Smoking cigarettes and seizures....

No matter how socially unacceptable this sounds, tis the truff. I smoke, have for a long time. I have quit for two, years period of time, and thru each pregnancy. Not one day of that time did I not want a cigarette. Now THAT is very hard on my nerves and nervousness in me creates sz's. That I know for sure. I am the last person who should smoke as I have asthma and a lung lesion but there it is. I also read somewhere at some time that in women who quit smoking the metabolism changes causing just women again, to gain 10 pounds even if their caloric intake doesn't change. I found that true in myself. I don't know if it was 10 pounds, I think it was far higher and I am 5'5". When I started again it didn't peal right off either. I had to diet and exercise it off. Wonder why the reverse wasn't true? If I have to be hospitalized or am in say a test for hours or similar no smoking situations for hours? Enough that the nicotine levels start dropping seriously? I start feeling sz'y, awful. The bottom of my feet start humming then that starts moving up thru the rest of me until I'm thrumming all over. I find this interesting because someone else just told me it is the very same for them. After I have a status sz which I tend to have and so does she? I have a gigantic craving for gallons of fruit juice and a cigarette, same exactly for her. Once I can convince someone to go outside with me to have a cigarette or frankly usually I sneak out carrying my IV bag in my teeth because no staff will go out with me? I have one cigarette and I feel tons better. Somehow that cigarette jinks my mind back a lot faster and sharper than if I'm not allowed. I wonder at times if I just detest someone putting their moralities on me saying it's not nice to smoke, therefore I can't smoke because THEY don't believe in it. I do not like being treated like an amoral 2 year old plus it's a real bad idea to p*ss me off when I'm still very postictal. I tend to go postal. If no one's haughty moralities will allow them to escort me to go outside for 5 minutes to have a cigarette as I recover? I sneak out. Sometimes I don't come back either. Which I hear about the NEXT time I'm in the ER. I don't care. Gretchen

I find it odd how people concentrated on me using the word IDIOT. I also added SAFETY. If all of you want to defend smoking that is your right. I simply think people with epilepsy must think of catching themsleves on fire along with others. I've been an epileptic for 34 years. At age 16 I was called a pumpkin brain. My friend wanted to go fight the guys he told me called me that. I told him if I fought them I would have to fight millions of Americans just like them. Don't forget I wrote Anyone who smokes or drinks is an IDIOT. I used IDIOT because I was angry, and I do think it is foolish. If I offended anyone so be it, but I did not write this not knowing what being an epileptic is. NaBox