Why do you smoke?
Do you care about the smoke others inhale near you?
Why Do You Smoke?
deme on 28/03/2021 - 19:33
Poll Options
- 233I don't smoke
- 3It was cool
- 10It makes me feel tough
- 6Other (I've posted below)
Comments
Gone are the days you could punch a dart in the office.
Can't punch anything in the office now. Not boss, secretary or darts…
Then why do they serve punch in work parties?
Why did you start in the first place?
Don't know why you got a neg so gave you a +
Just started in my teens with mates. Not peer pressure, just something to do I guess. A few of them smoked pot too.
It seemed to just work for me to break up tasks, or look forward to breaks so you could go for a smoke instead of just sitting.
I do suffer a bit of social anxiety but it is amazing how amongst smokers, that seems to fall away. It's like a bond or something lol
A lot of people don't understand that.
This goes especially for people that "socially punish" others.As a non-smoker, I'm of the few that does understand, and I am jealous of that bond/interaction. I found it difficult, but not impossible, to participate in these outdoor escapes through other methods without being awkward.
now that fewer and fewer people smoke, is it still worthwhile for the social interaction?
do none of the alternative things you could do to take a break appeal to you at all?
and none of the alternative ways to reward yourself after acomplishing something appeal either?
Hey mate,
Pretty much same boat as you.
I'd recommend reading or listening to Allen Carr's easy way to quit smoking book or audiobook.
It has helped a lot of people, and even though I didn't stop smoking, I've used his method to quit another addiction.
I need to listen to his book again and then smoking
How bad was your ozbargain addiction
He obviously hasn't quit that one lol
I don’t smoke (never have other than to try a few times) - but Nicotine is a stimulant and for some people in the short term it can reduce anxiety. Like any other drug a whole lot of people enjoy they sensation. It’s also both addictive and habit forming so often people often continue once they’ve started. Not as much anymore, but in the past it was also quite a social activity. There’s lots of quite rational reasons why people smoke despite the health risks - similar to how people drink alcohol, take recreational drugs, spend too long sitting, eat salty/sugary/fatty foods etc.
Nicotine is an excellent stimulant and has benefits beyond anxiety abatement.
I have never smoked a cigarette but regularly chew nicotine gum or use the spray, both as a mechanism for positive habit formation and for performance benefits. Research has found nicotine provides short-term boosts to attention and memory, improved reaction time (as well as inspection time and visual search), and faster performance on Stroop and word classification tests.
There’s also some great research on using nicotine as a habit-formation tool as a fast-acting stimulant for self-reward. Gwern has a write up here.
Yes, I enjoy nicotine too. I don't get anything out of the NRT stuff but Swedish snus or the nic pouches are enjoyable. Never formed an addiction to it, but certainly recognise the benefits and enjoyment.
I don't smoke. I don't do drugs either, otherwise I wouldn't know how far to fill up my bathtub🤪
Smoking Meats (Y)
Is that you, Zuck?
Used to smoke when I was younger, mostly when I was drinking. Then when I went backpacking for a year I started drinking every day so I'd buy a pack to go out with then have a few left that I'd smoke during the next day then buy another pack that night. It was just a habit and was hard to give up but haven't had a smoke in about 10 years and don't think I ever will smoke again.
Did a 15 year old make the poll choices?
cause I'm fully sick br0
The condescending tone really points it towards an older female archetype. Perhaps even a Karen?
I mean, even though I don't smoke I feel compelled to defend smoker's their freedom and right to do with their body as they desire. As long as the effects don't affect the rights and freedoms of others.
Here watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPwXASMYJ-8How is polluting the air we breathe with radioactive smoke not affecting the rights and freedoms of others.
Older female archetype
Sexist much? Also wrong.
Never made an accusation, only pointed out the archetype.
Though it really is not debatable that the poll answers were not done in good faith. It's derogatory. You've approached this with a conclusion first, and observation later. Definitely not scientific or impartial. That is my critique.PS: thanks for the neg, love it ; )
Do you drive a car OP? I smoke but don't drive a car, if you drive you're doing more to contribute to air pollution.
Here watch this:
but where did he get those figures?
