Allergies?

Just an interesting observation, and mainly because I'm trying to worm
my way onto the top 10 posters list.

I went to visit some friends who are both big smokers last night. They
smoke outside but I tagged along. A puff or two drifted in the general
direction of my face but I didn't want to say EEEEWWW and fan the air,
so I didn't do anything.

By the time I got home, not only could I (yuck) smell it on my shirt,
my head was stopped up (I think my sinuses were swelling) and my eyes
were watering.

Now, I've had pretty bad allergies all my life. I just find it so
interesting that I react to this so strongly now when I used to dump
this shit into my system ALL THE TIME.

I am SO GLAD I have quit the patches and CT'd it. It has been a week
today and it's been the easiest week I've had since deciding to quit
back at the beginning of April. I can even be around smokers now and
not smoke, something that was really hard for me before. I think for
me the trick was getting the nicotine OUT of my system. It's a
powerful incentive not to smoke, because I know that if I take a puff
off of one of those shit sticks, it's another 72 hours of withdrawal.
And I've already seen that movie and don't want to see it again.

I was just wondering if any of you guys had some allergy stories like
mine. I just think it's interesting that now I notice so much when I'm
around smoke. Makes me wonder if I was walking around constantly
having an allergy attack before!

Hugs. Hope everybody is having a good weekend (and all our friends in
the UK are safe and sound? What's up with that shit over there??)


Ashley

My allergies get worse all around when I stop smoking. Cats, dogs,
smoke... you name it - they all get worse. Seems smoking has a way of
suppressing the allergic reactions I've had all along.

Gary W.
--

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:03:50 -0700, writer272002
<writer272002@gmail.com> wrote:

>Just an interesting observation, and mainly because I'm trying to worm
>my way onto the top 10 posters list.
>
>I went to visit some friends who are both big smokers last night. They
>smoke outside but I tagged along. A puff or two drifted in the general
>direction of my face but I didn't want to say EEEEWWW and fan the air,
>so I didn't do anything.
>
>By the time I got home, not only could I (yuck) smell it on my shirt,
>my head was stopped up (I think my sinuses were swelling) and my eyes
>were watering.
>
>Now, I've had pretty bad allergies all my life. I just find it so
>interesting that I react to this so strongly now when I used to dump
>this shit into my system ALL THE TIME.
>
>I am SO GLAD I have quit the patches and CT'd it. It has been a week
>today and it's been the easiest week I've had since deciding to quit
>back at the beginning of April. I can even be around smokers now and
>not smoke, something that was really hard for me before. I think for
>me the trick was getting the nicotine OUT of my system. It's a
>powerful incentive not to smoke, because I know that if I take a puff
>off of one of those shit sticks, it's another 72 hours of withdrawal.
>And I've already seen that movie and don't want to see it again.
>
>I was just wondering if any of you guys had some allergy stories like
>mine. I just think it's interesting that now I notice so much when I'm
>around smoke. Makes me wonder if I was walking around constantly
>having an allergy attack before!
>
>Hugs. Hope everybody is having a good weekend (and all our friends in
>the UK are safe and sound? What's up with that shit over there??)
>
>
>Ashley

Mine are more than twice as bad since I quit. Skin and sinuses. My
supposed, "allergic asthma", got tremendously better though, and only
have to use my escape?puffer a few times a week, versus, a few times a
day. Makes ME wonder WTF was coming out of those stinkies. I use
reactine and beconaise? nasal spray and it's not enough. Sometimes I
would rather flush my head down a toilet than deal with these allergies,
(provided of course, that I would get relief!)

Jbeth.
I quit smoking 11/18/2006.


riter272002 <writer272002@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1183244630.362082.222820@q75g2000hsh.googlegr oups.com:

> Just an interesting observation, and mainly because I'm trying to worm
> my way onto the top 10 posters list.
>
> I went to visit some friends who are both big smokers last night. They
> smoke outside but I tagged along. A puff or two drifted in the general
> direction of my face but I didn't want to say EEEEWWW and fan the air,
> so I didn't do anything.
>
> By the time I got home, not only could I (yuck) smell it on my shirt,
> my head was stopped up (I think my sinuses were swelling) and my eyes
> were watering.
>
> Now, I've had pretty bad allergies all my life. I just find it so
> interesting that I react to this so strongly now when I used to dump
> this shit into my system ALL THE TIME.
>
> I am SO GLAD I have quit the patches and CT'd it. It has been a week
> today and it's been the easiest week I've had since deciding to quit
> back at the beginning of April. I can even be around smokers now and
> not smoke, something that was really hard for me before. I think for
> me the trick was getting the nicotine OUT of my system. It's a
> powerful incentive not to smoke, because I know that if I take a puff
> off of one of those shit sticks, it's another 72 hours of withdrawal.
> And I've already seen that movie and don't want to see it again.
>
> I was just wondering if any of you guys had some allergy stories like
> mine. I just think it's interesting that now I notice so much when I'm
> around smoke. Makes me wonder if I was walking around constantly
> having an allergy attack before!
>
> Hugs. Hope everybody is having a good weekend (and all our friends in
> the UK are safe and sound? What's up with that shit over there??)
>
>
> Ashley
>

I have to agree about allergies. Mine went through the roof this
spring and even though I am taking Nasonax, my doctor had to add in
Claritin which helped a lot. I was sneezing and coughing so much I
was afraid I might have something else. Goes to show that smoking
does nothing at all good for a person's health.

