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It's hard to say goodbye

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Why do smokers of all kinds have to smoke right in front of the door of every fucking building?
- At my apartment buulding they stand right in front of the no smoking sign at the front step to the building on the building's property where smoking is not allowed. If they stabd 5 ft over, they're on the sidewalk where it's okay.
  But nope, they have to stand right there.
- I remember when they did it INSIDE buildings. And cars. Schools, hospitals... if you lived through the 80's you just have the pervasive smell of tobacco registered as a prime core memory.
  
  I use to live in Vegas as a child occasionally. We'd sometimes go to the casinos for shows and have to cross The Floor
  I can still feel it on my skin decades and decades later
  
  I remember looking for the grocery carts with built in ashtray.
- Because they're selfish inconsiderate pricks who can't fathom how disgusting they truly are.
- Because that tiny overhang is the only goddamn shade/rain shelter in this entire city block. People love designating "that spot over there" as the smoking spot but hate putting any sort of shelter from the elements.
  
  Go get wet fucker, I give no fucks, you chose to smoke not me.
  
  I also give no fucks, so here we are.
  
  "I don't care about your comfort (and your health a little, but its your choice)"
  "Well I don't care about your health(or your comfort, but its my choice), so here we are."
  
  I swear to god I am going to carry a fucking bucket of water from now on
  
  So? Whoever brought the cigarettes should bring a jacket or umbrella too.
  That spot "over there" is so the smelly smoke can also stay "over there" and not end up in the lungs of healthy people.
- It felt like that for me in a lot of Europe, but not America.
- Probably because they're addicted, enjoy the high, and don't have the means or strength of character to quit.
  
  Or they have undiagnosed ADHD and haven't associated the effect of nicotine with their seminormality mask they can only maintain with legal stimulants.
- Noooooo you can't use smoking you must doomscroll social media and consoom products!!!! You can't be getting dopamine from chemicals you MUST CONSOOOM PRODUCT!!!!!
  
  Bro, Imma be honest, as a nicotine addict, I wouldnt encourage anyone get on it. You start seeing nicotine as a stimulant that you "need" to get through difficult tasks, or tasks that need focus, or shit, maybe you even need to game a bit better because you're sleep deprived(caused by the nicotine) and having an extra stimulant alongside some caffeine might help. You start using it to get through stuff, and then because of withdrawals, that """""justifies""""" your use of it to get through stuff even more. Not to mention nicotine's bad effects on your gum health and cardiovascular health.
  By the way, for anyone reading this, fuck vaping. Harder to quit than smoking because a lot of people get nicotine salt disposables, or their mental process when in withdrawal/craving phase is "oh it's just vapor, not smoke which is carcinogenic, one more hit couldn't hurt". Which is true, smoke, tar, combustion, etc is the main cancer causing part of nicotine, but thinking of it like that doesn't help you quit.
  Don't smoke, don't vape. Longest I've lasted is a month so far, and that's because I threw my little nic salt pen and carts away.
  Edit Addendum: Btw, this is typed by a mofo who is still vaping, I relapsed. I fell into that same line of logic above. "I need it to get through work" type shit
  
  I have the exact opposite experience with vaping, but I realize anecdotal evidence is not admissible. I had been smoking roll-your-owns to save money and my use skyrocketed. Switched to a low % nicotine vape and just hit that for the next few years. When my daughter was born and I realized I wouldn't be able to vape in the house anymore, I may as well have gone back to smoking, so I just stopped. Since I had been smoking that low % stuff, I wound up having no withdrawals at all and pretty much walked away unscathed. It can be a great tool for quitting if used responsibly.
  
  Tanks are usually better. Nic-salt is what got my dumbass twisted lol.
  
  I bring words of encouragement: Fuck yeah. Any hit you don't take is a win, so keep at it!
  I struggle with alcohol and I'm not gonna drink today again. Maybe skip a hit for a stranger on the internet, and the world'll keep a couple lights a little longer.

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