I am a casual smoker myself, one of my buddies who probably smokes more than I would, would tell me that he's never had a tolerance build up in his life. I am curious if many of you every had any tolerance buildups where you don't feel the usual buzz from having a cigarette.
(And please, dont lecture me on being addicted to smoking, because I am not. Sure I like to smoke my favorite brand but it doesn't mean I smoke all the time)
My remarks concern your statement as pertains to denying you're addicted to smoking. And that you are not.
Prove it to yourself.
Starting right now.
Determine for yourself that you are going to prove to yourself you are not addicted to cigarettes. Vow starting right now that you will not smoke from today forward and for a whole 7 days.
If you laugh at that suggestion, you're addicted.
Because the thought of going without the nicotine fix scares you on a visceral level.
If you take up the suggestion and fail, you're addicted.
This is because you are addicted. Your entire body has been saturated with the chemical of nicotine, which is an addictive substance.
When you stop smoking your body craves the fix. Just as in withdraw from any other addiction. Be it nicotine, food, alcohol, street drugs. The body has adjusted its physiology to include the "fuel" of the addictive substance and its recurring effects due to that chemical, be it food, alcohol, nicotine, even sex due to the endorphins that are released during orgasm.
When the body is denied what has become fuel for itself it craves a fix because the immune system, the lymph, all eliminatory organs start to excrete the byproducts of the addictive chemical(s).
They start to heal the body and restore the balance prior to the saturation episode. Be it having ocurred over days, as in binge drug users, alcoholism. Weeks, months, or years.
But in the process of that the body craves what it has become use to in order to function under the influence.
If you're not addicted to nicotine prove it.
Stop getting your fix of nicotine starting right now. And for seven days.
Have you ever seen someone die of lung cancer? Esophageal cancer? COPD? (Which killed actor Leonard "Spock" Nemoy. And he'd quit smoking years prior to the diagnosis)
I have.
Its ugly.
For everyone including the patient sufferer.