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I lot of my friends growing up smoked. Like, my best friends. Most of my family, my mom and all of my older siblings, all smoked.
When I was something like fourteen or some shit, I took one drag and thought it was the most disgusting shit I had ever tasted on my life and an immensely unpleasant experience. Never touched them again, never even wanted to. It's honestly one that baffles me.
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I always liked the passive smell, and when I first tried it, it tasted great.
On top of that you do get high from it, and the first times are very strong.
So, consider yourself lucky, that you don't like the highly addictive psychostimulant that can be legally bought everywhere. It's kinda like you would find coffee's taste and smell disgusting.
I do find coffee's smell and taste disgusting, actually. I hate coffee.
Initially people start doing it to fit in and look cool, then the nicotine's tentacles creep around your brain and hook them in.
I tried it once and never look back, it's the worst recreational thing i ever do, the second being alcohol. I'm more intrigued on why people even start to discover and smoke this stuff, they got to be the most masochistic person in history.
Wish I never smoked, but over 4 years since my last and no cravings. Always was afraid that cravings would never go away, that hungry anxiety was awful, even if it was dull after a time
Terrible addiction that isn’t worth it
Little over four years smokeless for me too, after 20 years of smoking. High five for the quitter crew!
Sadly I still get cravings almost weekly.
10-year smoker here who quit 5 years ago. My cravings were gone after about a month. I had nightmares about smoking occasionally for the first year or so though. I really didn't wanna fall back into the trap
I attribute the lack of cravings mostly to quitting using "the easy way to quit smoking" book by Allen Carr. It really helped how I thought about smoking as a whole. It's designed to be read while you're quitting, but maybe even 4 years later it could help you - worth a shot I'd say.
I did get them the first time I tried quitting, which lasted 1 or two years before I started up again
I don’t think I’ll ever smoke again this time though. Combination of reasons, I have kids now, who I don’t want affected by it. I ve really gotten into cardio since then, and I’m starkly aware of how it affects your lungs. Also this second time I quit I had a minor health scare where my mouth started sloughing a bit. Wasn’t just the smoking causing that, I also was drinking some very acidic juice and was reacting badly to a toothpaste ingredient, but it did help me to quit
1 year with nothing, after years of vape only and a long time with smokes.
I still get cravings every once in a while, especially with certain actions. Recently It was playing a record, I used to sit and listen to music and chug on my vape and now I sit and do nothing, so the craving comes back.
Haha oh man, a smoke on the move used to be my jam. Smoke when leaving a place. Smoke before I go in the building. I guess that happens ubiquitously enough that the correlation gets burned through pretty quickly
I liked my sister's answer when someone offered her cigarettes to try.
"If I don't like it, it will be a shitty experience. If I do like it, that's much worse. There's no way for me to smoke a cigarette and win."
I mean as cliche as this seems to be an an answer, I think the best solution is to not try them in the first place. You can't lose if you never play the game.
Yeah. It's weird that just saying "no" really is the best move. We just shouldn't count on it when teaching kids about substance abuse.
Just like with abstinence-only sex education, basing the entire strategy around just one method of preventing an unwanted outcome is dumb.
Life is shitty enough without adding a serious addiction in top of it, I'm good, thanks
Just smoke tomorrow too, see where it goes
I had the same experience, I think I even tried a few times over the course of years after I’d forget how bad the previous experience was. Each time it was the same, “Why the fuck do people do this? This fucking sucks.” And I grew up in a household where my Dad smoked constantly throughout his life, I had been around cigarette smoke for awhile.
There’s other addictions I can understand, and even have myself, but smoking is such a harmful, nasty addiction that I can’t get how anybody can willingly do that to themselves repeatedly.
Humans are weird.
I get that it's not for everyone, but damn... still kinda wild to hear people outright hating the experience.
Granted, I started smoking when I was 13. Heard it helped people feel less stressed, so when the opportunity arrived I figured why not give it a try.
