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Nicotine and Imagination
By Strandwolf on 6/25/2009 6:22:51 PM , Rating: 3
A number of writers smoke/d during composition. Faulkner, Hemingway.... Those that quit complained that words and fanciful notions useful in writing, esp. fiction, were harder to come by after stopping with the tobacco.

RE: Nicotine and Imagination
By TSS on 6/26/2009 7:00:33 AM , Rating: 1
i can shed some light on that. and the awnser is pretty simple.

i smoke cannabis on a regular basis, once every 4 hours, but i don't smoke tobacco in between. however, in periods where i was quitting/slowing down the habbit i have. my first use of tobacco without cannabis came half a year after i started using cannabis, and it revealed something astonishing to me which clarified immediately why people smoke, and smoke so much when they do.

after smoking weed, you get stoned for about 2-3 hours. after smoking Hashish, you get high for about 2-3 hours and when smoking just tobacco, you get more high then a good hashish joint, but for about 15 minutes at most.

and there you have it. i'm willing to bet that anybody smoking a cig is just as wasted as any cannabis user, but for a shorter time, which is why smokers have a tendancy to keep smoking more. the feeling is very much the same.

heh for me this study is one more reason to stick to grass ^^ same feeling as smokes, longer effect, with all the taxes just about cheaper, and now one more harmfull chemical compound it does not contain.

RE: Nicotine and Imagination
By myhipsi on 6/26/2009 12:18:08 PM , Rating: 2
This is so utterly false, it isn't funny.

Cannabis and nicotine are two completely different drugs with completely different pharmacologies. Nicotine is classed as a stimulant (like coffee, cocaine, amphetamine to name a few). Cannabis is in it's own class. The effects of the two are worlds apart.

Duration and onset has to do with how the liver processes the drugs and their individual half lives. Smokers tend to smoke more because the effect of nicotine wears off within about an hour of smoking, and there's physical withdrawal with nicotine which encourages repetition. Cannabis' effects on the other hand last for about 3 hours with no physical withdrawal, so there is not as much motivation for repetition.

Too compare these two drugs is to compare apples and oranges.

