I’ve never smoked, but I’ve been around people that do. What do people feel during/after smoking? It doesn’t seem to make people high or hallucinate or anything. It maybe mildly relaxes them?
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There’s a mild light-headed “high” when you start.
It surpresses appetite (at first).
It can help make “going to the bathroom” easier.
It pairs well with coffee, marijuana, and alcohol.
In social or work situations, it’s a way to get 5 minutes to yourself, or at least break off to a smaller group with just the smokers.
Due to the addiction it’s a constant vicious cycle of cravings -> appeasement. It’s terrible for you and costs a fortune. Prices have doubled in the last 10 years in my area. Besides the cost of your health which has always been high.
Nicotine creates a temporary feeling of well-being and relaxation, and increases heart rate and the amount of oxygen the heart uses. As nicotine enters the body, it causes a surge of endorphins, which are chemicals that help to relieve stress and pain and improve mood.
After you’ve experienced all the above, it’s incredibly difficult to stop. Never start smoking!
In retrospect it’s amazing how the nicotine addiction causes you to accept hocking up giant wads of brownish-black phlegm every morning as entirely normal.
I feel extremely lucky that smoking only seems to give me anxiety.
Huh. TIL
Only thing nicotine ever made me feel was lightheaded
Who are you the Marlboro Man? Nothing you wrote is correct at all. You don’t get any feeling other than nicotine withdrawal. Relieving the nicotine withdrawal will of course feel good but if you never had any nicotine in your body to begin with, nicotine does nothing to make you feel good. It does not cause a surge of endorphins. For sure it makes your heart rate go up, because it contracts your blood veins, but that’s not good either…
Nicotine feels great. It’s why I still crave it after giving it up a while back. Everything else involved is horrible but there’s a reason people get hooked to begin with.
I’m going to disagree with you on that. Prior to smoking cigarettes I would have a cigar every couple months. This wasn’t nearly enough to develop dependency, but I could feel a sense of well-being and relaxation when I had one.
Back when I did smoke I only ever really got that feeling from the first cigarette of the day, which is probably why I didn’t have trouble quitting.
I progressed from cigars to cigarettes and that effect eventually got replaced by a more basic feeling of satiating a craving.
Same. What @willya@lemmyf.uk said (temporary feeling of well-being and relaxation, stress relief, improved mood) describes rather well how it felt back then for me.
No but my dad let me redeem his Marlboro miles when I was a kid.
I have a folding bike that was originally meant to be part of a Marlsboro rewards program. Apparently smokers weren’t all that interested in exercise. Who knew?
I would get a slight buzz if it had been a while since my last cigarette, but otherwise it was a satisfying of cravings. It’s been about 10 years and I still miss being able to smoke a cigarette during or after stressful situations, such as watching sports.
It’s kind of like sleep. If you get enough sleep, you don’t necessarily feel good, just normal. If you don’t get enough sleep, you feel bad. If you regularly don’t get enough sleep, you might think getting enough sleep feels good, because you’re so used to feeling bad and you have something to compare it to. If you’re currently in a state of being tired, it feels good to lie down and go to sleep.
The act of smoking is like waking up and snoozing your alarm and going back to sleep. It feels good to go back to sleep, but only because you’re tired and you’re satisfying that need. Someone who sets their alarm early on purpose in order to get that “go back to sleep” feeling when they snooze might seem crazy to people who just get enough sleep. And, like smoking, it might piss off the people around you because they have to listen to your alarm go off constantly.
The “high” is about as noticable as caffeine.
Mostly it just gives you a sort of proverbial itch for the rest of your life that’s nice to scratch.
The two things I actually gained from it are that I appreciated the weather more, and I understand a smoking addiction.
It’s not worth carrying around the craving for a decade after you quit. And waking up with cigarette smoke in your sinuses was the absolute worst.
This is a great description of nicotine addiction (I’m a vaper, but have smoked). I’d highly recommend anyone who’s considering it to not bother even if you’re impulsive and having a stressful time. Imagine adding another biological need like sleeping to your plate when after a few months all it’ll do for you is allow you to stop thinking about it for a bit. No more buzz. Just cravings and knowing where the exits are.
It makes me not want a cigarette for a while.
Nothing good.
Source: was a smoker for 35 years. Quit last year.
Hey, congrats. I’ve been a smoker for 20 years, and I’m getting sick of it. I hope I can quit soon.
You absolutely can! What helped me immensely was Wellbutrin. Was on it for about 2 months. NO cravings at all. That shit is like magic!
