do you smoke and ride at the same time?

Personally not a smoker but would never hold it against anyone who did or try to make them stop etc. It's their choice, as much as it is mine not to smoke.

I just think that now we know the implications of smoking in humans and what it can cause, I'd rather not expose my horses to the same things however small the risk.
 
Love said:
I just think that now we know the implications of smoking in humans and what it can cause, I'd rather not expose my horses to the same things however small the risk.
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Sorry to pick on you but you're the last person to have mentioned this so I'm only highlighting your post. It's a general comment though, do you *honestly* think your horse is going to get lung cancer being outside with a smoker close by?
 
Love said:
Personally not a smoker but would never hold it against anyone who did or try to make them stop etc. It's their choice, as much as it is mine not to smoke.

I just think that now we know the implications of smoking in humans and what it can cause, I'd rather not expose my horses to the same things however small the risk.
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Yes, my horse copied my vice after watching me smoke. Blooming expensive keeping her in fags.
 
Spring Feather said:
Sorry to pick on you but you're the last person to have mentioned this so I'm only highlighting your post. It's a general comment though, do you *honestly* think your horse is going to get lung cancer being outside with a smoker close by?
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I don't know what he might get. I doubt a horse will get lung cancer just from a bit if passive smoke! But going off the evidence of what toxins have been found to be in the smoke, it's sure as eggs not going to be beneficial to them. Like you say, it may not do them any harm but personally I wouldn't take the risk :)
 
Actually being a smoker has helped me with horses, a crinkly crunchy sounding pouch of bacy has attracted the attention of many a horse, enabling me too catch ones that didnt want too be caught! ;)
 
Apparantly the American Indians used tobacco to train horses.

ooooh, the irony of this thread..............


PS: Anyways, isn't smoking a bit old hat now - sugar is the 'new tobacco'.
 
Personally I wouldn't, and I wouldn't allow someone to ride mine and smoke. However I have no problem with other people smoking on or around their horses. I've been on lot's of hacks and my hacking companion has sparked up, it's their horse so their choice - I wouldn't dream of saying something!
 
FionaM12 said:
Not sure how a thread about whether it's okay to smoke while riding ends up as yet another have-a-go-at-people-on-benefits bitchfest.

I'm out of here. If people want to smoke while they ride, I don't consider that my concern. However snobbery and ill-informed ignorant ranting about benefits disgust me.
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Absolutely 100% spot on, Fiona. Well said!
 
Patterdale said:
I'm honestly not meaning to be rude :).......but if you ACTIVELY CHOOSE to start smoking, then ACTIVELY CHOOSE to continue, knowing how horrifically bad it is for you....then how can it be anything BUT poor judgement? Honestly?
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Continuing isn't so much a choice as a habit and an addiction. Choosing to start smoking is pretty poor judgement but doesn't everybody make poor judgements from time to time? Are you always right and do you always make the entirely most sensible choices?

This is a cool little discussion but I think its sad that people are so snotty about smokers, chill, its not like they're trying to get you to join in. If it makes someone's day a little bit happier to go for a ride and have a cig, then good for them. :)
 
I think those of us who don't smoke get 'snotty' bout it because to us its a vile habit! Personally as an asthmatic who is triggered by smoke I find shopping in town centres a nightmare as people wandering along puffing toxic fumes left right and centre and I have no choice but to inhale at some point!

Then there is the smell, especially on my barbour wax jacket which I wore to a friends recently where her brother chain smoked the entire time and have had to send it for a specialist cleaning because the stench of stale fag smoke makes me want to vomit! Costing me money and inconvenience.

Its the stench on people who just don't seem to realise how bad they blinking smell! And the fumes the rest of us are forced to breathe in because smokers just don't seem to care its not only themselves it affects. Iv had many a night out end in an asthma attack thanks to smokers.

I just don't get why people start, but even more so, given that they've now proved the nicotine to be out of your system in 48 hours, why more don't just stop - a friend who had smoked for 60 odd years stopped cold turkey one day just stopped and never touched another. He spent 5 months coughing up disgusting crap which he'd poisoned himself with for years and is now at 75 never down with chest infections all winter like he was before.

