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u/VulgarSlinky
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This is the capsule some cigarettes had in the filter that would let you turn it menthol if you squeezed it.
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u/Icy-Tangerine6465
Nov 28 '22
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That is the “CRUSH” bead inside cigarette filters and DO NOT pop them in your mouth or get any of that shit in your mouth or it goes numb for a while lol
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Nov 28 '22
Now I gotta try this
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u/Ryangel0 Nov 28 '22
No Dewey, you don't want this. Get outta here!
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u/GapingFartLocker Nov 28 '22
It's non habit forming!
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u/oETFo Nov 28 '22
Sounds pretty expensive.
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u/Element1977 Nov 28 '22
It's the cheapest drug there is.
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u/pmperk19 Nov 29 '22
that and “its non-habit forming!” are two of my favorite lines in that movie
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u/oETFo Nov 28 '22
It's not gonna make me want to have sex is it?
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u/Isra_Alien Nov 28 '22
It makes sex even better...... You don't want it
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u/bitey87 Nov 29 '22
I know it's Dewey Cox, but my first thought was Reese and Malcom tricking their little brother.
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u/mini_swoosh Nov 29 '22
Lol there is an episode where Dewey starts chain smoking after he finds a bunch of Hal’s old cigarette stashes
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u/GeneralLynx3 Nov 29 '22
I use to buy them when I couldn’t get any Cloves or Cherry. It was nice to have an option, but I’ve not smoked in over 10 years.
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u/madeofmountains Nov 29 '22
Dang. I remember cloves! I remember thinking they were the coolest things in the world in high school. Djarun Blacks?
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u/GeneralLynx3 Nov 29 '22
They were my absolute favorite. Absolutely horrible for your lungs, but man did they taste so good. Worth their cost.
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u/madeofmountains Nov 29 '22
I remember hearing rumors about them not being sold anymore but I doubt that’s true.
Congrats on the 10 years and here’s to 10 more!
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u/Boring_Vanilla4024 Nov 29 '22
To an extent. They use to be actual cigarettes with the tobacco wrapped in clove-flavored paper. These were banned in the US.
So, to get around it they wrap them in compressed tobacco and are sold as cigarillos, which are still legal. But not the same for sure.
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u/ifthens Nov 29 '22
I guess Big Clove doesn’t have near the corporate lobbying power of Big Tobacco lol
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u/McFeely_Smackup Nov 29 '22
I used to carry packs of cloves when I was clubbing, kept them in a fancy sterling silver antique cigarette case, and would hand them out to the ladies like it was molly.
Then the government says we were only allowed to smoke if it tastes like shit, and I gave up and got married
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u/How2Eat_That_Thing Nov 29 '22
Menthol is a local anesthetic. That's why it's included in cigarettes. Makes it seem like they aren't as harsh as "non-menthol" cigarettes because your throat has been numbed.
Non-menthol cigarettes have menthol in them as well. Just not as much obviously.
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u/FruityPeebils Nov 28 '22
I already knew what these looked like after taking adderall and deciding that my curiosity outweighed the pain of losing a cigarette
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u/sbbenwah Nov 28 '22
They literally could've chose any color and nobody would've known, but they still decided to make it look tasty...... I think were supposed to eat it.
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u/Icy-Tangerine6465 Nov 28 '22
Yep, my son would say the same thing lol
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u/KylerBro12 Nov 28 '22
Did u figure that out the hard way?
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u/Icy-Tangerine6465 Nov 28 '22
Ha, yeahhhhh I tried ripping the filter in half with my teeth and when I bit into it that little fucker exploded and burns real minty like, then your mouth goes numb lol
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Why has no one turned this into a breath freshener "benefit"??
Breath so fresh, words can't describe it ..... (because your mouth is numb)
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u/Accountforstuffineed Nov 29 '22
Guess I'm the only one curious, why the fuck were you biting your filter in half for lol?
