Benefits of Smoking Cigarettes

And they smell delicious.

I found that they eased my OCD. I don't smoke actual cigarettes anymore, but I do still use nicotine from reduced harm products. It doesn't make the symptoms go away, but ritualistic and counting behaviors definitely ease when I have nicotine in my system.

Unless this is parody post OP. Smoking was a big deal in the gay community thru the 80's 90's and before. I can't tell you how many guys I met in bars lighting their smokes. I haven't smoked in years but can see the appeal. It's a very social thing.

Unless this is parody post OP. Smoking was a big deal in the gay community thru the 80's 90's and before. I can't tell you how many guys I met in bars lighting their smokes. I haven't smoked in years but can see the appeal. It's a very social thing.

Thank you OP! I took up smoking during the pandemic after a 25 year hiatus. I feel bad about it sometimes and intend to quit at some point. But I also was thinking, well, it allows me to take little breaks throughout the day. My life is very monotonous right now and filled with obligations and chores and not a lot of joy or fun. The cigs provide a little light relief.

Also my Chinese Taoist acupuncturist told me that smoking does have some beneficial soothing properties, and that it is often the repression of emotions, which smoking can be a symptom of, that causes lung cancer rather than the smoking itself. She told me not to worry about it and that it will fall away when I'm ready.

[quote]2. Smoking is a good way to control hyper-tension. The smoke from cigarettes tightens the blood vessels in the throat and airways and causes a drop in blood pres-sure.

Don't forget that inhaling the smoke deep into your lungs kills lung cancer cells by depriving them of oxygen.

An added benefit is that it helps clear the lungs in the morning by coughing to expel phlegm.

Back in my nightclubbing days, smoking was certainly cheaper than drinking or taking drugs. I could smoke a bit and dance for hours.

And when one is young any sexy, smoking goes very well with SEX.

Smoking and driving is a pleasure as is smoking and watching movies. Particularly old movies.

Well, that's all in the past.

Shorter retirement to fund.

Jesus - you people are nuts!!

I loved smoking and will take it up again in my dottage.

Another interesting factoid is that virtually everyone with schizophrenia smokes. Researchers aren't sure why.

R10. That’s dotty.

I shtill shmoke.

R10 it relieves the symptoms

But it's so fucking expensive now guys! It's crazy! No judgment here at all. They took away a part of our culture.

R10 also explains why our society is so insane now since no one smokes hardly anymore. These Psychos need to chill out and have a cigarette.

Smokers are basically driven underground now and shamed by society, but weed which causes lots of mental illnesses is really socially acceptable now… along with alcohol, which also causes lots of mental illness and disease and lots of car accidents. Weird.

R16 is correct. The tobacco companies call this “denormalization” and they are very concerned about it.

Still, like r10, I may also pick up smoking when I become a dotard.

[quote]but weed which causes lots of mental illnesses

Sure, Jan.

Weed is so much better for you. Grow it yourself and smoke your own buds. If someone wants to grow their own tobacco to smoke that, go for it. But I can't trust these cigarette companies not to poison me.

Alcohol and weed don’t cause mental illness. Jfc

American Spirit cigarettes are actually healthy for you because they have a Native American on the pack!

If I was healthy enough, I'd smoke again. I was only ever a social smoker, but it was a fantastic feeling, lighting one up and taking a drag. The energy boost from nicotine was awesome.

And just sitting there smoking was like meditation.

Tobacco causes a lot of health issues, but it has also surely prevented a lot of nervous breakdowns?

Organic tobacco - if it exists - would be awesome.

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[quote]Advocating for the "health benefits" of smoking!??? Just when you think you low IQ cunts couldn't have sunk any lower, here we are with this fucking thread about smoking having "health benefits".

Satire is truly dead...

Get a Blog. Oh wait.

1. Smoking allows me to meet anti-smokers who walk all the way over to the smoking area to tell me that I reek

2. Smoking allows me to meet people with picket-fence teeth and torn lips who just want a puff off of whatever I’m smoking

3. Smoking covers up my oily farts - it’s kind of like a grease trap vent back there

4. Smoking finds those it most annoys. I am making people suffer to be around me and that brings me joy

I love putting one out on a bottoms ass.

