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jerseymariner
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Can anyone provide any information on smoking opportunities on the Silver Meteor from Philly to Miami? First time on a train since Amtrak and just trying to decide if I'll need a patch!
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Ocala Mike
Lead Service Attendant
Washington and Jacksonville. Don't try to sneak some puffs on board; you'll be put off the train in the middle of the night somewhere "down south."
bobnabq
Lead Service Attendant
My 2¢ ~ I quit smoking 'cold turkey' back in 1993. I was smoking two packs a day.
Always had to make sure I had enough 'smokes' until pay day. At the time, a pack was $2, so that was $120 a month, plus tax.
The secret to my quitting?
Lost my dad and mother-in-law to emphysema, and a brother to lung cancer.
I thought about them, and realized how stupid it was for me to continue to smoke.
By the way, my brother never smoked. He was married for 50 years to a chain smoker.
You might want to bring one just in case. Even with the scheduled stops (which are *hours* apart), you can run into delays. My boyfriend brings nicotine gum whenever we travel by train.
Washington, Richmond, Florence (maybe), savannah, jax, orlando
zepherdude
OBS Chief
My hats off to you!
I quit in 1997 from 3 packs a day, (Cold Turkey) because my mother who had emphysema and lung cancer would not. I forced her hand as I would not quit alone. It worked and although she is gone, I am not and have had so much more fun on Amtrak not worrying about where the next smoke stop is.
jersymariner.......
Listen to us, have a great Amtrip and do yourself a favor, take a patch and leave the smokes in the gutter, FOREVER!
FunNut
Service Attendant
Amen to the previous poster. Anyone who has to worry about getting their "fix" has a problem.
Though I've never been a smoker and do not like to be around smokers (though I was married to one), this is not the place to "preach" to others to quit. This, IMHO, is as bad as the discussion on the thread about the shooting on the train in TX.
Let's get back on topic. I believe others have already answered the OPs question, so this topic should be finished.
Let's get back on topic. I believe others have already answered the OPs question, so this topic should be finished.
Thank you. I felt the same way. Everyone has faults. People lecture me about being overweight and then turn around and light up a cigarette. I always want to be like, "... really?!?"
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Acela150
Super Buff
Penny isn't FLO in the middle of the night though and SAV in the early morning?? FLO is a crew change point. So I don't see why not. Actually IIRC all listed above are..
As an ex-smoker who developed lung cancer 3 years after I quit smoking, I don't care if you smoke or not. Just please step far enough away from the door to light up and smoke so I don't don't have to breathe in your smoke when I step off the train for a breath of "fresh air" . Your life and your lungs are yours to do with what you will. Please don't include me in it, though. Thanks
zepherdude
OBS Chief
Sorry, I will preach all day, all night, all my life about smoking. If the moderator wants to shut it down, so be it.
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Yes FLO is in the middle of the night and a crew change. The reason for the maybe is that i am never up at that time to notice whether smokers get out. My guess is that very few doors will open because most SCA's will be sleeping.
bobnabq
Lead Service Attendant
Forgetting to wipe your muddy feet when you come indoors is a fault.
Smoking is a drug addiction.
"Each year, an estimated 443,000 people die prematurely from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke,
and another 8.6 million live with a serious illness caused by smoking."
As for weight, I've lost 100 pounds this year by cutting out carbohydrates.
Drew Carey (the host of The Price Is Right) who lost 80 the same way, inspired me.
And I'm not trying to take any of that away from you. I applaud you (I'm serious, not sarcastic). I have been trying very hard to lose weight, and it is coming off, but I have my weak points just like a smoker.
All I'm saying is that, for whatever reason, people fall into addictions, and far be it from us to judge them since we, too, have imperfections. I wasn't trying to be haughty or anything. I promise.
I don't like smoking either, especially since I have asthma and other issues caused by living with a mother who smoked two packs per day and then got mad when I asked her not to smoke around me because I was "too sensitive". However, that doesn't mean I'm going to lecture every smoker I see. They know it's bad, just like I know being overweight is bad, so lecturing them really doesn't serve any purpose. That's the analogy I was going for. :hi:
George Harris
Engineer
Being completely off topic: Reading the things that caused the ex-smokers to quit, sometimes it takes something equally attention grabbing to start a weight loss program. Being told that you have had a small stroke will do that for you when it comes to dropping weight, and with in blood pressure. When tow of four grandparents and one of your parents died from strokes, you realize what that means. Simply cutting carbs way down and sweets out made for goodbye to 10 ounds in the first month after I started that, with slower dropping ever since.
bobnabq
Lead Service Attendant
Hearing Drew Carey say he was tired of being a fat man, and that losing weight gave him his life back, encouraged me.
I thought, if I had the strength to quit smoking cold turkey, I could lose weight.
I don't recommend others do what I and Drew Drew have done, which is to basically stop
eating all carbohydrates. Yet, I can eat bacon and eggs for breakfast, a cheeseburger for lunch, a steak for dinner ~ and lose weight.
Just no or minimal carbs.
Now, we have really gone astray ~ and I'll let it go at that.
the_traveler
Engineer
[Moderator's hat on]
I feel this thread is getting to be a smokers vs non-smokers and weight loss thread. Since the OP's question was answered in the very beginning, I feel there is no further reason to keep this thread open. Thus I am closing this thread.
[Moderator's hat off]
I feel this thread is getting to be a smokers vs non-smokers and weight loss thread. Since the OP's question was answered in the very beginning, I feel there is no further reason to keep this thread open. Thus I am closing this thread.
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