Benefits of smoking cigarettes?

It should be really telling that you can’t find anything positive about cigarettes online, even when you specifically search for positive aspects.

They cause cancer and you smell disgusting after smoking them. Just listen to your girlfriend on this.

I’m not addicted but it does help me get through my day.

Yeah... you're addicted.

Here's a positive: cigarettes make a great mosquito repellent, because nicotine is a natural insecticide and the smoke/odor repels them. It also repels girlfriends and other humans, but still.

You want to kill germs? Use mouthwash. There’s pretty much nothing beneficial about smoking cigarettes.

Even when you take the health considerations out of account, you will reek. I assure you, nobody wants to spend time around a partner that emits a nauseating scent. It’s a bad habit in every sense of the term.

Yes - nicotine can be a quick stress reliever. That’s about al it’s good for.

I understand that you need something to help you get through the days, but there are tons of other things that you could do.

Heck, even switching to vaping will improve your health outcomes considerably. And you won’t smell.

I don’t know why you’re fighting your girlfriend on this, it seems like she’s genuinely concerned and you’re being so stubborn as to look online to justify your addiction. Yes, you are addicted. You smoke more than a pack a week and refuse to quit or offer a compromising alternative. If I was her, I’d leave you.

Is this serious, or joking/trolling? Smoking is expensive, and stinky. It is without any tangible benefits. You are being silly.

This is obvious trolling, but everyone here is so sincere.

think about it. Even online, where there are all kinds of stupid misinformation, you couldn't find any info to back your claim.

maybe she's right and she loves you enough to threaten you to do something good for your health

Cigarettes aren't good for you and it sounds like you're not ready to hear this, but you are addicted.

If you don't like living, this is a good way. Please try to give it up.

I’m reading through the comments and every reply of yours is like another stroke of the paint brush. I will watch your dark art from afar.

You sound like a teenager. As an almost 20 year smoker, if you're "not addicted" then quit now.

Health benefits aside, it's a massive pain in the ass and a money pit. Everyone (rightfully) talks about getting lung cancer, but no one talks about how fucking annoying it is to have to stop what you're doing every 2 hours to feed your cravings.

There is no way this is a real thought process lmao.

Well, for one, you’re reducing your lifespan, so you’ll be less of a burden on the healthcare system later in life because you’ll be dead. But that’s obviously ignoring the massive burden on the healthcare system you’ll be when you’re being treated for various cancers.

https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-3-health-effects/3-28-health-benefits-of-smoking-

There's reason to believe there are specific benefits from smoking tobacco. It's just that they are pretty much always outweighed by the negative effects of smoking in the long term.

No benefits at all really. The smoke contains poison that causes cancer and nicotine causes vascular disease. If you really could quit anytime you should. But you can’t because you’re an addict. You should listen to your GF and quit. Otherwise you’re destroying your health and your relationship.

Guys please stop downvoting this post, that is some hilarious shit here 🤣

Pack a week smoker here, you're addicted or at the very least habituated. Even if the physical withdrawals are minimal, the mental association of smoking with a positive feeling is immense.

There are very few upsides to smoking and a heap of downsides. Take this opportunity to reflect, and see how you can actively cut down (or stop) and replace it with a healthier alternative. Even if you can't stop, practising moderation is helpful for you in the long term.

This is satire, right?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

jesus christ you are beyond saving

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.

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

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

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.

They make you look cool in photographs

This post is obviously trolling, but if they’re not then OP you’re an addict and your GF is right to leave you. She’s better off finding someone who isn’t going to smoke themselves to death and saddle her with crippling medical debt when you inevitably get cancer and die a slow and horrible death, drowning in all the tar you coated your lungs with.

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.

Lmao nice b8, m8

I think I can help but it will take more than just words. It will take a demonstration and I will need your help to convince your gf.

But you can say that cigarettes make you better in bed. If you gf is hot and you can convince her, I'm willing to sleep with her and do a bad job to help you look good. After a few sessions to rule out one-off performances and so on, I am confident she'll be convinced.

It's apparently a great way to become single, soon.

It makes your bones more porous and lighter, like a bird

Mostly, it helps you look cool - very cool. Cool and potentially cancerous, but, cool nonetheless.

Healthcare in the US is absolutely bonkers. Here in the UK I've paid 0 (!) quids for my lung transplant. They only required me to take a break from smoking for about 6 months (that sucked, lol).

Try a vape, preferably an unflavored one. Or something administered orally, like nicotine pouches/gum or snus. Anything but smoking actual tobacco.

Cigarettes are a nootropic which increases your cognitive ability, increases free testosterone, helps with weight loss too.

My grandfather grew his own tobacco and drank a flask of rum and smoked a cigar every day and he lived to 102, don't listen to all the CDC FUD in the thread!

Why is no one talking about the controlling girlfriend? If - hypothetically - smoking was bad for you, he'd only hurt himself. So why does she care??