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I puff on hand rolled cigs throughout the day. It calms me and gives me a mental break from whatever I'm doing (I don't smoke indoors. In the winter I bundle up.) I've read that a high percentage of people with BP smoke. Do you? Does it help? What is it's purpose?
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I don't... I really need a distraction though from my grrrrrrrr. I can understand why some people with bipolar do smoke. Partly a distraction (and other reasons I can think of too)
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When the substances are gone, there isn't support, there are no more pills that help, when the stress is very high, I smoke. It keeps me from doing MUCH worse. |
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I smoke cigars. It’s almost like meditation for me.
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Maybe I'll start smoking.... my other ''coping'' strategies are ************
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I have always thought that I'd be attracted to smoking. I've smoked a handful of times in my life but it never did anything for me. I can stand the smoke just fine if I'm the one smoking but with my friend Caleb I can't stand being around him when he smokes. Go figure.
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I must say that I despise them and when I'm forced to breathe second hand smoke.
I tried cigarettes as a teen for maybe one week. Then I developed bronchitis and said to myself "Why in the hell would I continue this utter nonsense!" I never smoked another again. The above doesn't mean that I never abused a substance, though. I did have quite a period of alcohol abuse. I even had to detox from it inpatient. |
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Nope can’t stand the smell. But my daughter who also has bipolar does smoke. Says the same thing, that it calms her. We live in Minnesota and she doesn’t smoke indoors either.
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No. I've tried a couple of times in my life, but I didn't like the way my throat burned.
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I don't smoke either. However I have asthma and am allergic to cigarette smoke so I never started it.
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No, I don't smoke.
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No smoking here!
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Yes, I smoke. Way too much too. I need to quit for medical reasons, and I'm having a hard time with that.
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I forget the percentages but its pretty solid that a lot of people with bipolar have some sort of either addiction or vice due to self medicating over the untreated years or additional self medicating with meds. The percentages are on the higher end for people with adhd that are untreated. In fact people with adhd that are on meds are less likely to have an addiction due to proper treatment. Also the percenteges are on the higher end for people with ptsd or a trauma history as well. That said I am addicted to nictotine and an alcoholic in recovery. I thing the alcoholism was due to at first excess alcohol due to my absorption problems and me attempting to maintain that buzz. Then my hardwiring kicked in and I became an alcoholic in 6 months.
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Nah, never smoked cigarettes (have smoked plenty of other stuff in the past)
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I should add that I did smoke cigarettes, quite a lot, between 1987 and 1992. That was when we could smoke everywhere, so it was easy to smoke as much as 50 cigarettes in a day.
As someone with an undiagnosed anxiety disorder, I think smoking helped me to have something to do with my hands. As a child I would fidget, but back then that's not acceptable as an adult - smoking was. I think there was something in cigarettes that had antidepressant properties for me. My first major bipolar depressive crash came within a year of quitting smoking. I'd never take up smoking again, it's been almost 30 years since I quit, and I do now have asthma. But despite how much the smell of second hand smoke grosses me out, I do miss smoking sometimes - it was so relaxing. |
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lightly toasted - I agree that smoking helps anxiety and is relaxing - just like those folks who have cited cigars, which I love.
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