So did I!! And I will miss it until the day I die. You know, I think I will always consider myself a "smoker"......I just don't smoke anymore. Only someone who has been a lifelong smoker and who has quit would understand that. I've heard that mentality holds true with other addictions as well.
I have never jumped on the anti-smoker bandwagon, for exactly the reasons you stated. I hated those who were constantly preaching at me, and I won't do it to anyone else. There are people near and dear to me who still smoke. I have never said one admonishing word to them. They know what they are doing. If my example doesn't impress them, nothing I can say will. But the fact is, if you're gonna dance, eventually you're gonna have to pay the piper.
Happy New Year, Humidston!
I'm with you, Mama_Bear! If a doctor ever squinted at me and said I was dying of a terminal disease, I'd ask him to hand me a CIGARETTE.
(And for all you backsliding smokers out there reading this), those cravings DO go away. It just takes time.
My mother was forced to quit a 3 pack a day habit when she had a heart attack when she was about 50...
She died this year at 73...but, she nagged and berated others that smoked from the day she quit...I hated it.
I quit 10 years ago, cold turkey...but I NEVER get on to people that do...because I know that when I did smoke I enjoyed it more than I hated it.
My main reason to quit was that my husband of 33 years has never smoked...and I didn't want to impose the smell and such on him...BUT, he never told be to quit....because he is the son of an alcoholic father..and he knows that unless someone REALLY wants to quit..
it doesn't do any good to nag them. I agree with what both of you have said...and I feel the same.