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WCDT: 2291-95 (8-12 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
DSL:
One more thing to thank my dad for. I'd go with him on installation jobs on winter breaks when he was still smoking, and that work van was awful small with its windows rolled up. I developed a strong dislike before it ever occurred to me to start smoking.
Pilchard123:
IDK if Jeph will ever read this, but I read (first in a webcomic - which you should all read - though I have heard of it elsewhere) that keeping a load of cigarettes in a jar of water will help. Every time you feel like giving in, take the lid off and sniff it.
sitnspin:
As someone who has attempted to quit smoking a couple time, you have my sympathies, Jeph. Best of luck.
As for the appeal... I dunno, I still like it most times and I've been smoking for over 10 years (since my early teens). I started smoking as a stress and depression reliever, I suffered crippling depression and PTSD as a teen (and on into my 20s) and smoking helped alleviate it to a degree. It is possible it was just psychosomatic and just worked by giving me something else to focus on. The amount I smoke always fluctuates with how bad my depression gets. Right now I am doing relatively well and barely smoke at all. During the height (or depth) of my illness I was up to two packs a day. Years of therapy later and I barely smoke a pack a week.
The addiction aspect is a huge factor, though, to which I can attest due to the couple of time I actually tried to consciously stop. I never got to the point of not liking it, the times I tried to quit was because I know it isn't good for me, no matter how much I like it. I do know people who have gotten to the point that they hate it, but they keep doing it because of the addiction.
Madmartigan:
Never understood the appeal either, even as a stress reliever. But I guess some stress relievers don't work for others.
Weightlifting and music works for me. And considering how much people likely blow on smokes in a given week, you could probably easily get a gym membership or get your own weights. Paying to give yourself possible lung cancer down the line....never understood the desire to even risk that.
That said, amazing tabaco is legal and weed isn't. Not that I smoke weed, but literally every polisci major I knew in college did. I'd rather people were able to smoke weed that is far safer than kill themselves with tabaco.
That said, hope Jeph beats it. Smoking is a nasty business. Have family friends who have done it in the past.
Carl-E:
IIRC, nicotine bonds to nerve receptors in the brain (most noticeably in the hippocampus, the emotion and pleasure-center). As a result, when the nicotine starts leaving, you feel like crap until those nerves balance back out. The process takes about fifteen days.
If you can make it that far, you've beat the physical addiction. After that, it's just the habit that needs to be broken...
And that's even harder, for some!
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