My 23-year-old niece quit smoking about 3 years ago.

Right now she's in a position where she's feeling strongly tempted to start smoking again, although she doesn't want to.

In particular, a lot of her friends smoke, she socializes in bars where people smoke, and she's under some pressure studying to pass an EMT exam.

I've never been a smoker myself, and I'm not really sure what to tell her (she's been commiserating with me about her situation).

Any advice or thoughts -- something I could say that might make an impression on her? Of course, she's familiar with all the health hazardous associated with smoking, which is why she quit in the first place.

Thanks..

don't hang out with her smoking friends and quit going to bars. stay home and study.

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Last time I checked, Fairfax County firefighters had to sign an agreement stating they would abstain from smoking and agree to periodic nicotine testing. Since EMT's and firefighters are crosstrained these days, I'm assuming the same regulation would apply to your niece.

Melon Coli Wrote:
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> Last time I checked, Fairfax County firefighters
> had to sign an agreement stating they would
> abstain from smoking and agree to periodic
> nicotine testing. Since EMT's and firefighters are
> crosstrained these days, I'm assuming the same
> regulation would apply to your niece.

She's in a different state that doesn't have that regulation (I just checked).

I say let her smoke. She is an adult, it is a legal product and she is old enough to make her own decisions. If you want to help her out though, email her this pic and tell her to carry it with her.

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Yes, please do smoke; I have Altria and Reynolds stock.

Tell her to join a gym. She needs to find out what triggers the habit and replace it with another vice. There are smokeless cigarettes if she is really tempted.

It really just boils down being disciplined, the craving for the high will always be there.

Tell her to buy some altoids. Just pop one when she feels like smoking.

Tell her to smoke some meat when she gets the urge.

Okie Wrote:
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> Tell her to join a gym. She needs to find out
> what triggers the habit and replace it with
> another vice.


Substituting one vice with another may exacerbate the problem at hand, which is habit forming compulsive behavior and addiction.


There are smokeless cigarettes if
> she is really tempted.


As long as fire and rescue are not testing for nicotine.

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> Substituting one vice with another may exacerbate
> the problem at hand.

Tell her to smoke some meat when she gets the urge.

> > Substituting one vice with another may
> exacerbate
> > the problem at hand.

eesh Wrote:
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> Yes, please do smoke; I have Altria and Reynolds
> stock.

+1

and the taxes that idiot smokers donate makes it easier on the rest of us, and she is probably helping decrease the social security deficit, since she will probably die of the Big C before collecting much of it.

Actually, if you want to help, have her go visit a cancer center where people get there chemo and radiation treatments. It is sad place.

There are advances, instead of chemo in the arm, they now install a port in your chest:



here:





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Tell her to keep smoking. Some people think it's hot.

Who in the fuck thinks smoking is hot??

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Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> Tell her to keep smoking. Some people think it's
> hot.
>


She looks like a little ho bag.

graymoose1 Wrote:
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> Who in the fuck thinks smoking is hot??

It's a cottage industry. These people are all over Youtube. Just type in 'smoking fetish'.

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> Mr. Misery Wrote:
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> > Tell her to keep smoking. Some people think
> it's
> > hot.
> >
>
>
> She looks like a little ho bag.

You're my little ho bag, eesh!

that's the reason i stick with weed. tobacco is much more addictive, harmful and is hard to quit. but you can easily stop smoking weed, i can quit smoking weed any time i want.

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> that's the reason i stick with weed. tobacco is
> much more addictive, harmful and is hard to quit.

the tobacco is not addictive, nicotine is.


> but you can easily stop smoking weed, i can quit
> smoking weed any time i want.

HAHAHAHAHA! if that's true, try to stop smoking weed and drinking for a few months just as an experiment to see if you can. what is that? "i could but i dont want to." oh that's really original.


"the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish."

graymoose1 Wrote:
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> Who in the fuck thinks smoking is hot??

If I had a choice between a smoker and non-smoker in bed. I'd pick the smoker, they way wilder.

