I read this study 5 years ago that szs love cigarettes i cant remember if it was 83% or 86% of szs smoke cigarettes. And a worker from mental health outreach said people with sz love weed. Ive been struggling with weed since i was 17 im scared one day its gonna kill me or end up in camera room until i snap out of it. this city 86 % of this weed is laced. Thats scary, some of us very few can maintain on weed. But most of us gotta avoid that crap like the plague.
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I wish that I could quit cigarettes
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Take it one day at a time. How long you been smoking for?
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Most of the people at the assisted living center where I live smoke. I don’t. I’ve seen cigarettes kill a couple of people here. I always preferred alcohol to weed. Both are bad for sz’s.
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They have banned smoking at the hospital now, seems like a stupid thing to do when so many patients smoke. Doesn’t harm anyone as they had a garden area for people to do it.
When I first was hospitalised in 2004, they had a smoking room inside!
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It is possible to quit both if you really want to. There are good alternatives to smoking, and once you’ve laid off the weed for a few months and you’ve decided not to do it again, it’s not so bad. When my friends smoke weed, i don’t even want them to pass it to me anymore.
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Its probably not good to be around people that smoke it ?
i guess i’m somewhere in the 14%, as i’ve not smoked before
What’s the long term outcomes of those who do vs don’t smoke?
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Not until you’re sure that you can resist the temptation. It’s a lot harder to quit when you’re constantly tempted. But for me, that’s not a problem anymore.
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There is a high correlation between smoking and sz. I smoke (too much at that) and I plan to quit soon.
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Don’t feel bad. From what I know there is a link for smokers if you smoked before you started antipsychotics. And the fact that people generally see weed as a solution to everything. I never smoked cigarettes before AP’s and after they didn’t really do anything for me. Colts seem strong enough they take the edge off. While I’ve never smoked weed… The number of times that I’ve been accused of being on weed… Well… Makes me feel like smoking weed. I have since quit smoking cigs but then again now I’m on disability and significantly underemployed.
both my parents and brother smoke cigs and all three have mental illnesses. my mom and brother smoke weed my brother swears it cured him but he is such a jerk without it I worry for my parents safety sometimes. my dad drinks beer and he swore he would cut back since getting put on Seroquel. when he drinks the paranoia gets the best of him and he starts fights with everybody.
I smoke a pack of cigs a day. I was smoking weed almost every day for about 3 months. I recently decided to chill with it and i only smoke once in a while. A friend of mine grows medicinal quality weed so i don’t have to worry about buying laced weed accidentally off the street.
I guess I should be truthful. While I’ve never smoked weed, I did try green dragon back in highschool. Not something I like admitting but hey I think everybody has the right to try. Since then I haven’t and if I can avoid it I will.
I learned how to smoke (tobacco) IN the hospital and smoked for 24 years. Last year I traded my cigs for a vaporizer… I’m still addicted to nicotine but I no longer cough up brown sludge or cough so hard that I need an inhaler to catch my breath. It’s been a positive change and I hope to quit the vaporizer later this year. Tried weed a few months ago (cuz it’s legal in Alaska now) and thought it tasted like smoking my dog’s butt hairs… I’ll never touch it again!
I smoked cigarettes for about 11 years. Weed for about 7. I recently stopped smoking cigarettes. Now I have a vape. I haven’t quit nicotine. I can relate to WhiteRaven about not coughing up gunk. Smoking is bad for the health. I guess it just calms down people with sz.
Weed helps with my D.I.D. and some of the paranoia
I only smoke cigs when I switch personalities
It’s one of my tells, I guess