🫂 For people who get lonely after quitting. The smoking area was a small refuge
The smoking area was a small refuge. Quitting isn't throwing away relationships — it's reconnecting without smoke.
What's unexpectedly hard after quitting isn't only that you can't smoke.
You stop knowing who to take a break with.
The smoking area has an odd kind of comfort. You aren't close, exactly, but you can somehow talk. It isn't deep counsel, yet the temperature of the workplace comes through. Honest words that never surface in a meeting room leak out a little between the smoke.
It's bad for your health. It clings to your clothes. It costs money.
Even so, for some people the smoking area had become their place.
Quitting also changes how you build relationships
Getting lonely after quitting isn't so strange.