Posted by richard
on 12/29/2011, 12:49 pm, in reply to "Re: To be in the closet or not to be in the closet"
108.201.116.237
Come out already, your self worth is not tied to being a smoker, Give trhem crap back!
--Previous Message--
: Some folks here have written before that they
: prefer to remain closeted; I, however most
: definitely wanted to be able to smoke
: openly.
:
: By the time I came out, I was smoking
: between half a pack and a pack a day most
: days, most of that in the evenings. And it
: was driving me crazy--almost literally. I
: thought I was very weird until I read the
: results of a large study on the psychology
: of smokers that showed that for most regular
: smokers, smoking is a part of their self
: identity, and that many see it as a positive
: attribute, at least in part. The same was
: (is) true for me. Not being able to smoke at
: will was not only uncomfortable from a
: physical point of view sometimes, but being
: closeted forced me to suppress part of who I
: felt I was. There were numerous times I
: almost gave myself away with a casual
: mention of smoking or buying cigarettes and
: the like. In what might seem a strange
: comparison, it really was similar to having
: to hide sexual orientation; it meant being
: constantly on guard against telling the
: truth.
:
: I am definitely MUCH happier out of the
: smoking closet, and I've never regretted
: coming out for even a second.
:
: --Previous Message--
:
: Is it the desire of all of us closet smokers
: to be out of the closet or do some of us
: want to remain in the closet. Interested to
: hear your replies
:
:
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