I'm 30, and I still hide my smoking habit from my mother.

[Beware the Beast Man]

I'm going home to Pittsburgh this evening for the Thanksgiving holiday, and I made sure to stop and pick up a bottle of Febreeze to cover up the smoky smell on my clothes. Anyone else here hiding vices from their folks?

[meegbear]

1. Oh good gravy!

Be a (Beast) man!

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. It's my Mommy,

I don't want to upset her :evilfrown:

[Richardo]

7. My sister-in-law is over 40 and hides her smoking habit from her mom...

...who would flay her alive if she knew. (One of the original 'earth mothers')

[stinkeefresh]

28. I can beat that.

My mother is over 50 and she hides her smoking from her mother, who is in her late seventies.

I don't smoke. Tobacco, anyway.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. If you can ever find it, Garrison Keillor has a great "Tales From Lake

Wobegone" tape about children coming home for the holidays...stubbing out the last cigarette five miles away and so on. You just made me think of it. If you can find it, you'll giggle your way all the way home. :hi: Safe trip.

[fluffernutter]

15. ahh, memories from my childhood -that tape is so funny!

[sniffa]

4. i do too

sorta. i know my famiLy gets upset, and whenever they see me smoking they give me frowns whiLe excLaiming, "you smoke!?"

i mostLy hide it from my dad - i hate to ever have him disappointed in me.

[skypilot]

16. Yet another cute thing about you.

You just get cuter all the time.

[sniffa]

23. i exude cuteness

it's coming out of my pores.

ps: thanks. :loveya:

[rbnyc]

5. Why not quit?

;-)

If you don't want her to know, deep down, you probably don't want to be doing it.

[Beware the Beast Man]

11. I've tried, over and over

This week wasn't successful either...

[MuseRider]

26. Keep trying

you will eventually get it and feel oh so much better in many ways. I NEVER wanted to quit, I loved smoking. I got really good at sneaking it because everyone thought I had quit. This was many years ago. I had a real problem when my brother was ill, it threw me over the deep end and I started up just briefly. Get some of those lozenges, they work but then they are hard to get off of but you can do it. You might want to give them a try while visiting. Then you will know if they help or not and they are too expensive to throw away so you might just use them up and then think about really giving it up.

[rbnyc]

29. It's hard...

...but each time you try you're closer to the time that will work. My best friend tried to quit a million times and I really thought she was hopeless, but she finally did it. It's been almost a year.

I quit 6 years ago, with a month long relapse after 9/11/01. :(

[Not_Giving_Up]

6. How funny, my mom is 54 and hides her smoking habit

(or tries to) from all of us. It doesn't work very well. She was going in for a triple bypass a few years ago, and when asked if she smoked, she told them no. My stepdad pulled the nurse to the side and told her the truth.

[NaturalHigh]

8. Been There

I don't hide it from my family anymore, but I still go out of my way not to smoke around them. I'm 34 and have been smoking since I was 19.

[VolcanoJen]

9. Don't forget the scented lotion!

Just after washing your hands, it's good to use some nice lotion, and run it through your hair quickly.

Hair is always the giveaway, in my experience. :D

[tigereye]

10. you should just quit! ;)

My husband and I smoked for years, we quit for good when our kid was born 8 years ago. I still miss clove cigarettes, though, every now and then. Although not smoking makes it hard to tolerate clubs, I can tell you.

I haven't hidden anything from my parents since high school. My mom is from the "you need at least one vice" school. :)

[tridim]

12. That's what Commit Lozenges are for.

I stock up every time I visit the parents.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

13. My mother is not aware of my relationship with Onin

:evilgrin:

[Beware the Beast Man]

17. Wow, you must have been a stealth teenager.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. I showered often

[Richardo]

22. That's what YOU think.

I've found that we're not as clever as we think we are, when it comes to our parents.

[Nevernose]

14. I hide my smoking habit from my mother, too

She knows about it, but it upsets her if she can smell it on my clothes (which is a gross smell anyway) or see it. I walk around the block and use Febreeze and cologne when I'm around her. Just courtesy. Why would I upset her if I didn't have to? Is walking around the block to smoke a cigarette really that much to ask?

[Elidor]

18. She knows anyway

Do you really think she doesn't? You're only fooling yourself.

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. Oh, she knows, I just don't want to hear about it.

She'll lecture my wife, too, so at least I'm no longer alone.

[CornField]

19. Having semi-recently puffed my last ciggy, I've come to a conclusion

All of those people I thought I was fooling? No way in hell I was actually doing it. Now that my sense of smell has come back, I can tell a smoker from three arm lengths away -- and it really does stink.

Not only that, but I've had to pull clothing out of my closet and re-wash it. Towels, sheets, blankets, curtains and a whole bunch of other stuff too. Even tho I was only smoking in my bathroom with the window open, my entire house smelled like an ashtray. The scent sticks to your clothing and to everything else around you.

[freedom_to_read]

i'll put that down on the list

of things I don't miss about smoking. I always had to hide it from my parents too, especially my dad (his dad died from smoking).

Whoo hoo, 11 months smoke-free now and just getting better. You should try it!

(smug...)

[underpants]

24. My wife still does that too

:smoke:

[Worst Username Ever]

25. I am 28 and do the same thing.

[2Design]

27. if you smoke you stink and can not hide it - people know - come

out of the closet - they can smell it on your hair, clothes and breath - it is every where

[rbnyc]

30. Story:

I used to smoke and was home visiting my dad. I was so ashamed, I would hide out in my old bedroom and smoke by the window. Finally, my dad said, y'know, if you want to smoke pot in the house, it's really ok with me. I told him I wasn't smoking pot, I was smoking cigarettes. He said, what, are you an idiot?

;-)

[Jack_Dawson]

31. Why do you smoke? That's disgusting

Not like I didn't use to do the exact same disgusting thing. Quitting was easy though. :shrug: