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<p>[QUOTE="rrholdout, post: 2920071, member: 89654"]Another perspective. For those that can quit smoking and replace a bad habit with a good and everything works out - wonderful! But for those that can't, or don't wish to, there is a way to mitigate the habit.</p><p><br /></p><p>My wife and I buy whole Virginia tobacco leaves, shred them ourselves with a manual shredder [costs $40]. We use a cheap hand roller [$3] to roll cigarettes with unbleached cigarette papers [1 to 3 cents each in bulk]. Whole leaves do not have the hefty cigarette taxes, so the habit costs my wife and I around $500/year total.</p><p><br /></p><p>The tobacco is very low in nicotine, yet very satisfying, so we can go hours without a cigarette. A lot of chemicals put in typical cigarettes are avoided this way. As far as impact on health - my wife recently had a migraine-related seizure last year. At the hospital she was fully checked out with chest x-rays, EKG, 2 CAT scans, etc. The verdict was that she was perfectly healthy and they asked if she exercised because her vitals were so good. And this is a lifelong smoker. The only recommendation made was for supplemental magnesium to help with migraines. That's worked great.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not post this to dissuade anyone from trying to quit as it is still a bad habit, we all know that. But for some people quitting is just too hard or sad and there are ways to 'improve' it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrholdout, post: 2920071, member: 89654"]Another perspective. For those that can quit smoking and replace a bad habit with a good and everything works out - wonderful! But for those that can't, or don't wish to, there is a way to mitigate the habit. My wife and I buy whole Virginia tobacco leaves, shred them ourselves with a manual shredder [costs $40]. We use a cheap hand roller [$3] to roll cigarettes with unbleached cigarette papers [1 to 3 cents each in bulk]. Whole leaves do not have the hefty cigarette taxes, so the habit costs my wife and I around $500/year total. The tobacco is very low in nicotine, yet very satisfying, so we can go hours without a cigarette. A lot of chemicals put in typical cigarettes are avoided this way. As far as impact on health - my wife recently had a migraine-related seizure last year. At the hospital she was fully checked out with chest x-rays, EKG, 2 CAT scans, etc. The verdict was that she was perfectly healthy and they asked if she exercised because her vitals were so good. And this is a lifelong smoker. The only recommendation made was for supplemental magnesium to help with migraines. That's worked great. I do not post this to dissuade anyone from trying to quit as it is still a bad habit, we all know that. But for some people quitting is just too hard or sad and there are ways to 'improve' it.[/QUOTE]
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