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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[pciam]

When I was younger, I saw a family friend suffering from emphysema and still smoking. It broke my heart. I can’t imagine how difficult it is going through life struggling to breathe well.

It definitely is something a lot of us don’t think about and take for granted so I am glad he’s trying to warn others to not go down the same path or to quit while they can.

My mom was a smoker from her teenage years and finally quit about 10-15 years ago. I never thought I’d see the day where she quit, and I was so proud of her when she finally did because she used to smoke a pack+ per day.

Smoking was just so incredibly common for pre-millennial generations.

[yousaidlog]

My grandma continued to smoke when she had throat cancer. It was wild.

[croakvegas]

Stories of people whose health has been destroyed by cigarettes and still smoking are dreadful.

My mum used to work as a radiation therapist - when I was young she came home one day and told me she'd seen a cancer patient smoking a cigarette using their trach hole outside the hospital entrance as she left work that day. The horror of that mental image has quite literally been enough to prevent me from ever smoking a cigarette in my life.

[pciam]

Oh wow!

[janetdkd]

Smoking is absolutely vile and I would ban it forever! (former smoker who not hates their stinky smoker friends)

[pciam]

The smell of it is awful, and you don’t realize it until you no longer smoke. Smokers don’t smell the smoke because they’re used to it. But that shit gets in EVERYTHING. Clothes, furniture etc.

My mom used to smoke (she quit finally thankfully) and I never knew how bad the smell was until I went away for college. Then when I’d come back to visit, I’d smell the stench in a way I never did before when I was around mom daily pre-college.

[janetdkd]

Same, when I come ti visit mom it's crazy how bad whole house smells

[angriest_girl]

Curtains!

[ivn]

Quitting cigarettes is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. I started regularly smoking at 15, don’t ask how. I quit between 2014-2016, but relapsed really bad when my dad passed away during Trump’s first term-I was doing two packs per day, easily. I finally quit again in 2022, but I switched to vaping. I know, I know. Believe me, I know. I’m under no delusions that this won’t kill me one day but escaping addiction remains my weakest human trait.

[janetdkd]

I started around 16 and stopped 5 years ago. I never thought I would quit it cuz I'm not that strong willed and I tried so many times. Then I read that book and that was it. Never looked back and didn't crave it for a second

[ginainabottle]

don’t beat yourself up, non-smokers truly have no clue just how hard quitting is. be kind to yourself and take one day at a time.

[screamingintune]

I used an e-cigarette as a cessation aid and even though I didn't continue with vaping nicotine (just weed), i could physically feel a marked difference when i switched from smoke to vape. vaping might be terrible, but i don't think it's as terrible as smoking, just from my experience and how both made me feel

[murdertheopera]

it'll be five years in march since my last cigarette, and in spite of the warnings and knowing how gross, stinky, and bad for you body it is, i still miss them

[anterrabre]

Congratulations; 6 years and same.

[murdertheopera]

congrats to you, too! people have said it already in here but it's so, so hard to do and to keep up with. i've stopped myself from driving to a liquor store so many times.

[madhler]

I quit over a decade ago, but I think my nostalgia for it petered out somewhere around year 6.

[anterrabre]

This is precisely why I quit more than 5 years ago. I was just like him; loved the smoke, tobacco, the ritual of smoking and everything else and it's particularly hard for people like us to quit. Discovering I was diabetic flipped a switch and made me just want to be the healthiest version of me ever, so a lot of life changes were made including quitting.

[screamingintune]

i got priced out of smoking. I also loved it, and was a 90s goth so it was deep in my social bones to even whip out a clove sometimes, but I had promised myself I would never pay more than $5 a pack and when it hit that price, I quit