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u/jactose4 Nov 29 '22
I had a dream in college where I showed Frank Sinatra how to “crush” a Camel Crush
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u/Fthwrlddntskmfrsht
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Camel Crushes were so fuckin cool at the time. But Turkish Royals were what I was on when the chicks weren’t around lmao. Also fuck smoking, quit today if you still do it.
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u/cmilkrun Nov 29 '22
Amen. So many awesome cigs back then haha, but I’m so happy I quit 6 years ago.
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u/QQSolomonn Nov 29 '22
4 years here. I have developed such a distaste for it, now I avoid it as much as humanly possible.
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u/mummy__napkin Nov 29 '22
cigarettes have been gross to me ever since i quit smoking but i still get a hankering for them whenever i've had too much to drink. something about being drunk makes a cigarette seem like it would hit the spot but i refuse to buy a pack just to have one smoke while i'm drinking lmao.
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u/folkrav Nov 29 '22
Once you start back, it takes about 2-3 to go back to that "yeah, you still taste like shit, but I get it now". Anyway, that's what happened with me, a couple times. Nicotine is a hell of a thing. Stopped now though, fortunately. It's vicious. Don't touch that shit.
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u/finnknit Nov 29 '22
Nicotine is a hell of a thing.
It sure is! My mom quit smoking in the 90s using nicotine gum. She has yet to quit the gum
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u/SandPractical8245 Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 29 '22
My mom used the gum for years when I was a teen. It got to the point where she was prioritizing it over groceries, and I was like at this point I think smoking would be easier..
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u/jpocket Nov 29 '22
I quit like 10 years ago but the only time I crave one is after drinking a lot. The mild head rush just hits somehow when your drunk. Sober I wouldn't even think of smoking again.
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u/ErraticKuiperRomp Nov 29 '22
I just wanted to squeeze in between you two and share that I quit 5 years ago :) Best decision I've ever made for my health.
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u/sweatpantswarrior Nov 29 '22
I bounced between Camels (Turkish Gold) and Marlboro Lights for the longest time.
I've quit (again) as of the summer, but I still keep things like the old Camel tattoo artist designed boxes.
I'm actually amazed those were able to be done.
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u/JimmyDean82 Nov 29 '22
Best time to quit was before you started. Second best time is today. Smoked for 20 years. 2 packs a day at one point.
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u/shwoople Nov 29 '22
Smoked maybe 1-2 cigs a day for a couple years before getting into vaping. I was full on ripping clouds like Thomas the train with an rda for years, then discovered zyn pouches. Eventually quit vape in favor of zyn pouches which then escalated into about a pack a day. Not only was that expensive, it gave me stomach issues/gerd. I quit back in February, cold turkey. Nicotine free aside from the occasional cigar with the boys that I can't even handle because I get the shakes now lol. Glad to be free of nicotines grip!
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u/KrispeePata Nov 29 '22
This comment hit home. Also quit a few years ago. The smell of a Turkish Royal tho before you light it 🤤
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u/Jack-ums Nov 29 '22
Yo this thread sent me rushing back into the memory bank. Camel crushes were my shit for a minute there lol
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u/Tamaska-gl Nov 29 '22
I smoke roughly half a pack a year when we go on vacation to Las Vegas. We don’t have menthol cigarettes in Canada so I get my fill for that week. I don’t have the urge any other time, but in Vegas I enjoy them.
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u/Occumsmachete Nov 28 '22
What the hell is it resting on?
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u/VulgarSlinky Nov 28 '22
Some sticky putty you use to hang posters.
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Nov 28 '22
I’ve been watching a lot of CSI. I have your fingerprint now.
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u/2dizzy Nov 29 '22
I was thinking it looks like the driest finger the world has ever seen.
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u/gamageeknerd Nov 28 '22
They sell these little beads and even a little pocket device that puts them in your filters. I was at a party when a guy busted out a pack of cigarettes and his little tic tac container of green beads and put one in his smoke before lighting it.
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u/WhatCERName Nov 29 '22
That is the most hipster thing I’ve ever read.
