quit 30 years now. quit because it was killing me. other corps are still trying.
I’m so happy that I’m on 10 years without cigarettes.
I stopped smoking a while ago now… but boy do I miss it sometimes lol.
Don’t smoke kids.
Tell me about it! I had to accept that part of quitting involved forever missing something, but knowing I’m better off without it.
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…
Still waiting on eventually. Haven’t smoked in over 10 years. Every now and then when I see them at the gas station I start craving them
How I feel about my (soon to be ex-) wife…
I yearn for that strength. I’m sure I’ll quit one day
You can do it! My advice is to take it one day at a time and remember that nicotine cravings go away after about 10 minutes.
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.
I agree with @RedditIsDeddit , 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).
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.
They don’t stay still long enough to roll properly.
How do you even have papers big enough
How do you smoke a kid? And what do they taste like?
They taste like unicorns
I don’t think people smoke because they feel like shit doing so, quite the opposite imo
It’s like the inverse of running. Running feels like trash in the moment, but great after
they said, while rolling E and smoking weed and drinking borgs :D
Drinking borgs?
Isn’t that what they call them? I’m not 20 anymore so I’m not as hip.
this is probably a place that associates “borg” with the “resistance is futile” quote more than anything else
Pffft these kids would die if they drank rocket fuel aka pour all the hard liquor you have into one horrific drink and skull it down.
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I didn’t know about this, and I probably would have been better off without it. Thank you, though :)
Tobacco is one of the worst drugs ever. The best part is staving off the effects of addiction.
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.
This reads like a Pharma advert.
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.
tfw you share balcony with smoking neighbour and all smoke goes to your room where you work…
It would suck if windows didn’t close.
Not everyone has decent ventilation.
Specially this guy
Yeah, I guess things would really suck for the person that only has 1 window too.
Might be that the only one that gets any fresh air into their office is the one closest to the smoker.
I think a box fan is like $20. Have one that blows air OUT of the window that’s closest to the smoker… have a different box fan bringing fresh air IN from a different window.
JFC it’s like everyone enjoys being helpless.
Still increases your electricity bill. Why can’t the smoker just have the common decency to not smoke next to an open window? I know I never do, it’s just rude.
Hey… I 100% agree with you there. The smoker is certainly an ass-hat, but in this life we can only control our own actions; not the actions of others.
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.
Where I live, you’re not allowed to smoke in bars or restaurants.
Also in the outside section? If yes I applaud your government for implementing the rule properly, not half-assed like in Germany.
Good question. Thinking about it, I believe you can still smoke if you’re eating outside at a restaurant.
I thought you wheren’t allowed to smoke inside anymore in Germany?
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.
He could mean terraces (outside)? That still bugs me a lot…
This seems to ignore the important facts that smoking is A.) Cool and B.) Sexy.
C) good social activity
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?
Actually true, in a myriad of bad effects.
It also makes you hot and famous.
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
Yes, smoking takes years off your life.
But they’re the years at the end…
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.
That’s the joke.
I used to work with a guy that smoked and refused to wear a seat-belt. He carried a gun though, just in case his life was in danger.
So if he loses control of his car and is heading at a tree, he can shoot the tree in self defense.
Ah yes. The Maple Doctrine.
“Failure to Stop” drill.
You’re being ridiculous. Of course the gun is to offset his momentum. Couple shots should do it. \s
My work buddy will only eat meals made from single-ingredient foods because of “all the extra shit they put in there”, and smokes a pack a week.
Your work buddy isn’t wrong with that tbh
So no banana then, huh?
This is a bit disingenuous. When listed like that on food it’s because all of those were added in individually to create an ultra processed amalgamation resembling food. Otherwise ingredients would just say bannana.
Processed foods have been clinically shown to be harmful to us. Bannanas seem to be okay
I guess it still leaves store-bought bread out I guess. Or yoghurt. Or milk
But nah, I really do think it’s extreme. Pre-made food isn’t bad for you
Either that or I’m just being European, idk
I think there’s a difference between prepared food and processed food. It can be a blurry line though.
Maybe it is just being European though. American food standards are trash. The stuff allowed in our food is insane
I wouldn’t call bread or yoghurt prepared instead of processed personally though, they’ve been through multiple chemical and biological processes.
