At Christmas I started resumed smoking [redacted] after a break of three years. During the Xmas period I did not want sweets, extremely unusual for me. At the time I wondered if it was because I was getting lots of hugs.
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I have temporarily stopped smoking and now I’m really craving... sweets. Not cigarettes. Sweets.
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I read a while back that nicotine is a dopamine agonist so each cigarette is a dose of reward drug. While smoking [redacted] at Xmas, I felt strong emotions and so possibly was experiencing increased oxytocin rewards, and that’s why I didn’t need sugar.
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As a child I didn’t experience much touch that was unequivocally positive and loved sugar. I still identify as an introvert. The dopamine rewards from social interaction are either too much (or there’s too much anxiety mixed in)
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I’m the queen of delayed gratification though and a small amount of reward can keep me going for hours. Incidentally this is why I do well as a coder.
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So yeah there’s some kind of mechanism going on between hugs/social, smoking, [redacted], sugar and intellectual reward. I wonder how best to balance these for optimal health
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Dopamine is dopamine is dopamine
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Try a controlled test? Go ask the house for a cuddle
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Yeah I used to wonder how I afforded my cigarette habit as a teenager, until I stopped and was reminded that I used to eat ice cream and junk food more, both before and after. There’s also a blood sugar component to this, smokers use cigarettes to regulate blood sugar levels
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oh wait hm I’m not so sure about [redacted]
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Smoking might be healthier.
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