Smoking is an aquired taste and don't start either.
I smoked for 5 years before I quit. All of the money and time I wasted, all of the lunch breaks I could have spent in a warm office eating instead of in the cold having to have a smoke, being ashamed of how I smelled and keeping bottles of perfume on me at work and how funky my car smelled... Smoking the burn-outs of cigarettes because I was underaged, couldn't buy another pack and my 18+ friends were at work or unavailable. I put myself in a lot of danger bumming cigarettes off of creepy fucking weirdos...
The lengths that some people will go to feed an addiction are ridiculous, so don't risk it. Quitting is among the best decisions I have ever made but I wouldn't have had to have made it had I not decided to smoke in the first place. Sure, social smoking is great but it's not necessary and you not smoking might discourage them from smoking, you don't have to be a follower.
For the past two years, I woke up every morning to the sound of relentless coughing and hacking from my Aunt who has been smoking for over a decade, two packs a day. She constantly has "laryngitis" which is really code for, the smoking is fucking her up and she does not want to accept or admit that her suffering is her own doing.
I worked at a medical center while smoking a pack a day and saw hundreds of poor old folks struggling just to BREATHE. I would ask them if they smoked and they would tell me that they started before the FDA and Surgeon General recognized the link between smoking and breathing illness and they quit when the warnings came out but it was too late.
Every day I saw people struggling to survive with horrible health conditions that were probably disgusted at the injustice that God gave me a healthy body and I am blatantly and knowingly ruining it with cigarettes while they are struggling every day just to live.
My Aunt was given a healthy body, and she fucked it up. She struggles to breathe and her immune system is shot but she refuses to quit. She looks horrible, her skin is an absolute mess and the circulation to her hands is ruined, her fingers are turning purple. I couldn't end up like that and you don't want to either. For fuck's sake, don't get started.
IIN I don't have the feeling that if i don't smoke that i'll die
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Smoking is an aquired taste and don't start either.
I smoked for 5 years before I quit. All of the money and time I wasted, all of the lunch breaks I could have spent in a warm office eating instead of in the cold having to have a smoke, being ashamed of how I smelled and keeping bottles of perfume on me at work and how funky my car smelled... Smoking the burn-outs of cigarettes because I was underaged, couldn't buy another pack and my 18+ friends were at work or unavailable. I put myself in a lot of danger bumming cigarettes off of creepy fucking weirdos...
The lengths that some people will go to feed an addiction are ridiculous, so don't risk it. Quitting is among the best decisions I have ever made but I wouldn't have had to have made it had I not decided to smoke in the first place. Sure, social smoking is great but it's not necessary and you not smoking might discourage them from smoking, you don't have to be a follower.
For the past two years, I woke up every morning to the sound of relentless coughing and hacking from my Aunt who has been smoking for over a decade, two packs a day. She constantly has "laryngitis" which is really code for, the smoking is fucking her up and she does not want to accept or admit that her suffering is her own doing.
I worked at a medical center while smoking a pack a day and saw hundreds of poor old folks struggling just to BREATHE. I would ask them if they smoked and they would tell me that they started before the FDA and Surgeon General recognized the link between smoking and breathing illness and they quit when the warnings came out but it was too late.
Every day I saw people struggling to survive with horrible health conditions that were probably disgusted at the injustice that God gave me a healthy body and I am blatantly and knowingly ruining it with cigarettes while they are struggling every day just to live.
My Aunt was given a healthy body, and she fucked it up. She struggles to breathe and her immune system is shot but she refuses to quit. She looks horrible, her skin is an absolute mess and the circulation to her hands is ruined, her fingers are turning purple. I couldn't end up like that and you don't want to either. For fuck's sake, don't get started.