Jump to content

Is Nicotine Happiness?


Angeleek
 Share

Recommended Posts

I've been reading scary statistics about teen vaping lately, such as approximately 25%  of middleschoolers in the US are vaping. Wow.

 

If the anti-smoking campaign has reduced US adult smoking down to approx. 14%, from 40ish % in the 1950s, but teen vaping is now skyrocketing, what does this tell us about nicotine, and the anti-smoking campaign the first world has been engaged in all these decades?

 

Does it mean we're spreading the wrong message by saying Smoking kills? Should it be Nicotine kills? Nicotine is the enemy? You can be happy without nicotine? No nicotine needed? Nicotine steals your happiness?

 

Is nicotine happiness?

 

Are our youth so depreased they need a super rush of nicotine...or is it just fun?

 

For me, as a kid, it was fun. Until nicotine stole my happiness, and made me an addict.

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

This is true. It's not marked as the drug it is because it's legal and sold in low doses. When I was first quitting, the thing that really got me was learning about how nicotine had changed my brain; nicotine receptors, how it's an antagonist.  

1 hour ago, Angeleek said:

Until nicotine stole my happiness, and made me an addict.

This is exactly what it does. Looks like you're writing your first commercial 👍

  • Like 2
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

14 hours ago, Angeleek said:

Is nicotine happiness?

 

nicotine: a poisonous alkaloid C10H14Nthat is the chief active principle of tobacco and is used as an insecticide

 

happiness: (a) a state of well being and contentment (b) a pleasurable or satisfying experience 

 

It took some mental gymnastics for us to ever draw a connection between those two definitions.  Self-delusion is a major component of addiction.

  • Like 4
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Restore formatting

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

 Share

About us

QuitTrain®, a quit smoking support community, was created by former smokers who have a deep desire to help people quit smoking and to help keep those quits intact.  This place should be a safe haven to escape the daily grind and focus on protecting our quits.  We don't believe that there is a "one size fits all" approach when it comes to quitting smoking.  Each of us has our own unique set of circumstances which contributes to how we go about quitting and more importantly, how we keep our quits.

 

Our Message Board Guidelines

Get in touch

Follow us

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Guidelines

Please Sign In or Sign Up