Quickly got up to a pack or two a day and loved every drag for nearly 10yrs until my future wife asked me to stop. I quit cold turkey for a few years, but missed it the whole time. Eventually wound up settling on vaping as a compromise.
Tbh, the only part I don't miss is the dent it left in my wallet.
Doesn't it calm people down because the cravings are aggravating them, though?
no, it does actually calma you down when you first smoke, but you quickly build up tollerance so you end up smoking just to calm down the cravings, and eventually you need to ramp up usage
Nicotine is an interesting poison as rather than killing the bugs the plant sloooows them down and the nicotine stnkifies them makin em more attractive to predators.
So yeah it's calming
It's very common for people to get dizzy, blood drain from head, followed by cold sweats and even passing out. I've smoked for like 20 years now at 37 and I remember 3 kids who passed out just like I described smoking in highschool.
Nicotine.
If you don't smoke Tarrlytons, fuck you.
Easy to become a victim of the advertisement glamour.
I rarely smoke when I drink a bit too much and I always regret it the next morning because my clothes stink, my hands stink and my mouth tastes like a damn ash tray.
I've moved to vaping, but every so often I'll have a few too many and crave a cigarette. I regret it about two puffs in every time, shit's gross - and I say this as someone who smoked for almost 20 years.
I was once in a band with 3 guys who chainsmoked. Locked in a shitty practice room in the bass players house with the windows and doors closed for hours at a time twice a week or more.
After a year of this I would get nicotine fits if we didnt practice.
When I first started smoking by stealing from my dad's packs in junior high, I didn't even know you were supposed to inhale it. I thought you just tasted the smoke, holding it in your mouth, and then blowing it out because my grandpa smoked cigars and remembering him saying that's how it's done as a kid.
Be me.
Be 12.
With my friend, steal a pack of ciggies from his mum.
Smoke a couple in low ground between two fields, surrounded by Meadow Pipits and Chiffchaffs.
Didn't bother for a fair few years after that. Never really got into it, but enjoyed the acceptable work breaks that came with it for a while. Haven't smoked more than a cigar or two a year for the last 25 years.
I actually enjoy a good cigarette, but I still don't understand how folks get addicted. Smoking more than one in a single day always makes me feel like shit. Even just one cigarette and I feel like I need to take a shower. I smoke a cigarette now and then for fun, and couldn't imagine doing more.
I smoke like a pack a year. I keep it in a Ziploc bag in the fridge to keep them fresh. Been doing this for about 19 years...
This reduction of addiction is surprising to see here. You can literally replace your scenario with anything, booze, heroin, junk food, whatever and it may be easier to understand. You have already crossed the barrier on enjoyment, so why is it a stretch for you that people might overindulge. I'm sure there are things in your life that you overindulge in.
Our brains and bodies are vastly complex and all of these things have chemicals that alter your brain chemistry, everyone's brain is different and these chemicals affect people differently.
I actually enjoy a good cigarette, but I still don’t understand how folks get addicted.
Ah. Well perhaps you should read some neuropsychology?
Same, except from the pipe for me. A nice high quality tobacco from my favorite pipe really hits the spot sometimes, plus it makes me feel classy as hell.
Same except I just grab some cigarillos from time to time. Some people are just more susceptible to chemical addictions then others, we're probably on the "Not Very Susceptible" end of the spectrum lol
I never even bothered trying it. Expensive, smelly, bad for your health, it's all downsides.
the only good cigarette is a drunk one
Nicotine levels have been increased to compete with vapes.
I used to get a hankering for cigarettes once in a blue moon after college. I kept a pack of Marlboros for such occasions. Two drags into one of those loathsome little death sticks and I remembered why I never smoke the damn things. Haven’t smoked a cigarette in 6 years and I can count the number of cigarettes I’ve smoked in my life on one hand.
Same but with beer (and most alcoholic drinks really)
the first cigarette of the morning always feels like that