I give up.

[Jeremy]

^^ Yep. Your mind is weak. You could atleast smoke weed, you will get high unlike with ciggs you get nothing. I hate ciggs btw.

 

[tHuG $TyLe]

My friend is in the process of trying to quit. I told him if he smokes again I will Knock him the FUCK OUT! BITCH.

 

[Prize Gotti]

Lol @ all the anti smokers, you people are so wrong.

Its is possible to enjoy the act of smoking. When we are talking about enjoying the feeling of smoking, we're talking about the physical sensation of inhaling and exhaling the smoke. Nicotine doesn't cause physical sensations. I often smoke to to pass time, I'm in not need of a fag, but it gives me something physical to do.

Also spurting off about health risks does not bother us, if it did, we wouldn't smoke.

 

[_carmi]

What you don't realize is that you miss all that because the nicotine has become associated to it. Your brain gives you a virtual nicotine effect from just putting the cigarette in your hand, without any exposure to nicotine. So your body will crave holding it and flicking the ash. (You crave $12.50 a pack.:angry And more than just the nicotine does that. Take your pick out of about 4,000 chemical agents. Besides DNA damage which could lead to cancer, smoking permanently alters genes that affect all kinds of processes, turns them off or on, and qutting smoking doesn't seem to change them back.

what he said :thumb:

i have a friend that has quit almost a year ago. she started smoking a month ago, it's disappointing.

 

[S O F I]

The problem with people like ill-matic is that they assume they need cigarettes to calm them down. I smoked my fair share and quit about 2-3 weeks ago, but I never lit up a cigarette to calm down. Maybe that's why when I'm stressed now, I don't get the urge to light one up. I'm happy about that. However, the urge comes to me when I'm rather hungry, when I have coffee, and when I drink.

But, I fully agree with Tommy and Jokerman.

 

[The.Menace]

The.Menace, I understand what youre saying but you're wrong in my case. I miss the actual ACT of smoking. I miss having it in my hand, I miss the crackle it makes when you light it in the cold of night, I miss rolling the smoke out of my mouth and nose, I miss flicking the ash, I miss puffing on it, I miss flicking the butt away. I miss SMOKING. I dont miss the nicotine, I miss the actual act of smoking, I always really enjoyed it.

See I don't doubt that you enjoy it, but I keep sayin that it's an effect of nicotine, like jokerman said.... it makes you feel somehow good or reliefed.... if you deny the effect of the smoke on your system, you'r lyin 2 yourself. It's biology, simple as that. See like I said, even I blow one up ever now and then, I do understand what you describe, but it's not only a habit like that.

pz.

 

[dillaxx]

i quit smoking the hookah... does that count?? i find out one of my roommates that has the hookah is a nasty fuck.. chances are he used the hose at a buttplug... but no seriously, i hate him now.. and i refuse to smoke with him and as a result i stopped smoking all together.. it's been over a month now...

nothing like cigs though..

 

[Tha_Wood]

i havnt really smoked for a long time. i was never addicted to it and i only really did it when i was drunk, it kind of enhanced the drunk feeling i think

 

[_carmi]

i can't understand why people start smoking. actually i know why most people do it, most people do it to do it socially. but then nicotine kicks in and the person is done. my mother was able to quit for 4 years and then started back. it seems like people's body can't forget the nicotine no matter what. it sucks. nicotine is a very sneaky drug. people will always say how they miss smoking it for smoking it, but at the end of the day, it's all about the nicotine.

i can't understand why smoke nicotine when it doesn't give you any effect per se. weed gets you high, nicotine gives you nothing, it actually takes away your independancy of it.

all this to say, i miss the weed.

 

[dillaxx]

random personal fact: every girl i've seen that smoked weed more than once other than to experiment for a little bit, ended up being a shallow, emo-gothic girl... she dressed in all black and pierced her nose... from one end through the other...

 

[Da_Funk]

LOL @ everyone saying I Like smoking not the nicotine. I guess coke heads just like chopping the lines, doing gummies, rolling the bill nice and tight and the feeling coke gives going up your nose. They're not at all addicted to the coke though.

