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Dave's trying to quit smoking.

I'm about ready to get on my knees and beg him to please, please, please go buy himself a pack of Camel Lights, spark one up and re-adjust his attitude.

I'm seriously considering a 'reverse intervention' where I go get him his nicotine fix and make him smoke it.

At this precise moment the threat of various cancers, emphysema and such seem far away...very, very far away.  It seems far more likely that I will do him some serious damage before the tobacco ever does.

He's curmudgeonly.  The only other person I have ever described using that word is our very own Bakerstreet...and my husband would blow him away in curmudgeonly-ness today.  Dave is grouchy, cranky, irritable, bad-tempered, short-tempered...name any negative emotion and that's how my husband has been today.  And yesterday.  And will be tomrrow, unless I can persuade him that now really isn't a good time to quit and that he ought to wait until he can get some professional help (read DRUGS).

Perhaps if I go smoke, it'll make him cave in and want one too......hmm....there's an idea.......

....I'll go see if that works.

 


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on Oct 17, 2004
gum him up!
on Oct 17, 2004

gum him up!


He won't chew it.  He tried it in the past and hated it....so now he refuses.


I'm just going to force him to smoke.  I'm going to handcuff him to the carport and blow smoke into his face until he gives in.

on Oct 17, 2004
Don't do it!

He'll be better in a few days and just think of that extra money you'll have!
on Oct 17, 2004
I don't know that he'll be better in a few days if his SO continues to smoke. My parents have never had any luck quitting while the other one was still smoking, even when they set down "No Smoke" zones.
on Oct 17, 2004
What about a patch? Nicorette smoking supplements.... Commit?
on Oct 17, 2004
I've been trying to get my wife to quit for years. You're not helping me here...
on Oct 17, 2004
Thankfully, mine quit before we met, but had a lapse while under the stress of DLI (and while at NTC). Still, quitsville. It's possible.
on Oct 17, 2004
Hey hey hey now. Calm down, relax, breathe in, breathe out. Okay? You calm? Your husband shouldnt stop right away saying today i smoke tomorrow i quit. It isnt good for you because of his behaviour but it could be seriously harmful for himself (and i'm not talking about you kicking the sh** outta him!). An article was published in the New England Journal several years ago sayin that if one quits smokin in 1 day it puts your entire body in shock which causes this unbearable behaviour and could also bring on ulcerative colitis, or in another words, uncontrollable diarrhea which could leave him messing his cloths without bein able to make it to the toilet. So for you & your husband's sake, get him to quit slowly. if he's intake of cigarettes is say 15 a day (average) next week get it to 10 a day. the week after 9 a day. Til it gets to one, to nothing. I hope this works.
on Oct 17, 2004
First week's the worst, just one week.......then he'll just be really tired for a month and start gaining weight......
on Oct 17, 2004

I don't know that he'll be better in a few days if his SO continues to smoke

I quit.  I quit over a month ago....just didn't feel like it anymore. I have half a pack of stale ones sitting in the drawer that i was going to light up and tempt him with.....

History: He tried the patch, didn't like it on it's own, but with Zyban added he was fine.

Gurl: thanks for the info...I'll pass that on!

SNS: Yeah, we've been through this a time or two before.  He never gained weight though.....

 

on Oct 17, 2004
Sorry that it sounded accusatory. You referenced blowing smoke in his face... I suppose it was an assumption on my part. Mea Culpa.

I think that should help, though. Hits him in his pride if you could quit and he couldn't...
on Oct 17, 2004

I suppose it was an assumption on my part. Mea Culpa.

Pas de problem, mon ami......

And I didn't.  Neither did he. 

I wish he would, though....

on Oct 18, 2004
What is it with houswives making death threats against their husbands and others at JoeU? Geez, you and Grand Wizard Sheets should just take a vacation in Canada where killing your husband is legal (google Dorothy Joudrey). Collect the life insurance and blog happily ever after.

OK seriously, making death threats like the title of your post is clearly and unambiguously against the law. I know of at least one guy who got arrested for saying 'Death to Bush!' on an online forum and I'm sure there are many more; your death threat/blog title is more specific than that. Grand Sheets has made a similar 'I want to kill my husband' thread, not to mention threatening to shoot Sir Pete and illegally hack his site.

Indeed, JoeUser has become a haven for those who enjoy making death threats on the internet; I wonder what the legal consequences are for a corporation that advocates - indeed encourages - its users to make death threats on its own website.

You can bet that if a guy wrote a 'My wife watches shitty reality TV shows and I want to kill her' that there would be a good chance he would be charged with uttering death threats. Not to mention the howling of the cybersisters to contend with.

You can bet if a man threatened to shoot a woman at this site you, Dharma, would probably be the first to put on your cop hat and try to get the guy arrested.

You can bet if I posted 'Bush's fiscal policy is stupid and I want to kill him' that the fuzz would be at my door in a nanosecond.

I don't really believe you want to kill your husband, of course, nor do I think you should be jailed. I just feel this blog title is another example of the law - and societal norms - not applying to certain members of our society. I'll bet there are many more men in jail in America over *false* accusations of death threats than there are women in jail for real, actual death threats. In any case, blog titles like this do nothing to bridge the ever widening gulf between the sexes, and expose the proprietor of this site to legal liabilities.

Yours, etc.
David St. Hubbins

on Oct 18, 2004

You know, David, I knew when i posted this that one of your ilk would slink on over here and give me crap about it.

There is a big difference between what i wrote in the title of this article and saying that Jews should be gassed....but then, that doesnt siut your purpose here, now does it?  Hmm?  You use what you want to use, when you want to use it, and you ignore the rest....just as the majority of the populus does.  You are no better than anyone else, David, in fact I'd say that you are worse.  I admit my shortcomings.  You do not.

I think that you have a real nerve coming here...especially after you wrote me that begging email when you were exiled from here the first time, stroking my ego by telling me that you thought I was open minded and asking me to post articles for you.   Do you remember that?  I do. I saved it actually, I thought that it might come in handy one day. 

You know, this was working.  I was leaving you and your gang alone....it's a shame that you can't do the same to me.  I think that very telling of the kind of person, the kind of people you are.

Oh, and I'm copyrighting all of my articles.  Just so you know.

on Oct 18, 2004
I can't believe it.... I sense that clown phalli are about to come out.



For Dave,
Make him sit.
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