I was never really a hardcore smoker. I'm 25 now and started when I was 19, which seems quite insignificant compared to most life long smokers I know, who mostly started between the ages of 11-16. Though I never really had a set average that I'd smoke. It was usually somewhere between 1 and 30 a day.
It's funny how my reasoning to quit differs from the reasons most folk talk about. Usually things like health/money/kids etc. Whereas I've only been smoking 6 years, I feel no obvious health issues, I can get a pouch of tobacco for less than a pint of beer and I don't have any kids/girlfriend etc. I did notice that quite often when smoking tobacco, about 1 minute into the cigarette, my mood would drop, like a very mild dysphoria, but that was only when smoking alone. Also late at night if I couldn't sleep I'd have a cigarette, which we all know is counter-productive most of the time, but sometimes seemed to work.
Anyway 1 week ago I consumed 212mg THH with 80mg DMT, which for me is nearly 2x my usual dose. I'm not going to make a report because I can't for the life of me remember exactly what happened, but... big purge, much time was spent on my knees, looking upward with both hands on my heart, with ancient scripture written in water dripping from the sky, matrix style... that sort of thing
There was a lot of thinking about my childhood and how moving from place to place quite often was difficult i.e one school I'd be quite popular then at another one 200miles away I'd be very outcast etc Lot's of that kind of thinking.
So I pretty much tripped the night through from 3am to 7am. Usually after I've levelled out at the end of a trip the first thing I do is have a cigarette. But after around 10 seconds of looking for them I gave up and layed down for a while. I swear in my life I have spent 45 minutes at a time looking for my cigarettes. Literally turning my house inside out before I found them. I never gave up until I found them.. but yeah... 10 seconds and never mind It didn't even strike me as odd at the time. Then the next day I walked straight past the shop I usually buy my cigarettes and just... didn't. There was no trying to distract myself of any kind. I just walked straight past. So then I figured I'd see how long I can keep this up.
I had a visit from a friend who always brings some weed round to smoke which he rolls with tobacco. I insisted he rolled it with damiana instead, which we both agreed was a far superior smoke, so I gave him half my damiana. We visited another friend who had a joint rolled with tobacco, which I easily passed up on... I'm not a big weed smoker but as a consequence of which I find it to be a bit of a treat when offered one But no temptation here.
But anyway that pretty much covers 7 days of non smoking relations. Currently I'm not craving for a cigarette in any physical sense but psychologically, I'm very consciouss of the fact that I can have one if I want to. I'm currently unemployed so I have a lot of time to just sit around and very little to distract myself with. Cigarettes always seemed a very efficent way of taking a break from nothing and having time to think and regroup my thoughts and then going back to everything in a reset state of mind. I'm very aware that I'm drinking a lot more coffee than usual. maybe 3 cups more a day than my usual 1 in the morning only. Though I'm also drinking less alcohol which is good.
Anyway I'm going to give it a month of just coffee and the occasional beer with no DMT and mescaline at all, then I'm going to either have a mild pharmahuasca or a strong mescaline session and see if I feel like having a cigarette, as those states usually make me want to smoke a lot of anything. Not as much as mushrooms, but I don't know anyone who keeps those.
Anyway I found this whole thing very interesting, as I've heard and read lots about folk making an effort to have healthier lifestyles as a result of using these wonderful entheogens so I'm curious if folk have had similar outcomes from their experiences and what they did to supplement their new lifestyles. Quitting tobacco for me is especially interesting, because as much as all the anti smoking advertisement is so common place in all our day to day lives, out of all the substances there are, it's the only thing you can really do several times a day at home, at work or in the streets without being of any real inconvenience to anyone. I know for sure the next time I nip to the shop to grab a drink or a sandwich, as soon as I walk in, the cashier will have my favourite brand of tobacco waiting expectingly for me on the counter, with a pack of blue rolling papers, the total already tallied up on the register.
Much Love
It's funny how my reasoning to quit differs from the reasons most folk talk about. Usually things like health/money/kids etc. Whereas I've only been smoking 6 years, I feel no obvious health issues, I can get a pouch of tobacco for less than a pint of beer and I don't have any kids/girlfriend etc. I did notice that quite often when smoking tobacco, about 1 minute into the cigarette, my mood would drop, like a very mild dysphoria, but that was only when smoking alone. Also late at night if I couldn't sleep I'd have a cigarette, which we all know is counter-productive most of the time, but sometimes seemed to work.
Anyway 1 week ago I consumed 212mg THH with 80mg DMT, which for me is nearly 2x my usual dose. I'm not going to make a report because I can't for the life of me remember exactly what happened, but... big purge, much time was spent on my knees, looking upward with both hands on my heart, with ancient scripture written in water dripping from the sky, matrix style... that sort of thing
There was a lot of thinking about my childhood and how moving from place to place quite often was difficult i.e one school I'd be quite popular then at another one 200miles away I'd be very outcast etc Lot's of that kind of thinking.So I pretty much tripped the night through from 3am to 7am. Usually after I've levelled out at the end of a trip the first thing I do is have a cigarette. But after around 10 seconds of looking for them I gave up and layed down for a while. I swear in my life I have spent 45 minutes at a time looking for my cigarettes. Literally turning my house inside out before I found them. I never gave up until I found them.. but yeah... 10 seconds and never mind
It didn't even strike me as odd at the time. Then the next day I walked straight past the shop I usually buy my cigarettes and just... didn't. There was no trying to distract myself of any kind. I just walked straight past. So then I figured I'd see how long I can keep this up.I had a visit from a friend who always brings some weed round to smoke which he rolls with tobacco. I insisted he rolled it with damiana instead, which we both agreed was a far superior smoke, so I gave him half my damiana. We visited another friend who had a joint rolled with tobacco, which I easily passed up on... I'm not a big weed smoker but as a consequence of which I find it to be a bit of a treat when offered one
But no temptation here.But anyway that pretty much covers 7 days of non smoking relations. Currently I'm not craving for a cigarette in any physical sense but psychologically, I'm very consciouss of the fact that I can have one if I want to. I'm currently unemployed so I have a lot of time to just sit around and very little to distract myself with. Cigarettes always seemed a very efficent way of taking a break from nothing and having time to think and regroup my thoughts and then going back to everything in a reset state of mind. I'm very aware that I'm drinking a lot more coffee than usual. maybe 3 cups more a day than my usual 1 in the morning only. Though I'm also drinking less alcohol which is good.
Anyway I'm going to give it a month of just coffee and the occasional beer with no DMT and mescaline at all, then I'm going to either have a mild pharmahuasca or a strong mescaline session and see if I feel like having a cigarette, as those states usually make me want to smoke a lot of anything. Not as much as mushrooms, but I don't know anyone who keeps those.
Anyway I found this whole thing very interesting, as I've heard and read lots about folk making an effort to have healthier lifestyles as a result of using these wonderful entheogens so I'm curious if folk have had similar outcomes from their experiences and what they did to supplement their new lifestyles. Quitting tobacco for me is especially interesting, because as much as all the anti smoking advertisement is so common place in all our day to day lives, out of all the substances there are, it's the only thing you can really do several times a day at home, at work or in the streets without being of any real inconvenience to anyone. I know for sure the next time I nip to the shop to grab a drink or a sandwich, as soon as I walk in, the cashier will have my favourite brand of tobacco waiting expectingly for me on the counter, with a pack of blue rolling papers, the total already tallied up on the register.
Much Love
