The nicotine high while on other drugs is for me a fullness thing. It happens the strongest on dissociatives I feel, but it's like after nicotine all of the sudden the high seems much more full and well-rounded, and thus more pleasing.
I'm actually taking a period of sobriety at the moment as well as of a few days ago. I'm sure some alcohol or a few hits of weed will happen, and that's fine, but for the next week or couple of weeks I'm going to refrain from constantly putting psychoactive chemicals in my body, whether small amounts of caffeine, small amounts of phenibut, or even ashwaghanda or other active herbs. I had a bodily feeling the other day after taking a small amount of vyvanse that I've been taking so many chemicals - which for reference, hasn't even been near abuse or what I at least imagine when I read something like that, I'm talking just always taking small doses of something, phenibut one day, ashwaghanda the next, maybe 10mg vyvanse another, some caffeine, drinking, etc. - that my body has lost it's natural equilibrium and in a way I've been floating in the wind, prey to whatever gusts come by. I feel so much more energetic and alive already, it's fantastic. I'm hoping I can go the entire weekend abstaining as well, we'll see. But like I said, it's not even a big deal if I end up smoking or drinking with friends one night, it's really the constant dosing something that's the problem.
I mean it's alright if it doesn't get too strong. Mostly I just like the action of doing it.
Also, I didn't realise for years how it caused me massive amounts of social anxiety.
I think I'm just a pig lol.. I highly doubt it's a quality issue.
@Swilow, I was on Pregabalin/ am on Gabapentin for peripheral neuropathy, in my feet/legs. I was on Pregabalin for over 3 years, the last couple years @ the maximum dose for this condition which is 450mg/day. Like most drugs it is a double-edged sword. If you take the doses as prescribed at the same time each day it is a very effective therapy for my nerve pain, but the physical dependance is a monkey on one's back. The withdrawal, in my case, was a beast. Even when I did a taper to 300mg/day and then jumped to Gabapentin it was pretty gnarly for a week. For a lot of people a cold turkey withdrawal is just as bad as a combo of opiate and benzodiazepine withdrawal. After getting my Gabapentin dose adjusted to 1800mg/day I am stabilized at proper therapeutic levels. For nerve pain it is a much much better option than opioids, doesn't have abuse potential nor the stigma attached to it, and it targets the pain more effectively, despite the similar physical dependence as an opioid.