Author Topic: Can you smoke without being addicted? (Read 6072 times)

Miseremini · « **Reply #5 on:** August 01, 2015, 09:05:57 PM »

I think you have to differentiate between addiction and habit. Many people say one when infact the other applies.

Consider the the following true circuмstances.

1. A 40 year smoker now smoking over 60 cigarettes a day moves to her parents home to look after a dying parent and is too busy and exhausted to smoke for three weeks.

Addiction or habit?

2. A man is hospitalized for a week who has smoked for over 50 years and presently smokes about a pack a day. During that time he never even thought about smoking. (He was conscious the whole time)

Addiciton or habit?

How many people automatically do something (smoke) every time they have a coke? Would you consider that an addiction or a habit?

As for not enjoying smoking after a break it's probably just that your taste buds became unaccustomed to it

Disputaciones · « **Reply #6 on:** August 01, 2015, 09:06:00 PM »

Quote from: Ladislaus

There were a number of years where I smoked about 2 cigarettes per week, only on Sunday afternoons.

You've never smoked more than that?

Disputaciones · « **Reply #7 on:** August 01, 2015, 09:16:03 PM »

Quote from: Miseremini

I think you have to differentiate between addiction and habit. Many people say one when infact the other applies.

Consider the the following true circuмstances.

1. A 40 year smoker now smoking over 60 cigarettes a day moves to her parents home to look after a dying parent and is too busy and exhausted to smoke for three weeks.

Addiction or habit?

2. A man is hospitalized for a week who has smoked for over 50 years and presently smokes about a pack a day. During that time he never even thought about smoking. (He was conscious the whole time)

Addiciton or habit?

Those are exaggerated amounts of cigarettes. That certainly would seem like addiction and a sure way to get cancer. I wouldn't even be able to take that much, or have the time. The most i had in mind were half a pack a day, or around 8 or 9.

Quote from: Miseremini

How many people automatically do something (smoke) every time they have a coke? Would you consider that an addiction or a habit?

Cocaine? What do you mean?

Quote from: Miseremini

As for not enjoying smoking after a break it's probably just that your taste buds became unaccustomed to it

I know many other people who have experienced the same and i have read about it too. They call cigarette smoking an "acquired habit", since you don't naturally or normally like it.

Iuvenalis · « **Reply #8 on:** August 01, 2015, 09:18:51 PM »

Pipe tobacco and cigars are quite different from cigarettes.

With pipe tobacco you're getting: tobacco.

With cigarettes you're getting pretty altered nicotine in free-base form, which hits you much faster and thus is more addictive.

The speed at which a drug acts is directly proportional to how addictive it is, and cigarettes have much more free base nicotine (absorbed much, much, much faster), about 35 times more free base nicotine than naturally occurs in tobacco.

Disputaciones · « **Reply #9 on:** August 01, 2015, 10:06:24 PM »

Quote from: Iuvenalis

Pipe tobacco and cigars are quite different from cigarettes.

With pipe tobacco you're getting: tobacco.

With cigarettes you're getting pretty altered nicotine in free-base form, which hits you much faster and thus is more addictive.

The speed at which a drug acts is directly proportional to how addictive it is, and cigarettes have much more free base nicotine (absorbed much, much, much faster), about 35 times more free base nicotine than naturally occurs in tobacco.

I said in a previous post that I was referring specifically to cigarettes.