quit 30 years now. quit because it was killing me. other corps are still trying.
The solution to many problems
Submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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m3t00@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
they said, while rolling E and smoking weed and drinking borgs :D
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Drinking borgs?
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Isn’t that what they call them? I’m not 20 anymore so I’m not as hip.
sheetzoos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tobacco is one of the worst drugs ever. The best part is staving off the effects of addiction.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m so happy that I’m on 10 years without cigarettes.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ove seen people quit oxy easier then cigarettes
Schmuppes@lemmy.today 10 months ago
But if you smoke, you don’t notice other smokers smelling like shit, which is nice.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Guess I should stop showering
REDACTED@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I don’t think people smoke because they feel like shit doing so, quite the opposite imo
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
It’s like the inverse of running. Running feels like trash in the moment, but great after
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I stopped smoking a while ago now… but boy do I miss it sometimes lol.
Don’t smoke kids.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Question: did memes like this help?
Asking because I do street cleaning work in my neighborhood. And assholes keep throwing cigarette butts right on the ground.
I’d love to find a solution to have them quit smoking, which will lead to less cigarette butts.
Kamsaa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I agree with the other reply above, it does not help. It may even make things worse. All this meme does is make me feel misunderstood and despised by others (While some of them don’t even understand what I actually go through). Tobacco is a terrible addiction. I quited for two years but fell again when I broke up with my ex. During those two years I dreamt of smoking at least once a week and gained 15kg. I grew up in France in the 90s and then the country did a pretty shitty job protecting kids (I started buying cigarettes for myself at 14 and it was easy because the tobacco shop owner didn’t bat an eye). I think the solution is prevention and children’s protection (by preventing access) to ensure that they don’t start. For those who already smoke the best is kind support not guilt and disdain. (And total bans don’t help either, we just feel left out when the government who now bans us from every place and treats us like awful weak-willed bastards initially incitated us to smoke two decades ago with adds and easy access).
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No. Having others say something you already know as a addict of a substance doesn’t help at all. We know we should stop. We all know that. The challenge of an addict is being willing to stop, and then being successful at stopping. Then abstinence.
When I was a smoker, I watch my grandmother die from smoking related lung cancer right in front of my face, it didn’t change a thing. I’d go outside of the hospital and smoke all the same. I had to want to quit.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How do you smoke a kid? And what do they taste like?
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They taste like unicorns
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
They don’t stay still long enough to roll properly.
Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
How do you even have papers big enough
cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Tell me about it! I had to accept that part of quitting involved forever missing something, but knowing I’m better off without it.
Trollception@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That feeling will disappear eventually. I rarely even think about it even when I see smokers now. If I’m out drinking though that’s a different story…
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 10 months ago
How I feel about my (soon to be ex-) wife…
Harrinator@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I yearn for that strength. I’m sure I’ll quit one day
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Yes, smoking takes years off your life.
But they’re the years at the end…
Doxin@pawb.social 10 months ago
Man if only that was true. A neighbor across the street is a chain smoker, and I hear him hack up a lung every morning for a couple of hours.
Yeah smoking will make you live shorter, but it’ll also reaaaally fuckin’ ruin your life leading up to that.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That’s the joke.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This seems to ignore the important facts that smoking is A.) Cool and B.) Sexy.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
C) good social activity
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I remember people talking about how the other smokers at work were all the cool people. And like, yeah, you spend several minutes several times a day hanging out outside with them, with no work and nothing to do but shoot the shit. Of course you like them better, you spend way more time with them.
Also you can all bond over your common terrible life choices, what’s not to like?
griD@feddit.org 10 months ago
Actually true, in a myriad of bad effects.
remon@ani.social 10 months ago
It also makes you hot and famous.
theblips@lemm.ee 10 months ago
As a tobacco fiend I couldn’t ever get into smoking cigs. The only time in my life I’ve smoked consistently was when I was extra depressed and trying to microdose suicide. Guess I’m lucky
10001110101@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Montezuma’s revenge
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I smoked from the time I was 15, until I was 33. I got a prescription for something called Chantix that worked really well for me to quit permanently.
It worked well for a few people I knew, but one guy said it made him really depressed / suicidal.
Chantix isn’t available anymore because of something that was in it that might cause cancer, but there’s a generic form of it called varenicline that may or may not be available in your country. Ask your doctor maybe if there’s a pill that will help you quit.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
This reads like a Pharma advert.
Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, this worked well for me, too. The generic one you mention also had less side effects for me. There’s still the vivid dreams / nightmares, but less intense.
From Chantix /Champix I recollect the spider dreams and floor crumbling beneath me.
But hey, anything to quit smoking.
