Shannon's DMSI V2.3 Journal

[Shannon]

Nicotine in itself isn't that bad, it depends on which form you take it. I tried those gums, didn't feel anything. E-cig I felt, but it tasted like low quality cigs.

False. Nicotine itself is terrible. It's just not a really difficult addiction to overcome.

I've managed to quit several times, and what I experienced proves that nicotine is not very addictive. I quit smoking cigs for about 4 months at my last job. The first 2 days was hell, after that I was okay. Then I started doing snus again, look it up, it's not really mainstream. They say it's highly addictive, not for me. I liked the sensation, but didn't crave it. Snus has high nocotine content.

You have managed to quit several times? Last time I checked, quit means to stop. You can't quit if you have stopped. So quitting several times means you paused and convinced yourself you quit, to make yourself feel better. If you had quit, you would be a lifelong nonsmoker. Nicotine is extremely addictive, and ANY will reset your addiction. No matter how self aware you are concerning it and how your particular physiology responds to it.

I also smoked hookah/waterpipe from time to time as a crutch. After smoking that thing for an hour, I had no desire to smoke it for another week. The tobacco (shisha) is high in nicotine.

Like I said, it's all the other shit they put in cigarettes that make them so addictive.

No, it's the nicotine. Everything else just enhances. Even the tobacco companies in their own science investigations knows that.

The baseline theory I have to agree with. But, it also depends. I find it more effective to smoke less cigs throughout the day, cause when the need is there and I fire one up, it puts me right where I need to be.

Killer first thing in the morning ritual. Mix one gram phenibut in water and drink it, then make a cup of coffee, sit outside in the sun with the coffee and a cigarette.

Smoking a cigarette doses your nicotine addiction. That puts you right back to baseline, where everyone else is normally.

You're a nicotine addict, and until you understand what's really going on, and realize how insidious nicotine really is, you always will be.