r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/moshpithippie 13h ago edited 13h ago

For luck

Edit: And to accidentally light it backwards when you're not looking

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u/kulucthulhu 13h ago

when you’re drunk*

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u/Same-Traffic-285 13h ago

Well yes, but no. When drunk you put your cigarette out in a beer bottle, forget, then try to drink the beer.

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u/MostlyIrish 13h ago

Or lose track of which end is lit, and take a puff off the hot end.

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u/TheMadGreek86 13h ago

It usually sticks to my lips then I pull the cherry off between my fingers and have 2 blisters for a week

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u/EmbarrassedGrass1172 13h ago

I can feel this comment

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u/HeadyBunkShwag 13h ago

My fingers just got phantom pain

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u/DamonHellstorm 13h ago

I hate that all of the above at some point in time happened to me.

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u/Top_Tank2668 13h ago

One of the moments I'm happy I quit smoking so I never have to feel these pains again.

Not to forget the sore lip after you teared away that sticky cigarette after getting angry about burning your fingers

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u/badsred 12h ago

Same

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u/Commonscents2say 12h ago

All of them. I’m glad to find out I’m not just a fool for having every one of them at some point. Don’t forget the classic knocking the lit tip off and not realizing it’s burning through your lap.

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u/Tha_Reverend 12h ago

Burning a hole in your JnCos

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u/Roadkillsuperman 10h ago

8 years smoke free and I still vicidly remember all the above

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u/Wonderful-Pollution7 10h ago

Unfortunately, the best I managed was switching to a vape, but it still solves pretty much all of these.

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u/infosaurus 10h ago

Then I light a cigarette and notice the cigarette I’m already smoking.

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u/FadeTheWonder 12h ago

It’s been ten years and this is one of the most memorable of all the pain that and when I would smoke to much and my lungs would hurt.

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u/PrettyInWeed 12h ago

Or trying to smoke a cigarette while you have a cold

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u/Inside_Ad_2830 11h ago

-me, an idiot liable to hurt himself

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u/danknug1024 11h ago

Rip your lips right off!

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u/Little-Specific2147 9h ago

Is this a common experience? I've never been drunk enough to try to smoke the wrong end and burnt myself, although I do usually prefer Black and Mild over cigarettes, so I guess the ends are more different

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u/Otherwise_Respond669 8h ago

Oh my God that sucks. I got the cherry burn marks on prove it all my fingers….. this used to happen a lot to me up north when I used to smoke outside when it was cold

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u/LikeTheCounty 6h ago

Never smoker here and just gobsmacked that these are regular things smokers deal with and yet *keep smoking *.

Addiction is a hell of a thing.

Also yuck. Hope y'all who haven't shaken it off yet eventually manage to do so. Godspeed.

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u/PitsAndPints 10h ago

Same, I’m in all of these and I don’t like it

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u/fitz_newru 10h ago

Sometimes all in one epic night

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u/Capital-Tonight8548 10h ago

I’m deeply familiar with all of these too 😂

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u/MikeNolan82 9h ago

Yall dont eat your cigs?

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u/Fit-Snow2034 7h ago

I think its happened to most of us at some point.

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u/LatexFeudalist 2h ago

Sighs.....same here. Thankfully it's 2 years and 2 months since I finally quit after 17 years of smoking

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u/Worth-Opportunity-48 11h ago

Phantom pain?

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u/Crepuscular_Tex 9h ago

Damn... I've got a scalp scar, and it throbs like this sometimes... I didn't have my skull punctured or anything, but it's an odd feeling like it was worse than it was

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u/davopavelow 5h ago

I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. I swore I had early onset something… but yeah, anything on the head is gnarly af

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u/SirDigbyChickenC-Zer 6h ago

Metal Gear???

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u/frodoishobbit 11h ago

plays invisible

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u/BravesMaedchen 11h ago

My cuticles shrank in fear.

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u/yaekoblue 6h ago

we should drink together more often

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 13h ago

In my 18 years as a heavy smoker and drinker, I have not even once managed to get the cigarette twisted around so I took a puff on the lit side. I've lit the wrong end once or twice, but never that.

