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Well, you started smoking at some point for some reason. Either social pressure or you liked it.
Not calling you stupid, or saying that you are entirely wrong, but maybe consider that another smoker is at a different spot than you, right now. We humans like to repeat the mistakes of others.
I want to congratulate you for stopping!
I was a dumb-as-a-doornail teen in the 90s. That was the reason. Being the coolest motherfucker. And I doubt there ever was a person smoking the first one and be like "wow this is great!" I never liked it, I wanted to smoke too and did, and then there was no way out of it. Not once in my life I heard a smoker say "my first one was awereesomeeeee! I love this!".
That's the point where people choose to persuade themselves it's not a drug addiction but a "life-choice" or "taste". I mean, come on. All other drugs at least offer you something. Nicotine? The best it does it calm you down FROM the withdrawal symptoms.
It's not really being "at a different spot". There won't be another step if you already convinced yourself you'd love it. That's, IMHO, and surely only my anecdotal knowledge, what the less smart people do when, deep down, they know they've already lost.
Shouldn't have sounded like from a high-horsed ex-smoker. But would you call that coping overly smart?
And thanks. Took me 15 years of "tomorrow I'll start!" and two nightmare-weeks. Smoked 2-3 packs a day, which was like 30-45€ a day. God that hurts to say.
Ex-smoker, picked it up at uni, and the first handful of times I'd tried it, it was vile. The first time it felt OK or possibly good was probably when withdrawal started to kick in. Really should have stopped before that, but I was stubborn and had to learn from experience. Thankfully I was never that heavy a smoker, maybe 3 fags a day, up to 10 or so if on a night out and drinking.
I do still use it in spliffs, but begrudgingly (can't find anything else that isn't too harsh to smoke, nor do I like pure joints).
Spoken with many smokers over the years, and it's really always the same. The first X cigs were disgusting, puke-inducing and whatnot. then it grows okay-ish and then...you wasted the good point of stopping here and now once and forever and....enjoyed the first calming of a withdrawal :-(
How about VAPING weed? beside that it's way less unhealthy it's also more comfy? ever tried? If i had to put tobacco in a joint, i would pass up on a joint. and i would never pass up on a joint :)