2-3 cigs a day is a lot? I know people that smoke nearly 2 packs a day and cough their ass off. Unfortunately, if you do not know him that well, it would be extremely odd to tell him that. Living in apartments suck. I hate hearing noise from my neighbors. I want to be isolated lol.
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My neighbor coughs like a mf yet still smokes a lot
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2-3 cigs a day is a lot? I know people that smoke nearly 2 packs a day and cough their ass off. Unfortunately, if you do not know him that well, it would be extremely odd to tell him that. Living in apartments suck. I hate hearing noise from my neighbors. I want to be isolated lol.
If its a dry nasty cough then it is from smoking.
drtomoe123
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So do you want to tell him just because he annoys you or because you're actually concerned about him? Do you ever go out of your way to talk to him? Not to tell him to stop or anything but just so shoot the shit?
You answer your own question. People noises are part of city life.
Be thankful he isn't playing banging techno at 2am every night.
It's either directly caused by smoking or it is negatively impacting the coughing even further.
Smoking ain't helping.
badblue
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Smoking is extremely addictive. And quitting is hard.
When I did smoked, I'd smoke 2-3 in a 15 minute coffee break.
TheHolyTurnip
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No worries OP, his crippling addiction will kill him and then you'll get the silence you so crave.
titiklabingapat
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Guys, he likely smokes more than two to three cigs a day. I just didn't want to assume he smokes more because I haven't seen it in person nor do I spend all day watching him smoke.
Both. Just don't know how to approach it since I don't know him that well. Like I'll feel weird if I just befriend him then say 'hey, maybe you should stop smoking while you're at it That can't be good for your health. And it's really loud.'
Both. Just don't know how to approach it since I don't know him that well. Like I'll feel weird if I just befriend him then say 'hey, maybe you should stop smoking while you're at it That can't be good for your health. And it's really loud.'
It would be weird as hell. Mind your business aka "welcome to the city."
True. Cigarettes are great but it's an annoying habit. It's really one of the lightest addictions you can have and it comes with it benefits and negatives.
True. Cigarettes are great but it's an annoying habit. It's really one of the lightest addictions you can have and it comes with it benefits and negatives.
Escape Goat
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You think he doesn't know smoking is exacerbating his cough?
What year is it
What year is it
When i was smoking (stopped 6,5 years right now) 2 to 4 packs every few days. I smoked a lot even worse in the weekend. Also that cough? I had it also a real sign that your lungs are affected by it even my grandpa and neighbour where coughing like a madman. It got even worse when i visited my grandpa he coughed so loud and long he only could say a few words and rinse repeat.
My neighbour had it also and yes it was so loud as it could get glad i don't smoke anymore this is one of those things that affects your lungs in terrible ways.
Patrick Bateman
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Why not just ask him about it, like "Are you ok?
Because whenever I hear you in the morning coughing outside it sounds really bad."
You imply that you hear him, you imply that it is more than noticeable, yet you tell him that you somehow care for him.
Because whenever I hear you in the morning coughing outside it sounds really bad."
You imply that you hear him, you imply that it is more than noticeable, yet you tell him that you somehow care for him.
NOLA_Gaffer
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My boss and a coworker both cough like they're about to throw up an organ any minute but they both still smoke like a pack a day.
Smokers don't care.
My boss in particular has photographs of the interior of his lungs and they've got a nice gray color and everything and even with photographic evidence of the damage he's done to his body he just continues on.
Edit: I think they're actually in the work Dropbox if anyone wants to see them, he's weirdly proud of it.
Smokers don't care.
My boss in particular has photographs of the interior of his lungs and they've got a nice gray color and everything and even with photographic evidence of the damage he's done to his body he just continues on.
Edit: I think they're actually in the work Dropbox if anyone wants to see them, he's weirdly proud of it.
Chopper Dave
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Lol man that sounds like a smoker's description of cigarettes and nicotine addiction. Ya they're super duper alright. What a joke.
ZackieChan
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Those benefits...
Visit any cancer ward/hospice and you'll see people still smoking even when it has literally given them cancer. Saw it too many times when I went to visit my Grandma. As someone who has smoked myself in the past, and only for a couple of years, quitting was one of the hardest exercises in mental fortitude I've ever had to go through. Don't trivialise it unless you've gone through it too, and even then acknowledge that addiction affects everyone differently.
kittoo
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I am very conflicted
Miles Quaritch
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What are the benefits my dude?