As long as the effects don't affect the rights and freedoms of others.
second hand smoke
The only thing better than a good smoke (after a meal, after sex, stopped at a lookout during a long motorbike ride are some of the best I can think of) is not needing one for any of those things.
Well said.
Indeed.
If the best thing about a cigarette is that is kills the craving, imagine how good it feels to just never have a craving.
I used to love smoking. And everything about it - the lighters, the smoke cases, the tobacco pouches, the long ride just to get to a great smoking spot, etc.
Then someone once told me that more than loving smoking I dreaded not smoking. Sounds like a fine distinction but really it's night and day. When that penny dropped I decided to stop, failing a number of times.
Then I saw footage of a smokers lung. Yeah, I'd seen similar multiple times before, but with this new mindset it just had a different effect. I realised my insides were as filthy as I'd be on the outside if I played in mud and didn't shower for 15 years. One of the very few times I actually felt real shame in myself. That was the last day I smoked. Cold turkey, never looked back.
Good luck to all the smokers out there trying to quit. It's one of the best things I ever did for myself.
Enjoyable at times
Exactly my answer. If I can get hold of one, I'd enjoy it. Nicotine has a pleasure factor.
I smoke all of the time, but my neighbour called me out one night and told me to "stop (profanity) smoking"
I threatened to put them in the hospital though…😁
Do you take steroids?
😂
For all the neggers who are out of the loop, go read up on it here
At least I got your obscure reference, N2P. 👍😂
Clever !
Did you actually realise it was going in his window?
my neighbour called me out
Your (early morning) weight lifting neighbour?
Did you up end up joining?
Never smoked, so now I'm the annoying person laughing at the low cardio of my wheezy, high blood pressure peers.
Smoke meats,
Inhale cannabis via vaporisation (TGA Approved Vape)
Do not go near cigarettes.Where's the option: I want to shorten my healthspan and lifespan and increase my life insurance premiums
- I want to smell bad and hate having white teeth.
Do bongs count?
Depends if there's tobacco in the mix.
Sure is
I smoke cannabis
Burnouts?
I’ve never smoked but both my parents did. My dad had his first heart attack at 50 and struggled with his health until he died at 72. My mum died of lung cancer at 69. They had to keep draining fluid out of her chest to allow her to breath. She lasted 6 weeks from the time we knew she was sick.
Never smoked. Hate people smoking around me. What a nasty expensive habit.
It's a vice, much like gambling and alcohol.
Like those, it has facilitated a juicy consumption tax.
On stupidity, yes.
Fear of second hand smoke as displayed by OP has been with us what, maybe since the late 90s? Look at where we are today. Our pampered populace has handled the emergence of this current coronavirus completely irrationally and generations to come will suffer dearly for it. Sadly a noisy set who don't know how good they have it have so much spare time they see it fit to interfere in how others live their lives.
If my statement hurts your feelings ask yourself why.
Feelings aren't hurt, agree with you we did a terrible job with coronavirus but don't see any relationshiwith attitude towards smoking.
Australia is amoung the best placed I've travelled when it comes to having the right to not have some stranger blowing smoke in my face. (Paris was the worst.)
Not only is smoking a disgusting habit to do in the vacinity of a victim, but it costs me in medicare taxes.
On this front, I want to see a couple of other things that are a huge burden on society get taxed out of mainstream society: alcohol and gambling.
I don’t smoke. Grew up with parents that smoked 60 fo 80 per day each. I got enough second hand smoke to do me by the time I left home at 17.
I also watched as they smoked their retirement years away because that was when the health problems really kicked in. Wasn’t fun to watch.
I sort of feel sorry for some smokers, but it’s a choice. Provided they don’t do it up wind of me, or leave their filthy butts all over the place.I know they probably addicted but did they talk to you about smoking and addiction? Just curious what would heavy smoker do when they raise their kids.
Quitting smoking is probably one of the most bargain conscious thing you can do. The amount of money you'd save over your lifetime would be monstrous! Especially with the amounts we pay for tobacco in Australia!
Thats alot of $Eneloops.