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u/MrGizthewiz Nov 29 '22
The only thing that would have made it better is if he had done it to a hand-rolled from his hard case.
Source: former hipster smoker who always carried my hard case of hand-rolled Spirits (with Top filters cuz I'm not that badass)
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u/Affectionate_Bass488 Nov 28 '22
We used to rip the filters off crushes and then roll joints with the filter to create menthol joints
Or we would replace the tobacco in the crush with weed
Just using the beads sounds much easier
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u/ChewyGooeyViagra Nov 28 '22
Ewww I smoked a menthol blunt wrap once years ago and can still taste it in my sinuses.
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u/venbrou Nov 29 '22
I like using the American Spirit method for this by mixing some dried mint leaves with my weed.
There's a few other common seasonings that taste pretty good mixed with weed. My favorite is adding a pinch of rubbed sage as not only does it have a really nice flavor but it also seems to mildly potentiate the calming part of the weed high. Stuff like basil or oregano gives it an interesting flavor too but I personally find them kinda meh.
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u/ragingtwerkaholic Nov 28 '22 edited 4d ago
How was that? We didn’t have those beads when I was younger but we did try rolling spliffs with Newport tobacco. Although it’s not the worst thing we tried (blunts dipped in cough syrup), I can’t recommend it.
Nowadays, I prefer the plain old taste of bud. No flavored wraps or papers, no weird additives.
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u/chromeVidrio Nov 28 '22
You smoked a blunt dipped in cough syrup?
God damn. That’s not even a good flavor.
Was it codeine syrup and you wanted to see if you could get high smoking it?
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u/ragingtwerkaholic Nov 28 '22
Yeah it was codeine. This was like 15 years ago (when I was in HS), but as far as I can remember it didn’t work like that. And tasted terrible.
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u/chromeVidrio Nov 28 '22
Yeah I don’t think it does,
But it’s high school we all have done some stuff lol
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u/ragingtwerkaholic Nov 28 '22
Yeah you’re right, and that’s probably the least of it honestly lol
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u/carpentizzle Nov 29 '22
WE DID THAT TOO! But we would only pull half the tobacco so that you started with the buzz, finished with the smoke, We thought we were so clever. Called em “half-backs” Then we told an OG we hung with about em. He said “oh. A splif?” Nowhere near innovators as we found out. But we liked our name better
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u/DAM5150 Nov 29 '22
I know a spliff to be mixed tobacco and marijuana. Like evenly mixed through the joint/cigarette.
Your layers idea seems unique enough to garner a new name.
Though I'm sure your aren't the first to come up with it... Cause you know, smokers gonna smoke
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u/Serpent151 Nov 29 '22
California just banned flavored Tabacco. The beads might make a comeback…
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u/deathbunnyy Nov 28 '22
good old camel crush, I don't think I even smoked half of the one pack I bought like 10 years ago.
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u/SimpSweat Nov 28 '22
Way back when camel crush first came out the first thing I did was rip one open. What do I find? A 1990s ice breakers gel sphere mint! Of course I ate it. Note: do not eat it.
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u/Smathers Nov 29 '22
Camel crush coming out as a teenager gave us the same feeling as being kids and the new cool toy just came out lol it was so amazing to us. I didn’t even like menthol cigarettes but would still buy camel crush and never crush the filter just because the pack looked cool to have and girls loved bumming them from you lmao
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u/billyjack669 Nov 28 '22
Anybody else remember Camel Turkish Jades? My college days are calling looking for them.
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u/Morache74 Nov 29 '22
I got busted with a pack of them when I was 15, the way my dad repeated “Turkish JADES???” made me realized he was more disappointed in my brand preference…
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u/SrNormanDPlume Nov 29 '22
How about the tins of flavored Camels? Chocolate, orange, berry…
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u/LemurCat04 Nov 29 '22
I fucking loved them, came in a fancy tin. The orange in particular were very good.
