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user-inactivated  ·  3773 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, can you quit if you want to?

I smoked off and on for a while, but didn't "start" until I was 18. Habit never stuck. It made food taste bad, and it didn't make me feel relaxed or make me less stressed, which are two things I wanted to happen.

I'll still bum a cigarette off of someone if I'm around people smoking, but that's happened maybe once in the last year. I'd enjoy a casual cigar if I had money, and usually do when I'm around my friend. I do it for no reason other than to have something to do to fill in awkward silences.

I've never been a drinker either, tried it once with a close friend the weekend after my great-grandmother died, and I felt like I was being ignored by someone else. Didn't do much for me, so I never really started that habit either.

I'm fairly wary of being "addicted" to things. My dad was a massive drug addict, so I've always been extremely careful of myself. I have an obsessive personality anyway, and I'd rather it be focused on depressive thoughts of others than smoking or drinking.