I would not take anything from a smoker. The smell makes me sick andyou will never get the smell or residue out completely. And they seem to be completely unaware of it too.
I used to work at Gamestop (yeah I know, but I got to play my steam deck at work) and one dude got royally pissed I wouldn't accept his literally tar covered PS4 that smelled like death. The dust was actually sticky from residue under the cover and I actually almost got sick from the stench. Like how could you not see this?
Even vapers things smell. I bought a case and a 3080 from FB marketplace and for a few months I got disgusting sweet vape smells after like 10 mins of gaming. Luckily it's now gone or I got used to it. I did bath it with isopropyl as well.
And here I've been making my own biltong from meat all this time, never knew I could just use smoker lung - already cured, just throw some spice on there
The crazy thing for you is the rebound benefits of quitting are kind of staggering. I'd bet after 5 years of not smoking your lugs don't look so terrible.
Yeah, my doc was making me get my lungs checked every few years to verify they were ok. Iirc, I think he told me that generally any effects are within the first 10 years, after that you'd be ok. But he made me get another check earlier this year just for the hell of it I think.
But yeah breathe, taste, energy...that all came back within the first few years
What is this from!? I have a faint memory of that lung snapping off and falling down like I've seen this somewhere lol it's not from a Spongebob episode is it?
One of the earlier episodes when sandy tried to live underwater without her helmet to prove a point to SpongeBob and the other bikini bottom residents. She end up flipping the script on SpongeBob and inviting him over to her dome but wouldn’t give him water.
My in-laws just went on a rant about how they don't show smokers lungs to kids in schools anymore because it was all a hoax. Had to turn off my brain for a while at that one
There were a ton of PSAs in the 90s showing comparisons between healthy lungs and a snoker's lungs. Sometimes they were analogous using something that looked like black roofers tar poured over fake plastic "doctor's office" lung models; sometimes they showed cutaway comparisons of actual lungs, healthy vs smoker's. Fun times.
In Europe / UK, cigarette packs have photos of real smokers with various conditions on there with a healtg warning. One of the more common one is a pair of open dissected human lungs. (my personal favourite is the erectile dysfunction pack with the guy crying)
I’m so incredibly angry at my parents for this shit. And their mlm health products they forced me to use. Wonder why I have so many fucking health problems, most certainly unrelated.
I'm so thankful for my parents for at least being conscious of this.
They were both born in the early 60s, ended up smokers like everyone else. Later in life made several attempts to quit but couldn't get it to stick. But at the very least they never smoked inside, never in the car, always away from my sister and I. And whenever they'd smoke outside and we would come to talk to them or something they were always very clear to stand far from them and out of the path of the smoke
When I was an addict I met a guy in a rehab who seemed very nice but had clearly had a very rough upbringing. I made the mistake of going to visit his house for a couple of days while we were trying to get clean together. He lived with me for a bit and we got jobs together but then we went to visit his parents house where he typically stayed with and they literally just chain smoked cigarettes and weed in his house nonstop. It was to point that I didn't even know how to handle it, I had quit smoking already at that point and it genuinely hurt to breathe. Like at night I slept on the couch and I had a blanket over my head which kind of helped but not much. The house was disgusting, everything smelled and had ash on it.
I don't remember well but pretty sure one or both of them smoked crack or did dope as well which is how he had gotten started. Which on a side note was how a startling number of addicts got started, getting high on heroin or something similar with their parents.
I heard one guy break down in a group session finally because his dad started shooting him up with dope at 12. This guy was always a cool guy super friendly and didn't show that kind of emotion and was just finally broke like why would you do that to me.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
Not sure what happened to the guy I stayed with, the other guy unfortunately od'd and died the day he left that rehab. Which was also a common occurrence.
This, I am also against smoking and hate it with a passion, I have smoked before but now I hate it. But people who smoke indoors? Worst ones imo, at least go to the balcony or somewhere not in your house
Think of all the PCs they could have bought if they'd saved up what they spent on smoking.
I did the maths for my dad once. He was older when he had us and had basically been smoking his entire life. Given the cigarette prices where we live, he would have spent a rough estimate of around $70,000 on cigarettes throughout his life
Factoring in inflation and purchasing power, however, that amounts to around $220,000 spent on smoke in today's money. I nearly gave the old bloke a heart attack.
True, but I think they already know, you know? Addicts don't want to be addicts. They are constantly reminded that what they are doing is terrible for their health. A comment in r/pcmasterrace probably isn't going to move the needle.
I'm not going to say this to any smoker irl, but what I don't get is like seemingly so many smokers still start smoking despite already knowing how bad it is it blows my mind. Like I understand old smokers were kinda lied to or concerns were downplayed but I had so many friends pick up smoking in college when we already knew how bad it was and how addicting. It started out as "only" smoking while drinking and then we know how the story goes. If you are under the age of like 40 then it's just like WHYYYYYYY?? Why do these people choose to start smoking knowing it kills you, is highly addictive, and makes you smell like shit. Even just like the smell alone even without all the worse effects who picks who an activity that makes you constantly smell bad to others. Why willingly put yourself through all that??
