XPost: rec.drugs.cannabis, uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   XPost: uk.rec.drugs.cannabis   
   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article <7d9i61F2a629cU1@mid.individual.net> Blah  writes:   
   >sobriquet wrote:   
      
   >>> - Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht weergeven -   
      
   >> Well, I'm glad anyway that I quit tobacco over 10 years go thanks to   
   >> cannabis (smoking cannabis as a substitute instead of tobacco).   
   >> Nicotine craving sure sucks.   
      
   >Nicotine addiction is a illusion - you missed your *habit*..   
      
   Sorry, but nicotine addiction is a real problem.  Not everyone gets addicted,   
   though.  However, a higher percentage of tobacco users become addicted than   
   heroin users.   
      
   I assume you do believe heroin is addictive, no?  However, the majority of   
   GIs who used heroin in Viet Nam during that war kicked with no problem when   
   returning to the states.  A large minority, however, did remain addicted.   
      
   >I gave my 40 a day 'addiction' after one session with a hypnotist whose   
   >message was 'its a habit not an addiction, break the habit by doing x y z'   
      
   Well good for you.  However, that doesn't prove it is not addicting to   
   others.  I smoked cigarettes (and other forms of tobacco) for several years   
   in my late teens and early twenties.  However, I could never get myself to   
   smoke more than half-a-pack a week, and when I started coughing more than I   
   liked I quit.  But I don't assume from my experience that everyone else is   
   the same.  My dad tried to quit many times during his adult life and was   
   never successful.   
      
   >Been off 5 years now without a relapse after 20 years of years of 'on',   
   >month or to 'off'   
      
   Been off for over thirty years but I still get cravings for a cigarette when   
   playing poker.   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
   "Heuristics are bug ridden by definition.  If they didn't have bugs,   
    then they'd be algorithms."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)