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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)are a friggin' joke.
The reason that kicking nicotine is hard is because it's AVAILABLE, LEGAL and CHEAP.
If you took a person who was addicted to cigs and heroin, involuntarily locked them up, and came to them 3 days in with a bag of dope and pack of cigs and said ... which one would you like?
I'm here to tell ya, from ... reasonably close personal experience ... that person is diving for that bag of heroin so fucking fast it'd make your head spin.
I suppose others might argue differently with some degree of reason, but to ME? That's the real test of 'what's more addictive'.
Cigs are really hard to quit because they're right there, they're not that costly, and you can't go to jail for using them. They don't totally fuck up your life like opioids do. It's not as OBVIOUS that smokes are ruining your life as it is with opioids.
Which frankly, opioids wouldn't do nearly as badly EITHER ... if you could just go down to the corner store and buy a days worth of Dilaudid for $8 ... but that's a different subject ...