Why do I have to breath cigarette smoke.

Drexl Spivey

I have stopped smoking 3 years ago.

I feel great about it. My only problem is that I can't stand cigarette smoke anymore. It makes me feel bad physically and very very very bad mentally (i am ready to kill).

When I am stuck in traffic, I can't stand smokers who blow their smoke, window open, the smoke goes right into my car, and I am the one who have to close my window even though it is very hot. WHY? They should have to close their Window and breath their own smoke.

Some of you might think it's a bit of an extreme reaction, but this is actually how I coped with stopping smoking: avoiding smoke, stop inhaling it even if it is a small quantity.


Now, I moved in a new house, a real paradise, except that my neighbour is spoiling it : he smokes in the garden, the smoke is going in my house inevitably!! Again this might sound silly but it actually woke me up at 1.30 am on sunday. It smelled like someone was smoking in my room.

I can't possibly ask the guy to smoke somewherelse, it is his gaf, he s probably living there for years on and the garden is small (it wouldn t make a lot of difference where in his gardens he smokes). I can't close the windows either, it is too hot, and I can't sleep if windows are closed.

The guy may be in HIS garden, but HIS smoke is in MY house. :mad:

Heeeeelp me God!!

Please, no solution such as Kill yourself, or move to Iceland, or wear a gas mask

WellyJ

I hope you realise now how you were making others feel back when you did smoke, i hate the stuff too. So much in fact that im worried about going to pubs etc. abroad this summer, having gotten so used to the clean air in our Irish pubs.

stagolee

put on a gas mask ,go to iceland and kill yourself (and put the e back in breathe)

Beruthiel

stagolee wrote:

put on a gas mask ,go to iceland and kill yourself (and put the e back in breathe)

not everyone who posts here speaks/writes english as a first language

jeff
I also suggest that you put on a gas mask, move to iceland and or kill yourself....

DonkeyStyle \o/

Yeah I'm the same way.
Every time a car drives by my house... I can smell the foul stench coming in the windows, lingering all over my house and it makes me retch.
I've been trying to avoid car fumes ever since I stopped driving, and the fact that I have to put up with car fumes when I go outside is unacceptable.
Well see-ya, I'm off to kill myself.

stagolee

Beruthiel wrote:

I also suggest that you put on a gas mask, move to iceland and or kill yourself....

if it gets any hotter i will

EDIT:well i'm pedantic and i'm also wrong, according to dictionary.com breath is a correct spelling of the word as you meant it ie. to inhale or exhale.

grumpytrousers

Can I be flippant and say that you may as well live with it. If you can detect the lingering smell of fag smoke from that kind of distance, then your sense of smell is far too sensitive, and God only knows what you make of other lingering odours like dog poo on pavements etc...

toiletduck

solution: lighten up!

BizzyC

The only reason it's bothering you so much is cause you're far too worked up about it.
see toiletduck's advice. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Selik

toiletduck wrote:

solution: lighten up!

Ha! Much better than "lighting up" in this case...

xzanti

I would have to agree with the op... Im a non smoker and always have been and I cant stand the smell of smoke... The smoking ban is great but now I find I cant walk through town particularly near pubs without crowds of people out on the footpath blowing smoke in my face... I know its pointless ranting about it because smoking is never going to be outlawed, not in the forseeable future anyway but it just gets up my nose (excuse the pun)... I live in a period house which has been converted into apartments so I share a hall and landing with about 6 other residents, one of whom happens to be a chain smoker and the smell of smoke in my apartment when he is smoking in his is disgusting and I know there is absolutely nothing I can do about it appart from have a rant :rolleyes: so there you go... rant over!.... Phew!

Chalk

youve got to be kidding.
the amount of smoke exhaled by a smoker into the air is going to diffuse so much that its going to be fairly non existent with 5 - 6 feet.

xzanti

Chalk wrote:

youve got to be kidding.
the amount of smoke exhaled by a smoker into the air is going to diffuse so much that its going to be fairly non existent with 5 - 6 feet.

