My mom is a smoker and she has problems getting a nicotine fix without breaking the law or giving secondhand smoke
solutions;
Snus
Ecigarettes
patches
gum/lozenges
I just don’t smoke. It’s not that big a deal. Of course I’ve never been on a flight more than 5 hours.
How could it be a problem? (video, sorry about the ad first)
Same here. My longest flight was eight and a half hours and I just didn’t smoke. It wasn’t a big deal for me. I go that long without smoking all the time. It’s not as if I wake up in the middle of the night to have a cigarette.
I quit smoking once but started again after a couple of months. The hard part for me wasn’t nicotine withdrawal, it was trying to permanently give up a habit I enjoyed.
And I’ll ask this here rather than start a new thread:
How do smokers deal with a hospital stay without smoking? I’m talking like a few days or longer, not just an overnight stay.
This might sound stupid or snarky, but it’s absolutely not meant to. If you’re somewhere you can’t smoke, you don’t smoke. You’re a patient in a hospital. You can’t smoke. Do you throw a fit or something? I guess for me, it’s a bit easier because I’m an anti-social smoker. Very few people are aware that I smoke and I rarely smoke a pack a day (“serious” smokers ask me why I even bother" :p) As someone mentioned earlier, you sleep for at least six hours, right?
Most pack a day or more smokers in the hospital get a nicotine patch prescribed to them, changed daily, often without asking for it.
Less than a pack a day, and you’ve got to ask, and the doctor may or may not put the order in.
For me the smoking is more of a habit than an addiction… it is an addiction because it does hit after a while… and its not pleasant.
Cross pacific flight, 14 hours, no big deal, really isn’t, I’ve never craved a smoke on a plane. Depressurization maybe?
Get me into the airport though, straight out the door for a smoke and chain smoking until the next flight.
The e-cigs are nice in the airport, give you a hit of nicotine, keeps the body happy, but what really keeps me happy is the mouth, hand, throat burn thing. The nicotine to my conscious brain is secondary. The e-cig helps a bit, its got the hand, the mouth and something that looks like smoke and a tiny bit of a throat hit. Chewing tobacco, besides being F’n nasty, and delivering a huge hit of nicotine doesn’t stop the cravings. The gum, plenty of nicotine, but doesn’t stop the craving.
Make the damn things illegal (as I’m smoking a cigarette), as a smoker that would be the best thing ever. For the record I started after college and quit for 4 years at one point.
On the chewing tobacco crap, the ones in the pouch, they have the little ones, Bandits, tolerable. The straight up stuff not in a pouch, that takes practice, and I don’t have the time and I don’t like it. What a mess.
My neighbor had a stroke last year and was in hospital, then an assisted living home to recuperate, for five weeks. He’s a very dedicated smoker and was going nuts without smoking. They prescribed him the patch but he had an allergic reaction to them. Couldn’t smoke anywhere on the grounds, so even when he could wheel himself out there was no place to smoke.
After some back and forth, his doctor gave him the OK to use an e-cig on the hospital grounds (but only outside, not inside.)
I’m thinking that this is a boon to nurses. A patient in the throes of nicotine withdrawal is probably horrific to deal with.
Although I didn’t remember it when I posted yesterday, here’s something that happened years ago. My mom was in the hospital recovering after multiple bypass surgery. The recovery room had a few other post-op patients in it. While I was visiting my mom, I was half-aware of another woman patient a couple of beds over, tossing and turning and talking to herself. As I walked past her bed to leave, she abruptly sat up and demanded “Have you got a cigarette?!?”. I said no, and she angrily snarled something and flung herself over on her other side and pulled the blankets over her head.
Hopefully she got a patch and her nurses got a break!