If you needed yet another reason to quit smoking, here it is.

  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If we were serious about getting people to quit, it would be better to force producers to slowly decrease the nicotine content, and the other addictive additives used in cigarettes. Of course the producers lobby and sue governments trying to limit them in any way.

    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      At least for me, I’m much more addicted to the ritual and the motions of smoking than I am the nicotine. I’m sure this isn’t true for everybody. I know this because the first time I quit by vaping, I started with high nicotine juice and pretty quickly went down to 0% nicotine. Stopping the act of vaping was almost as hard as stopping cigarettes.

    • stringere@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Or, and hear me out here, since no one would die from withdrawal and the product has no medicinal benefits and directly causes adverse health outcomes with no redeeming qualities: stop production completely.

      I spent over 20 years enslaved to nicotine. Now that I’m free, I don’t want to see anyone else have to go through it.