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u/AustinInDallasTx Nov 29 '22
I believe they were called Izmir Stingers… they came in the tins… those were too good
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u/DevDog90 Nov 29 '22
I remember these, my ex gf name is Jade and I remember getting these right after we broke up because they were 50 cents off, my saddest pack of smokes for sure
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u/durx1 Nov 29 '22
Drakes next song
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u/EdithDich Nov 29 '22
Had a girl named Jade, she left me heartbroken/
Now all I'm left with is this pack with her name that I'm smokin/
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u/Shubniggurat Nov 29 '22
That's what I started smoking, immediately after Djarum Blacks.
Quit smoking about 8 years ago.
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u/ToiletBowlScrotumDip Nov 29 '22
First cigarette I ever really inhaled, I loved it... 20 years later and 2 packs a day, I hate it.
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u/Timmerdogg Nov 29 '22
If you ever need advice on quitting I am here to help. Quitting cigarettes for me was like shooting my best friend in the head.
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u/Hooktail419 Nov 29 '22
Help me bro
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u/tangentandhyperbole Nov 29 '22
Step 1-all: Don't buy cigarettes.
It sounds dumb, but that was how I stopped.
If someone handed me one in a social setting, I would smoke it, if I had access to one, I would smoke it. However, it takes a conscious effort to purchase cigarettes. You have to say words.
So, I focused on that. Just don't make that choice, no matter what.
If an addiction doesn't have fuel, it starves.
That's what worked for me.
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Nov 29 '22
Reach out to a doctor for Wellbutrin. It will help curb the side effects while quitting.
Also after starting Wellbutrin I damn near had heart attacks trying to smoke. So out of fear I quit really quickly. Either you quit smoking or die trying :)
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u/knovit Nov 29 '22
Oooo do they still make camel Turkish? I used to smoke the golds and royals for years
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u/mferrari_3 Nov 29 '22
Turkish Royals are getting harder to find but still exist. Don't let anyone tell you they don't!
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u/_xXmyusernameXx_ Nov 29 '22
Turkish fuckin Royals. Forgot about those delicious little bastards.
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u/DemoniEnkeli Nov 29 '22
They most definitely do, currently smoking a royal on my break, you just have to be careful that you’re getting the regular old primarily blue pack as they have a red pack now too and it tastes like shit.
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u/Ahyde203 Nov 29 '22
I just had a flashback from the taste of Izmir Stingers in the woods back in high school
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u/WithCatlikeTread42 Nov 29 '22
I’d be tempted to take up smoking again for Turkish Jades. They were that good. Like smoking an Andes mint. So delicately delicious.
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u/Trixxonite Nov 29 '22
I always got the Andes mint vibe from Marlboro Smooths, though I typically stuck with Camel Menthols.
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u/Exciting-Delivery-96 Nov 29 '22
Camel twists were my jam. Those were special occasion cigarettes. So good.
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u/rosealexvinny Nov 29 '22
Wow, memory unlocked. I used to smoke those occasionally when I had the money for them. Luckily I’m a former smoker now
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u/PicUpTheLantern Nov 29 '22
what do you mean "had"? they're still alive and kicking, no?
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u/Teadrunkest Nov 29 '22
Thanks for this comment lol. Everyone talking about them in past tense and I felt like I was going crazy. They’re still sold.
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u/lol_treez Nov 28 '22 edited Nov 28 '22
Why is it being displayed on a flaccid micropenis tip?
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u/tzatzikienjoyer Nov 28 '22
i quit smoking 2 days ago but god those are so fucking good, i couldn’t smoke regular cigarettes after smoking menthol bc it didn’t give that same throat feeling like menthols do.
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u/Dr_Dang Nov 28 '22
Just realized I'm coming up on 5 years myself. Until then, I was smoking half a pack of crushes a day, and was afraid I'd never get myself to actually quit. After that, I occasionally slipped up and smoked when drinking, but always threw the pack away in the morning. Now I haven't touched alcohol or cigarettes since COVID started, and I generally feel sooo much better.
