My girlfriend has threatened to break up with me several times now unless I cut down to a pack a week. I’m not addicted but it does help me get through my day. I keep trying to tell her that but she doesn’t believe me and keeps saying that it’s actually bad. I want to prove to my girlfriend that smoking cigarettes is actually good for you so that she can stop judging me over it but I can’t find any info online to back that up. Can anyone help me find some resources that list the health benefits of cigarettes? Like how nicotine kills germs or anything like that?
It should be really telling that you can’t find anything positive about cigarettes online, even when you specifically search for positive aspects.
They cause cancer and you smell disgusting after smoking them. Just listen to your girlfriend on this.
I’m not addicted, they just help me get through the day
I’m not addicted it’s just a habit!
But it was true though I quit after 30 years of smoking - just went cold turkey. First few days were a bit rough because you have those moments during the day when you light one up (after eating, leaving work, …), habits.
But it’s been a month so 💪
That’s actually true I could stop anytime I want to I just don’t want to right now.
As a half a pack a day smoker for most of my life, this is what all addicts say.
You’re just in denial.
If you can quit whenever you want then why is this worth the fight to you? Because you’re addicted.
They help you get through the day because not having them is a stressor. Because you’re addicted.
I haven’t had a cigarette in like 2 years and they still sound good sometimes. Because I’m addicted.
I haven’t had a cigarette in like 2 years and they still sound good sometimes. Because I’m addicted.
maybe they sound good because smoking is fun? Not everything needs to be pathologised, you should watch the south park episode on the puedo-christian-cult Alcoholics Anonymous
AA is a pseudo-Christian cult but it doesn’t mean alcohol isn’t unhealthy
I can stop eating bread, going on lemmy, quit my job and get a new one, etc. There’s a reason we do the things we do, nicotine has legitimate value. I know OP is a troll but nicotine is a lot less addictive than so many other very unhealthy things people do every single day without batting an eye. Only thing actually bad about it is the smoke in the lungs.
You’re shitposting right? I mean this is what literally every addict I’ve ever met says about anything. Drugs, Beer, Cigs, Gambling, Porn, etc. they all say this exact phrase before admitting they have a problem later down the road.
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I’ve never had someone who isn’t addicted to something say “I can quit if I want.”
This whole post reeks of fake fan fiction trolling
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Someone who is addicted, doean’t believe he is addicted.
I mean, you’d really have to want to quit, but just for fun, why not stop for a day or two?
Let me know how your stomach and nerves feel about that in two days.
Just humor me. Don’t smoke for two days.
I bet you can’t.
Sure you can buddy, sure you can…
You sound just like my girlfriend she’s always nagging like that “They make you smell bad and cause lung cancer” and “I feel like I’m starting to not love you anymore” stupid stuff like that.
From someone who smoked for 15 years and has successfully stopped, you smell like an ashtray.
Were you smoking in a broom closet? What’s wrong with you people?
Just because you’re noseblind to it doesn’t mean everyone else can’t smell you.
Yeah… as the son of smokers, everyone can smell the cigs on you. There’s really no escaping it.
Maybe you should take what she says seriously.
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Yup and the girlfriend has 0 obligation to deal with it.
Except when OP is sharing air space with others. Second-hand smoke also kills.
As someone who smoked Camels for years and is now just as addicted to vaping, there are no benefits. Zero.
When I smoked cigs, I stank constantly. Even if I sprayed perfume or had a mint. My fingers always smelled.
I did 12 straight years of choir, but now I have a much smaller vocal range. I’m not as active because I get winded. Now that I vape and have constant access, I get cranky after like 30 minutes of no nicotine.
My blood pressure is higher. I can’t be on the type of birth control that gives me less side effects because my smoking makes it higher risk.
I’m raising my risk of cancer. I’m spending a fuckton of money on flavored air.
There is literally no positive and I wish I had never touched it.
