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[Hawkin]

They make marajuana and other drugs illegal because it's a bad thing but they allow Cig smoking. I guess Lung Cancer
and COPD isn't that bad. Or maybe Uncle Sam likes that 100 billion a year on the taxes.

[St. Jimmy]

I agree with mxcx - it's a question of your will-power, actually. Friend of mine, heavily addicted to smoking, has quit just like that only with his power of will. My parents too. Surely, the stopping smoker must take abstinence syndrome into account, but personally I don't think it's that big deal.

[Habitat]

I wonder when the world will realise that smoking is caused by anxiety neurosis ( or whatever new name is currently in vogue for it ) You are tense, and nicotine relieves tension. But then when it wears off, you get a re-bound effect, you get tense and light up again. Any relief of tension will create a rebound when the agent that relieved the tension departs. Hence in the old movies where sex scenes were forbidden by the censor, the post-coital cigarette was a staple, you saw the couple light up, but not the preceding release of sexual tension, rebounding into the need for a ciggy. Could it be that sedatives are a possible help to cure smoking ?

[St. Jimmy]

I remember a certain type of chocolate was being used as a helping crutch.

[cerberusxp]

Ryegrog, on 01 July 2012 - 05:01 AM, said:

They make marajuana and other drugs illegal because it's a bad thing but they allow Cig smoking. I guess Lung Cancer
and COPD isn't that bad. Or maybe Uncle Sam likes that 100 billion a year on the taxes.

Look bottom line on your statement here. It's non of the Governments business what you put in your body.
How would this be, lets say the Government decides you have to eat broccoli or peanuts or starts prohibition on soda pop. Uncle Sam, quit sticking your nose up my rear.

The main reason nicotine is so hard to quit is it acts as a stimulant, or a relaxant, (releases endorphins) and helps with pain it just depends on ones mood and thought processes. I wonder if this "vaccine" eliminates pleasure period.

Edited by cerberusxp, 01 July 2012 - 07:04 AM.

[Hawkin]

cerberusxp, on 01 July 2012 - 06:54 AM, said:

Look bottom line on your statement here. It's non of the Governments business what you put in your body.
How would this be, lets say the Government decides you have to eat broccoli or peanuts or starts prohibition on soda pop. Uncle Sam, quit sticking your nose up my rear.

The main reason nicotine is so hard to quit is it acts as a stimulant, or a relaxant, (releases endorphins) and helps with pain it just depends on ones mood and thought processes. I wonder if this "vaccine" eliminates pleasure period.

I agree that the government should stay out of one's business. But they don't on everything.

[Hawkin]

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booNyzarC, on 01 July 2012 - 01:10 AM, said:

Spoken like a true non-smoker.  

[booNyzarC]

I bet you think you're clever for that don't you?