Did someone insult me a couple pages back? I think so.
If anyone else here thinks they're smarter than me, then post a scientific link to a factor of addiction I did not name, or studies that disprove these factors: A. Chemical addiction. B. Chemical pleasure. C. Psychological pleasure (traditionalism, sexuality, social acceptance, self-harm, escapism), or D. Sensory pleasure.
I have all sorts of links backed up I'll be glad to post if anyone believes I'm either incorrect or oppositely not correct enough. I'm utterly tired of a bunch of nimwits who think that anything scientific is automatically troll material. I actually know a lot about psychology. I don't have to have a degree to be correct; I simply read the papers of people who do have degrees.
Now, concerning the processes of fixing addiction, there's techniques til the cows come home, but I believe the two main techniques that work are A. Realizing wether a person will do better with cold-turkey or slow-weaning techniques. and B. Not only taking the chemical addition away from someone, but introducing them to new activities and positive experiences that both distract their mind and cause a heightening of the outflow of, well, positive chemicals.
Sometimes receptors are plain fried, but they either usually heal over time or there's medications for that.
I now won't mention drugs or even the slightest hint of drugs on this forum, because even typing a color that is related to any drug seems to be against the rules (the moderators seem to have a specific motto of infracting me if I say "The clouds in the sky are white." simply because the color white relates to a number of drugs out there.), but I'll say that if someone is addicting to playing basketball, and that basketball were to be poisonous, but that the person does get a emotional benefit from the act of playing basketball, then one needs to think logically and say "Okay, what's better, giving the person a non-toxic basketball or telling them they can never play basketball again?"
For me, I don't know what I'd do if I could never inhale smoke or vapor again - it's getting to a point I can no longer inhale smoke because of health issues. But smoking is a big part of my life, I physically enjoy inhaling vapor and doing vapor tricks and things, and being able to experience flavors without eating unhealthy foods. So I want to vape. I don't think I'm wrong by choosing that. I don't have to vape nicotine to be a real vaper. Tobacco doesn't even seem to have much nicotine in it - so are we telling all our ex-pipe smokers here not to vape?
Also, it's perfectly fine vaping to be nicotine replacement. You don't have to quit nicotine. Free country. That's the neat thing about vaping. You can do whatever you want. You can build coils to help heighten the effect of nictone without so much being delivered. You can vape a small amount of it. You can do whatever you want. I think vaping is utterly a positive thing. It can be for nicotine addicts, it can be for smoking addicts, it can be for people who have previously enjoyed pipe tobacco or hookah, it can simply be a new trend for all I care. It's better than smoking, all the way around. I'd even say, in the right set up and right juice, there may not even be health risks at all.
0mg, organic FDA approved ingredients, USA sourced ingredients, a wick and coil and tank that has been cleaned, no contaminants... what could really be that unhealthy about it?
