Now. I need a smoke break.
The Life of an Addict
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Now. I need a smoke break.
Genetic variables? Like what?
Maybe that is why they call it mind altering substances??
Most users are looking for the alteration. Blech. Using is a choice. ALWAYS.
MMDad
Lem Putt
Most diabetes is caused by poor choices. How can you say diabetes, a self-caused disease, is a disease but addiction is not?
Same for many cancers. Most skin cancers are caused by the choices people make. Is malignant melanoma a disease? If a smoker gets lung cancer or a chewer gets lip cancer is it a disease?
How about heart disease? Almost all of it is caused by poor choices. Is it only a disease if you eat right, but if you eat too many burgers it is no longer a disease?
You may not have any sympathy for those who become addicted, but that does not mean that the addiction is not a disease.
MarieB
New Member
Sorry, but if you can't acknowledge that there are genetic factors in play (as scientists and docs have researched and confirmed) then I can't take you seriously. Genetics variables also can make a person less prone to become addicted to a drug, compulsive shopping, or spouting their mouths off with ignorant statements
Have you asked for help?
I can't believe some of you are trying to compare smoking cigarettes to being hooked on heroin. 
Or, even better, trying to compare being hooked on heroin to diabetes and heart disease.
Or, even better, trying to compare being hooked on heroin to diabetes and heart disease.
Now THAT is an addiction.
I don't know if the addiction variables are genetic, meaning you come by it honestly via your parents, but it is true that certain drugs chemically alter your brain. Many times permanently, not just when you're actively high. Which is why it's not a good idea to get started with that crap and why I'm against legalizing it.
I can't believe some of you are trying to compare smoking cigarettes to being hooked on heroin.
Or, even better, trying to compare being hooked on heroin to diabetes and heart disease.
I do believe that extenuating circumstances led to my high blood pressure. Not smoking.
I can't believe some of you are trying to compare smoking cigarettes to being hooked on heroin.
Or, even better, trying to compare being hooked on heroin to diabetes and heart disease.
I still want to know, what is considered an alcoholic?
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You've had some stress that probably exacerbated it. I smoke more than anyone I know and my blood pressure is fine, as is pretty much everything else. I have tendonitis in my left wrist, but doc says that's not because of smoking.
Looks like you just dion't want to be grouped with the heroin addicts.I can't believe some of you are trying to compare smoking cigarettes to being hooked on heroin.
Why? Heroin has a worse social stigma, but addiction is addiction.
Or, even better, trying to compare being hooked on heroin to diabetes and heart disease.
He didn't make that comparison, he said that the definition of disease can also cover addiction, if you look up the definition you'll see he's correct.
You've had some stress that probably exacerbated it. I smoke more than anyone I know and my blood pressure is fine, as is pretty much everything else. I have tendonitis in my left wrist, but doc says that's not because of smoking.
Both are getting under control.
acommondisaster
Active Member
You've had some stress that probably exacerbated it. I smoke more than anyone I know and my blood pressure is fine, as is pretty much everything else. I have tendonitis in my left wrist, but doc says that's not because of smoking.
My BP was always fine prior to my double bypass. So was my cholesterol. And there's no heart disease in my family.
Cardiologist told me I had heart disease in my early 40's because I smoked.
Cigarettes are one of the hardest addictions to kick; nothing to be ashamed of if you "enjoy" smoking and "don't want" to quit. That's the addict talking.
Hank
my war
I can't believe some of you are trying to compare smoking cigarettes to being hooked on heroin.
Addictive Personalities, it's the way we are individually wired.
I have HP too.
But I think it might be from drinking alone.
But it could also be that all my family has it too.
My damn parents.
MMDad
Lem Putt
Yep, you'd have to be a totally brain dead moron to do that. Kind of like this idiot:I can't believe some of you are trying to compare smoking cigarettes to being hooked on heroin.
Or, even better, trying to compare being hooked on heroin to diabetes and heart disease.