3. Cocaine use causes ‘profound changes’ in the brain that leads to an increase...

Cocaine use causes ‘profound changes’ in the brain that leads to an increased risk of relapse due to stress

I dated smokers for a few years, never smoked. Grew up with my mom being a chain smoker. I guess I originally started with being drunk and having friends offer me cigs. (Idk, everyone being drunk, being around smokers, they go out for smoke and you're drunk so you're like sure.)

I started non-drinking smoking when I was going through a really really rough time and I wasn't on medication for my mental health issues. It calmed me down and stopped the crying. Kept it at 0-2 cigs a day for a long time. (Was dependent usually on my stress level.) It got a little worse for a while when I was once again dating a chain smoker and all my friends/roommates were chain smokers. :| I've heard of similar happen with people working in service industries where "smoke breaks" are common..

Also particularly when I was using cigarettes to deal with the stress of driving in Orlando. Driving in general has always really stressed me out so smoking cigarettes was how I helped deal with freak outs from that.. luckily I didn't have to drive anywhere very often but it was usually like okay I'm driving so I'll probably have at least one cigarette during that.. Then it didn't help when I was on an instant release type of medication that sometimes made me feel really edgy..

Overall, while I've never smoked heavily, I definitely see it as being a common self-medication issue. Small time increase in smoking was usually related to situations/people I was around and I noticed it didn't actually feel "helpful" during that time so when I was alone and things were fine, I didn't feel the need to smoke. The ritual habit can also be somewhat appealing sometimes.. Stepping outside/away from things for a few minutes and just relax.

Nicotine helps me focus while I work so I still enjoy the use of ecigs nicotine and caffeine while I'm working. But I noticed just nicotine never helped with the self-medication uses involving stress or being upset.. To me a craving for nicotine and a craving for a cigarette were definitely two different things entirely. :/ I have also been on/off all kinds of medications since I was a little kid and had experienced all kind of terrible physical withdrawals and things from times I've had to cold-turkey certain medications I shouldn't have and so on so I wonder if that's helped me deal with any physical withdrawal..

As for the subject of Cocaine, I tried it before and didn't get very much from it. (a lot of drugs in general seem to often effect me differently I should add and I have no idea why. Except alcohol but apparently that works in a different part of the brain iirc?) I did it with a group of people and I was mostly just chill on the couch and felt kind of tired. They were like "wtf. here do another line." and yeah, not much difference. Lol. I figure at least I don't have to worry about ever being a coke-abuser. :P

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