It might not be as potent from a few feet away but I think its the smell that the op was complaining about... for a non smoker the smell can be quite unpleasant... If I am in the upstairs room of a house and somebody is smoking in the kitchen I can smell it, it may not be strong enough to endanger my health but it still stinks.. I think thats the point the op was making

Drexl Spivey

Thank you all very much for your input.

Though l fail to see the parallel between smoking and : the heat, my spelling, car fumes, dog poos, etc ...

Beruthiel, after second thought, I am not going to Iceland: THERE IS NO SMOKING BAN!
Plus I am not alone, my partner couldn't live without my moaning


stagolee, I don't need to put an 'e', you're here to do it instead.

I suppose all those smart ass are people who smoke and who actually never made the effort to stop smoking. It is easy to take the piss. It is not easy to actually make the effort to stop smoking and stick to it.

Toiletduck and Bizzy, you may be right.it s gonna be hard? (is the spelling ok????)

toiletduck

Jeff Bond wrote:

Toiletduck and Bizzy, you may be right.it s gonna be hard? (is the spelling ok????)

should be "it's" rather than "it s"

crazymonkey

There is nothing to be done, the man has a right to smoke in his own garden, i didn't realise u nonsmokers would be that senitive to somke,,

Kingp35

xzanti wrote:

I would have to agree with the op... Im a non smoker and always have been and I cant stand the smell of smoke... The smoking ban is great but now I find I cant walk through town particularly near pubs without crowds of people out on the footpath blowing smoke in my face... I know its pointless ranting about it because smoking is never going to be outlawed, not in the forseeable future anyway but it just gets up my nose (excuse the pun)... I live in a period house which has been converted into apartments so I share a hall and landing with about 6 other residents, one of whom happens to be a chain smoker and the smell of smoke in my apartment when he is smoking in his is disgusting and I know there is absolutely nothing I can do about it appart from have a rant :rolleyes: so there you go... rant over!.... Phew!

I agree with this 100%. I cant stand the smell of smoke its disgusting and I have no idea why anybody would want to start. I cant sit in a room with someone who smokes I always think of some reason to get out and away from them I also try to avoid poeple who are smoking while walking down the road. Its just a horrible habit and it absolutley STINKS and its also the most unattractive thing I have ever seen. Nothing puts me off a girl more than if I see her smoking.

MorningStar

To be honest it sounds like while you don't smoke you still have issues to deal with. Your addiction to cigarette was a lot more than physical as is the withdrawl is more than just not smoking. Your description of how it makes you feel is not a natural or normal reaction. It is your own feelings on them that is making you feel so sick. It probably stems from the method you used to quit by making the mear thought of cigarette worse and worse in your mind. You now feel fear,distain, etc.. and are processing it incorrectly into anger. Not a huge problem you just need to do something about it and acknowledge what your problem is.
That's just my understanding from what you have described but if you look up addiction you might find that some help even though you don't smoke. It's like fixing a broken leg if you don't do it right you will have a limp the mind is not much different.
I don't smoke anymore so I could be projecting.

shuushh

oh get over yourself, sounds like its half in your mind to be honest you feel ill when someone smokes in their own garden ?

sounds like you need a cigarette

xzanti

Kingp35 wrote:

I agree with this 100%. I cant stand the smell of smoke its disgusting and I have no idea why anybody would want to start.
I know, I cant understand how the whole thing got started in the first place.. "oh I think ill roll up some of this smelly weed crap, stick it in my mouth and set it on fire, that might feel nice!" Im no angel myself but I just dont see the attraction :eek:

Drexl Spivey

MorningStar wrote:

To be honest it sounds like while you don't smoke you still have issues to deal with. Your addiction to cigarette was a lot more than physical as is the withdrawl is more than just not smoking. Your description of how it makes you feel is not a natural or normal reaction. It is your own feelings on them that is making you feel so sick. It probably stems from the method you used to quit by making the mear thought of cigarette worse and worse in your mind. You now feel fear,distain, etc.. and are processing it incorrectly into anger. Not a huge problem you just need to do something about it and acknowledge what your problem is.
That's just my understanding from what you have described but if you look up addiction you might find that some help even though you don't smoke. It's like fixing a broken leg if you don't do it right you will have a limp the mind is not much different.
I don't smoke anymore so I could be projecting.

