Posted by Rob
on 7/5/2009, 5:20 am, in reply to "Help! I think I have to come out"
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Mairi,
I think you have needlessly limited your own options.
Unless and until you are ready to fess up and admit to being a smoker, which given the fact you are not self-sufficient and will have to depend upon your ultra-anti-smoking parents, then this is my suggestion.
Bring a couple of packs with you and hide them well. I doubt that you would be sitting around the house 24 hours a day, even if you were not smoking, so there is no harm in getting out from time to time. If you can get away for a couple of hours, then just find a private place to smoke, NOT in or about the house or in a family car, then smoke a couple deeply. Keep gum with you, but then take the remainder of the 2 hour block to mill about town, see who is around, say hello (in public places) to people you know. I doubt the locals will be all in your face to kiss you so they won't be close enough to smell.
After a couple of hours you can go home and not worry about it but keep in mind that unless you can get out for a couple of hours, they would likely be able to smell something.
Another option, one I have not tried, is to try to get some of that nicotine gum. Face it, if you took a long flight somewhere, you would HAVE to do without. The gum may be your best option when you simply cannot light up. And yes, hide the gum with the cigs.
Rob
--Previous Message--
: Google came up with this board, and I've been
: looking for a few weeks because of my own
: predicament. I'm a 19 year old female
: university student in the UK. My parents
: live in a small village about 150 miles
: away, so I only see them vacations now. They
: are very strict, religious, anti smoking,
: alcohol, gambling types. I started at
: university in October last year, and at that
: time I'd never even thought of trying a
: cigarette, and by this new year I still
: hadn't.
:
: For reasons which will have to keep for
: another day, by Easter I'd become a regular
: smoker. I'd got a job for the vac. so I was
: only "at home" for 4 days, and
: decided to quit just before I went. It
: didn't work out, and I lapsed into smoking
: again as soon as I left my parents. I'm not
: a heavy smoker, about 10 per day, but 4 days
: without was hell.
:
: I've got a temp. job again for a few weeks,
: but the plan is I go to stay with my parents
: again late August for six weeks until the
: start of next term. I just don't know what
: to do.
:
: The options seem to be
:
: 1) Quit smoking. That will be a struggle,
: and I don't really want to. I enjoy smoking
: and am comfortable with myself as a smoker
: now.
:
: 2) Come out. A frightening prospect. All
: hell will break loose. They might disown me.
:
: 3) Smoke in the closet. That will be really
: difficult. To start with, sneaking out 7 or
: 8 times a day for an hour, and constantly
: brushing teeth and mouthwashing will be
: strange behaviour. And it's a tiny village,
: everyone knows everyone, so if I'm seen
: smoking, everyone will know, and there's
: only one little shop and the owner knows my
: parents well - so I'd have to take about 400
: cigs with me, smuggle them in and hide them.
: This is probably the least practical option,
: but the others don't seem too good either.
:
: Anyone there been through this and got any
: advice?
:
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