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AGRomeu77
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Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey 1
#19381921 - 01/07/14 11:19 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are currently recruiting individuals who have quit smoking cigarettes or reduced their smoking (even temporarily) after an experience with a psychedelic, for participation in an online survey. Our team has previously conducted innovative research on the effects of compounds including psilocybin, dextromethorphan, and salvinorin A.
The goal of this survey is to learn more about whether psychedelic drugs are associated with reduction or cessation of cigarette smoking. We want to characterize people's experiences in nonlaboratory settings in which taking a psychedelic may have led to reducing or quitting smoking. For the purposes of this survey, we will be asking specifically about individuals who have quit smoking cigarettes or reduced their smoking (even temporarily) after experiences with psilocybin (magic) mushrooms, LSD, morning glory seeds, mescaline, peyote cactus, San Pedro cactus, DMT, or ayahuasca. This research study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
The survey is completely anonymous (IP addresses will not be recorded) and will require 40-45 minutes to complete. If you are interested in participating, please click the following link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/nonsmoker. Your participation is voluntary and will not be financially compensated.
Participants must be 18+ years of age, speak/write English fluently, and have experienced a reduction or cessation of cigarette smoking after an experience with one of the psychedelic substances listed above. For more information, please contact the researchers via the site's private messaging system.
Principal Investigator: Matthew W. Johnson, Ph.D. Protocol: NA_00084260
Edited by geokills (01/07/14 12:22 PM)
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: AGRomeu77]
#19381964 - 01/07/14 11:30 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Neat! Psilocybin certianly helped me quit smoking cigarettes. I will take your survey.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: AGRomeu77]
#19382247 - 01/07/14 12:34 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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After taking psilocybin mushrooms I quit smoking regular cigarettes and started smoking an e-cig every once in a while to curb cravings.
I'm not really sure why, I just had a realization that they were really bad for me I guess.
I gave up and became a full-time regular smoker though after not tripping again for a while.
I haven't tripped since and am still a smoker.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: TrentBoyett] 1
#19382283 - 01/07/14 12:44 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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How is this stickied up already? WHO ARE YOU?
Also, this is interesting.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: Herbologist]
#19382302 - 01/07/14 12:50 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Tripping has never really changed my perspective on smoking, but 1.5 hits of acid and a house party, and holy fuck drinking just seems like the stupidest idea ever. Although, i have been convinced while tripping that my body had mixed up nicotine with oxygen, and i'd suffocate if i didn't smoke.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
#19382386 - 01/07/14 01:12 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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On mushrooms I find myself chain smoking like Hunter S Thompson, but I could see how you could use mushrooms to quit smoking effectively, and how after the trip the urge to smoke might be lessened.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: 28064212]
#19382408 - 01/07/14 01:18 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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I started smoking 'cause I rolled blunts. I started smoking blunts. Mushrooms had no effect on my tobacco use. I used to smoke the Rustica tobacco in Los Angeles that gets you high a little.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: sunshine]
#19382476 - 01/07/14 01:32 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Isn't this a bit of a flawed premise? I mean, what can be learned when the invitation is "have you tripped AND quit?" Kind of ignores those who trip and keep on toking doesn't it? I'm struggling to see what conclusions can be drawn.
Saying that, I'm sure Johns Hopkins wouldn't be wasting their time on something if it were badly flawed.
I didn't stop smoking, and during tripping I love smoking - it feels clean and pure! So I can't get involved
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: Guy1980] 1
#19382874 - 01/07/14 02:43 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Guy1980 said: Isn't this a bit of a flawed premise? I mean, what can be learned when the invitation is "have you tripped AND quit?" Kind of ignores those who trip and keep on toking doesn't it? I'm struggling to see what conclusions can be drawn.
Saying that, I'm sure Johns Hopkins wouldn't be wasting their time on something if it were badly flawed.
I didn't stop smoking, and during tripping I love smoking - it feels clean and pure! So I can't get involved 
Tobacco smoking though...
