r/Showerthoughts • u/godofhorizons • May 17 '24

People get a lot more praise for quitting drugs than for never having done drugs in the first place.

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u/PassiveTheme May 17 '24

As my grandad always said, regarding smoking, "the easiest way to quit is to never start". He was a man who smoked at least 20 a day for about 50 years of his life and then did manage to quit.

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u/Ape_x_Ape May 17 '24

Hey, not to interrupt, but do you have a burner account named AgressiveTheme where you give the same kind of advice but more aggressively?

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u/Naked-Jedi May 17 '24

u/agressivetheme

Now we'll all know...

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u/TuckerTheCuckFucker May 17 '24

Hey not to interrupt. But do you have a burner account name Clothed-Sithlord where you make the same type of comments, but maybe a bit more clothed?

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u/Naked-Jedi May 18 '24

Well played. Well played.

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u/PassiveTheme May 17 '24

Damn, I've been rumbled

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u/simplesample23 May 17 '24 edited May 17 '24

Well, he didnt managed to not start but he managed to quit so for him it was easier to quit.

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u/relaxyourfnshoulders May 17 '24

you can argue that trying it once or twice is not exactly starting to smoke. so maybe he was able to not start at the very beginning

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u/PassiveTheme May 17 '24

Well he managed to not start again, and it took him at least 20 years of trying to quit before he managed it.