Smoking...all I can ask is...why?- Page 4
Smoking...all I can ask is...why?
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#75
Posted: 5/9/05 at 12:46pmDoes Wellbutrin work ok in helping to quit?
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#76
Posted: 5/9/05 at 12:48pmcab, Zyban is wellbutrin.........you actually start it while still smoking (as I recall) and by the time you stop completely 9about a week) it's totally in your system. I could not believe I was happy, and not smoking.......it was bizarre as I kept expecting to be unhappy....lol
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#77
Posted: 5/9/05 at 1:00pmOh it is? Ok, great. I *almost* told my friend not to quit right now b/c he just got promoted and is already as frazzled as it is. I was afraid of side effects that would intensify that. But I feel better now that you've said that, thanks. I hope he's serious this time. And it will be nice not to come home smelling and tasting like smoke.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#78
Posted: 5/9/05 at 2:02pm
>>"...and when and if you are ready, you'll quit. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks..."<<
So true. I've smoked for years. I have now been smoke-free for 3 weeks. I intend to keep it that way.
Broadway Star Joined: 9/12/04
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#79
Posted: 5/9/05 at 3:24pmWhile exiting the theatre two weeks ago, my 13 year old daughter was surprised to see cast members huddled around the stage door, taking deep drags on their cigarettes. I didn't have an answer for her when she pondered why the would do such damage to their bodies..... Actually, I was really wondering how they could bankroll such an expensive habit on the on again-off again salary of an actor!!!!
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#80
Posted: 5/9/05 at 3:29pm
Have you ever stood outside a dance studio?
Even when I smoked "regularly", I could never smoke right after class. Yet some people would run outside and light up still in their sweaty dance clothes.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#81
Posted: 5/12/05 at 8:54am
Trend: You smoke? You're fired!
By Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY
More companies are taking action against employees who smoke off-duty, and, in an extreme trend that some call troubling, some are now firing or banning the hiring of workers who light up even on their own time.
The outright bans raise new questions about how far companies can go in regulating workers' behavior when they are off the clock. The crackdown is coming in part as a way to curb soaring health care costs, but critics say companies are violating workers' privacy rights. The zero-tolerance policies are coming as more companies adopt smoke-free workplaces.
• Weyco, a medical benefits provider based in Okemos, Mich., this year banned employees from smoking on their own time. Employees must submit to random tests that detect if someone has smoked. They must also agree to searches of briefcases, purses or other belongings if company officials suspect tobacco or other banned substances have been brought on-site. Those who smoke may be suspended or fired.
About 20 employees have quit smoking under the policy, and a handful were fired after they opted out of the testing. "The main goal is to elevate the health status of our employees," says Gary Climes, chief financial officer.
• At Investors Property Management in Seattle, smokers are not hired. Employees who smoked before the ban was passed about two years ago are not fired; however, they can't get medical insurance through the company.
• Alaska Airlines has a no-smoking policy for employees, and new hires must submit to a urine test to prove they're tobacco-free.
"The debate has gone from where they can smoke to whether they can smoke," says Marshall Tanick, a Minneapolis-based employment lawyer.
Such bans are not legal everywhere: More than 20 states have passed laws that bar companies from discriminating against workers for lifestyle decisions.
There are other ways that companies are taking action against off-duty smoking, such as raising health care premiums for smokers.
Employers say it's about creating a healthy workforce. But it's also a bottom-line issue: Tobacco causes more than 440,000 deaths annually and results in more than $75 billion in direct medical costs a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Some smokers' rights groups are vowing legal action.
"These matters will be decided in the courts," says Redmond, Wash.-based Norman Kjono, with Forces, a smokers' rights group. "You're creating a class of unemployable citizens. It won't stand."
And legal experts fear companies will try to control other aspects of employees' off-duty lifestyle, a trend that is already happening. Some companies are firing, suspending or charging higher insurance premiums to workers who are overweight, have high cholesterol or participate in risky activities.
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#82
Posted: 5/12/05 at 10:24amcongrats marquise!
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#83
Posted: 5/12/05 at 10:26amwow DGrant, I didn't know that. Not sure if I agree (and I'm a nonsmoker) if a company has that right....but they DO have the right to charge more for medical. People who smoke in my company pay a higher premium.....and that I agree with. But even though I detest smoking, not sure if I want Big Brother telling people what they can do on their own time. It starts with smoking......and who knows what's next
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#84
Posted: 5/12/05 at 4:33pm
Why can't adults who choose to smoke do so and not be treated like criminals? It's ridiculous the way that some people get up on their high horse when it comes to smoking. Nobody is holding a gun to your head saying, "If you don't smoke this cigarette, I'll kill you." For those of us over 18, smoking is perfectly legal.
*descends soapbox*
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#85
Posted: 5/12/05 at 6:11pm
it's a huge stress reliever/break enhancer during finals time..
...if you'll all excuse me, i need to go outside...
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#86
Posted: 5/12/05 at 7:50pm
Good luck on keeping smoke free Marquise. I support you.
At school a lot of movies I watch in Health class say that the reason people smoke (and the reasons teenagers start smoking) is because they have issues that they don't wanna face so they drown it out in smoking. I may have issues but none that that's deep to make me smoke.
re: Smoking...all I can ask is...why?#87
Posted: 5/12/05 at 7:58pmIt drives me crazy, I literally have to hold my breathe when I pass someone smoking because I can't handle it. I have a bunch of friends who smoke and I have yelled "You're taking 7 minutes off your life!" when they went off to smoke. I hate fifteen/sixteen year olds. I only have two friends who I understand why they would smoke and that makes it worse to me because I want to talk to them about their problems and help them.
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