Nicotine.
Easy! It just takes a little trauma! You’ll be a smoker in no time if you sync buying your next pack with the death of a family member that your other family members are too grief stricken to help you process!
This reminds me of when I tried smoking when I was 18. It did nothing to me and I didn’t see the point. So I did not continue.
I actually enjoy a good cigarette, but I still don’t understand how folks get addicted. Smoking more than one in a single day always makes me feel like shit. Even just one cigarette and I feel like I need to take a shower. I smoke a cigarette now and then for fun, and couldn’t imagine doing more.
I smoke like a pack a year. I keep it in a Ziploc bag in the fridge to keep them fresh. Been doing this for about 19 years…
This reduction of addiction is surprising to see here. You can literally replace your scenario with anything, booze, heroin, junk food, whatever and it may be easier to understand. You have already crossed the barrier on enjoyment, so why is it a stretch for you that people might overindulge. I’m sure there are things in your life that you overindulge in.
Our brains and bodies are vastly complex and all of these things have chemicals that alter your brain chemistry, everyone’s brain is different and these chemicals affect people differently.
I’m just talking about my own experience. I also enjoy cannabis, almost exclusively via edibles, and consume it most days, but I also find it pretty effortless to take breaks, even significant months-long ones.
I think I just don’t have an “addictive personality” or whatever. I enjoy a good vice, but I’ve never experienced dependency. Even drinking enough to get “drunk”, or drinking multiple days in a row feels bad to me, even if I do like an occasional buzz.
Junk food is nasty to me. I eat it like twice a year and always regret it. Never done opiates, but I do understand that they’re a whole lot more addictive than other drugs, so I don’t think that even if I did understand what that felt like that it would inform me much about nicotine addiction. Given that opiates are downers and nicotine is an upper, I don’t know that they are really comparable.
Same, except from the pipe for me. A nice high quality tobacco from my favorite pipe really hits the spot sometimes, plus it makes me feel classy as hell.
Same except I just grab some cigarillos from time to time. Some people are just more susceptible to chemical addictions then others, we’re probably on the “Not Very Susceptible” end of the spectrum lol
Cuz’ they’re not pussy’s.
the only good cigarette is a drunk one
Try smoking your first after 4 beers. That’ll get you hooked
That’s the only time I have one, well half of one, a whole cigarette feels like a lot
the first cigarette of the morning always feels like that
I had the same experience, I think I even tried a few times over the course of years after I’d forget how bad the previous experience was. Each time it was the same, “Why the fuck do people do this? This fucking sucks.” And I grew up in a household where my Dad smoked constantly throughout his life, I had been around cigarette smoke for awhile.
There’s other addictions I can understand, and even have myself, but smoking is such a harmful, nasty addiction that I can’t get how anybody can willingly do that to themselves repeatedly.
Wish I never smoked, but over 4 years since my last and no cravings. Always was afraid that cravings would never go away, that hungry anxiety was awful, even if it was dull after a time
Terrible addiction that isn’t worth it
1 year with nothing, after years of vape only and a long time with smokes.
I still get cravings every once in a while, especially with certain actions. Recently It was playing a record, I used to sit and listen to music and chug on my vape and now I sit and do nothing, so the craving comes back.
Little over four years smokeless for me too, after 20 years of smoking. High five for the quitter crew!
Sadly I still get cravings almost weekly.
10-year smoker here who quit 5 years ago. My cravings were gone after about a month. I had nightmares about smoking occasionally for the first year or so though. I really didn’t wanna fall back into the trap
I attribute the lack of cravings mostly to quitting using “the easy way to quit smoking” book by Allen Carr. It really helped how I thought about smoking as a whole. It’s designed to be read while you’re quitting, but maybe even 4 years later it could help you - worth a shot I’d say.
I did get them the first time I tried quitting, which lasted 1 or two years before I started up again
I don’t think I’ll ever smoke again this time though. Combination of reasons, I have kids now, who I don’t want affected by it. I ve really gotten into cardio since then, and I’m starkly aware of how it affects your lungs. Also this second time I quit I had a minor health scare where my mouth started sloughing a bit. Wasn’t just the smoking causing that, I also was drinking some very acidic juice and was reacting badly to a toothpaste ingredient, but it did help me to quit
I get that it’s not for everyone, but damn… still kinda wild to hear people outright hating the experience.
