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15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Am I Wrong?

Personally I think that the smokers are being rude. While I never liked non-smokers lecturing me about my smoking I always went to great lenghts not to disturb other people. We all know the smell is disgusting and I wouldn´t want to make other people suffer because of my addiction.
What would you have done when you where still smoking and someone told you that it bothered them (in a situation where they could not escape your smoke)? Wouldn´t you have at least tried to compromise? I think the idea of introducing smoke breaks is the way to go.

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 10
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 170
Amount Saved: �45.32
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 17 Mins: 24 Seconds: 58

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Staying quit on holiday

So I´m going on a 3 week vacation to Vietnam tomorrow. While I´m of course looking forward to it I also know that it´s gonna be challenging. Smoking on vacation was always a huge deal for me. I loved it. Cruising in the rental car, chilling at the beach, having drinks in local bars...all was accompanied by smoking.

On one hand there´ll be a lot of distractions, new things to see, new food to try etc. On the other hand I´ll be travelling with my boyfriend who smokes and to be honest a big chunk of holiday time will be spent relaxing in other words DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. And this is where I think I´ll struggle. Relaxing for me always meant smoking. And it´s also something to do while doing nothing (umm that makes total sense in my head but doesn´t translate well to the written word).

Any suggestions on what to do? I mean I know the usual stuff of delaying the craving, drinking water, chewing gum etc. Most of these will also work in the holiday context. But maybe there are some specific holiday things someone can suggest.

I´m also nervous because I´ll be w/o the internet. So I can´t come here and get distracted.

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 10
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 170
Amount Saved: �45.32
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 17 Mins: 26 Seconds: 30

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Staying quit on holiday

Just realised that that sounded kind of more desperate than I intended. Maybe it´s because I decided that my 100 day reward will be buying a Wii Fit from the money I saved (in my opinion a fun and useful reward - epecially to get rid of additional pounds I might gain while quitting) and I really really want that thing :)
My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 10
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 170
Amount Saved: �45.32
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 17 Mins: 26 Seconds: 56

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Am I Wrong?

I think the difference is that unlike alcohol/crack...etc. smoking has an effect on other people. It doesn´t harm me if someone drinks or snorts cocaine but I might get a headache, breathing problems if other people smoke around me (especially in a small closed room).

And that´s how I understood Goofy´s concerns. It´s not that he is tempted because other people smoke but it effects his health. I mean none of us wants to be the kind of ex-smoker who goes around making faces and waving there hand in front of their faces and being smug about not smoking anymore when other people smoke. But I think it would be the decent think to do to respect each other and try to work out a compromise.

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 10
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 170
Amount Saved: �45.32
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 17 Mins: 27 Seconds: 36

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 15

Staying quit on holiday

My boyfriend is very supportive and considerate. He doesn´t smoke inside the house and very rarely does he smoke when I can see it. He even asked if I wanted him to quit as well (I thought he should quit when he feels ready, otherwise it won´t work anyway). It´s just that on vacation we´ll be together 24/7 and there´ll be situations when he´ll smoke and I´ll want to join. But of course that´s totally my problem and I´ll always be confronted with people smoking. Sigh.

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 10
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 170
Amount Saved: �45.32
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 17 Mins: 29 Seconds: 15

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