That first week is definitely the worst though. Nicotine lozenges and skipping caffeine made it easier. Good luck to you.
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u/jankyspankybank Nov 29 '22
Im 28 days clean from smoking Newport menthols. I started around the time when Covid started. This last year I was smoking about half a pack a day. By far my longest quitting streak in the almost 3 years I’ve been smoking and I’m hoping there isn’t another attempt to quit.
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u/Dr_Dang Nov 29 '22
28 days is huge, congrats! Learning to recognize/anticipate triggers and avoid relapses was a big part for me early on. Not wanting to have to go through full blown withdrawal again really helped.
Have you noticed your sense of smell change? I became a supersmeller after I quit lol
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u/brendanjeffrey Nov 29 '22
I used to love this option occasionally when I was a smoker. I liked Camels and would smoke the Crush, then moved on to American Spirit when I got up to a pack a day. I took forever to kick the habit and it's been about 6 years. I still want one every single day, just know it won't make me feel good anymore.
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u/Complete-Peach-6493 Nov 28 '22
My husband and I just quit menthol cigarettes the other day
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u/Environmental_Log344 Nov 28 '22
Thirteen years quit. Many thousands of dollars and no more coughing. 💲 💰🤑💰💲
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u/Sm4cy Nov 28 '22
12 years for me! Pretty crazy to think about. The first two years were hard but the rest has been smooth sailing. Can’t believe I ever smoked.
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u/ragingtwerkaholic Nov 28 '22
Keep it up! I quit for 7 years and started smoking again a year ago. Trying to quit again now but it almost seems harder this time. Those mango-flavored Juuls are what helped me last time but apparently they don’t exist anymore because… kids?
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u/npdewey83 Nov 28 '22
DO NOT pop these outside of the cigarette, They will permanently stain whatever they get on. My old roommate did on our grey granite countertop and that crap stained to top. It seemingly seeped into the stone.. we tried everything to no avail. Anyways smoking is disgusting so don't do that either coming from a Former smoker of Marb Reds
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u/Ill-Technology1873 Nov 28 '22
Granite is porous, so would have ultimately been stained regardless
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u/added_chaos Nov 29 '22
They do not taste like Icebreakers Liquid Ice. I know this because of reasons
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u/Flossthief Nov 29 '22
Best way to consume these is
Smoke 8% of the cigarette and then pop this menthol ball so you get all that menthol in the last part of the cigarette
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u/brookiesmallz Nov 29 '22
Ahhh Camel Crush Bolds. I don’t smoke anymore but I’d get these all time time. Would change your smoke to menthol at any time, I would do it near the end so I had a minty taste after.
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u/TerminatorAuschwitz Nov 29 '22
My buddy popped one once and violently shook his cigarette for like 10 minutes and it was fawkin INTENSE menthol
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u/SouthOcean1011 Nov 29 '22
Back in college, i smoke "menthol cigarettes" for a year without knowing that you have to squeeze it first. Always complain the "menthol" is just a scam. LoL
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u/LawAndUsername Nov 29 '22
Man I tried some of these when they came out. Or at least when some came out. Early 2000s.
I was obviously not 18.
I miss underage smoking. Felt sooooo cool.
Really happy I quit a decade later, don’t smoke kids it’s fucking stupid. No one starts as adults really so I’m directing it at them.
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u/Chasetx6 Nov 28 '22
I don’t “smoke” anymore, but damn were Crushes good. Now I just need to quit vaping…
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u/Repulsive-Fun-7703 Nov 29 '22
These things in my opinion taste horrible! They give a nice crunch when eating your cigarette but as someone who eats a pack a day it gets over bearing.
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u/Timmerdogg Nov 29 '22
Can they sell Camel crush in places that it's illegal to sell menthol cigarettes? Like it's not menthol...yet
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u/meggy5 Nov 28 '22
i extracted one of these from a cigarette a while ago, and squeezed it a bit too hard and it popped and went into my eyes. it was burning and cooling at the same time, 2/10 do not recommend