I don't think I have a problem : how would you feel if you were regularely woken up because of someone else? Angry I suppose. You maybe right when you say that I feel fear, I'd be afraid to go back smoking like before.
I don't feel addicted because if I don't smell smoke, I don't think about it for a fraction of a second. And when I smell it, I find it disgusting.

I don't think I made myself clear on one thing: it does smell like someone is smoking in the bedroom. I am not being fussy (this time)

neady

Why don't you rub some Vicks Vapour Rub under your nose before you leave your house?

Selik

Ah the multiple uses of good old Vicks...

xzanti

Giles wrote:

Ah the multiple uses of good old Vicks...

Tiger Balm is better

Drexl Spivey

neady wrote:

Why don't you rub some Vicks Vapour Rub under your nose before you leave your house?

LOL

Hey, that might actually work!!





(it won't help to avoid passive smoking side effects though)

Dr. Loon

I suggest you take up smoking again. It's the easiest way out of this situation.

Cactus Col

I've very little sympathy for former smokers, I always think it's about time they see what they've been putting other people through, so it serves them right.

rubadub

Chalk wrote:

youve got to be kidding.
the amount of smoke exhaled by a smoker into the air is going to diffuse so much that its going to be fairly non existent with 5 - 6 feet.

Maybe you are a smoker and hence have a poor sense of smell and taste. I can smell smoke in my work window on the second floor about 50ft away from where people smoke. Women have a better sense of smell, my sister can smell smoke in the house several days after somebody has smoked in the garden.

The original poster should contact his local TD and ask for the drug to be banned, I think there is some group in the UK looking for an outright ban. I find it bizarre that it is still legal, it contradicts any logic of the other drug laws.

Spicy Lauren

I'm the same Jeff Bond, I've given up smoking tobacco a year and a half ago and I just cant stand people smoking around me anymore! I cant help myself coughing out of the blue, I think it's a nervous reaction to my old addiction...

It's sh*te and annoying because it really makes me wonder how intolerant I can be, when in fact I used to smoke cigarettes as well!

What can you do?
My advice is: LIVE WITH IT!

On a lighter note, I wish people who farted didnt do it in pubs, because THATS for sure one of the most disgusting smells on Earth!

thelordofcheese

Jeff Bond wrote:

I have stopped smoking 3 years ago.

I feel great about it. My only problem is that I can't stand cigarette smoke anymore. It makes me feel bad physically and very very very bad mentally (i am ready to kill).

When I am stuck in traffic, I can't stand smokers who blow their smoke, window open, the smoke goes right into my car, and I am the one who have to close my window even though it is very hot. WHY? They should have to close their Window and breath their own smoke.

Some of you might think it's a bit of an extreme reaction, but this is actually how I coped with stopping smoking: avoiding smoke, stop inhaling it even if it is a small quantity.


Now, I moved in a new house, a real paradise, except that my neighbour is spoiling it : he smokes in the garden, the smoke is going in my house inevitably!! Again this might sound silly but it actually woke me up at 1.30 am on sunday. It smelled like someone was smoking in my room.

I can't possibly ask the guy to smoke somewherelse, it is his gaf, he s probably living there for years on and the garden is small (it wouldn t make a lot of difference where in his gardens he smokes). I can't close the windows either, it is too hot, and I can't sleep if windows are closed.

The guy may be in HIS garden, but HIS smoke is in MY house. :mad:

Heeeeelp me God!!

Please, no solution such as Kill yourself, or move to Iceland, or wear a gas mask

kill yourself.

Or just suck it up [pardon the pun], people have habits that offend and irritate others, I'm sure you drive at least 5 different people absolutly mental with things you do that you see no problem with.

A man has a right to smoke in his own garden, so either learn to tolerate it, or move to a biodome somewhere outside Dublin and never leave its protective bubble.