 

[Maverick]

Its been two months, I cant take it any long, BRB Im going to go to the corner store for a pack of smokes....

your looking at it all wrong.

you're not "giving up", that would be like quitting, and that doesnt sound good.

instead, you're starting!

 

[Preach]

Wood you remind me of one of the guys from Shaun of the Dead.

lmao.

 

[Preach]

LOL @ everyone saying I Like smoking not the nicotine. I guess coke heads just like chopping the lines, doing gummies, rolling the bill nice and tight and the feeling coke gives going up your nose. They're not at all addicted to the coke though.

Basically.

I miss the act of smoking too though. But hash, not cigs.

Lol @ all the anti smokers, you people are so wrong.

Its is possible to enjoy the act of smoking. When we are talking about enjoying the feeling of smoking, we're talking about the physical sensation of inhaling and exhaling the smoke. Nicotine doesn't cause physical sensations. I often smoke to to pass time, I'm in not need of a fag, but it gives me something physical to do.

Also spurting off about health risks does not bother us, if it did, we wouldn't smoke.

those very physical sensations are enhanced/amplified by the nicotine itself, that was Jokerman's point.

 

[Rukas]

LOL @ everyone saying I Like smoking not the nicotine. I guess coke heads just like chopping the lines, doing gummies, rolling the bill nice and tight and the feeling coke gives going up your nose. They're not at all addicted to the coke though.

Youve never been a drug user have you?

I know dudes that prefer to shoot a particular drug because they just enjoy the social aspect of it more.

I havent smoked in two months, the nicotine is no longer in my system, thus my wanting to smoke is not a chemical reaction, its purely mental and has nothing to do with the drug nicotine.

For the record, I do miss the act of chopping lines, rolling a bill, or snorting it off a girl nipple or navel. I miss that, and I havent done coke in ages, it has nothing to do with the drug, I just had fun DOING it.

 

[Rukas]

What you don't realize is that you miss all that because the nicotine has become associated to it. Your brain gives you a virtual nicotine effect from just putting the cigarette in your hand, without any exposure to nicotine. So your body will crave holding it and flicking the ash. (You crave $12.50 a pack.:angry

I dont agree, this can be said about ANYTHING. Its like saying I miss fucking a particular girl because of the chemical reaction in my brain instead of saying I miss sticking my dick in her ass and then watching her suck it off. I miss the actual ACT. Everything has a chemical reaction. Or on the flip side, do I miss playing basketball because of what the activity does to my body, or do I just miss playing ball because it was fun? I miss playing ball because it was FUN. I miss smoking because it was FUN.

And more than just the nicotine does that. Take your pick out of about 4,000 chemical agents. Besides DNA damage which could lead to cancer, smoking permanently alters genes that affect all kinds of processes, turns them off or on, and qutting smoking doesn't seem to change them back.

Sweet. Heres hoping that it switches some bad genes off then. No body ever looks it from that point of view do they?

 

[Euphanasia]

^lol i smoke about 3 packs of cigs a week. i quit once for a few months and went right back. however, i basically only get the urge to smoke when i'm drinking. if i don't drink, i'll have like maybe one cigarette in the evening. i never understood how people could have a smoke in the morning. i find that disgusting. but yeah, i need to quit soon. i'm paranoid i'm gonna get cancer.

 

[Jokerman]

I dont agree, this can be said about ANYTHING.

No, it can’t be said about anything because nothing else is as potent a neurotoxin as nicotine. You can't compare doing something that is fun and whatever brain and body effects it produces, with the over-the-top psychoactive stimulation of nicotine. It's so potent that it brainwashes users--as we can all see with your post--into intellectually trying to defend it's use with paper-thin arguments so glaringly false that a three-year-old would be embarrassed to walk down the street and shit in his pants with nothing but... (ok I'm playing now

But you know it does seem like addictive stuff blocks otherwise smart people's intellectual abilities when they come to think about their use of such stuff. It's like built-in insurance to keep one addicted. A blind spot. Religious belief has the same effect.

 

[Euphanasia]

It's like built-in insurance to keep one addicted. A blind spot. Religious belief has the same effect.

now that's real talk

 

[Jokerman]

Preacher- "Are you saved, son?"
Me- "Yes, I smoke."