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*nods* I think I want to try to figure out something a little more unique...like, Ellie came up with the idea of being my friend Jere--he's a big bear of a gay man that teaches high school. So she's thinking about getting fake tattoos and wearing leather pants and a high school yearbook camp t-shirt (he's the Yearbook Adviser). |
I always find fat firemen disappointing...since they are always depected as being super hot so when you see some that aren't...you just want to cry. Or at least I do. >.> My city is sadly full of unattractive firemen. </3 They probably couldn't even save themselves from burning buildings let alone other people. [/mean]
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OOO Mel, that's a good idea, overweight fire/police person--and I can carry a box of donuts with me! Or, if a fireperson, I can carry a pack of cigarettes (same can go for a nurse). |
you know a smoking nurse might be funny. xD I could never understand why a nurse or a dr would continue to smoke after going through medical school and seeing all of the crap that smoking causes, and yet they do! I refuse to be seen by a doctor that smokes, if they don't care about their health I can't trust them to take care of mine. <3
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xD smoking doctor or nurse. xD
I agree mel, that sounds dangerous to have some who doesn't care about themselves look after you. o.o |
When my ex was going through nursing school, all her friends, and allt eh nurses she worked with, smoked. It's amazing. |
ewww. :/
that's just wrong. |
It is! I have no idea how they are able to do it. Being a former smoker myself, I know how hard it is to quit, but still... |
I could pull off the smoking nurse with all the scrubs my roommate has and I could pull off the fat fire/police person if I had the right uniform.
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Yeah, the police/fireperson will be tough because i want to keep this cheap--as cheap as humanly possible. |
maybe they just need help to quit.
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I'm sure that's mostly it. It's VERY difficult. |
you would think they would be trying to quit then. >.<
Military smoking is another thing that gets to me though. You are not allowed to smoke in boot camp. It is forbidden, all of your clothes/belongings are taken from you when you get to the camp and are replated with military issue stuff. Your packages from home can't include food of any sort, all mail gets opened with sergents present (also no risque photos are allowed). But that is 8 weeks with out smoking, it takes what 6 weeks to break a habit? So many people could quit just by doing that. They have no access to it what so ever, and yet... right after graduation they go down and pick up some cigarettes! Why? Why? Why? D: Obviously I am an anti smoker. >.> it smells bad, looks bad, and being around it makes me sick. |
Mel, they do it because while the habit is medically broken, it's not mentally broken. They only do it because they know they are able to go right back to smoking when it's all over. I think for many people, that thinking gets them through the cravings. |
therapy sessions then!
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I hear that!!
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They'll break the habit <3
somehow. :3 |
If they really want to, they will. |
Maybe my problem is not being able to understand why they don't want to quit. Honestly, if cigarettes came out now a days the FDA would never allow it, it causes cancer, mouth problems, lung problems etcetc the list goes on, they would be banned. Why someone starts smoking is beyond me, and why they wouldn't want to quit is even further from my grasp. xD
Of course, you're also talking to the girl that doesn't put random drugs into her body even for colds because I know my body can handle it. >.> so I might not be the best person to talk about it with. xD |
HEHEHE, no worries Mel. Addiction is a strange thing. I can speak about it a little because I smoked for almost 10 years, and still do on occasion. Even if you WANT to stop, it's really difficult because your body craves it. Nicotine aside, it's a craving for the feeling you get from smoking, the habit of having something in your hand/mouth, something to do. Even though nicotine is a stimulant, the act of inhaling the smoke makes you take deeper breaths which does do some good for the body. You THINK you're getting calmer, so you do. There is also the fear of failure and the fear of the negative side affects of quitting--gaining weight, anxiety, etc. Those fears, no matter how subconscious are still affecting your ultimate decision. Even after some time not smoking, the craving is there--it will always be there, because that is the nature of addiction. Even if you can control it (like, I can have a couple of cigarettes while I'm drinking and then not have another one for months), it's still present. |
That makes sense.
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*nods* it does.
Addiction is strange indeed. |
*stops in to give Eternal some love*
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I can't stand smoking but I can understand addiction. I can't for the life of me give up caffeine. I'm really bad about it. It would help my infertility to stop drinking it but even though I really want a baby I can't seem to quit. Sometimes addictions just get their claws in you and it really hurts to pull them out. Perhaps, like me, some people are more afraid of that pain than the harmful or gross side effects of their addiction.
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I gave up caffeine when I got pregnant with Kura, and haven't bothered with it since. xD I'll have a coke or a cup of coffee on occassion but I refuse to go through caffeine headaches again. xD Those are the worst.
I think the headaches are what caused me to want to stop completely, because I just couldn't stand to think that my body thought it 'needed' something when it didn't. |
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