I’ve never smoked, but I’ve been around people that do. What do people feel during/after smoking? It doesn’t seem to make people high or hallucinate or anything. It maybe mildly relaxes them?

    • ante@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It makes food taste like shit and by extension you want to eat less. At least, that was my experience with smoking for years. When I quit I gained like 40 lbs.

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          1 year ago

          Oh yeah. Marlboro Reds and black coffee got me through some rough fucking mornings in my early 20s.

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      I could go until the late afternoon without eating with the power of nicotine. I would say it’s about the same as coffee but you can smoke more frequently than you can drink coffee (usually).

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      It did supress my appetite during the first year or so, but after that the effect wore off.

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      Like other stimulant drugs (including caffeine and amphetamines), nicotine suppresses some of the signals your body uses to register being hungry.