Derp@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
What an insensitive meme. If you understood anything about addiction you would be ashamed of yourself. Some of us and our families are really struggling with huge impacts to physical and mental health, our entire lives, from addictions like this. Hope posting this made you feel better about yourself tho.
gmtom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s always a .ml account
TronBronson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s alright they never had to suffer from the utter brainwash advertising we had. They are brainwashed the other way. It’s probably a good thing. World used to be a smoke cloud.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mental inconvenience takes a number of forms, one of them is nicotine addiction. Some people with more standard brains than you and I can’t comprehend why we would regularly consume literal poison to feel better instead of, I don’t know, watching a Disney film or running until they sweat and smell.
I have switched over to a vape and mix my own flavorless, scentless juice. I still feel like a pariah when I use it, and stick to alleys and back lots.
I truly wish vape culture hadn’t had that bro moment of douche bags chucking clouds in theaters and making a fuss when imbibing indoors.
I’d be slightly less embarrassed of the pile of addictions I’ve become.
cmhe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What does smoking a cigarette here or there has to do with addiction?
Cigarettes aren’t the only way you can get addicted, you know. You made the connection between cigarettes and addictions, here in this post.
Also wouldn’t it be the best advice against addiction find the will in oneself to stop doing it? If addicted smokers know what their cigarettes do for themselves and others, then they might want to try search for help, to get them off their addiction?
TronBronson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
lol I hope you get addicted to some to some ratchet pussy and it ruins your life
Derp@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
What does smoking a cigarette here or there has to do with addiction?
Where did I or the original post mention anything about occasional smokers? This post is offensive to those struggling from lifelong addiction to cigarettes, which is almost never a choice.
Also wouldn’t it be the best advice against addiction find the will in oneself to stop doing it? If addicted smokers know what their cigarettes do for themselves and others, then they might want to try search for help, to get them off their addiction?
Gee, that’s such great advice! Why didn’t the lifelong addict think of that one themselves? You just singlehandedly solved addiction.
Noone chooses being addicted to cigarettes. It’s a mental health disorder just like being addicted to fentanyl or heroin, and a crippling one at that for some. Please educate yourself about what addiction is before defending posts like this. What you are doing is similar to shitting on people for “choosing” their sexuality or gender.
xelar@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
tfw you share balcony with smoking neighbour and you work remotely in the room with open windows…
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
Who cares at this point no one has free health care so no longer a burden in the golden age of bare foot and pregnant. Smoke cigs. They are awsome.
gmtom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have free healthcare
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 10 months ago
sorry, i couldn’t hear you over the sound of my free healthcare
Lund3@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You must be American
TronBronson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes. We are American. We’re destined to die from a gun. Who’s got time to be afraid of a plant? What is a healthcare?
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
Boy do I love tobacco.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t smoke any more, but I love the smell of nice tobacco. I was late for work the other day because a crusty old man was smoking a roll up if Dutch tobacco and I couldn’t resist chatting about it.
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Don’t forget that smokers also get to ruin other people’s meals at restaurants. Not their own meals mind you - just the meals of others.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 10 months ago
I thought you wheren’t allowed to smoke inside anymore in Germany?
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Smokers are still allowed to stink up your food outside. So you may enjoy your food inside in the summer.
Also restaurants are allowed to have an inside smoking section. Most of the time that means you still get to ‘enjoy’ the stink.
Lastly let’s not forget that smokers, when forced to smoke outside, will almost always do so right on the doorstep. So that the stink gets sucked in and everybody gets to enjoy a good second hand smoke.
Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He could mean terraces (outside)? That still bugs me a lot…
based_raven@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Where I live, you’re not allowed to smoke in bars or restaurants.
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Also in the outside section? If yes I applaud your government for implementing the rule properly, not half-assed like in Germany.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just one nail of many in my mom’s coffin
mdurell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It was the primary nail in my mother’s coffin and her mother’s coffin too.
3laws@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Knowing that addictive tendencies are hereditary, I hope you are OK & continue to be OK.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just imagine the savings of smoking
Alternatively
Imagine the savings of NOT smoking!
It’s a win win whatever side you choose!
ikidd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Holy pearl clutching.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lemmy can be so stereotypically “well actually” annoying. Any light-hearted whatever topic will be filled with douchenoozles pearl clutching.
Wolf@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I live alone and actively wish I could die. I’m not hurting anyone but myself.
I am glad that it’s not cool with the younger generations, and that the whole vaping fad kinda died back.
Still though, the amount of self righteousness and lack of empathy from some non smokers really makes me glad that I will never have to hang out with those types of people.
Addiction is a hell of a thing, and when the alternative is worse than quitting, it’s extremely difficult to quit.
Taleya@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Smokers are addicts that it’s “morally acceptable” to shit on. The self righteous love it.
tomi000@lemmy.world 10 months ago
the amount of self righteousness and lack of empathy from some non smokers really makes me glad that I will never have to hang out with those types of people.
