Quote Originally Posted by Meier Link View Post
I personally am trying to cut back again in preperation to quit, I want to be done with it for good by the first week in December. I have reason enough to quit with out 100 people throwing other reasons at me.

Alot of non smokers do not understand it is not something you can just do over night because after 10 years of smoking it takes alot. It takes proper motivation to actually want to quit and it is a choice that one makes for themselves not one that another can make for you.

The thing that gets me is when a nonsmoker walks up to a smoker then looks discusted an starts coughing and acting like a fool and that the smoker is in the wrong when they knowingly walked up on a smoker in the first place. It is even more insulting when they drag their kids through it and have them cough.
My dads' quitting actually did happen overnight... And that was because they told him he'd die if he continued, it literally scared the habit out of him. And he says he hasn't had one cigarette since (which I believe, because he used to reek of that horrible stuff whenever he came home). I think it's feasible enough, to be honest. And he smoked for 32 years out of 56. Not to say everybody can do that... I understand where you're coming from, but sometimes I think it takes the threat of death by smoking to get some people to stop.

One thing about your post bothered me a little.

My sister is a severe astmatic. When she walks up a highstreet, sometimes she can't help but pass a smoker, and it does make her cough. She has astmatic attacks due to smokers in the streets. Please don't try to say that everybody just false coughs because there's a smoker around; she has an actual problem that she can't help. I'm glad they've banned smoking in buildings at least; now she doesn't have to come home from work early because she's exhausted from coughing and breathing fits.

I'm glad to hear you're cutting back!