4mo ago

What is a human behaviour you've never understood?

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Smoking. Let's see, I could pay a ton of money for something that reeks and damages my health and the health of those around me, that once I start I'll become addicted to so I'll struggle to quit even if I want to, or I could, uh, not. Yeah let's go with not.
- Devil's advocate. (I do not actually condone cigs, they smell like burnt butt).
  As a non (extremely sparse) smoker who's pretty sure he's incapable of actually getting addicted, counterpoint: nicotine tingly tho. 😚
  
  My uncle always said "he's not addicted, he can stop at any time.
  he knows because he's done it a thousand times."
  
  It's like new relationships. The tingles stop after like a week. At which point you've got yourself a new obligation and feel increasingly like death with each passing day.
  
  You...might be doing relationships wrong.
  
  I’ve been with my partner over ten years and I get tingles every time I see them if I’ve been away from them for a while.
  I also smoke occasionally (when I’m very drunk, cigs make me feel like trash when I’m sober) and they always FLOOR me. The trick is to do it very sparingly (if you want that trash in your life)
  
  "All things in moderation" springs to mind. Hitting the occasional vape at game night or out at the local discotheque certainly works a charm. But on occasion while being, as you said, ripping drunk (ideally at like a metal show or sum'm otherwise debaucherous), honking on a proper ciggy can scratch a very particular itch. Ooh, or that morning after a wild night having coffee and cigarette. Hits different.
  Terrible, nasty habit tho'. Getting addicted to nicotine is miserable from what I've seen. Stay in school, kids!
  
  I smoked habitually for like nine months when I was younger, and I am very lucky… I smoked like half’a pack a day, and one day I smoked a cigarette and it felt like GARBAGE. I took a couple days off and tried again… GARBAGE. That was the end of my habitual smoking hahaha
  Now, as far as my partner goes, no moderation there. I’m with them almost all day every day and we both LOVE that so much. We miss each other when we’re not around each other. I am so thankful to have found my clone.
- As someone who recently quit tobacco let me tell you: cigarettes are amazing! A cup of coffee, a crossword and a good summer morning on a patio is basically heaven. Smoking is cool and makes you look cool too! Everyone should smoke.
  
  Yeah, I’ll believe the addictive qualities for sure. However “cool” has not been true for years. I’ll never forget in college where some friends would encourage me to join them outside “where the cool people are smoking”, yet it always seemed like 2-3 people outside alone not enjoying a party or whatever. At least I was there because I’m an introvert and the party is exhausting, not fooling myself about thinking it cool.
  
  Oof you fell for the troll.
  
  Damn
  
  Lol, sorry I wasn't trying to troll anyone. I was just trying to point out that smoking is pleasurable. After all there's a reason it became so popular worldwide so fast.
  That having been said I do not recommend anyone smoke. Tis a terrible habit on the whole.
- Also, vaping. Somehow, vaping seems even dumber than smoking.

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