No more Bad parent section!!!
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Ca. will just start taxing soda and sugary foods. That State has got to be the biggest nanny State in the Union! Well except for Fl...the Granny Nanny State!
Don't get me started. If the feds have their way we will all be going the way of CA and then some.
I'm so glad I no longer have to say, "Not right now, honey. Let me finish my cigarette and then I'll let you in my lap and read you a story". Guilt is to motherhood as grapes are to wine, but add in smoking...argh. Such guilt. That is the biggest relief for my with making the switch. I never felt that guilty about damaging my own health and shortening my life span...until I had a daughter came into the picture whose future I want to be there for.
Sometimes, I'd have to "step out" at a holiday party and ask a family member to keep on eye on her while I went to satisfy my nic craving.
I've actually gotten crap from other smokers because I didn't go sit on my porch outside and smoke - I smoked in the house and in the car. I didn't smoke in the car when she was in it, but I've been admonished for these things. I think its a little hypocritical when other smoking parents want to act like anti's on me, like they are so much better. I had enough guilt about smoking around me child that I quit and failed, quit and failed, quit and failed...and have now finally succeeded and I know I will never go back. So now my guilt consists of wishing I could buy her more presents for Christmas than I can afford.
You know when your atomizer is running dry and you get that burnt & smoky taste - that taste reminds me of the analogs I used to smoke and I HATE that taste.
My daughter is only 4, but she is so proud of me for quitting cigarettes. I probably wouldn't have investigated e-cigarettes if it weren't for my concern over her. I haven't experienced too many ill effects of cigarettes and am young enough (28) that emphysema, COPD seemed far in the future. I wanted to quit because I knew as long as I was a smoker (whether I smoked around her or not) that SHE was a smoker, too.
Honestly, others could smell the smoke on HER clothes, just from her clothes being in a closet in a house that a smoker lives in. The daycare workers, when she was in daycare, knew that I was a smoker because they could smell smoke on her. I felt very ashamed. I didn't quit trying to quit though, and finally found e-cigarettes. I still feel shame about having been a smoker, but I'm not one anymore...so she is not one anymore.
Sometimes, I'd have to "step out" at a holiday party and ask a family member to keep on eye on her while I went to satisfy my nic craving.
I've actually gotten crap from other smokers because I didn't go sit on my porch outside and smoke - I smoked in the house and in the car. I didn't smoke in the car when she was in it, but I've been admonished for these things. I think its a little hypocritical when other smoking parents want to act like anti's on me, like they are so much better. I had enough guilt about smoking around me child that I quit and failed, quit and failed, quit and failed...and have now finally succeeded and I know I will never go back. So now my guilt consists of wishing I could buy her more presents for Christmas than I can afford.
You know when your atomizer is running dry and you get that burnt & smoky taste - that taste reminds me of the analogs I used to smoke and I HATE that taste.
My daughter is only 4, but she is so proud of me for quitting cigarettes. I probably wouldn't have investigated e-cigarettes if it weren't for my concern over her. I haven't experienced too many ill effects of cigarettes and am young enough (28) that emphysema, COPD seemed far in the future. I wanted to quit because I knew as long as I was a smoker (whether I smoked around her or not) that SHE was a smoker, too.
Honestly, others could smell the smoke on HER clothes, just from her clothes being in a closet in a house that a smoker lives in. The daycare workers, when she was in daycare, knew that I was a smoker because they could smell smoke on her. I felt very ashamed. I didn't quit trying to quit though, and finally found e-cigarettes. I still feel shame about having been a smoker, but I'm not one anymore...so she is not one anymore.
see with me I still go hang out with "that" crowd. I still go to the smoking section at my school at night. but I vape there instead then that's where the magic starts!!! they look at me and think oh you're puffing on a pen trying to quit? then they see the led! then the shock on their faces when I exhale "smoke"!!! then I've got them
that's when I tell them about vapor4life and vapor king show them how it works. tell my testamonial to them. and hopefully get them going on it
then that's where the magic starts!!! they look at me and think oh you're puffing on a pen trying to quit? then they see the led! then the shock on their faces when I exhale "smoke"!!! then I've got them that's when I tell them about vapor4life and vapor king
show them how it works. tell my testamonial to them. and hopefully get them going on it Never be ashamed for being a smoker. Those others should be ashamed for making you feel that way. Congratulations on quitting.
see with me I still go hang out with "that" crowd. I still go to the smoking section at my school at night. but I vape there instead
that's when I tell them about vapor4life and vapor king
Exactly what I do Wolf. Besides, where else is there to go?
