Rock and Gogy - Airports and planes... the worst! Didn't you feel like a trapped rat for hours without a smoke?
I'll tell you my airplane smoking stories but they are many since I used to work for an airline. I can actually remember the memo in 1987 that the airline was going non smoking. Sheer panic and disbelief but it did happen. I adapted by flying only redeye flights if possible so I could sleep the whole way. Or, sheer lunacy of booking a connecting instead of a nonstop flight so that I would have a smoke break half way across the country. Really. I did that!
Ok, but here is my #1 most pathetic smoking travel story.... in the late 1980s or maybe early 90s militant smoking businessmen started a charter smoking airline with nonstop flights L.A. to NYC. It was actually a scheduled airline but to get around the FAA rules, they called it a charter club. If you bought a ticket you were a member of the "club". haha. Here is the pathetic part, I could fly anywhere I wanted for FREE on my airline... first class or coach.... but I would PAY for a real ticket just to go on the charter smoking airline to sit in the back with all the smokers!! It was surreal, all these business guys in suits and me, puffing away all the way to NY. It felt illegal. Worth every penny!
Rock, hotels... don't get me started. It would take me hours/ days of planning to track down a hotel that had private balconies or patio. But so many times that run outside for the last or first smoke of the day, looking frazzled with bed hair while everone walking past in their business clothes. No dignity at all in that.
Life is sooooo easy now!!
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 4/1/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 261 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 6,264 Amount Saved: $1,503.36 Life Gained: Days: 31 Hrs: 22 Mins: 33 Seconds: 48
I'm with you... the parties - I would edit them depending on the smoking situation. Last year I only went to one because it was at a smoker's house and knew it would be a smoker friendly party. This year, I've already been to two parties and it was fun to hang out with everyone in "real time" instead of missing out on half the conversation then having to catch up after a smoke break.
Yea!!!
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 4/1/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 261 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 6,264 Amount Saved: $1,503.36 Life Gained: Days: 31 Hrs: 22 Mins: 56 Seconds: 8
You just made me remember a funny situation with my Mom.
Supposedly, I had quit smoking cigarettes but it was one of my failed earlier quits. Not willing to confess I was smoking again... I was just kind of sneaking around smoking. I would only sneak a smoke while driving so that the wind would carry the smell away. Then a bunch of breath mints and hand sanitizer before going inside.
During this period of time, I would spend the weekend taking care of my Mom every now and then. I thought I was really clever at sneaking out of the house.. oh, off to get coffee, newspaper, whatever. I thought I was getting away with it until one day she came tottering outside to go for a ride in my car. She stopped outside my driver's side door to wonder aloud, ever so slyly "what are all those little white specks on your door ? Funny that they are not on the passenger side. How strange. "
It had been foggy in the mornings so every time I went for my drive around the cigarette ashes would stick to the car door as I flicked them out the window.
Busted again by Mom!
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 4/1/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 261 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 6,264 Amount Saved: $1,503.36 Life Gained: Days: 31 Hrs: 23 Mins: 0 Seconds: 5
Six weeks is a big accomplishment! You can keep it going... you are doing great. Don't let any mind games freak you out. Slow and steady... one day... the next day and it will keep on adding up. You scorecard looks great!
HP
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 4/1/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 266 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 6,384 Amount Saved: $1,532.16 Life Gained: Days: 32 Hrs: 12 Mins: 38 Seconds: 56
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