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Psilocybin Mushrooms and Nicotine Cessation?

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Yesterday was my 7th day of quitting smoking, and I ingested four grams of shrooms. I have random cravings sometimes, but I figured I had pretty much broken the habit and it wouldn't affect the trip. I was wrong.

The entire first 3 hours of the trip consisted of this intense, gnawing desire that I felt throughout my whole body as I walked through downtown Ann Arbor. It felt like I needed something, but I didn't know what it was. I felt as though this feeling would never go away, even after the trip. I felt like no matter what I did for the rest of my life, I would never do anything important or fulfilling enough to satiate this desire.

Finally as the bad trip wore off and I came down a little more into reality (but still tripping),I realized that the trip had taught me to stop worrying about chasing a buzz and feeding an addiction and to live in the moment. I haven't had one craving since, and even if I do I know that I can deal with it.

I have heard that psilocybin has been considered as a smoking cessation tool before, and I can definitely say that it has potential. I may have misinterpreted my trip but i was really rewarding in terms of seeing the truth about that stupid fucking addiction.
 
Psilocybin helps fix any short circuits of the mind.

Or... at least that's how I see it.
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For me, if I trip psilocybin any negative attachments are brought to the surface, I am forced to endure them for a period of time and the only way to relieve the discomfort is to overcome / accept / find the solution to / whatever... but I am forced to positively resolve or overcome whatever it is... while tripping, burrying something into the subconscious is not an option.

You either rise above the negative attachment, or you suffer it and continue having a bad trip. The only salvation is salvation, not avoidance.

God I love psychedelics.

Why the hell are they illegal again?

Think of all the people out there who want to quit smoking, but are not like us and afraid of psychedelics and misinformed.
 
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Forreal, it's not like you just eat some mushrooms or swallow a tab and have a dandy old time...you have to work for it. If you don't have a good time, you will be forced to confront you're underlying issues. It was the most demanding mental exercise I've ever put myself through, it was a challenge that forced me to contemplate my deepest issues and handle them or keep on living in hell trip land.

We're always talking about our poor understanding of mental health, why not use psychedelics to force us to solve our own issues...instead of cheating and using prozac
 
One female friend stopped smoking after her first (shroom) trip. She held a cigarette in her hand subconsciously for about 2 hours and when she realised that she knew that she doesn't need cigarettes anymore. Unfortunately that didn't last long ;D
 
While I was on 4-ho-met I went outside to smoke and after few intakes I was like "this smokes looks and tastes really disgusting and its pointless" and after that didn't crave for nicotine or tobacco up to 6 month. Thought the cigarettes I smoked was really low end cigarettes that tastes really bad even normally. So I think psychedelics helps really well to quit any addiction.
 
there's actually been some study of this academically, with very limited, but certainly promising results. Here's a link to a video presentation of preliminary results and if you live near johns-hopkins you may be able to volunteer for the study as i don't think its been published yet. If anyone knows an updated status of that study do tell. I believe the title is Psilocybin in smoking cessation, A Pilot Study; Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D & Mary P. Cosimano at Johns-Hopkins.

As for whether you can do this on your own, no one knows. But psychedelics have been used to treat addiction in some cultures, and there was limited research in the 60s i believe. I know Bill W. wanted to implement it into Alcoholics Anonymous.

If you do attempt it, definitely read up on some of the methods used in the above mentioned and other studies, as well as indigenous use for that purpose.
 
My girlfriend quit smoking cigs for 5 months after once particularly intense experience. She was smoking a cig while we were tripping and she just got really light headed and felt like shit and was like "im never smoking cigarettes again".

She's back to smoking now, but it was cool none the less.
 
I personally always have difficulty when I've decided to stop smoking days or weeks prior to ingesting psychs. When i come up and for the duration of the trip, I want to smoke cigs, as it's something I usually always do when I'm high in general, esp on psychs. I'm trying to quit cigs right now (12 days strong and counting...) and it's easier because I'm also not doing any drugs whatsoever right now. (getting piss tested and breathalized for justice sanctions)
 
i stopped smoking for good after a mushroom trip, but i think it was as much of not wanting to smoke as much as it was the mushroom trip

"people only get what they expect to get out of a trip" - A. Shulgin

an uncle dieing of cancer, a close relative getting esophagus cancer, it's just a bad idea

plus when you are stoned and you can feel the toxins of tobacco running through your veins making you weak and poisoned, it's just a horrible dirty drug

although i found a tobacco packet recently and i really liked how it looked; then i suddenly realised it looked so nice because it was a non-UK produced one, and didn't have terrible pictures of cancer or dead babies on it

/ramble
 
woah, that link regarding nicotine causing the bee deaths (colony collapse disorder) is fuckin intense...i haven't heard that correlation, but it seems pretty definitive reading that....

not to get off topic, lol, it's in cryptix's links, at the top :)
 
? Were you unaware LSD is a potent chemical? I just ate a tenth of a tab this morning, feeling it nicely now. It's a very versatile drug.
 
I'm in a similar situation, I've been eating mushrooms lately and I'm trying to quit smoking. I switched to a nicotine vaporizer ("e-cigarette") so I'm not really dealing with extreme cravings.

I quit cold turkey for eight months after a particularly inspiring mescaline trip, but I've never had the same level of success with mushrooms.
 
E-cigs. I never believed I could quit smoking, but all it took was a non-smoker telling me my kiss tasted like cigarettes for me to try one...and it worked...better than I could have dreamed as I never crave real cigarettes and find them disgusting. I bought the kit for $70, a liter of 42mg nicotine per ml glycerine for $20 to refill them myself....and that was last November and I've not had to spend a single penny more on getting a healthy nicotine fix.

PS, shop around because 90% of the Ecigs are junk, and do not buy premade jars of refill solution. Hunt for (non Asian) chemical suppliers to find pure nicotine in glycerine that will come with certificate of analysis.

The only negatives I ever hear about Ecigs are contaminates in the refills but those are the overpriced ($20USD for 30ml) flavored ones that come from overseas. Avoid as they are way too expensive and some have been found to have significant contaminates.

Patches, gum, all a rip off. Pennies of nicotine for $40USD.
 
^ yeah i tried a nicotine patch and it made me feel like i was dying. gave me some really crazy hallucinations.
 
weird...on two seperate occasions, the first with lsd and the second with 2C-I, I had already quit for some time and oddly in my tripping state i felt like I needed a pack and bought it both times.

Although the first time I ever rolled I remember realizing I should quit and walked over to a trash can and threw my whole pack away and stopped smoking for 4 months.
 
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