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Tabacco is a magical plant that will grant you increased alertness, stress and anxiety release, decreased hunger, ... Our problem is not smoking. Our problem i

Tabacco is a magical plant that will grant you increased alertness, stress and anxiety release, decreased hunger, ... Our problem is not smoking. Our problem is how and why we smoke. It has nothing to do with the drug itself but everything to do with us.

ng12 5y ago
The worst part is the carcinogenic chemical soup they add to cigarettes is to make it more palatable to smoke several times a day. Self-medicating is big business.
- erichahn 5y ago
  Are they really doing this?
  - TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
    "According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute: "Of the more than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, at least 250 are known to be harmful, including hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and ammonia. Among the 250 known harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke, at least 69 can cause cancer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarettes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarette...
    - loeg 5y ago
      You got the right link, but the quoted excerpt is not responsive to GP's question. The short answer is, "yes." > This is the list of 599 additives in tobacco cigarettes submitted to the United States Department of Health and Human Services in April 1994.
  - loeg 5y ago
    Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarettes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarette...
Grimm1 5y ago
"stress and anxiety release" is strictly bs. Smoking raises your baseline anxiety and stress. Those only continue to increase as the time it takes for you to start withdrawal shrinks as you become more tolerant. A quick google will confirm this or I can do it and provide sources. I also know this empirically because I was a half a pack a day smoker for a few years and I have never been more anxious, it was what drove me to quit. You feel relief shortly because you're satisfying the addiction but at the general level you have more stress.
- erichahn 5y ago
  Withdraw shrinks in only when you use tabacco regularly. It is not the drug that is the problem but how you used / abused it.
  - Grimm1 5y ago
    Then you get no relief when smoking, it's literally a stimulant.
    - erichahn 5y ago
      It is both. A stimulant and a sedative (dumb categories).
      - Grimm1 5y ago
        TIL and it's actually the fact that causes the seeking behavior which eventually forms the addiction. Epinephrine causes the kick and beta-endorphin the drop. Neat. I went and searched it up because I was curious and you surely are correct. Not sure why they're dumb categories though
        gary_0 5y ago
        > Not sure why they're dumb categories though How can something stimulate and sedate at the same time? It's legacy nomenclature that has become counterintuitive. Like how electrons are negative and holes are positive.

ng12 5y ago

The worst part is the carcinogenic chemical soup they add to cigarettes is to make it more palatable to smoke several times a day. Self-medicating is big business.

erichahn 5y ago
Are they really doing this?
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
  "According to the U.S. National Cancer Institute: "Of the more than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, at least 250 are known to be harmful, including hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and ammonia. Among the 250 known harmful chemicals in tobacco smoke, at least 69 can cause cancer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarettes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarette...
  - loeg 5y ago
    You got the right link, but the quoted excerpt is not responsive to GP's question. The short answer is, "yes." > This is the list of 599 additives in tobacco cigarettes submitted to the United States Department of Health and Human Services in April 1994.
- loeg 5y ago
  Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarettes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarette...

Grimm1 5y ago

"stress and anxiety release" is strictly bs. Smoking raises your baseline anxiety and stress. Those only continue to increase as the time it takes for you to start withdrawal shrinks as you become more tolerant. A quick google will confirm this or I can do it and provide sources. I also know this empirically because I was a half a pack a day smoker for a few years and I have never been more anxious, it was what drove me to quit. You feel relief shortly because you're satisfying the addiction but at the general level you have more stress.

erichahn 5y ago
Withdraw shrinks in only when you use tabacco regularly. It is not the drug that is the problem but how you used / abused it.
- Grimm1 5y ago
  Then you get no relief when smoking, it's literally a stimulant.
  - erichahn 5y ago
    It is both. A stimulant and a sedative (dumb categories).
    - Grimm1 5y ago
      TIL and it's actually the fact that causes the seeking behavior which eventually forms the addiction. Epinephrine causes the kick and beta-endorphin the drop. Neat. I went and searched it up because I was curious and you surely are correct. Not sure why they're dumb categories though
      - gary_0 5y ago
        > Not sure why they're dumb categories though How can something stimulate and sedate at the same time? It's legacy nomenclature that has become counterintuitive. Like how electrons are negative and holes are positive.