Shortness of breath and wheezing adds excitement to a humdrum life.

Why live into your 80s and 90s, when you very likely will be diminished physically and mentally? Better to die in your 60s of lung cancer.

The benefits are you get to enjoy them… while you can.

I don’t need the liberal media telling me what to believe. 🚬

Cigarettes can lead to a career

Why can’t someone steal American Spirit Periques for me?

There absolutely is an association between cannabis use and schizophrenia. It's not well understand but young people, particularly men, with a familial history of schizophrenia should probably not partake.

The horrendous disadvantages massively outweigh the “benefits” but, man, when I was in my late teens and early 20’s I loved smoking. Lighting up and that first puff was incredibly therapeutic. I wish smoking was actually good for you.

[quote] Lighting up and that first puff was incredibly therapeutic.

Your therapy was getting a fresh fix of narcotic nicotine..

What a bunch of retards.

Only 14% of the US population are addicted smokers. But smoking among those with a mental illness is closer to 30%.

ALA

And now it’s a double bad. Smokers are a hated minority in the US and it’s compounded by how many have of these addicts already have mental health issues. All the while paying nearly $10 a pack in most places..

I can't believe Matt Damon hasn't chimed in on this thread yet.

[quote]There absolutely is an association between cannabis use and schizophrenia. It's not well understand but young people, particularly men, with a familial history of schizophrenia should probably not partake.

Cannabis does *not* cause schizophrenia, r33.

R39 is a dumbfuck, who has bought the “weed is good for everyone!” propaganda. Yeah, sure it helps cancer patients with nausea but it’s also driving lots of people crazy. Also, the THC that causes paranoia is sky high in these new strains, it’s not your grandma’s grass anymore.

Why don’t you do a study and smoke like seven joints a day and see where you end up mentally after six months?

My obese coworker Mina vapes at her desk and thinks nobody sees that puff…. We smokers flick lit cigarettes at her as she walks to the bus.

Can we turn this into a let’s be thread?

I’m the Zillenials who express disgust and disdain for cigarette smokers and then puff-puff their little vapes constantly. Their lungs collapse at 27.

Did you read your link, r40?

[quote]The Danish epidemiology study does not offer hard-and-fast proof of the cannabis-schizophrenia connection, which could be accomplished only through randomized controlled trials.

R33. My son in law was diagnosed as schizoaffective in his mid-20s. Since everyone on his mother’s side has some form of mental illness, it is doubtful his daily cannabis use CAUSED the schizoaffective disorder, but his psychiatrist was convinced that it exacerbated it (he was eventually hospitalized involuntarily after waving down highway police; he was convinced people were out to get him—classic paranoia). He is a tech geek, so he retired from Google with 5M by thirty. He no longer uses pot, but aspects of the schizoaffective disorder remain (he’s 48), as well as undiagnosed but obvious spectrum elements. He’ll never be on the streets and is not dangerous, but lives a very narrow life. His sister has Bipolar 1, smokes or consumes pit virtually everyday, has no job (lives off her real estate investments—except when she asks her daddy for money, since she can’t seem to manage her “business,” and sends me abusive texts saying I’m unfairly controlling her dad’s money—he has Alzheimer’s and I have POA). I sent her 50,000 and told her never to contact us for money again.

I’m not a prude—my mom was an alcoholic and I don’t the fact that it was legal made her use of it anymore “healthy,” but I’m not convinced marijuana is as harmless as many would have us think.

R44 are you a man or woman?

Smoking weed absolutely triggers and exacerbates schizophrenia. It’s not the genetic cause but it will open Pandora’s box.

I am a silly, trolling idiot.

R47 go rip your bong, faggot.

The swirling smoke is so sophisticated. It makes me look like I belong in a film noir!

[quote] I love putting one out on a bottoms ass.

So that’s what makes Lady Lindzebelle’s butt look like it is covered in ladybugs?

and it can make people look so fucking hot.

These are the benefits of ingesting nicotine.

Don't smoke. Slap on a recreational patch.

Save your lungs .

Job creation. Both agriculture and healthcare workers benefit from tabacco. Lots of oncology departments out there.

