• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You where trying to break a physical habit. Nicotine is not a super addictive drug. It's why pipe and cigar smokers aren't addicted to smoking. Most of us quit in the winter months with no issues because we've not created a habit of smoking 5 cigars a day. It's the same reason vaping has such a good track record of getting people to stop smoking and then quitting vaping, were the drugs the pharma companies sell that are NRT like patches and pills have like a %10 success rate and people relapse to the sticks constantly, even though they're getting the same or more amount of nicotine from the patch or drug than from cigs.

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      1 year ago

      I broke my addiction to nicotine, which is indeed very addictive. Not sure what your half-truths really are good for.

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      1 year ago

      I am having real difficulties deciphering your comment… the reason pipe and cigar smokers have an easier time quitting is due to lower intake of nicotine because it's generally a more casual habit. Vapers tend to vape as often or more often than smokers smoke… and vaping is, itself, highly addictive. Your comment is full of quite a few logical statements tied together with giant unsubstantiated leaps of faith.

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        1 year ago

        If you think cigars have lower amounts of nicotine in them vs cigs…I got bad news for you. Most cig smokers get sick from cigars. Snus and nasal snuff also carry a lot of nicotine in them, but easy to stop as well.

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          1 year ago

          I don't think that pipe tobacco or cigars are inherently more healthy… but most consumers smoke significantly less frequently than cigarettes. I agree that smoking twelve cigars a day is definitely worse than twelve cigarettes… I'm not familiar enough to know anything more precise than that though.