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It's cold and rainy!!! And I used to sit out there SMOKING!!!!!

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 112

This is a great thread!

I can relate to mosr of the stories so far. But here is my worst:

It was back in the days of when you could still smoke on an airplane. I can't remember where we were flying back from, but I think it was LA. In spite of checking in over 3.5 hours before the flight, we were told there were no smoking seats left.

My husband wasn't too fussed, he could pick up or put down the smokes (he's spent the last few years on one cigar a day, but finally quit even that a few months ago) but I was totally horrified!

After we'd taken off, I asked the staff if we could be moved, they were very sweet and even checked if we could upgrade, but there was no joy. So they said that I could join them in the galley and smoke. I spent almost the entire 10 hour night flight standing up and smoking with the crew in the galley.

Not long after that, smoking was banned on all aircraft, I could never face the thought of a transatlantic flight after that, the longest I ever went was 4 hours to destinations like Greece and the Canaries, even then I had to use a nicotine inhalator to get me through.

Since quitting, I've flown to South Africa twice, I'd love to visit the US again, or maybe Canada.

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16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

LOL Rock!

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

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1843

I love all of these stories!!! Way too funny! Now here is another one : My father didn't know that I smoked. I don't think my father knew that I smoked. I would keep breath mints in my car, along with cologne, and when I would arrive at my parents house I would eat like a dozen breath mints and drown myself in cologne. When they would come over to the house, I would sneak "behind the garage" or go into the basement and smoke. And don't forget the air fresheners from my earlier post. Now today, I can smell somebody who recently smoked from 50 feet away. I can walk into a house and tell if somebody smoked there in the past week. I wonder if I really kept my smoking from my dad? I laugh to myself whenever I think about hiding my smoking from my dad.
My Milage:

My Quit Date: 8/20/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 120
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 4,800
Amount Saved: $960.00
Life Gained:
Days: 17 Hrs: 20 Mins: 18 Seconds: 10

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 855

I have to laugh when i read these because we are all the same, how stressful smoking was :( I too liked to smoke in my car being all cool window part down and trying to make sure the smell dident get on me or in my car RIGHT LOL i see people doing that one all the time, i just have to shake my head and think how that use to be me. My life is so much less stressful than it was then, i can remember someone telling me no smoking helped relieve stress i use to think that was just crazy, it very true. Kids we are all so cool to have gotten the smokes out of our Lives, no smoking is cool :) Tresa
My Milage:

My Quit Date: 8/8/2002
Smoke-Free Days: 2324
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 55,776
Amount Saved: $9,760.80
Life Gained:
Days: 332 Hrs: 6 Mins: 18 Seconds: 1

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3307

OMG!!! This is so funny

I think I did every single one of them. Yes we use to smoke in the house and by all the stuff to make it smell better, who were we kidding? Darn right putting my coat on to go out in the snow, below zero temps and gusting winds to have my fix. What is wrong with that, duh. It only tells me we were willing to go to any lengths to smoke and we did. I can add one more, when I would have my slips (blushing) I would go for my walks and take a cigarette with me and smoke it and I would wait until my husband was in the shower and go out and have a quick smoke and guess there is a couple more LOL instead of me going to the store I would send him so I could smoke. You know it really is easier just to not smoke.

Keep the Quit

Sparky

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 17
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 170
Amount Saved: $29.75
Life Gained:
Days: 2 Hrs: 12 Mins: 27 Seconds: 5

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

Hi Gogy,

Nice to meet you!

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

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 67

This could get embarrassing....kind of like the "gas" thing. not that I am going to reveal too much

I almost missed a flight, had only 1/2 hour between flights and a heck of a long way to the next terminal. I was determined that I was going to have my smoke, had been 2 hours and would be another 2 before I could have my next. Managed to have about 4 drags then had to RUN all the way, even on the sky walks and just made it.

Back when you could smoke on the plane, I was sitting in the smoking section but the woman next to me did not light up and I figured she just couldn't get another seat so I chose not to have one. It was just killing me....the weather was bad and just before we landed, the woman got nervous and lit up. I was ready to smack her!

During the warmer weather, I watched TV through the patio doors while on the deck but had to turn the volume waaay up to hear it. The neighbours let me know they could hear it, no problem. I would also stand on the deck but in line with the trees so that the neighbours couldn't see me. Felt like a criminal on my own property.

I also smoked in my car and during the winter, that was the only cigs that I enjoyed. I never did when anyone else was in the car. Everyone always had to wait for me to have one between stops. This is the main reason I chose to quit during the winter....those ones outside were purely had to have, not want to have.

This has been rather therapeutic, I think we can all relate. Jo

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 10/26/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 53
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,060
Amount Saved: $190.80
Life Gained:
Days: 7 Hrs: 1 Mins: 26 Seconds: 36

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1843

Well, we would smoke in the house. So whenever we knew somebody was coming over, we would spray like a whole can of air freshener. We spent more money on candles, plug ins, oil diffusors, scented things, etc. so the house wouldn't smell like smoke.

I travel alot for work. I missed a connection in Chicago since I went outside to smoke during a layover and when I came back in the security line was over 45 minutes long and I missed my flight!

Marriott hotels are non-smoking. I would go outside the hotel at midnight for my last smoke, then out again at 6 am for a morning smoke. Put on shoes, grab the coat, down the hall, down the elevator, out the door, look for the ashtray.

I don't have to worry about air fresheners, missed connections, or finding the smoking spot at hotels anymore! YEAH!!!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 8/20/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 120
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 4,800
Amount Saved: $960.00
Life Gained:
Days: 17 Hrs: 19 Mins: 41 Seconds: 31

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

Oh!

Thank you, THANK YOU!!!

I'm feeling much better already!

Maybe we should have a Hall of Fame for stupid human tricks. LOL

Love the cig on the railing... that is GOOOOD.

I found out that driving isn't as fun as I used to think it was. Yep, it was like being in my own

little space capsule, my music and smoking like a fiend all the way.

Yes, the blizzard reply said with that smug.. yes, I am. We were all the same!

CA awaits you Mr. Q.

Astro, ugh. I can just imagine. How nice you had a great season indoors for a change. AC is a nice invention, isn't it?

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: 12 Seconds: 39

16 years ago 0 +0 / -0 901

oh i can certainly chime in on this one.

check out my nickname , "astrofan". it means that i am a huge baseball fan , i absolutely love the game.

well most of you know i live in texas and trust me , it gets hot here in the summer , real hot.

i never smoked in my house so when the astros were playing , and i mean almost everyday in the summer , i would turn the game on the radio , and open my garage door so i could smoke .

yep , nothing more healthy than sucking on burning paper and tobacco when it's 110 degrees in your shed !

but i quit last march 12th , and enjoyed the entire season smoke free.

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 3/12/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 281
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 8,430
Amount Saved: $2,529.00
Life Gained:
Days: 45 Hrs: 21 Mins: 15 Seconds: 37

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It's cold and rainy!!! And I used to sit out there SMOKING!!!!!