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NOT SATIRE
This One Is for All The Smokers
The Medical Benefits of Nicotine
Please don’t read this if you are a non-smoker. There is nothing here for you.
This article is aimed at smokers. And it is not meant to encourage you to smoke more or interfere with any desire you may have to quit. Instead, the purpose is to bring you a tiny bit of positive information to balance out the truckload of negative stuff you are subjected to daily.
The purpose is to make you feel a fraction better about your life choice rather than vilified.
And it is not satire.
It is my belief that any addiction, smoking included, is a response to trauma. It is a symptom of something unhealed within us.
And I do mean “us”. I am a smoker, and although I have given up for long periods of time, I always come back to it. It helps me to suppress pain and/or the effects of trauma when it all becomes too much.
As an autistic person with (I think) ADHD to boot, it can help me in ways that neurotypicals may not understand. It gives me a reason to escape from social situations when I am overwhelmed. It aids concentration when my mind is too busy and my brain too scattered. Smoking has kept me safe on long drives, keeping me focused and awake.
