Smoking kills on average, but for the lucky few smoking can actually aid in a long life.
Of course they don’t put that on the packets because it would be irresponsible, a bit like encouraging gambling
80% of schizophrenics smoke, thus paying substantially for the benefits they receive, whilst on the other hand gaining a medicine that helps with regulating glutamate, dopamine and GABA dysfunction, whilst at the same time poisoning the lungs, thus potentially leading to increased mortality.
Tobacco is a performance enhancing drug with substantial side affects, that is both highly sought after and highly valued, yet only the poorest smoke in general.
How to switch to simple breathing of oxygen and traffic poisoned air has largely been solved by vaping, but for the purist, breathing water is not the same as breathing smoke.
My plan for giving up smoking or at least control it is to join one of the many smoking cessation forums, as last time I tried on my own I relapsed substantially.
Obviously one would be better off without medication, because that would imply one is cured. However, whilst one continues to struggle with the symptoms of schizophrenia, it is not clear whether stopping tobacco as a medication is good in the short term, or even in the long term for the lucky few.
Coughing every morning is a small price to pay for a life free of symptoms.
Offsetting my taxes by giving to charity instead might help bring me out of the etiological class of smokers, but the problem of performance remains
Thank you.