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AIBU?

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To ask how many of you smoke?

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Misunderstood48 · 09/10/2012 13:32

It seems, having read previous threads that smoking was wrong.

I know smoking is bad for your health as does a majority of the other smokers.

I have a 1YO and I smoke outside a couple of times a day and all my family smoke.

I wonder how many other mums are not admitting to having a cheeky fag now and then.

Is it really wrong to do so or am I not seeing the point here?

OP posts:

FergusSingsTheBlues · 09/10/2012 19:34

and meat consumption esp smoked meat. plus vitamin d deficiencies.

Jellykat · 09/10/2012 19:38

Yep, i smoke (roll ups far cheaper)

mosschops30 · 09/10/2012 19:40

The Japan thing is very true. May also be linked to raw fish I read somewhere.

Tressy · 09/10/2012 22:24

Cackle he he, got to admit that I have smoked a cheeky one every so often. Just had a crisis and just because I could I went and bought 10 of my old favourites, smoked 5 over a couple of nights then chucked the others.

Boomerwang · 09/10/2012 22:59

Just to say, I quit for a year and those moments where you feel you really need a cigarette last for exactly that length of time: a moment. So don't let it put you off quitting. They are few and far between.

It's not the cigarette you miss, it's the bump it gives you, which you won't get if you're not addicted. Find another, less harmful way to get a 'bump'

Boomerwang · 09/10/2012 23:03

RE: the cancer thing... I'm quite annoyed that my doctor lied to me. He shook his head and was quite vehement about it. I feel a bit daft for not using common sense as I'd read or heard stories about several women in a family all getting breast cancer.

Bit worried now.

Lueji · 09/10/2012 23:19

For the record, the risk of breast cancer in young women has a lot to do with genetics. If your mother/sister/aunt/grandmother had breast cancer by their 30s (and the more affected females in your family) it's very likely you'll get it too.

However, breast cancer risk then rises again in the over 50s.

Lueji · 09/10/2012 23:22

And, Boomerwang, if your mother was older when she got breast cancer, then you shouldn't worry too much.

Nanny0gg · 09/10/2012 23:44

I don't.
None of my friends do. Unfortunately some of my nephews do, even though they remember their grandmother dying of emphysema and their grandfather dying of bladder cancer. My DCs and DH loathe it as much as I do.
I loathe and detest it. Sorry, but I do.
And if you think that you don't smell horrible after having a cigarette, you're deluded.

Boomerwang · 10/10/2012 04:23

She was about 50. I'm 33 :s

ripsishere · 10/10/2012 05:55

Yes. I do. I did give up for about 5 months using Champix. Stupidly I decided one wouldn't hurt.
Back on about 20 a day now. Since they cost about 2 pounds a packet in Malaysia it isn't crippling. I would like to stop again, but have zero willpower.
Will look into buying Champix online. Problem is - you can't always be sure of what you are buying.

ripsishere · 10/10/2012 06:00

Fucking Nora, just googled it. Not available in Malaysia, to buy some from Singapore would cost around 2000 pounds for a month supply. Not to mention the airfare to get there.

janey68 · 10/10/2012 06:57

No, i don't smoke. It smells rank and usually ages people dreadfully. I had a 25 year school reunion last year; very few people smoked but it certainly showed with those who did.

CrunchyFrog · 10/10/2012 08:15

I smoke e-cigs at the moment.

I love smoking, it's great. But fags are expensive and kill you eventually etc. Hence lovely cheap non-stinky smokable in the pub electric ones.

Apart from gaps of pregnancy and BFing, I've been smoking for 23 years now (started at 12.) It's a very tricky mind shift to stop doing something that has been a part of your identity for your whole adult life.

Chelvis · 10/10/2012 08:21

I don't, but I think the % of women who smoke is massively innacurate (under rather than over). Of my close, non-mum friends, only one out of six would say they're a smoker, but 3 of them light up "socially" or "when they're really stressed". My DH is very very anti smoking, wouldn't countenance dating a smoker at all, and he would quite often go out (before he met me obviously ) with girls who claimed to be non smokers, only to find out on a night out that they did sometimes. I wouldn't count any of them as non smokers! I think the real figure of regular-and-occasional smokers is probably nearer 50% of women.

Saying that, it does seem to change with pregnancy/children, none of my mum friends smoke; it seems to be the single/dating uni/career women who do.

CatsRule · 10/10/2012 08:48

I'm very anti smoking. I come from a non smoking family and have never smoked myself but I have asthma and it would be stupid if I did. It does make me resentful that people happily abuse their healthy lungs when I wish I had a pair of healthy lungs to use and not abuse!

I don't care if others smoke but I do when it's imposed on me or my child. For instance...when you are at a bus stop under shelter from the rain but a smoker comes in and I have to leave or when leaving a building through a public doorway and have to hold my breath...my baby is 7 months so he can't hold his as and when yet!

It's also annoying when smokers have no idea or want to have no idea about just how they affect others. Like smoking then wanting to breath all over your baby or even when not smoking in your house they still manage to completely stink it out...it is very selfish!

Rant over...for now lol

newbohemian · 25/01/2017 15:54

I don't see what 'My choice' has to do with it. Obviously it's your choice. If you want to, then do it, is not a good moral argument!

xStefx · 25/01/2017 15:57

Op, I smoke (have cut down drastically to after 8pm when DC's are in bed) They do not know I smoke.
Probably not the best place for you to post this thread though as youll get a big bunch of anti smokers (who do nothing at all in their lives to put their health at risk and eat organic foods and everything) lol
Smoke if you want to.

civilfawlty · 25/01/2017 15:58

Stats are that your child is more likely to smoke if you do. Smoking is bloody stupid. So don't smoke.

RuggerHug · 25/01/2017 16:09

cough cough ZOMBIE cough

sum1killthepawpatrollers · 25/01/2017 16:11

i smoke and so does dh.
main group 6 friends (im 1) 5 out of the 6 smoke. i get £3 knock offs too. way i figure it is we are all gonna die at some point, may as well do what you enjoy til you do grabs hard hat ready

sum1killthepawpatrollers · 25/01/2017 16:14

ffs i got zombied

Oludeniz · 25/01/2017 19:49

I don't smoke. I think it's disgusting too, sorry.
My parents both smoked, both died of heart attacks quite young. My pil both chain smoked, and although they each lived to decent ages they had copd which meant they were on oxygen the majority of the time.
People who think they don't smell are wrong, even if they go outside or wear particular clothes. I was at a parent group today and one of the mums went outside for a fag and she smelled really bad when she came in, her child ran up to her and hugged her.

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