I’m more of a casual drinker myself, but daily hard liquor consumption seems intense. What’s behind that choice?
What is it about smoking and drinking that hooks people enough to turn them into regular habits?
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I’m more of a casual drinker myself, but daily hard liquor consumption seems intense. What’s behind that choice?
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They can’t cope with life.
Alcohol numbs the pain, smoking is just stupid and addictive.
They both produce a temporary euphoria and if you’re prone to depression they can be very addictive
Dopamine.
It’s called addiction.
You fall into it step by step. Once you are in, it’s extremely hard to stop.
No one just decides it’s delicious to drink liquor every day. It’s not a choice.
At least with alcohol for most, it’s like you’re sitting in from of a slow creeping glacier, you don’t notice it approaching (dependence), but eventually you’ll be enveloped by it, and crawling out of the crevasse you’ve made a home in is incredibly hard.
I used to drink pretty much every day.
Never saw it as a big deal.
It was just something I did. Not out of depression, or anger or coping.
Just a basic part of my routine for a long time. I had to stop (which I did for about 9 years) for health reasons.
Now I only drink on an occasion here and there. FWIW, When I say I drank almost every day, we are talking about at least 5 or 6 drinks, from hard liquor mixed drinks to some beers.
I also smoked and still do. It’s really more of just a habit.
I’ll admit though if I don’t smoke, I get irritable and shorter with things.
I know I should quit, but part of the problem is, I actually kind of like smoking which is a real big issue and it is addictive as hell.
A niche answer, nicotine is a stimulant. People with ADHD have a flipped reaction to stimulants, instead of hyping them up it calms them. Cigarettes can be a powerful coping mechanism to the undiagnosed. Plus the 7 minutes or so it takes to smoke a cigarette can provide a much needed break from overstimulation.
It gets you slowly, I’m not sure about drinking, my parents are serious alcoholics and I don’t even know how they’re still alive, but alas they are and will not stop. I had no issues with quitting that even after all the messed up things life has dealt me. I did think smoking was cool when I was 15 and before I knew it it was on my mind 24/7. You don’t understand how much brain space it takes up until you quit. The addiction makes it so you don’t think about much else for long periods of time and the withdrawal and mood changes last forever before you actually feel like you’ve overcome quitting. I quit when I was 30 and it made me understand how those with addictions to harsher drugs have such a hard time getting off and staying off of it, if cigarettes were that hard, I can’t imagine other things.
I think none of them were meant to be regular habits, until nay sayers start with there shit and start giving people shit and then you just become a habit user, cus fuck them right
Nicotine is an incredibly addictive chemical.
Nicotine is a stimulant, but it causes paradoxical sedation. Smoking calms me down and helps me deal with my anxiety.
I drank occasionally for about 20 years before I started drinking liquor every day. I started drinking because it was fun, but then after some shitty things happened in my life I started drinking to numb the pain. Problem is, it only delays the pain, and so I had to keep drinking to keep numbing myself. Pretty soon I couldn’t function normally without booze, and then I started getting withdrawals if I didn’t drink. That’s a shitty place to be, having to wait outside the gas station until 7:30am when they can legally start selling booze so you can buy a pint of rotgut vodka to stop the shakes. I made it through though, I’ve been sober for over three years now.
People use it to cope thats why people get addicted usually. Except the casino that shits just amazing
Because life fucking suck, and it’s a small reprieve from all the shit.
The oral fixation plays a huge part in smoking. I smoke weed and I love the ritual and gestures.
Two entirely different reasons. Smoking is primarily a physical addiction. Drinking is mostly in the mind, the physical elements only manifest after prolonged heavy drinking.
The addictive qualities of the inherent ingredient
Seriously?
Brain chemistry, self medication.
smoking and drinking adds a chemical to your internal broth.
In some cases, replacing chemicals that your body makes naturally.
You body stops making those replaced chemicals, so you have to smoke and drink to bring them back out to normal levels: in other words, you have to smoke and drink to feel normal.