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[-] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago

It’s a joke, but I’m 43 and my mom knew others who were pregnant around the same time and told to smoke by actual doctors so they’d have a smaller baby and easier birth.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

My grandmother started smoking after her doctor suggested that she take it up in order to help her lose weight after pregnancy. She smoked the rest of her life.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On a related note, I also wonder I wonder how many older people self-treated ADHD/ADD with nicotine without realizing what was going on.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Shit. I didn't realize that I was doing this to myself until I got diagnosed as an adult about 10 years after I quit smoking.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Still do. ADHD is still not recognized in lots of places and I certainly do, in form of vape. Tried lowering concentration only to find myself smoking at higher power and more often. Also, energy drinks, I don't know what they put in them but withdrawal from them feels exactly like quitting smoking.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Did she live to be a 110 years old

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Do you think she would have lived longer if she smoked more?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Kind of a weird passive-aggressive statement js, they didn't imply their grandma lived to be any particular age. In fact from the statement we can't tell at all, "the rest of her life" could've been 6 months (she fell asleep with a cigarette in her mouth and the set the bed on fire).

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm 41 and my mom didn't quit but the doctor talked her into cutting down to a couple a day.

edit-also i was 10lbs and ended up the tallest in my family lol

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Doctors still do this, at least in Germany. When you're a smoker and getting pregnant, your doctor will most likely not try to bully you into quitting, instead they inform you about the risks and recommend you to cut down the smoking to a minimum but they will also acknowledge that you will most likely not overcome your addiction while your body is already under a lot of stress.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Happy cake day!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

That sounds like a joke from the doctor that the patient missed

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I doubt it, shit was different in 1980, doctors smoked in their offices until the 90s.

Never forget just how evil tobacco companies are that they knew how addictive and damaging it was but suppressed it up for decades.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I remember the big arguments about enacting a no smoking rule in meetings at work. Just the meeting rooms. It was of course presumed that people could smoke in their office.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Damn, I'm def gonna start recommending smoking to any pregnant ladies i see--that's quite a life pro tip! Go figure the AI was actually right about that lol

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