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BadBird, BSN, RN

1,126 Posts

Specializes in Critical Care.

I am not a smoker, never was. We all have are demons to fight, mine is food. I work with several nurses who don't smoke and several who do, it seems that the smokers do get sick more often.

Since I never smoked, I don't know that feeling of addiction but I once had a patient who was a ex heroin user tell me that it was easier to quit heroin than cigarettes. I don't condem anyone for their poor habbits but I have to say that you can smell a smoker a mile away, I have severe allergies and sometimes I just go into a sneezing fit that won't stop when I smell them, perfume does it to me also. I realize that it isn't a smokers fault that I am allergic but it isn't mine either. I do try to coexist peacefully, I just stay downwind.

mario_ragucci

1,041 Posts

Originally posted by BadBird

We all have are demons, smokers do get sick more often,

I don't condem anyone for their poor habbits , I just stay downwind.

Maybe you have demons, and all that quackery. Is your demon also responsible for you jumping on a bandwagon?

I like when you say "down-wind" because it reminds me of being at the rifle range. :-)

renerian, BSN, RN

5,693 Posts

Specializes in MS Home Health.

Been that long since I smoked. Smoking is my business and no one elses.

renerian

researchrabbit

603 Posts

Originally posted by BadBird

I am not a smoker, never was. We all have are demons to fight, mine is food. I work with several nurses who don't smoke and several who do, it seems that the smokers do get sick more often.

Since I never smoked, I don't know that feeling of addiction but I once had a patient who was a ex heroin user tell me that it was easier to quit heroin than cigarettes. I don't condem anyone for their poor habbits but I have to say that you can smell a smoker a mile away, I have severe allergies and sometimes I just go into a sneezing fit that won't stop when I smell them, perfume does it to me also. I realize that it isn't a smokers fault that I am allergic but it isn't mine either. I do try to coexist peacefully, I just stay downwind.

Are we sisters? :)

Peeps Mcarthur

1,018 Posts

By Renarian

Been that long since I smoked. Smoking is my business and no one elses.

I quit on about 10 times in the span of 2-3 years. It didn't work until I made it a point not to tell anyone around me that I was quitting.

Smoking is clearly related to peer pressure. That is an excellent policy Renarian.

Uhhmm..............23 weeks huh:idea:

You know that makes me think of tobacco being teratogenic.

renerian, BSN, RN

5,693 Posts

Specializes in MS Home Health.

Peeps I did not know your an ex smoker! How long has it been? You know I still am craving that darn stuff....................I liked smoking I just have asthma and I knew it was best for me to quit. Plus my dr. blackmailed me into quitting LOL. I know she cares.

renerian

N2bate

30 Posts

Delaware recently passed legislation banning smoking in ALL indoor public places.....other states are considering such action for future ballots. Virginia is days away from major tax hike (at least 50% higher than current tax) on tobacco products to ease the states funding woes.

Yep, you're correct, smoking may in fact be your business but as noted above, I get a say at the ballot box.....any guess on which way I vote?

renerian, BSN, RN

5,693 Posts

Specializes in MS Home Health.

People can say not to smoke inside but geeze we have a judge been picked up 8 times for DUI. Convicted once the other charges droped. Who knows why. Seems alcohol should be a more likely target LOL.

I don't smoke anymore but I think smoking inside is fine especially in a bar or bowling alley.

LOL.

renerian

SmilingBluEyes

20,964 Posts

Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

I am against the gov't legislating smoking in bars and bowling alleys. I hate smoking more than anything but I don't think it is right to take away all the places that a person can enjoy a smoke. It IS their choice......and in places like this, they should be able to have the freedom to do so.

But in a hospital where allergies abound (some quite marked), I think things like smoke, perfume and other noxious odors should be controlled tightly. the patient has not the choice to "move downwind" when someone who has just smoked drags the odor in the room with them.

Peeps Mcarthur

1,018 Posts

Renarian,

Yea, smoking and drinking just seem to go together. I draw the line at smoking in other public places. Smoking in restaurants for example, just defies the boundaries of civilized behavior. I never did that back in the day whaen it was universaly accepted to do so. I always felt bad for the nonsmokers.

I think I've been a nonsmoker about 7-8 years. My motivation was the desire to be master over my health choices, but the deciding event that put it into action happened 2 years after I met my wife. I found her one day, after I went out on the porch to smoke, crying in the back bedroom. She was agonizing over the likelyhood that I woud die just as her father did, of emphysema. She said she didn't want to try and make me stop because she had fallen in love with me for better or worse and she didn't want me to feel guilty....................so she bore the burden herself in secret.

I quit that day. The cravings are never as bad as that!

Peeps Mcarthur

1,018 Posts

From Smilingblueyes

But in a hospital where allergies abound (some quite marked), I think things like smoke, perfume and other noxious odors should be controlled tightly.

An odor can most definitely be a trigger for severe bronchoconstriction.

I have seen it happen.

Good point.

katieRNlove

38 Posts

Specializes in LTACH, CCU, ICU, M/S, ECF.

First of all, i think if you want to quit stay away from other smokers for a couple days, there is nothing worse than trying to quit smoking and watching someone else smoke in front of you. Second i really think that if you are going to quit you have to really want to, not just because you are a nurse or someone else says you should. Everyone i have ever talked to says that one day they just woke up and didn't want to smoke anymore. You have to do it just for you not anything else.

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