Cant afford it
Pipe tobacco and fine cigars are two of lifes simple pleasures. Can't afford them much these days, but as an occasional treat it is a great way to relax. Cigarettes are chemical death sticks, and ever since Australia started using FSC papers I don't know how anyone can enjoy them.
Does vaping count? I do love a huff.
Don't smoke and used to not care what people did to their own bodies.
But since having kids I've become more conscious of second hand smoke, especially in public areas. Some people still treat outdoor areas of cafes as smoking areas. Also lots like to hang around entrances of shopping centers. Wish people would be more considerate.
This. Smokers stand at the entrance of a shopping centre right next to the NO SMOKING sign smoking.
A mate and I were introduced to smoking by a primary school principal who turned out to be a paedophile (but that's another story).
I smoked for 28 years. For the first 15 years or so, it was an enjoyable pastime. After that, it was because I was a slave to the addiction.
I didn't want to smoke, but was too afraid to quit knowing that some of those who have, continue to crave cigarettes (and even envy smokers) for the rest of their lives. Still, I tried to quit so many times before I was finally successful. I've now been durry-free for nearly 12 years - no cravings whatsoever. In fact, the smell of smoke now repulses me. I never had any issues with loss of taste or smell, so there was no benefit there - but my general health improved immeasurably. My slight smoker's cough and constantly clearing my throat stopped after a while, and my breathing became less shallow over time. I now like to think I'm as fit as the proverbial fiddle.
and you will have saved a ton of money.
Smoking is a habit which I broke by listening to Allen Carr's "Easy Way To Stop Smoking"
It took me 3 or 4 goes at, but I tried and tried again until I stopped.
You learn from your mistakes, and you learn, but you then try again.
All you have to do is not take that next smoke EVER!
It is hard, but smoking is harder on you and your wallet
If anyone wants to try that book, all you have to do is listen to it. You can even smoke while you listen to it.
So what have you got to lose? Only your life if you don't stop soon. And your wallet and health will be better off
It is a self extracting .exe file, so don't worry, it is not a virus or anything, it is clean; I have had it online for people since 2018
https://icedrive.net/0/a4VY7LMj2Hit runs in my family. badly.
someone i love in particular has quit smoking a dozen times
and for long periods sometimes - years evenbut they always start again
why?
they take any offer of support or help, any inquiry into their current habit and plans, and any mention of the effect on anyone else, very defensively and perhaps even as encouragement.
i've given up.
ditto for the rest of the family. whenever they meet up - christmas etc - anyone who has quit is a gonner.
and i never got to meet several relatives, because they died before i was born, from cancer probably caused by smoking.
The trouble is we are weak. My, personal, addiction is chocolate and I would have enormous trouble giving it up.
However, my parents smoked, inside the car, even though my oldest brother was a, severe, asthmatic.
it's really sad
I smoke the very occasional cigar. I find it enjoyable and the health risks and consequences are very very low for the amount of smoking I do. It has become expensive to the point where I think once I finish the cigars I have I won't buy anymore. To be honest they'll probably last years though.
I generally don't mind when people smoke around me/outdoors. I have two legs so I move if I find it objectionable. This technique has not failed me yet but may not work for everyone. Regarding my children I find the situations to be so transitory as to be unconcerning.
I have a hypothesis that the real reason people don't like second hand smoke outdoors is because it is a visual reminder that we are all of us constantly breathing in each others 'breathing out'. Not as much as vaping though. Man those things send a cloud of 'vapour' everywhere.
that the real reason people don't like second hand smoke outdoors
Or that inhaling radioactive smoke is harmful.
For those struggling to give up… don't!
Stop fighting your demons. Admit you are a smoker - but place parameters on it.
I will not pay $40 a pac, but when travelling I will buy a $2 pac and enjoy myself.
The moment I arrive back home, I stop cold turkey. Don't bring in smokes. Just quit.
Addicted I guess. I've given up a few times but always loved it. It's not necessarily the smoking, but a gratification thing after doing things…ahh, must be time for a smoke. I gave up drinking after 20+ years of it heavy but still have the darts. I'm switching to vaping now though, just waiting for my nicotine to arrive from NZ.
I always smoke away from other people unless they come near me.