These thoughts happened just today:

 

While golfing with my Dad:

 

"I am SO grateful I can golf for a couple hours with my Dad and not force him to see me smoke.  He hated that I smoked! It was NOT enjoyable to smoke around him!"

 

Driving and considering my plans for the next day:

 

"Maybe my friend and I can go to the beach tomorrow if the weather is nice.  Ohh, I would like to smoke with her for the ride down - - it will be hard to drive with a smoker to the beach."

 

There it is-  the flip and the flop! (shouts out to bakon)

 

But I concluded thus:

 

If we fully consider our new smoke free lives we will see how many cigarettes we never wanted to smoke.  There were a bazillion hours where it sucked to be a smoker - where the habit was simply an exhausting compulsion.  These times far out span those rare moments when smoking was a positive addition to our experiences.  Surely there will be times in life where we wish we could be a smoker for just a couple hours - - - where we wish we could have just 1 or 2. THAT FANTASY IS USELESS...moderation does not exist for us.  

 

Never take another puff.

Teary, that's a great post!!!  LURVE the expression "the flip and the flop"! 

 

I'm the same, but, after my big quit, I never smoked INside, or IN the car, or anywhere enclosed actually... just on my balcony..

PRIOR to my that, I'd smoke IN the shower!!! Yes! sounds absurd! it was!

 

So, I HEAR YOU!!! I'm dreading my friend coming, she's a 60+ a day smoker, :help:  and sits outside CONTINUOUSLY!

My advice is not to allow anyone to smoke inside your car, (nothing you can do about theirs) or your home!!!

 

Paid for my car battery yesterday, so there's the "flip"... :P

Loved the golfing story. I bet your Dad was mighty pleased.  No parent likes to see their kid smoke.

 

Beware! Mr. Bakon might be round to issue you a window licker stamp of disapproval for romancing the thought of smoking on the way to the beach...

Thank you TEW... that is an awesome post... we know we can never have just one without the rest... yuk!

TEW, what a post! :)

All of it rings true. I love when I do things with my non smoker friends because I am no longer having to be "that person". You know, the one who is constantly having to stop the fun because I need to go and be an addict. In Savannah none of my friends (all one of them, lol) are smokers. I am going to be around some friends who are smokers this summer though.

My family and I are taking a road trip up the coast to visit friends and family. At least two of the people that we will be staying with are smokers. I am not too worried about it because the smell repulses me. (I can't believe that I used to smell like that, ugh).

The flip always outweighs the flop, go to the beach by Just take regular stops for friend while you sit inside got to enjoy the flips :)