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: Synthe]
#19382948 - 01/07/14 02:53 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Yeah, I'm talking tobacco. I generally detest myself for the filthy habit, but when I'm shrooming it up, it's just so right!
So much for the insights of psylocybin.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: Guy1980]
#19382981 - 01/07/14 02:58 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Maybe if you really wanted to quit then psilocybin would help. I was encouraged by neighbors with oxygen tanks. Every time I go outside I can hear my neighbor's respirator going, filling her lungs with precious O2. There used to be another guy with a tank who died. I met a guy who had part of his tongue removed from smoking tobacco.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: sunshine]
#19383083 - 01/07/14 03:16 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Hi All,
Thanks for your interest and enthusiasm. While it's true that psychedelics per se don't necessarily lead to smoking cessation, there's some anecdotal evidence out there that suggests the psychedelic experience can facilitate smoking cessation for some individuals.
We've heard from over 170 people in 20 different countries so far who have completed this survey to help us explore how and why they stopped or cut back their cigarette smoking after a psychedelic experience.
Intention definitely plays a big part, and we have also recently completed a small laboratory study in which many of our participants who underwent a psilocybin-facilitated treatment protocol were able to quit smoking. For more info check out this article published today (Washingtonian article ), as well as this video from Psychedelic Science 2013 (http://youtu.be/RHc60goAxv8).
Cheers!
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: AGRomeu77]
#19383267 - 01/07/14 03:50 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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I think this survey is a great idea. There are anecdotes of people quitting various things after using psychedelics.
Beyond that, I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we deeply appreciate all the effort you guys invest into researching psychedelics. You're the only ones really researching this important field of medicine, and we're more than happy to help in any way we can.
Edited by nooneman (01/07/14 03:51 PM)
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: AGRomeu77]
#19383292 - 01/07/14 03:54 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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AGRomeu77 said: Hi All,
Thanks for your interest and enthusiasm. While it's true that psychedelics per se don't necessarily lead to smoking cessation, there's some anecdotal evidence out there that suggests the psychedelic experience can facilitate smoking cessation for some individuals.
I agree that IF a person is inclined to change anything about their life, and they have the correct type of "experience" that they usually can find internal strength to move forward with their plan. I think that limiting yourself to only one type of highly addictive drug is doing your study injustice. No one logically thinks smoking is a good idea, and it is written all over the packs, the news and every newspaper. It is in the back of our mind every time we use that it is killing us. This is no different than alcohol or other hard drugs. Again, I think your study should focus on hard drug use after an experience where an individual wanted to make a change prior to. (alcohol/cigarettes/caffeine)
And no I wont take the survey, but after my last experience I gave myself a date to quit. I followed through on that date. I have fell off the wagon and had just over 60 cigs in the last month and a half. I went from a pack a day+ to 0 for about 3 weeks. And am very cautious about increasing past 2-4 a day I use now.
The experience convinced me that I finally had enough of it, and that I would eventually kill myself at $7+ a pack. You tell someone in that mindset that they are killing themselves and paying for it, you are probably going to change their life. I think your study will redundantly echo what most of the "psychedelic" scene has known for years.
Good luck and good vibes to you!
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: HypnotoadCroaked]
#19384000 - 01/07/14 05:45 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Saying that, I'm sure Johns Hopkins wouldn't be wasting their time on something if it were badly flawed.
I'm glad YOU'RE sure.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: fry day]
#19384092 - 01/07/14 05:59 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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What a random-ass study.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: ModestMouse]
#19384113 - 01/07/14 06:03 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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They'll gain some nice, exploratory data with this. Low cost, no risk. It's a perfectly fine study.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: badchad]
#19384132 - 01/07/14 06:06 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Oh ok, thanks.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: ModestMouse]
#19384310 - 01/07/14 06:41 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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That was looooong, but I completed it.
