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.
They don’t stay still long enough to roll properly.
How do you even have papers big enough
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.
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.
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).
How do you smoke a kid? And what do they taste like?
They taste like unicorns
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…
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.
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.
This reads like a Pharma advert.
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.
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
quit 30 years now. quit because it was killing me. other corps are still trying.
Just one nail of many in my mom’s coffin
It was the primary nail in my mother’s coffin and her mother’s coffin too.
Knowing that addictive tendencies are hereditary, I hope you are OK & continue to be OK.
I’m so happy that I’m on 10 years without cigarettes.
This seems to ignore the important facts that smoking is A.) Cool and B.) Sexy.
It also makes you hot and famous.
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.
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.
Tobacco is one of the worst drugs ever. The best part is staving off the effects of addiction.
Montezuma’s revenge
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.
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 :)
this is probably a place that associates “borg” with the “resistance is futile” quote more than anything else
Boy do I love tobacco.
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.
Dutch tobacco? the whacky kind?
Halfsvere Shag. Finely shredded rolling tobacco like Drum or Ball Shag. I rolled my own smokes before I quit. The aroma, in my opinion, is dreamy, especially compared to American cigarettes.
If Bali Shag released incense sticks, I’d seriously consider purchasing them.
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