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>>19191985
Camels, unfiltered.

Why American Spirit yellows of course!

>>19191985
The cheapest possible

Camel Blue 99s

>>19191985
Guantanamera puritos

>>19191985
Why does anyone smoke cigarettes? Why does anyone pay money to damage their lungs? It's just disconcerting that people can act so rationally otherwise and then do something which can only ever be detrimental to them.

>>19192034
Patrician choice, that's what I used to smoke before i quit

gauloises blondes

do you people unironically prefer straights over rollies ?

I smoke drum blue, but am trying to cut down

>>19191985
last pack i got was newports, but usually reds

>>19192107
>drum blue
>>19191991

Stopped smoking at 18 (started stealing my mom’s Marlboro lights at 13). Now I’m 20 and smoke this faggy juul because no other vape hits me in the same way.

>>19191985
I rolled my own. Before I quit I could roll one in seconds including cropping the strip of excess paper (a more complicated way to roll). I don't remember the name of the tobacco but I was one hell of a heavy smoker. When I smoked cigarettes I liked Lucky Strike and sometimes I'd use the one I had just finished smoking to light another.

>>19192131
I've never seen that in either Italy or the UK

>>19191985
i use snus in my anus

>>19191985
Marlboro light.

Smoking is a physiological meme

>>19192039
this thread was actually a trap to out LARPers who smoke because "muh aesthetics" and shit, anybody who understands the importance of keeping their physical body healthy would never think twice about smoking cigarettes

>>19192039
You get brainwashed into smoking cigarettes in an early age, then it becomes an addiction, although most smokers are in denial about that part, and there are some studies against the popular belief that nicotine is addictive altogether. Over time, cigarettes become more of a stimulant or a sedative, a fetish object, an object of meditation, a memory aid or something to help pass the time. It’s a curse to grow up to be a smoker, and I’m yet to find a way to quit, despite seeing all the damage smoking did to me. I’ve been thinking about trying Varenicline medication, but it’s way too expensive, or at least for me.

>>19192223
Is this why white people don’t season their food?

>>19191985
Any pipe smokers around?

Marlboros because they are low nicotine and I am trying to be a better person.

>>19192039
because nicotine is addictive

>>19192182
this its called gold here tho

Kent(classic). I tried to quit a few weeks ago but then I had a mental breakedown. I thought to myself that I don't have a gf, friends, a bearable job, a hobby besides reading and I will never have a fullfiling life so why should I take away from myself one of my few pleasures in my life just because "muh health? What's the point of caring about "muh health" if you don't get to live a decent life? Before any /fit/nigger aproaches me, I do lift and I have a six pack. I do work out but I hate every single second of it. I do it out of sheer insecurity.

enjoy your emphysema

>>19191985
I smoke a pipe.

>>19192391
My nigga

>>19192382
same i do run and count calories but i like smoking and drinking and eating junk food listening to music and jerkin off but in moderation

>>19192039
it's cool

>>19192039
Why does anyone drink alcohol? Why does anyone pay money to damage their liver? It's just disconcerting that people can act so rationally otherwise and then do something which can only ever be detrimental to them.

>>19192454
It's definitely not the same. Alcohol has benefits in moderation and is almost necessary in some social contexts. Smoking has absolutely no benefits apart from "looking cool", which it actually mostly doesn't.

>>19192472
>benefits in moderation
Nicotine has benefits in moderation and is almost necessary in some social contexts. Drinking has absolutely no benefits apart from "looking cool", which it actually mostly doesn't.

>>19192472
Nicotine in moderation has benefits as well, as a mild stimulant that also reduces tension.

>>19191985
I switch around between luckies, winston, and parisiennes usually. all red

>>19192472
A friend's girlfriend once told me I looked cool for taking a last drag and then throwing it away before getting in their car, but I should be careful because if I get caught I have to pay a fine. She's a business psychology major. So you're wrong.

I roll mostly Piel Roja or Luckies tobbaco. Try quitting, for like a year, though. Doesn't work work that well. Nicotine is way harder to quit than heroin, at least for me.

>>19192180
You from denmark?

>>19191985
American Spirits Black. The perique adds a nice flavor.

>>19191985
Sorry. I'm a runner now. Keep those cancer sticks away from me.

>>19191985
I smoke a pipe. I prefer Peterson Eizabthen Mixture, Hearth and Home White Knight, and Capstan Blue.

Get a pipe and some good tobacco. Fuck cigarettes.

>>19192901
not doing both ngmi kwab

Is it worth it to quit smoking at 19? I have tried about 3-4 times.

>>19191985
Karelia rolls or golden kassetin.

Camels, Belmonts or Pall Mall

>>19192942
Yes, anon. See how hard it is now? It gets harder the more you smoke.

>>19192942
You are now free from your vice.

>>19191985
red davidoff. been smoking these for over 10 years already. think they got worse a few times but dont really give a shit.
>>19192151
i think you might be able to stop them. i started age 12-13 too, am 27 now and thinking of trying to get rid of it. probably wont though

Any Canadian niggas in here? For me it’s Belmont’s.

>>19191985
Yellow Camels when I was a smoker. I tried Gauloises out of pretention, because they were the favorite of Sartre, Camus, Baudrillard, Picasso, Ravel, Jim Morrison and John Lennon, and they were the worst, most disgusting shit-tier cigarettes I have had in my entire life, and I realized that each of the names mentioned above was a pleb the moment I took the first drag.

>>19192942
quitting smoking is worth whenever you do it.
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>>19193092
>>19193129

it doesnt seem possible, but it indeed is much harder to stop for every other year you're smoking. it grows a bigger part of your daily life and if you think now its hard, wait till 6-7 more years pass and you dont even remember what it is not to smoke.

