Antis and Health care people just can not, nor do they want to, understand that there is more to smoking than just nicotine.

Last week,due to a blood chemistry problem, I was in the hospital for 28 hours. Most of that time I was hooked up with an IV.

The nurses and aids were shocked and stunned that; rather than have a nicotine patch, I chose to trundle my IV stand down the hallway, down the elevator, and out the doors to the parking lot to have a my cigarettes.

They could not understand that a nicotine patch was about as satisfying as a caffeine patch instead of a cup of hot coffee in the morning. About as satisfying as a sugar patch instead of a roll to go along with that cup of coffee.

It was beyond them that a nicotine patch was about as satisfying as a sodium patch instead of salt on their food.

They could not understand that a nicotine patch was as satisfying as an alcohol patch instead of the taste and flavor of a glass of wine to go with that food.

They merely stammered;"But, it's not the same."

BS, it is exactly the same!!!

I can see and hear it now: Bunch of guys watching a ball game and hearing this " Hey Charley, I'm running low,throw me another alcohol patch wudya?"

To a waitress: " I would like the sodium patch crusted filet and for the alcohol patch,a nice California red"


By the way, I did NOT wear their cute little gown with my butt out in the air.

Gary K.

welcome back Gary sorry to hear about your 28 hour stay.. must have been tiring and trying..

What!!no hospital gown ... no birthday suit either I suppose *LOL*

Things got even more stupid. There was no coffee on the floor I was on, you had to call room service and wait an hour or go get the coffee yourself.

So there I was,trundling my IV stand down to the cafeteria to get a cup of coffee.Well;what the Hell,now it is me,my coffee cup,and my IV stand trundling out to the parking lot so that I could have a cigarette with my cup of coffee.

Hospitals are not very people friendly!!

Nurses kept getting upset because I was always going out of the telemetry range of the heart monitor thing I was wearing.

The nurses were rather happy to see me leave!!

Gary K.

Have times changed that much? Last time I was an inpatient at a hospital (1984) almost every nurse on my ward smoked.

And now they can't differentiate between a cigarette and a nicotine patch? My God.

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Originally posted by squeezer:
Have times changed that much? Last time I was an inpatient at a hospital (1984) almost every nurse on my ward smoked.

....I think most of them are on Chantex (sp?) now!

Most of these medical people will only understand when sexual climaxes comes from a pill.