David Lynch Started Smoking at Age 8 - Now He Needs Oxygen to Walk: 'It's a Big Price to Pay'

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David Lynch Started Smoking at Age 8 - Now He Needs Oxygen to Walk: 'It's a Big Price to Pay' (Exclusive) https://t.co/kChWuWDixg
- People (@people) November 14, 2024
David Lynch started smoking at the age of 8. “A big important part of my life was smoking,” says Lynch. “I loved the smell of tobacco, the taste of tobacco. I loved lighting cigarettes

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[fromyourashes]

my mother's got stage 4 and it's throughout her body and in her brain and the dumb bitch is still smoking
(i hate her and dgaf tbh). my brother's got emphysema from his smoking, and likely from growing up with her dumb ass smoking in the house. i smoked for about 12 years, maybe 13, and quit 20 years ago. so far, no lung issues, so i hope it stays that way.

there are people who think weed doesn't cause copd, too, but there are cases cropping up left and right of weed smokers who don't smoke cigarettes getting diagnosed with emphysema (source, my bf who's only ever used a low temp vaporizer to smoke weed, which caused me to start looking into it).

inhaling shit is dumb.

edibled are yum.

[genbu_no_miko24]

"quit 20 years ago. so far, no lung issues, so i hope it stays that way."

I remember reading the earlier you quit or whatever age, the better the chances for your lungs to heal and come off as a healthy as a non-smoker so good for you.

[fromyourashes]

i hope that's true!

[screamingintune]

when i quit smoking cigarettes I couldn't TOLERATE weed smoking anymore and switched to vaping very very quickly. smoking anything to me now is so gnarly tasting it makes me want to throw up and take a shower. i lost tolerance for it faster than i expected

[fromyourashes]

i've smoked (vaporized with a real vaporizer at really low heat) maybe a dozen times over the last few years and yeah, i'm just not a fan of smoking anything at all. if i wanna get high, i just have edibles. the shit we have now is nothing like what we had 25 years ago. i get all jittery and paranoid and anxious and that's not what weed is for, imo

[screamingintune]

I have chronic illness which makes weed really more medication for me than anything at this point

lately I have LOVED lozenges. They absorb straight into the bloodstream and I find I don't need as many mg as I do with straight up edibles. They absorb the most efficient way, like a tincture, except they tastes like sweet tarts candy and not like you are allowing this vegetable oil with a shitty flavor additive sit in your mouth like you have to do with tinctures. but the lozenges absorption method has really helped me cut down on how much i need to take in

[fromyourashes]

i love lozenges, too. never tried tinctures, though. i just tend to find something i like and stick with it, bc i'm a big lightweight and don't need much to relax.

i hope whatever you've got is well managed and not causing you too much stress

[screamingintune]

the absorption of tinctures vs. lozenges is identical, because it absorbed through your tongue and under it and your gums delivered straight to the bloodstream, but tinctures are truly truly gnarly. I would stick to lozenges. A tincture is thick, poorly flavored oil and you have to like, let it sit in your mouth. Like imagine swallowing a dropper full of Mazzola oil with a weird mint flavor and letting it sit in your mouth.

Lozenges >>>> as long as I can resist the urge to chew on them because they really remind me of sweet tarts

eta: like I love eating a brownie but I have to get that and like gummies in SUCH high dosage that it's just ridic.

[fromyourashes]

thank you for the info! tinctures sound revolting.

[soul_amazinn]

I'm proud of you for quitting. I can't even imagine someone having health problems and still going on like that.

[fromyourashes]

thank you! but really, it was because my son was 7 and asking me to please quit bc he loved me and didn't want me to die and i flashed back to asking my mother the same thing repeatedly over the years and how much it hurt that she wouldn't quit for me. quitting smoking was the easiest thing after that. i had a much harder time quitting soda and recently, caffeine. i had no idea quitting coffee/caffeine would fuck me up the way it has lol

[soul_amazinn]

Yeah I quit pop like 15?20 years ago and it was easy but I would probably lose my mind giving up coffee 😂

[fromyourashes]

it's insanely hard!