• yesman@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I used to work with a guy that smoked and refused to wear a seat-belt. He carried a gun though, just in case his life was in danger.

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    All this woke ass anti cigarette shit! Y’all have obviously never enjoyed a cup of coffee and a smoke on a still summer morn. A post coital puff as your lover plays her fingers through your chest hair like smoke on the water. Good lord I miss cigarettes!

    But seriously never smoke, it smells terrible, will ruin your health, and is an all around terrible proposition.

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    I’ve smoked 3 packs a day by 25 y/o. Started with 17. stopped with 27. I don’t regret stopping, I feel better. But I miss it.

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    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.

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      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.

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    10 days ago

    Joke is on you - I only smoke in elementary schools, so my house is practically tar-free. Now what, science man?

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    Nearly all of my family smokes, and I fucking hate it. There were countless times, as far as I can remember, when I tried to do something with my dad, it was nice for a while, then he goes for a ‘quick smoke’ and stays there forever.

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    I actually enjoy a good cigar every once in a great while. I do not like smelling like smoke so I either go outside or to the “smoke shack” in my basement which has a fan that sucks all the smoke outside.

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      9 days ago

      Lemmy can be so stereotypically “well actually” annoying. Any light-hearted whatever topic will be filled with douchenoozles pearl clutching.