Use of illegal drugs, alcohol consumption, and cigarette

• Should smoking ONLY be allowed in private single family homes - ?
  • Use of illegal drugs, alcohol consumption, and cigarette - giddy pc guru
  • Georgia has a no public smoking law...sm - Georgia Gal
  • Absolutely not. They need to MTOB. - mtintx
    • Agree. - They should mind their own business.
  • personally I would sign that ban in a heart beat! sm - nn
  • Yes, and then only if there are no children. - Sure
  • They should be more worried about the effects - of drunk driving.
    • yeah and people have been saying that --sm - nn
    • Agree, also what about global warming and environmental pollution..! - sm
      • Global warming all hype - mtintx
        • Obviously you have not done your own research :) - nm
          • As a matter of fact I did. I used to agree with you (sm) - mtintx
            • what research did you do - you just said - I *heard* that Gore's documentary had no facts
              • No dear, you are wrong. The "I heard" comment (sm) - mtintx
                • blah, blah, blah....... - N/M
                  • No snappy comeback? - LOL (sm) - haha
          • AGREED - the poster has done NO RESEARCH! - and entitled to that narrow opinion too! nm
        • that's what YOU think..... - and entitled to that narrow opinion too! nm
          • Heard Al Gore's "documentary" had no facts in it(sm). - mtintx
            • you *heard*???? LOL......... - and entitled to that narrow opinion too! nm
              • Gore cares? - don't make me laugh
                • LOL- and he has the nerve to preach to the average person - hahah)sad -people believe him - Indy
            • Gore's Inconvenient Truth it was on HBO last night. - and entitled to that narrow opinion too! nm
              • He is just such a hypocrite - - nm
      • great post, thanks for pointing out hypocrisy - which is alive and well in the good ol USA
        • folks who do not agree are in for rude awakening! - and entitled to that narrow opinion too! nm
          • I'll be long gone before the doom and gloom descends upon us. - not me
            • ya think? nm - oh well, some of us are very young and worry

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Been chomping on the nicotine gum like a fanatic.  When will I stop thinking about them?  Stressed, changing jobs, being sued, sueing, kid home from school, all alone, gotta mow the lawn, gotta move out of my old digs, gotta fix the car -- on and on and on.  We type reports about people who smoked heavily and then quit 20 years ago.  How do I stay strong?  I'm 43 with a 6-year-old.  Dad died from the smokes at 58.  I just want to live long enough to be a grandma now.  Advise?  Thanks sisters.  Hanging on by a thread.

from something without washing it?  I have a baby blanket my mom crocheted that is for a friend of mine who's expecting.  Like everything in my mom's house, it has a bit of a cigarette smell, and I don't think a new mother would want to use a blanket that smells of cigarettes for a new baby!  So far I've just hung it up on a hanger in the hallway at my place.  (I don't smoke.)  Any ideas?  I thought about something like "Febreze", but that might not be good for a new baby to breathe, either.........

It is definitely one of the hardest things you will ever do, but it is also one of the best things. 

Check out this website and follow your progress and what happens to your body as time goes on without cigarettes.  It is encouraging.  http://healthbolt.net/2006/07/19/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-stop-smoking-right-now/

DON'T join this site, but just do the first step of registration to see how much $$ you will save and how many days you will add to your life by quitting.  It is very interesting. I used to have another site that gave this same info without having to join anything, but I couldn't find it, but this gives you the same basic info, but only do the first step in the registration process.   https://secure.quitnet.com/

Again, hang in there.  YOU CAN DO IT!   You will start feeling better within a couple weeks. 

I love that I can smell so much better now and that I don't stink like cigarettes.  I find it very nasty now when I smell a person who has just smoked, which is something you can't smell when you are a smoker.  Yuck.

And I usually NEVER have air in my brain *ROFL*....thanks for the laugh!! 

I don't know if this is too "harsh" for your daughter, but have you thought about showing her the results of drinking and/or driving?  I drank A LOT in high school, starting around 15 when my mom got sick and continued daily drinking through graduation and then some.  Did my fair share of drinking and driving or riding in cars with drivers who drank, thinking that nothing would ever happen.  My sister who was 5 years older than me died from drinking and driving when I was 18, and to "show" me and my teenage cousins the consequences, we went with my uncle to see her car that had not been cleaned after the wreck (nasty, and I still see it to this day which is about 18 years later)...she was in a little 4-door car and fell asleep and drove underneath an 18-wheeler.  That sight was burned into my brain and I never forgot what drinking and driving could do, that we weren't invincible. 

I did hear of a school that was doing "shock presentations" to students, arranging to have 10 or so students missing from classes for the day, then the other students were told that they were killed in accidents from drinking.  While that is a bit extreme, I really think that shock works best on teenagers as I always thought I knew best and that nothing would ever happen.