>>1354134>cigarettes are not like heroin retard. They are tho. The onboarding process from "even once" to "full-blown addict/dependent" is actually more successful than with heroin, pic related.
>Smoking a cigarette once will not give you a visceral "high" that you want to chase.Okay, but that's not all heroin does
>You form a habit slowly over weeks without realizing it and then you get sick and irritable when you try to quitThat's the other thing heroin does: rapid chemical dependence. Nicotine is not just "habit forming", withdrawal causes a bunch of physical symptoms. Smoking to relieve these symptoms is an action/reward cycle that produces addition-in-all-but-name.
(the technical terms used in medicine are "addiction" for drugs that have a psychological reward, and "dependence" for drugs where the only reward is the cessation of withdrawal symptoms. You get addicted to alcohol and heroin, you get dependent on nicotine and caffeine, and the jury's still out on whether THC develops a dependency or just a tolerance).
