When I gave up smoking the first time I was a raggie. I stuck out for several months but during a particularly stressful run back up the Solent with someone who smoked like a chimney I succumbed to a moment of weakness and smoked the rest of his fags without even asking!
Last time I gave up, I didnt have a boat at all and Ive been weed free for over 10years now so consider myself cured.
So Colin me old mate (tho your recent 'coming out' tendencies on another thread are getting me a bit bothered !?) as you are currently boatless I would say there couldnt be a better time to get off the coffin nails for good. How did I do it...? I really cant tell you exceopt one day for some unexplained reason I suddenly decided I should jack them in so I did.
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Excuuuuse me! I think I managed to abide by those rules (although was probly not paralytically pished until midnight). And you forgot the other rule for male guests: Thou shalt not shag the hired help (unless she absolutely insists, and it doesn't impinge on your regular duties).
Firstly, you are leaving at 10.00am on Saturday and returning at 18.00pm Sunday and he is planning to stay at sea continually ? Where the hell are you going. Forget the smoking, this does not exactly sound like a bundle of laughs in the first place.
Secondly. as an ex delivery skipper for rag boats, the first thing we did was made sure nobody attempted to give up anything particularly on a long passage. This included smoking, cross dressing etc
We all smoked like chimneys. Lots of raggies smoke and normally marlboro reds .
The only rule on a rag boat is make sure you take a Zippo , never smoke doen below and make sure you are sitting to Leeward of everyone (this means downwind)
I hope you didn't mind me popping onto your site briefly to give the raggie view
His boat his rules bottom line. If he wants to be like that it is tough on you and not wonderfully considerate but some people are very serious about being anti smoking
I am fortunate that i dont need fags if i am in a non smoking environment and have not had a drink so i would have to forego the booze too.
Try the patches. They give you really vivid dreams. i had this one about the spice girls. swmbo elbowed me awake just before baby spice... anyway
good luck
Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'you're making a scene'.
Haydn... you were supposed to stick the patches on and chew thegum, word is you ate the patches and stuck the gum on your forehead /forums/images/icons/crazy.gif
u may think that you are being considerate, but i have noticed every single smoker drags a trail of that smell around, and even when they havent lit up, they still leave that room stinking.
Why pay to kill yourself?
JVII