Just transitioned from only smoking when I drink to daily and everyone around me is making me feel like I'm a crackhead
27M here and I would say the past month or so I started smoking a pack a week, roughly. Besides more phlegm and my teeth having a slight film on them after the day is done I have almost found myself feeling more relaxed.
My parents are both smokers, father (Blue Kools) is a complete chainsmoker and mother (American Spirit Light Green) is 1-2 a day.
Since I was 18 or 19 I would smoke them exclusively when I drank VERY rarely. I remember when I was 18 I smoked two Marlboro Reds after I ate Arby's and threw it up after since I was not used to nicotine at the time.
During high school I would go to hookah bars but never really smoke but just hangout with my friends. Around last year or so when I was 25 I started smoking hookah with my close friend and got really into it (about one a week).
Years later, while I was traveling to different places and working stressful sales jobs I would bum (yes, I was that cheap bastard) and smoke with women at work during breaks or when I was drinking at bars.
I took a trip to Kalamazoo back in April and bought a pack for myself (Camel Blues) - same ones at my last job in mortgages that my coworker let me bum. I smoked in the morning 1-2 for the weekend when I had coffee and loved it. I just tried a new one (Parliaments Blues) which I had two packs so far.
My problem I guess is all of my friends and even parents are looking at me very negatively. I am not coming to this sub for validation but more or less to see if this is common among others?
I had a one friend tell me when I was smoking next to him "just because you picked up a bad habit doesn't mean I need to"
another said "its better if you did Ketamine or Cocaine than cigs:
my mother "you better not be smoking in the house or your car"