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Is nicotine addictive while on other drugs?

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Horus

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I was wondering if nicotine is addictive while on other substances? I've heard conflicting reports from people who dont seem to have any scientific basis. So I was wondering if anyone could provide some solid scientific information on the subject.
The drugs I'm thinking about are MDMA, alcohol, ketamine, and speed.
Thanks for any help.
 
i'm not sure the purpose of this question at all.
being addicted to cigarettes is something that develops over time like anything else..
unless you were spending all of your time fucked up, then what is the point?
I just don't see any scientific/research instituition of any kind spending their time with a study that would help you on this subject.
 
Nicotine is addictive on any drug.. sober or fucked out of yer skull on everything - you smoke and you run the risk of addiction .. now if you mean smoking a 'Port while rolling your balls off, yer not gunna get hooked, shit, it takes a good amount of smoking to get you addicited - it wont happen in one weekend..
 
The reason for my asking is that my friends and me have been smoking everyday this week while under the influence of other powerful substances. We went today without ciggarettes and got no craving. Well not me anyways.
I was VERY worried that we are going to get addicted. I'm more worried about my friend though.
 
First of all, what PhreeX said is absolutely true. I'd like to add that it takes different people different lengths of time to become addicted. Therefore, a week's worth of smoking might not get you hooked but it may get your friend hooked. Also, the number of cigarettes that you guys have been smoking should play a role as well. It's rare, but there are cases when cravings don't manifest themselves immediately. Perhaps the residual metabolites from other substances floating around in your system are preventing you from registering the craving from nicotine, or comedown from these substances is overpowering the craving for nicotine. Perhaps your craving for nicotine is state-dependent on the influence of these other "powerful substances" I don't smoke cigs at all when sober, but when I'm drunk, or on stimulants, I tend to smoke small numbers of cigarettes to modulate the high from the other substance.
[ 28 October 2002: Message edited by: 5-HT2 ]
 
Smoking sucks when sober and for your health anyway, but I have to admit that a cigarette really tastes good whilst doing shrooms, X or GHB, especially GHB, yout take a toke of a cigarette 10 minutes after ingesting GHB/GBL and i feel the G really 'kicking in' 5 minutes earlier than if no cigarette. So yes, when you develope an addiction (i am not talking about a weeks binge) to substances that you enhance with a smoke, you are likely to develope a smoking habit as well even if you stop doing the other substance.....
 
I never smoke while sober, but I find myself chain-smoking when using cocaine in particular. Since I was 12 (23 now) I've experimented with cigarettes on and off and never got addicted. I went several years without touching one. Then once drugs came into my life I find myself smoking now and then.
When I'm jacked up on coke, I smoke really fast, I'm literally finishing the entire cigarette in about a minute, then lighting another one. I smoke occasionally when I drink as well, although not as feverishly. I never smoke sober though and it works for me, I go through 2 packs a month tops, usually less.
[ 28 October 2002: Message edited by: dan0125 ]
 
you need to have been smoking numerous cigarettes a day for a sustained period of time(months) before you get cravings for them.
 
Originally posted by gun toting hip gansta:
you need to have been smoking numerous cigarettes a day for a sustained period of time(months) before you get cravings for them.
Like others have said, different people have different tolerances for addiction. I smoked every other day for about 2 weeks and got cravings. The worst is when you first wake up in the morning and it seems like the day can't start without a cigarette. It's like having another bodily function like eating and peeing that you have to deal with whether you like it or not. It's more addictive than coke IMO.
I hated the cravings, so I decided to stop after about a month of 10/day smoking. The catalyst for my stopping was getting mono -- my throat was so swelled up, it was impossible to smoke without a powerful painkiller.
Horus, if you're worried about yourself getting hooked, stop smoking. It's not worth it. Maybe if it was a "fun" drug, but I never found it to be fun aside from the first couple times where you get a headrush. Your friends control their own lives, though, and all you can do is set an example and tell them your opinion, but you can't make them stop if they won't listen to you.
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uh, I'm not really sure what you're trying to ask. but from what I gather--when i'm sober I barely smoke, only after I eat a big meal or something like that. Sober, I can go a week before I finish a whole pack. (and when I'm dope sick I don't smoke AT ALL)
But when I'm fucked up on anything from pot to heroin I turn into a fucking chain smoker, smoking up to two packs a day.
I'm not sure why that is, but despite no scientific evidence (and I seriously doubt any scientist has researched this) I hope this answered your question...
 
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