[jadednurse]

Just curious to know how many nurses smoke (or at least admit to it)!

[tattooednursie]

I'm a CNA who smokes. I don't hide it either, I mean how can you. People can smell it on you. I'm not like one of those who just HAS to smoke every half hour, but when the opportunity comes, I do.

P.S. All who responded to my previous smoking thread, I DON'T RIP OFF MY PARENTS ANYMORE. I never said I quit, but I'm seriusly thinking about it.

[jadednurse]

When I didn't smoke (back when I was a fresh, naive, unjaded new-grad) I used to think it was disgusting how the nurses who smoked came back from their breaks smelling like dirty ashtrays. After I started smoking, my smoke breaks became the only few moments when I could pull myself together during a really crazy shift. I do feel horribly guilty sometimes suctioning my vented patients after coming back from a smoke break!

[dschlatet]

I quit smoking many years ago, and it's the best thing I ever did. I feel so much more healthy and patients enjoy not smelling it on me all the time.

Dorothy

[tattooednursie]

Ditto Jadednurse. I thought it was so nasty before, but when I smoke I get myself together, then I go in and do postmortum care on a COPD'er! Sometimes I say, "Mandi, what the hell are you doing to yourself!" Being a CNA is rough, and the coffee breaks were just not enough. I'm not saying smoking is a good thing, but some of my most memorable conversations were while smoking with other CNA's and nurses. lol. Conversations with the same ones that I thought (when I was new) "How gross and unprofessional!"

[jadednurse]

Originally posted by FutureRN_Mandi
I'm not saying smoking is a good thing, but some of my most memorable conversations were while smoking with other CNA's and nurses. lol.

Isn't that the truth

[tattooednursie]

LOL. It's how I really got to know my co-workers, because I hardy ever took breaks before I smoked! Now I'm motivated to take breaks. And hey, the smoking area is where all the dirty jokes and gossip takes place. Gossip isn't a good thing either, but I find myself doing more and more of that . lol
Anyways i have exchanged so many life stories with co-workers, and have gotten very close with some of them, and during break, I get to know co-workers for who they are besides just my co-workers. It's sad that all this takes place during smoke breaks ha ha ha.

[webbiedebbie]

I enjoy going to the butt hut and meeting others working in the hospital. I work with the same people for 12 hours. It is nice to take a break and talk to other people, not to mention getting OFF the floor. A break on the floor is boring.

[jadednurse]

Originally posted by webbiedebbie
butt hut

Good one! I remember at one place I worked where they were threatening to take away the smoking area/ban smoking, blah, blah, blah. Even threatening to make it a hospital policy that you were a non-smoker. Gone would be the cigarette butts, but so too would the worker bees be...

[bewbew]

(Two months, two weeks, three days, 2 hours, 6 minutes and 45 seconds. 1521 cigarettes not smoked, saving $456.78. Life saved: 5 days, 6 hours, 45 minutes.)

WOO HOO!!! And I'm just lovin' all that extra cash!!