my pot doc told me nicotine paralyzes the cilia in my lungs, preventing them from clearing themselves.
MotherF%^&
[EDIT: googling shows cotinine, nicotine's main matabolite, is associated with reducing cilia activity, but since nicotine makes them go faster, the jury's out, but many long time smokers say they have no cilia activity even after quiting for years...I wonder, but i'm not taking any chances, what...? 1000 people a day die in the US from Cigarettes, YOW!]
so by that logic I can't even vaporize tobacco, and get any benefit from vaping my herb that is, so i'm on lozenges now, and told my neighbor i quit a few weeks early to show support for her Mom, who's in Chemo for lung cancer.
intense cravings, but i think it's mostly because i'm still sucking lozenges, i quit last year after using cigs to lose weight and had no cravings for almost two months
i think there is some truth to the idea that if we do not accomplish the goals we set for ourselves, it is because the reasons were not big enough, so i tried to think of a good reason that resonates with me (this time it's the neighbor's Mom who's dying of Cancer - I told her I quit for her Mom, just to paint myself into a corner, and quit a few weeks before i ran out of tobacco). She's putting up with a greenhouse on my side of the fence, so it just seemed insensitive to keep puffing away on cigarettes while her Mom is dying, or at least that thinking gives me some emotional charge, and that's what i need to keep on the straight and narrow.
good luck to anyone trying to quit, it's all in your head, but brain chemistry's powerfull stuff, don't let it run you, and i'll try to do the same!
