3 ms·

The biggest lie of cigarette smoking: that it relaxes you. When you're a nicotine addict and crave it you get anxious, nicotine fixes that.

• Jare 9y ago
  In my experience, when I had regular or constant anxiety, the nicotine crave blended with it but smoking calmed both. It is very possible that a non-nicotine method of relaxation would have also worked on both, but those are rarer and/or less quick and convenient. That was one of the appeals of smoking.
  • lemonberry 9y ago
    Interesting. I should have written that was my experience. Anxiety isn't something I typically experience unless I've drank too much coffee or, when I was a regular smoker, needed a cigarette. I take it you're a non-smoker now. I wonder how a vape would affect that.
    • Jare 9y ago
      Yeah after 20 years smoking, I had minor (unrelated) surgery and had to stay at home for a couple weeks, so I just cold stopped smoking and that was that. I am curious too but I refrain from experimenting.
      • lemonberry 9y ago
        Congrats, it's a hell of a habit to quit.