When I was trying to quit, I heard that the success rate for smokers was lower than it was for heroin addicts. Based on the type of logic I subscribed to at that time, it seemed obvious to me that if I were really serious about it, I should take up heroin to quit smoking. After all, it would improve my odds of getting clean.
Son, that takes years of practice and unless you’re able to do it with one hand on horseback, don’t embarrass yourself.
Converting to Islam is a brilliant idea - making a hookah the most appropriate choice. Rollies are definitely the go too; just don’t embarrass yourself with an absent-minded 3-paper.
No, you won’t. You’ll just look stupid. Read a book instead. Much more fun and a lot safer for your health and more pleasant for the people around you.
I think it’s a great idea. It’s like an extra two weeks of vacation every year, taken a few minutes at a time. I say build up to it. Start with the patch first, to get hooked on nicotine.
I used to just tag along with my smoker buddies when they would go down for their smoke breaks. Like others have said it’s great for networking. It is great for getting to know higher ups and getting your ideas passed along to people who can get them implemented w/o having to go through the normal channels where they will get bogged down in red tape.
Once when someone asked me what I was doing going down with the smokers when I didn’t smoke, I just replied that I was taking a second-hand-smoke break.
I agree with smoking Winstons. They’re the world’s oldest brand, been around since the Stone Age. Fred and Barney used to take Winston breaks to avoid work all of the time.
And they were a favorite of Granny Moses. She was a doctor, you know.
I say go for roll-your-own. That way you can balance out non-smokers looking down on you byl looking down on all the pathetic corporate drone slaves smoking their industrialized filler-laden genetically-altered plastic-filtered tasteless ‘cigarettes’. Until you’re out of tobacco and need to bum a smoke from one of them, anyway.
If you go with a pipe, the ritual extends the breaktime. You need to pack the pipe and go through the proper lighting ritual. And it’s better for the pipe if you always smoke the bowl all the way to the bottom every time you light up. And, of course, there’s the cleaning ritual afterward.
And don’t forget that non-(tobacco)-smokers glare at cigarette smokers, swear at cigar smokers, bum tokes off pot smokers, and tell pipe smokers that the smell is wonderful and it reminds them of Uncle Bob.
And in passing, a friend at work looked outside at everyone smoking and said, “I think I’m going to take up smoking.” I laughed and then carried on, you know, doing my job. She went off the other direction, to do her job.