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.
Surely you aren't serious. Poor eating habits are bad for your health. Perfumes/Hairsprays can cause symptoms in the allergy prone/asthmatic individual. I do not smoke, however, this is not communist China. Your opinion leads me to believe that you have been much too indoctrinated by a current media hype against smoking/second hand smoke. Try to think rationally not emotionally.
Anti-depression medications (widely consumed by nurses and physicians) actually do at times alter thoughts and judgements. Where do you want to draw the line?
Surely you aren't serious. Poor eating habits are bad for your health. Perfumes/Hairsprays can cause symptoms in the allergy prone/asthmatic individual. I do not smoke, however, this is not communist China. Your opinion leads me to believe that you have been much too indoctrinated by a current media hype against smoking/second hand smoke. Try to think rationally not emotionally.
Anti-depression medications (widely consumed by nurses and physicians) actually do at times alter thoughts and judgements. Where do you want to draw the line?
Boy this thread is just full of .... i don't know.... tension??
Anywho, not sure if the "serious" line was directed at me, but I'll be the first to admit that I'm not perfect, and that there are many unhealthy things in this world and all we can do is try to live a decently healthy life. Even the healthiest people most likely partake in the occasional alcoholic drink, chocolate, caffeine, bread-and-butter or whatever your vice may be. Some are lazy, some eat too much, I've been guilty of all of the above. BUT I also know that I'm the only one in control of my body and livelihood. That is why I made the choice to quit smoking. I tried many methods several times and Wellbutrin was the best fit for me. I wouldn't take it back for the world, it was one of the best decisions I made.
As far as it affecting my judgement? Yes, drowsiness is a possible side effect, but I didn't get drowsy. I actually got a feeling of "zen", like everything was still okay without cigarettes. If I thought I couldn't perform my job up to standards, I would speak up about it to my supervisor and then to my doctor.
Where do I draw the line? Well I'd draw the line at pushing your beliefs on others to the point of putting them off, but educating our patients is part of our jobs, and I feel that nurses should try to set a good example to their patients, but I know that no one is perfect either, we are all human.
I just don't see that this issue will ever have "resolution" if you will, people are going to do what they want and think what they want and that's fine. But please don't assume that others opinions are influenced by the media, LOL, we all went to school and were educated about the effects of poor lifestyle choices, were we not??
This is my real pet peeve! I can't stand people who have issues with smokers, first of all yes I am an RN and yes I know the effects of smoking (see an end-stage COPD pt struggle to breath, pretty dramatic), yet I have a real hard time not needing that cigarette q4-6 hours. Now I am a fast smoker, and I don't eat lunch during my 12 hour shift, so roughly I am off the floor, maybe, 25 min total during my shift, so I do not take advantage of my peers. My facility still has designated smoke areas, tho every other hospital has gone smoke-free. I personally feel that if I want to smoke I should be able to. It truly annoys me when nurses say that it is a poor representation of health care to be a smoker. One more note, the minute the cafeteria begins to have nothing but low sodium, low fat items 100% of the time, perhaps then I'll be a bit more open to a smoke free environment. Addl, I think that obesity and nursing should be banned too, so no more fat nurses. After all that too is a poor representation of health care.:angryfire:angryfire
This is my real pet peeve! I can't stand people who have issues with smokers, first of all yes I am an RN and yes I know the effects of smoking (see an end-stage COPD pt struggle to breath, pretty dramatic), yet I have a real hard time not needing that cigarette q4-6 hours. Now I am a fast smoker, and I don't eat lunch during my 12 hour shift, so roughly I am off the floor, maybe, 25 min total during my shift, so I do not take advantage of my peers. My facility still has designated smoke areas, tho every other hospital has gone smoke-free. I personally feel that if I want to smoke I should be able to. It truly annoys me when nurses say that it is a poor representation of health care to be a smoker. One more note, the minute the cafeteria begins to have nothing but low sodium, low fat items 100% of the time, perhaps then I'll be a bit more open to a smoke free environment. Addl, I think that obesity and nursing should be banned too, so no more fat nurses. After all that too is a poor representation of health care.:angryfire:angryfire
. . . . "Still, an estimated 3,000 children start smoking in our country every day. And these rookie smokers aren't likely to be swayed by some grownup telling them smoking will kill them. When you're 13 or 14, getting lung cancer at 50 is too abstract a thought, says Tom Brandon, Moffitt's director of Tobacco Research and Intervention.
"They don't care about the health risks ... it's all old age to them," he says.
That's why the experts praise teen-based anti-tobacco campaigns such as truth and Students Working Against Tobacco. In Florida, most have ties to the late Gov. Lawton Chiles, who sued the tobacco industry for its medical and financial impact on Floridians. SWAT, a direct outcome of the lawsuit, today includes 17 chapters in Hillsborough County middle and high schools.
"I know I tune out my parents," says Le'Nery Ortiz, an active member of Memorial Middle School's SWAT team. "If you have someone your own age telling you something [about smoking] you might listen." . . .
i have been struggling to quit smoking for about ten years. Seriously. Tried everything in the book. Nothing was working for me. I havent had one for three days. i did go nine days before that, had a relapse and back onthe wagon. you know the one thing that has finally helped me quit? knowing smokers wish they were me, smokefree. i dont know anyone who actually smiles with pleasure while smoking......
Surely you aren't serious. Poor eating habits are bad for your health. Perfumes/Hairsprays can cause symptoms in the allergy prone/asthmatic individual. I do not smoke, however, this is not communist China. Your opinion leads me to believe that you have been much too indoctrinated by a current media hype against smoking/second hand smoke. Try to think rationally not emotionally.
Anti-depression medications (widely consumed by nurses and physicians) actually do at times alter thoughts and judgements. Where do you want to draw the line?
I want to draw the line with smoking and support smoking bans and anti-smoking campaigns.
Specializes in UR/PA, Hematology/Oncology, Med Surg, Psych.
I don't think health care providers should be allowed to smoke while on the clock b/c of the offensive smell to their sick patients. I do, however, feel there should be somewhere on every hospital campus for the family members to smoke, as long as it is well out of reach of any nonsmoker's lungs. If your relative is dying and you refuse to leave the hospital, and you are a heavy smoker... it will just make coping that much more difficult to be denied your unhealthy vice. I just don't think it's right to make relatives suffer just b/c the hospital doesn't enforce the no smoking except in designated areas policy. That has always bothered me.
Wait a minute. You can't have it both ways....You state that nurses shouldn't smoke on the clock because of the offensive smell to the sick patients, but then you go on to say that it is o.k. for the family members because they are stressed. Do you not think that the smoking family has an offensive smell after smoking? What about all the sick patients they are offending, perhaps a roomate, etc? Either the smell of smoke is offensive and causes respiratory issues or migraines for some patients, or it does not. A smell is a smell, doesn't matter who it comes from.
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Surely you aren't serious. Poor eating habits are bad for your health. Perfumes/Hairsprays can cause symptoms in the allergy prone/asthmatic individual. I do not smoke, however, this is not communist China. Your opinion leads me to believe that you have been much too indoctrinated by a current media hype against smoking/second hand smoke. Try to think rationally not emotionally.
Anti-depression medications (widely consumed by nurses and physicians) actually do at times alter thoughts and judgements. Where do you want to draw the line?