I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco

Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by eurasiantiger on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:08AM (#28613529)

Smokers are not addicted to nicotine per se. Your craving is towards the monoamine oxidase inhibitors in tobacco smoke.

I take it you have tried alternatives containing only nicotine, but they just weren’t the same?

Note that successfully quitting smoking usually means quitting coffee, too, since coffee contains the exact same monoamine oxidase inhibitors.

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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by noduerme on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:40AM (#28625875)

I don't know anything about this other chemical. (1) It is true that no other nicotine product produces the same "fix" as burning tobacco. But (2), other nicotine products definitely do fill 70-80% of the craving, and I think the rest is mostly down to habit.

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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by 1_player on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:32PM (#28619953)

Bollocks. I chain-vaped (juice which contained only propylene glycol, glycerol and nicotine) as much as I chain-smoked. Perhaps more, as vapour wasn't as hard to my lungs as actual smoke.

MAOI just make the addiction stronger, but are not the addiction themselves.

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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by zepolen on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:49AM (#28614590)

Does Juul contain those? Because I know plenty of people who quit smoking cigarettes for Juul and get lots of cravings towards that instead.

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Re:I quit – Peak indifference, big tobacco by eurasiantiger on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:39AM (#28616180)

Unlike liquid-based vapes which use pure nicotine, Juul pods contain a tobacco leaf extract. I don’t have a source to confirm, but I find it likely they do contain MAOIs.

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