OP's next thread:

Benefits of Slavery (for the slaves)

R54 Why are you so racist and comparing the horrors of racism to someone having a simple cigarette? You type like a Nazi

I quit smoking 3 1/2 years ago. I love when I wake up and remember that I was smoking in a dream.

R56 I quit nine years ago and I am always smoking in my dreams.

i have about a half a cig when I’m buzzed. it sems fun but tastes so terrible that i put it out - which pisses off my smoking friend because of the cost.

I haven't smoked in 30 years but when I quit I went into depression that required medication. It was terrible.

Smokers are less likely to contract COVID.

Yes, some smokers do get sick with coronavirus, but a far lower percentage of smokers get COVID as compared to non-smokers.

I just quit five years ago after smoking on and off (mostly on) since I was 18. If there was a way to smoke and not smell like it, I'd start again in a few years. My problem is now I'm a grandfather and I don't want to be the smelly old man. I often go outside to the patio with the smokers just loud and people don't mingle. My partner came with me last time and had a lot of fun.

Now find a study that says if you wear purple underwear you are less likely to get COVID, R60.

From days gone by …Lighting a cigarette in a restaurant guarantees immediate delivery of your food.

r62 Smoking offering protection from COVID does NOT seem to be junk science.

Over 100 studies mention in some way that fewer smokers seem to get COVID compared to non smokers. Site below also links to many other studies.

Most of the studies were reported in respected medical journals.

I also recall lighting a cigarette made a city bus miraculously appear at the bus stop.

Every. Single. Time.

Fuck you, r52

Life sucks and if having a cigarette helps, I say go for it.

Yeah, because smoking couldn't eventually make your life suck more.

To a non-smoker, it’s horrible. The cigarette smoke burns my nose, people who smoke stink, their body has an odor, their teeth are stained, and they’re constantly hacking up tar. Lovely.

^drama queen^

^enjoy cancer. I heard it’s a fun death.^

You realize there are actually healthy ways to deal with stress, right? Go listen to some music or watch a film

I haven't smoked in over two decades. Still think about it constantly, especially when suffering physical pain. Often notice that I've got my two "smoking" fingers together as if holding an imaginary cigarette, sometimes bringing them to my mouth.

A friend smokes imaginary cigarettes every morning on the way to work. Like me, they were forced to give up due to health reasons.

An older friend who also quit ages ago would kill for a smoke. They use oxygen at least once a day.

Nicotine is a helluva drug, but the ritual of smoking holds great power, too. Something the patches can't match.

I truly envy those people who make it to their 90s smoking at least a pack a day without showing any signs of it affecting them.

As to pot, most people I know who use it suffer no ill effects, but a heavy user I grew up with now has both schizophrenia and bipolar. With no family history, although he'd always been a bit different. His life is pretty much over as he hasn't been able to live independently for years.

I quit 16 years ago and if I didn't have emphysema and could afford the damn things I would have gone back. I have terrible muscle spasms which I didn't have when I smoked because smoking relaxes your muscles. It also helps to keep you from getting constipated.

I am in my 70's and am under as much stress now as I was in my 30's and want a cigarette every day. When I smoked it used to make me want to get up as soon as I woke up so I could have a cigarette but now I lie in bed for hours which I hate. I hate that I miss it so much and that it did have the benefits that it has.

[quote]I truly envy those people who make it to their 90s smoking at least a pack a day without showing any signs of it affecting them.

I'm sure there are tons of people like that 🙄.

Amazing how smoking affects the way people think.

I never would have survived my life if I hadn't smoked because I don't drink or use drugs

I don't smoke myself, I just don't get why some are such clenching prisspots about it

R74, you need to try some medicinal pot or at least CBD oil

It does wonders for the skin!

Lots of people on this thread only BELIEVE THE SCIENCE! when it’s convenient to their agenda

R45. Yes

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Here is the most advanced scientific knowledge about nicotine

R40 I think people need to be smarter these days about what strains of weed they are putting in their body. Like you said, this is not the stuff we had growing up. (for me the 80s) However, I have a medical card or have lived in recreationally legal states and I know to research the terpines of everything before I use it. I can tailor my strain to suit the occasion or my mood. Weed is way more sophisticated now. I don't know many people who just smoke whatever marijuana they can get their hands on. Be smart and enjoy the natural high. So much better than alcohol. I have my edibles or my THC beverages and have delightful times.

