Paranoia cigarettes is it in my head?

[xxsicknessxx]

I buy my cigarettes from the store. I go to normal stores, and big chains. I buy a pack of cigarettes. But I get the feeling someone is messing with them. I can't prove it, nothing for sure but I just get this feeling like there not right.

Kind of like the feeling you get when you feel like your going to have a bad day, or that something is about to go wrong this is how I feel when I go to buy a pack of smokes... there just not right... I just dunno what to do? I feel it would be highly cigarettes to tamper with them even if it was the store, or someone working with the store or a disgruntled employee. What should I do? Has anyone ever heard of a bad shipmant of smokes or of fake smokes or something funny about cigarettes or paranoia in general? something on the boards, of heard of people complain of this before? I feel like someone is poisoning me in small ways. the smokes is the major way because I smoke them so its best way to get to me. Short of quitting how can I figuere this out? No one in my life thinks im right, or will even listen to my thoughts anymore they all think im crazy and just don't care anymore...

but its F'ed up either way.. any ideas thoughts? what would you do? I dunno why cigarettes is just the... main one something wrong I dunno what to do... they shouldn't do it (possibly feds) dunno.... someone high up to get to every single store in the entire area I live in.. has be... something big...


please do not copy my post for any reasons or cut and paste it, or edit it... if you read it fine but after answering my questions try to forget you read it thank you

 

[footscrazy]

I've experienced a similar sort of paranoia before, not exactly the same, but this huge anxiety provoking fear that someone was making me ingest something I didn't want to. This came at a pretty low point in my life, when I was suffering from a lot of anxiety and panic attacks. I noticed that when I dealt with the anxiety/panic attacks, that this fear mostly subsided.

A psychologist or similar is probably the best person to tell you how to treat the root of this paranoia though, I think it could come from a variety of different mindstates, and someone like that is probably best at working out the root cause and what can be done about it.

Something that helped me slightly was just trying not to get stuck on that thought - interrupting the train of thought that made me worry about what I was ingesting and get stuck in a loop of ever increasing anxiety - and focusing on my breathing for a few breaths. Saying 'breathing in, breathing out' in my mind, and making each inward and outward breath last 3 seconds. You can only think of one thing at once, so by focusing on something else you can't worry about anything else.

 

[RobotRipping]

you could try growing your own tobacco and rolling your own cigarettes. I highly doubt you are being poisoned through your cigarettes, in fact they are already poisoned with chemicals anyway. If someone were really looking to harm you don't you think there are easier ways than tampering with your cigarettes? it's just not practical. The feds wouldn't bother going to every single store just to ensure your cigarettes are tampered, that's a ton of effort and resources for 0 pay off, why would the feds want to poison you anyway? Unless you are some kind of major threat to them in which case they would probably use far different tactics to take you down.

I know that feeling you mention, classic paranoia, it's happened to me plenty of times, you kind of just have to think about whether it makes sense or not and sometimes you have to not trust your instincts and for the sake of your mental health just listen to other people. Sometimes my intuition is just completely off.

 

[Libby]

Your instincts are right, the cigarettes are bad.
But not tampered with. Nasty cigarettes the only drug that does absolutely nothing except for make you addicted (besides poison and slowly kill you that it).
Fucking ripped off.
Quit them.

 

[DeathDomokun]

They give you headspins if you have no tolerance!
They also make you look cooler

 

[Treefa]

noones fuckin with you but yOU!

its your subconscious telling you each ciggarette shaves 8minutes off of your life X 1 pack thats over an hour per pack..i smoke too dont worry