Granted, I started smoking when I was 13. Heard it helped people feel less stressed, so when the opportunity arrived I figured why not give it a try.
Quickly got up to a pack or two a day and loved every drag for nearly 10yrs until my future wife asked me to stop. I quit cold turkey for a few years, but missed it the whole time. Eventually wound up settling on vaping as a compromise.
Tbh, the only part I don’t miss is the dent it left in my wallet.
It’s very common for people to get dizzy, blood drain from head, followed by cold sweats and even passing out. I’ve smoked for like 20 years now at 37 and I remember 3 kids who passed out just like I described smoking in highschool.
Wow, that’s wild. Never heard of that before, thanks for sharing.
I get dizzy too, and I kind of hate nicotine Tried cigars and cigarettes and they both suck ass. I’m addicted to weed instead lol.
I have a buddy that used to smoke 3qty 1-3gram blunts rolled in vanilla duchess, DAILY. Every single one. He now smokes spliffs cuz the nicotine in just the inner wrap and leaf. Always heard but no clue if it’s true that the little grayish piece that wraps around the mouth piece of a Dutch was the “cancer paper” cuz they soaked it in nicotine. Again, ZERO proof for that bit but everyone who rolled them always said it like it was common knowledge. The point being… dude had to smoke soooooo much fuckin weed to get addicted to tobacco from only 2 cigar leafs.
What were you stressed about at 13?
people at 13 can have issues too
Doesn’t it calm people down because the cravings are aggravating them, though?
Nicotine is interesting because it has different effects at different dosages and metabolizes fast so smokers use it to kind of manually control certain hormonal symptoms. Another example: it’s often used as an appetite suppressant because it’s a stimulant but many addicts need nicotine after a meal to increase gut motility and stomach acid production or they’ll get indigestion. They’ll change how they take drags based on the dose needed. It’s a drug that both acts on the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.
no, it does actually calma you down when you first smoke, but you quickly build up tollerance so you end up smoking just to calm down the cravings, and eventually you need to ramp up usage
Nicotine is an interesting poison as rather than killing the bugs the plant sloooows them down and the nicotine stnkifies them makin em more attractive to predators.
So yeah it’s calming
It slows them down because it’s a paralytic
Sooooo relaxed
I usually don’t like to be stiff when relaxed, but then again I also don’t like to smoke I suppose lol
When I turned 18 I went and bought my first pack of cigs(had been smoking pot for a couple years). Smoking that first cig was the biggest let down after how hyped everyone made it seem. Made it through the first pack and didn’t buy another.
I quit cold turkey for a few years, but missed it the whole time.
Sounds like addiction. This is what i dont want. I dont want to miss something that isnt good for me. I drink, I smoke weed but I dont miss it if I quit for half a year.
If you don’t smoke Tarrlytons, fuck you.
Easy to become a victim of the advertisement glamour.
Initially people start doing it to fit in and look cool, then the nicotine’s tentacles creep around your brain and hook them in.
I tried it once and never look back, it’s the worst recreational thing i ever do, the second being alcohol. I’m more intrigued on why people even start to discover and smoke this stuff, they got to be the most masochistic person in history.
as you said, to look cool and tough, even though they are so weak they can’t resist using something that gives you cancer
Imagine being able to resist giving yourself cancer XD
I lot of my friends growing up smoked. Like, my best friends. Most of my family, my mom and all of my older siblings, all smoked.
When I was something like fourteen or some shit, I took one drag and thought it was the most disgusting shit I had ever tasted on my life and an immensely unpleasant experience. Never touched them again, never even wanted to. It’s honestly one that baffles me.
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It looks awesome unfortunately
When I first started smoking by stealing from my dad’s packs in junior high, I didn’t even know you were supposed to inhale it. I thought you just tasted the smoke, holding it in your mouth, and then blowing it out because my grandpa smoked cigars and remembering him saying that’s how it’s done as a kid.