Fox Mulder
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Some people are fucking dumb. I saw so many people on oxygen smoking cigarettes in their homes when I installed cable.
I used to cough really really bad when I was still smoking.
Usually the smoking will suppress it for a while, then it will come back in full force. So you smoke another one to suppress it...
I was still coughing really bad 6 months after I quit, sometimes phlegm-y sometimes really dry. I think it only stopped a year after I quit.
Usually the smoking will suppress it for a while, then it will come back in full force. So you smoke another one to suppress it...
I was still coughing really bad 6 months after I quit, sometimes phlegm-y sometimes really dry. I think it only stopped a year after I quit.
OminoMichelin
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My old flat mate used to smoke a lot. Not just cigs either. He would wake, bake, have a coffe and a cig, bake again and basically go on like that all day along.
Every morning I would hear him cough for like 10 minutes straight after he woke up, presumably because of all mucus in his throat and lungs. Of course he would cough sometimes during the rest of the day, but not as much.
I wonder if he still smokes, he knew what was happening back then, but simply chose to ignore it.
Every morning I would hear him cough for like 10 minutes straight after he woke up, presumably because of all mucus in his throat and lungs. Of course he would cough sometimes during the rest of the day, but not as much.
I wonder if he still smokes, he knew what was happening back then, but simply chose to ignore it.
clay_ghost
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Darwin law.
Escape Goat
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We have a couple of people like that aswell at work. It's irritating.
Cutting off my legs has a great benefit. I lose 32 lbs!
NoblesseOblige
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He's probably smoking to calm down from all that coughing.
DontBeThatGuy
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My sister's boyfriend is always hacking up a lung, and continues to smoke a pack a day. (and he has a young child at home). The dude is killing himself.
I wish quitting for others was easy as it was for me.
I wish quitting for others was easy as it was for me.
Escape Goat
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You'd think having a child would be enough for people to finally quit.
TheContact
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My neighbor does too. He's in his 60s i would say. He smokes in front of my kids which really bothers me but he's been making a better effort to do it away from them but in the summer when the windows are open it just blows into my house. One time he was coughing bent over and his eyes rolled back in his head and he fell over unconscious for 10 seconds or so. We called 911 and he refused to be checked out, and he's still smoking. Ironically, his wife carries around an o2 tank because she smoked too much as well. One thing that really got to me is one day our carbon monoxide detector was going off so we had to call the fire dept and the EMTs came as well. We were stuck on our porch due to not being able to go inside and he came out and started smoking a cigarette while my wife and I were holding our kids. The EMT asked him to put it out and he wouldn't.
Charles Brandon
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two to three a day lol. If he's a long term smoker that's actually pretty commendable.
Buy him a vape kit.
Buy him a vape kit.
neurosisxeno
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I don't punch my co-workers.
DontBeThatGuy
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In my personal experiences, having a child has done little to curb smoking habits, outside of finding somewhere else to do it. Well, and to be fair, also lots of failed attempts at quitting.
My parents didn't stop until COPD (mother) and a heart attack (father, still really had to force his hand on that one. Go figure).
because what? Don't leave us hanging!
My Mum was in hospital with people at one stage in a lung ward. All smoking like chimneys despite the fact their lungs were in such bad shape they might die.
My old friends Mum had breast cancer and despite quitting so she could have the treatment, she started back up again straight after.
It's such an awful addictive substance and people find it near impossible to stop. My Mum smoked for 35 or so years, but thankfully after that stay at the hospital she never smoked again. Her willpower and what she saw put her off for good.
Charles Brandon
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Me neither. I never smoked while the kids were around so they never saw me with one, never smoked inside either but quitting is hard, it's not a 'light addiction'. The only way I could kick it was with vape. Vaping has a scummy rep but it is literally saving lives.
I'm pretty sure he knows smoking is bad for him, he just doesn't care. You telling him will do nothing.
Sating your addiction shouldn't be confused with having benefits.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Pray tell, what are these benefits? Name one, please.
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