Are you addicted to the nicotine in cigars?
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Before you read this, it might be a sensitive topic and poll, but your poll answers are anonymous.
I was teaching a lecture today on the chemistry of addiction of nicotine in the body after smoking tobacco and that got me thinking about cigars. Obviously, cigars do contain nicotine and nicotine is known to be addictive to humans. However, after smoking about 2 years, I still find that if I needed to quit, whether it be because of medical or other personal issues, I wouldn't have any problem. Just bomb them all to fellow BOTLs!
For example, this past summer I smoked over 100 sticks in 3 months, and this winter I maybe smoked 10 sticks in 4 months. I didn't experience the nicotine withdrawal symptoms that is common with cigarette smokers (Shaky hands, Fidgeting, etc.) Some people say that cigarette smokers ingest more nicotine on a daily basis and experience a more drastic withdrawal stage but 1 Churchill cigar is roughly equal 8-12 cigarettes. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the average cigar and cigarette smoker ingest the same amount of nicotine in a day.
But it is important to note during college semester, I am a weekly smoker in the sense that I smoke maybe 2-3 sticks a week because of work/college/other crap. So I am asking the regular cigar smokers that try to get a stick a day in, if they find themselves addicted to nicotine and can't go a day without a cigar.
I was teaching a lecture today on the chemistry of addiction of nicotine in the body after smoking tobacco and that got me thinking about cigars. Obviously, cigars do contain nicotine and nicotine is known to be addictive to humans. However, after smoking about 2 years, I still find that if I needed to quit, whether it be because of medical or other personal issues, I wouldn't have any problem. Just bomb them all to fellow BOTLs!
For example, this past summer I smoked over 100 sticks in 3 months, and this winter I maybe smoked 10 sticks in 4 months. I didn't experience the nicotine withdrawal symptoms that is common with cigarette smokers (Shaky hands, Fidgeting, etc.) Some people say that cigarette smokers ingest more nicotine on a daily basis and experience a more drastic withdrawal stage but 1 Churchill cigar is roughly equal 8-12 cigarettes. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the average cigar and cigarette smoker ingest the same amount of nicotine in a day.
But it is important to note during college semester, I am a weekly smoker in the sense that I smoke maybe 2-3 sticks a week because of work/college/other crap. So I am asking the regular cigar smokers that try to get a stick a day in, if they find themselves addicted to nicotine and can't go a day without a cigar.
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Are you addicted to the nicotine in cigars? 29 votes
Yes, I can't go a day or two without smoking.
17%
5 votes
Yes, I need to smoke at least once a week.
3%
1 vote
No, I could quit today if I had to.
79%
23 votes
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At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
I often go quite a bit of time between cigars. But look forward to my cigar time.
My wife has called it my mini vacation time. I like it when everyone is gone and I can sit back and enjoy a cigar.
Years ago when I got back into cigars, I would smoke 1 a day.
Over time, it became less and less.
Whether things going on, life happening or what ever, now it is quality over quantity.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Don't they add nicotine to cigarettes, aside from many other things. Nicotine is bitter I believe, you'd think they'd be working on that instead of adding more chemicals and flavors. We have de-caf coffee.
Or is it just you Ain't Spellin Dis?
I've read about the lower rate of Parkinsons, as well as it being a cure for Alzheimer's, a preventive for dementia, and, oddest of all, the lower incidence of a whole list of cancers other than lung. I wonder if anyone has put together a comprehensive list of all the maladies tobacco helps with. (Love to see the grant proposal for that project.) But I never heard of ASD.
On the whole, our zeitgeist suffers from Acronym Susceptibility Disorder.
IMHO
ASD--autism spectrum disorder, my flavor of it is 'high-functioning autism' for which I am grateful. Mostly affects social skills, inability to multi-task, sensory overload. After 60+ years I've learned to fake it and fit in with the neuro-typical pretty well, lol.
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/drugs-alcohol/nicotine-health-benefits.htm
I don't know if I could "quit if I had to", but I know that I could quit if I wanted to. Had to just rubs me wrong, and I'd probably find a way just because some d!ck told me I "had to".
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot. I will smoke anything, though.
"I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I have 3 healthy food groups. Caffeine, nicotine, and white sugar.
Don't get me wrong, I love to eat, but I need those three to function.
If anything they just want to put a very small tobacco tax on hand rolls. By dang that's our duty to pay taxes. We have entirely to much money and billions of people have less.. It's unfair.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...