- My schizophrenia started after my smoking
- My smoking started after my schizophrenia
- Have schizophrenia, never smoked
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I started smoking at 26. That was when things took a steep dive downward.
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I started smoking before sz. But I had quit for a year when I had my first psychosis. My dad brought me a pack of Marlboro when I was in the psych hospital. Then I restarted and smoked for 7 years until I quit in 2018 again.
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I started smoking while in the hospital after my first episode. I had tried smoking 10 years prior though, for a short while.
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I smoked and quit before my diagnosis.
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Relapsed a couple of times, now smoking again… it does elevate my mood and schizophrenic effects, because when I stop things go weird quickly. Also vaping now, nicotine helps me a lot to keep calm and stable. Not sure if it has anything to do with starting or quitting, but when I ceased smoking my symptoms got very bad.
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smokin is ok 4 me imo
I consider myself a non-smoker who has never smoked. However, I did buy a cheapo vape pen, like 9 years ago, and vaped for 1 month. But then I threw it out.
So… IDK.
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I really picked up smoking cigarettes around the prodomal phase. I knew something was wrong I started acting erratic and imagining things that weren’t happening. I had smoked a cigarette before but not really until about the age of 19, then I started smoking like a chimney. I have stopped 2 years then 1 year somewhwre in between the last 14 years but I always pick up the habit again. Right now I vape. Not too proud of it and I keep telling myself I’ll quit with the next last bottle.
I mean I don’t feel like a tragedy in the making but I’m pretty sure if I continue vaping, with inactivity and obesity I will die younger.
Sometimes I feel like when I got schizophrenia I was like Bender Rodriguez from Futurama when he becomes human for awhile.
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I don’t think I tried pot until after I had heard things some already. Never inhaled a cigarette. I tried pot about 3 times.
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I smoked from 14 on pretty heavily but I’d symptoms since then or further back for sure. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but nicotine was a comfort for way too many years…
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Honestly for a couple of years in my life I would smoke at least a pack a day and sometimes late at night outside star gazing I sort of wanted to die. Think I’ve reconsidered rhat feeling, I still just have the habit of blowing smoke or vapor. It’s become part of my daily life.
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I mean regarding the topic schizophrenia and smoking… I’m certain that at least my brain has a disease. Because I know smoking damages health, it isn’t that I feel a bleak existence, not futile either. Now I’m not going to blame medications because without a doubt my perception of reality without medication is altered to the point in which imagination mixes with logic, maybe logic blurs with imagination would be a better way to put it. I do notice while on medication, I feel out of place. I mean a common side effect is depression and may cause thoughts of suicide. Maybe it’s just because it feels like society doesn’t accept who I am without medication but then, I start thanking telepathy is real, I end up hearing voices, thinking it may be radio waves being unable to distinguish whether it is real or not. And besides that I think if a person who does not have a mental illness has taken the same medication for as long as I have, even their brain would be altered.
Smoking (vaping, tobacco, nicotine etc.) provides a feeling of euphoria for about 5 minutes or while the cigarette is lit. So… I don’t know what it is. I was just trying to explain how I could share that in a way that is more comprehensive for peole studying ways to help future generations of people with schizophrenia and what not. Certainly these are thing I would not share with my mother as they may be heartbreaking for her to hear.
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