Originally posted by Exaltation:
God, what a bunch of pussies. How can you be so addicted to a drug that doesn't even produce that great of a reward. And comparing it to crack and heroin is just dumb. Most kids I know crave a certain feeling, that is defined by euphoria. Wouldn't someone want euphoria more than inahaling tobacco smoke?
Lol. You've never been addicted to anything have you?
Sleeping tablets don't exactly give you euphoria but people still get addicted to them.
And nicotine does give you reward in a way... Last year I stopped for a whole year, and I realised I'd been kinda constantly high for the previous 8 years I'd been smoking. When I say high, I don't mean high as in pills or coke, I mean high as in an altered mental state, albeit subtly.
You just don't realise till you've stopped.
Anyway, it's not a matter of being a pussy, quiting smoking *is* hard. Why the fuck do you think that people have such a hard time quiting?
Very few people, in my expereince, stop at the first attempt. Stopping is easy, but making it stick for longer than a few weeks or months is very difficult.
I lasted for just over a year, then started again :-(
Like other posters have mentioned, a cig is very nice when you're fucked on pills, coke, or after a nice meal, or whilst your drinking. All these contribute to making it even harder to stop.
[ 17 September 2002: Message edited by: Skyline_GTR ]
it does irk me when people put other people down they know nothing about