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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

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The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
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By Asher Perlman

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's not the nicotine. I swear. I can vape 0% nicotine and it's the same as nicotine vapes. It gives me about a quarter of the comfort and anxiety reduction of a cigarette. Addiction to cigarettes is about the ritual and the motions of smoking. Nicotine is overplayed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People say vaping doesn't hit as much as cigs (even with nicotine), so they do half and half and wean down until vaping is enough. So with respect to nicotine it's the long term biological addiction.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I don't think nicotine is overplayed, I think that is a sliding scale on how it affects you.

To be fair, I feel exactly like you. I quit smoking a couple of years ago. It was never the nicotine for me. It was the breaks, the ritual, and something to do with my hands. The more anxiety I felt, the more ritual I'd use. So if I just wanted a break I'd light up and smoke. But if shit went down I'd light up with a match and be very deliberate with my inhaling and breathing.

I still miss it. I wish I had something half as calming to replace it. But I still think a lot of folks have a serious issue with physical addiction to nicotine.