Re: Allergies?

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:03:50 -0700, writer272002
<writer272002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Just an interesting observation, and mainly because I'm trying to worm
my way onto the top 10 posters list. :)

I went to visit some friends who are both big smokers last night. They
smoke outside but I tagged along. A puff or two drifted in the general
direction of my face but I didn't want to say EEEEWWW and fan the air,
so I didn't do anything.

By the time I got home, not only could I (yuck) smell it on my shirt,
my head was stopped up (I think my sinuses were swelling) and my eyes
were watering.

Now, I've had pretty bad allergies all my life. I just find it so
interesting that I react to this so strongly now when I used to dump
this *** into my system ALL THE TIME.

I am SO GLAD I have quit the patches and CT'd it. It has been a week
today and it's been the easiest week I've had since deciding to quit
back at the beginning of April. I can even be around smokers now and
not smoke, something that was really hard for me before. I think for
me the trick was getting the nicotine OUT of my system. It's a
powerful incentive not to smoke, because I know that if I take a puff
off of one of those *** sticks, it's another 72 hours of withdrawal.
And I've already seen that movie and don't want to see it again.

I was just wondering if any of you guys had some allergy stories like
mine. I just think it's interesting that now I notice so much when I'm
around smoke. Makes me wonder if I was walking around constantly
having an allergy attack before!

I haven't any allergy stories because I'm allergic to nothing (that I
know of) - not even mosquito bites (they bite but I don't get itchy
bumps). OK there was something growing along the Santa Ana Freeway
near the 17th St exit in Orange back in 1965 and 1966 that caused me a
sneezy, stuffed up episode once in each of those two years. That was
it.
Sue - allergy free in the allergy capital of the world or at least the
US or, anyway, California and damned glad of it


Hugs. Hope everybody is having a good weekend (and all our friends in
the UK are safe and sound? What's up with that *** over there??)

:)
Ashley
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