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Old 11-17-07, 11:19 AM
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Re: So I'm trying to quit the habit....

I hate smoking and smokers for a few reasons...not individually, but the act of smoking turns most people to inconsiderate bastards. I can't tell you how many times people have lit up in my car without asking or, almost as bad, lit up in their own car when I was riding. Yea, its their car and they should have the right to do what they want in it but I've always thought that was pretty disrespectful to do with a non-smoker in the car. Not as bad as actively blowing smoke in my face, but pretty danged close. I hate, despise and rue cigarette butts on the ground. At my old house, when I had social gatherings quite frequently, I spent two or three hours a week picking up cigarette butts. Whether or not there were cans placed strategically around the yard, people would just, out of habit, flick them away into the bushes or on the ground or street or curb. It got so bad that I quite allowing visitors over who smoked unless they promised to go to the street and stand three houses away before they lit up. Extreme, I know, but I was sick of cleaning up after them.
Also, being a non smoker, when friends who do smoke come over and they go outside to smoke on the front porch, then come back inside and sit on my rather nice, moderately expensive and usually well cleaned couches, the smell remains. It fawking stinks and they don't even notice it and get pissy with me whenever I mention it. I don't go and piss on their couch when I'm at their house, they shouldn't leave funny and offensive smells on my couch when they come over. My gf smokes cloves. When we go out it kind of sucks because when she goes outside for her smoke, I either get left behind alone at the bar or table or wherever we happen to be or I go with her and stand out in the rain and get nothing from it except a face full of smoke from all the other smokers. Also crappy.

Anyways, besides all that, and I'm all for each and every one of you quitting, but it sure as hell doesn't sound like any of you really WANT to. Each one of you says "I love it, it feels so good, its the best part of my day..." If you enjoy it THAT much, why quite? Health reasons aside, why take the things that you love most out of your life? I tend to think that if you want to quit enough to make it easy for you, you wouldn't be saying how great it is to keep doing it...
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