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This is a wonderful find! Something in the first chapter that hits home for me: how much better smoking is in retrospect than reality. The memory of the perfe
by smogcutter 3y ago
This is a wonderful find!
Something in the first chapter that hits home for me: how much better smoking is in retrospect than reality.
The memory of the perfect cigarette never goes away: on the porch on a sunny day, with a book and coffee/a cold beer; outside at the party, talking and trying to get laid; 2 am at your desk, one more smoke and this sentence will say what I mean.
Then as soon as you break and light one up, the romance vanishes completely.
- geraldhh 3y agoalmost like getting laid
- ltbarcly3 3y agoThe first cigarette after quitting for a long time is thankfully awful. The 5th or 15th is everything you dream of.
- hereonout2 3y agoUnfortunately they don't just sell singles, so you quite often get to number 15!
- geraldhh 3y agosaw a convenience shop selling bottles of (soft-)drinks bundled with a single cigarette, so there's that
- 13of40 3y agoI smoked on and off for about ten years, and eventually stopped because I realized that no matter how nice the anticipation of it was, immediately afterwards I felt dirty and depressed. I quit for good almost twenty years ago, and the interesting this is now the dirty and depressed feeling is still palpable when I think about it, but I only remember the anticipation as a symbol. I remember *that* the anticipation happened, but not what it felt like.