Everyone used to smoke and no smoke nazis

I don’t care if people smoke. That’s their own business. What I find strange is why smokers want that smell throughout their house and in their cars, and that layer of tobacco film on everything.

Aww just shut up and have a cigarette. Winners never quit and quitters never win! 🚬

It's just not glamorous anymore. Witnessing someone smoking in public is watching an addict feed their habit. A weak, not very bright person. A loser. All the cachet has disappeared. Smokers should smoke in their home if they want, but if they think there's any sophistication, glamor, coolness in smoking in public, they're wrong. All smoking in public is done by losers.

[quote] Smokers are less likely to contract COVID.

Probably a valid study since the godly and pure nonsmokers shun and exile the stinky and filthy smokers thus substantially reducing the opportunities for infection.

CANCER STICKS

I want a tiny balcony high up where I can flick butts down upon the street.

“It’s Jesus! Maybe it’s a bird! Or a frog.”

R88- The same LOSERS who think that sporting tattoos will bestow with with-

COOLNESS

HIPNESS

EDGINESS

but it bestows none of those things. The only thing that tattoos and smoking bestows on anyone is

AVERAGENESS

My penis looks much bigger because I’m a skinny old elf with a nicotine habit.

If I could ever make up my mind on a tattoo, I’d do the butt dance for R92, but here we are.

I am not at all Simpsons watcher, but there’s a clip of Patty and Selma where they’re smoking with hairspray.

Haven't read all the posts, sorry, but I quit smoking over 40 years ago. I'm thinking of taking it up again to lose weight. I'm old and overweight and doubt that lung cancer would catch up with me before I croak anyway.

[quote] Tobacco causes a lot of health issues, but it has also surely prevented a lot of nervous breakdowns?

Cutting off your own head with a guillotine causes a lot of health issues, but it is also surely a great way to clear your thoughts?

I have never been a smoker. But in the winter, I love walking to work in Philadelphia and passing through a cigarette smoke cloud that has just been exhaled. The temperature is just a little - but discernably - warmer than the rest of the air. And the smell is a punchy kick to the senses.

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r77 because it is an addiction and what it does to your brain, especially under stress, the desire for that relief never goes away.

r86 I never smoked in my house or my car. Only outside.

It gives us your money quicker.

[quote]Smokers are less likely to contract COVID.

Lower risk but more serious outcomes if they do contract it.

Pō tāy tō

Pō tah tō

I was lucky. I grew up in the 80s but I didn’t have any relatives who smoked. Thank god. Just drink - it’s a much cleaner habit.

I noticed that doctors have started including "do you vape?" in the introductory questionnaire, in addition to "do you smoke cigarettes ".

I'm trying to quit or switch over to vaping these days. I just hate the fake flavors so much.

Is vape juice always flavored? Is there a flavorless flavor? Been thinking about vaping weed so I can get stoned on my work breaks.

R106

I would assume you can by an unflavored small hand held vape pen.

But do a search for small hand held MJ vapes. You should see a large number of products that you load yourself with your product of choice either day herb or concentrates.

Thanks R107

Datalounge: If you don't wear a mask every day and get every single booster the second it's available, you're a MAGAt and a MURDERER who will die in well-deserved agony from Covid! TRUST SCIENCE!

Also Datalounge: Smoking is great for your lungs and heart!

I 'd jus luv my Newports, doctor take care me on medicare took out that one lung I's got a good one still. Living my dream on SSI.

Datalounge: No Photography!

Datalounge: But we are performance photography.

Four of of five doctors recommend Camels

Genuine question: What happens to someone who has never smoked before tries nicotine patches, gum, mints, etc. is it highly addictive?

Every pothead stoner I’ve ever met has extreme anger issues when they’re not high. It seems like eventually their body gets used to the pot and it stops working and their anger gets worse. Just something I’ve noticed.

I had a brother die a decade ago from cardiac arrest and he was a heavy smoker for years. My brother-in-law was a heavy smoker and is in hospice care due to respiratory failure because of smoking.