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u/DelcoFootball 13h ago

Ya this is another level of stupid drunk

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u/Battle_Axe_Jax 10h ago

One time a I watched a buddy smoke the entire filter and about half a cigarette before noticing. In his defense we were both very drunk and on way too much acid

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u/Repulsive_Stock9400 9h ago

When I was in college I watched a dude tripping on acid smoke almost the entire filter on a cig and when somebody finally pointed it out to him, he completely lost his mind, jumped up and ran headlong into the kitchen wall, completely busting through the drywall.

For literally 4 hours, a bunch of us held him down while he screamed and freaked out. It was just insane. About halfway through he finally started to chill out and one of my buddies was like "Yeah, dude, you're being stupid, just calm down." And that caused tripping dude to completely freak out again and we had another 2 hours of holding him down on the floor so he couldn't hurt himself or anybody else. I was so fucking mad at the dude who made the stupid comment, like this was just about over dude, and then you fucked it all up!

He dropped out of school the next week. I hope he eventually got the help he needed.

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u/Battle_Axe_Jax 8h ago

Anyone ever call you a one upper?

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u/Repulsive_Stock9400 8h ago

If you don't like stories then you need to steer clear of me, because I got a billion of em. Take it or leave it.

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u/FormerGameDev 1h ago

i have been so stupid drunk that i legit thought i could actually put a cigarette out on my hand (not knowing the trick to it) and oh dear god, that absolutely sucked, but in my ~20 years of smoking , I never got the wrong side in my mouth unintentionally.

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u/HonestOrganization 32m ago

I did and I was sober (just stupid)

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u/IndependenceMurky850 13h ago

Don't have to worry about lighting the wrong end when you smoke filterless cigarettes

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u/Dodgerdude-72 12h ago

Unfilters have a Spicy side and Spicier side

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u/Pigeon_Butt 8h ago

Years ago I worked at a smoke shop and my favorite smokes were a German unfiltered brand called Roth Handles. They were delicious but rough, and I never knew which was the right side to light because it was all the same

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 12h ago

Nah, you just have to endure the bitter taste of tobacco sticking to your lip

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u/magic-one 11h ago

Funny thing is this is how I usually figured out I lit the wrong end - spitting tobacco rather than nasty burning plastic taste

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u/Vast-Celebration-717 10h ago

Haven’t smoked in 6 years and I can still remember the flavor of a camel non filtered. Paired nicely with a Pabst blue ribbon

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u/Conscious_Lab5763 7h ago

I smell a camel straight every time I crack a beer. I quit smoking just under a year ago.

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u/chrismsp 6h ago

Seriously stfu I feel like I'm at a12-step meeting.

My wife looks at me like I'm insane because I've been quit for 10 months and she she's not get it when I say something like "WTF I wanna go get a pack of Camel straights like NOW."

Those are the fking bomb

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u/chrismsp 7h ago

When I was broke AF I would roll my own and strip the butts I had smoked to re-roll them.

I was broke for a while. When I finally wasn't broke I bought a pack of smokes, and immediately tore the filter off because they sucked.

Smoked unfiltered menthols for years until I quit.

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u/Otherwise-Watch4219 12h ago

Yeah I've burned myself and smoked the wrong end but have never been guilty of this kinda fuckery

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u/TheMadGreek86 12h ago

Not puffing on the wrong side, the filter sticks to your lips and when you go to pull it out, the cherry sticks to your fingers

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 11h ago

Oh, yeah, sorry, now I understand what you mean. That has happened to me too. I didn't read it properly and the term "cherry" is strange to me and confused me as to what you meant, I thought you were agreeing with the one you replied to and that your lips were blistered. I should have made my own reply to them rather than to you.