Ultra processes foods is something that tends to be more appropriate I think. That’s stuff like chips or fast food. Though even that I consider fine to eat in moderation, and I, personally, do. Though I agree it would be better if I completely cut those out. I just tend to eat a lot of pre-made foods due to disability reasons (frozen pizzas, pastas, and the like)
But yeah, I do know that the US has some very lax food laws unfortunately. So maybe that is a big part of the difference
I thought you guys were talking about processed foods. Like potatoes > bread, that kind of thing.
I process my non-processed foods in hopes that it will kill me quick quicker. :p
I’m so dark and cold inside. You wouldn’t understand.
Huht huht huht
When he sees that nicotine feller, he’s going to shoot him right between the eyes.
Poor Nic (a teen):
Yeah! Merica!
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.
This is how I finally quit for good.
Meanwhile idiots like me ended up vaping all day long and when I went back to cigarettes my tolerance was through the roof and I smoked more than I ever did.
There’s still hope. I still chain vape, but the amount of nicotine I use is but a whisper. It’s entirely a routine at this point. I’m figuring out positive actions I can do whenever I feel the need to suck on my robot dick.
Asexual non smoker here. I have bad news for you:
The urge of sucking robot dick is truly universal and inevitable.
I’m hoping we make First Contact soon so I can make a healthy transition from Robot Dick to Alien Dick.
Sorry, that’s insensitive.
Xenophallus.
Gotta taper the nicotine down, even if you vape like a chimney out of habit, that way when you do try a cigarette again the nicotine is overpowering and gross
True! I was out of my element last year and ran out of juice due to poor planning. Resorted to sharing a smoke and felt like garbage for the next two days.
I do still miss the smell, though. Probably just nostalgia from feeling like a Cool Guy for the first time in my life choking down a Camel unfiltered behind the 7-11.
Why smoke when you can be addicted to the superiority complex that apparently comes with not smoking?
It’s not a complex if it’s true.
I would like to submit exhibit A in to evidence your honor
I can’t hear you over my 100% lung capacity. I am breathing so good right now. You wouldn’t even believe.
If your lungs are making that much noise you might have a medical condition that you should go get checked out, lungs aren’t supposed to be that noisy.
It was clearly a figure of speech
Reading comprehension is one of the first things to go with acute lack of oxygen
Should check that out with doctor, just saying
Take a deep breath, it was just a joke.
You sound like you need a cigarette.
Talking about taking deep breaths…
This guy BREATHS
Yeah that shit annoys the fuck out of me. Society really needs to change the way we treat people who smoke.
They did… and it caused most people to stop smoking. Building that social stigma was like one of the best health marketing campaigns in history.
I say this as someone who used to and still does smoke time to time.
Many people that smoke are already mentally unbalanced. Making them a shamed pariah is doing little for their mental health, it is just forcing them to hide yet another bit of their unhappiness.
Not smoking is healthier, no doubt, but the majority of people that still do it undoubtedly have enough shame going on. Self hate comes into play, as well.
I smoke. Shame and self hatred is exactly right.
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Gives you more lung space to inhale your own farts!
Even our farts smell better when you don’t smoke.
You’re both being pretty shitty guests, please just leave my daughter’s birthday party.
You’re going to have to call the police, buddy.
Many people wouldn’t mind other people smoking, as long as it doesn’t impact non-smokers. But the thing is, smokers aren’t really all that considerate about non-smokers. I attended a couple festivals over the past week. It’s really annoying when you stand in packed crowd as a non-smoker and someone starts smoking. Sure, we are outside, but it literally makes breathing harder, especially for asthma patients.
I don’t really see a way in which smokers and non-smokers can coexists without the smoker impacting the non-smoker. Even if you only smoke outside of the restaurant/bar, it will still be annoying and unhealthy to people entering the restaurant or bar.
I’m very curious with how things will develop in France, where they banned smoking in area’s where children are present, which is virtually everywhere.
I completely agree, ads like this that say " it’s bad for you", “you’ll hurt the ones you love”, “your family will miss you”, it’s all just anti-suicide pepole thinking they’re soo much better than everyone else
blowing ones brains out shouldn’t be portrayed as a bad thing, we need change and show we respect and accept suicide!
Also as a child of a heavy smoker, fuuuuuuck people who smoke around others, i don’t care if you want to harm yourself, but stay the fuck away from other people while you do it
Dude you’re projecting your daddy issues onto other people and being incredibly up front about it.
Didn’t say it was my father, are you projecting your daddy issues perhaps?
Turns out we all were low resolution projectors
Surprise I guess
