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Does smoking have some positive effects?
Posted by irtiza104 • 12/09/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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i watched a program on Geographic a few months ago about smoking. there i heard them saying that smoking/nicotine has some positive effects. it is 'considered' that nicotine can be used as anti depressant. do you think that it's true?
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anti depressant? Cocaine, Drugs, wine are also known as anti depressant to people who like to have them -
To answer your question: depends what you're smoking...-
talking about nothing more than cigarettes...
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Nicotine might be anti depressant on a very short term. After that period, the depression comes back - so you need another cigarette ...and so on.
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that's what chain-smoking's for. works like a charm.
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yes, definitely. It compresses your life span, a little like Winzip but there is no extract button.-
nicely put. lol
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acousticguitarist , :)))
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hey, somebody got it.
i thought it was a great inspirational moment. I channeled dolphins to get an answer, they are very advanced my dolphin friends
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The positive effect is that it makes you feel good. Otherwise you would not do it because it is bad for your health. It is that animal in you saying yay, I want it. Kick back and enjoy. -
I have never heard any positive effect from smoking other than it (supposedly) relieves stress. But even this is a fallacy because nicotine is actually a stimulant and therefore, is a stimulant! -
nicotine improves concentration. and helps with anxiety attacks. makes me feel better when i am fucking pissed. love it.
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Actually, that is a fallacy that it helps anxiety. Nicotine is a stimulant and stimulants generally increase anxiety. The motion of smoking may relieve anxiety--but the nicotine itself is very counter-productive.
I used to smoke--and the best decision I ever made wa to quit.
I am a terrible reformed smoker!
Now put out your butts! There's a new sherriff in town! -
works for me.
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This is your lungs on smoke.
www.lungusa.org/atf/cf/%7B7A8D42C2-FCCA-4604-8ADE-7F5D5E762256%7D/dirty_lun... -
yes, i realize it's bad for me. i tend to do things that are stupid. it's a habit.
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Much like Ritalin calms down hyperactive children (when it would wind up a non hyperactive child) nicotine can help calm an anxious or adrenaline pumped person.
Same principle. -
mtyler, thanks for the pic. it's 'beautiful'
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Nicotine keeps me from brutally slaughtering people that tell me I need to quit smoking.
Why?
Because I don't go around people to smoke, people will walk 20 or so feet out of their way to come to the far end of the parking lot to tell me that second hand smoke is bad.
THEN GET OUT OF IT!? -
LOL Cris - I know, right!
I don't mind being asked to move if I've inadvertently invaded someone's space, but for goodness sake, when I've removed myself from people don't go out of your way to tell me I'm bothering you!
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Some studies have found that patients with Alzheimer's disease are more likely not to have smoked than the general population, the same is true of Parkinson's disease. However the risks of smoking obviously far outweigh these advantages.
thundercatt99.blogspot.com/
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Nicotine is a stimulant, and so can help you awake and focused or alert when need be, or help you concentrate.
Smoking also helps many a smoker calm down when they are upset.-
yes, i think that smoking (or the process) helps me to calm down.
but it's also true that smoking kills -
Hey, so do a lot of things. The biggest cause of death is life.
After losing some friends and family members (at various ages, due to various causes) and having other friends get very sick - I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things. (smoking, that is).
I've had healthy people succumb to cancer, and non healthy people die from car accidents, and lifelong smokers who never get cancer, and health fanatics who have intestinal problems, or die of brain tumors and so on and so forth.
It just goes to show that if you're going to get sick, you're going to get sick. Granted, abusing your body above and beyond won't help matters at all - but for the average person I think we are making a much larger fuss over stuff like this than we need to. -
i cant dissagree
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I thought it does...but I realise it kills
potatosaladrecipe.blogspot.com -
I am definitely not 'for' smoking, but I think the action of smoking can be quite a big crutch for people when they feel anxious... I have wondered in the past if there is a link between the deep intakes of breath and feeling calmer whilst having a cigarette. (Rather than the nicotene, or as well as).
I know someone who uses a cigarette in lieu of a paper bag - when she feels a panic attack coming on she lights up a cigarette, it slows her breathing and calms her down. -
The bad outweighs the good I'm sure. My friend's mom is dying from lung cancer, she was a smoker and quit a few years ago. I was a social smoker, only smoked when I drank, maybe 10 a week and I quit last month. It is not easy and I crave it, but I am happy I stopped. -
Yes, there is a positive effect to smoking...to your heirs. They get their inheritance quicker.-
hahaha...lol
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absolutely, like if the smoker is sean hannity and he's smokin' about 14 packs a day.
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lol....sean hannity....
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I dont think smoking have a positive effect. If we see the statistics at who website, many people died just because of smoking. 1 good things of smoking is nothing ^_^ haha
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