It really isn't cool, no matter what some kids think, and I agree it does look common, no matter what brand of jacket you were wearing! Id just think you had money if you can afford to smoke, own a horse and buy Ariat :P
 
TigerTail said:
I think those of us who don't smoke get 'snotty' bout it because to us its a vile habit!
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I don't smoke (unlesss we're counting the 2 drags I had at 14) but I honestly can say I couldn't care less what someone else chooses to do. A lot of people could say that riding horses is incredibly dangerous, smelly and an inconvenience to others when I ride my horse on the roads. They could also say if I can afford horses why not save up and buy a brand new Mercedes instead! And they would be entitled to say that - but they'd be wrong ;)
Live and let live.
 
I dont care if people want to smoke. Outside it is their choice what I cant get my head round is the huge amount of money the smelly things cost imagine what a super set of horsey gear or top dressage horse that could have bought if saved and not started over a lifetime. But each to their own I cant afford to drink smoke, go on holiday because I have ponies my choice if I gave up the ponies I could afford it but probably wouldn't start now at 60
My only concern would be fire risk and as long as people are very careful not a problem for me
 
Tigertail - i think you would be better off asking that question to our great great great grandfathers who smoked, and if my memory serves me correctly some of them have lived past 100 years old when smoking and breathing in others smoke was the normality of the day.

It is the new generation where nuts and crayfish cause allergies. When i was a child we grew up playing in the mud chewing on a chicken bone around the smoke from the barbecue. At 50 i am going strong, granny died at 98 and mom is going strong at 87 and they were all married to smokers.
 
I'd love to stop!
I'm aware of the fact that I stink because of it - it's horrible - I don't like how it makes me feel and I could do with the £10 a week extra that I atm spend on tobacco but I can't seem to manage to stop!
I've tried the gum, it hurt my gums. I tried the patches and it made me itch like crazy to the point that I had to stop using them before I killed someone for breathing wrong around me. I can't take the tablets because of my previous troubles with severe depression the doctors won't give them to me and the spray didn't take away the cravings. The e-cigs are too expensive atm when all the spare cash I have goes towards my driving lessons and horse just now and I don't have the willpower to go cold turkey unfortunately :(
So to the judgy non-smokers, what would you suggest short of building a time machine to go back and give my teenage self a sharp kick up the bum to not start? Seriously I'd love a fix all suggestion to get me to stop smoking, I'd thank you for it :)
 
el_Snowflakes said:
A lot of posts on this thread back up the 'elitist' image of equestrianism!......
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How?

Smoking is just not as socially acceptable anymore, and that's no bad thing. I used to smoke, and I would not have been seen dead smoking whilst on a horse. I was never concerned for whether I might burn the horse - I could keep hold of a fag quite well, I just think it looks grotty and common to have a cigarette off the side of a horse. It looks grotty anyway, but even worse when you're riding. Eugh.
 
sandi_84 said:
I'd love to stop!
I'm aware of the fact that I stink because of it - it's horrible - I don't like how it makes me feel and I could do with the £10 a week extra that I atm spend on tobacco but I can't seem to manage to stop!
I've tried the gum, it hurt my gums. I tried the patches and it made me itch like crazy to the point that I had to stop using them before I killed someone for breathing wrong around me. I can't take the tablets because of my previous troubles with severe depression the doctors won't give them to me and the spray didn't take away the cravings. The e-cigs are too expensive atm when all the spare cash I have goes towards my driving lessons and horse just now and I don't have the willpower to go cold turkey unfortunately :(
So to the judgy non-smokers, what would you suggest short of building a time machine to go back and give my teenage self a sharp kick up the bum to not start? Seriously I'd love a fix all suggestion to get me to stop smoking, I'd thank you for it :)
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Seriously, buy 'the easy way to stop smoking' by Alan Carr, and READ IT. Absolutely amazing book. You would not think just reading a book could make you stop smoking (without a load of preaching and scare stories), but it really does. I know loads of people who have quit after reading it, myself included.
 
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