Asklemmy

Smoking is extremely unattractive because it heavily stinks like shit.

Additionally, what you describe, is your lack of dopamine. You have build up your normal dopamine level way too high. Meaning that, to feel normal or satisfied, you need to smoke cigarrettes or do heroin.

A normal person who isn't addicted could look at cat pictures or look at a beatiful park and be happy for that day because his normal dopamine level is way lower. (If he isn't depressed or not addicted to tiktok, etc)

You either understand the serious health downsides and want to quit, or you will never be able to quit because you feel like you are right with cigarretes, then a different girlfriend who smokes too would be more appropriate.

Have you looked at this from her standpoint? Cigarettes cause cancer, and second-hand smoke can lead to cancer as well, or at least serious health issues. Her being with you in the long run may mean she might get it, or you get it, or both of you get it. All outcomes are really bad for both of you, physically, emotionally/mentally.

I’m not sure how serious you two are. But if you are, maybe start to work on it. If you say you can stop, prove it to her and yourself. If you say you don’t have an addiction, test that theory, for both you and her. If you want to meet her half-way, maybe consider cutting back or switching to vape.

The only benefit is weight loss and that is minor and nowhere nearly as bad as the negative consequences. Even if you think you're magically immune to things like cancer and COPD, you'll smell like shit if you are a smoker. You don't notice it because you always smell like it, but everybody around you notices it.

I want to prove to my girlfriend that smoking cigarettes is actually good for you

jesus christ you are beyond saving

Dude, i saw my grandpa die of lung cancer, chemo did nothing to help him and the cancer literally propagated to the bones making him suffer with pain until he died. He smoked from 12 years old till he was 60, he always told everyone in my family to not smoke.

As someone who smoked Camels for years and is now just as addicted to vaping, there are no benefits. Zero.

When I smoked cigs, I stank constantly. Even if I sprayed perfume or had a mint. My fingers always smelled.

I did 12 straight years of choir, but now I have a much smaller vocal range. I'm not as active because I get winded. Now that I vape and have constant access, I get cranky after like 30 minutes of no nicotine.

My blood pressure is higher. I can't be on the type of birth control that gives me less side effects because my smoking makes it higher risk.

I'm raising my risk of cancer. I'm spending a fuckton of money on flavored air.

There is literally no positive and I wish I had never touched it.

Lol, based on your post and comments it sounds like you should keep smoking. Hopefully then your gf will wise up and leave.

Read Allen Carr’s Easy Way. It’s not a great piece of literature, but it’s the best book to help you wrap your head around why you smoke and whether you actually want to.

Can’t recommend it enough.

The biggest benefit is having a much better idea of how you'll die, and knowing that you won't have to deal with getting so old that everyone you know dies before you

They make you look cool in photographs

You seem pretty stupid to me. There is nothing about smoking that is good for you. Your girlfriend deserves better.

For your sake, stop. My granfather died a slow and painful death that took about half a year due to lung cancer. Nobody should die like that.

Are you serious? Take it from a fellow smoker, there are zero health benefits (I've dug that hole as deep as it can go) and if you're not addicted now, it's only a matter of time before you are. If you can stop whenever you want to, you should, and if you don't want to, guess what: that's what being addicted means.

To be fair: nicotine is a mild stimulant, which could be a good thing. But caffeine is stronger, easier to regulate dosage, cheaper, less addictive, tastes a lot better, isn't socially frowned upon, helps you to shit and doesn't give you cancer. So smoking for the stimulant effect is a stupid thing to do.