I, and others, urged each to quit smoking years ago, but each refused, were dismissive or in denial about it, and would get angry when pressing the issue.

They would not be truthful with physicians about their smoking habits.

Why do people think everyone wants to live to 99?

R114

So your argument is that if someone spends time near or around you and they dont want to be angry at you for what ever it is that angers people that you do , then they need to be high.

Great advice and great self awareness

Yes, R116. Smoking really enhances one's quality of life. Show me a man who doesn't want to have erectile dysfunction.

Amazing how the thinking of many smokers and ex-smokers is distorted by their addiction. They obsess about the pleasures of smoking. It's like it never occurred to them that people who have never smoked a single cigarette experience pleasure all the time.

R119 oh yeah!? The world is so pleasurable and happy now… yeah sure

Yeah, R120, the pleasure of eating great food at a restaurant without the smoke from some nicotine addict drifting in to ruin your meal.

Like the other poster above, I too do not smoke but don't understand the clenching pisspotery around smoking.

For what it's worth, my mom's been smoking for 50 years now and never gets a cold. We think it's because she has lungs of steel that could withstand decades of smoking rather than smoking preventing colds, but who knows.

[quote] Every pothead stoner I’ve ever met has extreme anger issues when they’re not high. It seems like eventually their body gets used to the pot and it stops working and their anger gets worse. Just something I’ve noticed.

Same here R114. They are as angry as drunks and meth heads.

R121 so your entire sense of pleasure is based on avoiding cigarette smoke?!?

No way, R123. A pot head can be whiny, grouchy and annoying.

But a pothead is not gonna be a psychopath like a drunk or a tweaker. Come on.

R125 see Kanye aka Ye aka Yeezy

Surprised no one has mentioned this advantage.

[quote]Like the other poster above, I too do not smoke but don't understand the clenching pisspotery around smoking.

You're right, R122. Smoking isn't so bad.

Smokers are like the homeless: they never have any clue how bad they smell

[quote]Diseases like Parkinson's are significantly reduced or managed when smoking.

Same with colitis. I flared for a month when I quit. MDs put many people with colitis on nicotine patches.

I am convinced that people can delude themselves into believing anything.

^ Noah Cross' brother

^ The Grim Reaper's sister

I loved smoking too. Agree that it was great for my social (and sex) life - all the smokers hung out and bonded over it. Now it's been made extremely expensive in my country and our PM has even announced that he'll be phasing in an outright ban of it like NZ is doing. I have replaced it with alcohol which is probably not much better - that's the thing about addictions, people just seem to replace one with another. Food, vaping, alcohol, pills..

This thread astonishes me. I'm not clutching my pearls--I'm looking at the floor where they all scattered when I grabbed my choker in a paroxysm of unbridled HORROR!

I smoked for 10 years and quit mid-90s. Best thing I ever did. My body thanks me every day.

R135 A great decision.

I took up smoking in college because all my friends smoked. After college I smoked for about a year, then one day on an impulse I just decided to quit cold turkey. That was 1983. I haven't smoked since. That was 40 years ago. A close friend of mien kept saying he would quit too, but never did. He finally quit 2 years ago, when he was diagnosed with emphysema.

If you're diagnosed with Small Cell lung cancer, you'll be dead within 5 months.

So there's that.

A next door neighbor died at age 49 from COPD. He was always hanging out on the stoop and smoking.

R136, many thanks for your kind words. I am a little (maybe a lot!) self-righteous about smoking, but the emphysema that took your friend's life also killed a longtime smoking family member of mine. Terrible, terrible disease. Imagine suffocating to death!

At least most smokers go away from the crowd to light up. But some will just start puffing away at the the table if outside without asking. Okay, you're welcome to impact on your own health, but not mine. I never did that when I smoked, always left the non-smokers to go puff. Most of them might have joined me, but manners.

People find comfort in food, shopping, sex, gambling, drugs and drinking. Smoking is just one of those things.

R140 is probably huffing poppers and drinking mimosas by the gallon. She probably pollutes our shared world with her gas powered car, but goes into a performative coughing fit whenever she catches a whiff of ciggy smoke once every 6 months.

