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Starting on cigarettes again

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GoneCat · 11/07/2024 21:29

I used to smoke as a teenager and smoked until my 30s. It was getting to expensive so I changed to vape. The vape was the best thing ever for me. I was on the vape for a few years. Then I gave up by accident.

Then in January of this year I went through a patch of absolute fucking hell on this earth. My mother is aging and she wasn't behaving well. Then there was an evening in work were I got a load of cranky abuse from my employer over changing wet bedclothes because they wanted the wet ones just to remain on a bed.

That night after work I was utterly fazed to fuck. Everyone around me aleere cunts. I went straight to the nearest shop for cigarettes and a lighter and then to the pub. The first cigarette was horrible and so was the second one. The third one was not nice either. I decided not to have any more but I smoked the pack anyways too while ordering a new supply of vape stuff. I am vaping sense then.

I am in a place where I feel like I badly need to get back into some packets of cigarettes. Cunt bags left right and centre of me.

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flipflopsandsun · 11/07/2024 21:36

You must know that smoking isn't the answer to your problems.
Very obvious reasons why smoking and vapes are terrible for you.

Hateliars34 · 11/07/2024 21:39

Smoking will only lead you to an early grave, is absolutely disgusting, expensive and it harms everyone around you.

Find a more mature and healthy way to deal with life. Maybe look at meditation? Counselling? Doing a sport to release endorphins?

littleapplecottage · 11/07/2024 22:01

But smoking is only hurting yourself? Hurting your wallet and your health.

Can you find another outlet to your stress?

Running works for me, but maybe kick-boxing or Zumba - what's yours thing?

Devilsmommy · 11/07/2024 22:05

@GoneCat I'm a smoker and I completely understand. Sometimes a cigarette is just the thing you need. But maybe you just need to get away from all the cuntbags and then you can quit again 😊

Raspberrymoon49 · 11/07/2024 22:08

Go back to the vape rather than the cigs

olympicsrock · 11/07/2024 22:12

Why not search for gangrene and chronic limb threatening ischaemia? That’s what happens to women who continue to smoke .

or Emphysema or coronary heart disease or lung cancer.

Snugglemonkey · 11/07/2024 22:27

I totally get it. When I am under a lot of stress, the first thing that comes to mind is a cigarette. I even sometimes let myself have one. Just one. Because I hate it. It does not do what it used to.

You crave a state of mind, really. The stress build (you recognise this). The desire for the stress relief builds (you recognise this) so your mind tells you what it knows - a cigarette fixes this.

But that is old information, and if you have one, it is not a fix. That is disappointing. I know because 14 years later, I occasionally buy cigarettes (each time totally stunned by the price!).

Once I experience the light headed kind of nausea, I give the packet to the next homeless person I see. They trade them. I write it off as a reminder. I do not smoke anymore, they no longer give comfort of any kind. I am finished being a smoker. Sometimes I just need a reminder.

byteme1011 · 11/07/2024 22:38

Agree with @Snugglemonkey but get away from the c*ntbags

Timeforicecream · 11/07/2024 22:43

I did this too, started smoking again last year and my god I loved them this time around. Then just three weeks ago I decided I needed to wise up, I know it looks and smells disgusting and costs a fortune. I went cold turkey and haven’t smoked since.

There are times when I really really want to but I don’t. You can do it OP!!

LiterallyOnFire · 11/07/2024 22:44

Get some nicotine gum or lozenges. It's not worth the stink and the health fears.

3luckystars · 11/07/2024 22:49

I sometimes think about taking them back up too and am off them 20 years.

It feels like a very carefree, rebellious thing to do and I imagine it would make me feel better but actually it would just be a huge mistake and I don’t need them at all.

Neither do you. They are not going to solve your problems, just add to them. Then you would have the problems and be a smoker and also down money too. You would be punishing yourself, not anyone else.

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