A Dance with Monsieur Nicot
So, when I returned from China, I bought a bunch of cigarettes for someone who had specifically requested them. While I was at it, I also bought a bunch of mini cigars, because I could.
I have managed to give most of them away to smokers, but I quickly decided a few weeks ago that I had never been physically addicted to anything yet, and I wondered what the process actually involved.
Consequently, I have now systematically smoked some fifteen of these things over the last three weeks or so. Observations:
- I am unable to smoke these things normally, as the taste of tobacco is so unpleasant. consequently, I fill my lungs to the brim, and hold my breath for a while. This produces very intense highs (to the point, almost, of temporary paralysis) as well as minimising the time the vile stuff actually stays in my mouth.
- The nicotine high is intense but tremendously short-lived, the peak lasting only a minute or so. Its short-term nature is particularly annoying considering the vile smoke one had to inhale to get it.
- The high produced has very slightly dropped off over the past two weeks, or perhaps so I imagine.
- Interesting physiological effects are a clamminess of the extremities and dampening of libido.
- No signs of addiction or even mild craving yet. I look at them and try to imagine desiring them, and can hardly even summon a feeling of intensity equal to the constant mild hunger I feel when presented with any kind of edible biomass. The Lancet medical journal famously reported that nicotine was supposed to be more addictive than heroin, and I begin to wonder whether trying the latter might actually be quite safe.
- I AM, however, becoming accustomed to the taste more.
Would anyone be interested in my last (mostly full) tin? I am so bored of the stuff. I find getting drunk similarly unexciting. Why do people bother with these most popular of drugs?
Takers?
I have managed to give most of them away to smokers, but I quickly decided a few weeks ago that I had never been physically addicted to anything yet, and I wondered what the process actually involved.
Consequently, I have now systematically smoked some fifteen of these things over the last three weeks or so. Observations:
- I am unable to smoke these things normally, as the taste of tobacco is so unpleasant. consequently, I fill my lungs to the brim, and hold my breath for a while. This produces very intense highs (to the point, almost, of temporary paralysis) as well as minimising the time the vile stuff actually stays in my mouth.
- The nicotine high is intense but tremendously short-lived, the peak lasting only a minute or so. Its short-term nature is particularly annoying considering the vile smoke one had to inhale to get it.
- The high produced has very slightly dropped off over the past two weeks, or perhaps so I imagine.
- Interesting physiological effects are a clamminess of the extremities and dampening of libido.
- No signs of addiction or even mild craving yet. I look at them and try to imagine desiring them, and can hardly even summon a feeling of intensity equal to the constant mild hunger I feel when presented with any kind of edible biomass. The Lancet medical journal famously reported that nicotine was supposed to be more addictive than heroin, and I begin to wonder whether trying the latter might actually be quite safe.
- I AM, however, becoming accustomed to the taste more.
Would anyone be interested in my last (mostly full) tin? I am so bored of the stuff. I find getting drunk similarly unexciting. Why do people bother with these most popular of drugs?
Takers?