R117 That’s not what I said at all. You sound like an angry stoner.

Dumbass OP, smoking causes hypertension. It doesn’t prevent it. It also causes atherosclerosis. In addition to lung cancer, smoking also increases your risk of developing every other kind of cancer. Not to mention emphysema and COPD.

[quote] Smoking cigarettes is also a good way to reduce the possibility of becoming obese.

So is chemotherapy.

I believe this thread was funded by Philip Morris.

I also believe that a number of ex-smokers have purchased a pack after entering the thread.

Wrong on all counts, r141.

Hit a nerve of yours, though. You rude fuck. I loved to smoke but never subjected non-smokers to it.

Manners, bitch.

One of the down side to smoking is the much higher risk of ED. So on top of $10 a pack you will need an early script for Viagra. But don’t worry V or not with smoking so many people are not going to want to be around you because if that smoke smell.

So unless it’s black out night at the baths your chances of needing that V is significantly less than a non tobacco addicts will be all else equal.

Same with a job interview. It lessens your chances to be hired because people do generally not want to hire smokers for a variety of social and health reasons.

Smoking it’s the gift that keeps on giving,.

[quote] Same with a job interview. It lessens your chances to be hired because people do generally not want to hire smokers for a variety of social and health reasons.

I won’t hire smokers because they have to take constant breaks from their work to feed their addiction.

That and they stink too, of course.

I don’t even have to ask if they smoke. Their smell gives them away.

The major reason smoking "relaxes" a committed smoker is because they're ADDICTED to nicotine. They get their fix and the anxiety turns to relaxation.

smoking menthol cigarettes always felt great when I was coming down with a cold and sore throat

[quote]4. Smoking finds those it most annoys. I am making people suffer to be around me and that brings me joy

So smoking is like people who blast music outside.

I enjoyed smoking for many years and particularly when I lived in Europe. But eventually that shit starts to catch up with you.

I still miss it sometimes, but I don't miss the nasty breath, the smell on the clothes and the lung infections.

All the scolds informing us that smoking is very bad are dim bulbs.

^^^ Sure, trollina.

All the smokers insisting that they don’t really stink are deluded idiots

R153, posts like the following don't seem like clever, sarcastic parody comments. The person seems sincere (or is trolling to get a rise out of people).

[quote]Like the other poster above, I too do not smoke but don't understand the clenching pisspotery around smoking. For what it's worth, my mom's been smoking for 50 years now and never gets a cold. We think it's because she has lungs of steel that could withstand decades of smoking rather than smoking preventing colds, but who knows.

R155, a dim bulb.

Yeah, most of us don't feel like doing the parody thing, R157. Deal with it.

If someone is depressed or trying to get through a crisis, lung cancer or emphysema seem a remote possibility if smoking helps them refrain from killing themselves or flipping out.

Visit a mental health facility and you'll see quite a few people smoking outside or in the designated areas.

R159

Yes as posted earlier in this thread there is lots of data showing more mental illness among tobacco addicts.

So seeing more smoking outside a mental health facility should surprise no one.

But most sane people would not suggest tobacco as a first line treatment for serious mental health problems as you have. An interesting suggestion :-)

I didn't intend it to be interpreted as a first-line treatment, just something to help them hang in there. If they're in a MH facility they are likely utilising meds, therapy and/or group therapy/occupational therapy.

R161

Next time before posting such insightful mental health advice you might want to do a search on how tobacco use interferes with anti psychotic drugs.

I mean for christsakes, if you already have one foot in the grave

I have an elderly neighbor in his mid 70s, he has emphysema, uses an oxygen machine, and last year he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He's just completed radiation therapy and yet he still hasn't stopped smoking. He says that each time he tries to stop he feels like he's going to go mad. I guess if you've been smoking about 60 years, you have to keep doing it.

R164

It’s a real addiction no different than H, coke, crack, meth, etc. quitting is not easy.

that’s what I have been hearing, also

R158 is another dim bulb who ruins parody threads. Deal with it!

There is so much stupid on internet forums how can anyone tell when it’s parody and not just more stupid,

S.T. Dupont lighters and their distinctive "PING" when opening and closing them. I loved it even though I have never smoked.