I’ve never smoked, but I’ve been around people that do. What do people feel during/after smoking? It doesn’t seem to make people high or hallucinate or anything. It maybe mildly relaxes them?
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I don’t get why there are so many pro-nicotine people here. I guess they have to defend their addiction?
If you try nicotine for the first time, you will feel dizzy and sick. But you will start to crave more nicotine. When you redeem that craving you will feel “good”. But that “good” is actually just feeling normal. Think of it as if you put on too tight shoes, walked around with them, and then took them of again for a little while and then put them back on.
I smoked and used other nicotine products for 10 years, but after learning the truth about nicotine it was easy to quit. It’s a very pointless drug but also very lucrative for those selling it…
Because lying to people doesn’t make them want to avoid smoking. The best antidote is telling them the whole truth, “good” and bad.
The DARE program didn’t work.
I didn’t see much in the way of pro-nicotine comments. People just answered the question about what they got out of it. Most also said it was a terrible habit.
Your experience with it being easy to quit doesn’t seem to be typical, but it was great that it worked out that way.
It relaxes and grounds you. I started during a particularly stressful exam phase and it helped with managing stress.
Nicotine creates a temporary feeling of well-being and relaxation, and increases heart rate and the amount of oxygen the heart uses. As nicotine enters the body, it causes a surge of endorphins, which are chemicals that help to relieve stress and pain and improve mood.
Huh. TIL
Only thing nicotine ever made me feel was lightheaded
I smoke a cigar once every year or so and this sounds about right to me.
After you’ve experienced all the above, it’s incredibly difficult to stop. Never start smoking!
I feel extremely lucky that smoking only seems to give me anxiety.
In retrospect it’s amazing how the nicotine addiction causes you to accept hocking up giant wads of brownish-black phlegm every morning as entirely normal.
Who are you the Marlboro Man? Nothing you wrote is correct at all. You don’t get any feeling other than nicotine withdrawal. Relieving the nicotine withdrawal will of course feel good but if you never had any nicotine in your body to begin with, nicotine does nothing to make you feel good. It does not cause a surge of endorphins. For sure it makes your heart rate go up, because it contracts your blood veins, but that’s not good either…
No but my dad let me redeem his Marlboro miles when I was a kid.
I have a folding bike that was originally meant to be part of a Marlsboro rewards program. Apparently smokers weren’t all that interested in exercise. Who knew?
I’m going to disagree with you on that. Prior to smoking cigarettes I would have a cigar every couple months. This wasn’t nearly enough to develop dependency, but I could feel a sense of well-being and relaxation when I had one.
Back when I did smoke I only ever really got that feeling from the first cigarette of the day, which is probably why I didn’t have trouble quitting.
I progressed from cigars to cigarettes and that effect eventually got replaced by a more basic feeling of satiating a craving.
Same. What @[email protected] said (temporary feeling of well-being and relaxation, stress relief, improved mood) describes rather well how it felt back then for me.
Nicotine feels great. It’s why I still crave it after giving it up a while back. Everything else involved is horrible but there’s a reason people get hooked to begin with.
7 years smoke free still crave it, but it nasty and I have desire to start smoking again. Definitely an addiction that hard to overcome.
Gave up 27 years ago, got cancer anyway, still have dreams about smoking. Once you’re hooked, the cravings never go away.
Thanks for confirming my fear. 20 years for me. My dad been quite for going on 20 and only smoked for like 15 years and still gets craving.
I did not find that at all.
I’m sorry you have that - I didn’t. I was quit with no cravings for five years, what got me back in was spliffs with tobacco. (Now I vape, because I do intend to occasionally smoke weed with tobacco.)
The reason you still have cravings is because you never deprogrammed yourself. You still associate gaspers with relief, relaxation, pleasure.
If you can reframe the sensation of smoking as the tense tickly feeling of “god I could use a fag”, which no-one would claim to enjoy, the rest is plain sailing, and within a few weeks you’ll be past any cravings. The bulk of the cravings are done within a few days.
I don’t mean to suggest that it’s easy to quit - most people fail. But the trick is not too withstand cravings for the rest of your life, it’s too break the paradoxical association of fags with pleasure, which is a one-time thing.
It satisfies the craving for nicotine, if they’re already dependent on it. Others need a smoke to poop.
There’s a mild light-headed “high” when you start.
It surpresses appetite (at first).
It can help make “going to the bathroom” easier.
It pairs well with coffee, marijuana, and alcohol.
In social or work situations, it’s a way to get 5 minutes to yourself, or at least break off to a smaller group with just the smokers.
Due to the addiction it’s a constant vicious cycle of cravings -> appeasement. It’s terrible for you and costs a fortune. Prices have doubled in the last 10 years in my area. Besides the cost of your health which has always been high.