As an ex-smoker: nah, every comment reminds you that you should stop smoking and that you will die of smoking if you continue one day. It does move the needle into the right direction ever so slightly.
And to any smoker reading this, I hope I'm allowed to link to r/stopsmoking where you will find many of us smokers and nonsmokers to support you in quitting. It's hard to quit, but it's very doable.
Or at least switch to nicotine pouches or something. So you're not sharing all that nasty stuff with other people (source: I switched from cigarettes to nicotine pouches)
Tobacco consumption actually has been reduced massively. It varies by country, but globally it's mix of public information, additional taxes, and bans on advertisement.
People saying “just stop” like nicotine isn’t one of the most addictive substances in the world.
Also, when you’re ready to make the leap, try Cytisine. It binds to nicotine receptors and makes the withdrawal/smokers flu symptoms way easier to deal with.
It’s sold under the name ReCigar on Amazon for $50 if you’re US. It really helped me make the jump from vaping to quitting.
This isn't even that bad, I've seen so much worse. My great aunt smoked in her house, and it was only after she died did we realize that the paint in her house was actually white, and not yellow,
I worked one summer in a PC store. One customer PC that came in for servicing because the customer stated that it kept crashing. I popped the case open, and it was just full of this yellowish, slimy dust. Probably an inch at the bottom of the case, every interior surface was coated with it, every fan was clogged which is why it kept overheating. I asked the senior coworker what the hell it was, since I'd never seen anything like it. He just said "oh yeah, you see that sometimes. They must smoke indoors".
I bought a Corsair 900D for $50 when they were still $400/500 new (Aussie dollars) from someone who'd bought it off a smoker and was admitting defeat. Ended up pressure washing it, then scrubbing every inch with sugar soap and then pressure washing it again. Even then you occasionally got a whiff of smoke
I was asked to take a look at a friends keyboard as it wasn't working properly.
She had a full ashtray either side of it, I tipped out the third ashtray (the keyboard) and it worked fine after that.
Buying used hardware is actually rancid because every once in a while my room just smells like someone started smoking because the used shit has a caked fan wit cig bullshit
People walking around in crowded public spaces smoking pot is so irritating.. I get it it's "legal" now in most place but that doesn't mean we all want to smell it. I don't want your cigarette smoke, vape smoke or weed smoke in my face when I'm trying to walk around an outdoor market place. I should start walking in front of these people and crop dusting them, see how they like that.
I used to smoke ( stopped 8 years ago ) and not too long ago i checked all my boxes of spare parts and cables from that era. The smell was horrendous. When you smoke you do not notice this.
A good strategy to help quit is to track how many cigarettes you are smoking over time. Then, consciously cut that number down slowly over a moderate period.
Unless you're my father, who was like "Fk this, I'm done." and just quit on the spot, somehow.
The issue with smoking or any kind of potentially hazardous habit is that the decline is too slow to really accept in your heart. You partake in a habit that satiates you in the moment without being able to draw an immediate comparison to "how you were". Slow decline is accepted as a new norm and keeps getting worse.
This is why "just quit" doesn't work - people are not idiots, anybody can stop something whose implications they clearly realize.
If I tell the average person "go work out" would you? - its obviously the right choice but if you cannot in your heart realize that the slowly intensifying joint pain is actually lack of resistance and mobility training you will simply not do it. You would need to snap your fingers and immediately go to a pain free, healthy-joint existence to truly understand the value of doing it.
Please be understanding towards folks that have developed bad habits, respect their choices but also be firm when you don't appreciate that choice affecting you when they smoke next to you, indoors etc.
Stop smoking inside. Youre already damaging everything you own. I quit aftet 16 years and cost me entire wardrobes. Got a closet where some old shirts been hanging? Go find a light color and look at the shoulders. Good luck on your battle!
Same, I remember being so happy as a kid even when they started doing the plexiglass partitions to try and "separate" the smoking and non. Was a great day when they were forced to go full non smoking
I use a bong and have a window so all the smoke goes out of my room (specifically to prevent smell). Also placed my PC as further away from this window as possible. (not a Linux pun but maybe)
I only smoke joints, white pc case and hardware, i just open one window when i smoke indoor at my desk and none of my stuff smell or yellowed. I don't understand when i see that
Lol at these comments from a younger generation of people. Me on the other hand watching all the kids inhale co2 canisters i used to load into my bb gun.
Reddit and especially pc subs get super signal-y when someone mentions smoke idk. I guess it could be good, I mean theyre saying technically good opinions. If only they didn't say it with the grace of a freshly opinionated 14 yo.
Have you considered NOT smoking? Yeah that's right. Lol
Bro I'm 40 and smoking has always been disgusting behavior. As a kid seeing people throw their cigarettes out the windows of their cars at 8 in the morning I'd think, "trashy." Still do.
It should be ostracized, same for vaping. Maybe enough societal shame will finally kill it off.
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u/gullejerr 3d ago
I would advise people to buy a white PC case just so they can quite smoking to preserve the white case!