You want a break? Pay for it!

[The Lone Gunman]

The real question is why should companies pay for their mentally weaker employees to take breaks to fulfil their addiction to nicotine while inhaling over 300 chemicals, most of them known to be carcinogenic? Presumably the company also pays for their medical benefits.
Cut out the wishy-washy stuff. Most smokers who carry on with the habit are mentally weak. All other things being equal, I would hire a non-smoker over a smoker any time.

Nay, it is the smokers AND non-smokers who are week. We ex-smokers have dared and won. You have never dared and so are week as are those who can not quit.

You dont need a book, nor do you need patches or something else to suck, just quit.

before you start, I did not submit to peer pressure to start with, I have always been rebellious and was the first in my group, in fact it is my fault that half of them still smoke. I supplied the pressure.

[sasguru]

So for how long did you quit now? I have heard that you are still considered a potential smoker in the first three years after you quit. Carefull, you are hanging by a thread in your probation period!

You are a potential smoker for the rest of your life. But once you are over the physical addiction, which only takes 3 days, you would have to be totally irrational to smoke another cigarette.

[sasguru]

A large insurnace Co. just off the M40 were doing this just 5 years ago.

Most insurance companies use a year as their benchmark.

[Dundeegeorge]

The problem with stopping by willpower

So for how long did you quit now? I have heard that you are still considered a potential smoker in the first three years after you quit. Carefull, you are hanging by a thread in your probation period!

Is that you are always likely to restart (plus it usually makes you an insufferable pain in the arse, thinking you're so strong-willed and othes are just weaklings). Do it properly.
Clean for nearly six months with no problems.

[sasguru]

Nay, it is the smokers AND non-smokers who are week. We ex-smokers have dared and won. You have never dared and so are week as are those who can not quit.

You dont need a book, nor do you need patches or something else to suck, just quit.

before you start, I did not submit to peer pressure to start with, I have always been rebellious and was the first in my group, in fact it is my fault that half of them still smoke. I supplied the pressure.

The word is weak.

But I agree with your thesis.
Ex-smokers are BOTH risk takers AND mentally tough.
Smokers are risk-takers but weak.
Non-smokers are pussies.

[Dundeegeorge]

LOL - best laugh today

The word is weak.

But I agree with your thesis.
Ex-smokers are BOTH risk takers AND mentally tough.
Smokers are risk-takers but weak.
Non-smokers are pussies.

What's up SAS, still haunted by cigarettes?
Let me guess, you're an ex-smoker who used willpower, right?

[The Lone Gunman]

The word is weak.

But I agree with your thesis.
Ex-smokers are BOTH risk takers AND mentally tough.
Smokers are risk-takers but weak.
Non-smokers are pussies.

weak....doh....I am a twat sometimes. Got into full tongue in cheek rant and my spelling and semantics checker fell over.

[AlfredJPruffock]

As an impartial man on the street I see the moaning ninnies and the never-do-wells are again knocking the innocent pleasure of smoking.

Yet its a well known fact amongst medical circles despite the rantings of the Socialists that smoking increases productivity and raises feelings of well being as well as as a key source of revenue for the Government.

Lord Pruffock Imperial Tobbaco Products

[xondo]

I have worked for a company in London where such a system was implemented, clock in and out for smoke or pub breaks was acceptable to everyone. What made the difference was that any minute that you worked after your leaving time was accounted for when you clocked out to go home. At the end of the month you would have accumulated enough hours to take a day off and this was always honour by the company. To summarise, if a time card scheme was implemented properly then it would be beneficial for the company and employees, the risk is that greedy employers would not take into account the extra work you do.

Can you please stop debating smoking issues? It is an sock now.

[Captain Jack]

The word is weak.

But I agree with your thesis.
Ex-smokers are BOTH risk takers AND mentally tough.
Smokers are risk-takers but weak.
Non-smokers are pussies.