Is it better to smoke and enjoy life and die a few years younger?

Question

I quit smoking a few weeks ago and then started again today. I don't know if quitting was really worth it ... I've smoked a pack a day since I was in high school and am 24 now so it's become so much a part of who I am. I don't think living to be 80 is such a great thing with having to wear a diaper and not remembering anything. I'm thinking it's better to enjoy life and take the chance of dying a bit younger but only after having really lived life to the fullest. What do you think?

I was talking about this with my buddy (also a smoker) and he pointed out that his grandparents died young and didn't smoke, so you can still die young and then you will have missed out on smoking

Answer 1

I would have to say it depends on how much you like smoking. You should try to think of the fact that smoking doesn't just kill you instantly one morning, it gives you painful diseases. I am also a heavy smoker and like smoking, but I can see myself with lung cancer saying, "Now I wish I quit back then." I don't think living as a senior citizen sounds fun either, but it would be hard to wake up and say, "OK, I'm 70. Time to go kill myself." If I'm going to have to wear a diaper and take a pill to get an erection, I don't want to have to carry an oxygen tank around as well.

Answer 2

What makes you think that smoking means you're living life to the fullest? Non-smokers are just as happy as smokers. In fact, if you stop smoking in the long term you will feel happier and healthier and enjoy your life more, whether it is a long life or a short life. And non-smokers will be more keen to kiss you!
Why would you want to be an addict?

Answer 3

Why do you think that you enjoy life more just because you smoke? If you give up and stay off smoking you will soon get to the point where you enjoy life as much as a non smoker as you did as a smoker.

Also your clothes will not stink, your breath will not stink, your house will not stink, your hair will not stink. Food will taste better, your skin will look better, you will be able to run up stairs (or mountains) easier, you will save money, you will be sick less often, you will be able to go on long haul plane flights without suffering withdrawal. etc etc etc etc etc etc.

There are so many positives to not smoking, so many negatives to carrying on.

If you think smoking is a way to "live life to the fullest" you are delusional my friend. Surely you don't believe it makes you look cool???

Answer 4

When I was in high school my father, a two-pack-a-day man, used to cough so much at night that I'd lie awake, terrified that he was dying. Often he'd cough until he threw up, then start coughing again a couple of minutes later. Well, I guess I didn't really keep him alive by not sleeping, but he did hang on until I was in college. He never knew his granddaughter, my daughter, as she was born after he died.

Smoking doesn't just kill you; it destroys your quality of life, and then it kills you slowly and painfully. I'd give anything to have my Dad with me now, but only if he could be healthy; his life was crappy for so long.

Answer 5

you mean cigerettes? yer look I used to smoke and I'd get broncitist once a month and I used to wake up late at night coffing my lungs out because of smokes it makes you really unfit and wastes alot of money. I don't think in fact I know its not good for your health in general and I'd only smoke a couple packets a week.

Answer 6

well, it depends, if you are willing to take the risk that within those "few years" you might suffer from lung cancer, emphysema, or another agonizing and painful disease. i hope you don't think those"few years" less in your life will mean you dying in your sleep peacefully at, say, age 60 or 65. you're hiking up your chances to die a painful and unpleasant death. is continuing to smoke worth that risk? it's up to you.

Answer 7

It's really a wise choice to make. You can't predict the future. But If you feel you don't need to live longer than its your choice.