Interesting. I’ve been on Wellbutrin before with no results; maybe I’ll look into it again. Thanks for the vote of confidence.
There is also Chantix/Champex depending on your country. I found it to be extremely effective in turning me off of cigarettes. It made me nauseous and I think it changed how my brain felt about cigarettes until they disgusted me.
I have heard a couple people say the same thing about Chantix. Sounds like it kinda Pavlovs you into hating cigarettes. I’d be down for it.
The feeling of taking a drag of a cigarette when you’re craving is unequal to any pleasure I’ve had in my life. Of course that’s due to the addiction, and I don’t recommend anyone smoke. But gott damn, it is bliss.
Fortunately I no longer need to smoke usually. But the second I drink the first sip of my beer, the craving hits very hard. Then I give myself in, and it’s so, so goddamn good I cannot even describe it. Fuck smoking. A hate that I love it when I drink.
What does cigarette smoking do for people?
Gives them an assortment of cancers with a side of breathing and cardio issues.
When you first start it can relieve stress and be relaxing, but that is a trap. Those effects will fade and what will be left is a habit. A habit that your brain will do some pretty large mental gymnastics to justify.
With a hidey lidey lidey and a hidey lidey lay We work and we make cigarettes all hidey lidey day So folks can get a breaky from their stressful lidey lives And relaxy with the cigarettes we make all day and night
I like to have a cigarette every now and then It makes me feel calmer when the day is at an end.
And if it gives me cancer when I’m eighty I don’t care Who the hell wants to be ninety anyway?
So with a hidey lidey lidey and a hidey lidey lay We work and we make cigarettes all hidey lidey day So folks can get a breaky from their stressful lidey lives And relaxy with the cigarettes we make all day and night
Most of the smokers I’ve known don’t even get close to 80, and are often very sickly when they do. Two family members that didn’t make it to 60. A healthy looking co-worker who dropped dead in the parking lot. A former boss who didn’t get to enjoy more than two years retirement.
Cigarettes are the only consumer product that, when used as directed, kill their consumers.
It reduces anxiety and suppresses appetite. It satisfied both oral and digital fixations. It looks and feels cool as hell.
Now, all that is more than overcome by the significant downsides, mind.
I have an RDA mod that I hit on occasion, although it seems like everybody just uses disposables now
may feel cool as hell, definitely doesn’t look it though. Looks like poor self control and dumbness.
Looks like yellow fingers and grey complexion.
Being a smoker looks awful. Not the same thing at all.
It works as an appetite suppressants
It does or is one of those myths created by the tobacco industry to market cigarette consumption with women?
It did supress my appetite during the first year or so, but after that the effect wore off.
I could go until the late afternoon without eating with the power of nicotine. I would say it’s about the same as coffee but you can smoke more frequently than you can drink coffee (usually).
Like other stimulant drugs (including caffeine and amphetamines), nicotine suppresses some of the signals your body uses to register being hungry.
It satisfies the craving for nicotine, if they’re already dependent on it. Others need a smoke to poop.
I don’t get why there are so many pro-nicotine people here. I guess they have to defend their addiction?
If you try nicotine for the first time, you will feel dizzy and sick. But you will start to crave more nicotine. When you redeem that craving you will feel “good”. But that “good” is actually just feeling normal. Think of it as if you put on too tight shoes, walked around with them, and then took them of again for a little while and then put them back on.
I smoked and used other nicotine products for 10 years, but after learning the truth about nicotine it was easy to quit. It’s a very pointless drug but also very lucrative for those selling it…
I didn’t see much in the way of pro-nicotine comments. People just answered the question about what they got out of it. Most also said it was a terrible habit.
Your experience with it being easy to quit doesn’t seem to be typical, but it was great that it worked out that way.
Because lying to people doesn’t make them want to avoid smoking. The best antidote is telling them the whole truth, “good” and bad.
The DARE program didn’t work.
I think the main reason it helps people reduce stress is they have to leave a situation to go outside or to another room in order to smoke and they’re taking a deep breath. I found the feeling of breathing in the smoke (throat hit I believe it’s called) and then breathing it out and seeing the smoke cloud very satisfying. Similar to chewing gum I suppose. Also, I rolled my own filter-less cigs so I had the added element of rolling it and picking out strands of tobacco hanging out of the end whilst smoking as a kind of fidget action. I prefer vaping now and don’t think I’d go back to smoking cigarettes regularly but I have started smoking a cigar with a beer some weekends just in the last few months. As some have stated the actual feeling from the nicotine is similar to caffeine but more short lived.
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