FlatironMike
FSS
Four months, two weeks, six days, 11 hours, 3 minutes and 55 seconds.
2809 cigarettes not smoked, saving $842.51. Life saved: 1 week, 2
days, 18 hours, 5 minutes.

I agree, the past 3 years I've had an awful time in the spring when the oak
trees are spreading their pollen, something that never bothered me when I
was a smoker. I do think the smoking keeps your immune system busy
protecting your body and it doesn't have any resources left to react to
other, lesser irritants.

Anne D. - VOF+8


"Gary W" <jd123_marquez@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2gfe831g9udcolb76jiouhf6aeg35a07jm@4ax.com...
> My allergies get worse all around when I stop smoking. Cats, dogs,
> smoke... you name it - they all get worse. Seems smoking has a way of
> suppressing the allergic reactions I've had all along.
>
> Gary W.

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:03:50 -0700, writer272002
<writer272002@gmail.com> wrote:

>Just an interesting observation, and mainly because I'm trying to worm
>my way onto the top 10 posters list.
>
>I went to visit some friends who are both big smokers last night. They
>smoke outside but I tagged along. A puff or two drifted in the general
>direction of my face but I didn't want to say EEEEWWW and fan the air,
>so I didn't do anything.
>
>By the time I got home, not only could I (yuck) smell it on my shirt,
>my head was stopped up (I think my sinuses were swelling) and my eyes
>were watering.
>
>Now, I've had pretty bad allergies all my life. I just find it so
>interesting that I react to this so strongly now when I used to dump
>this shit into my system ALL THE TIME.
>
>I am SO GLAD I have quit the patches and CT'd it. It has been a week
>today and it's been the easiest week I've had since deciding to quit
>back at the beginning of April. I can even be around smokers now and
>not smoke, something that was really hard for me before. I think for
>me the trick was getting the nicotine OUT of my system. It's a
>powerful incentive not to smoke, because I know that if I take a puff
>off of one of those shit sticks, it's another 72 hours of withdrawal.
>And I've already seen that movie and don't want to see it again.
>
>I was just wondering if any of you guys had some allergy stories like
>mine. I just think it's interesting that now I notice so much when I'm
>around smoke. Makes me wonder if I was walking around constantly
>having an allergy attack before!

I haven't any allergy stories because I'm allergic to nothing (that I
know of) - not even mosquito bites (they bite but I don't get itchy
bumps). OK there was something growing along the Santa Ana Freeway
near the 17th St exit in Orange back in 1965 and 1966 that caused me a
sneezy, stuffed up episode once in each of those two years. That was
it.
Sue - allergy free in the allergy capital of the world or at least the
US or, anyway, California and damned glad of it

>
>Hugs. Hope everybody is having a good weekend (and all our friends in
>the UK are safe and sound? What's up with that shit over there??)
>
>
>Ashley

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:03:50 -0700, writer272002
<writer272002@gmail.com> wrote:

>I was just wondering if any of you guys had some allergy stories like
>mine. I just think it's interesting that now I notice so much when I'm
>around smoke. Makes me wonder if I was walking around constantly
>having an allergy attack before!

I've never had allergies (knock on wood!!!) but my reaction to smoke
after quitting was pretty much the same as yours. I know there have
been times I didn't have the grace to NOT wrinkle up my nose and/or
fan the air. It almost seems like a gut reaction right now, but I
find the smoke I used to produce to heavily now irritates the living
daylights out of me.

One of the best parts of not smoking, for me, is knowing that I no
longer stink like the bottom of a dirty ashtray. I'm still mortified
to know that I walked around for so many years stinking.

--
BessieBee

"OK, so what's the speed of dark?"
Steven Wright

I know, Bessie! Me too. I NEVER liked to smell like smoke, even when I
was smoking (and I know I must have, sometimes if not most of the
time). Now, I just can't stand it at all. I could not WAIT to get that
shirt off the other night, and I thanked God that I had my hair up so
it wouldn't smell too bad.

On the allergies, thanks for the input. I definitely think there is
something to the theory that while you're smoking it suppresses the
allergic effects, probably because of what you guys said -- your
immune system is busy dealing with other things.

Oh well. I will say that on the whole my sinuses are *much* better,
even if the allergies are more sensitive. I always said I was probably
the only smoker in the world who was allergic to cigarette smoke, so
my body was probably in emergency mode all the time when I was
smoking ....


Ashley

I forgot this Ashley, My sinuses are way better, (despite the allergies)
before I could barely breathe through my nose, I was almost a mouth
breather, eeeck, and I even considered getting surgery to enlarge my
nostrils, but when I quit, my nose/sinuses cleared right up and I
breathe thru my nose all the time now! Now that was a huge relief, and
it happend by the third day of my quit!

Jbeth.
I quit smoking 11/18/2006.


writer272002 <writer272002@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1183310038.045243.243740@q69g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com:

> I know, Bessie! Me too. I NEVER liked to smell like smoke, even when I
> was smoking (and I know I must have, sometimes if not most of the
> time). Now, I just can't stand it at all. I could not WAIT to get that
> shirt off the other night, and I thanked God that I had my hair up so
> it wouldn't smell too bad.
>
> On the allergies, thanks for the input. I definitely think there is
> something to the theory that while you're smoking it suppresses the
> allergic effects, probably because of what you guys said -- your
> immune system is busy dealing with other things.
>
> Oh well. I will say that on the whole my sinuses are *much* better,
> even if the allergies are more sensitive. I always said I was probably
> the only smoker in the world who was allergic to cigarette smoke, so
> my body was probably in emergency mode all the time when I was
> smoking ....
>
>
> Ashley
>
>