Now for the most stuid question in history - to smoke or not to smoke?

Question

I smoked a bit when I was younger. I gave up smoking to have kids and all that. Now here I am reminiscing about how relaxed I DID feel when I lit up a smoke AND SMOKED IT!!!! Shock horror!!!!!
Although smoke packets have pics of grease filled fatty deposits seeping out of veins on them... People around me who smoke are the ones that: have fun, have full time jobs, career success, beautiful healthy children, bodies, tans and personalities to kill for, popularity, friendliness, upcoming weddings, engagements etc...
I went to a party recently - first time in ages since having three kids. Didn't have a thing to talk about... Didn't have a cigarette AND - I didn't fit in. My smoking friends- with or without kids/ careers/ lovers etc who smoked - were actually having a ball - even if just standing there in their smoking circle/tribe just relaxing- They were just plain comfortable and in tune with all going on... I wanted a smoke there and then. Smoking IS bad , but GOOD for you too - WHY?

Answer 1

So you went to a party for the first time in ages after being at home with 3 kids and had nothing to talk about to anybody? And you really believe that the reason you didn't fit in and had nothing interesting to say was because you are not a smoker? Whoa!

SO if you start smoking, you believe you will achieve a higher level of hipster consciousness. Really?

And your smoking friends were just standing there and were in tune with all going on? Really? No careers, no lovers, no kids - sounds like a bunch of severe underachievers. That's polite for 'losers.'

It all sounds pretty ******* absurd and boring to me.

I live in another world - perhaps you can call it a "bizarro" world- where those who do NOT smoke have important, interesting jobs; career success; friends; healthy, smart children who do not inhale second-hand smoke; have healthy skin (women who smoke have horrible skin); and do NOT tan because it's unhealthy.

Maybe you should consider a personal coach rather than a cigarette habit.

Answer 2

I'm thinking you're not in the US. Not the North East, anyway. Smoking really isn't all that popular among the people you describe around here.

You didn't fit in at the party because you haven't been out in ages and haven't been around this crowd - you didn't suddenly become boring when you stopped smoking.

Having the kids might have done it, though. I know it did for me and I've only got 2.

By the way, the most stupid question in history is actually, "Don't you think my tax returns deserve auditing, Mr. IRS agent?"

Answer 3

the aggregate of the three? perhaps. Clinton smoked the weed, at an analogous time as Bush went for the previous alcohol-cocaine speedball. And enable's settle for it, Reagan became a Hollywood actor interior the 40's and 50s - do no longer even attempt to tell me he did no longer pattern a pharmaceutical or 2.

Answer 4

smoking is bad it represses the phychic reception
blows holes in my aura ,but i wouldnt want to hear voices anyway
i know i smell ,i gave it up a few times but realised the world stank too much ,i mean it really smells
i couldnt stand it ,
who wants to just be thinking of my friend they smell ,ie they also smoke ,still i think im a good bad egsample my daughter dosnt smoke and she made her boyfriend quit smoking before she would go out with him
so if there are any kids smoking give it up now
and if you never smoked dont start ,it hooks into you so you dont even know you smell
i well know it
remember every year 19,ooo in australia alone are said to die of diseases attributable to smoking
and you who declare war on smokers lay of the extra stress you guys are laying on us isnt helping
the stress of not being allowed to smoke is killing us.
its bad enough our extra tax burden ,we are paying our way ,40 cents a cigarettebut guess what boose only is said to contribute 2000 deaths yet how many drinkers drink with a smoke in thier hand
our govt has a new add campain scince they banned smoking in clubs shows people drinking and gambelling in pubs now
but no body smokes there any more
wierd the govt says dont smoke but come and gamble and drink
yep dont smoke its your fault if you do
dont say i didnt warn you
oh yeah if you smoke the docters wont operate on you either ,but if you die under the knife guess what another smoker for the stats

Answer 5

Because smokers are weak! I am a smoker and we have to have that cigarette to calm ourselves or fulfill some craving and it sucks! It stinks and it costs too much.
So the good "feel" you get, is only a small perk compared to all the negative things when smoking. I WISH I HAD NEVER STARTED, now the damn things are my best friends and I am petrified of quitting!

Answer 6

you know what I don't get is if you made it this long why you would be stupid enough to even consider starting up, I have been smoking cigarettes now for 20 years and I wish I could quite so badly, and I have tried just about every different nicotine patch chewing gum, lozenge that there is out there to be tried, sorry but there is nothing good about smoking cigarettes, they are an addiction and there is nothing glamorous or fun about it

Answer 7

yeah, as a former smoker i see that too... but by the same token they are also slovenly, disrespectful, miserable human beings. just like nonsmokers, some are interesting and great and others are not. your personality does not reside in a cigarette...

just because you no longer smoke you don't have to lead a cloistered life. you can do things too, you just have to make time. it's not smoking that makes them more interesting, it's time management, help, the careers they chose... lots of things. i'm sure you're interesting too, it's just hard to see ourselves as such.

Answer 8

its never good for you, its always bad. you have to be confident of yourself and know that you dont need a cigarrette in your hand to have fun or to have something to say.

if you go to the beach you could have a good tan too, if you workout you could get the killer body you want. you dont need cigarrettes to acomplish that. its insane you are looking at it in wrong perspective.

life if want you want, not death. go out there feeling secure of who you are, exercise and get the tan and feel better about it when you look in your own mirror, not the one you long to have with the cigarrette.

its better for you that you quit keep it that way for yourself and your kids...

good luck

Answer 9

try weed, more relaxing, less health risks