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"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 st
by 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 agoWithdraw 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 agoThen you get no relief when smoking, it's literally a stimulant.
- erichahn 5y agoIt is both. A stimulant and a sedative (dumb categories).
- Grimm1 5y agoTIL 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.
- Grimm1 5y agoI mean it effects two separate systems that produce chemicals that cause different effects, one stimulates, and one sedates/depresses. It's not like the nicotine itself is doing both.
- bserge 5y agoSame thing goes for caffeine, alcohol, and many other drugs.