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?

  • sighup@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 years ago

    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!

    • Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Are you aware that not a single “nootropic” has ever been shown to make a difference in controlled studies? Forget just nicotine, even using the word “nootropic” is like saying “detox juice” or “chakra alignment”. It immediately lets everyone who hears you know that you’re the most gullible person in the room.

      • sighup@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 years ago

        so does tobacco not cause an increase in free testosterone, cognitive ability or help with weight loss? I can dig up studies to prove my claims but I want to see you disprove them first.

        • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          As a former pack a day smoker, you’re right that it does those things. It also causes cancer and other health problems, your pickled and smoked grandfather notwithstanding. (Also, cigars are not inhaled which causes lower rates of cancer than cigarettes.)

          If you want to have better cognitive ability, lose weight and, have more free testosterone you’re better off lifting weights regularly. All of those benefits but none of the lung cancer.

          • sighup@lemmy.world
            01·
            2 years ago

            that’s a lot of time amd work to get the same benefits as someone who takes a 15 minute break during lunch.

    • Lappland@lemmy.worldOP
      28·
      2 years ago

      Thank you for supporting me in this. Everyone back in the fifties smoked, even famous people. Its only now that you’re there’s bad health associated with it.

      • Chozo@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Only now? We’ve known from the very beginning that it was unhealthy. It was never a secret. What sort of brainrot is this?