Cigarettes

“For example, in mice and rats, chocolate increases dopamine firing 55% above baseline. Sex is 100%, nicotine is 150%, all the way up until methamphetamines, which is 1,000%, which is why I like to say that's why we first have dinner, then have sex, then have a cigarette.”⚑ Under review

“So we will ask people to give up more than one substance if they're obviously paired. So, for example, if drinking coffee is almost always followed by craving for a cigarette, then we might ask them to give up caffeine and the cigarettes, you know, for this period of time.”

“Like, what is the, it's massive. It's, it's, so it's, it's, it's, it's becoming the whole tobacco industry. They're all getting away from cigarettes and, you know, the Reynolds, um, you know, Altria, the big players are now all in on the vaping. So there's, they're, you know, hiring all the lobbyists, doing a lot.”

“You were smoking cigarettes on the island by yourself? How'd you get them there? Oh, there were cigarettes for sale. Oh, they have very good ones, yeah. Okay. And they make their own as well. They grow their own tobacco. Okay. So there's nothing. My point was there's nothing that causes hallucinations.”

“plaque in the arteries. And this doesn't happen over a week or a month. Like not one cigarette or smoking every once in a while causes it. That's not it at all. It's what's done chronically over years. And then you compound that with food and drinking because they kind of all go together a lot of times for people without the exercise, which is improving the elasticity of your arteries.”

“add in that i have a cigarette here or there so there are no cigarettes uh you should have messed with the audience and done that a couple times a week i'll have a couple cigarettes exactly so i would say it's mainly food”

“How did you open your mouth up and swallow Jonah? By the way. You're a bitch for rolling cigarettes. Why? It's just guy. It pisses me off. Have one. DeRosa gave me these. I know what those are. I'm going to roll my own. Why do that when you get a filter? It's tryhard. I have a filter.”

“And then I realized like, I wasn't as enthusiastic about it anymore. Oh yeah, you got extra cigarettes? Thank you. Yes. Look at that here. Yeah. I knew you might want some. Leave them there for everybody. Yeah, yeah. And then I was also getting brain damage and I was very aware of that.”

“Speed. Boom, boom, boom. Coke. Booze. Cigarettes. All day long. Chain smoking. Chain smoking. Chain smoking. Drunk through the whole fucking day. Popping pills. Doing coke. And the fact that he could still stand and not just stand, choreograph Broadway shows for hours and be that agile and whatever is, that's insane to me.”

“I don't know, man. It's the last vice of a lot of people in recovery. Yeah. Then you got guys like Keith Richards who's just ripping cigarettes still, and I'm like, he's fine.”

“get lung cancer that smoke cigarettes, that's why it looks so high. Let's find the numbers. Put it into perplexity, please. What percentage of cigarette smokers get lung cancer?”

“I think it's a very small number, and then you got to think, people that are smoking cigarettes, how many of them are smoking two, three packs a day? Oh, yeah. That's crazy. I don't know. And how many of them are smoking just a few cigarettes a day? I bet a lot. I bet a lot of people that are a little hesitant, they only smoke like a half a pack or a little bit less.”

“if you're a smoker, you're good, and I never got fucking COVID. Yes. And I was like, yay, nicotine. Well, there's something about smoking cigarettes that's supposed to be really good to prevent COVID, and it's really confusing to people. So crazy. Yeah. 10% to 20% of people who smoke at some point in their lives will develop lung cancer, with many studies landing about 15%.”

“It's a very controversial statement because people think, oh my God, you're promoting cigarettes. I don't think they're promoting cigarettes. They're just looking at data that these people that have high olive oil content in their diets seem to not have any problem. They don't have nearly as many problems with cigarettes or not have nearly as many problems.”

“risk and overall mortality in observational studies. Because that's the other thing about cigarettes. It's not just cancer. It's also heart disease. And so polyphenols have antioxidants and anti-inflammatory effects, but current evidence does not show they can neutralize the cardiovascular cancer or lung damage risk from smoking.”

“Most of the people I know that are alcoholics anonymous, they fuckin' drink coffee every day and they smoke cigarettes. Yeah. Big percentage of them. Ripping cigarettes. Yeah. Because it gets you a little high. Yeah. But it's like a very manageable high. Yeah. Like the cigarette high is like, oh, I'm all right.”

“Cool. But also good for cognitive function. You know? Oh. Like Pink Floyd, when they wrote The Wall, they were high as fuck on cigarettes. Those guys smoked cigarettes all day long. What? Yeah. Yeah. Those dudes smoked a ton of cigarettes. Get out of here. Yeah. Oh, is that coffee, dude?”

“Stephen King said that, too. When he stopped smoking cigarettes, it affected his writing. Oh, whoa. Yeah. He said his synapses just didn't fire as fast anymore. Whoa. It's like that was one of the things that I really noticed when I quit smoking.”

“like a funny little sketch thing. And I was supposed to play this like tortured liberal arts student. And I was like smoking cigarettes. So they wanted me to smoke cigarettes while I was doing it. So I smoked like 15 fucking cigarettes while we were doing it. And I threw up. I had a fucking horrible headache. I was like, oh my God, I'm so high.”

“This is kind of cool. I go, now I kind of get it. I get why you guys like this. Interesting. But we were doing this thing and I had to always be smoking. So we had to rehearse. We were doing it all day and I wanted to try to like feel normal with a cigarette in my hand. So I kept smoking. And then I liked them. So I kept smoking them.”

“I have heard that with polyphenols. I've heard that, and this is, I think, controversial as well, but it's cigarettes taken along with olive oil. And that a lot of these people have high olive oil-rich diets and that cigarettes along with olive oil, that the olive oil tends to balance out whatever damage that the cigarettes are doing.”