Nicotine does have physically addictive properties as well as psychologically addictive properties.
However, neither of those aspects is as strong as people think they are.
It took me all of three days to stop smoking after 9 years and finishing at 2 packs a day.
I decided to stop, and then I stopped. I bought one pack of nicotine gum to help, and it helped a lot. I still chew gum to this day even though I quit cigs 18 years ago, but I only chew sugar free gum, not nicotine gum.
If you want to know what actual addiction is, then talk to someone who has been taking valium or xanax every day for years and cannot quit without facing a torturous death.
As far as why they are legalizing pot, I have a few theories. My first would be to say that people who smoke pot do not deserve to be in prison for smoking it or possessing it.
I’d also say that certain left wing powers realize that for whatever reason, the high of THC makes one more pliable to their left wing philosophies. I don’t know why that it is, but it is.
As far as why are they so active against cigarette smokers at the same time, they are utter shameless hypocrites who only want people doing what they want them to do, and nothing else.
I’d also say that certain left wing powers realize that for whatever reason, the high of THC makes one more pliable to their left wing philosophies.
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The rest of your commentary on this thread has been nothing short of intelligent and insightful.
And then you said the above.
There seems to be this fiction around here that only lefties smoke weed.
Fellow ex-smoker, quit 8 years ago after smoking 20. Started at age 12 and at the end was at a pack and a half to two a day. Quit cold turkey with the help of a rehab place (yes I found one called Hazelden that was giving financial help to those who wanted to do the smoking cessation program but couldn’t afford the thousands it was at normal price.)
It was for seven days and I came out a depressed human being with anxiety issues lol. Went to my doc and he prescribed a years worth of refills of the Nicotine gum. THAT is how I got hooked and chew it religiously to this day. It was made to be used for only 3 months, as you probably know.
Anyways, I do have to take an occasional Xanax at bedtime because of anxiety issues and always used it very sparingly because I did not want to become too reliant on it. Even then it was scary when I ran out and couldn’t sleep all night only because I KNEW I was out lol. The gals in my dr’s office aren’t too quick on getting refill requests responded to, they actually put a note up in the office now that it could take up to 72 hours.
My doc only prescribes me 20 at a time, low dose, with no refills (have to have the pharmacy request it.) I find it a comfort just to know it’s there if I need it.