i always find it a bit crazy when people try to say which drug is the worst or which drug is the most addictive...

every drug is the worst for something. a lot of people like to say that quitting smoking is harder than quitting heroin because that is the new buzz-saying.

i always ask them if they have quit heroin and they look at me like i am nuts!

for me, quitting smoking is harder because it easier to justify smoking. less expense, i can still function while smoking, cancer is a long ways off, although the stigma is bad it isnt nearly as bad as being a junkie...

it is also addictive because of what nicotine does to the brain but i believe that that is secondary to a lot of other factors.

also, reason for using the drug? i used heroin so that i could escape the world, to stop both feeling and thinking... stimulants like cocaine only made me feel worse so i never got addicted to cocaine. being naturally obsessive, anxious, hyper, suicidal, drugs like cocaine only made everything worse...

but does that mean cocaine is less addictive? no. it means i am the type of person who prefers depressants.

a lot of interesting addictions research shows more and more that it really has very little to do with the drugs themselves. addiction is not about the drugs... i would mostly agree.

quitting smoking is hard, but hard for different reasons and in different ways than quitting heroin was. people dont go to rehab for quitting smoking....

i believe that the more the addiction is a defense against feeling and being in the world, the harder it is to give up. this is why rehab was more about dealing with my emotions rather than any chemical effect of a drug. old theories about pleasure centres have largely been discarded...