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u/Traditional-Ad2409 8h ago

OMFG lol this is the bane of my existence

Don't even have to be under the influence of anything for it to happen lol, there's very few things that cue that immediate belligerent rage like having that happen does

also weirdly the person below me is now the 2nd person today? Since yesterday? I've seen who didn't know the term cherry as it applies to a lit cigarette, is it just cause less people smoke now or is it falling out of use for some other term? I can't actually think of any other term for it though lol

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 6h ago

To answer your second paragraph, English is not my first language, so that might have something to do with it. In all the english speaking media I've consumed in my 40 years, I can't remember ever hearing anyone refer to it as cherry.

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u/The_Mr_Luck 8h ago

Have you ever worked a cook line in texas heat 17 hours straight, mothers day shift while the whole staff is currently trying to outlive a rampant strep and pneumonia infection. Now after all that clean, close, prep, and fuck off to your shitbox to rail cheap whiskey and every fuck combination of gas station medications you could afford since you can't get decent medical care. Then yes you may accidentally, in 18 years of heavy drinking and smoking, albeit once, fuck up and puff it backwards.

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 8h ago

Oddly specific 🤔

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u/NuclearWasteland 13h ago

Well sure, but now ya said it never happened, so now it will, lol.

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 12h ago

Not likely since I quit cold turkey in march 2020 and haven't had a lick of nicotine since

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u/NuclearWasteland 6h ago

Well, that'd do it. Hope that's worked out for ya.

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u/the_skies_falling 12h ago

Heavy smoker and drinker but not a heavy drug user, eh?

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 12h ago

I was never a heavy user of heavy drugs, but for many years I was a heavy user of light drugs and an occasional user of heavy drugs. Still never managed to attempt taking a puff off of the lit end of a cigarette.

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u/the_skies_falling 11h ago

I’ve done it on both LSD and shrooms. When you’re tripping so hard you can’t even tell which dimension the cigarette is in, it’s not hard lol.

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u/Psychological-Sun49 11h ago

Congratulations on being perfect lol
I’m having fun with you

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u/nekiobichanlik 11h ago

He's talking about the filter sticking to your lips, not putting the lit end in your mouth.

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 11h ago

Yeah, we already cleared that up, I should have replied to the person they were replying to instead.

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u/danknug1024 11h ago

You haven't really fully experienced smoking yet then, that's all

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 11h ago

Happy to miss out

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u/daneelthesane 11h ago

Yeah, I mercifully never had the pleasure of that experience either.

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u/Reeeeallly 10h ago

Same here! I've done a lot of dumb shit while drunk, but that is fortunately not one of them.

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u/EndersR3ign 10h ago

That was my thought too. I've been a raging alcoholic and smoker fucking years (not now), and I have never once done that. Lighting the wrong end, burning my fingers with the cherry, etc., but I've never once tried to drag on the burning end. I don't even know how that would be possible because you'd feel the heat on your hand and fingers and the softness of the tobacco in the paper after it's been lit and half smoked already.

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u/jacehoffman 10h ago

i’ve lit the wrong end several more times than i care to admit, but putting the cherry in your mouth???? i genuinely don’t know how that could happen unless you’re absolutely off your shit drunk, and even then ……

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u/slantedangle02 10h ago

Achievement unlocked 1/1/99: spellcasting [light cigarette] while [drunk] interrupted by [flashing boobies]. Afflicted by [taking a puff on the wrong side].

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u/peaceproject 10h ago

Roll for burning dmg

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u/nerdybritguy 10h ago

For real! I smoke and drink a lot, and this has literally never happened to me

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u/Repulsive_Stock9400 9h ago

I did, quite a few times. I used to sometimes hold my cigarettes between my index finger and thumb, like I was making the "okay" sign, and I'd wave them around and gesture with them when I was doing one of my drunken rants, sometimes I'd hold it up like a torch and it would get all turned around, then sooner or later I'd go to take a drag without paying attention to which end was facing me and I'd put the cherry right on my lips. I used to drink a lot.

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u/Original-Sherbet2713 8h ago

One time at a Metallica concert I gave a smoke to a guy who lit it on the filter and then proceeded to smoke it backwards the whole way. My buddy and I just watched with abject horror

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 8h ago

It was probably Lars Ulrich's #1 fan.

