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Do you smoke?

Yes, but trying to give up
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Yes, not trying to give up anytime soon
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No, but I used to
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No, never have
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Postby AiliailiA » Thu Jun 08, 2017 6:52 am

Alvecia wrote:
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As I've mentioned in the thread, I stopped smoking years ago but I'm still a nicotine addict.

I think I was always going to get addicted to something. I'm really glad that wasn't heroin. I took that a few times, and liked it though it was far from my favorite drug. I was wary of it.
Though there's no way to be sure how things could have gone differently, it's possible I was more wary of getting addicted to heroin because I'd already been addicted to nicotine (smoking) for several years. If you'd asked me when I was 14 (before I'd smoked enough tobacco to get addicted) I would have said I was far too smart and self-controlled to get addicted to anything, but nicotine addiction taught me that wasn't true at all.

So maybe that's a benefit I personally got from smoking? Better a smoker than a junkie!

I think the lesson there is that intelligence and self control don't mean much against substances that are specifically meant to weaken those.


No, I don't agree. I would say I am more prone to addiction than most people, and my intelligence is irrelevant to that.

Self control is another matter. Actually having good self control would negatively correlate with being prone to addiction. When I was young I thought I had good self control, but I never really did. I just had a very happy life, also was very unemotional; it wasn't until late in my teenage that my self control was seriously tested. Too many options, gotta try them all, fuck really it's exam time already? ...
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Postby Soviet Socialist and Peoples Republics » Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:08 am

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Soviet Socialist and Peoples Republics wrote:It is a psychoactive substance.

That's not an answer to "what benefit does it have?"
Psychoactivity isn't necessarily good or bad. Nicotine is highly addictive, which most people would say is bad psychoactivity. It might be a mild stimulant (really so mild and unreliable that I say "might") which in the case of caffeine most people would say is good psychoactivity.

No benefits worth mentioning. If you're addicted, going without it is unpleasant and then getting it is a relief ... but that can't be called a benefit if it's compared to not being addicted and not experiencing it as a relief.

I didn't give an answer to that question because that question is irrelevant. People rarely consider the health benefits of a drug while using that drug in question. They consider its psychoactive effects instead.
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Postby Sad-States » Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:25 am

I have since I was 7, although I didn't actually start smoking on a normal basis until I was 13. I'm 19 now. I'll agree with Soviet Socialist and Peoples Republics on the head rush and everything. I also dip, and I never get a nicotine buzz from it anymore. However when I have a cigarette for the first time in a few hours, that head rush. Lol.
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Postby Major-Tom » Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:36 am

Sad-States wrote:I have since I was 7, although I didn't actually start smoking on a normal basis until I was 13. I'm 19 now. I'll agree with Soviet Socialist and Peoples Republics on the head rush and everything. I also dip, and I never get a nicotine buzz from it anymore. However when I have a cigarette for the first time in a few hours, that head rush. Lol.


When dip stops giving me a buzz, I take a break from it then get back on. Then I get buzzes again. That said - to avoid mouth cancer (and because my girl found out I dipped and she got disgusted) I've seriously, seriously cut back on the stuff.
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Postby Kekonistan » Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:43 am

I smoke weed, but only very occasionally.

And shisha, occasionally.
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Postby Sad-States » Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:52 am

Kekonistan wrote:I smoke weed, but only very occasionally.

And shisha, occasionally.

Same.

Major-Tom wrote:
Sad-States wrote:I have since I was 7, although I didn't actually start smoking on a normal basis until I was 13. I'm 19 now. I'll agree with Soviet Socialist and Peoples Republics on the head rush and everything. I also dip, and I never get a nicotine buzz from it anymore. However when I have a cigarette for the first time in a few hours, that head rush. Lol.


When dip stops giving me a buzz, I take a break from it then get back on. Then I get buzzes again. That said - to avoid mouth cancer (and because my girl found out I dipped and she got disgusted) I've seriously, seriously cut back on the stuff.


Yeah, I've gotten there before. Usually when I begin dating someone I don't dip around them, and depending on the person, I'll just smoke a black & mild and I'll be suffice. However, I was never the type to put outrageous lips in either.
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Postby Mon Ling » Tue Jun 13, 2017 11:23 am

No. It's really gross. >.< I can't stand to be around that smell.
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Postby Biancavilla » Tue Jun 13, 2017 3:34 pm

No, never will.

Maybe off topic but please do not use those stupid Juul things unless you're actually using it for its real purpose. I know people who are literally addicted to them (and nicotine) now.
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Postby Truliikodoseton » Thu Dec 13, 2018 6:43 pm

Biancavilla wrote:No, never will.

Maybe off topic but please do not use those stupid Juul things unless you're actually using it for its real purpose. I know people who are literally addicted to them (and nicotine) now.

I use it a lot but I’m not addicted I could quit if I wanted to but it’s a trend so I don’t
Just to show people I’m not addicted I’ll quit for a month or two
But that’s just me I know people who started using it and can’t go an hour without using it again
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:05 pm

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