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Hamilton G What I Miss About Smoking? Sarcastic answers to...
Hamilton G What I Miss About Smoking? Sarcastic answers to Hamilton G.
"This is a long repost and good night to all.
Sometime back I posted this question,
What I miss about smoking ? I had requested that
the responses be sarcastic. So here they are again
1) I miss having to pick nastyass butts from the ashtray when I ran out of sickerettes
2) I miss smelling like a dirty ashtray.
3) I miss walking to the gas station in a blizzard at 2 a.m. when I ran out.
4) throwing money out the window
5) Absolutely Nothing! Final answer! {:>)
6) Coughing.
7) Asking total strangers for a butt
8) I miss leaving the house and worrying if I put that last cig out or if my house is going to burn down while I'm away.
9) Related, I miss burning holes in my clothes and furniture
10) I miss throwing a cig out the car window and having it come back into the back seat and start burning the car up
11) I miss gently clearing my throat and getting a mouthful of phlegm whilst being nowhere near a sink or toilet. That was always super classy and fun.
12) Being a drug addict.
13) I miss trying to buy a cig off strangers - man can those non smokers get nasty.
14) When pretending I was quit a picking up a half smoked cig from the ground. And yup I smoked it! Disgusting!!!!!’
15) I miss burning my lips. Because when you're smoking butts from wherever, they get so hot at the end that you wind up burning your lips.
16) I totally miss paying NY state tax on my cigs.
17) I miss not being able to breathe and coughing up a lung on a daily basis.
18) Going out in the middle of night in your pj's and robe to grab a pack. That in a neighborhood where they would only wear Gucci -had to move the suburbs where they didn't mind pj's at the 7-11 in the middle of the night.
19) Looking like drug addict looking for a fix - wide eyed crazy got cigs and then didn't have a lighter.
20) I really loved it and myself when I bought a 300 euro winter coat and burned a beautiful hole in it the second time I wore it while smoking a self-rolled in a storm.
21) trying to pretend I could breath when I was walking up the LONG fields at school to see Abby play here field hockey games. Carrying water!! I looked like I was dying,thankfully I would get help from.
22) Buying all those Large bottles of Febreeze.
23) That coughing in the morning was soo awesome! Like man, I wish I could do that all over again.
24) Oh and using my inhaler before and after a cigs cause why not?
25) And that golden cup that I would put cigs in that periodically needed me to add water to it.
26) I really miss the smell of that gold cup too! Umm umm! Blech!!!!!
27) Sadly, I never was able to smell the gold cup. I do remember my husband finding it and tossing it after I had been quit for 3 months. So I guess it really smelled.
28) Yep those half smoked cigs - can't imagine - but I did.
29) How I miss picking through a full ashtray, fihing out the most promising buds to make a new one bc I ran out, still going out after to get a pack but needing one RIGHT NOW.
30) kept mine a big coffee can would dig thru that damn can - no butts for sure I smoked them all.
31) I miss my cat (Papo) not wanting to cuddle with me because I smelled like a burnt Turd!
32) I miss my yellow teeth and stuffy nose.
33) if there is only enough money for food or cigs - the cigs would win.
34) if you got your last ones wet - putting them the oven on a cookie sheet to get them dried out fast. Have to really watch that they get real crispy in a hurry.
35) walking into a park with group of gang bangers asking them if you can buy a cig - stupid.
36) I'm really disappointed I failed to kill myself and my neighbours that time my couch didn't catch fire properly after I fell asleep on it watching telly and smoking. The burn hole was deep but that was all.
37) No it’s just allergies!
38) Coughing so hard I thought I was going to die because I couldn't take a breath in
39) I miss having to skip lunches in high school and save my lunch money, and going in front of a 7-11 and begging adults to buy me a pack.
40) thinking this time you are going to have call the para medics because you can't breath in the middle of the night.
41) being in the hospital with a lung infection and after a month of oxygen and they take you off, having your husband wheelchair you out for about 15 min to catch a smoke.
42) I really miss the feeling of desperation, having to have a cigarette, regardless of anything else, missing out on conversations, family time, to get my fix.
I also really miss looking for places to have a cigarette 10 meters away from eating places, 50 meters away from my work entrance . God I miss all of that.
43) I really miss that smokers cough
44) I miss those times at the beach when I would get so frustrated that I couldn't light my death stick because the wind was so strong the lighter wouldn't stay lit or light at all!! I'd persist though!
....or worse yet, having no lighter or match to light my death stick!
45) What a fabulous topic! Even though the responses are tongue-in-cheek, we can all relate to the insanity! Doesn't everyone have to cough up a certain amount of phlegm every morning? Isn't that normal? I used to think it was + umpteen other addiction 'truths'.
I am very reassured to know that I am not the only neurotic one about fearing burning my house down LOL! That used to make me crazy as I checked and double checked!
Thank God that is gone!
46) I miss what my clothing and hair smelled like!
47) I miss what smoking did for me as I stood out in the weather!
48) I miss the tea stained walls ceilings and drapes and film on the windows. You know my house smelled like super old full ash tray! Yep those were the days my friend! Lol
49) It seriously horrifies me to think I smelt like that for soooooooooooo long
That I disregarded being around others stinking of cigarette smoke
I suppose that's what addicts do.
Nursing my new grandson yesterday Imagine if my fingers were still stained yellow and I reeked of smoke........
50) I really miss singeing my hair and smelling my hair burn and wondering if I could get it out tamping it with my hands before it was totally engulfed and my head burned up.
51) I can relate to many of these including oven trick.
Here's what the Q-crew responded with.
Thanks everyone you know who you are."
Hamilton G