smoking

no fuckit the only word i can see there is sprouts

like and the thing is I say this as a person who's had multiple addictions. heroin, meth, cocaine. I totally get why people go back to those: they feel awesome! cigarettes to me are like an addiction with none of the pleasure-center rewards, it's kind of hilarious to me that I spent SO much money over so many years on an addiction that gave me basically nothing

the sprouts are fuckin excellent on that burger, you gotta trust me here

like, I was a cook. take it from the cook, the sprouts are the pathway to new burger enjoyment

np alfalfa sprouts not bean we're not animals here

i have no option but to trust you because the only sure thing about the next 60 years is that i'm getting through them without sprouts on any of my burgers irl

hahahaha

fuckin hell. cress?

you call cress sprouts hahaha oh man you guys you kill me

this is a sprout man

http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article6990748.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/Brussel-sprouts.jpg

I should confess my diet was so poor in those days that the sprouts may have been my body conspiring with my brain to feed me something green afore I deed

xp no cress is a leafy green! these are sprouts. there's bean sprouts (thick stems) and alfalfa (v. thin)

now back to yr normal smoking thread pleasure sorry

these are sprouts. they are a delightful, mildly crunch-adding addition to the burger I detail above. this burger could not but be embraced by the true burger lover, among whose numbers I counted myself for many years

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8UsJ7u-sFSM/maxresdefault.jpg

don't worry we all call those sprouts too

because that's what they are

nobody doubts your burger once it has been clarified that you aren't advocating for small noxious cabbages in it, stand down

I must defend my burger. it is a fond memory

Brussell sprouts have gotten sort of trendy recently. I'm having none of it.

Those wispy crunch sprouts are chill though

JCLC's burger sounds fucking amazing

I'd probably want a cigarette after that burger and a couple beers
Then I'd want a nap

medium well?????

award-winning brussels sprout burger

http://media2.abc15.com//photo/2013/08/28/Brussels_sprouts_burger_from_RnR_Scottsd_871560000_20130828095147_640_480.JPG

http://www.abc15.com/lifestyle/sonoran-living/recipe-brussels-sprouts-burger-from-rnr-scottsdale

I had a really bad, persistent hacking cough this winter that still hasn't really gone away. But I'm sure it would have been much worse, if not unbearable if I was still a smoker.

having a touch of asthma has been a tremendous boon in that it makes smoking more than 4-5 cigarettes a day a living hell, and also makes it v easy to remember that awful feeling and then not smoke again at all for 3-6 months

xp - i definitely noticed a major difference in health when i stopped smoking in my apartment. i haven't had a cold/flu in 2 years.

I'd probably want a cigarette after that burger and a couple beers

this burger was during my sober years but be assured I smoked two Winstons before I ate it and two more after, every time

i was a "only smoke when drinking" person for years and just recently knocked that off. it's been weeks but every time i have more than one beer my skin basically starts crawling for a cigarette. it can get intense. i assume it can't be chemical as i go all week w/out and don't even think about it. just this deeply rooted pavlovian thing.

one of my favourite things about ilx is that any thread, at any time, can bubble over into a free and frank exchange of views on whether enjoying a given type of food makes someone a disgusting savage or not

I want to eat that burger now for sure.

It needs to be corrected by the memory of when you had a severe cold and yet could not resist the urge to bathe your raw, inflamed and painful throat with hot tar fumes.

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I think about this every time I'm sick now. Like, yeah I may be shambling around with the flu, but at least I'm not prolonging it by two weeks by refusing to compromise my hourly smoke breaks.

After 3 years off the cigs I’ve been smoking again for the last 4 months. Started again as I got a new job and various life circumstances were stressing me. Any advice on quitting again?

Lame as they are, my e-cig has been a huge help. I only use it at home, still smoke when I drink but that’s barely twice a month now and I figure I’m ready for the next step of eliminating that.

