Smoking has not become a habit for me, as it is not a behavior that I repeat until it becomes part of my life, although I have smoked.
My experience with smoking has been ephemeral or eventual you could say, the first time I smoked I was 16 years old and I did it out of curiosity, a couple of cigarettes that I managed to get as a gift and would cause the scolding of life by my mom, but that was not what at that time made me quit, but the fact of spending money on something like that 😂.
Three years later I would smoke again, the occasional cigarette in the middle of the night watching a rock band perform. The people around me, after paying for a cigarette, would light the other one and the truth is that it didn't bother me at all, it was the atmosphere and it was fine for me. At the beginning of the week everything went back to normal.
I only smoked on the weekends and if there was a rock show or I went to a bar, otherwise nothing. I have never felt the anxiety of smoking, I have never had abstinence, no weakness. It is something that I have been able to quit when I want for years and resume when I want in a single moment. Once I was talking to a girl who works in the health field and she told me that there are people who don't have to fall, it's the vices and you could tell by the way they handle alcohol or cigarettes. I don't know how true this is.
After that time at 19, I didn't smoke again, until I was about 30, I could count 3 cigarettes sporadically in that period of time, the truth is that I wouldn't spend money on it and I do the math and if spending on cigarettes is going to prevent me from having money to spend on something else like food, I give up. I can be with smokers and not smoke, it does not generate any kind of temptation for me.
At present, if it's a question of smoking, I'd go more for Havana cigars, since I'm in the world of tasting, liqueurs, cocktails and so on, it's something I've tried. I even participated in a photo shoot for a cigar brand.
I am in favor of everyone doing what they want with their body, being aware of the consequences of doing something that can harm you, as long as you do it alone, do not invite anyone and in spaces where there are no people who do not smoke, because something I never did was to smoke around people who did not. I would move away and even the direction of the wind would mediate so that the smoke would not reach the person, even I did not do it. I was afraid that my right ended where the right of others began.
Before, it was hard for me to understand people who can't go without smoking, who can't quit, and I think it comes because for me it's something so normal. Then I understood that we are all different and there are people who choose habits that later become difficult to quit.
Source||Photos: Taken from my personal gallery||Traslation: Deepl