After a Decade and a Half of Smoking Cigarettes I'm FINALLY Enjoying Not Feeling the Impulse to Inhale Stinky Trash...
( A picture taken February 26th, 2018 of the last cigarette I'll ever smoke )
It's been over a month now since I quit smoking and while it may seem like I'm some sort of over exaggerating asshat trying to fluff my own goat honestly my lungs haven't felt this good since I was a young boy. Breathing in actually feels like something replenishing to my body, food tastes a hell of a lot better and my sense of smell is starting to come back, which is sort of a gift and a curse in a sense. For basically half my life I'd been tricking myself into thinking I needed to "pop out for a puff" or "go have a dart" when in reality I was just being a fuckin' buffoon and ritualistically inhaling needless carcinogens out of habit and sheer stupidity.
Every time I'd tried to quit prior I'd engineer some excuse to get back on the things.. Be it self loathing, allowing myself to smoke aromatic cigars or simply not giving a damn if I smelt like a burnt hookers taint while paying a premium price for the "priviledge" to do so.. Holy hell, looking back on it now I kinda just gotta shake my head and chalk it up to an expensive, suicidal and simpleton's learning experience.
I can't even stand the smell of cigarettes at this point, it physically repulses me!
Being a "Smoker" is a Self Made Mental Prison..
No body in their right fucking mind can honestly say they enjoy the taste, smell or effects of commercialized tobacco cigarettes.. If you state otherwise you're lying to yourself and your audience. The truth of the matter is it takes an immense amount of self brainwashing to even pick up the disgusting habit and when you strip away the layers and excuses to smoke you're left with a stinky cigarette but that does nothing but create faint withdrawal symtoms in all who take it upon themselves to train their body to essentially asphyxiate for the effects of poison...
Smoking and it's addiction is nearly all mental it seems.. The mind is a very powerful device when used (im)proproperly and ultimately the smoke convinces themselves they need to partake in the activity when in reality the effects aren't worth the effort to train yourself to do so. Don't be a slave to your own stupidity.. You can stop smoking, hell if I can anyone can!
Nicotine Addiction? Vape or Stank!
While I've managed to kick the stinky cigarette smoking to the curb the underlying nicotine addiction in my life is alive and stronger than ever. Currently I'm using a vaporizer and a 6mg per milliliter strawberry flavoured vegetable glycerin & propylene glycol mixture to stave off the nicotine jones.. Oddly enough my nicotine consumption is actually increased about 300% from when I smoked cigarettes due to the fact I don't mind vaping in my house and actually find it quite enjoyable. Previously I'd tried to quit but was vaping a far to sweet mixture which tasted far too much like candy and ended up getting tired of how sickly sweet it was. This new stuff which is an in-house blend at one of the local vape shops is not too sweet and not too nasty on the throat, allowing me to kill the nicotine craving in a puff or two while making the odour in the room something akin to a strawberry milkshake..
Needless to say I'd much rather inhale this delicious piss coloured liquid than burn plant matter to get my nicotine fix..! While it's still sort of debatable that vaping is any less carcinogenic than smoking tobacco my lungs certainly feel less gunged up and my cardio is slowly becoming better.. All and all this is the best decision I've made in my life since starting here on Steemit. While the initial start up cost to get a decent vape setup is about a carton of cigarettes (my vape setup was just over $200 CAD) the amount of juice I roll through is still about 500% cheaper than the pack I day I was smoking... Save money, save health, not stink like a rotten burnt gooch.. I call that a win! Thanks for reading folks, have a good day!