I think Colorado is about the same as California. You used to be able to smoke in the casinos, but that changed last year. And Boulder is the worst. I wouldn't want to live there -- too many uptight health nazis.
They were the first to get the smoking ban and then the state followed. We used to have smoking rooms at the airport, but no more. So anybody flying to DIA -- be prepared. You can still smoke outside, but I think you have to be 20 feet away from the building, and that can be hard to do without standing in the middle of traffic.
Yea, life has been hard for smokers. I've never smoked around kids, in anybody else's home (unless it was a smoker who said it was okay), in anybody else's car, etc. But I drew the line when anybody complained about the smell of smoke in my own car -- I told them they can always take a bus instead.
Yes, TheTout, life is sure easier vaping than it was smoking. Congratulations on your success!
They were the first to get the smoking ban and then the state followed. We used to have smoking rooms at the airport, but no more. So anybody flying to DIA -- be prepared. You can still smoke outside, but I think you have to be 20 feet away from the building, and that can be hard to do without standing in the middle of traffic.
Yea, life has been hard for smokers. I've never smoked around kids, in anybody else's home (unless it was a smoker who said it was okay), in anybody else's car, etc. But I drew the line when anybody complained about the smell of smoke in my own car -- I told them they can always take a bus instead.
Yes, TheTout, life is sure easier vaping than it was smoking. Congratulations on your success!
Boyfriend visited Colorado in the summer for the wedding of one of his oldest friends. He was in for some "culture shock", as most of the guests were from the area and very "anti", even the majority of his old friends that used to smoke in high school. He couldn't wait to get back home. lol.
More than once in Michigan, there have been proposed "sin taxes" on things such as pop, fast food, etc - things that are considered "bad for us". Its sometimes called a "luxury tax". I guess the cigarette tax revenue just isn't enough for the state. The evil streak in me does want all the anti's to get a taste of their own medicine and start feeling persecuted by having to pay a lot more for their Starbucks coffee and Big Mac from McDonald's. These things keep getting voted down, but I think eventually, the state will stop making the proposals to vote on and just decide to do it, regardless of what citizens think about it. Hey, it happened with daylight savings time (don't get my mother started on this particular rant ).
More than once in Michigan, there have been proposed "sin taxes" on things such as pop, fast food, etc - things that are considered "bad for us". Its sometimes called a "luxury tax". I guess the cigarette tax revenue just isn't enough for the state. The evil streak in me does want all the anti's to get a taste of their own medicine and start feeling persecuted by having to pay a lot more for their Starbucks coffee and Big Mac from McDonald's. These things keep getting voted down, but I think eventually, the state will stop making the proposals to vote on and just decide to do it, regardless of what citizens think about it. Hey, it happened with daylight savings time (don't get my mother started on this particular rant
).
Try checking in to John Wayne Airport (Orange County) and hour and a half early and finding that there is NO WHERE TO SMOKE ANYWHERE IN THE AIRPORT once you check in! Add a 5 hour flight to Honolulu Airport for an hour and a half layover where again THERE IS NOWHERE TO SMOKE unless you want to go outside and then have to go through the check in all over! Then another 20 minute flight! No patch, no gum, no nothing! I just figured I could grab a quick cig just before each flight and would be ok. Should have done my homework because there is not enough booze in the world to erase a nic fit! It only makes it worse! lol Thank God for my VK - I will never be in that kind of situation again!
very true @ highlighted part. I think the most aggravating one I can remember off the top of my head was flying from Nashville to Newark on a flight that had already been running late and kept me waiting in the Nashville airport(after they had shut down the smoking areas they had had on my previous flight through there) and then getting to Newark with only 5 minutes to go until boarding for my flight to Albany. Get on the plane in Newark for the 45 minute flight to Albany thinking "ah I'll live it's only another 45 minutes" and then end up sitting on the runway in Newark for 75 minutes before they finally take off!!!
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