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I took up smoking once because I wanted to understand better why someone would do it.

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The first pack did nothing, but after two packs in one month, averaging more than one a day, I did feel some urge to smoke. At no point was the smoke enjoyable, nor did it give me any sort of high; yet, the act of smoking itself felt nice.
I associate the latter to societal influences rather than chemical ones of the cigarette, however.

For a week or so after my last cigarette I did feel like I could have a smoke, just one, but it wasn't too hard to ignore it, even though I had an opened pack. The following month, only during excessive drinking did I feel the want to smoke, but again, it was trivial to ignore.

I can safely say that my experiment was a successful one, even with its short duration. I feel like I more understand smokers, and I can extrapolate how intense the urge must be after just a year, let alone a decade.
I still do not see it as a valuable waste of money, time, or health, but I suppose the normals wouldn't agree with my lifestyle either. I hope smoking continues to be restricted to areas where the only people the smoking will harm are the smokers themselves.

>>9924559
The same way people in the west ask others out, they go to a person they find attractive and may or may not know beforehand and suggest they spend more time together to see if they get along enough to humour the idea of a life together, or for casual sex or whatever.

Confessions are just like that, but more formal, like everything else the japs do. I doubt there's any more actual love involved.

>>9897605
This is something I've wondered as well, and I can confirm there's some rush in it. The thing is, for the first few cigarettes, you're very unlikely to be doing it properly.

As for bias, I'm asthmatic and I think smoking is retarded, but unfortunately I'm even more retarded when drunk.
Drunken me thinks smoking is a great way to break the ice with people, which I suppose is true; though, he also thinks going outside and socializing is a good idea, so whatever.