If it helps then down for it, thanks

Smoked outside merge at the hospital and a robot intercom voice said “smoking is not permitted in hospital grounds. If you need help quitting dial 811”

using the nicorette inhaler 4mg to quit smoking. used previously and it worked, basically i get nicotine fixes w/out smoke exhalation, better than the patch - doesn't offend anybody outside, win win

looks like i'm smoking the ocarina of time tho

French inhale to nostril exhale is my SOP

it's so French isn't it?

I don't get it. I can go without smoking for like a whole day.. Even sometimes two days, and I don't even realise it sometimes. Three days, I can suddenly realise I've not smoked.
If I have a drink, I want to smoke. But yesterday I went on a date with a non-smoker and didn't even think to go outside and light up until the very end of the date. Then I realised I'd forgotten my rolling papers and figured it wasn't too much of a problem as I'd be home in a bit anyway.
And yet I do smoke; I am a smoker. I have been since my early 20s.
I don't like smoking in front of my family, who I'll be visiting in a few days for a week. Until recently they didn't really know I smoked. My colleagues too, are sometimes surprised on the rare occasion I go out for a midday cig break.
And yet, as I say, I am a smoker and I am addicted to cigarettes and always have been.
On an ordinary weekend night out, I'll be going out for breaks maybe once or twice an hour or more. Part of it is ritual, habit. A big part of it is an excuse to get a change of atmosphere, like if the indoors gets too crowded or noisy, it's an excuse to leave.

Yeah smoking outside of pubs just created its own enjoyable rituals.

I don't smoke now except when I'm drinking but I think the massive nicotine spike is a big part of the dying element in my hangovers and I'm going to have to, unwillingly, try and cut it out

yes definitely worse for hangovers.

a friend of mine blames the public smoking ban on his brother's death. He suffered from schizophrenia and in the secure housing building he lived, the communal smoking room was his main social hub. Without it they all just smoked in their own rooms and he started drinking much more heavily on his own, till it took him.

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(Sorry. So sorry.)

I have like 10 packs of cigarettes at home from the times over the years when I've bought a pack, smoked a couple, then just forgot about it for awhile

The kids don't smoke anymore! They vape or smoke weed.

my gf and i both started vaping to stop smoking habits which were mainly connected to drinking, with the odd cigarette here or there at other times. kind of a mistake because of course it's way more tempting, in the vancouver winter, to have a pull on your vaporizer while nice and cozy indoors, than it ever was to go out the front of the building for a dart. there's also something about the feeling of smoking that vaping doesn't really replace. oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

yeah I'm not making the switch to juul specifically because I know I would consume more nicotine simply by being able to juul inside. feel good about smoking 4-5 analogs a day as is.

Are people smoking more now? Less? I'm smoking more. More free time, more need for small-but-satisfying pick-me-ups throughout the day.

My tobacco tale is one of gateway drug in reverse, because I smoked weed my whole life and hated cigarettes, but after a few trips to Europe and the realization that spliffs are awesome (and a far more sensible and grown-ass way to get high), I gradually began putting less and less weed in a spliff until 3 out of every four 'spliffs' was basically just a cig. I've only ever smoked ryo because it keeps me from smoking more (I average about 4-5 a day, skipping days here and there if I feel my throat getting dry or scratchy) and I find the rolling ritual very meditative.

Peter Stokkebye tobacco has spoiled me for all others. I used to just buy Bugler because it was cheap, and the light blue American Spirits when I was feeling spendy, but now I can't bear anything but the best. I'm all about the Stockholm Blend and the Turkish Export. Not so into the Danish Export or Amsterdam Shag, both of which I find a bit too moist, and I don't have the patience to dry out rolling tobacco.

So...more? Less?

Initially, I found myself smoking more. Then I realised that the lack of many of the usual social triggers, coupled with the relative calmness of my particular lockdown life, made this an ideal time to stop. So I stopped. This is Day 8.

Less but only bc I'm at home more, I like smoking cigarettes and walking. I very much believe in the David Hockney theory of between 1 and 5 cigarettes per day is actually good against the virus, given that it settles in the bottom of the lungs.

if you can't trust David Hockney who can you trust

sayin

I have not heard this theory but I will look into it now, if only for an excuse to keep smoking