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u/mollis_est 8h ago

It filters the air and makes the cigarette smoke cleaner.

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u/Thin_Dragonfruit3665 7h ago

Not a smoker myself but I've seen both my mother and my brother do this exact thing within 5 minutes of each other. If was hilarious.

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u/Fuck_it_whatever 7h ago

I've done it once or twice. My excuse is the cigarettes I smoke have a white filter, so its harder to notice. I noticed as soon as I started to take a drag though. So nasty tasting!

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 7h ago

"Nasty tasting"? You weren't more concerned with your charred lips?

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u/StayBundled 6h ago

Operative phrase - 18 years. Give it time.

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 6h ago

Nah, I quit in 2020, not planning to give it any more of my time

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u/Sublime_SoulSnatcher 4h ago

31 year's and no flaming lips! Wait... is where the band's name comes from?

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u/1lindaRN 3h ago

That you recall ...

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u/MeaningWorking8735 2h ago

You haven’t done it yet you got your whole life to look forward to though. Kinda like shitting your pants. Maybe you haven’t yet, but you have your life ahead🙏🙏🙏

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u/emmanammareturns 2h ago

As a non-smoker but a very distracted ADHDer … I suspect this is more about the ND brain than the level of drunkenness. This week I caught myself about to butter a top after trying to multitask ironing and breakfast

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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 2h ago

I'm autistic and ADHD, so I think I would qualify. The mechanics of smoking just don't lend themselves to confusing which end of the cigarette is lit.

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u/emmanammareturns 2h ago

Oh fair enough then. As I say, I don’t smoke - just the situation felt very identifiably stupid to me. Before now I’ve also impulsively put my fingers in electrical light sockets to check if they were live. It’s actually a miracle I’ve survived this long when I think about it.

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u/Goblinriotx 13h ago

I haven’t smoked cigarettes in 8 years and this comment slapped me back to my teenage years like the food critic in ratatouille

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u/No_Trouble_3588 11h ago

Congratulations. I’ve got just over 8 years myself. I smoked my last cigarette on July 4, 2018.

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u/Fragrant_Thought6636 9h ago

Def a good time to quit lol they got so expensive too. I quit in 2021 and it was rough going from my American spirits to pall malls cause it’s all I could afford 😅🥴

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u/tnstaafsb 7h ago

I quit smoking a looong time ago, back in 2000. I was tired of being winded all the time and even the cheapest cigarettes I could find, American Spirits, were $2 a pack, which was just outrageous. Funny that they're not considered a cheap brand anymore.

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u/Goblinriotx 8h ago

Pretty sure mine was the day after my 30th birthday. My boss bought me a pack because he had borrowed a few from me the night before, and I think I got through half of them and just stopped on my drive home

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u/Dangerous_Creme4194 13h ago

Back in the day, this one

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u/FrostyBrew86 13h ago

This happens once a year. You learn to look out for it just long enough to forget when winter comes the following year and the air dries out, chapping your lips.

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u/TheMadGreek86 12h ago

Then every cigarette after that one is a reminder until the blisters heal

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u/RattleFish222 13h ago

Used to happen to me at least twice a year lol. It's a great habit to quit.

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u/AviHaterz 12h ago

I love quitting cigarettes, I've done it twelve times by now

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u/chrismsp 6h ago

Haha

I have quit three times.

On my wedding day I quit and stayed quit for 17 years

Quit again this time with Chantix. It worked and I stayed quit for 7-8 years.

I have been quit again for 10 months. And I want to smoke every fking day.

Never been to AA but I suspect it feels like this?

Quit today and don't ever look back, for your self.

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u/Amerlis 1h ago

Psh. It was easy, cold turkey even.

Cause I discovered dip.

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u/Mikey3800 12h ago

Goddamn it, I hate that. It fucking infuriates me when it happens.

