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Any common public knowledge since ww2 is going to be a lie.

Smoking causes lung cancer? Then why has smoking rates fallen off a cliff while lung cancer rates remain just as high?

As for nicotine being addictive. Well i grew and smoked my own tobacco last year as some of you know.
Anecdotally, zero signs of addiction.

Meanwhile nicotine has long known to be a neuro protector. Ive reversed my memory loss and inability to learn new things.

Now admittingly i also went human diet rather than judeo-nigger shit food.
Aka carnivore/keto

It is addictive. Any smoker will be familiar with the impacts of nicotine on the GI tract and smooth muscle tissue. This is because nicotine is an acetylcholine receptor agonist. In other words, it can substitute for acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter. After a sufficient amount of time of sustained nicotine use, your daily intake becomes integrated into your body's chemistry.

People will often talk about the unique difficulty of smoking cessation. They're right. The reason is that you have an adjustment period where your body has to recognize via negative feedback that it needs to upregulate its acetylcholine receptors to adapt to the absence of nicotine (that you'd been providing it every day for X years). Acetylcholine is probably the most abundant and universal neurotransmitter in your body.

This is why removing nicotine, at least initially, for addicts results in that awful "shut down" feeling. It's not just psychological. Your whole nervous system was impacted by the gas you were giving it. So, right away, removing it is like trying to heat a room the same size with half the wood. Another good analogy is to think of the potent urges to light up as certain "labor unions" in your body "suing" your brain, like they had a contract for the provision of a chemical. In the case of nicotine, it's pretty much your whole body that's unionized. The withdrawal is not as physically acute as getting off stronger narcotics. The difference is that the labor union that's suing is larger so the impulse to smoke is strong and constant and lasts for an absurd amount of time. You can suddenly be overcome with a powerful urge to smoke weeks and months after ceasing.

In principle, if you know you are dealing with a direct neurotransmitter substitute (anything capable of interacting directly with your nervous system), you are dealing with something potentially addictive. That's just how we are built.

Anybody who tells you nicotine is non-addictive is a moron.

Nicotine is more addictive than heroin.
There's a reason why almost every smoker desperately wants to quit, paying $400/month, to give themselves lung cancer, and emphysema, and can't quit for more than half a day.

There is a simpler answer here:
Jews lie.

Of course its addictive.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9871277/

You can find plenty of studies to read on the benefits of nicotine. If you just "Google" it though they are pretty hard to find because most report on tobacco products, not nicotine alone. Need to search pubmed/ncbi/Google scholar etc.

My personal experience is that nicotine itself isn't addictive but the habit in which you take the nicotine is, you repeat something enough you're training your body for a dopamine hit. If you secretly removed the nicotine from a persons vape, they would still get placebo effect.

I smoked for about a year when I was a teen, tried to go for a mountain bike ride and felt it in my lungs, quit cold turkey that day.

Didn't pick nicotine back up until started working construction many years later. Tobacco based chew. Got grossed out by that and quit cold turkey.

10 years later after no nicotine use the nicotine salt pouches showed up and gave them a try. Been on and off with those.

I'm healthy, I workout 5 days a week alternating lifting and running. There is a a difference on and off nicotine. But I also feel like too much is a bad thing as with anything. I feel like there is a neural burnout when taken too long. If you would really like the benefits of nicotine but are worried about the addiction I would cycle it. 2 weeks on 2 weeks off. Or change the method in which you get nicotine, patch one week/ gum the next/ pouches the next. I don't recommend vaping due to oils and contamination.

Habits are hard to form and hard to break, the mind doesn't like change, if you don't get it used to anything it won't miss it either.

In my experience it depends how the nicotine is consumed.

I've smoked cigarettes, chewed, snuffed, vaped, and cigars.

Snuff, chew, and cigars barely produce any addiction pattern for me, at all. Most days I will have a cigar, but not every day.

Whereas cigarettes, and vape are highly addictive.

From what i can see the primary difference is absorption of nicotine through mucus membrane vs alveoli.

There's also the matter that chew, snuff, and cigars are essentially fermented tobacco, and cigarettes/vape are highly processed.

Incorrect. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11772120/

To get off of anything addictive, just start taking a little less increasingly over time. That's it. It's not a great mystery. I've been addicted to many things and this is simply how it's done. Meh. No big deal at all.

Edit: I guess the truth is I'm probably describing physical dependence and not mental addiction.