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Benefits of smoking cigarettes? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cigarettes aren't good for you and it sounds like you're not ready to hear this, but you are addicted.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cigarettes have done me more good than therapy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like you need either a better therapist or to actually take therapy seriously.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

lmao why would I do that

[+] [email protected] -31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If I was addicted I would smoke more than a pack every day. It just helps me get through the day I could stop anytime I want.

[–] sbv 19 points 1 year ago

so stop

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So try that. Go a week without smoking and see if you can do it.

I roll the occasional smoke after lunch but it's less than one a day. That's how I know I'm not addicted: I go multiple days between having a smoke, I can smoke with friends on the weekend, but then not smoke by myself on weekdays. Try that to know if you're really not addicted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"I"

"could"

"stop"

"any"

"time"

"I"

"want."

Did you really say that with a straight face? I thought that was just what people said to mock people who were clearly addicted.