Title: To Smoke or Not To Smoke
Category: bitchy
Blog Entry: So I am a little sensitive about this subject. I had to blog because I needed to express my feelings on the subject.
I am a veteran smoker. I have smoked for 12 years. It was a consious decision that I made at a WAY to young age, but point is I not anyone else, made the decision to smoke.
FACT- smoking causes lung cancer. FACT-quitting smoking is just as hard as a heroine attic trying to quit drugs FACT- it makes your clothes smell and your hair smell
All these things I KNOW! When I made the choice to smoke did i know these things? YES. Then why did I start? It's a thing called peer pressure being young and stupid. Why dont I quit? Its not as easy as snapping your fingers and saying it.
After 12 years of smoking these are the things that make me angry the most about the addiction:
1. Provincial laws take away my freedom of choice to smoke on my walk to work.
2. Provinicial laws take away the right to light up in my own vehicle or withing 20 feet of a public area (according to the definition of public areas its EVERYWHERE even my own home)
3. I have NON-SMOKERS constantly making snide remarks about how I am pregnant and the worst mother ALREADY and I havent even had my kid. But according to the non smokers I should be on the patch but DUH thats more leathal to my baby then smoking!
4. I have NON-SMOKERS who constantly think they are better then I am because I have the habit. Like when you are at a dinner table and ask to be excused and they all narrow their eyes in on you like you are about to go and smoke a bowl of crack!! Come on ppl there is far more dangerous things out there then an OCCASSIONAL cigarette.
5. When a NON-SMOKER thinks that its the easiest thing to just quit cold turkey and all. Let me give you an indepth look at the withdrawls a person can go through after smoking that long.
*bitchyness
*nail biting
*weight gain (can sometimes lead to obesity)
*nervousness
*Sweats
*fevers and chills
*knotting muscles
* DEPRESSION..
And the list goes on.... So I would just like to say that when a non smoker makes comments to us women who smoke (and are either pregnant or TTC) you are not helping but saying QUIT you will hurt your baby or even worse cause your own infertitlity. It mean and rude and cruel and dont you think that we know what it does to our bodies? We are the ones who smoke so get your facts straight before you comment.
Sorry guys I am just one pissed of Pregnant women who doesnt need to hear another person tell me whats good for me or my baby, or tell me I am going to be a horrible mother BECAUSE i smoke. I dont need them to analysis me I know.
FYI- Dr said its not safe to quit now cause its not safe to quit after smoking a lengthly time by cold turkey and using a patch or pills is out of the question while being pregnant. So cutting down is my only option which i have graciously accepted.
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