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[-] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

When I get super terrible, a single tablet (2mg) can make me feel better. Doesn't even make me feel like I need another. Fine for weeks

They called it a peace pipe for a reason. We're the ones that went and capitalized on it and made it horrible and deadly addictive.

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago

Smoking a cigarette feels like you’ve been standing your entire life and you just sat down. Then it feels like nothing and the world hurts when you don’t have it

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

I haven't smoked in 15 years, and I could start again tomorrow. I love smoking and still miss it.

[-] FGoo@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 days ago

Thats a good streak, dude. Keep going :)

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Yah, remembering the feeling of being knifed in the chest still keeps me from going back.

[-] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Have you tried smoking cigarettes instead of knives?

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

I quit smoking cold turkey almost 10 years ago. I promised myself I can start smoking again when The Fall happens.

[-] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

That's good! The nitrites in cold turkey are probably super bad for your lungs.

I'll see myself out....

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

4 years free myself!

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Well done, I know that feeling even though I'm only on my 2nd year without cigarettes after smoking for 30 years.

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

This is actually a very good description of how a shot of heroin feels, when you have a habit. It's just much moreso than cigarettes.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Awww man I was really looking forward to heroin in my later years.

[-] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Five, hundred, cigarettes.

[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Because nothing matters. Never gonna retire. Never gonna own a home. Couldnt afford kids even if i wanted them. Why worry about "being productive" into my fuckin 80s?

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago

You already said it kills you faster then if you didn't smoke.

[-] Googledotcom@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There’s something pleasurable about exhaling mist out of your mouth.

plus potential undiagnosed adhd self med maybe? I always could solve any problem if I only had a smoke to think. It’s like some kind of unlocking full potential

It’s been 10 years since my last and I still miss that full potential feeling. I feel like I live with a constant fog on my mind without it

It’s very hard to part ways with the clarity that nicotine gives me. As if teleported to some dimension where everything is easy suddenly and very clear. Time slows down

Fuck maybe it’s worth going back just for that clarity. I never really recovered since quitting

I thought I could overcome it with sheer force of will and my brain will somehow get used to it and work fine without nicotine but that never happened

I miss that kind of focus

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

It's not worth going back! I'm trying to quit, my advice to you don't think about the high. Think about how expensive it is, how gross it smells, how much time it takes from your day, how much easier it is to breathe. The high is fleeting, the damage to your body is permanent.

[-] Googledotcom@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah I know I know. I even can’t do it like medically I am not supposed to more than usual person.

I need some kind of substance that works like nicotine, is easy to obtain and has less or no health risks

Probably gotta go to psych at last but I procrastinate on that since years

I was thinking recently let’s go and enroll in a course to become air traffic controller but I need nicotine for that. To pass tests and to work

Thing is I can’t even take the nicotine pills technically because I am in thrombosis risk group.

If I was usual medically person I would just take nicotine pills and deem the eventual risks completely worth having actual ability to focus and work. Without nicotine my career life is depressing if it even exists

I underestimated how this vile habit helped me pass to the top university but to be honest when I was studying I smoked like a lot, more than I ate and started to feel so fucking terrible that I switched education to something easier that I already knew how to do

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

Just use patches man

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

Smoking not only kills you, but those around you too.

I still don't understand why they don't outright ban cigarettes entirely.

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Tried in high school. I wanted to be able to smoke even if i didnt have or couldnt smoke weed. Thankfully a couple days in cigarettes made me vomit and I stopped without looking back. Wish I had been able to do that the first time alcohol made me vomit.

[-] moonlight6205@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Most smokers want to quit or at least they say they do.

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