Story archives - tag: "smoking"

zeroknowing

I got up quietly, went out the side door, snuck around the back, and there was my father sneaking a cigerette, too.

tags: smoking parents father hiding [add]

2008-07-30 14:42:41 / Rating: 280 /

Laura

After hearing from my mother that my father had lung cancer, the only thing I knew to do was light up a cigarette.

tags: father cancer smoking stupid [add]

2008-03-20 16:07:14 / Rating: 198.75 /

So I started again.

You have no idea how many people distrust your willpower until you tell them you decide to quit smoking.

tags: smoking support quitting friendship [add]

2008-03-06 13:04:01 / Rating: 177.25 /

Not 'Too Cool' for Retrospect

I should have stopped smoking cigarettes when I started liking them.

tags: smoking retrospect [add]

2008-01-18 10:51:55 / Rating: 131.75 /

Reminiscant

We never thought twice about lighting a cigarette outside the hospital as our best friend, who doesn't smoke, was diagnosed with lung cancer.

tags: smoking [add]

2007-12-11 11:43:23 / Rating: 219 /

LorrieMud

She found it ironic that in order to deal with the stress of her mother dying of lung cancer she turned to smoking two packs a day.

tags: smoking death [add]

2007-06-19 14:09:05 / Rating: 201.5 /

anonymous

I inhaled.

tags: first time smoking cannabis [add]

2007-06-19 14:08:54 / Rating: 157.25 /

Doc

For three long, dreadful years of my life I lived with her, I breathed in her foul smelling second hand smoke every single day, and as she died many years later, I sat there wishing I could breathe it again just one last time.

tags: death grandma smoking [add]

2007-06-15 13:43:24 / Rating: 214 /

RAM

Right before my father died nearly 20 years ago, he told me to quit smoking, and last month I finally did.

tags: dad father smoking death [add]

2007-06-15 12:57:12 / Rating: 242.75 /

Finster

Things went from bad to worse when we realized all the papers were stuck together from the incessant rain.

tags: festival smoking humor rain [add]

2006-08-23 20:36:08 / Rating: 171.25 /