After every trip I go through a couple of days of non smoking only to slowly rebuild the habit to where it was before the trip.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: AGRomeu77]
#19384441 - 01/07/14 07:04 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Very cool! I quit just by chance. I had a cigarette in my hand while tripping and decided I didn't get a buzz so why keep going
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: GoldenEye]
#19384465 - 01/07/14 07:09 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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I used to smoke like... One amonth to once a week for like 3 weeks. I now no longer touch them at all and have tripped now. Theoretically, this counts right?
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: Atrium]
#19384712 - 01/07/14 07:52 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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I know two people, friends I grew up with and still friends with, one did shrooms, one did LSD, then after that they pretty much quit doing everything. It has been 20+ years now, what's strange is they seem to like to hang around people smoking pot and tripping.
I introduced a woman who became my girlfriend for awhile to shrooms. We ended up eating some and we ate them about every weekend, Friday, Saturday and Holidays afterwards for almost 6 months. Usually mild doses, a capsule or two. She had been a lifelong alcoholic and was on the verge of losing her well paying professional job when I met her. She used to bring beer or wine over with her at first but after tripping a few times she quit she quit drinking. Over the next several months she lost a lot of excess weight, got a promotion at work, etc. She tried drinking a few times afterwards with friends but just a few drinks would make her feel nauseous. I think she quit smoking after we split up, I smoke like a fiend.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: AlienJesus]
#19385265 - 01/07/14 09:39 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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I was just thinking about this the other day. I have been cigarette free for over three months now and I didn't get the real 'motivation' to make the decision not to smoke until I was tripping during the summer and went to go light up. I had a sudden rush of guilt. Thinking about my parents and brother crying over my grave because I just couldn't put those fucking cigarettes down. The effect wasn't immediate. It was slow. Smoked less and less... finally was down to just half a cigarette every day. My life had started to change in so many positive ways, particularly my wallet. I was getting way more work done because my work was no longer revolving around my breaks every two hours. I started completing tasks all the way through instead of putting on the brakes to go smoke.
Anyway, going to go fill this out.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: elasticaltiger]
#19385285 - 01/07/14 09:42 PM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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This is cool, I actually ripped up my cigarettes the first time I tripped.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: Legend]
#19386287 - 01/08/14 01:43 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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I fucking love smoking whilst tripping it feels amazing
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: AGRomeu77]
#19387117 - 01/08/14 09:47 AM (10 years, 23 days ago) |
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Nothing makes me jones for a cigarette like taking psychedelics
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: jewunit]
#19388475 - 01/08/14 02:39 PM (10 years, 22 days ago) |
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I'm a pack a day smoker and I'll smoke 2-3 packs when I trip, pretty much non-stop once I start coming up and peak. While coming down, I smoke much more weed and cigarettes than I would had I not tripped.
Although if it's a stronger trip, half the time I look down and see that the entire thing burned away without me smoking it
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: pcplease]
#19388924 - 01/08/14 04:06 PM (10 years, 22 days ago) |
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I usually cut way back after a trip. However, nicotine while tripping is probably one of the best things in the world. Shamans did it, Science can prove its usefulness too.
While I have almost quit multiple time after trips, I'm one of those people that just loves it. I don't think I will ever quit but cutting back does have its advantages like pot.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: GoldenEye]
#19392104 - 01/09/14 04:26 AM (10 years, 22 days ago) |
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GoldenEye said: That was looooong, but I completed it.
After every trip I go through a couple of days of non smoking only to slowly rebuild the habit to where it was before the trip.
Was there a stal option?
