This gets a bit more complicated. Depression is a life threatening thing which can kill you right now: And when you trigger it, it´s not just a question of having a nico hit and the depression goes away. I tried with snuff some weeks ago. Caused myself a collosal headache, my pulse went somewhere I would not dare to count, and the depression basically remained intact.
They say "never have another puff" or some other **it. Well I had "Puff" - snuff - and I did not feel any urge to start with nicotine again after that (actually it was sort of 3-day event). I still have the pack. Does not attract me at all. Just lies somewhere. Would have to search to find where exactly I put it.
What I meant to say is that
quitting can be dangerous - and those who profit from it never say so to their victims. If a person is a healthy smoker/user, I would say quitting represents unreasonable risk to his/her life. Yup, I can go to the good doctor who tells me it was a good, brave thing to do, and that I was a very sensible person understanding that this move had to be done sooner than later, blah blah blah... And gives me prescription to Diazepam. Now, this is what I call a really beautiful swap: Nicotine for a debilitating, heavily addictive psycho drug which makes you feel like a zombie after a relatively short time. Wow!
I would rather have the heartburn, thank you.
The upper side is that it is getting better. Incredibly slowly, but it does. As soon as I lose my growing addiction to benzodiazepines, which is OK and heatlhy, because it was prescribed by doctor instead of some bad tobacco firm, I will be clean and happy.
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Sorry for the tone, sounding angry and off-topic and so on. It is just frustration speaking. I sould probably take it to the quitting forum... If I cared

And I made a mistake. It is
Oliver Twist rolls. I got the characters mixed up.