correlation cig.smoking and mental illness

I would have to agree, in my limited expeience in and around psych wards and institutional settings as such, that 90 plus % of them smoke cigs. BB

You havent heard the best yet, the smokeing garden at my hospital which is in fact seperated by about 50 yards, from a multi million pound general hospital with no smokeing what so ever. We had a fair number of heroin addicts with mental probs on the wards, an the cig garden often had more than tobacco in the roll up cig,s, . Now HTF dont staff an doctors know these guys are smokeing heroin , If your not sectioned your aloud day release or a walk to the shop,s. Perfect time to score an bring back the smack to all who payed there money.Now i wasnt in on this but the guys were my friends , an bought me vodka in evian water bottles, cool or what. Mental hospital security is a joke, an so are most the doc,s an staff. To have banned smokeing in my english mental hospital would have been met by all out war . They had all on stopping them smokeing in there room,s , there is a human right issue hear. To put you in a mental hospital an then ban you smokeing would tip the most placid patient over the edge.

Interesting. I totally agree. I started dating a wildly psychotic man while smlking cigarettes a lot, come to think of it. I think I had a case of influenctial psychotic syndrome- where one starts taking on the reaits of the psychotic person the more alone time they have with them isolated from most social interaction. Of course, there was also heavy drinking and cocaine involved as well. I've abstained from all of this for several years now but recently got into e--cigs.
Though I would certainly believe that all the additives and chemicals in a regular/normal cigarette could very well have the potential to influence one's perspective on reality to some degree, and of course if a person is presdisposed to addiction as a way tot slef medicate their underlying mental illness, then yes, you could blame the cigarette, but then you would'nt really know if a certain person was predisposed to such influence until they took up smoking (Which I highly do NOT recommend).
Now, if you're just puffing an e-cig, that's pure tobacco, no filter, no lighter needed because you're not actually smoking but breathing in tobacco flavored air (in a way, that's the gist of it) . All that stuff they put in normal cigarettes truly are deadly. The few times I smoke weed (the first time in a while the other day) and I couldn't help but notice that the 'smoke' was the same as that of the e -cig (electric cigarette).
So not only do cigarettes smokers damage their lungs, they also ingest poisonous chemicals like those found in rat poison and fertilizer.

When I smoke tobacco, I am more easily irritated, my thoughts turn negative and self- harming, and I find it much more difficult to deal with standard, day-to-day bs.
When my husband smokes tobacco, he is very easily frustrated, finds it more difficult to concentrate on and complete tasks, and he blows up at me...when otherwise he is anything BUT an exploding husband.
When my mom smokes tobacco, she becomes more socially anxious and self-isolating, her smoker's "coolness" translates as plain, detached coldness towards me and anyone she is "close" to, and her appetite becomes erratic, keeping her from being active and healthy.
These are my personal experiences with tobacco and mental health.
All three of us; me, my husband, and my mother have quit within the last year, and we feel energy and hope...2 things smoking tobacco never gave to us.
Cigarettes are a cold, calculated method of population control, that's how it appears to me at least.