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: AGRomeu77]
#19392549 - 01/09/14 07:43 AM (10 years, 22 days ago) |
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Some of my answers about my psychedelic quitting, now exactly 7 1/2 months sgo:
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I had been fed up with being addicted to cigarettes for years. I felt that it was harming my body and mind every single day and yet I was powerless to quit. During psychedelic sessions I am in inner dialoge with an inner voice I consider my "higher self" which guides me in my process of personal an spiritual growth. Months before it had asked me that if it would pick the right moment for me to quit, and then ask me to quit, if I would follow; I promised amidst the psychedelic turmoil that I would. This inner voice first contacted me in a 2 gram cubensis mushroom trip where it correctly foretold my mother's death from a botched surgery, where it prepared me for what was to come. Since then it comes to me during sessions with psychedelics and dissociatives, and at sober times of significance, and it prepares me for events to come and for new directions in life to take. Bridges to cross were it asks "will you come with me?" and I follow and it it advance in a facet of my personal growth, they are always beneficial steps to take, and always ones I can take when well prepared.
There were times when I asked it "I feel ready now, should I stop?" and it told me: "you can if you want to, but this is not the time that I call on you.". I had experienced this before with other bridges to cross, so I continued smoking until the time would be right.
Months passed, then the fateful session happened. The Methoxetamine brought me in the same Divine realm it and serotonergic psychedelics always bring me, my innermost self, in silence and darkness. There, revelations unfold which are almost every single time breathtakingly awesome in spiritual and personal relevance. Dissociated from the external world and cast into my inner world I soared through a mindscape of everything related to me smoking. My first cigarette stolen from my moms pack, quit attempts, times of being without tobacco, the joy of nicotines rush, the depravity of having quit and hours later retrieving the pack from the trash and smoking one more, it all got spiritual, archetypal and eternal dimensions. Then my "Higher Self" cut into the vision and lovingly said: "*firstname*, it is time, will you come with me?" (I get tears in my eyes as I write this) I said "Yes, I will come with you." and instead of fear for quitting I felt intense relief that the time had come. It explained to me it was making changes in me that made smoking a thing of the past, and I let it happen while it lovingly prepared and instructed me. Then I staggered to the toilet, said my goodbyes to the tobacco and flushed it, and threw my rolling papers etc away. I felt the change had occurred in me. To my utter amazement, and completely contrary to any quitting attempt previous, it was painless. There was no craving, because my mind was made up, the switch had been flipped, quitting was a nonevent, there were hardly any symptoms. Smoking addiction is actually 99% a psychological thing, gum and patches and ecigs really are nothing but crutches for a mind that isnt fully made up to handle the decision that has been made. Nicotine withdrawal can trigger memories of smoking but it cannot give you cravings. Nothing can make you want something but you, and if YOU do not want tobacco, there will be no craving, none, just neutral memories of smoking that grow less and less.
Survey people: traditional psychedelics trigger the 5HT2A receptor, dissociatives like Methoxetamine work mostly on NMDA and the addiction cure Ibogaine is all over the place receptorwise. What is important in relation to breaking Nicotine and other habits is not as much which receptors are activated or blocked, but that these classes of drugs offer you the opportunity to connect with your innermost self, and in that Inner Sanctum life decisions can be made that carry a whole lot more weight than decisions made in more superficial parts of the personality. What happened to me on Methoxetamine could just as well have happened on Mescaline, or on Psilocybin mushrooms, its not as much in the particular pharmacology of the drug as it is in its ability to unhinge your usual perceptions and with it, deprived of familiarity, casting you upon yourself, into your innermost self as the outer superficial layers come apart. Within that core self lies your inspiration, the power to overcome life obstacles, to rise beyond the limitations that your more superficial layers seem to impose on you. Any means of connecting people with their innermost self can open up the potential of Life Change, psychedelics and dissociatives are crude, unsophisticated, but fairly reliable tools to bring this about.
