Do you smoke? (2022)

[a little annihilation]

I've never smoked anything and I probably never will.

[Blueberry Pie]

Never have and never will. I have no interest.

[Waist of Thyme]

If I'm in some kind of event then I smoke the competition 😎

[Guest Invisible Pumpkin]

I used to smoke, and I hope for real to never do it again. Like, seriously: never again! Hopefully!!  

 

My health improved so fast once I stopped smoking, it was amazing, the "funny" part is I never realized I was getting unhealthy while smoking, except after parties, that I was feeling like crap, but the improvement after quitting was very notorious, and that's my primary motivation, also saving money.

[The Sword]

The Sword took one puff off a cigarette a long time ago, and went "Nope, not The Sword's thing, thank you very much".

[Calliers]

On 6/25/2022 at 10:13 PM, Your Name said:

I used to smoke, and I hope for real to never do it again. Like, seriously: never again! Hopefully!!  

 

My health improved so fast once I stopped smoking, it was amazing, the "funny" part is I never realized I was getting unhealthy while smoking, except after parties, that I was feeling like crap, but the improvement after quitting was very notorious, and that's my primary motivation, also saving money.

See that's the bad thing with me, my best friend buys all the smokes, along with my other friends, they don't mind me bumming, I'd never spend money on my own smokes anyway, so that is a bad thing because it makes them readily available easily to me, I know that's no excuse but hey there you have it. Also it is hard to quit when all the friends you have except like 2 smoke.

[Guest Invisible Pumpkin]

2 minutes ago, Calliers said:

See that's the bad thing with me, my best friend buys all the smokes, along with my other friends, they don't mind me bumming, I'd never spend money on my own smokes anyway, so that is a bad thing because it makes them readily available easily to me, I know that's no excuse but hey there you have it. Also it is hard to quit when all the friends you have except like 2 smoke.

You can do a "rehab" on your own, like, "my people, I love you all, but we are not going to see each other in 6 months, all communications will be by videocalls, or whatever", you detox and then you can approach in a soft way, you reintroduce yourself slowly to the group and retire once you think you are going to fail, and when that moments arrives think about the benefits of not doing so and how well are you feeling now and how much you don't want to feel as you did in the past (if you feel as good as I did after quitting). Also ask your friends to refuse giving you of their smoke stuff. Most of my friends used to do drugs when younger and most of them refused to give me drugs or to let me do it because they knew how I am when I like something, and that worked for me  

 

You can do such if you don't currently need physical contact with your friends, otherwise, if you are in a moment in which you need much friend's support, then it's not such a good idea. 

[Calliers]

3 minutes ago, Your Name said:

You can do a "rehab" on your own, like, "my people, I love you all, but we are not going to see each other in 6 months, all communications will be by videocalls, or whatever", you detox and then you can approach in a soft way, you reintroduce yourself slowly to the group and retire once you think you are going to fail, and when that moments arrives think about the benefits of not doing so and how well are you feeling now and how much you don't want to feel as you did in the past (if you feel as good as I did after quitting). Also ask your friends to refuse giving you of their smoke stuff. Most of my friends used to do drugs when younger and most of them refused to give me drugs or to let me do it because they knew how I am when I like something, and that worked for me  

 

You can do such if you don't currently need physical contact with your friends, otherwise, if you are in a moment in which you need much friend's support, then it's not such a good idea. 

Yeah that would work, except the biggest smoker of them is my best friend. And me and my best friend are dependent on one another for emotional support, so I couldn't do that. But don't worry, I have a lot of willpower and self discipline, I have already promised myself I'm going to quit at 40 so it's all good. Plus I don't smoke much anyway.

[Guest Invisible Pumpkin]

Just now, Calliers said:

Yeah that would work, except the biggest smoker of them is my best friend. And me and my best friend are dependent on one another for emotional support, so I couldn't do that. But don't worry, I have a lot of willpower and self discipline, I have already promised myself I'm going to quit at 40 so it's all good. Plus I don't smoke much anyway.

When you can, if you can, but who said it was mandatory  to quit? No one!  

Good luck if you decide to do it! 

[Calliers]

4 minutes ago, Your Name said:

When you can, if you can, but who said it was mandatory  to quit? No one!  

Good luck if you decide to do it! 

I had a friend who lived to be 80 and he smoked a pack a day since the age of 14. Yet he had a clean bill of health all his life, it is just hit and miss whether you will have health problems because of it, it just "increases" the chance that you will have health problems, it isn't a guarantee, although that is no excuse to put yourself at increased risk for no reason. So I really do know where you're coming from.

[Guest]

Weed yes (filtered with a water pipe/bong), cigarettes no. I smoked cigs for about 10 years but that was about 10 years ago (with a couple relapses, like cigs when I'd drink alcohol sometimes). Vaping made me quit without even trying to quit, because I liked the taste more (burning leaves or fruit cocktail, the choice was easy). Vaped for a decade or so, until I stopped a couple months ago because it's not great for my teeth and I was super dependent on it and didn't like that. 

[Black Tourmaline]

team "smoke weed every day" since 1989.

[Gloomy]

I’ve been off weed the past few weeks since I’ve been looking for a new job and a lot of places still drug test for weed eventhough it’s technically legal where I live. I kinda miss it.

[Guest]

Nope, it's never interested me.

[Synchronicity]

I've smoked for about three years.  I blame a friend who kept offering me roll-ups, although she knew I didn't smoke. 😛  I can't even remember why I bought my first packet, but now I have about ten per day (or more if I smoke every half-hour instead of every hour).   I find it soothing to pop out the back and light up, especially with my anhedonia (smoking is one of the few things I enjoy doing).

 

I tried cannabis a few times but it did nothing, except for once, when I just felt drunk and really heavy.  I didn't like it.

[awadama]

Nah, it's just never appealed to me.

[Guest]

I tried smoking cigarettes and weed as a young teenager but I hated it so I never did it again.

[iff]

@Calliers

 

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