1) If I can’t smoke (due to the choice to quit), no one else should be able to. seriously. Make it illegal all around. But legalize pot.
2) If the government will still sell smokes, perhaps they should subsidize cessation programs, like the patch, which costs $38 a box for 14 patches. True, it’s less than smokes cost, but if I’m quitting because I can’t afford to smoke, then what makes them think I can afford the help to quit? (pre-emptive response: my health care provides some coverage but maxes out at a certain point, which I already used up trying to quit many times)
3) Why the fuck won’t the patch stick to me for longer than 4 hours? Is it the humidity? Is my body absorbing the nicotine too fast? What the fuck?
4) People, stop smoking around doorways. Even when I smoked, I didn’t do this unless I was at a bar. On a rainy day, when the smoke really lingers, keep the fuck out of the way. I’m trying to quit, and your smoke smells so appealing right now. Help me continue along this path to healthiness and get the hell out of fucking doorways (and bus shelters). Don’t be so selfish.
5) Okay. I’m doing my part by quitting, thus reducing any potential strain on the health care system, so please, fat asses out there, do your part: put down the donuts and eat an apple. You fat fuck. —Ex-smoke stack
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.
I rolled my eyes and now they’re stuck in the back of my skull due to yet another fucking goddamn smoking bitch.
Hmmm, **but if I’m quitting because I can’t afford to smoke ~ Okay.**
** I’m doing my part by quitting, thus reducing any potential strain on the health care system**
Well, aren’t you just the altruistic fuck!
And OP, OF COURSE, brings in the fatty issue. Gee, aren’t we creative, OP? Want a medal?
Yeah this bitch was alright until the “fatty” comment. Just because someone is doing something horrible, it doesn’t mean the horrible thing you did/do is any better.
LOL…smokers. Imagine Beavis and Butt-head saying that. Hah, hah, huh, huh…. That’s the intelligence of a smoker.
Here, here!!!
Ah, the trials and tribulations of smoking cessation. Someone is sounding a little grouchy. Hang in there OP. The first few weeks are tough (cold-turkey quitter here) but after the addictive chemicals have left your system you’ll only have the smoking triggers to deal with. It gets better.
Stop whining and buy some cheap reserve smokes. The only ppl who care about your efforts to quit are militant non-smokers, which it sounds like you want to become. Who cares about the strain on socialized healthcare, that’s what its there for.
just when i thought it was safe to come back here again today, another fucking smoking bitch. here’s a simple answer for everyone, i choose to, you don’t, end of fucking story.
Considering smoking costs the healthcare system over 4 times as much as obesity does, fuck off, OP. Old people cost the system a lot more than obesity does, and I don’t hear anyone telling old people to die because they’re costing us too much.
Also: I’m not hating on old people here, I’m just illustrating a point. I actually enjoy seniors quite a lot. They have awesome stories.
I’ve never met a smoking bitch that I didn’t want to augment with a five paragraph rant of my own.
I agree with many of your points, OP, but I think you go too far in suggesting making cigarettes illegal. This would be detrimental to our rights and freedoms.
I say, let smokers smoke . . . in the privacy of their own homes as long as no children are present. In public smokers should be required to wear my soon-to-be patented smoking mask based on carbon capture technology developed here in Nova Scotia (by me) that would eliminate the second-hand smoke problem altogether.
Everyone should be free to choose what they want to do with their body as long as it doesn’t affect innocent bystanders.
Finally, on a related note, I think pot should be organic, local and legal and be sold like any other herb. Who doesn’t? I don’t know if people would be any healthier, but I think in general people would be more relaxed and less prone to ranting on the internet.
hang in there I smoked for 30 yrs. quit like 21/2 AGO AND STILL WANT ONE EVERY FREAK’N DAY ; I got my patches free because i joined a study; they helped big time
Standing O for #4!!!
Smokers wouldn’t irritate me nearly as much if they would get the fuck away from the doors and bus shelters. Oh it’s raining? Too damn bad. Why should I have to suffer because you have a disgusting habit?
As for any addiction: you can’t/won’t quit (successfully, anyway) until you’re ready.
Same goes for being fat.
I really wish smokers would stop ragging on fatties. You know the way you feel about smokes? Well that’s the same way a lot of fatties feel about food. Why are YOU any better than someone who can’t put the cheeto back in the bag and put the fork down? If you’re going to use the “it’s all about willpower” angle — practice what you preach. Eating a quarter pounder with cheese once a day isn’t any worse than smoking a pack and a half a day.
And I’d say, given the stats bro tim pointed out (4.3 billion in healthcare costs/yr for fatties versus 17 billion for cancer stick suckers) obesity is a lot less harmful to OTHERS than smoking. I mean all you have to do is look at the second hand smoke issue…afaik, there ain’t such a thing as “second hand fat” causing cancer.
So PLEASE, stop grasping at straws, smokers, and leave the fatties alone!
I think it is pretty safe to say that every smoker at one point or another made the choice to smoke. (It is pretty hard to imagine anyone being forced to smoke, and by that I mean FORCED as in: tied to a chair or nailed to the wall, hand-cuffed to a starving lion, pricked on the toe nail bed with a needle type FORCED, not just peer-pressure.)
Same is not true of all fat people (I mean making the choice part, not the tied up etc part). Some of it is genetic disposition, side effects from medications, etc. For some fat people an apple contains too much sugar and not good for them.
Try eating the patch.
Well don’t you sound like a self entitled douche.
News flash: the world does not revolve around you bud.
Also, what should be done to make everyone happy, is smoking shelters.
Make smoking illegal in public places, or outdoors, but install fucking smoking shelters for people to have cig’s in. They do it in Singapore, and I’m pretty sure it works in a) shutting up the whiners and b)eliminating cig butts from the streets.
But god forbid anyone rally for that. Fuck I’m a god dam smoker and I’d rally for that.
Try as I might, I cannot understand why smokers (or those who support smoking) ALWAYS feel the need to make a comment about the burden of overweight people. TTFN is notorious for this.
You make it sound as if everyone falls into one of two categories – you’re either a smoker, or you’re morbidly obese.
I would just like to state for the record that there are plenty of us who don’t fall into either of those categories.
Just in regards to your 2nd point – Capital Health offers a free cessation program (including free stop smoking aids). More info: 424-2025.
You made the decision to start smoking, the government didn’t force you to. You’re quitting because you can’t afford it, not for any reason that does the government any good, and they really don’t care if you can afford to quit or not. Nobody owes you anything. Suck it up. You’re not doing us any favours.
oh FS, don’t you realize the government is at fault for EVERYTHING?
Personal responsibility? pfft.
Ah, shit, right, PK…sorry. I’ll try to think it through next time. I get so confused sometimes!
PK: The problem with the numbers that Bro Tim posted is that they are SEVERELY skewed. If you are a smoker and you go in to get your appendix out, it falls under those statistics regardless of the fact that having your appendix removed is in no way related to smoking.