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Originally Posted by Trollheart
That's what I never get: why, when you're doing your best to quit, and therefore improve, perhaps extend your life, do your so-called mates all do their best to try to stop you, encouraging you to go back? Is there no support among smokers, or once you become a non or trying-to-be-non smoker, are you just seen as some sort of scum and ostracised?
"One of us! One of us! One of us!"
"I keep tryin' to get out, they keep draggin' me back in!"
Don't seem like mates really...  |
I'm not sure what the psychology behind it is, but it's typical, isn't it?
It may just be their way of protesting against a life choice that they don't agree with. Maybe I should tell them I'm a teetotaler and a vegetarian and see if they buy me beer and burgers.