Benefits of smoking cigarettes?

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?

SilentStorms,

You sound like a teenager. As an almost 20 year smoker, if you’re “not addicted” then quit now.

Health benefits aside, it’s a massive pain in the ass and a money pit. Everyone (rightfully) talks about getting lung cancer, but no one talks about how fucking annoying it is to have to stop what you’re doing every 2 hours to feed your cravings.

Lappland,

I’m not spending too much money on it I smoke under a pack a day, I could quit whenever I want to right now but I’ll just do it later.

Sylver,

Let’s assume a pack of smokes is only $7. In just one year of a pack every other day, that adds up to $1,277.

Is that yearly subscription worth it?

nekat_emanresu,

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    Drusas,

    I'm totally on board with you and OP is deluding themselves. However, this part

    The way it helps you get through the day would mostly be from getting relief from the withdrawal symptoms. Only addicts will get that.

    is just factually incorrect. There are reasons people take up smoking to begin with, and the nicotine rush which causes relaxation is one of them.

    Ignoring that won't help people quit.

    fearout,
    fearout avatar

    Ok, you have to be trolling. Are you? No one uses “I could quit whenever I want to right now but I’ll just do it later” seriously.

    SustainedChaos,

    He'll quit later, after his girlfriend has left him for a non-smoker who listens to her.

    hansosx,
    hansosx avatar

    Nah, then he'll have a reason more not to quit because OP is too depressed after the breakup.

    SilentStorms,

    Literally what I told myself when I was 16 lmao.

    Buddy, you are not immune to nicotine addiction. You do not need to smoke a pack a day to be addicted, I currently smoke half a pack a day and am most definitely addicted. Test yourself, go a day without and see if you don’t get irritable and have cravings.

    There are no benefits to smoking. Any benefits you percieve are the cigarettes relieving withdrawl symptoms.

    Mereo,

    As somehow who lost a close one to cancer, quit now and not later. The more you wait, the greater the chances you’ll get cancer. Don’t wait and regret it.

    fearout,
    fearout avatar

    Read Allen Carr’s Easy Way. It’s not a great piece of literature, but it’s the best book to help you wrap your head around why you smoke and whether you actually want to.

    Can’t recommend it enough.

    Dressedlikeapenguin,

    It took me three tries. Took it back up during tough times. Found some better ways to cope, mostly Stoicism. I’ve recommended it to at least a dozen others over the years with about 90% success.

    fearout,
    fearout avatar

    I started smoking when I was 15.

    A while later, someone gifted that book to me. I barely started it and put it away, and it was lying around the appartement for 2 years. One day I randomly picked it up and finished it that day. Went from ~20 cigarettes a day to 0 overnight. That was like 13 years ago, and I never wanted a cigarette since.

    That 90% success rate seems to be the case within my friend group as well :)

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    gradecurve,
    gradecurve avatar

    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.

    NotOverSeether,

    So you’re saying cigarettes filter out dweebs. How is that a bad thing?

    blazera,
    blazera avatar

    It makes your bones more porous and lighter, like a bird

    Lappland,

    Is that good?

    lol3droflxp,
    lol3droflxp avatar

    If you want to use muscle power to fly then it might get you at least partly there. Especially if you smoke excessively and avoid any calcium uptake.

    ryannathans,

    I want to prove to my girlfriend that smoking cigarettes is actually good for you

    jesus christ you are beyond saving

    Lappland,

    That isn’t very helpful.

    saddlebag,

    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.

    fiat_lux,

    Pack a week smoker here, you're addicted or at the very least habituated. Even if the physical withdrawals are minimal, the mental association of smoking with a positive feeling is immense.

    There are very few upsides to smoking and a heap of downsides. Take this opportunity to reflect, and see how you can actively cut down (or stop) and replace it with a healthier alternative. Even if you can't stop, practising moderation is helpful for you in the long term.

    drunkensailor,

    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.

    Elw,

    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.

    uhauljoe,
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    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.

    Spacebar,
    @Spacebar@lemmy.world avatar

    I had success quitting vaping by switching to nicotine lozenges. Try it, they are cheaper than most vapes.

    Anti_Weeb_Penguin,
    @Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world avatar

    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.

    moonsnotreal,
    @moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    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.

    ReakDuck,

    Smoking is extremely unattractive because it heavily stinks like shit.

    Additionally, what you describe, is your lack of dopamine. You have build up your normal dopamine level way too high. Meaning that, to feel normal or satisfied, you need to smoke cigarrettes or do heroin.

    A normal person who isn’t addicted could look at cat pictures or look at a beatiful park and be happy for that day because his normal dopamine level is way lower. (If he isn’t depressed or not addicted to tiktok, etc)

    You either understand the serious health downsides and want to quit, or you will never be able to quit because you feel like you are right with cigarretes, then a different girlfriend who smokes too would be more appropriate.

    nevernevermore,
    nevernevermore avatar

    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.

    safetyvestcoloredcat,

    Healthcare in the US is absolutely bonkers. Here in the UK I’ve paid 0 (!) quids for my lung transplant. They only required me to take a break from smoking for about 6 months (that sucked, lol).

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