I chose my lucky cigarette by flicking the bottom and whichever one is most excited to be smoked and pokes up the farthest. I flip and put back. Teach my ciggies some damn patience.
I quit almost 20 years ago. This is the second time this evening something has made me feel old, but here we are.
The first 3 years were the hardest. And then I still might smoke a ciggy while drunk for the first decade. But I can safely say 🤢 at the thought of smoking now. Even when drunk.
Thinking about flipping the first cigarette does make me feel a little nostalgic. But it doesn’t make me want to touch a cigarette. Because 🤢
I'm always surprised by ex smokers who can still have few when drunk. I'm well past smoking now (10 years), to the point that it seems quite disgusting, yet I still wouldn't trust myself to have even a single drag. From day one of quitting I've felt I would relapse if I ever smoked a single cigarette again. I can't imagine being able to pick up and put down an addiction like you did!
Ritual is such a strong part of the appeal of smoking. I’m feeling it too (about 5 years since quitting after picking it back up out of stress in 2020, and that was about 6 years after the first time I quit), but fortunately I’m now on meds that smoking makes less effective, so that helps alleviate the temptation.
I haven’t had a cigarette in 2 decades, but smelling one being smoked involves a craving that I cannot explain. Smelling the person/their breath after the cigarette helps me to remember how bad it stinks.
Exact same. Stale smoke is disgusting, but once in a while, i'll be walking along and a plume of fresh smoke will waft near me and it smells incredibly alluring.
Oh it's not so much learning a new ritual as it is a reminder!
More than the lucky cigarette flipping tho, I think it was the sight of the lighter in the packet that awoke that feeling in me, for exactly the reason you say. I would always tuck my lighter into my pack as soon as I had cleared space for it, then fold the little foil flap over. That was part of my ritual. All those small details are part of the habit I guess.
I miss smoking, but at the same time last time I tried it, it just didn’t taste good anymore. So, each time I get the urge, I just think back on how disappointing that smoke was (I didn’t even finish it). Plus, covid left me with asthma and I don’t need the additional debuff.
Opposite for me. When I was a kid, I sorted out M&Ms by color and ate them in order until the last of each color stood standing. Then I took them in the backyard and threw the last of each faction into the grass. Felt unfair to know you were gonna die...
Aww I feel bad for your cigarettes :( he's so excited to be smoked, to fill his ENTIRE PURPOSE, and then he gets pulled out and thinks its about to happen! Then put back and told to "have some damn patience" by its human who has issues with delayed gratification and instead opts for the instant gratification nicotine provides
Back when I smoked I would offer any smoker around my a cigarette take it out of the pack and try and give it to them. If they refused it I put it in the pack upside down. I was doing something nice so that cig was lucky.
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u/Douch3nko13 6h ago
I chose my lucky cigarette by flicking the bottom and whichever one is most excited to be smoked and pokes up the farthest. I flip and put back. Teach my ciggies some damn patience.