I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco

Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by Aeolun on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @11:50PM (#28612947)

> I would also be very interested in the percentage of people for whom deferring a cigarette for five minutes is easy.

I would be too. But I can’t imagine it’s very low. It’s like holding your pee for 5 minutes, uncomfortable, but eminently doable as long as you know you’ll find a toilet soon.

I think the problem is with knowing that those 5 minutes are supposed to mean deferring the smoking forever.

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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by dmurray on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:46AM (#28614574)

> It’s like holding your pee for 5 minutes, uncomfortable, but eminently doable as long as you know you’ll find a toilet soon.

Does it get worse with time? The first five minutes might just be uncomfortable for holding your pee, but the discomfort rises until by the tenth or twentieth it may be physically impossible.

In my (non-smoker's) understanding, withdrawal symptoms/cravings also increase with time between cigarettes, at least at first. Maybe not as strongly?

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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by hallway_monitor on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:50AM (#28616316)

I mean, it's doing something you love, that you get to do all the time. Knowing you could do it but choosing not to...yes it's uncomfortable but you eventually get to a point where you forget you were ever a smoker. Maybe some people have "symptoms" but I believe it's psychosomatic.

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