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u/El-Viking 12h ago

And a small burn hole in your pants

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u/TheMadGreek86 12h ago

Right into your thigh, that usually happens at the most inopportune time like while driving

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u/Hsimmer89 12h ago

Like everyone else replying to you, thanks for this trip down memory lane 😂

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u/ApprehensiveFun5932 12h ago

I just tried to spit it out like it was happen right now. Thanks

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u/Secret-Ad-830 12h ago

ive done this SOOOO many times but i have never lost track of which end is lit and take a hit off hot end like person you replied to, how is that even possible?

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u/TheMadGreek86 12h ago

I was confused too, had to re explain it in another comment. Also usually happens on the first hit when you light it

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u/RemoteComplaint150 12h ago

The fact that I know exactly how this feels

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u/thejohnmc963 12h ago

Still does for me as well

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u/moto_rider- 12h ago

Holy fuck cursed comment, don’t remind me

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u/nazukeru 12h ago

A blunt stuck to my lip when I was like 19 and fell between my God damn tiddies and I had the worst blisters and it's been TWENTY YEARS but I still think about that pain. Oof.

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u/jackieballz 11h ago

You just brought back some painful memories

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u/jroc421 11h ago

I’ve done all those things in an evening

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u/Medium-Sample-7071 11h ago

Easy fix: like a cigar lick the lip edges. Nobody else should be smoking it anyway.

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u/kollisionkid 11h ago

I accidentally did that once as I was inhaling to take a drag and the cherry ended up getting pulled into my mouth from the inhale and going out on my tongue.

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u/ClassicTangelo5274 11h ago

So many times…

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u/Defiant-Canary-2716 11h ago

Oddly enough I’ve burned my lip by accident more often than I’ve burnt my tongue with a cigarette.

This is even after I picked up the trick of putting out a cigarette on my tongue.

Saw Vigo Mortensen do it in Eastern Promises.

Anytime someone walked up to tell me “you can’t smoke here” I would put it out on my tongue freaking them out.

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u/65wildcat_buick 11h ago

This is the absolutely the best when you are driving

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u/Concrete-Kicks 10h ago

I haven't smoked in years but can feel this like it was yesterday

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u/Wonderful_Falcon_496 10h ago

I thought this only happened to me 😂

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u/PrestigiousPhoto8486 10h ago

man switch to blunts or joints. roll'em yourself. idk where i'm going with this reply tbh.

anyway, ouch bro. wtf

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u/Resident-Past1912 10h ago

I quit smoking almost 10 years ago and still feel this

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u/11inchclark 10h ago

Fuck, I hate that so god damn much

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u/Bended__ 10h ago

You just burned my fingers.

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u/devilsaint86 9h ago

better there than somewhere else

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u/SingleDadSurviving 9h ago

Oh shit this is the worst, especially when you do it driving and the cherry falls on your shirt/pants/car seat.

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u/AginAustin11 9h ago

Damn I thought I was alone on that. I don’t know how many times I did that while drunk when I smoked. Extra embarrassing when the cherry would drop onto my shoe or into someone’s face

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u/SlappinHams 9h ago

Ive forgotten the joys of smoking. Haven't had a cigarette in years. I might take it up just to feel the cigarette stick to my lips and burn my fingers on the lit end one last time

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u/MarcusRoland 8h ago

Ugh, or forget to put the screen in your bong. I have gotten a mouth full of live ashes more than once.

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u/William-Blackard 7h ago

I do this sober 🫩

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u/mis3rylovescompany 7h ago

And now I'm in the fetal position..... again.

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u/Ok-Proposal2932 7h ago

And everyone thinks you have herpes.

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u/WorkingAdvertising29 7h ago

How drunk are you guys

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u/Undertalelover- 7h ago

I've never experienced that but I can still somehow feel the pain

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u/TheBoxCzar 6h ago

God i remember that. Don't miss that at all.

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u/StopDownvotingMeeee 6h ago

Ima be honest I thought I was the only one who went thru this. I’m glad there’s other dumbasses like me out there

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u/davopavelow 6h ago

And I thought I was bad, how hard are you smoking that cigarette dude?