Corben Dallas

Geez GET A F**KING LIFE! and they say ex smokers are the worst..... well theres yur proof. X-(

I think the problem here is like all reformed alcoholics or drug addicts u want to remove all traces/temptation from your life, and therefore feel u have some sort of religious right to stamp out all blasphemers.
[face_mad]

Your bitchin and moaning makes me phsyically sick.
I suggest u get counselling to get over your irrational fear of smoke.
either that or get a job as a fireman to beat yur phobia.

Drexl Spivey

thelordofcheese wrote:

kill yourself.

Or just suck it up [pardon the pun], people have habits that offend and irritate others, I'm sure you drive at least 5 different people absolutly mental with things you do that you see no problem with.

A man has a right to smoke in his own garden, so either learn to tolerate it, or move to a biodome somewhere outside Dublin and never leave its protective bubble.

None of my habits damage one's health. (I admit, I chew gum and eat garlic!!)

I know the man has a right in his own garden, I acknowledged it myself, in fact that is why the situation is annoying me.


Corben Dallas, you talk about reformed alcoholics or drug addicts like you know a lot of them.

What do you know about the actual subject: do you smoke, have you achieve to stop smoking? Or is typing free insults on boards.ie your only achievement.


It is easy to say "get over yourself" look: get over yourself.

Mossy Monk

hold on a second, not that smoking is outlawed in all work places, ye all want the smoker not be allowed smoke in his/her garden, car, on the street? :eek:

*OT but why oh why is chewing gum still allowed

Mossy Monk

rubadub wrote:

The original poster should contact his local TD and ask for the drug to be banned, I think there is some group in the UK looking for an outright ban. I find it bizarre that it is still legal, it contradicts any logic of the other drug laws.

governments giving up all that tax revenue?

HA

muckwarrior

Kingp35 wrote:

Nothing puts me off a girl more than if I see her smoking.

100% agree. I'd never go out with a girl that smoked. (Might ride her though )

Jimi-Spandex

I don't care if you or anyone else doesn't like the smell. As far as I'm concerned if you are far enough away so that you don't suffer any ill effects health wise, then you have no real basis in your complaint. It's my body and I'm perfectly entitled to destroy my own health due to my own stupidity. You are just being a whiney ex smoker like so many others.

My advice, start smoking again and quit using allen carr. Then you might be quite so wound up about them.

The original poster should contact his local TD and ask for the drug to be banned, I think there is some group in the UK looking for an outright ban. I find it bizarre that it is still legal, it contradicts any logic of the other drug laws.

This logic could easily be extended to alcohol, processed sugar and plenty of other things too. Sure we'd all be healthier. Wouldn't that be great. God loves a nanny state eh?

Blisterman

I don't think cigarettes should be banned, people should have a right to take whatever substance they want by themselves, but they should ban it in public places altogether.

funk-you

=Jeff Bond- seriously man, get over yourself. you share a planet with 6 billion other idiots like myself who are all entitled to live their lives the way they feel fit

-whether it be living it to the most, consuming substances, sticking their fingers up their noses- whatever.

i walk through town constanly inhaling fumes from cars, i go to work and there are chemicals, i go out i have to smell horrible perfumes, i go the bathroom i have to smell(excuse the vulgarity) my excrement, i polish the furniture i have to smell pledge, i sit beside someone and smell BO-their shampoo-unwashed clothes-bodysprays-what they cooked for dinner-their breath-the crap they stood in, i wash the dog it smells.

FFS i could go on for hours, just because smoking has become socially unacceptable (for valid health reasons which i don't deny) does that then give me the right to ban smells everywhere? on my own land? in the streets of my country? across the planet?

i agree with the smoking ban on smoking in enclosed areas for health reasons alone but just because smoking isn't acceptable to our society does that mean because a group of people dont like the smell of something it should be banned?

actually fcuk it lets ban farting, lets make showering twice daily mandatory, ban all smells-actually better yet, lets genetically remove the ability to smell anything but roses unless of course you have a problem with them?

my point is that you are going to need a little tolerance and realise that because you dont like something that someone else may enjoy it and what gives you the right to take that away from them? if they don't sit in an enclosed area where you're health is being affected in any significant way why should it bother you that much-at the end of the day its only a smell and WONT be there forever.

sorry for the rant and i'm not attacking you in any way but you'll have to consider there's at least 5,999,999,999 other people out there and you might be making things a bit whiffy for them through things you do but your smells are slightly more acceptable. social unacceptability due to health reasons is not and excuse for you to get your own way.

or alternatively you could wear an air-freshener around your neck but please dont sit beside me as i find the smell of them offensive.

