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If by internet thing you mean Mad Men, yeah. Watching Mad Men while trying to cut down on smoking was a bad idea.
Watching Mad Men while living in China while trying to cut down on smoking was an even worse idea. People just be handing you cigarettes. Even content creators like Ludwig and Michael Reeves picked up smoking when visiting China.
Didn't help I had local spot in Wuhan that is a cat cafe that served single origin Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, Russian vodka and an owner that hands you a free cigarette for every drink. My routine was to get a double espresso and 2 shots of vodka (Chinese shots, so 50mL each), 2 cigarettes while petting a cat. Depending on if it was a weekend or not, I'd stay for the rest of the bottle. Then I'd stumble out and go down the street to get Uyghur food.
I miss home.