I have been smoking 5 or so cigerettes every friday night for the last 2 years, when i am out nightclubbing or on a bar spree , i do not crave them during the week and only smoke em if someones offers me on the friday.
have i unlocked life ?
Puff puff and don't pass
I did cocaine once, years ago. It must not be addictive.
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There are many levels of addiction, there are many reasons for addiction, and it's usually layered between physical and physiological, even esoteric.
Five cigarettes one day a week might not be enough to create an addiction - however, perhaps you sleep unusually long the next day, so by the time you are awake, the craving has become mild enough that you can be 'over' it, and not need more cigarettes until next week.
It could also be that you secretly crave them all week, but because you know you are going to get them friday, you can endure, and as it's very mild, considering it's only five cigarettes, you don't think of it as 'addiction'. What would happen if you deliberately DIDN'T smoke for a month? Would you be able to not smoke for a month?
In any case, that's how it often starts with people - they 'only smoke when drunk', and they CAN keep this habit going on for a LONG time.
Five cigs aren't enough to accumulate or build some kind of strong addiction, because your body starts to cleanse itself immediately, it starts to process all the poisons once you stop inhaling the smoke, so every week, your body has repaired itself, so there's no addiction.
Try smoking five cigarettes every day for a month, and tell me you have no problem staying away from cigs for the next month. (NOTE: I don't condone anyone smoking cigarettes at all)
There is also the possibility that you do not know how to smoke properly, and you waste most of it by not even inhaling, or blow out most of the smoke before inhaling. The cigs could be extremely mild variation. You might not smoke them fully.
There might be something in our life habits or substances you ingest that balance it out or compensate. Perhaps you are on meds or do drugs, or have strong emotional life.
Addiction can become much stronger if the life situation is miserable, the cigarette becomes a crutch, something to lean on when everything else is bad. If you have a balanced, good life, addiction doesn't happen.
Now, cigarettes are physically addicting (probably better word), you can actually smoke quite a long time without realizing you are addicted, and you can also smoke quite a long time BEFORE you become addicted. There are so many variations and factors, some people might become addicted after a few days of smoking, others can smoke months every day and not become addicted.
Addiction is more than the physical craving, and you can mistake that for something else anyway.
If you get some kind of 'joy' out of smoking, it's more probable that it becomes addicting. If you smoke after dinner, that becomes a habit, and that can add to the addiction factor.
I noticed that at certain times, I could 'quit' smoking without the usual craving symptoms. With meditation and such, those symptoms didn't practically even exist, but I wouldn't use that experience to claim cigarettes are not addicting.
I am not sure nicotine itself is the addicting factor; has anyone ever tried smoking cigarettes that contain NOTHING but nicotine?
Usually those things contain thousands of chemicals, designed to be addicting.
If a cigarette gives you a 'release' or 'joy', that you don't normally get any other way, you could say it's addicting, you start psychologically craving for that 'joy' or 'release'. Maybe cigarettes are the only 'joy' you get in life - in that situation, breaking the habit would be indeed difficult.