Finding smoking a really sad thing to do?

[ClaudiaAndHerFringe]

Unreasonable or not? I don't get it, and I feel sorry for people outside getting a fix in the rain, it just looks a bit sad really.

Of course smokers think they look cool.

I don't think all smokers look stupid, but I think it is a stupid habit.

I especially hate it when my lovely family member has a quick fag just before getting into the car with us. In the end my sister asked her not to do this because fag breath in the car is really unpleasant.

I used to buy cigarettes on holiday after o had "stopped" I used to.have 1 with a coffee the a couple at night with a glass of wine it was great, I did eventually stop last foreign holiday we were on, i felt I was missing something.

I don't think the mental danger of smoking is taken seriously enough. When a person has lost out on life so much because of their addiction and still continues to smoke it really is mindblowing to witness.
So my sil lost her mother and brother because of smoking, has had multiple miscarriages where she nearly haemorrhaged to death on all occasions and needed blood transfusions. Her one successful pregnancy has resulted in her now 6 year old son needing extensive speach therapy, because she was unable to stop smoking in pregnancy. Her son is making very little progress because his brain has been damaged inutero. But she is still in complete and utter denial and just refuses to stop. I say she is a lost cause, because if none of those experiences make someone see sense then nothing will.

It’s an addiction and it’s wonderful. I mean obviously it can also kill you, but so can many other things. I’ve never been able to give up, I love it too much, there’s literally nothing more enjoyable for me than sitting down in my garden with a black coffee and a ciggy. I limit myself to around 4 a day and convince myself that’s ok. But it’s better than being stressed and anxious and trying endlessly to give up then failing.

One of my friends had a baby at 30 weeks. She said she was the only non smoking parent in the SBCU. All the other babies in there had mothers who had smoked throughout their pregnancies.

She was an ex smoker but had given up before getting pregnant.

Smoking is an IQ test these days, because we all know how catastrophic it is for your health so to pay a small fortune to speed up your expiry in an unpleasant way truly shows intelligence levels.

Nicotine is an incredibly addictive substance. At one time most of the adult population smoked, now most of us are obese/overweight and turning to WLI to lose weight and youngsters are vaping. We’d be better off ploughing more money into therapy to discover why human need the dopamine hit of nicotine or junk food to cope with being alive. There’s something wrong somewhere.

I'm off them 5 years now. Just reminiscing ...

Smoking is vile, why would you want to smell like a stinky old ash tray whilst shortening your life?

I’m the child of two chain-smokers my father is a 40 a day man who I’m surprised is not dead at 70, he has COPD and can hardly climb a flight of stairs and always seems to have “a bad cold” it’s never the fags.

Fags came before food in our house, we must have stank as children, parents lighting up everywhere and anywhere. There was always money for fags but never enough for a new pair of shoes when yours were leaking. Then you learned about the dangers of smoking at school and you came home terrified at age 10 that your parents were going to die of lung cancer and you begged them to stop but they wouldn’t.

You had numerous chest infections, bronchitis and asthma as a child probably caused my the cold, mouldy bedroom you slept it but your parents went mad if you turned on your radiator whilst they chain smoked.

They complained when they visited their grandchildren because you wouldn’t allow then to smoke in front of your babies. You’re stuck up and precious as you don’t allow them to smoke in your house.

As you can tell I detest smoking having grown up with that, I don’t know how anyone could smoke?

I gave up smoking in 2003 when pregnant with my first, weirdly the pregnancy hormones seemed to help put me off the fags (and coffee), so it wasn't too difficult.

I will never forget being at the maternity ward and seeing a woman outside in full labour, clinging onto a railing by the entrance, chuffing away on a cig. Even though smoking was more common place back then, that level of addiction did shock me.

Same

eta (coz now I’m thing about it) I think it was partly the ritual of it I loved. The first one of the day, the one after a meal. Ahhhhh - it’s been 15 years and I still miss it when I think about it.

Thank goodness I only smoked in the past 😂

Ooh I’m doing this too!

If it was bad for my health and so expensive I’d light up right now.

sat outside under my gazebo with 🚬

I’ve smoked for nearly 50 years. It was considered a desirable social grace for a woman in the circles I moved in when I started. At cocktail parties there were huge boxes of Cocktail and Black Russian Sobranies on every table. The chaps all smoked Cuban cigars or pipes.

I have all my teeth, and they are all white. My BPE gum score is 0, according to my dentist. I have 5 healthy toes on each foot.

There are plenty of reasons why smoking is a really bad idea. It certainly increases the likelihood of dental and foot problems, but it’s not a case of ‘without exception’. In my advancing age, I choose to take a calculated risk to continue doing something I enjoy.

Me too

But it does affect other people, though, as smokers often don't seem to care about smoking around non-smokers.

I don't understand this 'smoking to stay skinny' thing. I have never smoked and also never had a weight problem. I also know plenty of obese smokers. I think that the 'it keeps me thin' is just something that people tell themselves to justify their addiction.

It doesn't 'look cool'. It looks grubby and low rent. It maybe was acceptable in the mid twentieth century, but now it just looks stupid.

God I adored smoking. Sitting on my terrace with music, glass of wine and cigarettes..or driving singing to the radio, window open and smoking. Dancing in house clubs in the 90’s, cigarette in hand. Gathering in the pub with friends, drinking, laughing and smoking…ahhh
But now the smell makes me feel ill
Dh still smokes and I hate it and it scares me he’ll likely be around for less time
I said to him the other day ‘Nobody smokes anymore’

Absolutely.

I know it’s Illogical thinking because cigarettes are so bad for you but when I see someone vaping I cringe and think you look like an idiot.

Me too, I didn’t find it difficult to give up, but it wasn’t easy. It required constant vigilance! But I promised myself I’d start again if I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, felt that my life wasn’t worth it any more, or was not enjoying my life. Nothing like the first fag of the day, or having an intense discussion with a mate over fags and coffee!

Wow surprised by the number of posters saying that smoking looks cool - it really doesn’t to those on the outside.
At university (many decades ago) many people who came in as a smoker had quit by the time they graduated and I don’t know anyone who took it up, so I don’t think it was perceived as cool.
And sure after the age of 25 no-one caress out looking cool?!