Youre seriously trying to guilt trip non-smokers here? Sure, addiction is horrible and some people are really struggling, but the majority of smokers I know dont give a shit that theyre actively killing others by blowing smoke into their faces on the street. Its ignorant and toxic behavior which is tolerated because of decades of brainwashing by the industry.
I have very little empathy for people who choose hurting others for their own convenience. Maybe start with empathy for poor people that struggle surviving because they are being exploited, or people that are systemically suppressed, then move on to empathy for smokers and other criminals.
TronBronson@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Would you like me to analyze your ethical decisions and judge you publicly? I am certain we can find some unethical behaviors that you partake in every day that hurt the environment and the people around you. I don’t have time in my day. It’s just a really weird thing to pick out and have a moral battle with. It’s a personal choice. It’s an addiction. There’s plenty of bad people out there. The cigarette smokers are not trying to hurt you intentionally.
zeezee@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
weird you ask for people to have empathy for poor and struggling people but then hate on smokers when those people are almost always smokers themselves - genuinely you’ll be hard pressed to find a struggling person that doesn’t smoke
maybe there’s something more to knowingly poising oneself for the fleeting feeling of control and comfort that doesn’t have anything to do with “people who choose hurting others for their own convenience”?
Wolf@lemmy.today 10 months ago
I’m not trying to guilt trip anyone. The self righteous superior people clearly dgaf what I think and the feeling is mutual.
… killing others by blowing smoke into their faces on the street.
Ah yes, the age old tradition of going up to a non smoker and blowing smoke directly in their faces. Fun times.
I’ve been a smoker for a very long time and I’ve never seen that happen, unless you count shotgunning cannabis, and that was always consensual.
Let’s get real for just a second. What you actually mean is occasionally you catch a whiff of cigarette smoke while outside. I’m sure you don’t go stand next to smoker, and I’m positive that they don’t “blow smoke into your face”.
Even in my backwards ass state, you can’t smoke indoors in public places, so it must be outside.
If you are so concerned about your health that you think simply smelling cigarette smoke and walking away will kill you, I sure hope you never leave the house, attend a BBQ, or go camping, because you will likely be exposed to other smells just as likely to kill you as that.
I have very little empathy for people…
That much is clear
Maybe start with empathy for poor people that struggle surviving because they are being exploited, or people who are systematically suppressed
Who says I don’t? Who says I don’t fall into those categories myself? Having empathy for one group of people does not preclude you from having empathy for others. I’ve never shot heroin or smoked crack, but I feel bad for people struggling with those addictions.
I don’t condone smoking indoors where non smokers live or around non smokers if they are outdoors and can’t walk away for some reason, I just don’t think someone should be treated as if they are human excrement simply because they are a smoker. You don’t agree, that’s fine as long as I’m not forced to be around you or have to listen to your sermons.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
hector@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
In shitty times like that you gotta have all the fun you can ehehe :) hope you’ll get better friend!
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
when the alternative is worse than quitting, it’s extremely difficult to quit
What are you referring to?
SippyCup@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Having to deal with the consequences of dropping a lifelong addiction most likely.
Quitting smoking fucking sucks. You don’t start to notice the positive effects of quitting for weeks after your last smoke, and you don’t realize until then how much the cigarettes are affecting your health. So it can really feel like you’re putting yourself through hell for very little benefit. When just having a cigarette feels like it can fix all symptoms you’re having now, it’s hard to keep going.
Wolf@lemmy.today 10 months ago
If I quit, I might live longer. Life is hell.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Honestly, smoke all you want as long as you don’t drink
GaetanLaberge@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’ve read last week that tobacco is radium rich and decomposes to polonium and radon - cigarettes are radioactive and it contributes to its nasty effects on the lungs
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why smoke when you can be addicted to the superiority complex that apparently comes with not smoking?
pero@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I live with two roommates in a flat. One of them smokes. Of course, he has to smoke indoors as well, as if the whole place is his (we got two balconies btw) . Can’t describe when I get home after a long day in uni to come back to a flat that smells like a smoking friendly bar.
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’ve smoked 3 packs a day by 25 y/o. Started with 17. stopped with 27. I don’t regret stopping, I feel better. But I miss it.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This would work better than cancer warnings on cigarette packs.
don@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I quit by vaping off of cigarettes, and then gradually reducing the nicotine in vape juice until I was vaping 0 nicotine for a couple of months, then stopped altogether. Been nicotine free for several years now, and no cravings.
andybytes@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Dear Turdz, Get over yourselves plastic taco bell redbull eatindrinking turdz… Not everyone hot boxes people around them when they smoke. Some of us are a clean people. Some of you smell and look like shit anyways.
Sincerely, Eat My Arse