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The psychedelic offered me change, coached me towards change and then gave me the impuse to change, and this praparation made me mind up so thoroughly that I was going to quit, that all obstacles were cleared to quitting. You tell yourself quitting is hard. The salespeople of gum, patches and ecigs indoctrinate you that quitting is hard. The Surgeon General insists it is hard. It is not hard. The only thing hard about quitting is cravings and craving related psychosomatic effects, and these arent a property of nicotine, they are a property of not being fully committed to quitting. When you make the life choice to quit and commit to it, any craving and craving related psychosomatic effects will evaporate and you will experience physical withdraway effects comparable in nuisance value to the common cold. When your mind is made up, you will walk our of Marlboro country with the big grin of a slave who's just been freed from the Morris plantation. Psychedelics did no less and no more for me than connect me to my innermost self, repeatedly, and the inner communication and decision coordination that resulted made me quit.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: Asante]
#19398145 - 01/10/14 09:56 AM (10 years, 21 days ago) |
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Hey if you can trip and not want to smoke more power to ya
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: Bryan04] 1
#19401779 - 01/10/14 11:59 PM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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Psychedelics are such an incredible natural gift specifically because.
If you are a being that is honest with yourself, psychedelics have this incredible ability to simply show you where your hypocrisy is laying dormant within your own psyche.
So if you know that cigarets or anything else negative within your life is detrimental, psychedelics bring these subconscious troubles exponentially closer to your conscious state, and allow you to build a resolve to stop ignoring and instead focus on your existential reality.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: AlienJesus]
#19404443 - 01/11/14 03:51 PM (10 years, 19 days ago) |
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AlienJesus said: I know two people, friends I grew up with and still friends with, one did shrooms, one did LSD, then after that they pretty much quit doing everything. It has been 20+ years now, what's strange is they seem to like to hang around people smoking pot and tripping.
I introduced a woman who became my girlfriend for awhile to shrooms. We ended up eating some and we ate them about every weekend, Friday, Saturday and Holidays afterwards for almost 6 months. Usually mild doses, a capsule or two. She had been a lifelong alcoholic and was on the verge of losing her well paying professional job when I met her. She used to bring beer or wine over with her at first but after tripping a few times she quit she quit drinking. Over the next several months she lost a lot of excess weight, got a promotion at work, etc. She tried drinking a few times afterwards with friends but just a few drinks would make her feel nauseous. I think she quit smoking after we split up, I smoke like a fiend.
I had a very similar experience with alcohol. Link is in my sig. Even thinking about drinking makes me think nausea. I also went from smoking cigarettes to smoking am e cig.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: MarcusFreeman]
#19408387 - 01/12/14 01:33 PM (10 years, 18 days ago) |
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The thought of drinking or smoking while tripping makes me feel incredible nausea. I smoke like a fiend when I don't trip. As soon as I feel any boomers, it's like mother natures twisting my lungs and stomach saying "I dare ya" almost as if the mushrooms don't want me to kill myself with cigs hahah
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: jewunit]
#19409656 - 01/12/14 06:54 PM (10 years, 18 days ago) |
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jewunit said: Nothing makes me jones for a cigarette like taking psychedelics 
QFT!!!
I finally quit well over a year ago, but the 1-2x per year I trip I make sure and buy a pack 
The only thing that will make you quit smoking is willpower. Maybe psychedelics can give you that.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: Forrester]
#19409893 - 01/12/14 07:56 PM (10 years, 18 days ago) |
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I once tripped with a man who literally kept a burning cigarette in his mouth the entire night. The memory always strikes me as quite amusing even to this day.
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Re: Johns Hopkins Psychedelics and Smoking Cessation Online Survey [Re: ModestMouse] 1
#19411554 - 01/13/14 08:10 AM (10 years, 18 days ago) |
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What a coincidence! I just kicked my nicotine habit 11 days ago, helped by a planned session of moderate psilocybin consumption. In fact, the whole ordeal was inspired by a lecture by Albert Garcia-Romeu (OP?) from this years Psychedelic Science (found on the MAPS Youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/mapsmdma).
The process has so far been going smoothly, and with a minimum of discomfort. It is with great joy that I now consider myself a non-user of nicotine, after more than 10 years continuous dependence.
My wholehearted gratitude goes out to the Hopkins team for casting light on the effectiveness of this method, to the community for spreading valuable wisdom and to nature for providing us with these healing creations.
The survey is being completed as we speak.
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