Started smoking cigs at 19, when I turned legal in Ontario and was buying packs for my underage friends. Went down a slippery slope after I started doing that. At 23 now, I have smoked countless "last cigs". The longest I've gone without was 4 months, and hopefully the end will come when I start law school in a couple weeks.
i don't know. someone very close to me recently attempted suicide and it was linked to their high dose of prozac. be careful.
Started around 15, quit around 19. It is kind of strange that way. Start smoking when its illegal and has bigger consequences to you with regards to getting in "trouble". Quit after finally moving out of the house and getting to college. And there were years in there where there was a fair amount of smoking. Half a pack to pack a day. All kinds of brands. What ultimately happened in college was we smoked in the room, and 3/4 through freshman year you wake up one day and there's just cups of cigarette butts and everything smells like that horrible days old tobacco smell. So just quit. Would have one occasionally for a few years thereafter, but i was fortunate in that having a cigarette while drunk always made me feel horrible, so I was never tempted. weed on the other hand... ... Still smoked MJ regularly (daily?) throughout college. Only harder stuff I ever did was a couple months of LCD usage in high school (maybe 8-10 times on the weekends) - very fun stuff, quickly learn too fun, need to stop. And shrooms here and there. Had friends who did more hard core stuff, glad I never did.
I was drinking that way. Started drinking regularly at 14, stopped for a few months when I thought I was going to be die from alcohol poisoning, but then started back, and then at 21, I was done. I've gone through spurts of drinking regularly, but never binge drinking on a daily basis.
Fixed. Weed effects everyone differently. It strictly depends upon each and every individuals biochemistry. Just like Whiskey may make one person violent drunk while Tequila makes that same person extra horny. Only difference is: weed = safe. Staying on the off topic though.. Getting high will make one person super paranoid just as much as it'll make another excel in anything they're doing. I personally know a friend that is a teacher and will smoke a bowl(daily) before class and every now and again during her lunch break. And I'll see her pop up on FB donning pictures of her "Teacher of the Month" award given from the school itself. But if they found out she smoked prior, those same people praising her would burn her at the stake. And on an even bigger scale: I went to high school and played football w Selvin Young. Our best player his last three years before graduating and take a wild guess as to his pre-gaming rituals??? He'd smoke before most practices and literally every game to the point he was simply known as "Stoney". Coaches caught on and it got to the point they too would turn a cheek and blind eye allowing him to do it. Why deny Popeye of his spinach right?? Know where his career topped off at??? Starting for the Denver Broncos
In which category? Withdrawal from alcohol is brutal. I've witnessed it. It can come to a point where the withdrawal itself will kill you if you don't have a drink. I've lost two friends to liver failure from losing battles with alcoholism and failures to endure sincere attempts at withdrawing; 12-step programs, live-in rehabs, hospitals (oh so many times and for so many years)... My first friend that died from liver and kidney failure due to long term alcohol abuse took three ambulance rides to the hospital (including his last one) directly due to attempts at withdrawal. It took him about five years to die and he spent the entire time trying to quit. My second friend to die from liver failure due to alcohol abuse had a mercifully quicker time of it. He tried once and failed at withdrawal. Next the hospital, next the grave. He died two weeks ago. Both of my friends died in their early 40s. When you are an alcoholic, when your body comes to need alcohol constantly (my first friend to die had to have a full fifth of whatever before the sun went down and then he went on from there), it is a whole other drug than the one you know. And you better believe it's harder to kick than heroin or cocaine. Way harder. As for intoxication (the other level where alcohol ranked highly), have you done these other drugs? Cocaine makes you speedy and heroin makes you dopey; neither makes you "wasted." The worst heroin's going to do in terms of intoxication is make you barf then feel groovy and sleepy. The worst cocaine's going to do is bring out your inner *******. Alcohol will make you unable to function at all. Along with pills, it is about the most potent drug (in high doses) there is. And certainly it deserves to win the prize among the drugs listed.
Also, if you ever decide to stop taking it, it's the least likely of all SSRI's to cause discontinuation syndrome (a pleasant term for withdrawal) due to its having a longer half-life than any other. Major congratulations for conquering all those other habits.
