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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is preparing to lower the amount of nicotine that companies

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎06-22-2022 06:58 PM

are allowed to put in cigarettes.

"The key element is regulating nicotine so combustible cigarettes can no longer create and sustain addiction."

Now we'll get to see if people will still smoke with low nicotine. 

Call me cynical but, I believe lowering the nicotine content may just force people to buy 2 or three times the amount of cigarettes and smoke more frequently.

It's a win win for tobacco companies and the healthcare consortium.

Big bucks Big bucks

what chu gonna do

Bleed your money and your health

Outtta you

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/speeches-fda-officials/protecting-american-families-comprehensive-ap...

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.