Why do so many nurses smoke?

_noob_
_noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
in Chit-Chat
I get that the job is stressful and all that...
«1345

Replies

  • InForBacon
    InForBacon Posts: 1,508 Member
    HYPOCRITES!!
  • escloflowneCHANGED
    escloflowneCHANGED Posts: 3,038 Member
    Why do fit & "healthy" people eat junk food?
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    Nursing has a high rate of obesity as well.
  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
    I get that the job is stressful and all that...

    I actually know more than couple of nurses who're strippers and chain smoke. They said they'd do drugs but they if they ever applied for the nursing job (stripping is while they're looking), they will have to get tested.

    tl;dr: who the hell cares
  • _noob_
    _noob_ Posts: 3,306 Member
    Why do fit & "healthy" people eat junk food?

    Ah, so 80/20 applies to air as well.

    The more you know...
  • LumpySpacePrincess1
    LumpySpacePrincess1 Posts: 388 Member
    Because they want cancer so someone can look after them instead?
  • Naomi0504
    Naomi0504 Posts: 964 Member
    It's an addiction, no other reason really :smile:
  • VeganLexi
    VeganLexi Posts: 960 Member
    They like *kitten*...
  • odusgolp
    odusgolp Posts: 10,477 Member
    You're not getting out of this alive, so....
  • clarkeje1
    clarkeje1 Posts: 1,641 Member
    Nursing has a high rate of obesity as well.

    Most of the nurses I know are obese.
  • pawnstarNate
    pawnstarNate Posts: 1,728 Member
    I don't know if this is elsewhere but, in my state, there is one Hospital that does not allow smoking on or off duty. If it's discovered that person smokes, they are fired.

    edit for correction: it was a new hire policy. if you are just bored out of your mind...read it. http://www.thv11.com/news/article/175920/2/Searcy-hospital-adopts-new-hiring-policy-banning-smokers
  • Grendel07
    Grendel07 Posts: 112 Member
    why do you care what they do with their bodies? smoking is their choice.
  • aliencheesecake
    aliencheesecake Posts: 569 Member
    I get that the job is stressful and all that...

    I also always wonder why there are so many very obese nurses... o.O
  • taunto
    taunto Posts: 6,420 Member
    Nursing has a high rate of obesity as well.

    Joker-Meme-Smoking-Dangerous.png
  • InForBacon
    InForBacon Posts: 1,508 Member
    I don't know if this is elsewhere but, in my state, there is one Hospital that does not allow smoking on or off duty. If it's discovered that person smokes, they are fired.

    edit for correction: it was a new hire policy. if you are just bored out of your mind...read it. http://www.thv11.com/news/article/175920/2/Searcy-hospital-adopts-new-hiring-policy-banning-smokers
    Even if I was bored out of my mind, I'd still take your word for it.
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    You can't relate to your patients if you don't know what they're going through. It's a sacrifice and compassion thing.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    They like *kitten*...
    Smoking *kitten* is wrong. It should be illegal. They deserve to live as much as anyone else.
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    All the nurses I know are pretty trashy so... yeah, there's that.
  • icmuse
    icmuse Posts: 263 Member
    .... yeah big smokers ....and lots of doctors and nurses are also total boozbags... :drinker:

    PS: I used to be a nurse ...... in Europe ..... so that explains a lot :flowerforyou:
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    All the nurses I know are pretty trashy so... yeah, there's that.

    You do realize that is more a reflection on you and the people you know rather than nurses in general.
  • dirty_dirty_eater
    dirty_dirty_eater Posts: 574 Member
    I could smell cigarette smoke on a nurse I had in the hospital recently.
    I thought of saying something, but as she was jamming a tube up my urethra at the time, I went for the whole discretion being the better part of keeping my pee pee thing.
  • Power_Man77
    Power_Man77 Posts: 207
    I get that the job is stressful and all that...

