If you needed yet another reason to quit smoking, here it is.

  • @MutilationWave
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    1 day ago

    Nah I know how bad we stink. I’ve quit twice, long enough for it to become overwhelming again. I can’t smell it but I know it’s there.

    • @theangryseal
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      823 hours ago

      I can’t smell it either at this point. I don’t smoke inside though.

      I’ll never forget this one.

      My ex and I were both chain smokers. I didn’t want to smoke inside but she was convinced a fan in the window was enough. I never smelled it before, but her mom bitched every time she came over.

      When we split, I went back trying to work it out multiple times and I couldn’t stand the smell of her clean clothes even. It was awful. Even as a smoker I couldn’t stand the smell of that place. I remember falling asleep with her on the couch and just gagging.

      I would NEVER smoke inside after smelling that. I also keep a cat litter container outside for butts and a Gatorade bottle with a little water in my car.

      I threw cigarette butts everywhere when I was younger, then one day I seen a program about the butts ending up in waterways and I haven’t tossed one since.

      • @MutilationWave
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        23 hours ago

        Yeah I tossed and stomped, or flicked out the car window, when I was young. Smoked inside at my first three apartments and at my mom’s house.

        I was callous in so many ways in my youth. Littering cigarettes ain’t nothing compared to how I acted in general. I try to keep it in mind and not judge the youth of today harshly.

    • dustycups
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      724 hours ago

      Good onya for picking up after yourself & self awareness.
      It was super hard for me to quit too (4 or 5 times and years on NRT) but it gets easier slowly. For me it was very worth it but we all have our own journeys.

    • @[email protected]
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      016 hours ago

      I don’t think it’s possible to quit smoking twice. The first time, there was just a longer gap between cigarettes.

      • @MutilationWave
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        416 hours ago

        In that case I never quit. I’ll keep this great advice in mind next time I feel like I have my life settled out and stress minimized so I can try again but give up immediately once I remember that the other two times didn’t count.