Smoking is ass-backwards meditation

You take a hit, you focus on your breath, you let your mind run, the coffee tastes better, the cigarette burns up your throat in just the perfect way. With a heavy heart, I have to say, that the practice of smoking is close to the practice of mindfulness.

While the in-the-moment peak of smoking can reach unbelievable highs, especially combined with liquids, there’s a hole left in you once the cigarette is done. The craving for the next cigarette only increases. The wheel of samsara keeps spinning.

During the act, smoking and meditation have similar mechanics. In the long term though, smoking is destructive, while meditation is deconstructive.

Smoking is ass-backwards meditation.