It is...was a pesticide for sometime. It’s also, highly addictive. I know because I just about lost my mind and several friends quitting cold turkey 25 years ago. Then got myself hooked on chew 10 years after quitting smoking. Getting off the chew was harder than the cigs! Nicotine f’s up your brain and dopamine receptors big-time and it takes a while to recover one you stop using. Each time I got hooked on nicotine I didn’t continue to smoke or chew because it was so pleasurable. I did it not to go through withdrawal. Anyone who says they do NOT get physical and mental withdrawals is lying. That being said, I couldn’t care less if people want to use nicotine, alcohol, pot, heroin or whatever. I just don’t understand why a person would want to be a slave, an addict, to any drug...legal or not.
Funny, I quit smoking again 6 months ago. Cold turkey. I’d been smoking for the last 7 years, after having quit for 11 years before that.
I am not a liar and don’t appreciate being called one by a complete stranger.
I am one of those folks who smokes like a chimney (between 2 and 4 packs a day, right down to the filter), but when I decide to drop the weed, I do so. No whining, no drama, no problem.
That you have a weak addictive personality isn’t my issue and I feel badly for you that such troubles haunt your psyche, but your calling me names *IS* a bit of an issue.
Your demons are your own. Don’t push them on others.