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]]> By: robt http://flaneuse.org/2009/11/12/in-defense-of-smoking/#comment-14136 robt Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:29:49 +0000 http://flaneuse.org/?p=447#comment-14136 just smoke, forget quitting. if you can't stand the pressure to stop, then move to france. i wish most americans would move to the other continent to see how uptight and controlling they are: puritanism is alive and well. by the way, i smoking as i write this, walking around with my iphone. just smoke, forget quitting. if you can’t stand the pressure to stop, then move to france. i wish most americans would move to the other continent to see how uptight and controlling they are: puritanism is alive and well. by the way, i smoking as i write this, walking around with my iphone.

]]> By: Clea http://flaneuse.org/2009/11/12/in-defense-of-smoking/#comment-14134 Clea Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:33:56 +0000 http://flaneuse.org/?p=447#comment-14134 Hey - yeah i think it's really good to acknowledge that smoking is pleasurable. But unlike chocolate for example, which might be bad for us (but dark chocolate is actually good for us) it is comes with a range of nasty experiences we try to forget, like a cough, smelly clothes, perhaps stained fingers - and if our lungs were hanging on the outside of our bodies, we might not be so eager to look at them. Whenever I started smoking again I had to get over that "hurdle" where my lungs protested and it tasted disgusting. Things get better with time like when you get over the taste of beer when you are young, or even over the first sexual experience. But there's something to be said for that fact that when I am not smoking I find it disgusting - when I started smoking rollies I realised how plastic tasting cigarettes were. We get "used to" how it tastes and just enjoy the feeling. i also decided i would never like beer and don't drink it i drink cider instead! when i quit once and i heard it would take 10 years for some things in my body to get back "to normal" that was quite a shock. If only we could just have a few cigs a month to enhance those good times, and not become so addicted. I'm all for drinking a glass of red wine and eating dark chocolate - and even getting drunk on tequila once in a while in my ideal healthy future...but smoking is just so much more addictive - and I rebel against that power it has over me. smoking is a lot about rebellion - and so i try to cultivate a feeling of rebelling against it. In the end - i'll never try convert someone to stop - and who knows - i might start again once day - if i don't have enough other things in my life that help me destress - i can't imagine how hard a divorce is. but the thing that i WOULD advocate and point out - is that why can't you [i mean people in general] drink the green tea (try it with cranberry - hey get over that bad taste it gets better - just like cigarettes - and THIS is good for you) and or eat less red meat - do all those things you said - and still smoke? no one said if you start leading a healthier lifestyle in all other ways you have to quit. at least do that so your body has a better chance of dealing with the toxins in cigarettes - it might even give you MORE reason to reward yourself with a cigarette. i know no one that smokes who has tried to lead a really healthy lifestyle in other ways - i am sure they are out there though. there's such an idea of a mutally exclusive thing between being healthy and smoking. perhaps in the end its because if you do start leading that really healthy lifestyle - you'll just end up not wanting smoke at all after a few years - and thats scary. at the end of the page - i was only able to quit because i finally actually wanted to. luckily for me i barely smoked a pack a day. more like 5 a day - but for almost 9 years. Hey - yeah i think it’s really good to acknowledge that smoking is pleasurable. But unlike chocolate for example, which might be bad for us (but dark chocolate is actually good for us) it is comes with a range of nasty experiences we try to forget, like a cough, smelly clothes, perhaps stained fingers - and if our lungs were hanging on the outside of our bodies, we might not be so eager to look at them. Whenever I started smoking again I had to get over that “hurdle” where my lungs protested and it tasted disgusting. Things get better with time like when you get over the taste of beer when you are young, or even over the first sexual experience. But there’s something to be said for that fact that when I am not smoking I find it disgusting - when I started smoking rollies I realised how plastic tasting cigarettes were. We get “used to” how it tastes and just enjoy the feeling. i also decided i would never like beer and don’t drink it i drink cider instead!

when i quit once and i heard it would take 10 years for some things in my body to get back “to normal” that was quite a shock. If only we could just have a few cigs a month to enhance those good times, and not become so addicted. I’m all for drinking a glass of red wine and eating dark chocolate - and even getting drunk on tequila once in a while in my ideal healthy future…but smoking is just so much more addictive - and I rebel against that power it has over me. smoking is a lot about rebellion - and so i try to cultivate a feeling of rebelling against it.

In the end - i’ll never try convert someone to stop - and who knows - i might start again once day - if i don’t have enough other things in my life that help me destress - i can’t imagine how hard a divorce is. but the thing that i WOULD advocate and point out - is that why can’t you [i mean people in general] drink the green tea (try it with cranberry - hey get over that bad taste it gets better - just like cigarettes - and THIS is good for you) and or eat less red meat - do all those things you said - and still smoke? no one said if you start leading a healthier lifestyle in all other ways you have to quit. at least do that so your body has a better chance of dealing with the toxins in cigarettes - it might even give you MORE reason to reward yourself with a cigarette.

i know no one that smokes who has tried to lead a really healthy lifestyle in other ways - i am sure they are out there though. there’s such an idea of a mutally exclusive thing between being healthy and smoking. perhaps in the end its because if you do start leading that really healthy lifestyle - you’ll just end up not wanting smoke at all after a few years - and thats scary.

at the end of the page - i was only able to quit because i finally actually wanted to. luckily for me i barely smoked a pack a day. more like 5 a day - but for almost 9 years.

]]> By: Samara http://flaneuse.org/2009/11/12/in-defense-of-smoking/#comment-14132 Samara Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:58:01 +0000 http://flaneuse.org/?p=447#comment-14132 Yep. And while all these people, quit smoking, drinking, all vices and live life as dictated by Oprah, prescription medication abuse rates soar. Yep. And while all these people, quit smoking, drinking, all vices and live life as dictated by Oprah, prescription medication abuse rates soar.

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