I had success quitting vaping by switching to nicotine lozenges. Try it, they are cheaper than most vapes.
This is obvious trolling, but everyone here is so sincere.
Here’s a positive: cigarettes make a great mosquito repellent, because nicotine is a natural insecticide and the smoke/odor repels them. It also repels girlfriends and other humans, but still.
So you’re saying cigarettes filter out dweebs. How is that a bad thing?
This post is obviously trolling, but if they’re not then OP you’re an addict and your GF is right to leave you. She’s better off finding someone who isn’t going to smoke themselves to death and saddle her with crippling medical debt when you inevitably get cancer and die a slow and horrible death, drowning in all the tar you coated your lungs with.
I’m not addicted but it does help me get through my day.
Yeah… you’re addicted.
I’m not addicted I could quit if I wanted to.
Prove it. Quit for a month. Then you’ll have proven you’re not addicted. And by that time you’ll also have realized that you don’t really need it after all.
OP probably couldn’t even quit for a week, let alone a month. They’d have a “hard” day and give themselves a pass or some shit.
Do it then
Same, I could quit Lemmy if I wanted to. I just don’t want to be bored so I spend 24 hours a day doom scrolling Lemmy. I’m totally not addicted!
/s
- every single addict ever
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You are technically correct, which as we all know is the best kind of correct.
If you don’t like living, this is a good way. Please try to give it up.
I don’t like living with how my girlfriend is nagging me over me smoking all the time which is why I came here to ask about the benefits.
There. Are. None. Sorry, but you won’t find any.
There have to be at least a few.
And what makes you think that exactly?
You’re going to have to give up one or the other.
Also: “I can’t find any info online to back that up” Is a clue. Asking randos online isn’t going to change the lack of evidence for what your want to believe.
There are none. It is carcinogenic.
For your sake, stop. My granfather died a slow and painful death that took about half a year due to lung cancer. Nobody should die like that.
I think I can help but it will take more than just words. It will take a demonstration and I will need your help to convince your gf.
But you can say that cigarettes make you better in bed. If you gf is hot and you can convince her, I’m willing to sleep with her and do a bad job to help you look good. After a few sessions to rule out one-off performances and so on, I am confident she’ll be convinced.
think about it. Even online, where there are all kinds of stupid misinformation, you couldn’t find any info to back your claim.
maybe she’s right and she loves you enough to threaten you to do something good for your health
maybe she’s right and she loves you enough to threaten you to do something good for your health
Yeah, this is a good thing OP. She cares enough to have an uncomfortable conversation with you.
In your shoes I’d show her I really wasn’t addicted by stopping.
yes! He should quit smoking and her too :)
If he didn’t care about me he wouldn’t get so mad
you sound just like a battered wife, stop condoning controlling behavior
Dude, i saw my grandpa die of lung cancer, chemo did nothing to help him and the cancer literally propagated to the bones making him suffer with pain until he died. He smoked from 12 years old till he was 60, he always told everyone in my family to not smoke.
Well, for one, you’re reducing your lifespan, so you’ll be less of a burden on the healthcare system later in life because you’ll be dead. But that’s obviously ignoring the massive burden on the healthcare system you’ll be when you’re being treated for various cancers.
The biggest benefit is having a much better idea of how you’ll die, and knowing that you won’t have to deal with getting so old that everyone you know dies before you
I want to prove to my girlfriend that smoking cigarettes is actually good for you
jesus christ you are beyond saving
That isn’t very helpful.
Reading these comments and your replies to them is actually painful. You’re being deliberately obstructive to prove something that isn’t true. The only literature you might find that describes any health benefits of smoking would be funded entirely by tobacco companies. There is not a single good thing about smoking cigarettes and every person here is telling you that.
Stop being a dick and either take everyone’s advise or admit you don’t want it.
You seem pretty stupid to me. There is nothing about smoking that is good for you. Your girlfriend deserves better.