FranknFurter

Your very lucky if all u have to worry about at night is your neighbours smoking ffs, my mother has a gang of scumbags outside her house trying to break windows and graffiting her garage door every damned night.

For gods sake man, get some perspective.
Im a smoker, and right, we cant in public places, but im as entitled to smoke in my house or garden as you are to sh1t in your toilet and open a window.

Lump

I dislike the scent of flowers. I think they should kill all flowers...

John

Dave

Now, I moved in a new house, a real paradise, except that my neighbours garden is spoiling it : Birds chirp in his garden, the chirping is going in my house inevitably!! Again this might sound silly but it actually woke me up at 1.30 am on sunday. It sounded like something was chirping in my room!

Kill all birds.

Beruthiel

Jeff Bond wrote:

Beruthiel, after second thought, I am not going to Iceland: THERE IS NO SMOKING BAN!

don't be so hasty, there are many places in Iceland which are miles from anywhere and no people!!

Plus I am not alone, my partner couldn't live without my moaning

perhaps you over estimate your partners tolerance on the moaning thingie??

I'm sure you drive at least 5 different people absolutly mental with things you do that you see no problem with.

a ban de donc

None of my habits damage one's health

unless you count mental stress, which can be quite damaging to ones health....

I'd be inclined to go with the vicks or air-freshener ideas myself, or stick some cotton wool up your nose

grumpytrousers

Dave wrote:

Now, I moved in a new house, a real paradise, except that my neighbours garden is spoiling it : Birds chirp in his garden, the chirping is going in my house inevitably!! Again this might sound silly but it actually woke me up at 1.30 am on sunday. It sounded like something was chirping in my room!

Kill all birds.

Wait till he has a barbeque...I used to barbeque meself, but gave up, and now can't stand to be anywhere near the fumes from them...

MorningStar

Jeff Bond wrote:

I don't think I have a problem : how would you feel if you were regularely woken up because of someone else? Angry I suppose. You maybe right when you say that I feel fear, I'd be afraid to go back smoking like before.
I don't feel addicted because if I don't smell smoke, I don't think about it for a fraction of a second. And when I smell it, I find it disgusting.

I don't think I made myself clear on one thing: it does smell like someone is smoking in the bedroom. I am not being fussy (this time)

Isn't the whole point that you have a problem with your neighbour smoking in his garden? If I was woken up every nigh due to a neighbour I wouldn't be happy but I would close my window if it was smell. How is the smoking getting into the house unless you have the window open or some other opeining to the house?

The reason it is so disgusting is because of what it did mean to you and what you made it become. As I said you aren't addicted you just have a hang up. As there are a lot of smokers about, you need to get used to it and get over your risidual smoking problem. There is no way the room smells like somebody is smoking in the room, it might smell a bit but not as much as somebody is actually smoking in the room. You are either exagerating intentionally or you are overreacting.

There is a reason why ex-smokers are considered the worst anti-smokers there is the anger they have for smoking due to fear of falling off the wagan and the smugness they have from beating an addiction.

Does smoke ever smell good to you? After a few drinks? After a long plane flight?

grumpytrousers

MorningStar wrote:

Isn't the whole point that you have a problem with your neighbour smoking in his garden? If I was woken up every nigh due to a neighbour I wouldn't be happy but I would close my window if it was smell. How is the smoking getting into the house unless you have the window open or some other opeining to the house?

The reason it is so disgusting is because of what it did mean to you and what you made it become. As I said you aren't addicted you just have a hang up. As there are a lot of smokers about, you need to get used to it and get over your risidual smoking problem. There is no way the room smells like somebody is smoking in the room, it might smell a bit but not as much as somebody is actually smoking in the room. You are either exagerating intentionally or you are overreacting.