What does cigarette smoking do for people?
Gives them an assortment of cancers with a side of breathing and cardio issues.
Nicotine is an awesome drug. Increases your focus and provides a mild euphoric effect. Of course it’s not good for you, and if you’ve got to do it, it’s better to get it in some other way than to smoke cigarettes.
Edit: lots of people are suggesting that you don’t get any benefit once you’re addicted, except satisfying the cravings. That’s not true. Nicotine feels good even after you’ve been using it for a long time.
Nicotine is a shit drug, it just happens to be one of the few that are legal.
I think people saying that think the “feel good” only comes from satisfying the craving. And that is a big part of it.
It’s a little bump of energy and a calming ritual that’s all too intoxicating. Perfect for when you wanna sip a cup of coffee and/or do yoga or something to decompress but only have like 3 minutes to spare or else your boss will yell at you. I’ve found cannabis to be far more effective and safer-feeling.
Nothing good.
Source: was a smoker for 35 years. Quit last year.
Hey, congrats. I’ve been a smoker for 20 years, and I’m getting sick of it. I hope I can quit soon.
You absolutely can! What helped me immensely was Wellbutrin. Was on it for about 2 months. NO cravings at all. That shit is like magic!
Interesting. I’ve been on Wellbutrin before with no results; maybe I’ll look into it again. Thanks for the vote of confidence.
There is also Chantix/Champex depending on your country. I found it to be extremely effective in turning me off of cigarettes. It made me nauseous and I think it changed how my brain felt about cigarettes until they disgusted me.
I have heard a couple people say the same thing about Chantix. Sounds like it kinda Pavlovs you into hating cigarettes. I’d be down for it.
Rise their life insurance costs on 30%.
I’ve been smoking a pack a day for the last 12 years or so. At first smoking felt great, these days it only gives me a “high” when I smoke after waking up. Been trying to switch to nicotine pouches instead to break my habits first and then quit nicotine cold turkey.
Increases risk for periodontal disease.
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I like to have a cigarette every now and then It makes me feel calmer when the day is at an end.
And if it gives me cancer when I’m eighty I don’t care Who the hell wants to be ninety anyway?
So with a hidey lidey lidey and a hidey lidey lay We work and we make cigarettes all hidey lidey day So folks can get a breaky from their stressful lidey lives And relaxy with the cigarettes we make all day and night
Most of the smokers I’ve known don’t even get close to 80, and are often very sickly when they do. Two family members that didn’t make it to 60. A healthy looking co-worker who dropped dead in the parking lot. A former boss who didn’t get to enjoy more than two years retirement.
Cigarettes are the only consumer product that, when used as directed, kill their consumers.
Nah, alcohol shares the same boat. There are lots of examples if you really dig into the effects of various things. Alcohol and tobacco just kill you so slowly that it doesn’t drop profits.
No. Smoking is way more personally dangerous than alcohol, except for auto accidents. Tobacco hurts you in so many different ways – with sagging skin, lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, stained teeth, strokes, hypertension. Also, alcohol addicts only represent about 10% of the drinking public, whereas about 90% of smokers become chain-smoking addicts.
And, as I mentioned, smoking often kills people a decade short of retirement. Drinkers, on the other hand, often reach old age.
Not justifying alcohol, but there are so many downsides to smoking. But you can’t explain that to an addict.
You can die from alcohol withdrawals
It works as an appetite suppressants
It does or is one of those myths created by the tobacco industry to market cigarette consumption with women?
It did supress my appetite during the first year or so, but after that the effect wore off.
Like other stimulant drugs (including caffeine and amphetamines), nicotine suppresses some of the signals your body uses to register being hungry.
It makes food taste like shit and by extension you want to eat less. At least, that was my experience with smoking for years. When I quit I gained like 40 lbs.
The coffee and smoke combo in the morning tho, I used to love it so much
Oh yeah. Marlboro Reds and black coffee got me through some rough fucking mornings in my early 20s.
I could go until the late afternoon without eating with the power of nicotine. I would say it’s about the same as coffee but you can smoke more frequently than you can drink coffee (usually).
Nicotine high is very heady and can be relaxing. However the body quickly develops a tolerance and nicotine is physically addictive, meaning that smoking turns from a relaxing voulentary experience to a entirely habitual one that does nothing for you but ruin your lungs really quickly. Most cigarette smokers start in very early teens, by adulthood they haven’t had a true nicotine high in years and chainsmoke out of physical addiction. Smoking weed is much healthier by comparison as the high is much ‘nicer feeling’ to me and is not physically addictive. Smoke is still bad for your lungs but can be mitigated with edibles or dry herb vaporizers. source: parents and many friends were chainsmokers and I picked up the habit for a few months in late teens.