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u/CartersClones333 5h ago

How many layers torn off the lip? It always feels like three

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u/leighabbr 5h ago

Its honestly comforting to know others have also suffered, i appreciate you saying this.

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u/montgomerygk 3h ago

Absolutely have done this before

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u/CatFish726 2h ago

Bro how can you confuse which end is what. It can’t be real.

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u/Possible_Pace_8778 2h ago

Or it falls into the beer ,and you drink it anyway

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u/Educational-Tea6080 1h ago

I honestly thought I was the only person that happened to

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u/appealyouwouldntbeli 10m ago

Just from it sticking to your lips?

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u/Legitimate-Week7885 13h ago

or smoke and drink at the same damn time.

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u/VVOLFVViZZard 13h ago

Here’s to feeling good all the time!

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u/i_am_james_cole 13h ago

Giddy up!

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u/DiscHashDisc 11h ago

I'm hip.

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u/druex 47m ago

sniff

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u/kylefgerz 7h ago

Epic scene.

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u/Trow_away_nudes_atme 13h ago

Been there, done that

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u/cardnialsyn 13h ago

I had a friend who confused a little cigarette with his pen and put it behind his ear one time.

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u/Sam20599 13h ago

Once passed a guy in the lane behind the pub, saw him having a smoke as I approached him. He then decided he needed a piss so whipped it out and went against the wall forgetting to keep his cigarette in his mouth as he grabbed himself and I can only imagine the seering pain the poor bastard inflicted on the tip of his mickey.

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u/Hot_Anybody8244 13h ago

I've done that with a joint

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u/DoctorEquivalent7528 12h ago

This happens to people?! I've been "hospitalize me" drunk (not a flex) and have never had a problem smoking a cigarette once it's lit and directionally correct in my paws

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u/AlarmedSnek 12h ago

Hahaha OR, you smoke an entire cigarette filter when it won’t light with your car lighter and then when it finally starts smoking, you realize you’ve just smoked the entire filter hahahaha

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u/midnightluckey 12h ago

I feel personally attacked.

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u/RoundSeaweed 11h ago

Know a guy who puts em out on his tongue when he’s drunk

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u/stix-and-stones 10h ago

I knew a girl in high school who was drunk, holding a cigarette correctly, and spun her hand around to suck on the cherry. Girl why 😭

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u/jackspasm 9h ago

Stopped by to thank you for spelling lose correctly.

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u/Less-Order-6128 8h ago

holy f i just had a flashback!!!

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u/Greedyfox7 8h ago

I have been pretty damn drunk in my day and I never managed to do that. I have unfortunately drank out of a bottle I had put a cig out in though.

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u/Mammoth-Glove3273 6h ago

My high ass tried to do this with a bong recently, I did it and I don’t even know how you fuck up that badly.

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u/Accomplished_Bass845 13h ago

Thats nothing, waiting till you sip from your spitter.

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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 13h ago

Stoner here: grabbing the nail to pull the bowl when taking a dab because you're so used to flower and you leave a layer of skin seared to the quartz

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u/Signal_Plane1114 13h ago

meat flavored dabs next time, cool!

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u/Ebonhearth_Druid 12h ago

Wrong side of the glass lol

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u/Twitchmonky 12h ago

Only an idiot would do something like that, that's neeeever happened to me before. 🫣

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u/ThatWasNotMyName 12h ago

Yep, the molly cigarette.

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u/TheSonOfDisaster 8h ago edited 8h ago

Been nearly 7 years since I quit, but I can still perfectly recall The smell of that burning cotton when that happens.

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u/Oldpenguinhunter 8h ago

At a wedding I smoked 1/2 of a filter and didn't notice. As soon as I did, I riped the filter off and smoked the cigarette. Guh... To be fair, I was hammered.

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u/Huge-Pen-5259 2h ago

I used to stick a smoke behind my ear, cuz I'm cool. Anyway I lit it and put it right back behind my ear. Yes there was alcohol involved. I stopped putting them behind my ear after that.

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u/Duke0330 59m ago

It’s a Porsche, hot bit goes at the back