Comments on: Something I Wrote Yesterday, Which I Was Going to Relate Brilliantly to Other Stuff, but Then I Didn’t

By: mcm

mcm — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:18:51 +0000

Kate –

Thank you. It is very lonely being a smoker these days.

I nursed my father thorough lung removal surgery and his subsequent death from lung cancer. I still smoke.

He was the only one who never gave me shit about it.

Not sure if you will see this but I wonder if you have quit since this was written?

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:31:29 +0000

I, myself, am not a smoker, but I do get the ritual, relief, and comfort that comes from smoking. I like to tell people I’m a second-hand smoke addict, I love that first puff almost as much as the one taking it! My dad’s smoked around me my whole life (and smoked for most of his life, since he was nine), so maybe thats why I’m not at all anti-smoker, or get the restriction and ostracization of people who are smokers. I think maybe I had a point with this, but now all I can think about is wanting to smell cigarettes…

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:50:53 +0000

Kate, I’d like to thank you. I had all the little tidbits I needed to understand, but its nice knowing that I’m not making that up to make my dad feel better. I don’t really get it in the sense of feeling the same way, but I think I have enough of a glimmer to let it go with a sense of peace.

Today I’m in a “read through someone’s archives” kind of mood. You seemed the most interesting.

By: Fat a Greater Threat than Drug Abuse, Smoking, or Alcohol at Hoyden About Town

Fat a Greater Threat than Drug Abuse, Smoking, or Alcohol at Hoyden About Town — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:32:08 +0000

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By: pistolpete

pistolpete — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:43:52 +0000

I can fully identify with you. In recent posts, I’ve been reflecting on my own smoking and recovery. Fortunately (I believe by God’s grace), I quit before the heavy restrictions were placed on smokers. If I hadn’t, I may still be smoking just to spite the world. Laws have a way of enticing people to break them.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:58:05 +0000

Thanks for getting it, Trey. More on this in a post to come.

And I'd love to hear the other 999 things.

By: Trey Desolay

Trey Desolay — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:25:49 +0000

Yes, Kate. You're right. Most people don't understand. It doesn't matter whether or not they can understand. They don't.

Your post today reminded me of a thousand things about my retirement from smoking. I will mention only one.

I found it hard to quit smoking because it felt in part like a capitulation to philistinism.

They don't get it. They get the statistics but they don't get it, they don't understand the value of the drug, the beauty of the activity.

And they won't help you quit, if that's what you decide you want to do.