Tobacco "addiction"

[cstemig]

Pipe tobacco is the siren of the smoking world. Nothing quite like it.

[Drunk_Dynasty]

Interesting timing on this thread, my GF has been saying she’s going to quit for over a year now but says she can’t cause it’s too addicting, even tho she only smokes a few cigarettes a day usually and can go 4-5 days without no problem.

Getting pretty frustrating to be really real about it. The other day she promised she was done, and the next day she smoked again and it ended up being a big fight. Apparently me saying how it feels that she went back on a promise is the same thing as calling her a liar, maybe it is, but a promise that ends up being broken was just a lie that wasn’t told yet.


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[cstemig]

Nothing good ever comes from it. Just found out that another friend has been diagnosed with COPD and now requires an inhaler. He rolled his own for years, now they are rolling him.

[lanyard]

DD,

Sometimes toughest part isn't the nicotine, it's the habit. There's a routine, it can be calming and offer a reset. It can also be a passive aggressive "F you" to the world on crap days.

I'd guess she smiles for reasons items than the nicotine hook. The nicotine is like sugar on the cereal, just makes it sweeter.

[Drunk_Dynasty]

Yah it just seems like really she doesn’t wanna quit even tho she keeps saying she’s going to quit. she’s been saying she’s “on her last pack” for over a yeaaaarrr now.

It’s something I’m going to have to accept, because she does not deal with me expressing even the slightest disappointment. I would be less bothered if she just said “I’m not quitting, deal with it.”



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[randywatson]

For all those doing their smokey treats and lip nuggets, quit now.

We all know smoking is bad, i pray you don't smoke around your children. I put people to sleep for a living and every time I walk into a preop room to take a kid back for surgery and the parents smell like a rotting casino I know my day just got a whole heck of alot tougher. These kids typically have horrible asthma and or are nightmares to try and wake up after surgery. These kids are innocent bystanders that can't just get out of the car while their parents smoke heading to the gas station to get more smokey treats.

anywho, quit all forms of tobacco. I get to see peoples entire larynx taken out and massive tumors removed from necks from lip chaw. It's not just smoking tobacco. Also get to see the vaping crew come in with 3rd degree burns on their face from them blowing up. good times. enjoy your life, you only get one spin on this earth.

[h2ofwlr]

Never was a tobacco user, but lost my long time friend to it. He started at age 15 with unfiltered Camels and stayed with them until he died of early heart disease associated with long term smoking at age 58. .

That would have been me if I had not quit.

I was smoking 2 cartons a week of Camel straights and hacking up blood and brownies every morning. In 1 yrs time went from 3 packs of straights a day to 1.5 packs of Camel lights and still hacking hard up the blood and brownies. So 1 morning I just quit. the 1st week was a complete bitch of an ordeal, mood swings like 10 women cycling, 1 crazy unbelievable roller coaster rides from withdrawal. Struck with it though. It was the 2nd best thing I ever did physical health wise. I remember it was 12 yrs after I quit - was the last time I reached for the Tshirt pocket for a cig. Funny how muscle memory reflex is so ingrained... After a yr I noticed that if I reached for my pocket - I was stressed out, a gauge to back the heck off on what ever was bothering me.

If you look at what tobacco used to be like 70 yrs ago, compared to the '60s when they started adding chemicals to it (do you really think that pure real tobacco stays lit? Nope, it does not. Then why once you light the tip of a cig that it'll burn all the way to the filter on its own?) I believe that these added chemicals make that much worse of an addiction, making it harder to stop.

As for the topic, why for some it is more addicting, well look at Viet nam and the opioid use, they predicted a major epidemic here is the US because the returning addicted Vets - but that did not happen. Why? Well you have to dig in the research, but basically it does effect people differently. So perhaps there's validity on nicotine addition that it effects people differently.

Frankly those still partaking a "little bit", it's like a cutter reasoning, "but I'm only cutting myself a little bit" WTF are you like the little kid whom his Mom caught him masturbating and he responded, "can I do it until I just need glasses?" Quit being a dummy with that fouled up reasoning.
#1 way to prevent lung, throat, and mouth cancer is not to partake in any form of tobacco what so ever.

[Big Doe Hunter]

I smoked and chewed much of high school and all of college. Never really heavy, just when drinking or hunting, which was a lot. I still will occasionally have a smoke after 3-4 drinks. I have 'infinity' bum from one friend who still smokes, I won on a bet years ago. However, I hardly see him or drink anymore.

[lanyard]

All in, it's a genetic crap shoot. More grandpas lived to 92 drinking/smoking all the way than died from it.

This was interesting https://getpocket.com/explore/item/a-landmark-study-on-the-origins-of-alcoholism?utm_source=pocket-newtab

[Nershi]

Frankly those still partaking a "little bit", it's like a cutter reasoning, "but I'm only cutting myself a little bit" WTF are you like the little kid whom his Mom caught him masturbating and he responded, "can I do it until I just need glasses?"