Coffee and cigarettes
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They taught us in training that the chemical addiction only lasts 72 hours. After that it is all a battle with your mind.
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That's old style thinking. The effects of stimulant withdrawal are gone quickly. Changing the way your brain chemistry processes rewards can take much longer.
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Cigarettes aren't all that physiologically addictive, in the sense that your body responds harshly to deprivation.
Breaking a habit, any habit, is what's hard. I know I need coffee after I get up just as much as I need the smoke after mid-morning work meeting.
Maybe it's time to start thinking about quitting candy. Isn't happening without it.
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@cadiz_stoker:
hate to have to say it, but this is why they are doing it…
healthy vs smokers lungs
I hate to puncture a hole in your compelling argument, given my distaste for smoking, but that lung on the left isn't healthy, it's slowly rotting. The one on the right, however, has been soaked in many decades worth of small doses of Formaldehyde and Tar – both of which bear preservative properties.
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Well, cigarettes do a bit more then that. I wish I could remember the name of the chemical…There is a chemical in cigarettes that replaces the membrane on your brain cell nerve endings. It literally eats it away and replaces it. This isn't a very bad thing, since the human body can produce it naturally.
When people get the jitters, it is because the body is having trouble interpretting signals because the chemical that cigarettes provide as an alternative is no longer present. That's why those first 72 hours are -so- bad.
Now you know where "nic fits" come from ^.^
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For instance, the only person in my family who had lung cancer was my brother, but it didn't start as lung cancer. It was small cell cancer that spread from his skin to his lungs. He is the -only- instance of cancer in my family, and there are quite a few smokers amongst my extended family, including my grandfather.
I guess you mean squamous cell cancer (a type of skin cancer) rather than small cell cancer. I don't think there's such a thing as small cell skin cancer. I'm not a doctor, though, so I may be wrong, but that would definitely be a very rare type of cancer.
In any event that's a common misconception. That's not lung cancer, but metastasized skin cancer. The type of cancer you have is defined by the cells that express malignant character, not the location in your body where they end up.
By the way, the whole "but X didn't smoke but had lung cancer and Y smoked like a chimney for 50 years and died of old age" discourse is meaningless. Smoking is a risky behavior, and the more you smoke the more likely it is you will get cancer.
Think of it as playing Russian roulette. You may play just once and get the bullet, or play endlessly and walk away unscathed. And of course you can still get shot and killed for some unrelated reason even if you don't play. But none of those possibilities take away the fact that the more you play the more likely is you'll get a gunshot wound to the head.
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DERAIL! I like beer. I'm fan for the darker kinds. I enjoy amber bock and Irish Red mostly. Out of a tap I usually have PBR. I hate 'weak' taste beers like, well, anything with light or lite in the name.
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@The:
I hate 'weak' taste beers like, well, anything with light or lite in the name.
That's not even beer, that's just diluted urine.
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Finally! Someone understands me
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I won't try to find the comment to quote, but cancer and similar things aren't , I can assure anyone. I've never tried a single cigarette myself, but my parents smoke much, and I lived through both chemotherapy and (well, don't know the word in english, but the thing when they treat you with X-ray :) ).
So what they say about the chances isn't just bullshit, okay? -
I smoke on the occasion and don't inhale that deeply. I've smoked over probably about 20 cigs so far but because I've done it over a long period of time makes it less likely for me to be addicted or I am just immune. Time will tell.
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Naw, you don't get addicted at first. At first you get this awesome buzz. Then I wasn't getting a buzz. So I'd stop smoking for about two or three days and start again. Now, after a year or so, I can't get a buzz to save my life. . I only smoke now to not feel bad. Because I feel like shit every time I try to take a break.
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I smoke 'cuz it makes me look cool
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