Posted by alexandra_k on May 6, 2014, at 20:27:27
In reply to Re: Smoking increases mental illness risk??, posted by poser938 on May 6, 2014, at 17:14:12
they prescribe patches or gum rather than smoking as a nicotine delivery mechanism.
with respect to the other things...
it would be freaking complicated to say...
one would have to try them individually and then together in varying combinations. one would need to experiment with different dosages because pretty everything ranges from 'no effect' at low enough dose' to 'kills ya' at high enough. one would need to test particular tasks... and / or to do longitudinal studies...
i suspect there is something else chemically active in cigarettes that helped medicate me. i was informed about a person who managed to quit smoking by replacing cigarettes with the gum. as in... they would cut up the nicotine gum into 6 squares and have a square every time they would normally have a cigarette. make their cuppa and go hang with the smokers even and chew while hanging out with them. i thought that that seemed possible for me in a way that simply quitting did not.
it was freaking hard to quit smoking. not hard to quit the gum. it could be that i never managed to get a comperable dose sorted out but i really don't think that was it. it could be psychological but i don't think that was it, either.
there are people around here who have pretty cool looking vaporisers and they use them a lot more like... how one would smoke a pipe. they seem to find that more of an actual substitution. i've never tried it, though, so i don't know.
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