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Benefits of smoking cigarettes? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Lappland@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My girlfriend has threatened to break up with me several times now unless I cut down to a pack a week. I'm not addicted but it does help me get through my day. I keep trying to tell her that but she doesn't believe me and keeps saying that it's actually bad. I want to prove to my girlfriend that smoking cigarettes is actually good for you so that she can stop judging me over it but I can't find any info online to back that up. Can anyone help me find some resources that list the health benefits of cigarettes? Like how nicotine kills germs or anything like that?

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[–] Uphillbothways@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

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.

[+] Lappland@lemmy.world -12 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Thank you for actually helping me find some useful and true information.

[–] Uphillbothways@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You're welcome.

I quit after over 20 years. It was really, really hard. I still crave them. Won't start again, just because quitting was so incredibly difficult. But, yeah. I, uh, think about it... Both sides of it.

Be aware, I cherry picked the information you had asked for from a much larger work. Just "Chapter 3 - The health effects of active smoking" has 37 sections. Everyone but the one I linked above has a list of negative effects. Have a look at the rest of it, too.

Chapter 3 Index: https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-3-health-effects

Don't just confirm your biases. Look at the whole picture.

Wish you the best.

[–] safetyvestcoloredcat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm kind of worried about quitting, since I've heard it is difficult to start again afterwards.

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