Is anyone in YT a smoker???

[RMKC]

I allways smoke outside !

[shirlblack]

I also just saw it. I don't smoke but having a dog with CT, I definitely think it affects pets. Scooter just took his last antibiotic and another med today because he had a really bad episode last week. He would wake up during the night gasping for breath. I think it's getting worse the older he gets.

My Mother was a smoker and like the other poster, I tried it as a teen but it made me so dizzy. I learned to inhale because my friends did it. I would sit there like nothing was wrong but the room was moving. LOL. No, it wasn't for me and I didn't do ir for long.

[AprilLove]

I haven't read past your second post. But that one made me have to respond. First, don't take it personally if you don't get a lot of replies! YT has grown leaps and bounds since I joined in March of '06 and it is isn;'t uncommon to not log on for two days and see there have been 2000 new posts!!! We all have posts that get overlooked, or driven into the black hole of the second page, lol.

I am not a smoker any more. Quit in 1990 after 18 years of smoking, before I ever adopted my first furry boy. But I will say, that if I did smoke, just like children, I would never smoke in my home with them in it. I would go outside. No one is allowed to smoke in my home, ever.

[mayers]

Originally Posted by nydia

You are sooo lucky you never picked up the habit I sooo want to quit but it is extra hard, I tell you what though I used to go through a pack of cigarettes every three days, now a pack last about a week and a half but by the end of the second week whatever is left in the pack I have to throw away because they are stale, little by little I'm trying to ween myself off cigarettes, I can't stand the smell of cigarette smoke.

Try Chantrix (prescription) I've been using it and it totally blocks the nicotine receptors in your brain so what's the use. Eventually you get tired of trying and you quit, it's working wonders for me and I have been smoking since I was 12 and I am 43. I have always smoked around my dogs and never noticed any problems. My Dachsunds lived to be 17 and 16 but that's no excuse. You probably should not smoke around them anyway. If your friend wants to I guess that's her business.
Melissa and Rambeau

[sammiz]

Originally Posted by mayers

Try Chantrix (prescription) I've been using it and it totally blocks the nicotine receptors in your brain so what's the use. Eventually you get tired of trying and you quit, it's working wonders for me and I have been smoking since I was 12 and I am 43. I have always smoked around my dogs and never noticed any problems. My Dachsunds lived to be 17 and 16 but that's no excuse. You probably should not smoke around them anyway. If your friend wants to I guess that's her business.
Melissa and Rambeau

I tried to get a script for Chantix because it worked really well for my best friend's husband. My doctor wouldn't prescribe it for me. He wants me to quit cold turkey which I have never been able to do. If I was a junkie (heroin) he would probably help me get on methadone (sp?) but no help from him with quitting smoking. He wanted to give me the patch, I don't know why. I can't use it anyway because I have tried it before and it causes me to have blazing color nightmares. No thanks. During these nightmares I feel feel like I am awake and it is all very vivid and totally...well...nightmarish.

[I Miss Shelby]

Originally Posted by nydia

The reason I got upset to begin with was that right after I posted this, someone else posted about teapot ears and got 44 answers meanwhile I'm still waiting for one answer, not to be funny but I believe this post is a way more serious post that needed serious answers than the teapot ear thingy. I just want to prove a point to my friend i surely will be letting her read all of these post so she can see I'm not just being paranoid, it's common sense. I just needed back up now I got it, as soon as I get out of work I will show her this post, oh yeah I am at work, working til 5:30 but I still find time to check out yorkie talk and answer post and to put up post. AGAIN THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR BACKING ME UP MY FRIEND WILL HEAR FROM EVERYBODY AS SOON AS i GET OUT OF WORK, I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET HER TO JOIN YORKIE TALK SO ALL OF YOU CAN GET ON HER CASE WITH ME

Hey, Nadia. Look again. The "teapot ears" thread was first posted on 3-09-08 and only had about 7 responses today after 2PM. You really do need to realize that if everybody read every single post, we wouldn't get any work done. For myself, I was burying my cat in the garden at the time you posted. So unless it's an emergency (ie. need help ASAP) please try to be alittle more patient
As a cardiac nurse who sees the effects of nicotine on the heart every day that I work, IMO, smoking is bad first, second or any other hand. My animals are my babies and I wouldn't smoke around them either.

