WWhy do you continue smoking knowing its unhealthy and disgusting?

[Jmmmfi4]

I absolutely do not understand people who have this repulsive habit

[Orion84]

As someone who has been trying to quit for a while, it's due to chemical dependancy (i. e. addiction). Your brain literally rewires itself to need the nicotine.

It's hard to explain to someone that hasn't gone through it, but withdrawal is absolutely horrendous. I want to quit, and am trying to quit, because I know it's unhealthy, but quitting is basically torturing yourself on purpose.

I wish I had never started smoking, because quitting is literally the hardest thing I've ever done. Most people require several attempts before they're able to quit, because your brain & body are dependant on it, and essentially won't let you do it.

It's like being lost in the desert, and dying of thirst while there's an oasis right in front of you, and you have to force yourself not to drink. It feels like that every day, for weeks. The urge to drink gets stronger every day, and if you take even a single drink, it starts all over again.

Going through withdrawal makes it difficult to function, but you still have to make it through the day. You still have obligations; you still have to go to work. So the temptation to stop the withdrawal just gets stronger.

Addiction is a bitch, and I have nobody to blame but myself, for starting smoking in the first place. I was a dumbass teenager, at the time. Most smokers agree that it's a disgusting, unhealthy habit, and most of us don't want to continue smoking. It's just very, very difficult to quit.

[WonderingManII]

I never smoked a day in my life.

[Jmmmfi4]

Me either never will

[sage2021]

Smoking helps with anxiety and pain -

[Jmmmfi4]

And lung cancer

[sage2021]

@Jmmmfi4

I am 71 years old. When I was growing up, there weren't any warnings about cigarette smoking at all. Almost everyone smoked 🚬 cigarettes 🚬 back then, but they became addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes.
Since there weren't ANY warnings about cigarette smoking until the 70's or 80's, by then many people were so addicted to cigarettes that they couldn't stop smoking.
It's not that they are ignorant people, had there been warnings about cigarette smoking in the 50's, 60's, - and maybe the 80's perhaps there wouldn't be so many smokers to this day.
Some people my age are life long smokers because it is harder to kick heroine than it is to kick the cigarettes! 🚬
I recently has a friend of mine who I had been friends with since we were 14. I've been in touch with her since we were in junior high school. She was a life long smoker since age 13, and just died last month from lung cancer at age 72.
So, for 59 years she smoked cigarettes without getting lung cancer. It doesn't kill you immediately!!
Did you ever think about what I just explained? 🤔

[Jmmmfi4]

And that's not reason enough to stop?

[sage2021]

@Jmmmfi4

I guess not. She kept smoking till she died.

[RandomGirl42]

Smoking is sexy! 🤣

[In_Trance]

They probably don't understand your unhealthy habits either.
Like porn consumption for example

[Jennz6]

Can make you sick

[Jmmmfi4]

That's my point

[Anonymous]

O dont but my husband’s cigars smell nice.

[Jmmmfi4]

That's fucking nasty

[Opinion Owner]

I swear just the wiff gets me soaked. Sometimes when he's out of town and im lonely I put on one of his used shirts, sprinkle a little of his old spice after shave and light one of cigars. I won't say what else I do lol

[Jmmmfi4]

Fucking puke

[Opinion Owner]

Just to say i dont Monica lewinsky the cigar