NICOTINE TAR CONTAINS OVER 4000 CHEMICALS including ammonia, formaldehyde, orificenic, butane, hydrogen cyanide, lead, mercury, vinyl chloride, methane AND vast quantities of carbon monoxide.
Nicotine is a colorless, odorless, organic-based alkaloid in the same family as cocaine, morphine, quinine and strychnine. It is a super toxin. Now I know it is legal and so is alcohol, but how can this be allowed in the workplace. It has to effect judgement. please I need feedback, because I have a hard time with this at work.
It isn't allowed in the workplace in my state. I was under the impression that many hospitals had banned smoking indoors, even in states where it is still legal to smoke in public buildings, but maybe that was a mistaken impression. I live in CA and we've had an indoor smoking ban for so long, that when I go places that it's permitted, it always takes me aback when someone has a cigarette.
I know what you mean. When I was in North Carolina on vacation, I was taken aback when a waitress asked "smoking or non-smoking" and I saw people smoking indoors.
The numbers of people smoking is going down. There should be more done to deter people from starting it up in the first place. It is a terrible addiction and I am sure you can ask almost any smoker (me included) how they really feel about it and they will tell you they hate it too, but feel powerless to quit. I feel shamed and like a stupid junkie with my life controlled by this- this thing that can kill me and affects my health and quality of life. It is horrible and not a day goes by where I am not remoreseful or where I don't wish I could just stop like that.
I myself have quit numerous times only to have that pull again and start back up. I am ashamed and feel like a junkie. It is horrible. If I could, I would sue the manufacturers for getting me hooked and leaving me out to dry! Then I would make them support my efforts to quit until one finally worked!
I have tried the patch, cold turkey, chantix, and wellbutrin. I will never give up trying until I am successful. I will beat this someday, hopefully before it kills me.
I see the way you non smokers look at me with disgust and disdain. It is pretty hurtful and I am sure it has cost me boyfriends, job offers and the like. Just be thankful that you never became addicted yourself.
if you go to wowio.com you can download many copies of books for free on quitting smoking- I just did this the other day.
I had posted these links before but here they are again- some links to help nurses quit as well as to help patients quit and how to get insurances to cover quit smoking meds and counseling.
I have tried the patch, cold turkey, chantix, and wellbutrin. I will never give up trying until I am successful. I will beat this someday, hopefully before it kills me.
I see the way you non smokers look at me with disgust and disdain. It is pretty hurtful and I am sure it has cost me boyfriends, job offers and the like. Just be thankful that you never became addicted yourself.
I quit smoking when I thought the next law passed in New York was that if you saw someone smoking a cigarette you could throw rocks at them.
Let them alone.
I still have ashtrays out. I refuse to become the anti-smoking gestapo. Aside from being annoying, it's incredibly rude.
The only way you're going to quit smoking is to never quit quitting. I tried to quit the first time in high school and many times in the 11 years I smoked. Mercifully I've been smoke-free for 20 years and refuse to take even one puff.
While I'll look at you with understanding and compassion for your addiction and not disgust and distain, I must confess that I've crossed over to the dark side and am very much anti-smoking. It's a deal breaker to me when thinking about potential boyfriends. No smoking end of discussion and I will not have ashtrays in my house - you smoke outside if you're a friend who smokes.
Rude or not that's the way it is with me now.
You have to put it into perspective as well. How many chemicals are you breathing in a parking garage or even in your vehicle?
Very true. So it's best to not compound the issue with the killing chemicals in ciggarettes.
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I quit smoking when I thought the next law passed in New York was that if you saw someone smoking a cigarette you could throw rocks at them.
Let them alone.
I still have ashtrays out. I refuse to become the anti-smoking gestapo. Aside from being annoying, it's incredibly rude.
I don't remember the last time I had a smoker in my house, but I've never had to ask anyone to go outside. They do it automatically. I guess maybe it is just different where we live, because it is never presumed that it's ok to smoke in someone else's house. I'd find it incredibly rude if someone did light up in here.
My stepmother-in-law was a real estate agent for years. She and fil own a gorgeous home. She smokes like a chimney, but doesn't do it even in our own house because of what it does to resale value.
No one thinks that they're allowed to smoke indoors anymore, except my mother who goes into complete meltdown when confronted with reality. I tell people that they may.
I smoked for fifteen years and quit in 1999 after several attempts. I have been smoke free since. Now that I have been a nonsmoker for a while, cigarette smoke, even just a little, irritates my nasal passages and larynx and I will have a stuffy nose and scratchy throat for up to twenty four hours after exposure, so I try to avoid exposing myself to second hand smoke if at all possible. I will not allow it in my house, and I do wish designated smoking areas were more out of the way.
Tweety, BSN, RN
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I know what you mean. When I was in North Carolina on vacation, I was taken aback when a waitress asked "smoking or non-smoking" and I saw people smoking indoors.