[QUOTE=Jetryder223;118730]Hey Rig - Do I really need to worry about company doctors? If this is nothing, it’s nothing. I am taking codeine now for the pain but I’ll be off that tonight.
I report for my last week of work on the Ferry tomorrow morning. Do I need to tell the company I had a medical procedure and was on prescription pain meds within the past 2 days?
I’m pretty sure I’ll be fit for work tomorrow and don’t want to lose the time.[/QUOTE]
Be sure to consider whether having taken codeine in the past few days could trigger a positive result on a random drug test.
If he used Wellbutrin, an antidepressant, he will have to report that usage in his next physical… If still in use at that time (I think if you are 90 days clear you can omit this).
Jet, make sure that if you use it, it’s documented in your record for smoking cessation. Best wishes to you.
Well jet I hope this turns out negative. Geez, I smoked, chewed, dipped and loved a good cigar. If anyone ever complained about my smoke, I was a real asshole about it and spouted off about how I paid extra taxes to smoke. I quit smoking several times.
When my mother-in-law started going down hill from emphysema, I had a little more incentive. I found the “ burnt bridge” method the best way to quit. That entails getting a good portion of your crew to all quit smoking at the same time. As they start back smoking, you excoriate them with the usual mariner type adjectives in front of as large an audience as possible. With the crews I sailed with, I would have never lived it down if I ever started back. After about a year, I probably ranked in the top 10 of “asshole reformed smokers”. I’m probably in the top 3 now!
[QUOTE=injunear;118795]Well jet I hope this turns out negative. Geez, I smoked, chewed, dipped and loved a good cigar. If anyone ever complained about my smoke, I was a real asshole about it and spouted off about how I paid extra taxes to smoke. I quit smoking several times.
When my mother-in-law started going down hill from emphysema, I had a little more incentive. I found the “ burnt bridge” method the best way to quit. That entails getting a good portion of your crew to all quit smoking at the same time. As they start back smoking, you excoriate them with the usual mariner type adjectives in front of as large an audience as possible. With the crews I sailed with, I would have never lived it down if I ever started back. After about a year, I probably ranked in the top 10 of “asshole reformed smokers”. I’m probably in the top 3 now![/QUOTE]
I like that method. Oddly enough, I am NOT one of those “asshole reformed smokers”. I still feel that smoking should be allowed in privately owned businesses. But that is just me.
[QUOTE=cmakin;118813]I like that method. Oddly enough, I am NOT one of those “asshole reformed smokers”. I still feel that smoking should be allowed in privately owned businesses. But that is just me.[/QUOTE]
I whole heartedly agree. It’s all about free choices. I choose not to eat in a place where I have to breath any smoke other than from the BBQ pit. However, rum seems to mitigate irritating effects.
[QUOTE=injunear;118816]I whole heartedly agree. It’s all about free choices. I choose not to eat in a place where I have to breath any smoke other than from the BBQ pit. However, rum seems to mitigate irritating effects.[/QUOTE]
I was really surprised when the UK banned smoking in pubs (or is it just London, don’t recall). It is so strange now to see so many folks standing outside the door (especially in “damp” London) drinking their pints. It DOES free up some space inside, to be sure. There seems to still be a higher percentage of smokers over there in spite of the outrageous costs and packaging requirements. . .
No way can I have oral cancer as the incident rate for the 20-24 age group is nil. The Doc had to know this yet talked my father & I into letting him cut me up anyway. I should have just told him I wanted a 2nd opinion or asked to come back in a month or so for a re-evaluation.
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Yes but if he hadn’t cut you up then he wouldn’t have been able to afford the payments on that new Mercedes of his!
Take that money you would be spending in tobacco products and sock it away. Keep tabs on the prices and as they rise, put that away, too. You could probably retire early.
[QUOTE=cmakin;119917]Take that money you would be spending in tobacco products and sock it away. Keep tabs on the prices and as they rise, put that away, too. You could probably retire early.[/QUOTE]
When my wife and I quit smoking over 20 years ago, we were spending $202.50 a month. That’s been going into aggressive funds until last week (without cost increase) when it was spread through my portfolio. Even with the market ups and downs in that time, my return was amazing. I could have bought the canal lot next to me, replaced the bulkhead, new boatlift and dock…cash. Some of my kids complain about how tough it is to get buy. They have big rims, tattoos, loud stereos fancy phones and reek of cigarettes…Go figure…
