Also sucks that we're now living in a world where the tobacco industry is empowered like they haven't been in 50 years, to addict 12 year olds, engineer the product for addiction, and derail prevention campaiagns.
the possibility of getting lung cancer decades from now has never felt less like something that I'm not particularly worried about ever seeing the consequences of
My next door neighbor still smokes, his wife makes him go out to the garage to smoke. I see him out there and have to PHYSICALLY RESTRAIN MYSELF from going to bum one off him.
lol I just try to remember how by my early 30s, every winter cold turned into bronchitis and sometimes pneumonia. I don't miss that. But damn, that smell of a newly lit cigarette...
Hehe i ended up asthmatic (although not horribly so) but honestly, like you, there's probably some circumstance under which I'd say "fuck it" and go buy a pack. But I really don't miss those frequent, long-lasting respiratory infections.
I'm not sure you ever quit, you only stop. I stopped 25 years ago and just chatting about it makes me want one. If my wife dies before me, I'm buying a pack on the way to her funeral.
I WAS smoking. A lot. But I quit months ago because I intend to get surgery (unless it gets banned), and didn't want to be in withdrawal AND recovery. But fuck, I want to start back so bad.
I mean we're never going to be able to retire, beats waiting for alzheimers/dementia, there isn't going to be any Medicaid left to pay the standard $10,000 a month for nursing homes, etc.
I am a total mess in the head but made it to my forties with no wrinkles or lines. I could still be cast as a teen friend next door on a 90s sitcom. I still have booze for the head-messy part. Feels like I won that trade
asked in my 20's what I'd do if I knew my flight was about to crash. I said probably turn up my headphones and light a cigarette. Feels relevant to this.
When I was a baby, everyone kissed me with chaw or burnt tabbaki family. STOL my fio pouch of Red Man 2nd grade.
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One of my coworkers at the time was using disposable plastic filter tips on his own cigarettes to reduce the amount of "tar." He gave me one to try. The filter was blacker after one of my cigarettes than his was after a whole pack.
OKAY BUT THIS. I keep saying I’m ready to pick it back up as soon as I know shit is really over 😬 and if I didn’t wanna train to run for my life I’d be smoking RIGHT NOW. Nothing hits like a cig. It just doesn’t.
We roll our own. At over $10 a pack... ain't no way 2 people can sustain that habit. Will they be advising pregnant women to smoke to curb weight gain again?
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Not encouraging smoking.
Just pointing out facts.
I quit in 2014 and these days I keep wanting one.
I KNOW I KNOW.
I am VERY lucky that my lungs are in good shape, I don't have breathing issues, etc. But I used to get bronchitis EVERY YEAR.
If I'm ever told I'm terminally ill, I'm gonna buy a danged carton. I mean, why not? (also, smoke ALL the weed)
Guess it's good that research on pot has lost its funding?
I haven't even had a craving through all this somehow.
I know if I go back to drinking I'll never be of use to anyone and I want to find some way to help fight this shit.
that last bit is *it* - at least i’m not hungover or otherwise numb to it all. that wouldn’t do any of us any good.
YEEHAW!
... Oh dear...
Virtuous circle
(Aide whispers in ear)
Well, fuck.
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I quit smoking 16 years ago.
Omg the delicious smoking memories flooding my brain now 🤤
I can't with this guy most idiotic president ever put him back in jail now!!