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You sound like a teenager. As an almost 20 year smoker, if you're "not addicted" then quit now.
Health benefits aside, it's a massive pain in the ass and a money pit. Everyone (rightfully) talks about getting lung cancer, but no one talks about how fucking annoying it is to have to stop what you're doing every 2 hours to feed your cravings.
I'm not spending too much money on it I smoke under a pack a day, I could quit whenever I want to right now but I'll just do it later.
I'm totally on board with you and OP is deluding themselves. However, this part
is just factually incorrect. There are reasons people take up smoking to begin with, and the nicotine rush which causes relaxation is one of them.
Ignoring that won't help people quit.
Literally what I told myself when I was 16 lmao.
Buddy, you are not immune to nicotine addiction. You do not need to smoke a pack a day to be addicted, I currently smoke half a pack a day and am most definitely addicted. Test yourself, go a day without and see if you don't get irritable and have cravings.
There are no benefits to smoking. Any benefits you percieve are the cigarettes relieving withdrawl symptoms.
As somehow who lost a close one to cancer, quit now and not later. The more you wait, the greater the chances you'll get cancer. Don't wait and regret it.
Ok, you have to be trolling. Are you? No one uses βI could quit whenever I want to right now but Iβll just do it laterβ seriously.
He'll quit later, after his girlfriend has left him for a non-smoker who listens to her.
Nah, then he'll have a reason more not to quit because OP is too depressed after the breakup.
Letβs assume a pack of smokes is only $7. In just one year of a pack every other day, that adds up to $1,277.
Is that yearly subscription worth it?