[ScootieBootie]

I don't smoke, buy my dad does. He never smokes around his dog (a large lab) nor does he smoke around us.

I would think the smoking would have an effect on the dog's quality of life myself.

This is something I'd be interested in asking my vet about, just for curiousity sake!

[Potter]

My husband smokes a lot and at home when we were living in a 500 sq ft condo and from that, I have nose problems. I knew it was from the smoke because each time he smokes, the reaction starts, I start to tear up, my nose runs and I started sneezing repeatedly. Although he doesn't smoke around me anymore and my reactions aren't that bad, the symptoms still comes back once in a while or when he smokes with me being in the car. After that, he doesn't smoke around me or Pao anymore.

[Sethowner]

Smoker But outside I go....

[elle57]

i do not smoke, but my husband smokes cigars, but outside only . i would never allow smoking around my little sammy.
my daughter used to smoke and the after a few years of trying everything on the market, patches, pills, gum & everything else, the only way she quit, ( COLD TURKEY ) was finding out she was pregnant !
now it is over 2 years and she did not go back, i am so happy

[YorkieAunt]

I smoked for 20+ years and quit 6months ago I have never smoked in my house around my furbabies or my skin babies. My husband still smokes but we have always either smoked outside or smoked in the garage. I truly believe that 2nd hand smoke is harmful to all living things. That being said, I also believe that different people or animals are more suseptible (sp?) to getting sick from it just from specific genes they may or may not carry. So just because one dog can be around a smoker and live to 17yrs doesn't mean your dog will be so lucky.

[hotpod]

ok well i used to smoke inside with them, but now we are both smoking outside becuase i was paranoid that people can smell the smoke on my clothes so we stopped. smoking inside...but i imagine that it cant be good for them. good luck on quiting if that is what you want to do!

[yorkieK9trainer]

My folks smoke and they go outside to smoke.

[mayers]

Originally Posted by sammiz

I tried to get a script for Chantix because it worked really well for my best friend's husband. My doctor wouldn't prescribe it for me. He wants me to quit cold turkey which I have never been able to do. If I was a junkie (heroin) he would probably help me get on methadone (sp?) but no help from him with quitting smoking. He wanted to give me the patch, I don't know why. I can't use it anyway because I have tried it before and it causes me to have blazing color nightmares. No thanks. During these nightmares I feel feel like I am awake and it is all very vivid and totally...well...nightmarish.

You seriously need a new doctor!! My gyno. was so excited when I asked her about it. She said, 'now wait a minute, do you really want to quit?' I said yes and she said that a lot of her patients had great success with it, if they were dedicated. Why does he want you to go on the patch and not chantix, it makes no sense to me. Any doctor or PA can prescribe it, go to someone else. The only side effect I have is slight nausea, make sure you eat something with it.
Melissa

[sammiz]

Originally Posted by mayers

You seriously need a new doctor!! My gyno. was so excited when I asked her about it. She said, 'now wait a minute, do you really want to quit?' I said yes and she said that a lot of her patients had great success with it, if they were dedicated. Why does he want you to go on the patch and not chantix, it makes no sense to me. Any doctor or PA can prescribe it, go to someone else. The only side effect I have is slight nausea, make sure you eat something with it.
Melissa

I know. I really DO need a new doctor. My best promary care physician moved away. The worst thing following that is the her husband was my cardiologist and he went with her. Dang it!

I live in a very small town and finding a good doctor here is like looking for a needle in a haystack, Too much haystack and too few needles. I could go to another town but an hours drive, at least. I know I just need to bite the bullet and do it).