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Hey girl I can completely sympathize with ya! I smoke, the hubby doesn't. I get the same crap about quitting and I'm not about to anytime soon (I'd love to quit and have tried several times over the years).
The one thing that I'd suggest, if you can't get a room with a balcolny, just got for a non-smoking room as close to an exit door as you can. That way you can run out for one without having to go too far. But he should be somewhat understanding, imo, and he should try to reach a compromise with you.
I hate it when people rag on me for smoking, its my choice and I am aware of the consequences down the road, but like I said, its my choice. Funny though how they know that you smoke and seem fine with it and then all of a sudden they don't like it [:@]
I hope everything works out in the end Shon.
The one thing that I'd suggest, if you can't get a room with a balcolny, just got for a non-smoking room as close to an exit door as you can. That way you can run out for one without having to go too far. But he should be somewhat understanding, imo, and he should try to reach a compromise with you.
I hate it when people rag on me for smoking, its my choice and I am aware of the consequences down the road, but like I said, its my choice. Funny though how they know that you smoke and seem fine with it and then all of a sudden they don't like it [:@]
I hope everything works out in the end Shon.
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my girlfriend, who will someday be my wife as long as she agrees...lol...is not a smoker, and neither am i...prior to settling down (a lil) i was a major bar fly,a nd the smoke never bothered me..my roommates in college smoked...my girlfriends parents both chain smoke, however, and it REALLY bothers me...we just got new furniture, and we asked them not to smoke in the house, and they refused. her mother wont visit (which doesnt bother me ONE BIT as she doesnt like me) becaue she was asked not to smoke here...i really dont understand smoking, but he should be understanding of your smoking, especially if youve been doing for ten years with him there..
perhaps he is concerned about your well being? has he been trying to get you to stop?
perhaps he is concerned about your well being? has he been trying to get you to stop?
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I lived with my old man until I was 20. He was a 1.5 to 2 pack a day smoker. I grew up with it, thought it normal, yadda...
Went off to college - didn't come home for xmas break or anything... about 6 months after I got there I woke up one morning, walked outside and took this big gulp of fresh air... it was like my senses had come alive. It was quite staggering.
About 8 months later I went back home to my dad's place to visit for the first time since I had left... the taste of smoke was in the air, the carpet, the furniturethe walls, the ceilings... and damn near induced a gag-reflex. It was absolutely horrid. On more than one occassion while talking I would run out of breath mid-sentence without any warning. It was quite strange...
I got home, opened my suitcase and the rank stench about knocked me on my ***. I had to wash everything THREE TIMES to get the nastiness out... and I was only visiting dad for about a week.
A year later my dad had a heart attack due to smoking... quintuple (that's 5) bypass. That same year I went home and replaced a cdrom drive on my dad's computer, which I had only given him a year prior. If the innards of this computer which had only been exposed to a smoking environment for a year looked as bad as it did - I can only imagine what my dad's lungs - and mine for that matter - must look like.
The reason for a non-smoking room I can understand. I nearly yak walking into my dad's place now. Thankfully he quit, but the rank stench of stale smoke is still there, and it will never go away - no matter how many fresh-air days with the windows open and a tanker-truck full of febreeze you park in the driveway. It is pretty nasty stuff, and it seriously causes breathing issues for non-smokers. I say go with the non-smoking room and try hard to get a balcony. Don't mean this to sound harsh - but I guess call it the price of smoking. *shrugs*
Now - my dad's computer was only exposed to a smoking environment for about 12 or 14 months and looked a LOT worse than these pictures... but if this doesn't make you think twice about smoking - then nothing will. This isn't dust, people - it is sticky, nasty, stinky TAR... it sticks to everything and everything sticks to it and just attracts more dust. You cant blow on this and make a dust cloud - you have to take out to the garage and use an air compressor on it...
It's your lungs and your health - don't decide on it for other people...
Went off to college - didn't come home for xmas break or anything... about 6 months after I got there I woke up one morning, walked outside and took this big gulp of fresh air... it was like my senses had come alive. It was quite staggering.
About 8 months later I went back home to my dad's place to visit for the first time since I had left... the taste of smoke was in the air, the carpet, the furniturethe walls, the ceilings... and damn near induced a gag-reflex. It was absolutely horrid. On more than one occassion while talking I would run out of breath mid-sentence without any warning. It was quite strange...
I got home, opened my suitcase and the rank stench about knocked me on my ***. I had to wash everything THREE TIMES to get the nastiness out... and I was only visiting dad for about a week.
A year later my dad had a heart attack due to smoking... quintuple (that's 5) bypass. That same year I went home and replaced a cdrom drive on my dad's computer, which I had only given him a year prior. If the innards of this computer which had only been exposed to a smoking environment for a year looked as bad as it did - I can only imagine what my dad's lungs - and mine for that matter - must look like.
The reason for a non-smoking room I can understand. I nearly yak walking into my dad's place now. Thankfully he quit, but the rank stench of stale smoke is still there, and it will never go away - no matter how many fresh-air days with the windows open and a tanker-truck full of febreeze you park in the driveway. It is pretty nasty stuff, and it seriously causes breathing issues for non-smokers. I say go with the non-smoking room and try hard to get a balcony. Don't mean this to sound harsh - but I guess call it the price of smoking. *shrugs*
Now - my dad's computer was only exposed to a smoking environment for about 12 or 14 months and looked a LOT worse than these pictures... but if this doesn't make you think twice about smoking - then nothing will. This isn't dust, people - it is sticky, nasty, stinky TAR... it sticks to everything and everything sticks to it and just attracts more dust. You cant blow on this and make a dust cloud - you have to take out to the garage and use an air compressor on it...
It's your lungs and your health - don't decide on it for other people...
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those pics are digusting! I think that they would make me quite, along w/ those commercials on tv, has anyone seen them. The one where they squeeze the stuff out of the artery? That is nasty!!!