>>19192039
It starts out as a novelty, act of rebellion, object of curiosity, representation of adulthood in youth. You think you'll only try one cigarette so there won't be any damage anyway. You try it, it's an awful experience, you know you could never get addicted to something that tastes and smells so bad and hurts your throat. Next week you're with your friend who smokes and you're bored, there's nothing to do. He offers you one and you think yeah, why not. The awful taste and smell and the fact that it hurts your throat actually lulled you into a false sense of security: you thought you could never possibly be addicted to this, you don't even like it, so you might as well have another one. Plus there's still a lingering curiosity that reappears after a week. If they're so bad why does my friend love them so much? Why do millions of people smoke? Maybe there's more to it than I initially realized? But mostly it's just the boredom and novelty that drives you to have another.
Well, repeat this exact process and scenario about 10 times and now you're already used to the smell, flavor, and your throat has adapted to the heat. Now you can appreciate the headrush and calming yet stimulating feeling you get from the nicotine without it being an altogether negative experience. At this point you like cigarettes, but you never even realized that it happened, since the transition from hating them to liking them happened so slowly. Now you look forward to the one time per week when you'll have a cigarette with your friend. You're still not a smoker, you tell yourself, since you don't even like it that much. And smoking one cigarette a week doesn't even count as being a smoker. You will never get any negative health effects from smoking at this frequency, there's nothing to worry about.
Then, it's this forever, but the frequency you smoke slowly increases. At first it's one a week, sometimes none a week and sometimes 2. You're not a smoker and you're not afraid to get addicted, so you're not even keeping track. The weeks when it's sometimes two slowly become more frequent, and then sometimes it's three. We're talking about a period of years here. After about 3 or 4 years you'll be smoking every day and you never even realized that something changed. It's the same with really bad posture conditions, obesity, not taking a shower, being a bitch who always gets bullied in school, having stretched out and holey old socks, or the list goes on of things you guys may have experienced. If it happens slowly enough, you can fail to notice anything.
As you slowly increase from smoking 1 cigarette per day to 5-20, another thing happens, which is that you like cigarettes less and less and feel like you need them more. The feeling of happiness to have a cigarette, and the feeling of liking them, slowly diminishes; while the feeling of displeasure while you aren't having one appears and slowly increases. 1/2

>>19193139
Bellys are the finest

>>19193217
Those two feelings are hard to distinguish anyway. What's the difference between feeling pleasure from smoking and feeling displeasure when not smoking? Aren't pleasure levels relative to your average baseline? What did you feel like before? You don't even remember. All you know, 10 years in, is that you feel really bad when you aren't smoking, and you feel much better than that when you are smoking. In fact, nothing feels as good as the relief of smoking after you haven't had one in a while. Eventually you get to a point where you have to keep smoking out of fear, because you think life won't be worth living if you quit. That is how I used to feel: I thought I fucked myself by accidentally finding out the ultimate pleasure in the universe, and nothing else could possibly compare. I would rather have killed myself than quit, because how could I go on living after discovering the ultimate pleasure and then losing it? When nothing, not even sex or love, could even begin to compare to that feeling I would miss forever? The way I thought about it was that the lung damage and cancer that I would inevitably get were a product of the fact that I had started smoking all those years ago, NOT a product of the fact that I continued to smoke. Not starting was what I should've done differently, and now that I started, I was going to get cancer. Damn.
Quitting never even occurred to me as an option, because cigarettes were my best friend and the only thing that could make me feel the ultimate pleasure. I would certainly be miserable or commit suicide if I quit, so it's not even worth considering. Cigarettes are just part of me, I am a smoker and that's an inalienable aspect of my identity. That was my mindset and is the mindset of all smokers in the end.
The only way to cure this condition and become a happy nonsmoker is to read Easy Way to Quit Smoking by Allen Carr. That's what cured me after 16 years, literally overnight. I haven't had a cigarette since April and I feel astounded and ashamed that I spent so long in such an absurd mental prison. I am now a happy nonsmoker, as much as I was when I was 15 years old and never tried a cigarette before. It's possible to quit through willpower or using gums or medications but you'll never be happy if you do it that way because you won't be cured of the illusion that cigarettes are the ultimate pleasure. You need to cure the illusion, then your desire to smoke will just disappear.

>>19191985
Winston Red Shorts

>>19193273
Don't quit your day job.

>>19193217
>>19193273
Friend, I hope you are well. That said, I smoke my pipe maybe once or twice a month, and often go several months without smoking it at all. When I do it is a pleasant way to unwind. I have no desire to smoke constantly. Not all of us are addicts.

>>19193304
Not the guy you're replying to but I thought pipes and cigars are different from cigarettes? You don't really inhale the smoke with pipes and cigarettes, so I thought that you absorb less nicotine and the risk of lung cancer is lower.

>>19193369
you do inhale with cigarettes

>>19193374
I meant cigars, that's why I mentioned them with pipes.

>>19193369
Yes, you're correct (assuming you mean cigars and pipes when talking about not inhaling), and back when they were first doing studies of life expectancy of smokers/non-smokers, pipe smokers actually on average lived *longer* than non-smokers (probably due to some socio-economic selection bias the average pipe-smoking population).

It's not good for you, but a few smokes now and then aren't going to significantly increase your risk for cancer/diseases. Daily smoking does though, regardless of whether or not you are inhaling.

>>19191985
i smoke until my stache is full, then I shall stop. until then, my testosterone is all I care about.

>>19192454
Alcohol dulls the ugly bleakness of reality. Cigarettes don't.

>>19193430
they do actually, just in another way

>>19192539
Are you Asian? Sounds like something stupid an Asian girl would say to another naive Asian who probably pictures his life like an anime.

>>19193465
No, I'm white and she's Croatian or Serbian or something