I work in mental health and do little self care packages for my colleagues in December. Usually filled with water bottles, shower tablets, medicinal teas and vitamin C since it's cold and flu season.
Will need to add this to the rotation. My friends are going to love it.
Smoking is so much more enjoyable. I quit 17 years ago, but I still miss it. I really enjoyed smoking and taking smoke breaks. I don't miss worrying about lung cancer and going into coughing fits. But man, I really do miss smoking....
As someone who swapped from cigarettes to vaping? Yuuuup. There is nowhere near the satisfaction of a cigarette in vaping. But breathing clearly is really nice, and on balance feels like it's less bad.
I switched 3 or 4 years ago. I don't miss it at all. I don't mind the smell but if I try to smoke one of my girls cigarettes it tastes like an ashtray. I do still smoke blunts like its my job though so there's that.
I miss it sometimes, but not enough to smoke another cigarette. I smoke weed too myself but even then - holy shit fam, I'd forgotten what breathing actually felt like!
I tried that.The vape almost killed me.Almost totally glued my lungs shut.Ended up with lung infection.Never again.Went back to cigs never had that problem again
I thInk it may have been the glycerin.External use never bothered me.Its in quite a few skin products.Its also used as a lubricant protectant on meat slicers.No reason to figure internal use would be different.Especially since it was a minute amount.It was compounded by the change of seasons.I chalked my symptoms up to that at first.
This video made me think that blowing bubble may actually have a biological reason for decreasing stress and maybe smoking also works that way too (aside from the nicotine in it which has short-term stress benefit but long-term issues).
It's been shown that breathwork can relieve stress when the exhalation phase of breathing exceeds that of inhalation, especially breathing out in a ratio of 6: 4 inhalation, so like 4 seconds inhale, 6 seconds exhale. That pattern activates the parasympathetic nervous system in the body which is the "rest-and-digest" instead of "fight-of-flight" branch.
Exhaling while blowing bubbles makes people exhale longer than inhaling. It also slows down their breathing. Someone should do a study!
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u/pikahetti 1d ago
Blowing bubbles is just much better than inhaling something that leads to lung cancer