[bungie4]

Nicotine is a stimulant, not a depressant.

Do you take Meth to 'even out'?

Me, I just quit smoking entirely 3 years ago.

[nradov]

It's not that simple. Nicotine is both a stimulant and a relaxant.

http://www.ti.ubc.ca/1997/10/31/effective-clinical-tobacco-i...

I don't personally take meth or anything like that, but low dose amphetamines are widely used to treat ADHD and related disorders.

It's good that you quit. I'm certainly not recommending nicotine to anyone. Just pointing out one factor behind the growing trend.

[sloppycee]

I take amphetamines to 'even out'...

Stimulants affect people with certain disorders differently, as the parent mentioned (ADHD, etc.).

[lemonberry]

The biggest lie of cigarette smoking: that it relaxes you. When you're a nicotine addict and crave it you get anxious, nicotine fixes that.

[Jare]

In my experience, when I had regular or constant anxiety, the nicotine crave blended with it but smoking calmed both. It is very possible that a non-nicotine method of relaxation would have also worked on both, but those are rarer and/or less quick and convenient.

That was one of the appeals of smoking.

[lemonberry]

Interesting. I should have written that was my experience. Anxiety isn't something I typically experience unless I've drank too much coffee or, when I was a regular smoker, needed a cigarette.

I take it you're a non-smoker now. I wonder how a vape would affect that.

[Jare]

Yeah after 20 years smoking, I had minor (unrelated) surgery and had to stay at home for a couple weeks, so I just cold stopped smoking and that was that. I am curious too but I refrain from experimenting.

[lemonberry]

Congrats, it's a hell of a habit to quit.

[sillypuddy]

Methamphetamine has been approved by the FDA for treating ADHD