Do you smoke

I did and I let it go - why should I do any different - I told her she was as stupid as I was when I started, but if she enjoyed smoking and if she got something out of it then so be it. The only time I ever said anything negative about her smoking was when she "needed" a cigarette before we got on a train, and I looked at her and said - 'no you don't - I've been smoking since I was 14 and smoke a lot, but I don't "need" to have a cigarette just because I'm going to be on a train for an hour and cannot smoke. If you cannot go an hour without a smoke then it is time to stop.'  She quit two months ago and I'm proud of her for that, because she wasn't smoking for pleasure.

 

 

My sister also smokes and she has this attitude:  everyone tells us that all smokers want to quit, or would quit if they could, if they had the will power, if they weren't so adicted - and we all nod sagely and agree with them because we know the harm that cigarettes do and of course we don't want to die and all that bollocks ...but my sister would not agree with them, she says if she wanted to quit she would quit, she smokes because she enjoys smoking - and deep down I suspect many smokers know that. The first cigarette of the day is not an adiction because I don't wake up "gasping" for a cigarette - I don't smack the alarm and instantly light-up - I get up, shower, make a cup of tea, feed the cats, have breakfast, prepare pack lunches, post on here, check the mail, get dressed, prepare for work... at some point in the last 15 minutes of that 90 minute sequence I might have a cigarette, or I might wait until I get to work (I rarely smoke in the car and never on a short journey) - the adiction bit, the withdrawl, kicks in much later than that - days, even weeks perhaps.

 

She died just of oldness, not because of her smoking or anything in particular. She was a very religious (catholic) woman and 3 years before her only son (my uncle) died (her daughter my mother had also died long before when I was 6), she carried on but you could feel that it was not the same, she thought it was not right to outlive all of her children. She was still healthy and being over 100 years old she still took a small stroll and went to mass every day, but at some point she said "I have lived enough, I want god to take me with him" and very shortly afterwards she died.

 

My girlfriend's dad smoked when he was young but quitted at some point, since he was 45 he has been very sick of COPD but the reason is not his smoking, he worked in a glass workshop and it's the glass dust that has ruined his life.

 

By this I don't mean to deny that smoking hurts, but there are many other factors that govern our lives.

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My grandfather died of lung cancer when I was 8. He smoked since he was 16 and died when he was 81. He stopped smoking one year before he died, but it was much too late. While not dying particularly young, he was very weak physically for the last 20 years of his life. Barely got out of the house or even out of his bed.