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I'm old enough that I can remember smoking in movies, at the grocery store, at work (in an office and in elevators!), on buses and in planes. I lived through t
by sverige 9y ago
I'm old enough that I can remember smoking in movies, at the grocery store, at work (in an office and in elevators!), on buses and in planes. I lived through the systematic implementation of restrictions on where and when one could smoke. The gradual increase of shaming comments from random strangers was also unpleasant.
I quit smoking last winter right before an ambulance ride to the hospital and heart surgery. (Heart surgery is no fun, thanks for asking.) I smoked and quit and smoked again and quit again many times. The last time I quit (before this time), it lasted over nine years. Then I picked it up again during a very stressful time at work.
Frankly, I miss smoking. I don't miss the health effects, but I miss everything else about it. I can't say I won't smoke again. I've said that too many times to believe it.
And I miss smokers, mostly. They are a friendly bunch.
I remember times scrambling around airports looking for a place to smoke. Most are outside, and many are situated such that you end up having to go back through TSA screening again just to have a butt before getting on a flight. I wish I'd known about this site back then.
- tgarma1234 9y agoNot going to have the downvotes driving my profile into oblivion. I think retirement sounds fantastic and it would be great to live to old age enjoying personal programming projects. THX.
- rishabhparikh 9y agoWonder if you might be saying the same thing when you're 65. Meaningfulness can come from places besides jobs, house plants, or Facebook I think. I could also be totally wrong, but I think it's worth attempting to find out.
- felipemnoa 9y agoIf I were you I would pick a near impossible project and work on that. As long as your mind is healthy you can always work, even if just on your own.
- tgarma1234 9y agoSocial inclusion is an essential part of life and it's completely closed off from people who are "old" in programming. I don't think I am the only person to note that.
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- ChoGGi 9y agoI quit about eight years ago now, I take care of my occasional urge by puffing on a Soex brand herbal beedie. A beedie is normally tobacco wrapped in a bay leaf, so technically it isn't a beedie. You're still sucking down smoke, but at least there's no nicotine dragging you back, and unlike other herbal cigarettes they don't taste like ass. They have a campfire smell to them, so non-smokers don't mind them as much.
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- binaryapparatus 9y agoI do occasionally want to buy smoker seat in the plane, sometimes because I joke, sometimes because I genuinely forget there is no such thing any more.
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