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Medical Forum / General / General / February 2007Myth of nicotine addiction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoking . So I was standing in market with fresh vegetables around me. Doctors advice that eating fresh vegetables is good for health. I was hungry and I had money in my pocket. Why I was standing still there? That was moment of truth. I was feeling inside to go to restaurant and eat same food which everyone in this town, country or world eat everyday. I was feeling urge, craving inside to eat regular food. And I discovered that exactly same feeling arise inside me when I try to quit smoking. But that so called 'withdrawal sympton' is related to nicotine addiction. What reason you or scientists are going to give for urge, craving to eat regular food? If you don't believe me, I challenge you to quit eating your regular food and eat just vegetables everyday. Don't add anything spicy to it. Just washed or boiled vegetables. You will find that 'addiction of nicotine' is just plain wrong. Such thing does not exist. Obviously it does not mean that smoking is good for health. I just want to bust myth of so called 'nicotine addiction'. I repeat again, try eating just vegetables everyday and nothing else. It is good for health. What is stopping you? Get real. Eat sh.t. See what that does for you. Report back. Bill S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoking > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Get real. > Eat sh.t. See what that does for you. Report back. > > Bill S. RFLMAO! Thanks Bill for the first good laugh of the day. > Eat sh.t. See what that does for you. Report back. > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > > Get real. Perhaps the term "habit forming" would more accurately fit tobacco or unhealthy food. I find it even more difficult to quit a major food group or caffeine , than tobacco. So if I really "get real" and quit smoking , I won't die from anything. Suffering from terminal living, Jamffer Per Ghamph: >Perhaps the term "habit forming" would more accurately fit tobacco or >unhealthy food. I find it even more difficult to quit a major food group or >caffeine , than tobacco. My suspicion is that different people have different potentials for nicotine addiction. While for most the addiction is very strong, a few are lucky. Note my other post citing the Synanon groups opinion that quitting heroin was easier than quitting nicotine. Having said that, I smoked about a pack a night during a couple of my college years. Dunno if it was the half-gallon of wine coolers that went with it (state-dependent addiction?) or what... but one day I was riding my motorbike down to school with this awful taste in my mouth from the nite before and I said "geeze, I don't want to do this anymore" and that was the end of it. No cravings, nothing.... If I were even a little bit addicted I think I'd be smoking to this day - not having the willpower to even lose the 10-15 pounds that I really ought to lose.... My late brother, OTOH, was a person of very strong will. He was unable to quit smoking even though he knew it was going to be a factor in his premature death. Ditto my dad - major-league business exec, massive willpower... died coughing his brains out, unable to quit.  SignaturePeteCresswell > Per Ghamph: > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > -- > PeteCresswell It is becoming a common belief that strength of addiction has to do with the amount of receptor proteins on cell bodies. The more receptors you have for that addictive material, the more intense "withdrawl" symptoms you will have. Your father and brothers addictions probably had less to do with will power and more to do with biology. > Per Ghamph: > >Perhaps the term "habit forming" would more accurately fit tobacco or [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Ditto my dad - major-league business exec, massive willpower... died coughing > his brains out, unable to quit. Well Pete , you are totally right. In 1980 when I quit for sixteen years , it was comparatively easy. The time before last I went for eight months with ease. But there have been many other times when I only made it a day , or only a few days. I think that many factors can enter into the quitting process. Things that are "triggers" for example. Things like watching my brother in law smoke his pipe through the hole in his neck , because the doc. give him three months to live. You're fortunate to have the common sense that you. Jamffer > Eat sh.t. See what that does for you. Report back. > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > > Get real. For someone who would advocate comparing quitting spices to tobacco , they would need to be justifying their own tobacco habit. The word fool is a four letter word , so I'll just say that you're a delusional deface. Jamffer
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