indonesia traditional tobacco!

 

Yes weed to make music because I like the feel and inspiration she give me.

 

only pot but for the past 2 months not even that

 

is "real medice" real? I do know it is a big business.

 

I have no urge to smoke tobacco anymore but I would love to smoke the odd weak grass/hash spliff now and then.

But in my part of the world all you can now get is illegal super strong skunk. That shit ruined my relationship with marijuana.

 

I did for about 60 years - but not too much (average 5 cigarettes/day). Quit in 2018 due to breathing issues. And I guess it was Mark Twain who knew "to give up smoking is really easy, I know because I did it more than 50 times ..."

 

Oh yeah, "Big Pharma" and all that for sure.
It's like a big dog and we need the strong arm of government to help hold the chain, so to speak, as we do for many industries.
But it's better to at least know the dog.
Alternative medicine is like a wild wolf, and if you want to think "big business":
(Some old data, but first up on Google - I'd expect even more today)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...rd-of-the-treatments-have-been-tested-879411/

Big difference is that "Big Alt Med" is mostly ineffective and can delay or interfere with proper treatment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_medicine

When ALT MED comes in bottles and packages the effects are sometimes harmful due to poor quality & dosage control.
While erratic dosage is a problem, the larger problem is foreign matter in the mix, and too frequently of dangerous materials and in toxic amounts.
Modern pharmaceutical producers are not perfect either, but at least they are monitored much better and have more to lose.

 

We all have endo-nicotine receptors in our nervous system. So this tobacco plant has hacked our systems, giving us a bomb of dopamine at our hands, thanks to this we will spread his seeds over the universe.
Like other plants and mushrooms. But Nicotine is the more adictive substance known by humans. So the problem is you take it more than necesary, become dependent, and later (million puffs later) makes you sick, I mean it kills you very slowly. There is a lot of diseases related with tabaquism. I have a love and hate relation with this particular plant, now i am clean. But In know if I take just one puff, I wiil be doing the old routines again.

Eating and smoking is not a good comparison. Smoking is not good at any levels. Maybe in rituals, or as a medicine in a very few cases.
About eating cow everyday, and making self experiments... Is not bad going to doctor, once a year, ask for blood analisys, to see how the diet is going. Not all humans are the same, not all cows are the same too.
My neighbour says, give vegetables to and old person to kill them.

I was ironic with this. What a magical drug that makes you relax, or activate depends on when you take it. Ironic again.

Nothing easy. Smoker is a neurotipical condition. If you have the pure convincement about quitting. Go to your doctor and ask for cytisine, and never look back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytisine
It came from Laburnum, a tree. So a plant that to your nervous system is near the other. But lets you to be free. Laburnum is R2R. Tobacco plant is iLok.

I tried and that's not tobacco IMO.

 

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yes, i was being ironic too. like who tf would believe that smoking cigarettes is good for your health?
after seeing all those black lungs of dead smokers in biology class...
is kinda hard to believe they're saying stuff like this in X

i love raw rolling papers, they're the best!

 

That whole platform is conspiracy central now. "Smoking is good for your health," is on the mild side of the bat-shit crazy that goes on there.

Indonesia and the entire Malay archipelago has a very developed and amazing kretek smoking culture. it is not any healthier but with all the spices, aromas, ageing and small artisans it is the epicenter of the high class connoisseur fine aromatic flavored tobacco and cigarette world.

 

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I was your usual nicotine addict: smoked for 15 years, quit and came back at it again quite a few times during that period, but then I finally quit for good. Been out of it for almost 7½ years, but I still feel cravings every once in a while. Thankfully they're usually very mild cravings.
One helluva drug those damn cigs.

 

i smoked opium twice when i was in my teens. I like the smell and everything else...
unfortunately or maybe not, China was a half a world away and it was merely happenstance and a war in south east asia that presented the opportunity to me.

 

90% of doctors who try Camels, go back to women...

 

cigars are a great way to keep mosquitos away, also works on people with good noses..
make your tongue taste like 40 miles of bad road... only cure is to wash it with scotch.

 

HELL NO I DONT!

 

Not anymore

 

Or you know... just wear bug spray

 

Weed, yes! Cigarettes, never!

 

Yes, rollies. It relaxes me. I've been keeping it under control for more than 30y and I don't count them, just always keep in mind that one leads to many and each one is one too much. So I've never done "packs". There's time and place for having a ciggie. Enjoy it. Same with "mary-jane".

I think this ability to keep things like smoking under control influenced my ability to keep off the social media, too. I usually recognise when something is influencing me in a bad way and just stop doing it. Except for alcohol... it tends to evaporate way too quickly in my vicinity. Glass? whoosh! gone. Bottle? whoosh! gone! What do I drink? Doesn't matter for as long as it contains ethanol! (I prefer red wine and ale or lager beer though)

The problem with strong drinks is they are too strong and I literally like to drink. Kinda like Dave Allen - the feeling of having a glass around, something to hold on to and slowly sipping it, is comforting. Yeah, maybe that. Perhaps counteracts my slight social anxiety. Same with fags. That fact makes it much harder to quit completely.

Back to thread about Pornhub.

 

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