    I actually know more than couple of nurses who're strippers and chain smoke. They said they'd do drugs but they if they ever applied for the nursing job (stripping is while they're looking), they will have to get tested.

    tl;dr: who the hell cares

    Me: Ouch I have a splinter in my finger, think I need to go to doctor.

    Wife: Why you taking all those one dollar bills?
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    All the nurses I know are pretty trashy so... yeah, there's that.

    You do realize that is more a reflection on you and the people you know rather than nurses in general.

    OMG, does this mean *I'm* trashy too?!? shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
  • highervibes
    highervibes Posts: 2,219 Member
    I could smell cigarette smoke on a nurse I had in the hospital recently.
    I thought of saying something, but as she was jamming a tube up my urethra at the time, I went for the whole discretion being the better part of keeping my pee pee thing.

    I spent a month in the hospital in October and most of the nurses were obese and they just looked like they had been around the block lol. You could definitely tell the smokers from the non by their teeth and skin. Gross.
  • NRSPAM
    NRSPAM Posts: 961 Member
    First, nurses are regular people, like anyone else. We're not superhuman. Maybe a little more capable of dealing with blood, vomit, poop, and other disgusting, and very stressful things. Also, nurses tend to be a little more screwed up than the majority, or so I've read. Most people who go into fields so they can "help" people are, like therapists or counselors. We know it's unhealthy, but it's just as addictive as crack, if not more so, and it's more socially acceptable...well not so much these days. Lol.
  • cmingooo
    cmingooo Posts: 1 Member
    it is VERY high stress, i work as a lead med charge & am working on getting my lpn so im around nurses at my job... one nurse that used to work there smoked EVERY twenty minutes and actually put it in front of catering to our residents ( we worked at an assisted living retirement home ) & actually told me that i should take up smoking for my stress at work.
    honestly, i just smoke a joint and pray:) works much better for me AND my health.


    think thin people:)

    & good luck with your goals today!
  • bloominheck
    bloominheck Posts: 869 Member
    hmmm that is interesting. The medical center I work at you cannot smoke even on the surrounding areas of the hospital. So they would have a bit of a hike just to go smoke a cig. Anywhere closer and the campus police would stop them. They are that strict about it.
  • sukiwabi
    sukiwabi Posts: 221 Member
    All the nurses I know are pretty trashy so... yeah, there's that.

    huh. :huh:

    okay then.

    well, i'll weigh in. I've been a nurse for 20 years. My opinion is that most nurses (especially us older-school nurses) have the personality type that puts others before ourselves. Not saying this is a healthy dynamic, but I would bet that if you asked a large number of nurses who is more important at any given moment on a shift, they would invariably name their patients first. This means that nurses will often care for others to the detriment of themselves and it is partially driven by the perception that others have of nurses - that they need to be selfless above all else, that they are in general not deserving of proper mealtimes and rest periods (many nurses begin smoking while at work because they only time they get a real break from job pressure is when they are out back/outside, which is where the smokers hang), that they need to stay to care for people when there is no replacement despite what is going on in their personal life/family life, etc etc. Otoh, nurses are called out for being unhealthy.

    typical madonna/*kitten* expectation. takes a backbone and some pretty rigid ideals of what personal mental and physical health looks like and should play out.

    i'll step down from the soapbox, but that is the tip of the iceburg imo. i would like to add a disclaimer that I wish all of my co-workers were healthy (just like i wish everyone good health) and I do support smoke free workplaces. Patients do not need to be smelling smoke and can be adversely affected by such.
  • bcf7683
    bcf7683 Posts: 1,653 Member
    Nursing has a high rate of obesity as well.

    Joker-Meme-Smoking-Dangerous.png

    There needs to be a freakin' "like" button on this website.
  • bloominheck
    bloominheck Posts: 869 Member
    All the nurses I know are pretty trashy so... yeah, there's that.
    tumblr_mtbz6s2wUd1s8n4sio1_500.jpg


    :laugh:

Categories