Joe90 wrote:
Smokers have the strangest logic I've ever known. My boyfriend, a heavy smoker, has serious problems when it comes to smoking. Right now he has a cold and a cough. He doesn't feel like beer, he doesn't feel like eating, but he is still smoking. That is one thing, but I sprayed a little bit of air freshener because there was a funny smell in the bathroom, and he was like, "don't spray that, it is making me cough". Right, fair enough. But when I came back from the supermarket, the whole apartment smelt of the same air freshener, in every room, because he had been smoking while I was gone, and he sprays lots of air freshener to mask the cigarette smell, although I can still tell that he's been smoking because I was not born yesterday. So, where is the sense? I don't understand it.
Also I feel like I'm catching his cough, because he's been coughing and sneezing without covering his mouth. I am a non-smoker, but he has been smoking for so many years in his apartment that it's a habit and a routine he finds difficult to break. So I've got to breathe all that cigarette smoke in, even if we open the windows it's still in the air, as it stains the walls. Yuk! And opening windows in the colder weather is unfair too. Just give that filfthy, unhealthy habit up! I mean, the smokers at work complain about people leaving the staff lounge door open when it's cold outside, but then as soon as they want a cigarette they all stand there at the door with it open, making us all freeze to death.
It's like smokers become selfish all of a sudden.
It's an addiction, it robs you of your free will. I can't tell you how many times I thought I am going to quit, then a few minutes later I was smoking to get the fix. It is irrational by nature because it's an addiction. Breaking my smoking habit took countless attempts and relapses before I finally broke the habit. It's been over a decade and I still get the occasional smoking dream.
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