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      Tell me about it! I had to accept that part of quitting involved forever missing something, but knowing I’m better off without it.

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      Question: did memes like this help?

      Asking because I do street cleaning work in my neighborhood. And assholes keep throwing cigarette butts right on the ground.

      I’d love to find a solution to have them quit smoking, which will lead to less cigarette butts.

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        No. Having others say something you already know as a addict of a substance doesn’t help at all. We know we should stop. We all know that. The challenge of an addict is being willing to stop, and then being successful at stopping. Then abstinence.

        When I was a smoker, I watch my grandmother die from smoking related lung cancer right in front of my face, it didn’t change a thing. I’d go outside of the hospital and smoke all the same. I had to want to quit.

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        I agree with @RedditIsDeddit , it does not help. It may even make things worse. All this meme does is make me feel misunderstood and despised by others (While some of them don’t even understand what I actually go through). Tobacco is a terrible addiction. I quited for two years but fell again when I broke up with my ex. During those two years I dreamt of smoking at least once a week and gained 15kg. I grew up in France in the 90s and then the country did a pretty shitty job protecting kids (I started buying cigarettes for myself at 14 and it was easy because the tobacco shop owner didn’t bat an eye). I think the solution is prevention and children’s protection (by preventing access) to ensure that they don’t start. For those who already smoke the best is kind support not guilt and disdain. (And total bans don’t help either, we just feel left out when the government who now bans us from every place and treats us like awful weak-willed bastards initially incitated us to smoke two decades ago with adds and easy access).

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    I don’t think people smoke because they feel like shit doing so, quite the opposite imo

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        I remember people talking about how the other smokers at work were all the cool people. And like, yeah, you spend several minutes several times a day hanging out outside with them, with no work and nothing to do but shoot the shit. Of course you like them better, you spend way more time with them.

        Also you can all bond over your common terrible life choices, what’s not to like?

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    As a tobacco fiend I couldn’t ever get into smoking cigs. The only time in my life I’ve smoked consistently was when I was extra depressed and trying to microdose suicide. Guess I’m lucky

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      Man if only that was true. A neighbor across the street is a chain smoker, and I hear him hack up a lung every morning for a couple of hours.

      Yeah smoking will make you live shorter, but it’ll also reaaaally fuckin’ ruin your life leading up to that.

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    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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      So if he loses control of his car and is heading at a tree, he can shoot the tree in self defense.

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      My work buddy will only eat meals made from single-ingredient foods because of “all the extra shit they put in there”, and smokes a pack a week.

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            This is a bit disingenuous. When listed like that on food it’s because all of those were added in individually to create an ultra processed amalgamation resembling food. Otherwise ingredients would just say bannana.

            Processed foods have been clinically shown to be harmful to us. Bannanas seem to be okay

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              I guess it still leaves store-bought bread out I guess. Or yoghurt. Or milk

              But nah, I really do think it’s extreme. Pre-made food isn’t bad for you

              Either that or I’m just being European, idk

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                I think there’s a difference between prepared food and processed food. It can be a blurry line though.

                Maybe it is just being European though. American food standards are trash. The stuff allowed in our food is insane

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                  I wouldn’t call bread or yoghurt prepared instead of processed personally though, they’ve been through multiple chemical and biological processes.

                  Ultra processes foods is something that tends to be more appropriate I think. That’s stuff like chips or fast food. Though even that I consider fine to eat in moderation, and I, personally, do. Though I agree it would be better if I completely cut those out. I just tend to eat a lot of pre-made foods due to disability reasons (frozen pizzas, pastas, and the like)

                  But yeah, I do know that the US has some very lax food laws unfortunately. So maybe that is a big part of the difference

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            I thought you guys were talking about processed foods. Like potatoes > bread, that kind of thing.

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              I process my non-processed foods in hopes that it will kill me quick quicker. :p

              I’m so dark and cold inside. You wouldn’t understand.

              Huht huht huht

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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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      Yeah, it was fun for a while. The good thing is, so many people stopped smoking in the last few years, that smoking stopped to be this special social thing.

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        I never smoked, but had to hang out with smokers outside the office building at my first job, if I wanted a bit of break and chat with colleagues. I usually brought a glass of water with me.

        Happy that this is not the case anymore.

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    I quit by vaping off of cigarettes, and then gradually reducing the nicotine in vape juice until I was vaping 0 nicotine for a couple of months, then stopped altogether. Been nicotine free for several years now, and no cravings.

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        Meanwhile idiots like me ended up vaping all day long and when I went back to cigarettes my tolerance was through the roof and I smoked more than I ever did.

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          Gotta taper the nicotine down, even if you vape like a chimney out of habit, that way when you do try a cigarette again the nicotine is overpowering and gross

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            True! I was out of my element last year and ran out of juice due to poor planning. Resorted to sharing a smoke and felt like garbage for the next two days.

            I do still miss the smell, though. Probably just nostalgia from feeling like a Cool Guy for the first time in my life choking down a Camel unfiltered behind the 7-11.

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          There’s still hope. I still chain vape, but the amount of nicotine I use is but a whisper. It’s entirely a routine at this point. I’m figuring out positive actions I can do whenever I feel the need to suck on my robot dick.

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            Asexual non smoker here. I have bad news for you:

            The urge of sucking robot dick is truly universal and inevitable.

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              I’m hoping we make First Contact soon so I can make a healthy transition from Robot Dick to Alien Dick.

              Sorry, that’s insensitive.

              Xenophallus.