There is a reason why ex-smokers are considered the worst anti-smokers there is the anger they have for smoking due to fear of falling off the wagan and the smugness they have from beating an addiction.

Does smoke ever smell good to you? After a few drinks? After a long plane flight?

"No whore like a reformed whore" (© somebody, years ago)

Wibbs

rubadub wrote:

Maybe you are a smoker and hence have a poor sense of smell and taste. I can smell smoke in my work window on the second floor about 50ft away from where people smoke. Women have a better sense of smell, my sister can smell smoke in the house several days after somebody has smoked in the garden.

May I respectfully suggest a career as a bloodhound as you and your sister seem more than adequately suited to the office.

To the OP, I agree with Morningstar on this. It sounds like you have issues with regard to your (ex)addiction. Your petulant responses to Morningstar and Corben Dallas only adds weight to that argument. The statement that you would be "afraid to go back smoking like before" says it all. You're afraid because you're still a smoker in your mind. You're the one with the problem, not your neighbour.

In fact if it makes you feel "bad physically and very very very bad mentally (i am ready to kill)", you have a lot more problems than you're admitting to. Reacting in such an extreme way to what is essentially nothing is hardly mentally healthy. An attitude like that will shorten your life way more than passive smoking ever would(for which the evidence is slim to nothing BTW, then again you don't want to hear that of course). I hope the rest of your life is so stress free that this is such a big issue for you. If not I feel for you and those around you.

Drexl Spivey

grumpytrousers wrote:

Wait till he has a barbeque...I used to barbeque meself, but gave up, and now can't stand to be anywhere near the fumes from them...

I wasn't addicted to barbecues fumes for 15 years and I doubt the man decides to make a barbecue at 1.30 am


I sound like I am the evil non-smoker who doesn't want to allow a poor man to smoke in his garden. The fact is that the man doesn't want to smoke in his own house probably because the smell is not acceptable. I assume this because he comes outside, light up, and get back inside.

So tell me my smoker friends : why is that you say I have a problem and I should live with it (smoke of someone else in my house) while you find perfectly acceptable that the guy who smokes doesn't allow his own fumes in his house.


As per the overreacting coment, I deny it. I am truely sensitive to smoke probably because I used to smoke for 15 years think about it.

You keep making comparisons with other annoyances and you can cope with them (wow you're real men and I am an overreacting little boy...), the fact is nobody was addicted to car fumes / barbecue fumes for 15 years!
All comparisons are pathetics

Actually, I accept the comparison with former alcoholics/drug addict
I am a former drug addict, I was a smoker.

Corben Dallas

Ex smoker, Reformed Alcoholic, Clean former Drug addict > they all have 'issues' concerning the ex habit, but they like to wail on ppl who enjoy these in moderatation.EDIT! didnt see yur last post b4 postin this

I would be a casual smoker(Cigars) lot of my my friends smoke, so its a social habit.
Passive smoking is a crock. plus in the 21st century we have ventlation systems that would work perfectly in pubs, I would accept ppl might have a prob with smoke but I'd prefer to have a choice rather than deal with anti smoking members of the 3rd reich.
+Yes I do a nice line in Boards retorts. I thank you.

karlh

He questions how many non-smokers there are in the audience, getting them to cheer, before altering perceptions with "What a bunch of whining maggots," nonchalantly pulling out a cigarette.

thelordofcheese

Jeff Bond wrote:

None of my habits damage one's health. (I admit, I chew gum and eat garlic!!)

If he's smoking in his garden, outside, then the only persons health he's damaging is his own.

And for crying out loud, it's not as if he climbs up to your window, with 20 B&H in hand, giggles like a fiend and starts smoking and exhaling heavily, just to annoy you. The wind just happens to be blowing that direction and carrying it towards you, if the diretion of the wind changed you'd have no issues at all.

Macker

You keep making comparisons with other annoyances and you can cope with them (wow you're real men and I am an overreacting little boy...), the fact is nobody was addicted to car fumes / barbecue fumes for 15 years!

And did your neighbour force feed you those cancer sticks for 15 yrs ?,NO ,I didn't think so.

Get a life