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I don’t know if it would help anyone else, but personally, watching the movie The Insider kind of permanently put me off from smoking. Jeffrey Wigand is/was an

• gwbas1c 5mo ago
  Even though may parents didn't smoke, and there was a lot of anti-smoking education around me, I grew up around a lot of smokers. What did it for me was watching my uncle have a rather painful death in his 50s because he couldn't stop drinking and smoking. (He went into alcohol withdrawal in the hospital after lung surgery.) That being said, I did smoke a few when I was in my early 30s. Something about nicotine just put weird thoughts in my head a few days after smoking a cigarette: One day I was biking home and the thought "it would be a good idea to have a cigarette before making dinner" popped into my head. I never touched cigarettes after that. Cigarettes are more addictive than people who've never tried them realize. It's not just a matter of will power, something about nicotine manipulates your motivations in a very subconscious way.
  • WalterBright 5mo ago
    I never smoked because I knew I'd like it. But there are a couple photos of me "smoking" as I was trying to look cool.
• iamalizard 5mo ago
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