of health care professionals who smoke.
Have you ever seen many healthy nurses?
Even though they are mostly active during the day, some could use a little extra cardio.
Like you said, in the health care field they see first hand the results from bad habits yet they choose to walk the same path.
Addiction is a bitch.
I live near Toledo and all of the hospitals not only don't allow smoking near their buildings, they don't allow it any where on their property. That includes parking lots and even in your car if it's on their property.
It is so sad to see patients w/ IV posts standing next to hospital personnel standing on the curb in front of the hospital smoking. I have seen people standing in hardly nothing more than a hospital gown standing on the curb in the middle of winter smoking.
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