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Could boredom lead to smoking?
Could boredom lead to smoking?
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Can boredom lead to smoking?
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Only if you're bored enough to light yourself on fire 
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Actually, I worked somewhere where there was lots of downtime between sections of time where we were really busy. People who didn't smoke when they started working there ended up smokers before they left. It was something to do to pass the time. I know a lot of military guys who started the same way, lots of time standing around with nothing to do but try to stay awake. I think it only happens though if you're bored and around a smoker, eventually you try a cig just for something to do.
. Actually, I worked somewhere where there was lots of downtime between sections of time where we were really busy. People who didn't smoke when they started working there ended up smokers before they left. It was something to do to pass the time. I know a lot of military guys who started the same way, lots of time standing around with nothing to do but try to stay awake. I think it only happens though if you're bored and around a smoker, eventually you try a cig just for something to do.
Abso-freakin'-lutely! Waiting and smoking go hand in hand on this end.
An aside -- I found myself smoking when I COULD smoke, not so much when I wanted to. Dig? vaping has changed that. I vape when I get the urge, wherever I am -- even stealthily on a NYC subway train. Yet, I still vape less than I smoked...
I agree. I find that I smoke (smoked) far more when bored. I periodiacally take business trips that involve long drives and nights in hotel rooms. I easily smoked twice my normal rate there. Boredom is a major contributor to smoking.
I noticed years ago, when smoking in buildings was outlawed, that I would light up whenever I left a building. Even if I was in it briefly.
Of course, I think I vape more than I smoked, but I enjoy it more!!
Certainly, boredom can also lead to excessive drinking.
I smoked for 30+ years and was a drunk for 14. Been sober 18 1/2 years and as far as smoking - see the sig!
i think the real question should be. can smoking lead to boredom? why yes,yes it can.
No doubt in my mind that it leads to smoking. A few years back I had started divorce proceeding against my exwife and I had just recently had a spine fusion surgery and was off work recuperating and had quit smoking tobacco with the help of nicotrol inhalers and I was really jazzed and staying with it. Then it came time to drive across the country to return home to Michigan while fighting for both my soc sec benefits, custody of my child, and the divorce. Not a recommended move, I was back on tobacco before I even got out of Idaho!
Absolutely. Smoking is a two-headed, seemingly contradictory beast. It relaxes and it stimulates. Seems impossible, but that's what smoking does via manipulation of the brain to produce or increase chemicals associated with those conditions.
A bored person smokes for stimulation. An agitated person smokes for relaxation. Each achieves the desired result.
Either condition can increase smoking, or pull an ex-smoker back to cigarettes.
I eagerly await tests that show what inhaling our e-liquid nicotine cocktail does to our brains. I don't know, to tell you the truth. Something IS missing, however. E-smoking is not smoking. Something essential is missing, revealed in how we feel after e-smoking for awhile.
My hunch is that our e-liquid does not both stimulate and relax the way smoking does. (I'd love to see brain scans after smoking and after vaping!) Find the chemical in tobacco smoke that does that trick, put it in e-liquid, and we can all settle back for some stimulation when bored, relaxation when excited.
A bored person smokes for stimulation. An agitated person smokes for relaxation. Each achieves the desired result.
Either condition can increase smoking, or pull an ex-smoker back to cigarettes.
I eagerly await tests that show what inhaling our e-liquid nicotine cocktail does to our brains. I don't know, to tell you the truth. Something IS missing, however. E-smoking is not smoking. Something essential is missing, revealed in how we feel after e-smoking for awhile.
My hunch is that our e-liquid does not both stimulate and relax the way smoking does. (I'd love to see brain scans after smoking and after vaping!) Find the chemical in tobacco smoke that does that trick, put it in e-liquid, and we can all settle back for some stimulation when bored, relaxation when excited.
That is exactly what i have been thinking for a couple of months. There IS something missing. I don't know what it is exactly but the "stimulation when bored, relaxation when excited" is definetely missing. All i have done after vaping is to have stopped the craving for Nicotine. Nothing else.
I do not "Enjoy" it the same way i Enjoyed a Cigarette.
100% yes haha for me it was when I drove as I would just chain smoke while driving even if I didn't really want an analog I would just light one up for something to do during my hour ride to and from picking my brother up from his practice and basically any ride so I would be smoking most every minute I was in a car haha but yea now that I'm vaping I've been vaping while driving regularly but much less often during the ride like I would vape maybe 10ish drags on a 15 min car ride compared to 2 analogs previously
I must have been missing something when smoking. Like today my boss ...... me off so I just pulled out my e-cig took a few puffs and it relaxed me. Then when driving I'll take a few puffs on it but mostly just hold it or mouth it lol.
EDIT: Though I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't do everything traditional smoking does considering it is MISSING 4000+ chemicals lol.
To make people better understand my life I will explain. I am a very bored person. My whole family is married, has kids. I am single. I feel like I am lagging behind in the married department and kids. I do want a family someday. I feel like I have nothing going for me in life. I am a musician and want to become famous someday. I do nothing about it. So I just sit at home, go to work and come home. I also hang out with my friends too and go to family functions. My brother and sister did at one point in their life smoke. That's probably why I got the ecig. That plays a big part. So yes, I am a very bored person. I'm waiting for my life to begin.
All of your responses has helped me. Thank you.
All of your responses has helped me. Thank you.
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