I've smoked tobacco for about 5 years now. I've smoked thousands of spliffs, hundreds of rollies.
Why am I not addicted? I can go weeks-months without touching the stuff, and I don't crave it in the slightest.
Is my understanding of addiction wrong? I know addiction is a slow process, but really, how fucking slow is this? Because I find it hard to believe that everyone who is 'properly addicted' has put more effort into it than me.
I'm not even a strong willed person... a fucking videogame (World of Warcrack) took over my entire teenage life. I can't even open a pack of fingers without devouring the pack in a few minutes... so what's up with this?
Sigh.. that's not what I meant. I'm not looking for someone to tell me I can join the x-men, I just don't understand why my experience with tobacco is different to what has been drummed into us, and what, on the surface, seems to be true for many. That if you smoke cigarettes, sooner or later you'll crave them.
How many cigarettes were you smoking per day, and how consistently? If it's less than 10-15 or so then yeah, it's not that surprising that you wouldn't have much trouble dropping it. Also I'd guess that if your primary source of tobacco consumption was via spliffs then the nicotine rush was associated with cannabis as a recreational high that you usually experienced with others, usually later in the day, rather than cigs being something you routinely smoked during spare moments - this distinction is important as a significant portion of the overall challenge of quitting smoking is the habitual aspect, the cig before shower, after breakfast, outside before work, during a break, etc etc. Cannabis use does not tend to be so structured.
For fuck's sake don't consider this evidence that you don't have an addictive personality, or think it makes you able to "handle" other drugs.
On the other hand, I know at least two people who ended up "addicted to cannabis", smoking ten or fifteen "spliffs" a day that contained very little weed but a lot of tobacco.
