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Date Posted: 23:02:05 07/29/06 Sat
Author: Mark A.
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Subject: Magnificent Millicent Monologue

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Date Posted: 07:18:24 07/28/06 Fri
In reply to: BobF333 's message, "Tell us about your smoking Friday" on 04:46:04 07/28/06 Fri

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Morning to Bob F., Joe Camel and all.
One of the things Megan said yesterday was that she thought the ages 35-50 were the addiction years for women. She was talking of losing a little more control of her addiction.
I suspect that after 50 comes the successful quitting stage. It sure doesn't hurt to try along the way. Looking back over the last year, I think the women I associate with socially, at work and especially at the Thank Goodness It's Thursday Breakfast fit into this calculation.
The breakfast has turned into a smoking event. In some cases, smoking started at the breakfast or picked up there.
It was started as a healthy and safe alternative to after-work drinking sessions. Friday often started the weekend so we decided Thursday was the most popular day for the after-work drinks.
The breakfast has become quite popular. Some say they would have smoked and drank after work so they are safer anyway.
Four of us started this breakfast thing. A lady who must be 56 now was not sure she wanted to give up smoking or not but came and smoked. When she did not smoke, she stopped coming to the breakfast. Now, she comes and does not smoke. We really need more like her. We don't want to be known as a smoking club.
Another lady had an irregular smoking pattern worked around her husband's travel schedule. At 30, she has recently filled in the blanks so to speak and smokes about a pack a day of Marlboro Light 100s, just like me. At other times, she was far more irregular.
The fourth person to attend did not smoke. Well, maybe a party or what some call a bar cigarette. She had a teen daughter at home who did smoke. The lady was nearing a marriage with a very nice guy. She became a smoker, saying her new husband liked it, but has given it up within the last month. Wonder what he thinks now?
My youngest child came to the breakfast at times. Last summer she came back from college and found me smoking to lose weight. She said she smoked at college but a summer at home would turn her into a quitter. Instead, she became a smoking partner. Her mother, an ex, returned before her July 4 wedding and has not stopped.
My son's wife was smoking but actually hiding it from us and her parents, too. Soon she was telling us and has told her parents.
My older daughter graduated from college and went to work 3 hours away. She joined the group for drinks after work and got into smoking. She found a man and married him on Valentine's Day. She smokes 10 a day of VS menthols and jogs 2 or 3 times a week. She's even run in 5K events.
Diane and Marci are contrasts to waiting until mid-30s to pick up on their smoking. Both came here over a year ago right out of high school. Marci was a smoker and Diane was not. Now, both smoke over a pack a day.
Their favorite starter is Anita, who is 43. They warned that if she kept having cigarettes at breakfast, she would become Anita Cigarette as in "I need a cigarette." She has become a smoker.
At 39, Blanche has gone back to smoking. She had the habit in college. Old habits never die. She fits the wayward years Megan described.
Evelyn and Toni are both in their early 30s and said they first smoked at the age of 10. You could hardly tell Evelyn, 33, has been smoking all those years but she has. Trouble is, she has a daughter who turned 13. She gave the girl a carton of Marlboro Lights and her daughter, who never smoked, has taken a liking to smoke that was similar to her mother's now addiction.
Toni smoked until college and decided she did not want to be a smoker. Now, at 31, she is smoking again. Like I said, old habits never die.
I'd say our breakfast group is somewhat like the real world. From a smoking executive secretary, she says the breakfast has actually led to fewer unexpected call-ins. If it saves dollars it may make sense.

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