Reiraku
Member
- May 5, 2020
- 69
What's your relationship with cigarettes?
I smoke them on a rare occassion, so sometimes I really feel like it, buy a pack and smoke one or two cigarettes daily for a week or two before stopping for like half a year. It worked out pretty well thus far, as in I am not physically addicted to them, which I do not want to become. But I notice thinking things like "Man, I'd really like to smoke now", which seems to be a rather slippery slope into addiction. I mean the smell is bad, but what's worse is the price. A 20 pack costs 7€ here. Some people from my class who are smokers smoke around 4 ciggies a day, so the monthly cost for cigarettes is 42€. And I can't even pinpoint why, but I still like it. Maybe I associate it with the characters I've seen in my favorite movies and tv series. Like when Rust Cohle smokes like a chimney in True Detective or Takeshi Kitano in his various yakuza movies, it just looks really cool. Then again, normal everyday people are just addicts.
But still, eventually I'll need to stop smoking completely before I can't anymore.
I smoke them on a rare occassion, so sometimes I really feel like it, buy a pack and smoke one or two cigarettes daily for a week or two before stopping for like half a year. It worked out pretty well thus far, as in I am not physically addicted to them, which I do not want to become. But I notice thinking things like "Man, I'd really like to smoke now", which seems to be a rather slippery slope into addiction. I mean the smell is bad, but what's worse is the price. A 20 pack costs 7€ here. Some people from my class who are smokers smoke around 4 ciggies a day, so the monthly cost for cigarettes is 42€. And I can't even pinpoint why, but I still like it. Maybe I associate it with the characters I've seen in my favorite movies and tv series. Like when Rust Cohle smokes like a chimney in True Detective or Takeshi Kitano in his various yakuza movies, it just looks really cool. Then again, normal everyday people are just addicts.
But still, eventually I'll need to stop smoking completely before I can't anymore.