Posted by jon
on 3/25/2012, 8:31 am, in reply to "Post nasal drip and my closet smoking"
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: It will be a week since I told my office
: colleague I was a closet smoker, and she
: said she wasn't really in the closet so much
: as being very discrete. For instance, she
: does not worry about the smell. We have had
: some intimate conversations, and it has been
: nice to be able to talk to someone for the
: first time in years.
:
: I did come out to my wife about 12 years
: ago, but only came out generally for about a
: week or so because I have had a chronic
: sinus condition which causes my nasal
: passages to drain onto the back of my
: throat... and smoking makes it worse.
:
: I will go several weeks without smoking,
: then smoke a half a pack, or sometimes a
: whole pack over the course of a week, and my
: post nasal drip will make my throat pretty
: uncomfortable, so I stop smoking for a while
: ... and the cycle continues.
:
: Well, I am going to my ENT doc on Monday and
: I am going to ask him directly if there is
: any prescription medication which I could
: take which would allow me to smoke
: moderately, but consistently. I have tried
: everything he has suggested over the
: counter, and it hasn't made much difference.
: If there are no drugs that can help, I would
: consider surgery.
:
: This is because I have come to realize that
: for my own happiness I need to do three
: things: 1) work to improve my nasal
: situation so I can maybe smoke a half a pack
: a day, 2) come out of the closet and smoke
: with some regularity, and 3) leave my wife,
: and begin my life as a smoker in search of a
: woman who can love me, and whom I can admire
: and respect, and almost certainly she should
: be a smoker -- or be willing to smoke. I
: don't see how I will ever know love again if
: I stay in my current marriage forever. And
: that is very depressing to think about.
: