Quote:
Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Here goes a rough one... Smoking.
|
Yeah! I just stopped (2 months today) and I feel enormously relieved by not being a slave of it anymore. Wife still does and I see how her time at home is fragmented by the need to go out for a cigarette.
When we had the baby we had the house interior completely repainted and the two cars steam cleaned. So the house has been liberated. And the baby has not been affected, apparently (Wife reduced to almost nothing while pregnant and breast feeding).
I am not disturbed by secondary smoke yet. The smell of smokers' spaces has always disturbed me, in airports for instance, not so much in restaurants which I do not frequent much and if, I tend to go to outside spaces.
I remember the smoker place in St.Luis where I often changed plane going to Austin to see my brother in law when I went to Texas for business, it was like true hell, not so much the smoke in the air but the smell itself. Apparently there is this punishing attitude by who runs these things. I am sure it would be quite easy to avoid it, with more frequent cleaning. But instead of letting that smokers smoke in peace, it is preferred to make it hard for them to smoke. Because they cost they say. Yeah, they cost and they pay taxes and they pay taxes on their tobacco. Also idiocy and intolerance costs. Everything costs.
My two friends in the train, they told me that I was smelling like a pig and that the smell disappeared in about a week.
The reason I stopped smoking is that I felt bad about being serf and about annoying people around me. Than I found a very good motivation that helped me to take the first and only step.