My confusion with cigarettes, vaping, and even certain drugs. Is not dealing with addiction.
Again, I’m not talking about addiction.
I say certain drugs because some drugs are to help us, though they can be dangerous and addictive . So, I guess I’m talking about what is categorized as recreational drugs.
My confusion with cigarettes, vaping, and certain drugs. Is dealing with all the information out there on it, especially cigarettes. Vaping is somewhat new on the scene, but there is some data out on it as well. Drugs, there is a lot of a good amount of data on it, like with cigarettes.
So, in my mind, why even start?
Why even start smoking cigarettes?
Why even start vaping?
Why even start using drugs?
For if one doesn’t even start, they can’t get addicted.
So again, I’m not talking about once a person starts and becomes addicted.
Again, I’m not talking about addiction.
I’m saying why even start? For with all the data, all the information out there on cigarettes, vaping, and recreational drugs. Why even start? It doesn’t make sense to me.
Now, if that’s the environment you may have grown up in or around. It can be challenging not to.
I was blessed to have parents who were not into that. But, my aunts, uncles, cousins, even a grandparent, as well as neighbors, and some kids in our neighborhood as I grew up. A lot of them smoked and drank. It was a few of the neighborhood kids that did the recreational drugs.
But think about it, all the commercials on especially cigarettes and drugs, from the 80s through about 2000. Even afterward, commercials with real people who had surgical procedures due to smoking. Even in the 70s, you had entertainers with commercials against smoking.
So again, it’s not like the data and information isn’t out there on cigarettes, drugs, and even vaping now.
The other things that confuses me a cigarettes, vaping, and drugs. Is that, it’s not food. It’s not water. This Meaning, it’s not even a basic necessity for survival (Yes, many things we as humans utilize in this world are not necessities. Especially cigarettes, vapes, and recreational drugs). Has no purpose, nor does it improve your health.
So, I don’t even know why cigarettes, vapes, and recreational drugs are in circulation.
So, I can’t emphasize enough. I’m not talking about those who have started and are addicted.
I’m not talking about those who grew up around it. Meaning it was part of their lives from birth or youth.
For those who were not around it from there youth. I don’t even see a reason to start. For cigarettes, vapes, and recreational drugs. Have no purpose.
Almost anything can become an addiction, even good things.
There is just no logical reason to even start using cigarettes, vaping, or using recreational drugs. There’s no reason at all.
So, again, I can’t say this enough. I’m not talking about once a person becomes addicted.
I’m not talking about that at all.
It’s just before one can become addicted. You have to start.
So why even start?
But, pending ones life situation. It may be easier said than done.
For once, one starts and is doing it (Smoking, vaping, and recreational drugs). It’s easier to do than not do, which is, unfortunately, addiction.
Whatever a person needs to do to help them with there addiction.
It is my hope that they seek out the proper avenues, agencies, support systems and resources of help.
Here is a link that does not directly go with the topic. But may still give some ideas for steps towards recovery https://ironbywood.com/2026/09/06/when-youve-done-all-you-can-do/
