Monday, May 20, 2019
This is silly and scary at the same time
It's been nearly 25 years since my last cigarette, and today, while waiting for a Computer Event to happen, I suddenly had the most God-Awful wave...probably one puff would kill me at this point, but if there had been one in the house I'd have smoked it.
Happened last week, too. They say that quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting Heroin, and staying off them, too. It's still acceptible, socially and not illegal, yet, which makes it harder to stay away from them. And when we quit a pack of cigarettes was about 2 bucks. Now it's at least 7$. yikes.
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It's over 40 years since I last smoked. And to this day, under stress, I just fancy lighting up. Won't happen, but my brain still presents it as a possibility.
ReplyDeleteIt's actually hard to watch old movies where people smoke all the time. Partly I want them not to, partly I want to join in.
Recently i realized that my ever present little water bottle is an updated version of the social side of smoking. Hands occupied, mouth engaged, punctuating conversation, never bother with it when at home.
We are such creatures of habit, arent we. I knew we were both over the worst of it when I noticed the ashtrays were now becoming tack holders, and bobbypin receptacles.
DeleteAnd it is nice not to have to stand outside in the rain under an awning, trying to keep the damn thing lit...
Like you, my sister smoked twenty years ago and like you quit but every now and then craves one still.
ReplyDeleteMy dad was a heavy smoker and I grew up with that smell being part of life. I worked in offices where more people smoked than didn’t. The odors weren’t offensive because it was just what was. Now twenty years later and passing a person smoking outside, I make a large loop around them because the smoke and its aroma makes me ill.
They say that most smokers are already smoking because their families do, and they are absorbing the second hand smoke. They're half way there.
DeletePlus there is the availability of cigarettes.
In thinking back, my grandmother was the only one who didn't smoke--all her children did, my father's family, and anyone who came to visit. It was what you did. No wonder I was smoking by the time I was 16.
It was only after I quit and I got my sense of smell back did I realize just how awful all my clothes smelled to non smokers. yeuwwww.
And yet there are people who do not have that smoky sour smell, and some who do. A lot has to do with body chem.