A Hail Mary toss of proposed tobacco regulation from the outgoing administration has the potential to make smoking nearly or totally nonaddictive, experts say.
Nicotine is not coffee, it is insanely addictive physically along with a mental addiction to the act of smoking.
But this isn’t just for people who want to quit, this is for all cigarettes.
So say this actually happens and a 50% reduction in nicotine. Smokers will smoke twice as many, getting twice the smoke. The carcinogens from the smoke is what’s giving people lung cancer, not the nicotine.
Less nicotine a cigarette = more cigs = more smoke = more negative health effects
Do you have data on this, or is it speculation? Because I would speculate that the majority of smokers would keep the habit the same and be weaned off nicotine, and only be habituated instead of addicted, making it much easier to kick.
Literally not how it works at all. The body knows the amount of nicotine it wants and the smoker will smoke until that “need” is fulfilled. Weaning off nicotine is easiest in tiny amounts over time, or a few weeks of cold turkey hell.
The US has been gutting vaping as an alternative too, which forced more back on analogs. The US doesn’t want to stop smokers from smoking anyway. Lots of tax revenue.
Best thing too, the “quit” stuff like lozenges, patches, and gum, are often higher nicotine levels than a smoker is used to. The “low” dose products are for pack-a-day smokers and the “high” dose products are for 2-pack-a-day smokers. So smoker tries to quit, can’t, and ends up smoking more cigs when they return.
It’s a vicious cycle, and it seems also a natural method to combat ADHD, so it’s completely possible some people get on cigarettes, suddenly their brain is functioning correctly, and they’re addicted for life twice over.
Feel free to use your favorite internet search engine for further info. That’s what they are there for. (The last bit with ADHD is new-ish? So not sure what data is available there.)
Nicotine is not coffee, it is insanely addictive physically along with a mental addiction to the act of smoking.
But this isn’t just for people who want to quit, this is for all cigarettes.
So say this actually happens and a 50% reduction in nicotine. Smokers will smoke twice as many, getting twice the smoke. The carcinogens from the smoke is what’s giving people lung cancer, not the nicotine.
Less nicotine a cigarette = more cigs = more smoke = more negative health effects
It ain’t complicated
Do you have data on this, or is it speculation? Because I would speculate that the majority of smokers would keep the habit the same and be weaned off nicotine, and only be habituated instead of addicted, making it much easier to kick.
Literally not how it works at all. The body knows the amount of nicotine it wants and the smoker will smoke until that “need” is fulfilled. Weaning off nicotine is easiest in tiny amounts over time, or a few weeks of cold turkey hell.
The US has been gutting vaping as an alternative too, which forced more back on analogs. The US doesn’t want to stop smokers from smoking anyway. Lots of tax revenue.
Best thing too, the “quit” stuff like lozenges, patches, and gum, are often higher nicotine levels than a smoker is used to. The “low” dose products are for pack-a-day smokers and the “high” dose products are for 2-pack-a-day smokers. So smoker tries to quit, can’t, and ends up smoking more cigs when they return.
It’s a vicious cycle, and it seems also a natural method to combat ADHD, so it’s completely possible some people get on cigarettes, suddenly their brain is functioning correctly, and they’re addicted for life twice over.
Feel free to use your favorite internet search engine for further info. That’s what they are there for. (The last bit with ADHD is new-ish? So not sure what data is available there.)
“Easier”
It does look like there was a HHS study last year that thinks it might help, but it’s not linked online
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/other-tobacco-products/low-nicotine-cigarettes.html
I dunno, I ran into a roadblock when source 17 wasn’t linked and can’t devote too much time to chasing it down right now.
It’s quite literally common sense.