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The Smoking Or Non Smoking Employer VS The Job Applicant (Devil's Advocate)

JonesCarpeDiem
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The smoking employer may realize you are gonna need more paid time with possibly less output to

feed your addiction  After all they smoke themselves. Maybe they are thinking of quitting soon themselves.

They might not want another smoker around to remind them daily  of what they are trying to forget. 


The non-smoking employer may just decide you stink right off the bat and not want to smell you coming

They may also feel that smokers provide less focused time per day and may not be willing to hire due to that


So, no matter how you look at it,  in a slow economy with an excess of people needing work  you may

be seen as less employable in many eyes

This doesn't even take into account the additional health insurance costs that they may have to pay

or contribute to.

Think about it and give your quit its best shot!

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.