BrightNShiny, get some peppermint candles, or peppermint essential oils, it covers up the smell of cigarette smoke astonishingly well. And let your roomate know you smelled the smoke, that way he won’t think you didn’t notice, and feel free to do it again.
-Lezlers (who is a smoker and thinks smoking indoors is exteremly “icky”)
I would have tried to make him eat it.
Well, I wouldn’t try to have the bastard arrested.
But I WOULD probably slap him.
You know, it’s not just bad habits that bring out this kind of bad behavior. I’m getting the same shit over my newly discovered allergies.
You see, on wednesday I learned that I am allergic to Soy and Nightshades (Potatoes, Tomatoes, Peppers). If the guy had added Dairy to the list I would have asked him to simply kill me.
Check out your food. There is Soy in every goddamned food on the planet. Every bread is made with Soy oil (whimper but I love bread!), it’s even in my damned ice cream, in chips, in prepared meals, in pasta, in too fucking many things to list. I had no clue it was this prevalent until now.
In the four days since then, I have had to fight off every bastard who wants to shove Soy down my throat because they don’t believe that it can possibly be harmful to me.
But hell, I’ve long been used to the same treatment from Perfume freaks who refuse to accept that I am allergic to the stuff (I’ve known that for 15+ years).
I think the bottom line is that people see it as some kind of weakness and their “eat the weak” instincts come to the fore.
** BrightNShiny**, congrats on keeping it together! I can empathise completely with your situation. Last week, I didn’t smoke for five days, was feeling pretty good about it, and then decided to go out with some friends of mine.
Well, I wish I could say that I didn’t surrender to my terrible cravings… but I did. So yes, now here I sit, having a cigarette, and being extremely pissed off with myself.
I could stop this from happening again by just not going out, but why on earth should I have to? People should respect it when someone says “I’m trying to give up smoking. Could you please stop offering me cigarettes?” Especially friends! All night I heard “You can just have one, can’t you?” and “Come on, we’re out drinking! You need a cigarette!” Now I’m not blaming them totally of course. I could have just said no and fought my craving rather than give in, but quitting is hard enough in itself without twenty people shoving cigarettes in your face.
You should be proud of yourself for being so strong. Are you using any type of Nicotine replacement therapy? No matter how you are doing it, congratulations on being smoke free!
My mom is allergic to, oh, about 98% of the perfumes on the market. It’s created problems for her in offices with the sorts of people who wear gallons of their favorite – which she is ALWAYS allergic to, of course, nobody ever wears gallons of the ones she’s okay with – and simply refuse, when asked politely, if they could wear less of it. Upper-level people in offices are remarkably unresponsive to “I’m allergic to her perfume!” even if the allergic person is in the throes of an asthma attack.
I’m curious – if you’re allergic to soy, how did you not know until now? I am NOT saying you’re making it up, but in my experience, allergies are usually pretty obvious and not the sort of thing that would go undiagnosed for years. Enlighten me, please, I admit my ignorance!
I’m wearing the 14mg 24-hour Nicoderm patch. I went to the Marlboro website and figured out how much nicotine was in one of the cigarettes that I used to smoke. From that, I calculated that I was getting around 12mg of nicotine/day, and that’s why I started with the 14mg patch.
It doesn’t really kill the cravings. All it does is make it so I can talk myself out of having a cigarette when I do get a craving.
Here’s a solution to the bread problem:
A girl I know couldn’t eat yeast products for a long time (due to a yeast infection) which prevented her from eating commercially produced bread. She bought one of those electric bread-making machines, and substituted the yeast for bicarbonate of soda. You could do the same, leaving out the soy oil instead.
All you do is dump the ingredients in the machine before you go to bed, set the timer and - presto! Fresh bread in the morning, home-baked to your own personal recipe 
I agree. That behavior rates a punch in self-defense.
I’m no expert, but as far as I know:
Allergies can develop later in life, you don’t necessarily have them from birth. I have only started getting hayfever over the last three years or so, and it gets worse every year. A friend of mine recently found out that he’s allergic to wheat (no beer, for example).
I think another factor could be that the more you are exposed to the allergen, the stronger the reaction becomes, so over time the symptoms become more apparent. People taken to hospital with allergic reactions to bee-stings are usually told to be extra careful not to get stung again, because the next one is more likely to kill them…
Ah. I’m one of those people who apparently outgrew their childhood allergies – I know, they say you can’t, but mine went away, no matter what you call it.
I’d hope I’d have the presence of mind to slap anybody who shoved a cigarette in my face. The problem is, I’m really very small, so I doubt I’d have the nerve, since I could get hurt pretty badly if I got hit back.
I still don’t know why this guy apparently thought this was funny.
Well, I read your posts quite carefully, and I find YOU to be the rude and abhorrent one.
She was polite to the extreme until you went off the rails.
What the Sam Hill are YOU smoking?
Well, since this thread got bumped…
I’ve just gone three weeks! Woo hoo!
Congratulations, BrightNShiny! Sorry for bumping, but I was taking a break and just read this thread.
Still, it was worth doing, if only to send you hugs. Hang in there, baby!
Sorry, Scotticher, I’ve just looked back over this thread and can’t find anything particularly offensive in anything I wrote prior to Shayna’s little rant, in which she accused me of saying things that I obviously didn’t:
Where did I say that “cigarette smoking alters your perception so much as to render you blameless for abhorrent social behaviour”?
And while we’re on the subject of rudeness, where did I use expressions like “this is crap,” “remind me to stay as far the fuck away from you as I possibly can?” Your darling Shayna certainly did, which is perhaps easier than addressing the actual comments I’d made. Like I say, she seems a little tense, maybe it’s the mention of the dreaded H-word that got her hackles up, maybe she’s a little bit sensitive.
Whatever, apologies for the hijack, congrats to BrightNShiny and anyone else who manages to escape the clutches of the evil weed (or any other harmful addiction for that matter)…
If someone shoved a cigarette in my mouth, I would shove my fist in their nose.
Congratulations, BrightNShiny. I am a former smoker (about 2 years) and I remember a few teasing comments when I first quit, such as when one co-worker walked past my desk and laughingly asked me if I wanted to come out for a smoke. It didn’t much bother me, but it almost seemed to trivialize how difficult it was for me to not smoke. I don’t think it was meant maliciously, and it certainly didn’t tempt me, but it wasn’t particularly funny. I will tell you (from my experience) that most people are really proud of you…smokers, ex-smokers, and nonsmokers alike.
I fail to see the connection.
Shockingly enough, even Peoplelent Green is made of soy.
Read the post again, more carefully. 