Posted by mick d
on 5/13/2009, 1:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Closet Smoker almost being caught?"
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Dave, its okay, just that over time, you have seemingly had such strong stances - sorry. I knew it wasn't the proper way of saying it (d & g), but said "Ah F#@k it" anyhow. Ha. It is good.
--Previous Message--
: Ummm, not sure when I've been consistently
: "doom and gloom" or extremist
: before, mick; perhaps you have me confused
: with someone else whose opinion is
: consistently inferior to your own?
:
: Dave
:
: --Previous Message--
: "myself",
: (got to tell ya, it is difficult to draft a
: response to someone called
: "myself"), but what the hell I
: guess...
:
: Interesting you should mention that likely
: it is also the smoke from your lungs
: attributing to the smell in your room as
: well as the smoke you blow out the window. I
: often smoke a cigarette between walking from
: my apartment to my car which is sometimes a
: city block away. Inevitably, even though I
: finish the cig before I even get to the car,
: I can smell it pretty well once I am driving
: away.
:
: One thing you have to know, and that is that
: this Dave chap loves being extreme and
: professing how it is "impossible to
: this" --- "isn’t going to happen
: that" --- he is the quintessential doom
: and gloom advice giver.
: I disagree with him on the impossibility of
: it all, but I do agree that your mom is
: likely sensitized and tipped off now - she
: is so much more likely to notice now that
: she already has smelled smoke.
:
: I hate to say it, but you do have a problem
: indeed (though possibly more a problem of
: perspective: the perspective of a secretive
: smoker - anyone else would be like,
: "WTF??!!"
:
: A small fan in the window might help, but
: at this point, it is too late, I think. If
: it doesn't work as well as you need it to,
: inevitably she is going to bust you...
:
: I also wonder: if you are a young adult of
: at least 18, you know you don't HAVE TO live
: at home you know. If you are of age, gee
: whiz Einstein, maybe it really is time to
: find an apartment by yourself.
: Before getting married I lived in
: apartments by myself for years.
: It is amazing what the freedom to smoke in
: your own space is like - just food for
: thought, bro.
:
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: --Previous Message--
: I'm assuming here that you are a young adult
: living with your parents, since you say you
: go out to clubs. If you won't or can't forgo
: your before-sleep cigarette, then you are
: going to have to find a way to get out of
: the house to do it, and then back in without
: getting caught (because you WILL smell like
: smoke upon returning). No matter how careful
: you think you are, and no matter what you do
: to try to cover it up, I can guarantee you
: are correct that your mother will find you
: out if you don't make a change--especially
: now that she's been alerted by the lingering
: odor. Smokers are quick to forget how
: incredibly easy it is for a non-smoker to
: detect even the faintest hint of tobacco
: smoke or its residue; even if you were to
: stand with your body halfway out of the
: window and blow the smoke up and away from
: your room while a fan placed inside the room
: provided additional support, I promise you
: that the smell will STILL be quite
: noticeable in that room many hours later. So
: don't fool yourself--if you don't want to
: get caught, you simply can't smoke while
: inside your house.
:
: --Previous Message--
: Hey!
:
: First I must tell you that I live with my
: parents.
: I started smoking in August 2007... I've
: always done it in the closet, but for more
: than one year I only smoked about 1
: cigarette a day on avarage (sometimes a bit
: more, sometimes none).
:
: Since October 2008 my addiction started
: getting bigger and I increased my daily
: ammount a little bit.
:
: This makes me smoke everyday right before
: going to bed when my parents are already
: sleeping.
: I open the windows of my bedroom and smoke.
: I always make sure that no smoke comes to
: the inside of the house.
:
: For the last 6 and a half months I thought
: that I was doing everything perfectly and my
: parents didn't notice anything.
:
: Suddenly, today, my mother told me then when
: she entered my bedroom in the mornings it
: kind of smelled like smoke.
: I told her it could be from many things, but
: it was probably because of a shirt that I
: use when I go to some clubs at night where
: people smoke, and that I forgot to send to
: laundry.
:
: I know that it was a bad excuse but that's
: what came to my mind under pressure.
:
: Now, the thing is: I don't want to tell my
: parents that I've been smoking, but I don't
: want to stop smoking too (specially before
: going to sleep).
:
: So, in my situation, what would you do? I
: think that if I don't change nothing of the
: things that I've been doing I'll be caught
: soon.
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