Hey smokers...

[Cowgirl]

Just out of curiosity (and because the other smoking thread got me wondering), what do you tell your children about smoking? Do you tell them not to smoke because it's bad for them or because it's expensive? Or do you just not tell them anything? Do you care if they smoke?

Can you tell there's not much to do at work today?

 

[High EGT]

Just out of curiosity (and because the other smoking thread got me wondering), what do you tell your children about smoking? Do you tell them not to smoke because it's bad for them or because it's expensive? Or do you just not tell them anything? Do you care if they smoke?

Can you tell there's not much to do at work today?

If you’re telling your kid not to smoke whiles yourself taking a drag then don’t bother.
If not, they are likely already aware of the health consequences so the conversation should center on the stigma's associated with the habit.

 

[sockgirl77]

Just out of curiosity (and because the other smoking thread got me wondering), what do you tell your children about smoking? Do you tell them not to smoke because it's bad for them or because it's expensive? Or do you just not tell them anything? Do you care if they smoke?

Can you tell there's not much to do at work today?

Tell them that it is bad for them and expensive. I would also tell them to do as I say and not as I do.

 

[Cowgirl]

Tell them that it is bad for them and expensive. I would also tell them to do as I say and not as I do.

BF and I don't smoke, I was just curious about what other people do.

 

[High EGT]

Tell them that it is bad for them and expensive. I would also tell them to do as I say and not as I do.

Yep. That should do it

 

[oldman]

As a smoker for way to many years I tell everyone I can to never start. I can tell them firsthand how it has effected me. But if they decide they want to it's entirely up to them.

 

[dems4me]

I would tell them not to start. I learned this weekend my Dad's father died of emphasema (I thought it was heart problems) and my mother currently has emphasema. My father lectures me alot as he's never been a ciggerette smoker but has seen the consequences from his father and his wife - we had a long talk about it over the holidays.

As for other folks and what they tell their kids - I have no idea - one cute kid walked up to me years ago at Dennys while I was buying a pack out of the ciggy machine, he walked up and said - "ewww!! you smoke!! you are going to die!!!" I thought what a brat but I guess it's what its parents told him. I thought it was a little rude of the little kid but if that's what he beileves than good for him. Sometimes I wish I never picked up the habit. :shrug: However, I still think it was rude of the kid.

 

[Plan B]

Why is it so hard to quit?

 

[godsbutterfly]

I would tell them not to start. I learned this weekend my Dad's father died of emphasema (I thought it was heart problems) and my mother currently has emphasema. My father lectures me alot as he's never been a ciggerette smoker but has seen the consequences from his father and his wife - we had a long talk about it over the holidays.

As for other folks and what they tell their kids - I have no idea - one cute kid walked up to me years ago at Dennys while I was buying a pack out of the ciggy machine, he walked up and said - "ewww!! you smoke!! you are going to die!!!" I thought what a brat but I guess it's what its parents told him. I thought it was a little rude of the little kid but if that's what he beileves than good for him. Sometimes I wish I never picked up the habit. :shrug: However, I still think it was rude of the kid.

It was very rude. I'm not a smoker (good thing since I have Asthma!) but both of my parents were for many years. My Dad only gave it up when he had a Quadruple Bypass. Out of my 3 kids only 1 picked up smoking and she wishes she hadn't since she has Asthma too.

 

[dems4me]

Why is it so hard to quit?

I know I pesonally get crankier than hell and folks beg me to start back up and I do. I get really irratable. :shrug: I don't have much of a support system and often I lack the desire to. :shrug:

 

[oldman]

Why is it so hard to quit?

It's not really that hard to quit, but you gotta wanna first and foremost. None of us are made up the same. Have you eaten ice cream all your life, well stop it because it will make you fat. But you like it don't you? I know that's a mitch-match but it's the same concept. We are a free people and as such we are able to pick and choose what and how we want to live our lives. You eat your ice cream and I'll smoke my cigarettes.

 

[godsbutterfly]

It's not really that hard to quit, but you gotta wanna first and foremost. None of us are made up the same. Have you eaten ice cream all your life, well stop it because it will make you fat. But you like it don't you? I know that's a mitch-match but it's the same concept. We are a free people and as such we are able to pick and choose what and how we want to live our lives. You eat your ice cream and I'll smoke my cigarettes.

I admire people who quit. My Dad said it was much harder to quit smoking than it was drinking.

 

[High EGT]

It's not really that hard to quit, but you gotta wanna first and foremost. None of us are made up the same. Have you eaten ice cream all your life, well stop it because it will make you fat. But you like it don't you? I know that's a mitch-match but it's the same concept. We are a free people and as such we are able to pick and choose what and how we want to live our lives. You eat your ice cream and I'll smoke my cigarettes.

Its hard enough that drug companies are making millions on people trying to quit.

 

[High EGT]

Nicotine

What happens when smokers abruptly stop using nicotine? While you're using nicotine-containing products, your body adapts the way it works to compensate for the effects of the nicotine. For example, neurons in your brain might increase or decrease the number of receptors or the amount of different neurotransmitters affected by the presence of nicotine. When you no longer have nicotine in your body, these physiological adaptations for nicotine remain. The net result is that your body can't function the same way in the absence of the drug as it did before, at least in the short term. People trying to quit nicotine experience this as:

Irritability
Anxiety
Depression
Craving for nicotine

Over a period of about a month, these symptoms and the physiological changes subside. But for many smokers, even a day without nicotine is excruciating. Every year, millions of people try to break the nicotine habit; only 10 percent of them succeed. Most people throw in the towel after less than a week of trying,

For more info go to Howstuffworks "How Nicotine Works"

 

[Novus Collectus]

A few years when I was still smoking my three year old nephew would see me puffing on a smoke on occasion. Every time I noticed him watching me I convincingly faked a terrible cough like it was terrible and ruining my health. I think him seeing me smoke was probably a good way to keep him from smoking too because he got to see just how ugly and disgusting a habit it can be........I am just glad he didn't see me really enjoing the first smoke of the day and relishing every drag.

 

[sanchezf]

My So and I are both smokers, we tell are kids that we made bad decisions in our younger years picking up smoking and that if at all possible they should try to never pick it up.

 

[virgovictoria]

My So and I are both smokers, we tell are kids that we made bad decisions in our younger years picking up smoking and that if at all possible they should try to never pick it up.

That is the approach I used with my niece. She is perhaps the only person I don't want to even see me smoke.

 

[sanchezf]

That is the approach I used with my niece. She is perhaps the only person I don't want to even see me smoke.

Well I figure you can't tell them not to when you are sitting there doing it in front of them, but you can explain that everyone makes bad choices in their life and this just happen to be yours. I also explain why it's bad, so they have all the facts. My son wants me to quit and asked how come I can't just stop, I told him that would be like me never letting you have another piece of candy EVER !! He said "oh" well maybe you can just cut back

 

[Fubar]

I was in a house this Christmas tending to a very sick grandmother (COPD, CHF and emphysema) the house was filled w/cigarette smoke and there was Jr and Sissy sitting on the floor justa playing w/their new toys. What hope do these children have? All that $$ spend on advertising and the lecture's kids get in school, it starts at home-lead by example!

 

[Plan B]

What happens when smokers abruptly stop using nicotine? ...For more info go to Howstuffworks "How Nicotine Works"

Thanks, for everyone's answers.