Do you think that smoking could help me with my depression?!
Question: Do you think that smoking could help me with my depression?
So bottom line: Could smoking help my mind to relax and could it possibly help?
Thank you for your responses.
Answers:
Tobacco is a partial MAO inhibitor (a type of antidepressant). So, it might do something, but only until your doctor explains to you that you have emphysema, lung cancer, oral cancer, poor circulation in your legs,stroke, heart disease (I'm sure I'm forgetting a few), and then you will be more depressed than you ever were before.
If you happen to like alcohol, the combination of alcohol and tobacco is especially dangerous in causing oral cancer. If you think it's just one of those statistics, let me explain that my sister, who is barely fifty, did smoke and drink, and she does have oral cancer, and can no longer speak nor taste food properly or many other things that we take for granted, and hasn't been told yet whether she might hope to live another few more years. Fifty may sound old, but think about it. If you had a chance to live to 90, that's almost half your life gone. If you still think it's just a statistic, then let me mention my Dad who died at age 62 from lung cancer from smoking. If he hadn't taken SS early, he'd never have enjoyed ANY of his retirement.
If you want to help with depression, try the following:
healthy diet, healthy sleep, exercise, sun exposure, time with animals, supplements: 5HTP, fish oil, vitamin D3 in large doses. You could try St. John's Wort, but why not just walk into any old clinic and say you're depressed, and get a really cheap generic antidepressant? A HOPS/Valerian supplement is an alternative to MJ.
Whatever you do, DON'T smoke cigarettes. It's like chopping off your arm instead of trimming your fingernails. You're actually a bit safer, cancer wise, with the MJ.
PLEASE, PLEASE, after watching cigarettes kill one family member, and in the process of killing another, imagine yourself with half your tongue cut out, with a dry mouth, unable to taste food, unable to talk, and DON'T smoke cigarettes.
This is not some school educational program. This is REAL LIFE, but worse, it's REAL DEATH.
After you watch cancer take a person, you don't need any more convincing about cigarettes.
Well, I would've suggested mary-j, but seeing as you can't get it....I wouldn't turn to smoking cigarettes. I think it'll just end up causing you more problems in the end, and I don't think it would take your mind off of things so much that it would significantly help your depression. I know this is a hippie answer, but there are lots of herbal remedies for depression, like different types of tea and soups and things. A quick google search would give you lots of them. Another thing that helps with depression is exercise. This doesn't mean like a treadmill, but just a ten minute walk around your block every day. That's what helped when I was depressed (and trust me, I tried nearly everything). Another thing are books. Finding a good book that's totally off of any school topics, really just brain candy, can take your mind off of things. I'm just trying to give you other options, because smoking just is so horrible for your body, plus it's damn expensive. Good luck to you!
I would say NO for the reason you just said. Why not doing something like going to the track and walking it off or some other type of exercise. What a hobby you're good at, that could help such as painting your emotions? Hope that helps. Good luck.
o jeez no. it will just make you die quicker and start a life threatening addiction.