Gravis Wrote:
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> Kevina Wrote:
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> > that's the reason i stick with weed. tobacco is
> > much more addictive


Whoever says weed is not detrimental to there health has been smoking too much of their product. Sure it doesn't have the additives and carcinogens that cigarettes have, but inhaling anything you burn is going to be toxic and take a toll on your lungs. Have you ever looked at a glass bong that hasn't been cleaned in a while? That's the exact same thing that collects in your lungs.

> > but you can easily stop smoking weed, i can
> quit
> > smoking weed any time i want.
>
> HAHAHAHAHA! if that's true, try to stop smoking
> weed and drinking for a few months just as an
> experiment to see if you can. what is that? "i
> could but i don't want to." oh that's really
> original.


Agreed. I have always scoffed at people who use the 'weed is not addictive' argument. Yes, it is not physically addictive like extreme alcoholism ( i.e. you won't go into convulsions and die from withdrawal or be sick like when kicking heroin), but it is psychologically addictive and habit forming. I have known several chronic weed smokers whose moods changed and became irritable when they ran out of weed. The whole 'I can quit whenever I want thing' is bullshit also. Maybe you are forced to quit when you are trying to get a job, are locked up, or on probation, but most weed smokers are daily habitual smokers and never 'want' to quit unless forced to by extenuating circumstances.

smoking is cool
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> smoking is cool


but you're...I mean...I'm not!

Freize Frame is a troublemaker.

If I was a cop I would pull my gun on him, and shoot him in the head, like so:

Ur 0nline English Professor® Wrote:
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> Freize Frame is a troublemaker.
>
> If I was a cop I would pull my gun on him, and
> shoot him in the head, like so:
>
>


that makes me mad!!!!
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No matter how hot a woman is if she is smoking, she's ugly

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William Zumwalt Wrote:
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> Gravis Wrote:
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> -----
> > Kevina Wrote:
> >
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>
> > -----
> > > that's the reason i stick with weed. tobacco
> is
> > > much more addictive
>
>
> Whoever says weed is not detrimental to there
> health has been smoking too much of their product.
> Sure it doesn't have the additives and carcinogens
> that cigarettes have, but inhaling anything you
> burn is going to be toxic and take a toll on your
> lungs. Have you ever looked at a glass bong that
> hasn't been cleaned in a while? That's the exact
> same thing that collects in your lungs.
>
> > > but you can easily stop smoking weed, i can
> > quit
> > > smoking weed any time i want.
> >
> > HAHAHAHAHA! if that's true, try to stop
> smoking
> > weed and drinking for a few months just as an
> > experiment to see if you can. what is that? "i
> > could but i don't want to." oh that's really
> > original.
>
>
> Agreed. I have always scoffed at people who use
> the 'weed is not addictive' argument. Yes, it is
> not physically addictive like extreme alcoholism (
> i.e. you won't go into convulsions and die from
> withdrawal or be sick like when kicking heroin),
> but it is psychologically addictive and habit
> forming. I have known several chronic weed
> smokers whose moods changed and became irritable
> when they ran out of weed. The whole 'I can quit
> whenever I want thing' is bullshit also. Maybe you
> are forced to quit when you are trying to get a
> job, are locked up, or on probation, but most weed
> smokers are daily habitual smokers and never
> 'want' to quit unless forced to by extenuating
> circumstances.


HEY ASSHOLE IF YOU SAY WEED ITS BAD FOR YOUR LUNGS THEN HOW COME NOBODY HAS DIED FROM IT???

HERE'S SOME STATISTICS.NOTICE THAN NO ONE HAS DIED FROM MARIJUANA.

Tobacco 435,000
Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity 365,000
Alcohol 85,000 1
Microbial Agents 75,000
Toxic Agents 55,000
Motor Vehicle Crashes 26,347
Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs 32,000
Suicide 30,622
Incidents Involving Firearms 29,000
Homicide 20,308
Sexual Behaviors 20,000
All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect 17,000
Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Such As Aspirin 7,600
Marijuana 0