Smoking

[SpaceArcader]

About a few months ago, I had contact with weed, was only a puff but when I did it I had like a flashback image of my grandparents who smoked cigarettes and died from it. I know weed doesnt kill you but I just got a bit upset over the flashback. I'm not asking what is right and wrong here but I just felt like talking about it.

 

[StBishop]

Weed can kill you, smoking anything can...
But back to what you're on about.

Were you close with them?
Was it slow?
How much do you remember?

I lost my granddad when I was quite young and I have little memory of him, which I think I am more upset about than his actual passing, he was apparently a great man. I know how much it can suck.

 

[SilentCom]

Doesn't really sound like you're asking for advice here but rather wanted to share your feelings.

My grandfather (mom's side of the family) died right before I was born. I'm pretty sure it was because he smoked too much. The way my mom had described him sort of made him sound like me. I would have liked to meet him but I can't.

 

[Rylot]

I lost my Grandpa about this time last year. He pretty much died of old age and was pretty miserable by the end. I think I get where you're coming from with just being upset by random things that drag up unresolved feelings about the death of a loved one. Shit, I'm starting to cry just from writing this. It hurts like hell but I guess that means that I'm lucky enough to have had a bond with that great a man. Hope you can come to terms...

 

[SpaceArcader]

Were you close with them?
Was it slow?
How much do you remember?

Well my Grandfather died from lung cancer when I was 12 near 13, so I am lucky than others but it would have been great now to have a casual drink with him now. My grandmother died October last year from emphysema. I think one of the most upsetting things about it is the fact I couldn't do anything to help them.

From this I just can't smoke anything and it can be quite difficult on social occasions but I just ignore it. Seeing other people smoke cigarettes my age, I just have urges to swipe their cigarettes and stomp on them, of course I wouldn't do it and chat to them anyway but I just want to warn people really.

 

[gazumped]

I'm sorry about your grandparents, if smoking brings up bad memories then at least you have a particularly good excuse not to give into peer pressure. Fortunately for me most of my friends don't smoke so I don't have to feel like the odd one out there, they do however all like to drink so I understand how awkward it can be to be the one in the corner not partaking.

If you were smoking a joint, though, I assume there was tobacco in it? If you smoke pure weed without tobacco in that way, you'd probably be sick. My uncle got addicted to tobacco through smoking joints, plus inhaling any smoke burns your windpipe and can cause cancer there later on, you have to be careful there, so it may be a good thing your grandparents' death has put you off it.

If you want to try weed without too much of the risk and without being haunted of your loss, perhaps you should try it in water pipes or baked goods instead.

 

[Terminal Blue]

A lot of the science is out on this one.

On one hand most weed smokers tend to smoke less frequently than tobacco smokers.

On the other hand, smoking a single joint is generally found to be a good deal more damaging to your respiratory system than smoking a single cigarette (no filter, for one), so it's not necessarily any healthier.

I can say with some degree of personal experience that you smoke weed regularly it can have quite an adverse effect on your life and health. If nothing else, I don't know anyone who smoked regularly who hasn't had some kind of psychotic reaction at some point.

However, smoking the very occasional joint, and giving your body and mind time to recover in between probably won't do you a great deal of harm. Smoking a joint at a party once a month is very different from smoking one every day or every week.

I'd never advocate smoking weed. I've seen it properly fuck up a lot of people close to me, and no amount of hearing people who enjoy it advocate its benefits can erase that for me. However, if you have the information I don't see why you shouldn't make an informed choice, and I don't think occasional/social smoking is a big enough problem to warrant the level of stress it's clearly causing you. If you want to do it, just make sure you're not doing it all the time.

My grandfather died because Alzheimer's disease ate half of his brain. Chill out about the joint, man.

3 of my grandparents did that. However, they were about 70 or 80 when they did.

My other grandfather died of lung cancer caused by smoking. He was about 50 at the time.

20 years off your life is still a long time.

 

[SpaceArcader]

My grandfather died because Alzheimer's disease ate half of his brain. Chill out about the joint, man.

I'm really sorry to hear that, my great grandmother had it too or some variant of it and it was horrible. She didn't know who I was. I agree with your statement too.

 

[SpaceArcader]

A lot of the science is out on this one.

On one hand most weed smokers tend to smoke less frequently than tobacco smokers.

On the other hand, smoking a single joint is generally found to be a good deal more damaging to your respiratory system than smoking a single cigarette (no filter, for one), so it's not necessarily any healthier.

I can say with some degree of personal experience that you smoke weed regularly it can have quite an adverse effect on your life and health. If nothing else, I don't know anyone who smoked regularly who hasn't had some kind of psychotic reaction at some point.

However, smoking the very occasional joint, and giving your body and mind time to recover in between probably won't do you a great deal of harm. Smoking a joint at a party once a month is very different from smoking one every day or every week.

I'd never advocate smoking weed. I've seen it properly fuck up a lot of people close to me, and no amount of hearing people who enjoy it advocate its benefits can erase that for me. However, if you have the information I don't see why you shouldn't make an informed choice, and I don't think occasional/social smoking is a big enough problem to warrant the level of stress it's clearly causing you. If you want to do it, just make sure you're not doing it all the time.

Thanks for the advice, well everyone's advice in general is useful.